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The actor’s singing experience before his role in Sing was limited to car rides and shower belting, he told Today, and he practiced overtime for the musical role.
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Witherspoon learned to sing for her role as June Carter Cash in Walk the Line, which chronicles the life of country music legend Johnny Cash.
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As the star of Walk the Line, Phoenix also had to undergo training for his leading role in order to emulate Johnny Cash’s signature bluesy sound.
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Prior to her role as the Baker’s Wife in musical Into the Woods, Blunt had no professional singing experience, the actress told Access.
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Who could forget Hathaway’s emotion-packed performance in the movie version of Les Miserables. “I had prepared for singing while crying," she told Deadline.
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Hiddleston told Vanity Fair that a singing coach worked with him to loosen his "British stiff upper lip" for his role as Hank Williams in the biopic I Saw the Light.
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For the power house actress’s titular role in Florence Foster Jenkins, the task at hand was learning how to sing badly for the main character’s comically bad aria performances.
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Cooper had a superstar singing coach as a partner in preparation for his lead role in A Star is Born — he worked closely with Lady Gaga, who played Ally in the film.
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