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Clayton Davis
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Warrick Page/MAX When Katherine LaNasa set out to build the voice of Dana Evans, the unflappable charge nurse on HBO Max’s hit medical drama “The Pitt,” she didn’t consult a dialect coach first. She started in the bathtub.
The reigning Emmy winner for supporting actress in a drama series immersed herself in prestige television while studying Dana’s unmistakable Pittsburgh accent, drawing inspiration from two acclaimed performances: Lisa Ann Walter’s Philadelphia schoolteacher in “Abbott Elementary” — which shares a makeup room hallway with “The Pitt” on the Warner Bros. lot — and Julianne Nicholson’s work in “Mare of Easttown.” “I was watching them, even though I knew it wasn’t exactly that [accent] for Pittsburgh,” LaNasa tells Variety. “I just wanted to get a sense of it, and I would listen to it when I was in the bathtub.”
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