WEBVTT - The Voice of Trevor Devall 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:03.559 Hi Christie, Hey there Will. How are you welcome back? 0:00:03.600 --> 0:00:06.840 You missed a great one, if all of the ones 0:00:06.920 --> 0:00:09.319 for me to miss, I had to miss Kyla Pratt 0:00:09.440 --> 0:00:12.680 Are you kidding me? Right? And she was bummed. She 0:00:12.760 --> 0:00:15.319 was totally bummed and she was well because she was 0:00:15.360 --> 0:00:17.599 stuck with me, which is the worst thing. That's that's 0:00:17.640 --> 0:00:21.000 not true. Everybody loves you. That's awful. But yeah, it 0:00:21.079 --> 0:00:23.360 was so cool. I mean, just talking to Disney Royalty, she's, 0:00:23.440 --> 0:00:26.400 you know, proud family, I ever, dude, and it's come 0:00:26.440 --> 0:00:29.920 back and like she's I've really am bombed that I 0:00:29.960 --> 0:00:32.159 missed that interview. Um, I did everything I could to 0:00:32.200 --> 0:00:35.960 try to make it happen. So you know, it's it's 0:00:36.560 --> 0:00:39.840 it's the multiple podcast life that you have that you 0:00:39.880 --> 0:00:42.920 can relate to right well, which, speaking of House House 0:00:42.960 --> 0:00:47.559 Pod mets World going, it's going really really well. Are 0:00:47.600 --> 0:00:50.800 you guys doing live ones too? Yes, We've done one 0:00:50.840 --> 0:00:54.040 live show that went amazingly well, so I would say 0:00:54.320 --> 0:00:56.280 there's a very good chance that we will be doing more. 0:00:56.400 --> 0:00:58.440 Would be the best good I want to come to 0:00:58.440 --> 0:01:01.720 those two I should. We're so lucky that we know 0:01:01.960 --> 0:01:04.800 great people man, and we know each other, which is 0:01:04.800 --> 0:01:08.480 good too. Yeah, I know, I love I missed going 0:01:08.520 --> 0:01:10.920 to comic CON's with you. When's our next comic con? 0:01:10.959 --> 0:01:12.680 I think like there's one coming up at some point. 0:01:12.720 --> 0:01:14.720 I think there's one coming up. It's one of those 0:01:14.720 --> 0:01:17.319 things now where Sue just has me. There's a giant 0:01:17.400 --> 0:01:22.200 calendar that is on our table that is not allowed 0:01:22.240 --> 0:01:24.679 to be moved, and everything is written in bright red ink. 0:01:24.800 --> 0:01:28.280 So yeah, she's she's she's taken over the here's what 0:01:28.319 --> 0:01:30.280 we're gonna do. We're gonna write everything in a big 0:01:30.280 --> 0:01:33.400 old calendar because my brain can be a little scattered 0:01:33.440 --> 0:01:36.360 with that stuff. So I think it's in March. Maybe awesome. 0:01:37.120 --> 0:01:39.640 Mar is so cool. But until I see giant red 0:01:39.720 --> 0:01:41.880 letters saying you have to be here in March, I 0:01:41.920 --> 0:01:46.080 won't know for exactly. And so the contest is officially closed. Everybody, 0:01:46.160 --> 0:01:48.880 everybody out there. Guy, that was like so quick. I 0:01:48.920 --> 0:01:52.000 feel like that happens so quick. But we've got a 0:01:52.080 --> 0:01:55.960 ton of submissions, we really do. So we are so 0:01:56.000 --> 0:01:58.680 excited and we are going to find the next big 0:01:58.760 --> 0:02:03.040 voice Accory and we're not going to mention who, but um, 0:02:03.120 --> 0:02:07.480 some of the guest judges that we already have signed 0:02:07.520 --> 0:02:11.120 on that are gonna help us pick are awesome. I 0:02:11.160 --> 0:02:13.600 can't wait. I mean some of just the most talented 0:02:13.600 --> 0:02:15.440 people that have already said, oh heck yeah, I will 0:02:15.480 --> 0:02:18.280 come into an episode. So it's gonna be so cool. 0:02:18.280 --> 0:02:20.520 I can't wait. I really can't mean too. It's a 0:02:20.520 --> 0:02:22.360 fun podcast, and I think that a lot of the 0:02:22.360 --> 0:02:24.600 people that we've even if you if you've listened to 0:02:24.639 --> 0:02:26.320 our podcasts in the past, a lot of times will 0:02:26.360 --> 0:02:28.120 be like, hey, would you come back because we have 0:02:28.200 --> 0:02:31.120 this like contest, and it's like everyone was more than 0:02:31.160 --> 0:02:35.079 happy to like you know, so uh yeah, it's we are. 0:02:35.120 --> 0:02:37.080 We are calling through them, but we cannot wait. That 0:02:37.120 --> 0:02:40.280 does not change the fact that until the contest starts, 0:02:40.560 --> 0:02:44.480 we are still meeting some of the most prolific, incredible 0:02:44.560 --> 0:02:47.240 voice over actors in the history of the world, and 0:02:47.360 --> 0:02:51.280 today is no exception. Christie, oh my gosh, very excited 0:02:51.320 --> 0:02:54.959 about Trevor. Yeah, I am too. I've known Trevor for 0:02:55.040 --> 0:02:57.000 a very long time. Trevor and I did Guardians of 0:02:57.000 --> 0:02:59.720 the Galaxy together. We'll get into that. But he's also 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:03.800 as an amazing Emperor Palpatine and he was on My 0:03:03.880 --> 0:03:06.520 Little Pony. He's on f IS for Family I mean, 0:03:06.600 --> 0:03:09.160 this is a he's also a big nerd. I know 0:03:09.240 --> 0:03:13.040 it's gonna say. I saw his YouTube which is about 0:03:13.400 --> 0:03:16.160 D n D right, D and D. It's it's it's 0:03:16.200 --> 0:03:18.240 it's D and D and it's all table top games. 0:03:18.240 --> 0:03:20.400 He's got a great channel we'll get into that's called Me, 0:03:20.440 --> 0:03:23.519 Myself and Die and uh yeah, there's some great stuff. 0:03:23.560 --> 0:03:28.640 So let's get into this with Mr Trevor de Val. Hello. Hey, 0:03:31.160 --> 0:03:34.680 now that is a sexy set you got set up. 0:03:35.720 --> 0:03:38.280 What can I say? I'm a sexy background looking kind 0:03:38.280 --> 0:03:41.160 of guy. It's good, it's good. Nice to meet you. 0:03:41.640 --> 0:03:46.000 Nice to be met. I would say the foregrounds pretty sexy, Trevor. 0:03:46.040 --> 0:03:51.040 But what are you gonna do? Oh you? How are you? 0:03:52.040 --> 0:03:54.600 Pretty good? How are you? I'm good. I'm glad that 0:03:54.640 --> 0:03:57.160 we are able to do this. We've been going back 0:03:57.200 --> 0:03:59.280 and forth about when to have you on, and I 0:03:59.320 --> 0:04:04.040 think the time it's pretty perfect. The time is nice. 0:04:04.520 --> 0:04:07.560 Time is nice. So we okay, so a little bit 0:04:07.600 --> 0:04:11.600 about our show. We talk just about religion in politics. Hey, 0:04:12.520 --> 0:04:17.839 favorite time we talk about voiceover, and that's something that 0:04:18.000 --> 0:04:21.000 you are pretty darn good at but had a different 0:04:21.080 --> 0:04:22.560 road than a lot of people. Can you tell us 0:04:22.560 --> 0:04:26.279 how you got into v O. Uh, well, do you 0:04:26.279 --> 0:04:28.640 know the term blackmail and extortion? Have you heard of 0:04:28.640 --> 0:04:34.039 these two things? Yes? Yea, How did I get into 0:04:34.320 --> 0:04:39.440 voice over? Um? Okay, Well, when I was about five 0:04:39.560 --> 0:04:44.080 years old, my older brother Mike used to do this 0:04:44.360 --> 0:04:50.040 impression of Jackie Stewart, who was a Scottish racecar commentator 0:04:50.120 --> 0:04:52.000 back in the day. He used to be a driver, 0:04:52.200 --> 0:04:55.680 but he turned into a commentator on his entire thing 0:04:56.279 --> 0:04:59.760 was would be very excitable, right, so I mean commentate 0:04:59.800 --> 0:05:01.440 to the relation. Of course, in those days the races 0:05:01.440 --> 0:05:03.359 were just cars going round and around around around it circles, 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:07.040 as much as they are today as a matter fact, 0:05:08.480 --> 0:05:14.920 that's still the same anyway. So what would invariably happen 0:05:15.040 --> 0:05:16.600 is that one of the cars would blow a tire, 0:05:16.640 --> 0:05:18.800 spin out, hit the wall and explode. And so as 0:05:18.920 --> 0:05:22.960 Jackie was, you know, uh talking about this, he very excited. 0:05:22.960 --> 0:05:25.360 Oh no, look at care forty three is coming around 0:05:25.400 --> 0:05:27.880 the Bandy's looking good. Oh no, don't. He's hit the 0:05:27.880 --> 0:05:30.040 wall and he set the flames. And that was a 0:05:30.040 --> 0:05:32.440 big thing in Burthon fight. So he would My brother 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:35.160 would do this thing around the dinner table where he'd 0:05:35.200 --> 0:05:38.080 have like he'd say, hey, pass the catchup and mustard 0:05:38.120 --> 0:05:40.640 and catch So it's a great deal forays. Today we've 0:05:40.640 --> 0:05:42.920 got cot Shop on mustard. Oh look at this cot 0:05:42.920 --> 0:05:44.880 Shop pulls out in nth and you do this whole 0:05:44.880 --> 0:05:47.800 thing and then oh no, that mustard hits at bar 0:05:47.920 --> 0:05:52.000 sent the flames. So everyone and I saw this, and 0:05:52.040 --> 0:05:54.000 I said, everybody laughing at this le voice, and I thought, 0:05:54.040 --> 0:05:58.320 it's my gateway to total power and domination. One day 0:05:58.400 --> 0:06:00.359 I just kind of did the punchline and he was 0:06:00.400 --> 0:06:03.960 doing the set up, but everyone oh, and I thought, oh, 0:06:04.000 --> 0:06:07.600 perhaps I could do something with it. And yeah, so 0:06:07.640 --> 0:06:09.880 I just started doing voices and accents and stuff. But 0:06:09.920 --> 0:06:13.440 it wasn't for years and years and years years later 0:06:13.560 --> 0:06:18.719 that I realized it could be a you know, a job. Well, 0:06:18.760 --> 0:06:21.800 you're also in Canada, so there's not a lot of 0:06:21.800 --> 0:06:24.320 opportunity for jobs, and there was in vancous. I was 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:26.159 living in Vant to the time, which was the big 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:30.200 the theatrical capital of the western hemisphere of the country 0:06:30.240 --> 0:06:33.240 as it is me. But I with the filmmaker at 0:06:33.240 --> 0:06:34.520 the time as well, a director, So I went to 0:06:34.600 --> 0:06:38.880 Vancouver because that was Hollywood North and uh went north 0:06:39.040 --> 0:06:43.120 That's that's what they called it. Yeah, because especially at 0:06:43.160 --> 0:06:44.640 that time, man, because that was the days of the 0:06:44.680 --> 0:06:47.920 Hex Files and like everything was being shot up there, 0:06:47.960 --> 0:06:52.479 you know, and we got there right, Oh yeah, sure Disney. 0:06:52.600 --> 0:06:54.520 Disney would always do whenever we did a Disney movie, 0:06:54.520 --> 0:06:56.200 it would be like, hey, you're shooting a movie that 0:06:56.240 --> 0:06:57.800 takes place half a mile from your house, Let's go 0:06:57.839 --> 0:07:01.279 to Vancouver. So that's pretty much what you do Vancouver 0:07:01.360 --> 0:07:04.680 or Toronto. Yeah. So, so we had there was a 0:07:04.680 --> 0:07:07.560 there was a big animation industry there, um and so 0:07:07.680 --> 0:07:10.480 I I went and I didn't even think because I 0:07:10.480 --> 0:07:12.960 went there to be a filmmaker and director, and within 0:07:13.200 --> 0:07:15.560 six months I had sort of fallen backwards into this 0:07:15.680 --> 0:07:18.480 strange world where people were talking to each other and 0:07:18.520 --> 0:07:21.000 silly voices and doing things and that was that. And 0:07:21.000 --> 0:07:23.640 that was two years ago. So that sounds like you 0:07:23.680 --> 0:07:25.640 were inspired by a lot of the folks around you 0:07:25.680 --> 0:07:34.640 at that time. Well no, well, okay, so the thing 0:07:34.720 --> 0:07:36.320 is is that, you know, I grew up, you know, 0:07:36.440 --> 0:07:38.640 like a lot of people who may age, I grew 0:07:38.720 --> 0:07:41.400 up you know, watching uh, you know, Bugs, Bunny and 0:07:41.440 --> 0:07:44.480 of course all that stuff was great, and but I 0:07:44.520 --> 0:07:48.560 didn't actually think that voiceover for cartoons was was a thing. 0:07:48.800 --> 0:07:52.560 This is how this is how dim I am. When 0:07:52.600 --> 0:07:54.160 someone said to me, A friend of mine said to me, 0:07:54.160 --> 0:07:55.640 when I moved to Vancouver, he said to me, you 0:07:55.680 --> 0:07:57.160 know you should get into a voice over. I said, 0:07:57.280 --> 0:07:58.320 what do you mean. He said, well, you know, like 0:07:58.360 --> 0:08:00.800 cartoon voices and tough and I was like, oh, yeah, 0:08:00.880 --> 0:08:05.920 those are actors. You know. The next thing I thought 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:08.480 was in and this cartoon was you know, drawn in 0:08:08.480 --> 0:08:11.239 front of a live studio audience. I'm just didn't quite 0:08:11.360 --> 0:08:14.280 make the connected. Yeah, their their hands get very tired, 0:08:14.360 --> 0:08:17.760 very quickly when they have to draw live. Yeah. But 0:08:17.800 --> 0:08:19.720 when I started to work, what I discovered was the 0:08:19.760 --> 0:08:21.280 same thing I would go on to discover in l 0:08:21.360 --> 0:08:24.640 A in that it's a very tiny little community, a 0:08:24.800 --> 0:08:28.440 very dedicated kookie people who love their jobs and they 0:08:28.480 --> 0:08:31.600 take their job seriously, but they don't take themselves particularly seriously. 0:08:31.680 --> 0:08:35.600 And that so happy. Um. Yeah, so in that sense, 0:08:35.640 --> 0:08:37.560 I was inspired by the people I worked with immediately 0:08:37.679 --> 0:08:39.720 was it was Yeah, it was a great world to 0:08:39.720 --> 0:08:42.440 be part of. Now, was that when when you started 0:08:42.520 --> 0:08:44.160 v O was at it? Were you like, this is it? 0:08:44.240 --> 0:08:46.400 This is what I'm doing? Or were you still saying, hey, 0:08:46.480 --> 0:08:48.240 vo is great and this will be awesome until my 0:08:48.320 --> 0:08:51.440 acting and directing career takes off. When I did my 0:08:51.520 --> 0:08:56.160 first job, it was September and it was with Sue Blue. 0:08:56.200 --> 0:08:59.400 She was my first director, and uh, it was it 0:08:59.480 --> 0:09:01.400 can't be any twenty and can't be seen IM sorry, 0:09:01.400 --> 0:09:05.640 So what I was like, wait a second, and I 0:09:05.720 --> 0:09:08.920 did a show together before I didn't even realize. I 0:09:09.000 --> 0:09:11.400 was that's how did there it is? That's the brain 0:09:12.040 --> 0:09:17.319 works U and he was two thousand it was, and 0:09:17.480 --> 0:09:19.600 uh it was a great that we did like twenty 0:09:19.640 --> 0:09:22.200 six episodes and three months it was like pop, get 0:09:22.280 --> 0:09:24.520 him out. And the show never made it to air 0:09:24.559 --> 0:09:27.080 because they ran it a funding, which kind of sucks 0:09:27.080 --> 0:09:29.840 because it was really cool. But up in Canada we 0:09:29.840 --> 0:09:31.920 were paid with a buyout system, so we got we 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:35.800 got all the money up front, so that actually worked out. Yeah, exactly, 0:09:36.080 --> 0:09:37.719 that's why they couldn't afford the show. They had to 0:09:37.760 --> 0:09:42.120 pay us anyway. Anyway, we did the show and the 0:09:42.120 --> 0:09:44.200 whole time I thought, Okay, well this is great. That's 0:09:44.240 --> 0:09:46.160 more money than I've ever seen in my life before. 0:09:46.960 --> 0:09:48.800 I'm gonna pay off my big student on which I 0:09:48.840 --> 0:09:50.840 had and that'll be that I'm gonna keep a little 0:09:50.840 --> 0:09:52.880 for a rainy day and assume that this will never 0:09:53.160 --> 0:09:57.679 happen again, because it probably won't. And and the next 0:09:57.760 --> 0:09:59.640 week they said, hey, you're on another show, and I 0:09:59.679 --> 0:10:04.000 went o, well, this will never happen again. And then hey, 0:10:04.040 --> 0:10:05.480 you want to do this on the show. Okay, but 0:10:05.640 --> 0:10:09.559 this and to this day when I get a job, 0:10:09.559 --> 0:10:11.960 I'm still well, this is nice, but that's never gonna 0:10:12.000 --> 0:10:14.360 happen again. That's such an actor thing. We still always 0:10:14.360 --> 0:10:16.800 do that we're doing we're I remember so Trevor and 0:10:16.800 --> 0:10:19.040 I did Guardians to the Galaxy together and he was 0:10:19.120 --> 0:10:22.360 Rocket and I was star Lord, and we would look 0:10:22.400 --> 0:10:24.640 at each other even by second and third season be like, 0:10:25.200 --> 0:10:27.920 this show is not gonna go It's like, wait, it's 0:10:27.920 --> 0:10:29.480 been on the air for two years. Yeah, now this 0:10:29.640 --> 0:10:32.400 this isn't going anywhere. I mean, that's show you got away. 0:10:32.600 --> 0:10:35.360 Such an actor thing. I mean, it's every actor has 0:10:35.360 --> 0:10:39.920 imposter syndrome. Every actor is completely and totally insecure about 0:10:39.960 --> 0:10:42.439 themselves in their career. And if you meet an actor 0:10:42.520 --> 0:10:45.080 that's like I'm gonna work all the time, you're like, 0:10:45.240 --> 0:10:48.320 you are not really in this business? Are you? Because 0:10:48.360 --> 0:10:50.960 you just don't you don't meet those people. I was. 0:10:51.080 --> 0:10:52.680 I was in a I was in a bar, a 0:10:52.720 --> 0:10:55.000 pub after a session this many years ago back in Vancouver, 0:10:55.040 --> 0:10:57.760 and there was a colleague of mine who shall remain nameless, 0:10:57.800 --> 0:10:59.720 who was sitting there at the bar with me, and 0:10:59.720 --> 0:11:01.520 we were just coming off the high of having this 0:11:01.600 --> 0:11:04.199 great session and you know, playing multiple characters blah blah 0:11:04.200 --> 0:11:07.680 blah blah blah. And he said, you know right now, 0:11:07.800 --> 0:11:10.480 how everything's great. We're all on like six shows, you 0:11:10.520 --> 0:11:14.400 and I. Right now, this it's never gonna get this 0:11:14.480 --> 0:11:16.559 is it's just gonna keep getting better and better. And 0:11:16.640 --> 0:11:21.160 I was like, no, that are you out of your mind? There? 0:11:21.400 --> 0:11:27.480 Listening every time every time I'm in the car with 0:11:27.520 --> 0:11:29.480 my wife and she's like, wow, no traffic. I'm like, 0:11:29.520 --> 0:11:32.080 are you kidding me? What are you doing? What are 0:11:32.080 --> 0:11:34.160 you It's not gonna rain on our picnic day? Hey? 0:11:34.200 --> 0:11:38.040 What are you thinking? Don't think they're listening there, You're 0:11:38.080 --> 0:11:51.920 absolutely right there listening. You mentioned bugs, Bunny and stuff 0:11:51.920 --> 0:11:54.320 like that. So, having kind of fallen into the voice 0:11:54.360 --> 0:11:57.280 overside of the industry, were you not a huge animation 0:11:57.280 --> 0:12:00.800 fan growing up? Well? No, I mean, like I said, 0:12:00.920 --> 0:12:06.800 I love Bugs Bunny. Uh, But it didn't really occur 0:12:06.920 --> 0:12:09.280 to me that this was the cartoons that I watched 0:12:09.280 --> 0:12:12.760 as a kid. Bugs Bunny. Uh. What the hell was 0:12:12.800 --> 0:12:15.840 the Battle of the Planets, which was the the anime 0:12:16.000 --> 0:12:19.160 thing that was a rip off of something I don't know. 0:12:19.240 --> 0:12:23.040 We was some gotcha, well it was. It was some 0:12:23.160 --> 0:12:26.640 giant Japanese anime that they turned into a different version 0:12:27.240 --> 0:12:30.320 called Battle of the Planets, and I watched that today. 0:12:30.320 --> 0:12:33.120 By the way, it's unwatchable. We actually, I'm sure we 0:12:33.320 --> 0:12:35.120 were like, let's check this out and see it. Holds up? 0:12:36.600 --> 0:12:41.120 Hold up? But that or like like, um, this is 0:12:41.160 --> 0:12:43.520 the old Spider Man cartoon that like back he did 0:12:43.559 --> 0:12:46.040 and stuff like that stuff. I love that stuff. But 0:12:46.559 --> 0:12:48.800 I didn't really watch a lot of cartoons as a kid. 0:12:48.840 --> 0:12:50.640 I was I was too busy playing with my toys 0:12:50.679 --> 0:12:54.079 and giving them my own voices. You know, I didn't, Yeah, 0:12:54.160 --> 0:12:58.040 so it um, I didn't. I didn't know it was 0:12:58.080 --> 0:13:00.520 a job, like I honestly didn't know it was a 0:13:00.559 --> 0:13:03.360 career choice. It didn't even occur to me. Honestly. Doing 0:13:03.440 --> 0:13:06.040 voices was a way to try and impress girls at parties, 0:13:06.080 --> 0:13:08.920 which was only marginally successful. So I was gonna say, 0:13:08.960 --> 0:13:12.120 you went to way different parties than I did. I 0:13:12.120 --> 0:13:18.800 can only apologize in so many dialects. That's well, can 0:13:18.880 --> 0:13:21.959 you remember the first voice you ever did? Yes? Oh 0:13:22.000 --> 0:13:23.920 you the first voice I ever did? Or when you 0:13:24.080 --> 0:13:25.720 even as a kid, Now, the first voice you ever 0:13:25.760 --> 0:13:28.960 did as a kid, you remember it might have been 0:13:29.000 --> 0:13:30.880 It might have been the Scottish because you know that 0:13:30.880 --> 0:13:33.520 that accent has. It's certainly the first one I ever learned. 0:13:33.960 --> 0:13:36.199 And uh, to this day, like when I when I 0:13:36.240 --> 0:13:38.040 book a job with that accent, I'm just there's there's 0:13:38.040 --> 0:13:39.959 a part of me that's like, oh, thanks Broke. He's 0:13:40.000 --> 0:13:42.480 he's passed on now. So it's a little like thanks Mike. 0:13:43.880 --> 0:13:45.920 You know that was the thing that always amazed me 0:13:45.960 --> 0:13:48.920 about you was so And this is a perfect example 0:13:48.920 --> 0:13:51.079 of talking about the different kind of aspects of the 0:13:51.160 --> 0:13:53.480 voice over world, because there are people we've talked about 0:13:53.520 --> 0:13:57.520 how somebody like me, for instance, or Christie, we we 0:13:57.960 --> 0:14:00.319 don't do fifty voices. We just can't do fifty voices. 0:14:00.320 --> 0:14:03.680 Will never do fifty voices. It's just not in our DNA. 0:14:03.840 --> 0:14:06.760 And then there's some actors that can do fifty sounds, 0:14:06.760 --> 0:14:09.400 fifty cartoon voices make it sound like, you know, there 0:14:09.400 --> 0:14:11.520 are robots or whatever, and then there's actors like you 0:14:11.559 --> 0:14:12.880 that can do a little bit of everything. But then 0:14:12.880 --> 0:14:16.360 when it comes to dialects, you can kind of do 0:14:16.520 --> 0:14:20.280 them all. So was there was that something that you 0:14:20.320 --> 0:14:23.280 gravitated tours? Was was listening to other people's voices and 0:14:23.360 --> 0:14:26.440 kind of trying to mimic them, because it's not necessarily 0:14:26.480 --> 0:14:29.360 the same as doing a cartoon voice quote unquote. You're 0:14:29.360 --> 0:14:31.280 not going in going hey, how does everybody go that? 0:14:31.680 --> 0:14:33.840 It's more like you're doing a real Scottish thing. And 0:14:33.880 --> 0:14:35.160 the thing that I love is I would always do 0:14:35.160 --> 0:14:36.640 it next to you and it would go about thirty 0:14:36.680 --> 0:14:39.040 seconds and you go, please please stop doing that, please 0:14:40.240 --> 0:14:42.400 please please stop. It's not there. And I'm like, what 0:14:42.400 --> 0:14:44.680 are you talking about? I am Irish. You're like, oh god, 0:14:44.720 --> 0:14:47.960 please please do please cut it out, please stop. So 0:14:48.040 --> 0:14:52.520 where did the dialects come from? Um? It is a 0:14:52.520 --> 0:14:56.560 bit of imitation. Uh. But also growing up in Canada. 0:14:56.600 --> 0:14:57.920 I was just talking about this with a colleague one 0:14:57.920 --> 0:15:00.920 the other day. Growing up in Canada, we were exposed 0:15:00.960 --> 0:15:04.120 to a lot of British programming, the BBC in particular, 0:15:04.360 --> 0:15:07.640 so I grew up with BBC News One, and I 0:15:07.640 --> 0:15:09.480 grew up with Monty Python, and I grew up with 0:15:09.520 --> 0:15:12.520 all of that stuff. So those accents were prevalent in 0:15:12.560 --> 0:15:15.640 my childhood. I just heard them all the time, and 0:15:15.680 --> 0:15:19.240 they were easy and fun to imitate. And you know, 0:15:19.280 --> 0:15:21.360 when you when you're exposed to a dialect at a 0:15:21.440 --> 0:15:23.560 very young age, obviously you develop an ear for it 0:15:23.600 --> 0:15:25.000 and you can you know, sometimes you don't even know 0:15:25.040 --> 0:15:28.240 you're doing it. Uh But where's a lot of American 0:15:28.280 --> 0:15:31.920 friends of mine. They don't have that same experience, you know, 0:15:32.600 --> 0:15:35.600 because everything was was about American stuff, an American dialect. 0:15:35.640 --> 0:15:39.200 So I think I think that helped me. But yeah, 0:15:39.280 --> 0:15:44.000 it's weird because I can't describe how Like I can't 0:15:44.080 --> 0:15:47.240 teach a dialect. I couldn't say, oh, this is how 0:15:47.280 --> 0:15:50.720 you do dialect x. I just it just kind of 0:15:50.760 --> 0:15:52.880 comes to me. Well, I mean, will you remember the 0:15:52.920 --> 0:15:56.760 story where we were at? Uh? So, for me, the 0:15:57.200 --> 0:15:59.800 South African accent was always this holy grail of accents. 0:15:59.840 --> 0:16:02.360 That's like all that. It's such a weird one, right, 0:16:02.400 --> 0:16:04.680 and it's like the combinations of different sounds, and I 0:16:04.800 --> 0:16:06.880 just like, I'm never gonna be able to get that one. 0:16:06.880 --> 0:16:10.000 And then one day I'm doing my laundry and I'm 0:16:10.040 --> 0:16:12.760 hanging my shirts to dry because I I don't want 0:16:12.760 --> 0:16:16.160 to shrink them, so I hang them and as I'm 0:16:16.160 --> 0:16:18.320 doing that, I'm talking to them, because of course I am. 0:16:18.640 --> 0:16:21.400 And uh. Then I realized that I'm talking to them 0:16:21.400 --> 0:16:24.640 in a Johannesburg accent, and I was like, how did 0:16:24.680 --> 0:16:27.400 this happen? I'm hanging the wash right now, what are 0:16:27.400 --> 0:16:29.680 you doing up here? You missed their shirts? Look at 0:16:29.720 --> 0:16:31.520 you hanging there like it? And I was like, what 0:16:31.560 --> 0:16:33.840 the hell? So I went to session the next day 0:16:34.160 --> 0:16:36.720 and we were in the in the booth and I 0:16:36.840 --> 0:16:40.000 started to talk to everybody, luck lucky just all of 0:16:40.000 --> 0:16:42.720 a sudden time of time to me from on or 0:16:42.760 --> 0:16:46.520 something like it. And then Harrison, the producer, said, do 0:16:46.560 --> 0:16:49.000 you do that accent? I said, I guess so. And 0:16:49.040 --> 0:16:51.720 then you think asked me as Claw and Avengers, just 0:16:51.800 --> 0:16:56.960 like all right, yeah, that is the joy of our 0:16:57.040 --> 0:17:00.320 business is you sit there in the room and like 0:17:00.360 --> 0:17:03.560 you said, everyone's not taking themselves very seriously, so you're 0:17:03.600 --> 0:17:06.480 just messing around with each other, and these other accents 0:17:06.600 --> 0:17:09.400 or voices or something pop out. And then a producer 0:17:09.440 --> 0:17:11.080 in the room or a director goes that's perfect for 0:17:11.119 --> 0:17:13.480 something else, and then you're on another job. Yeah, I 0:17:13.520 --> 0:17:15.800 mean we we said so Kim Possible. When we were 0:17:15.800 --> 0:17:19.280 doing Kim Possible. John DiMaggio, who was Dragon, was always 0:17:19.320 --> 0:17:22.720 doing these big mr drack you know, dr dracking. She 0:17:22.880 --> 0:17:25.199 got all this kind of stuff, and then he just 0:17:25.200 --> 0:17:28.000 started doing this rock and roll gut out and the 0:17:28.040 --> 0:17:30.080 next week they had written this guy named motor Ed 0:17:31.080 --> 0:17:33.600 and that's the voice he did, And it was just 0:17:33.680 --> 0:17:35.919 something they came up within the room. And it's just 0:17:36.440 --> 0:17:39.320 that happens almost nowhere else in the industry, where you're 0:17:39.320 --> 0:17:41.560 not in the middle of shooting a film and all 0:17:41.600 --> 0:17:44.119 of a sudden you're like doing another character while you're 0:17:44.160 --> 0:17:46.120 doing the film. They're like, hey, we're going to write 0:17:46.119 --> 0:17:49.000 another film for you. I mean, that just never happens. 0:17:49.040 --> 0:17:52.640 It only happens in in the voice over industry, where 0:17:52.680 --> 0:17:56.359 it's just all creatively driven. Well, let me ask you 0:17:56.400 --> 0:17:59.600 this as the actor like, and especially this is coming 0:17:59.640 --> 0:18:02.760 from someone doesn't do fifty voices. But I definitely done 0:18:02.800 --> 0:18:07.320 voice matching. I have a few dialects, but nothing like you, sir, 0:18:07.520 --> 0:18:13.440 sir tror Um. But yes, I've certainly does it behoove 0:18:13.520 --> 0:18:17.280 you as the actor to be playful and kind of 0:18:17.320 --> 0:18:22.199 almost like showcase these aspects of your talent. Two producers 0:18:22.200 --> 0:18:24.480 in the room and like kind of like you're saying, 0:18:24.480 --> 0:18:26.600 like you walked in and you did that. This is 0:18:26.600 --> 0:18:28.520 also for our fans in case they want to just 0:18:29.040 --> 0:18:33.240 experiment in different ways. Yeah, I think that's crucial. Uh, 0:18:33.720 --> 0:18:36.320 it's it's crucial to constantly have a sense of playfulness 0:18:36.320 --> 0:18:38.960 about it. The trick is, of course, not pushing it 0:18:39.000 --> 0:18:44.120 too far and become irritating. You know, it's a balanceance. 0:18:45.760 --> 0:18:47.960 There are moments, and we've all been in these rooms 0:18:48.000 --> 0:18:51.680 where there's that point where an actor has gone too 0:18:51.680 --> 0:18:54.520 far and it's like, all right, we got it. You 0:18:54.960 --> 0:18:57.800 can do this silly voice. We got it. Due payments 0:18:57.800 --> 0:19:00.800 a mata gascar When I was that room, we've all 0:19:00.840 --> 0:19:02.960 talked about at least the shaffer has talked about it. 0:19:03.240 --> 0:19:07.040 Those guys are crazy. Yeah, you were in between. It 0:19:07.119 --> 0:19:10.880 was like it was Jeff Bennett, Rob Paulson, John DiMaggio 0:19:10.960 --> 0:19:13.160 and event and eventually you just you just sit back 0:19:13.200 --> 0:19:15.200 and go, Okay, this four hour session is now gonna 0:19:15.200 --> 0:19:18.040 be nine hours because they're just gonna go at it. 0:19:18.080 --> 0:19:22.359 And it's hysterical and amazing and too long a session. 0:19:24.760 --> 0:19:26.720 And there's things you learned to like when you walk 0:19:26.720 --> 0:19:30.440 into a room full of voice guys, there's certain things 0:19:30.480 --> 0:19:32.680 you don't do because you know, it's like throwing red 0:19:32.760 --> 0:19:34.720 meat into the room, like you know, back in the 0:19:34.760 --> 0:19:37.760 old days, if you did a thing, Oh my god, 0:19:37.800 --> 0:19:39.680 Now everybody in the room is shatter into each other, 0:19:39.720 --> 0:19:42.560 consistently doing the whole thing, and you're like now or 0:19:43.280 --> 0:19:46.800 Sean Connery and all of a sudden, everybody's doing this 0:19:46.880 --> 0:19:48.879 show and garry for ten minutes and it's like, just 0:19:49.080 --> 0:19:53.960 stop throwing the red meat. I remember one session where 0:19:54.080 --> 0:19:57.240 every single person in the room for like an hour 0:19:57.840 --> 0:20:00.879 was just doing Eddie Deason oh well, And it was 0:20:00.920 --> 0:20:02.840 just oh my, now we're good, you're Attie. Days in 0:20:02.920 --> 0:20:04.879 it was like okay, alright, alright, we're good. Can we 0:20:04.880 --> 0:20:08.440 get back to transformers or whatever? Actually recording here it 0:20:08.520 --> 0:20:11.480 was really bad in twenty sixteen, remember, because everybody was 0:20:11.560 --> 0:20:15.440 doing the trip. Everybody was doing. But I remember who 0:20:15.520 --> 0:20:18.800 was who's a tech over at I can't remember that 0:20:18.920 --> 0:20:20.240 the name of the guy, but he was. He was 0:20:20.280 --> 0:20:23.080 one of the regular technicians. And you know, somebody had 0:20:23.119 --> 0:20:25.960 done the thing, opened the thing and he said, great, 0:20:26.400 --> 0:20:33.040