I got to I got to perform in the film Washington's Armor and I was also their dialect coach for several scenes.
The film shows the many ways young George Washington's life was preserved, and how he had a sense that the Lord was protecting him for something important.
The Journey is available on Amazon Prime.
Washington’s Armor: The Journey debuted on Epoch TV, and you can watch a behind-the-scenes documentary there for free.
I played a cook who sings to his pigs and helped all 32 speaking actors (while I was on set) work on nine accents: Received pronunciation, Scouse (Liverpool), French, French Canadian, Dutch, Delaware Native (Lanape), and three variations of Early American accents.
The most challenging was the Delaware Native accent, because people who spoke it exclusively before learning English have not been alive for two or three generations. I found a talking dictionary and chart of letters that helped.
I did the voices of two French officers talking to each other at 27:53.
Here's a behind the scenes piece on my main onscreen scene, planned for Part 2:
Here's a behind the scenes video put together by my friend Dean Mountford:
I did interviews for an article for Intercessors for America, "George Washington: Soldier, President, Intercessor":
I Dreamed I Was Free tells the story of Quaker abolitionist John Woolman, who spoke against slavery a century before our Civil War, around the same time of the Young George Washington's adventures.
