She had a speech impediment, and learned to avoid her classmates' taunts by staying silent.
And she denigrated Marilyn Stewart, her predecessor, calling her "a nice lady, heart in the right place, completely inarticulate, poster child for bad teacher, she had a speech impediment and she was nervous, she didn't prepare herself".
I was shocked that she had a speech prepared, and then it of course turned out it was too long of one, and the mysterious tapping that Cumming and Chenoweth threatened would play people off started.
She has a big speech at the end, with all the fireworks, but I felt this glib and preposterous movie did not support the performance.
The third, Hypatia (Abigail Savage), is something of a mathematical savant; she has a second-act speech about rational and irrational numbers that is meant to be more profound than it is, but she spends a good part of the play scribbling serious-looking numbers on various surfaces, either because she's a genius or because she's autistic; it might be both.
"I haven't spoken to her yet, and I don't know if she has a copy of the speech, but I can't see her exposure to any violations," he said.
She has a long set of speeches in the second act when she's telling the boys finally that he's suicidal.
Ido has a speech to write.
But when the actor's solution involved mimicking Churchill's own speech – "She has a slight soft-r sound" – she agreed at once.
