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dub her entire performance with a first-time actress who had never stepped onto a stage. Last detail to note was the dubbing actress was also a minor and from California. Not only was she tasked with this all-new experience, she also had to hit the nuances and dialect of a girl from Nepal. Knee-deep in dialogue editorial (I like to cut dialogue I'm to mix, if possible), it was time to prep cues for ADR. Recording Gillian Anderson in London was a breeze, other actors from studios in India went well, and other actors' lines were captured. But there was no need to prep cues for Lakshmi's lines because we had to do the entire script. Surprisingly, our first-time actress did quite well: adding nuance, projection, restraint, and even proper dialect according to our coach. It was a three-day ADR shoot with her parents looking on. Only a handful of people knew what we were doing and it almost felt like we were keeping it a secret. What we heard in the track was sort of a croaking whisper. We were to dub her entire performance. Not only that, we were to dub her entire performance with a first-time actress who had never stepped onto a stage. Last detail to note was the dubbing actress was also a minor and from California. Not only was she tasked with this all-new experience, she also had to hit the nuances and dialect of a girl from Nepal. " " Busy over these three days, we had been receiving emails from Vinod reaching out with a very important message, but we hadn't been responding to his messages. Come Monday, we see an urgent series of emails asking us to call him. When we finally connect, Vinod sends a package of more than 30 impulse responses. Each IR was labeled with a location and we built a map of the Brothel. Then magic happens. After we recovered from that three-day marathon ADR shoot, I applied an instance of Altiverb with an IR from one of the rooms to our new lead actress's lines. The smiles in the room were far and wide! It was so satisfying to apply a reverb without much EQ work. We saw and heard where our mix could and would go. As a plus, we could also map the IR verbs to all of the Foley. (The very specific sandal and jewelry Foley work from Jay Peck at Stepping Stone Studios took the film to another level.) IR's had saved the day!