Timothy Simons Opens Up About Portraying Life In The '70s In Candy

Language not only changes over time, but it can also change quickly — we've all seen new slang terms suddenly emerge out of nowhere and take over our social media feeds, only to disappear a few months later. If you watch old movies or TV shows, you've probably noticed slightly different intonation patterns and other ways of speaking than you'd hear today. Timothy Simons knows this as well and was aware that his own speech patterns needed to be changed if he was to convincingly portray someone of his parents' generation.

"I feel like I have a modern way of speaking in that I say 'like' and 'man' too much," he said, "and when you're trying to be conversational in something that takes place in the 1970s, that was a challenge for me to sound like someone that was in the 1970s, to make it sound conversational without making it sound modern conversational."