The actor’s voice, perhaps more than any other tool in their kit—more than face and physicality—provides their critical means of expression.
The surprisingly high-pitched voix aigue of Marlon Brando, for instance, or the rich low-ish register of Julia Roberts’ tone that can burst into shaking laughter.
Bacall’s husky hum. Bogart’s lisp.What, then, of an actor who can no longer speak, or at least in the voice we have come to know?
Such is the fate of Val Kilmer, whose treatment for cancer now requires that he cap a throat tube each time he speaks. It has deprived him of the texture he could achieve in his speaking and singing voices, but not his soul of an artist.The sense of Kilmer as very much the playful and searching spirit he has always
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