WEBVTT - The Voice of Diamond White 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:04.560 Hey Christy, Oh, hey Will, How are you pretty good? 0:00:04.640 --> 0:00:08.320 You know? I'm I lost my voice recently. It was 0:00:08.400 --> 0:00:13.640 really weird. Did you where did you find it? Again? Um, 0:00:13.680 --> 0:00:16.400 that's such a trick question. How did you lose? Will 0:00:16.600 --> 0:00:21.000 get started? How did you lose it? I'm saying, actually 0:00:21.040 --> 0:00:22.840 the last I think it was the last episode that 0:00:22.880 --> 0:00:24.800 we did, or the last time we spoke, you were like, 0:00:24.840 --> 0:00:27.880 you sound pretty rough, and I was. And I think 0:00:28.000 --> 0:00:30.840 it's funny to me, how like, as as voice actors, 0:00:31.760 --> 0:00:34.280 your voice tends to be I don't know about you, 0:00:34.640 --> 0:00:37.200 but for me, my voice has always been the first 0:00:37.200 --> 0:00:40.720 thing to go. Yeah. Mine lately has been if I 0:00:40.760 --> 0:00:42.920 get a cold or something, it goes right to my 0:00:42.960 --> 0:00:46.199 throat and it's it's I'm always going to you know. 0:00:46.280 --> 0:00:49.240 It's one of those kind of things. So I feel better. 0:00:49.600 --> 0:00:51.840 You sound better, No, I'm on the men for sure, 0:00:51.920 --> 0:00:54.920 you know I think, Um, I definitely am. I am 0:00:55.000 --> 0:00:57.600 grateful that right now. I'm not like in production for anything, 0:00:57.640 --> 0:01:01.000 because that would be scary. But I feel like so 0:01:01.080 --> 0:01:04.280 much of your essence as sort of a performer or 0:01:04.360 --> 0:01:08.440 a creator or whatever, it relies on people knowing it's 0:01:08.440 --> 0:01:11.240 you from your voice, and and so it does kind 0:01:11.240 --> 0:01:13.800 of like it hurt me. It hurts me, like when 0:01:13.800 --> 0:01:16.640 I lose it, I take it for granted, you know, 0:01:16.800 --> 0:01:19.200 and then when it's gone, I'm like, I get a 0:01:19.240 --> 0:01:23.280 lot of anxiety about it. But otherwise, well, other you're 0:01:23.280 --> 0:01:25.560 a singer, a voiceover actor, and a podcaster. So what 0:01:25.600 --> 0:01:28.720 do you need your voice for? Yeah, that's that's important. 0:01:28.920 --> 0:01:30.800 So one thing we do have to talk about, and 0:01:30.800 --> 0:01:34.360 then we're gonna get into our amazing guest today. Um, 0:01:34.440 --> 0:01:36.479 and we are very lucky to have this person with us. 0:01:36.520 --> 0:01:41.840 But our contest, the super awesome contest to become the 0:01:41.840 --> 0:01:47.080 next big voice actor. We we're expecting a good response. 0:01:47.200 --> 0:01:50.600 We really were. We were expecting to have a number 0:01:50.720 --> 0:01:54.000 of people enter. So with our partnership with Critical Role 0:01:54.040 --> 0:01:58.880 and with Prime Video, we were expecting that the word 0:01:58.920 --> 0:02:02.800 was going to get out there. But I don't think 0:02:02.840 --> 0:02:08.400 any of us expected this. We got thousands of submissions. 0:02:08.440 --> 0:02:12.239 We are absolutely blown away by the response we got. 0:02:12.600 --> 0:02:17.160 It is so cool. I'm amazed, Christie amazed, I'm very 0:02:17.200 --> 0:02:21.600 I'm very heartened by it. I feel like, um, social 0:02:21.600 --> 0:02:24.640 media can be so great to get the word out, 0:02:24.680 --> 0:02:26.720 and I think that we were able to do that 0:02:26.880 --> 0:02:29.440 in a very short amount of time. And so whether 0:02:29.560 --> 0:02:32.200 you told a friend, or you sent you know, sent 0:02:32.280 --> 0:02:34.520 it to somebody, or you just took a chance, we're 0:02:34.560 --> 0:02:36.800 really proud of you. You already did it. You already 0:02:37.040 --> 0:02:39.919 you know, made the first step. So congrats to that. 0:02:40.120 --> 0:02:44.000 We're truly overwhelmed at the response. Uh and and really 0:02:44.040 --> 0:02:47.680 excited to start. So, speaking of excited, can you tell 0:02:47.760 --> 0:02:50.400 us a little bit about who we got today. I 0:02:50.440 --> 0:02:55.079 am so excited about today's guest because she just is 0:02:55.680 --> 0:03:01.519 so fabulous. Um, Diamond White is the voice of Lunella 0:03:01.560 --> 0:03:04.760 Lafayette and she is the next big thing. And it's 0:03:04.800 --> 0:03:06.840 really exciting that I hear Voices gets to have her 0:03:06.840 --> 0:03:09.720 on because we have just the best guests. We really do, 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:13.280 we really do. And her show is just dropped on 0:03:13.320 --> 0:03:17.160 Disney Channel and Disney Plus. It's gonna be huge. So 0:03:17.320 --> 0:03:19.359 I'm glad we got her now because I'm guessing a 0:03:19.440 --> 0:03:21.840 year from now, um, she's not even gonna know who 0:03:21.880 --> 0:03:23.320 we are or want to have anything to do with us, 0:03:23.320 --> 0:03:25.799 because she's going to be a huge, huge, huge Yeah 0:03:25.800 --> 0:03:28.000 she's too nice to do that, but she's still gonna 0:03:28.040 --> 0:03:30.400 be a huge, huge, huge star. And I'm so glad 0:03:30.440 --> 0:03:32.040 that we got a chance to talk to her today. 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:36.480 Who is it, Christie, it's Diamond White. Hello, Hello, how 0:03:36.520 --> 0:03:40.240 are you? Hello, Diamond? How are you? How are you doing? 0:03:41.120 --> 0:03:44.320 Thank you so much for joining us today. Of course 0:03:46.280 --> 0:03:48.360 I'm sorry. I'm just once again, this is like the 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:51.080 ninth time I'm going through your bio because it's so long. 0:03:51.320 --> 0:03:54.800 We've done so much stuff. This is amazing, it is. 0:03:55.600 --> 0:03:58.920 And seeing some familiar names, right, seeing Phineas inferb and 0:03:59.000 --> 0:04:01.920 a bunch of Disney some very cool stuff. Well, we 0:04:01.960 --> 0:04:04.720 did Transformers Rescue Butts together but didn't meet. We did 0:04:04.800 --> 0:04:09.000 Girl Meet together, but didn't meet. So there's a ton 0:04:09.040 --> 0:04:11.720 of things that we've we've we've crossed over, but never 0:04:11.760 --> 0:04:14.080 actually met each other and work together, which I find 0:04:14.160 --> 0:04:17.919 very interesting. Wow, that's always how it is. Right. We 0:04:17.960 --> 0:04:22.360 do have Steve Loder in common. Oh I love him. Yes, 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:25.400 we do too. He's a pretty awesome guy. He's a 0:04:25.440 --> 0:04:29.360 great guy. Yeah, yeah, Steve. Steve was responsible for Kim 0:04:29.400 --> 0:04:33.560 possible for us, so we were very excited to be 0:04:34.080 --> 0:04:37.640 working with Steve. So how did you get into the world. 0:04:37.680 --> 0:04:40.760 I mean, I know, obviously for for everybody out there, 0:04:41.040 --> 0:04:43.240 they know you from X factor and all the kind 0:04:43.240 --> 0:04:45.280 of you know, the the on camera stuff that you did. 0:04:45.279 --> 0:04:48.400 But how did you really find voice over? Um? I 0:04:48.480 --> 0:04:51.760 started with Phineas and Ferb when I was around twelve 0:04:51.880 --> 0:04:58.400 or thirteen, and I started that playing Holly, the fireside girl, 0:04:59.000 --> 0:05:01.240 and it was a small role, but it kept me 0:05:01.279 --> 0:05:03.200 out in l A and then ever since then, I 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:06.200 just kept auditioning from one and more voiceover roles, and 0:05:06.240 --> 0:05:10.240 then after that I book Transformers. Now do you like 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:15.600 doing video? Oh? Yeah, I love, but I don't have 0:05:15.640 --> 0:05:19.560 to get ready out of bed. I can do it 0:05:19.560 --> 0:05:22.000 from my home studio and even when I'll go into 0:05:22.000 --> 0:05:24.760 the studio, I can be in pajamas and you know, 0:05:24.960 --> 0:05:31.799 it's fun. Did you grow up watching cartoons? Um? I did. 0:05:32.120 --> 0:05:35.839 I grew up watching like Kemp Possible in The Proud 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:40.320 Family and a couple of other cartoons. But yeah, I 0:05:40.360 --> 0:05:43.599 did grow up watching a lot of animation. I always 0:05:43.600 --> 0:05:47.800 wonder about the folks that were growing up watching you 0:05:47.839 --> 0:05:50.800 know that era of animation. I feel like it was. 0:05:50.880 --> 0:05:53.520 It was so unique and even like now that Steve 0:05:53.640 --> 0:05:58.080 is working with you, UM in this amazing piece, it's 0:05:58.200 --> 0:06:01.520 it's it's interesting to me if like subconsciously there were 0:06:01.560 --> 0:06:06.720 influences on your sort of take, or if maybe there weren't, 0:06:06.960 --> 0:06:09.320 in which case we're very always interested in I hear 0:06:09.360 --> 0:06:12.120 voices about your inspirations and like how you've come to 0:06:12.279 --> 0:06:16.760 understand character work and stuff like that. Well, for Lunella, 0:06:16.839 --> 0:06:19.479 I mean, I've always had an animated voice. People have 0:06:19.640 --> 0:06:24.080 always told me, like, you sound like a cartoon. Like 0:06:24.440 --> 0:06:28.400 that's a compliment. My voice hasn't really aged since I 0:06:28.560 --> 0:06:31.640 turned twelve. It's always kind of been the same. Um. 0:06:31.680 --> 0:06:34.200 I think some people have just met for voiceover work, 0:06:34.240 --> 0:06:38.400 and I think that I'm one of those people. Were 0:06:38.400 --> 0:06:40.240 great on camera too. There's some people like me where 0:06:40.279 --> 0:06:43.640 we have the face for voiceover, but you work, you 0:06:43.680 --> 0:06:47.280 work perfectly for the on camera stuff too. Um. So 0:06:47.400 --> 0:06:50.280 can you tell us a little bit about the new show. Yeah, 0:06:50.279 --> 0:06:53.560 this show is basically about Lunella Lafayette a k a. 0:06:53.640 --> 0:06:58.080 Moon Girl and her partner Double Dinosaur as they protect 0:06:58.080 --> 0:07:01.560 the Lower East Side of New York, the Elliotts. And 0:07:01.600 --> 0:07:05.440 it's a super fun show. It's multi generational, so it's 0:07:05.480 --> 0:07:09.960 for families and kids and adults, and it's really good. 0:07:10.000 --> 0:07:12.680 It teaches you a lot about science and quantum physics 0:07:12.720 --> 0:07:17.200 and um Basically, it's about Lunella. You know, she's not 0:07:17.240 --> 0:07:19.520 only a superhero, but she is a young black girl 0:07:19.680 --> 0:07:22.720 growing up, and it teaches you about a lot of 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:25.040 the things that young black girls go through growing up. 0:07:25.080 --> 0:07:30.680 So it's a really important show. That's amazing. So, I mean, 0:07:30.880 --> 0:07:33.240 you're not only kind of I think this is the 0:07:33.240 --> 0:07:36.480 first time that we're ever seeing this character. So, I mean, 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:39.400 what does it like to join the Marvel world? Oh, 0:07:39.480 --> 0:07:43.360 it's incredible. The show is complimentary to the Marvel universe. 0:07:43.600 --> 0:07:45.640 So there are a couple of easter eggs in the 0:07:45.640 --> 0:07:48.880 show that if you're really into Marvel and stuff like that, 0:07:48.960 --> 0:07:52.680 you'll see. Yeah, he is, I'll find if they're there, 0:07:52.680 --> 0:07:55.640 I'll find him. My promise, will raise his hand. Roy. 0:07:55.960 --> 0:07:58.440 That's me, that's me. I'm nerd and proud of it. 0:07:58.520 --> 0:08:00.600 So I'm sure going to find all that stuff. Of 0:08:00.640 --> 0:08:03.080 course I'm gonna of course I'm gonna watch it. I 0:08:03.160 --> 0:08:05.720 know we are. So it's that you said that this 0:08:05.880 --> 0:08:08.120 the Phineas and for when you were twelve, You're kind 0:08:08.120 --> 0:08:11.000 of entry into the world. Kept you out in Los Angeles. 0:08:11.040 --> 0:08:15.320 Where did you start? Um, what do you mean by that? Well, like, 0:08:15.360 --> 0:08:17.320 where were you? Where you from I guess let's let's 0:08:17.320 --> 0:08:21.120 start from there. I'm from Detroit, Michigan. Um, but my 0:08:21.240 --> 0:08:23.560 mom put me in a bunch of singing competitions when 0:08:23.600 --> 0:08:26.760 I was younger because I love to sing, and um, 0:08:26.800 --> 0:08:29.960 I started off doing musicals. Actually, I started off doing 0:08:30.000 --> 0:08:32.839 The Color Purple when I was around eight, and then 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:38.160 The Lion King when I was around twelve. Yeah, so 0:08:38.200 --> 0:08:40.679 were you on tour with those shows? I was on 0:08:40.720 --> 0:08:43.080 tour with The Color Purple and then The Lion King 0:08:43.160 --> 0:08:48.280 was in Vegas. Okay, and you're twelve in Vegas? Yeah, 0:08:48.679 --> 0:08:53.960 doing The Lion King. Yeah. I mean, we'll talk about 0:08:53.960 --> 0:08:56.600 a place that is unlike anywhere else in the world. 0:08:56.679 --> 0:09:00.440 Being in Vegas A twelve must be nuts. Yeah. I 0:09:00.440 --> 0:09:03.720 didn't understand it at first. My mom loved it. She 0:09:03.800 --> 0:09:17.520 loved being the casino. Okay, So I hate to do 0:09:17.559 --> 0:09:20.000 this to you, but we do this to everybody. You'd 0:09:20.000 --> 0:09:22.880 love to sing, you love to do on camera, you'd 0:09:22.880 --> 0:09:25.080 love to do voice over. If you had to pick 0:09:25.320 --> 0:09:29.959 just one to pursue, what would you take? I know, right, 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:38.800 I would take voiceover. It's really wow over. So you 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:41.079 can be so many characters, and a lot of those 0:09:41.160 --> 0:09:45.920 characters sing Lunela sings okay, the theme song and all 0:09:45.960 --> 0:09:48.000 of the other songs that are in the show. So 0:09:49.040 --> 0:09:51.959 with with voiceover, I get to have a taste of 0:09:52.000 --> 0:09:55.480 a lot of worlds. Oh that makes sense, okay, all right, 0:09:55.520 --> 0:10:02.160 So then you m you did the you're doing the 0:10:02.160 --> 0:10:04.880 theme song. That's actually really big. Um. A lot of 0:10:04.920 --> 0:10:07.520 times people will confuse me for Christina Milian and I 0:10:07.559 --> 0:10:10.680 have to make sure that people understand that very different. 0:10:10.760 --> 0:10:14.920 We're very different. Kim did sing in Kim Possible a 0:10:14.920 --> 0:10:18.960 couple of times. Um. But it's so good that you're 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:21.120 doing the theme song and then you're following up with 0:10:21.200 --> 0:10:24.760 musical numbers in the actual piece. So what is that like? 0:10:24.800 --> 0:10:27.560 I mean when there are they approaching you with original songs? 0:10:27.600 --> 0:10:30.800 Like how do for people who don't know, um, do 0:10:30.840 --> 0:10:33.319 they have composers? Is it's Steve that's writing the music? 0:10:33.360 --> 0:10:35.280 Like who's writing the music and then giving it to 0:10:35.280 --> 0:10:41.920 you to sing? Raphael Sadiq is, oh my gosh, producing everything. 0:10:42.240 --> 0:10:45.480 And there was about two or three weeks where we 0:10:45.480 --> 0:10:49.760 had an original song to do every week. So it's 0:10:49.760 --> 0:10:53.280 a very musical show and the music is insane. It's like, 0:10:53.559 --> 0:10:55.720 you know, they took a lot of inspiration from New York, 0:10:55.760 --> 0:10:58.880 Like you can walk down the street and here every 0:10:58.920 --> 0:11:02.200 different style of music. So they tried to make every 0:11:02.240 --> 0:11:06.480 song in different genre, and you know, it's a lot 0:11:06.520 --> 0:11:09.000 of different genres. It's a lot of fun and I'm 0:11:09.080 --> 0:11:11.839 just excited to sing on the show. Oh, that's amazing. 0:11:11.840 --> 0:11:14.240 So it's like a melting pot of sound in a 0:11:14.240 --> 0:11:19.119 way to capture that's amazing. Yeah, I'm we're from Connecticut, 0:11:19.160 --> 0:11:21.360 but Will and I both grew up going to New 0:11:21.440 --> 0:11:24.760 York as like little kids and auditioning. They're kind of 0:11:24.800 --> 0:11:29.640 starting there. Um, so the familiar sounds and smells of 0:11:29.679 --> 0:11:32.040 the well it has, it has such a vibe. It's 0:11:32.160 --> 0:11:36.640 it's such a just a city that's absolutely alive. So 0:11:36.679 --> 0:11:38.960 to be able to capture that, or even just a 0:11:39.000 --> 0:11:44.040 small piece of it animated every week is incredible because 0:11:44.040 --> 0:11:46.760 the flavors of the city are just so rich and 0:11:47.960 --> 0:11:52.360 explosive that that the idea of being able to animate 0:11:52.400 --> 0:11:55.280 that is really really cool to me. Have you seen 0:11:55.320 --> 0:11:58.800 any of the show yet? Yeah? I have. I've seen 0:11:59.080 --> 0:12:02.000 a lot more more than the general public. But it's 0:12:02.000 --> 0:12:05.520 a really cool show. There's music, there's even the art 0:12:05.640 --> 0:12:10.880 was inspired by like bossciatt and um thanks see. And 0:12:11.000 --> 0:12:15.120 just like a lot of the New York um graffitiers, 0:12:16.080 --> 0:12:18.360 the show is very authentic to war and a lot 0:12:18.360 --> 0:12:20.640 of the spaces you see in the show are based 0:12:20.679 --> 0:12:23.160 off of real places in New York. Thanks to Steve 0:12:23.240 --> 0:12:26.800 lauder Um. Yeah, he really did his research on this 0:12:26.880 --> 0:12:29.760 and wanted it to feel like an authentic New York show. 0:12:30.040 --> 0:12:33.440 So it's it's pretty cool. I don't know. I just 0:12:33.559 --> 0:12:35.439 I wonder if Steve has ties to New York? Does 0:12:35.480 --> 0:12:37.080 he or did he just like do what he needed 0:12:37.080 --> 0:12:40.080 to do to create the world really rich. I want 0:12:40.120 --> 0:12:42.040 to say that he grew up there. I feel like 0:12:42.040 --> 0:12:44.640 he has an accent. I feel like Steve, we just 0:12:44.679 --> 0:12:46.560 had him, We just had him on the show not 0:12:46.600 --> 0:12:49.240 too long ago, and I remember him. Yeah, he has 0:12:49.240 --> 0:12:51.720 a little bit of an accent. I'm gonna ask. I 0:12:51.760 --> 0:12:54.440 think he's also one of those guys who's just very 0:12:54.480 --> 0:12:59.240 obsessive about making things look right. So you know, he 0:13:00.000 --> 0:13:01.800 whether he grew up there or not, I can't remember, 0:13:01.840 --> 0:13:04.120 but you know that he did all the research to 0:13:04.160 --> 0:13:05.959 make sure that everything is perfect. And that's the things 0:13:05.960 --> 0:13:07.480 that I love, especially when it's said in some place 0:13:07.520 --> 0:13:10.960 like New York like a place like New York, Chicago, Detroit, 0:13:11.160 --> 0:13:13.840 l A. These places have their own vibe to them, 0:13:13.920 --> 0:13:16.760 and when you're going to make that a character on 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:19.000 the show, you've got to make sure you're doing it justice. 0:13:19.400 --> 0:13:21.640 So I'm guessing you're really going to be able to 0:13:21.640 --> 0:13:24.959 see New York for New York, which is awesome. And 0:13:25.080 --> 0:13:28.280 then we're my girls are really interested in science. And 0:13:28.320 --> 0:13:32.040 what I love about this in terms of Lunella uh 0:13:32.080 --> 0:13:35.240 sort of engaging with STEM and quantum physics, is that 0:13:35.320 --> 0:13:37.800 I do think it's such a wonderful message to send 0:13:38.320 --> 0:13:42.559 um how sort of like you can be independent through um. 0:13:42.760 --> 0:13:45.480 You're through science and your own means and like figuring 0:13:45.480 --> 0:13:48.080 it out for yourself. And I love seeing that. And 0:13:48.200 --> 0:13:50.280 as a parent, that's just such a great message to 0:13:50.280 --> 0:13:53.880 send to kids, you know. Yeah, Lunela is one of 0:13:53.920 --> 0:13:58.880 the smartest superheroes in the Marvel universe, so of course 0:13:59.000 --> 0:14:04.840 her big brain, she loves to get into quantum physics 0:14:04.840 --> 0:14:07.600 and science and math, and it is a really good 0:14:07.640 --> 0:14:10.839 message for younger girls to pick up. And I it's 0:14:10.880 --> 0:14:13.240 a show that I like needed when I was younger, 0:14:14.000 --> 0:14:16.200 so it's cool to finally see it come to life. 0:14:16.240 --> 0:14:20.240 And see all of the amazing things that Luella brings 0:14:20.280 --> 0:14:23.360 to the table. It's incredible. So you have to change 0:14:23.400 --> 0:14:26.440 you want to see They say the change, just one 0:14:26.520 --> 0:14:30.360 girl can make a difference. I love that. That's amazing. 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:34.640 So speaking of just regular you know, different animation, if 0:14:34.800 --> 0:14:37.280 we always love to ask this as well, you get 0:14:37.320 --> 0:14:41.760 to pick any character you want. Who's the ultimate character 0:14:41.800 --> 0:14:43.920 that you'd want to play, not just in Marvel, not 0:14:44.000 --> 0:14:47.520 just anything, anything you want. Um, I would love to 0:14:47.560 --> 0:14:51.960 play Catwoman. I think that she's very cool. Um. I 0:14:52.000 --> 0:14:56.080 love seeing Holly Berry play her and even and like 0:14:56.360 --> 0:15:01.680 they had a show the Gotham Shows, really seeing play her. Um. 0:15:01.720 --> 0:15:06.480 But yeah, I'd love to play Catwoman. Um. I love 0:15:06.520 --> 0:15:09.960 a good Harley Quinn. Yes, of course. I love that 0:15:09.960 --> 0:15:13.760 you're Batman characters, which is my that's my jam So 0:15:13.840 --> 0:15:15.600 that's my favorite thing in the world. So just hearing 0:15:15.640 --> 0:15:17.920 the DC Batman stuff is the greatest thing in the world. 0:15:17.920 --> 0:15:22.120 I love that. Yeah. Yeah, there were two characters that 0:15:22.120 --> 0:15:23.520 I would want to play. But if there was a 0:15:23.600 --> 0:15:26.360 character that I would love to have Vuonella meet and 0:15:26.520 --> 0:15:30.480 kind of playoff of, it would be Spider Man. Oh yeah, well, 0:15:30.520 --> 0:15:32.560 and that could totally happen to. That's the joy of 0:15:32.560 --> 0:15:37.200 the universe. Yeah, especially especially because Disney Channel has like 0:15:37.280 --> 0:15:41.600 they're they're spiky team animation happening, right. I know they 0:15:42.000 --> 0:15:45.120 too much. They just love to that. You love to 0:15:45.200 --> 0:15:47.640 keep everything in the family. I mean those the crossovers 0:15:47.640 --> 0:15:49.520 are the best part. And you're just wondering who's gonna 0:15:49.520 --> 0:15:52.840 come where and who's gonna do what, and um, yeah, 0:15:52.840 --> 0:15:55.880 I think that's very very Disney smart. They're pretty smart 0:15:55.920 --> 0:16:01.280 people over there for a while, like a hundred years 0:16:01.400 --> 0:16:03.640 a hundred years to which is actually really cool when 0:16:03.680 --> 0:16:05.120 you think about that. You get to be a part 0:16:05.160 --> 0:16:08.400 of that moment too. Um. And I mean you've worked 0:16:08.400 --> 0:16:10.400 with Disney for a long time, but I am curious, 0:16:10.400 --> 0:16:12.960 what is it, Like, what does Disney mean to you? Like, 0:16:13.000 --> 0:16:15.160 what is being part of like the Disney family, Like, 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:20.800 I mean, it's really cool. Um, I've been a part of. 0:16:20.920 --> 0:16:23.720 My first bigger role that I had with the whole 0:16:23.720 --> 0:16:25.880 Disney family was a part of the Lion King family 0:16:25.960 --> 0:16:29.240 The Lion Guard, where I got to play Foully and 0:16:29.400 --> 0:16:31.800 that was a show that I was like, oh my god, 0:16:31.880 --> 0:16:36.200 we're a part of the Lion King kind of legendary thing, 0:16:36.440 --> 0:16:39.080 and it's really I'm speaking out. We love your character, 0:16:40.840 --> 0:16:43.600 but I'm just I'm really grateful to Disney for keeping 0:16:43.600 --> 0:16:45.840 me in the family. I feel like every role that 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:48.680 they've given me or allowed me to have has been 0:16:49.600 --> 0:16:51.960 really cool. And I just get to have fun in 0:16:52.000 --> 0:16:54.160 the booth, and that's kind of all I'm here for. 0:16:54.360 --> 0:16:56.680 It's just having fun in the booth, being a kid. 0:16:56.840 --> 0:17:00.280 Keeping my kid dreams alive is the best. So you're 0:17:00.320 --> 0:17:04.159 on Girl Meets World two, right? I played stage, so 0:17:04.240 --> 0:17:06.000 I did. I don't think we ever worked together. I 0:17:06.000 --> 0:17:08.080 think I was probably as I as I got there. 0:17:08.240 --> 0:17:10.680 It's you know, I came very sporadically, so I don't 0:17:10.680 --> 0:17:12.359 think we ever had a chance to actually work together. 0:17:13.440 --> 0:17:15.760 One or two scenes. I was like the cool girl 0:17:15.840 --> 0:17:21.080 in the bathroom, kind of giving advice stage stage. Let 0:17:21.119 --> 0:17:25.280 me see what they did there. Oh, I love that. 0:17:34.960 --> 0:17:37.440 I have one other question because we had Justin Guarini 0:17:37.480 --> 0:17:39.919 on the show not too long ago, and he was 0:17:39.960 --> 0:17:43.399 telling us about kind of the process of American Idol. 0:17:44.119 --> 0:17:46.119 Could you walk us through just a little bit of 0:17:46.160 --> 0:17:48.920 the process of of X Factor, because I mean, it's 0:17:48.920 --> 0:17:50.680 such a juggernaut of a show. I mean, what is 0:17:50.720 --> 0:17:56.879 it like? Um, well, I was about twelve. Um. I 0:17:56.960 --> 0:17:59.679 went through a whole bunch of pre auditions before I 0:17:59.760 --> 0:18:04.639 got on the actual like TV show and the show. Actually, 0:18:04.680 --> 0:18:08.000 my first audition was edited to make it seem like 0:18:08.080 --> 0:18:12.320 Simon was a lot meaner to me, and really that's 0:18:12.600 --> 0:18:16.679 me as he was. He was very sweet to me, 0:18:16.800 --> 0:18:19.840 but they edited it to look like he was like, Oh, 0:18:20.040 --> 0:18:22.920 don't sing a doll and Adele was never on my 0:18:23.200 --> 0:18:26.760 playlist of songs that I was gonna sing. Um. It's 0:18:26.760 --> 0:18:29.080 a lot of editing, but it was a lot of fun. 0:18:29.240 --> 0:18:31.600 I'm happy that I got to perform every week on 0:18:31.760 --> 0:18:34.040 stage and I made it to top five, which is 0:18:34.640 --> 0:18:38.639 that's huge. Yeah, I was just having fun. It was 0:18:38.680 --> 0:18:43.120 more stressful for my mom behind, I bet, but I 0:18:43.160 --> 0:18:45.760 was just having fun on stage and learning all these 0:18:45.840 --> 0:18:48.520 new things. It was. You know what's really funny is 0:18:48.560 --> 0:18:51.840 that Justin actually was doing um was going to do 0:18:51.920 --> 0:18:55.680 and then eventually did right around American Idol Lion King 0:18:55.720 --> 0:19:00.800 as well. Oh wow, but pretty play I was, well 0:19:00.880 --> 0:19:03.520 he turned it down. Remember I forget who they offered him, 0:19:03.560 --> 0:19:05.879 So he was he said, he literally got there. He 0:19:05.960 --> 0:19:08.399 got to the American Idol studio and he was looking 0:19:08.520 --> 0:19:11.359 at the stage. What he all he wanted to do 0:19:11.520 --> 0:19:14.720 was be uh, be on line King. He just wanted 0:19:14.720 --> 0:19:15.800 to be in Lion King. He just wanted to be 0:19:15.800 --> 0:19:17.880 in the Lion King. They kept rejecting him. They kept 0:19:17.920 --> 0:19:21.159 rejecting him. He goes the auditions for American Idol. He 0:19:21.240 --> 0:19:23.560 gets he finally gets through. He gets onto the stage 0:19:23.600 --> 0:19:25.040 and he says, the day that he's supposed to go 0:19:25.080 --> 0:19:27.280 on the stage, they call and say, we'd like you 0:19:27.280 --> 0:19:30.320 to come and be in the Lion King. And so 0:19:30.359 --> 0:19:32.480 he said, I had to look up and decide what 0:19:32.600 --> 0:19:34.159 I wanted to do. We don't think our producer just 0:19:34.200 --> 0:19:36.000 clicked and said, we don't think. He told us what 0:19:36.080 --> 0:19:38.000 role it was for. But I'm looking at him like, 0:19:38.119 --> 0:19:41.399 was it mufassa? I forget. But he said, so I 0:19:41.440 --> 0:19:44.680 had to sit there and and decide what I wanted 0:19:44.720 --> 0:19:45.920 to do with my life. And he said he ended 0:19:45.960 --> 0:19:48.679 up choosing American Idol, which was the best decision he 0:19:48.720 --> 0:19:50.280 had made. But that's all he wanted to do was 0:19:50.359 --> 0:19:53.840 Lion King. Um so it's uh, one of my goals 0:19:53.960 --> 0:19:57.960 is to go back and play Big Nala nice. Okay, 0:19:58.000 --> 0:20:02.680 I feel that because so much so. Okay um. One 0:20:02.680 --> 0:20:04.120 of the questions I have to ask because it's another 0:20:04.119 --> 0:20:05.879 show that I did and it's very, very close to 0:20:05.920 --> 0:20:08.919 my heart. Who did you plan Rescue Boats? I was 0:20:09.040 --> 0:20:15.040 Francine Green Okay, it's so funny. Never never getting a 0:20:15.119 --> 0:20:18.000 chance to work together. Were you in the booth with everybody? 0:20:18.040 --> 0:20:24.960 I was, I'm Bumblebee, yeah, bump, I'm Bumblebee. Goodness. Yeah. 0:20:25.200 --> 0:20:27.280 We had a couple of sessions where we were all 0:20:27.320 --> 0:20:34.040 in the booth together. I mainly played along Ellen okay. Uh. 0:20:34.200 --> 0:20:40.199 He was the younger kid. Uh. I can't remember the 0:20:40.280 --> 0:20:44.520 name of the character, but I played along Elon. It 0:20:44.640 --> 0:20:47.120 was the two younger kids, always going okay each other. 0:20:47.280 --> 0:20:50.400 But there were a few um times where we had 0:20:50.440 --> 0:20:54.480 all the robots in the room. But never I didn't. 0:20:54.520 --> 0:20:58.040 I never let you. Yes, I was Bumblebe. My best 0:20:58.080 --> 0:21:04.520 friend Jason Marsden was also on. He's a great boy. 0:21:04.600 --> 0:21:06.600 But yeah, but I got to play Bumblebee for many 0:21:06.680 --> 0:21:08.680 years and my voice would just be down here, let's 0:21:08.840 --> 0:21:10.760 let's rev up and roll out, and it was just 0:21:10.800 --> 0:21:14.280 a ton of fun. It was so fun to get 0:21:14.320 --> 0:21:16.440 to play a transformer. It's just such another but that's 0:21:16.480 --> 0:21:18.760 the thing I mean you're now when you look at 0:21:18.760 --> 0:21:23.920 the I mean the huge shows that you've been involved 0:21:23.960 --> 0:21:26.600 with and the companies you've been involved with, from X 0:21:26.640 --> 0:21:31.840 Factor to now Marvel to the Transformers to Phineas and Ferb. 0:21:31.960 --> 0:21:35.520 I mean you've been kind of upper echelon since you started. 0:21:36.560 --> 0:21:40.040 That's that's a pretty phenomenal career, especially voiceover wise. To 0:21:40.280 --> 0:21:44.120 just come in at the top and stay there is uh, 0:21:44.280 --> 0:21:48.200 pretty impressive. Thank you. I didn't do it on purpose. 0:21:50.440 --> 0:21:53.919 I've kind of been hanging out up here, I guess, 0:21:53.960 --> 0:21:58.360 and thing that it continues to stay there. That's spoken 0:21:58.400 --> 0:22:00.159 like a true actor. Oh, I've been doing all this 0:22:00.240 --> 0:22:02.240 good stuff and I just want to keep going. You 0:22:02.320 --> 0:22:05.040 just want to keep going, keep going, keep going. That's 0:22:05.080 --> 0:22:09.040 so funny. That's so funny. So when the show is 0:22:09.200 --> 0:22:14.680 We've got Marvel's Moon Girl, Um, we are so excited 0:22:14.800 --> 0:22:18.560 because it's Christie your kids. Yeah, I mean, this is 0:22:18.600 --> 0:22:21.320 the next big thing, you know. It's like it's so 0:22:21.400 --> 0:22:24.280 fun to get behind something like this for the obvious 0:22:24.320 --> 0:22:28.119 reasons of having an amazing cast, having an amazing you 0:22:28.160 --> 0:22:31.919 know crew that we know intimately right, Um, and we know, 0:22:32.400 --> 0:22:34.920 like we said, we know that Steve and his crew 0:22:35.119 --> 0:22:38.720 and anyone he is working with have such a vibe. 0:22:39.600 --> 0:22:42.840