Kathleen Turner's Voice
Kathleen Turner's Voice
#0Kathleen Turner's Voice
Posted: 6/6/05 at 12:02pm
I have Prizzi's Honor, Peggy Sue got Married and The Virgin Suicides all on DVD and I knew she has a dark sexy voice, but last night that was so LOW!!!!!! I didn't expect her voice to be that low. When she was presenting I just heard the voice and thought it was a man!!!!!! It must have really gotten low these last few years......
Updated On: 6/6/05 at 12:02 PM
LucilleAndLeoFrank
Leading Actor Joined: 4/29/05
#2re: Kathleen Turner's Voice
Posted: 6/6/05 at 12:04pmit was so low. i really thought it was a guy, then i looked at the tv.
#3re: Kathleen Turner's Voice
Posted: 6/6/05 at 12:07pmYeah... it's gotten especially lower over the past couple of years. It may be in part because she is using her voice so much night after night in Virginia Woolf. She definitely had Liev beat in the masculine voice category.
"You've gotta have a swine to show you where the truffles are."
#4re: Kathleen Turner's Voice
Posted: 6/6/05 at 12:08pmWell, I used to think it was dark and sexy, but not really anymore. However, it does make for the perfect Mrs. Robbinson!!!!!!
theatreboi11
Broadway Star Joined: 5/9/05
#5re: Kathleen Turner's Voice
Posted: 6/6/05 at 12:08pmThat is why she was the perfect person to play Chandler's father on Friends!
(Martha Graham from a letter to Agnes de Mille) "There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening That is translated through you into action, And because there is only one of you in all time, This expression is unique. If you block it, It will never exist through any other medium And be lost. The world will never have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, Nor how valuable it is, Nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours, clearly and directly, To keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware Directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer, divine dissatisfaction, A blessed unrest that keeps us marching And makes us more alive than others."
#7re: Kathleen Turner's Voice
Posted: 6/6/05 at 12:10pmYeah, I just found that out last night!!!!!! I had no idea that that was her, let alone a woman!!!!!!
Matt_G
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/1/04
#8re: Kathleen Turner's Voice
Posted: 6/6/05 at 12:11pm
"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."
#9re: Kathleen Turner's Voice
Posted: 6/6/05 at 12:16pmI just listened to Liev's voice......works well for a man!!!!!!
leomaxfrank
Broadway Star Joined: 3/19/04
#10re: Kathleen Turner's Voice
Posted: 6/6/05 at 12:18pm
God, I don't think her voice is sexy AT ALL. I was terrified!
oh and I loved his acceptance speech, I don't think he thought he could win. It was charming.
But I won't live alone in a house of regret.
#11re: Kathleen Turner's Voice
Posted: 6/6/05 at 12:23pmI don't think it was sexy at all. Wayyy too low. She looks a lot different now too.
#12re: Kathleen Turner's Voice
Posted: 6/6/05 at 12:26pm
Erin Dilly does the BEST imitation of Kathleen on the "Nominees do lunch" on bway.com
"Hellllo, erin"
awkward.
"I think it was the Korean tour or something. They were all frickin' asian!" -Zoran912
#13re: Kathleen Turner's Voice
Posted: 6/6/05 at 12:33pmThere is nothing sexy about a voice that has been ruined by cigarettes. It's disgusting.
#14re: Kathleen Turner's Voice
Posted: 6/6/05 at 12:40pmit wasn't ruined by cigarettes. her voice was always low. granted, cigs will definitely add to the to the low register, but also as people age their voice naturally gets lower.
"You've gotta have a swine to show you where the truffles are."
#15re: Kathleen Turner's Voice
Posted: 6/6/05 at 1:34pmher sound was terrible.... first thing i thought was, "smoke much?"
#17re: Kathleen Turner's Voice
Posted: 6/6/05 at 2:16pmlay off KT
"You've gotta have a swine to show you where the truffles are."
#18re: Kathleen Turner's Voice
Posted: 6/6/05 at 2:34pm
Voices deepen with age, especially the ones that were lower than average to begin with. Some people, such as Turner, Elaine Stritch, Bea Arthur, Lauren Bacall, etc., just sped the process along due to their addictions. Turner is to be commended for the fact that she has fought to overcome hers and is, so far, winning the fight.
As far as "looking different," she's 50 years old, a fact she readily and proudly admits. As she has also publically admitted, she has suffered from rheumatoid arthritis for over a decade. That involves long periods of constant pain, and a myriad of medications that alter your physical makeup - i.e., your looks.
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
Updated On: 6/6/05 at 02:34 PM
jim
Stand-by Joined: 10/7/03
#19re: Kathleen Turner's Voice
Posted: 6/6/05 at 2:44pm
Hey, I went to college with Kathleen. Granted it's been a few years ago :) LOL
But she always had that low voice.
#20re: Kathleen Turner's Voice
Posted: 6/6/05 at 3:00pmMy mother watched an interview in which Kathleen said that she has "trained" her voice to sound that way.
I starred in a short film called Magnetic Personality. Check it out!
#21re: Kathleen Turner's Voice
Posted: 6/6/05 at 3:03pmYou can only "train" so much texture and quality - I could never sound like her and neither could Kristin C., with all the training in the world. I have heard her say that as well, and I believe she means "trained" it to have that sultry feel.
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
#22re: Kathleen Turner's Voice
Posted: 6/6/05 at 4:17pmit did seem lower than usual. Anyone in NY see her on the red carpet on NY1 before the show? She seemed a little loopy when she was talking and kept making odd faces and rolling her eyes while taling to the interviewer.
"I want to tell you that Elvis would be proud." I said: "Priscilla, if I get 100 bad reviews, it won't matter because of what you said."
Tirso de Molina
Featured Actor Joined: 1/1/05
#23re: Kathleen Turner's Voice
Posted: 6/6/05 at 4:21pm
Some medications for rheumatoid arthritis can lower/darken the voice; my mother suffered from that, and her voice ended up darker than mine, so that she was frequently mistaken for a man on the telephone. Turner's voice started out low anyhow, so perhaps the arthritis meds had a similar effect.
In any event, I thought her voice was GREAT for Martha.
"Sweet summer evenings, hot wine and bread /
Sharing your supper, sharing your bed /
Simple joys have a simple voice:
It says why not go ahead?"
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