- I was crazy back then.
I mean, I'm still crazy, I don't know.
And that's cause I'm from New York, okay?
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[audience clapping]
Jennifer, for your surprise showcase,
please break down and show us
how to do an Bronx accent.
Okay.
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Long island is more like this, long island.
Bronx is just much more, I don't know,
it just comes natural to me.
If I'm talking like I'm from the Bronx,
I talk like this.
That's how I talk.
So I guess it's like ah's and stuff like that,
but I don't know, I just do it.
I do feel like there's a little bit
where you talk a little bit faster
and you talk like you know everything.
There's more of a mentality to it.
It's like, you don't know what you're talking about,
I know what I'm talking about.
You never know what you're talking about,
I'm smarter than you [laughs].
Cause you're dumb.
And that's why I talk like this.
[laughs]
I don't know.
And I'll punch you in your fucking face.
[laughs] Okay?
And I think New York is more of an attitude
than it is an accent,
but there is an accent to the attitude.
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I grew up in New York and so I didn't so much think
about a Bronx accent for her,
even though she was from the Bronx.
I thought of it more in kind of a New York sense.
She was very much a pimp
and somewhat of a gangster,
you know what I mean,
like she had the whole game figured out.
I also thought like Ramona wanted to be more sophisticated
cause she was around these Wall Street guys
all the time and she felt like she was fitting in with them.
I mean, she still was who she was, you know.
I didn't base her off of any one person
and I made her a smoker
and one of the things that really got me into character
every single day was kinda having her lighter.
I had like a little blinged out lighter.
It was all like, diamond encrusted lighter.
You know, traits of who I thought she would really be.
And immediately when I would hold the lighter,
I would kind of [snaps] turn into this other person
that you're trying to make me turn into now,
but it's not that easy [laughs].
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