Speaker 1: Hi, Christie Christy. Oh, that's right. Unfortunately Christie is not
Speaker 1: here today. I am flying solo on this wonderful episode
Speaker 1: of I hear voices. But man, she is going to
Speaker 1: be jealous because do we have an episode today? We
Speaker 1: are joined by Disney Royalty. That is not a euphemism.
Speaker 1: We are actually joined by Disney Royalty. It's pretty great. Um,
Speaker 1: I'm very very excited. But before we get into our
Speaker 1: our guest, I do want to mention that this is
Speaker 1: going to be the last episode that will be airing
Speaker 1: before entry window closes for the super Awesome Contest to
Speaker 1: become the next big voice actor. It's so much easier
Speaker 1: to say that when Christie's not here, strangely enough, um
Speaker 1: easier for me anyway. But she is going to be bummed.
Speaker 1: I know she is going to miss out on announcing uh,
Speaker 1: the end of the entry period for the contest, and
Speaker 1: we have gotten some entries. We have gotten some amazing entries,
Speaker 1: no joke. We're going to find somebody who is going
Speaker 1: to be able to step into the booth day one
Speaker 1: with any of our colleagues, because there are some talented
Speaker 1: people out there. Please keep keep sending in your entries.
Speaker 1: And they keep climbing every every day, So don't forget.
Speaker 1: Please send in up to a two minute audio or video,
Speaker 1: only two minutes. We are now starting to get so
Speaker 1: many that our poor producer has not slept. Vicky hasn't
Speaker 1: slept in as long as I can remember, and she
Speaker 1: needs a little break. So please nothing over two minutes.
Speaker 1: Send it in too. I hear voices at I Heart
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Speaker 1: through the prizes once again, you get flown out to
Speaker 1: l A. You get you have lunch with Christine and I.
Speaker 1: It's l A. I don't know why I said l A.
Speaker 1: That's very odd, um, but you know, lunch with Christy
Speaker 1: and I A thousand dollars spending money. You're gonna come
Speaker 1: record some stuff for I hear voices, and of course
Speaker 1: you also win a coaching session with Emmy Award winning
Speaker 1: director Sam Regal and or Mary McGlenn, both from the
Speaker 1: Legend of Vox mock in A. Season two is now
Speaker 1: streaming on Prime Video. Uh it's an awesome show. I
Speaker 1: think they released like two or three a week. And
Speaker 1: I'm I'm not just saying it's an awesome show because
Speaker 1: I'm on it, which I am, which of course makes
Speaker 1: it more awesome murmur, But it is a very awesome show.
Speaker 1: Go and check it out. It's it's very much worth it.
Speaker 1: And man a training session with the two of them,
Speaker 1: or one of them or both of them. I don't
Speaker 1: know how it's gonna work, but it's going to be
Speaker 1: incredible and I might want to be a fly on
Speaker 1: the wall for that one. And everybody is going out
Speaker 1: and telling their friends, their family, the people at the bank,
Speaker 1: the people at the grocery store about this contest, and
Speaker 1: we are getting submissions from everywhere, so please keep them
Speaker 1: coming in because it is so much fun. It really
Speaker 1: is so much fun, and we're gonna find somebody that's
Speaker 1: going to be able to come and play. But don't forget,
Speaker 1: this is the last chance for you to enter because
Speaker 1: the contest closes February nine, two thousand. That works at
Speaker 1: eleven fifty nine and fifty nine seconds that is Eastern time,
Speaker 1: So send in your submissions because again, uh, February tenth
Speaker 1: is just too late, and we are going to find somebody.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a ton of fun. And once the
Speaker 1: submissions are done, then we get into the contest, and
Speaker 1: we're not even gonna start telling you about the contest,
Speaker 1: but it is going to be absolutely incredible. Imagine the
Speaker 1: Hunger Games without the murder um, which is essentially what
Speaker 1: we're going through. Uh, it's going to be great all
Speaker 1: the way around. We are going to have a blast.
Speaker 1: So that's my spiel, my last pitch. Anything to add Christie,
Speaker 1: that's right, she's not here. I keep forgetting that. No,
Speaker 1: So it is gonna be totally fun, amazing time send
Speaker 1: it in. That's what we got. But today's episode. I
Speaker 1: have been looking forward to this episode for a while.
Speaker 1: I love Disney stuff, you know, coming from Boy's World,
Speaker 1: Kim Possible. I'm a Disney kid myself, so anytime I
Speaker 1: get to to talk to somebody else who is also
Speaker 1: has that Disney background, that's amazing. But when I get
Speaker 1: to talk to somebody who was on a show that
Speaker 1: is one of the most important shows in the history's
Speaker 1: Disney Channel, and I do not believe that as hyperbole.
Speaker 1: I think that is true. I am really really excited.
Speaker 1: So today we get to welcome to I hear voices
Speaker 1: uh from the Emmy Award winning Disney Plus original series
Speaker 1: and from the original series The Proud Family. I'm so happy,
Speaker 1: can you please help me? Welcome Kayla Pratt? Hello, Hello, Yay,
Speaker 1: how are you? I'm good? How are you? I'm good? Thanks?
Speaker 1: Is this like the fiftie one of these you've done today?
Speaker 1: Not yet? This is the third third fifty Okay? Good?
Speaker 1: You got me still await. Yes, we got you early
Speaker 1: and caffeinated. That's how I love. How are you doing?
Speaker 1: I'm doing good? How are you? I'm good? Thanks? Thank
Speaker 1: you so much for joining us here. We'll joining me here.
Speaker 1: Unfortunately Christy couldn't be here today. Oh it's okay, So
Speaker 1: it's just you got It's even better, it's just me,
Speaker 1: It's just you, which is how are you? I'm good?
Speaker 1: I'm you know, I'm finally awake. So that's good. That's
Speaker 1: Mark doing lots of press, trying to make sure that
Speaker 1: people know that we're happening. And uh and it's during
Speaker 1: the high high It this week of my other show,
Speaker 1: so I kind of get no days off. I got
Speaker 1: kids at home saying they stuffy noses. That much knows
Speaker 1: a lot going on. That's gonna say. You've got quite
Speaker 1: a bit happening right now. But that's what you exactly.
Speaker 1: No, no no, no, that's what hey, as actors were all
Speaker 1: happy when we have too much to do. Um, and
Speaker 1: that is a wonderful thing, right It's either one or
Speaker 1: the other. It's not let me just do something really quick.
Speaker 1: It's either too much or absolutely nothing. Well, you are
Speaker 1: very much firmly ensconced in the too much part of
Speaker 1: your career right now, because well, I was gonna say,
Speaker 1: you've got so I will will being I hear voices.
Speaker 1: Of course we will get into all the animated stuff.
Speaker 1: But I mean, first of all, just starting with you.
Speaker 1: Your on Call Me Cat, Yes, you know, which has
Speaker 1: been a huge hit for for Fox. UM, so you're
Speaker 1: you're doing. You're one of the few people that has
Speaker 1: come on the show that is right now in the
Speaker 1: middle of doing both on camera and voiceover. So you
Speaker 1: are in the perfect position to tell us which one
Speaker 1: do you prefer? Oh oh, um, I would say I was,
Speaker 1: I was, I have to say voice over, I yes.
Speaker 1: But it's because I mean, I don't get me wrong,
Speaker 1: I love being on camera. I love what I do,
Speaker 1: I love performing UM, but I'm also a very chill person.
Speaker 1: So I love being able to go into the booth
Speaker 1: with like sweats and a hat and a hoodie and
Speaker 1: just yelling into a microphone until I forget that I
Speaker 1: have to. I exert so much energy that I get
Speaker 1: a little light hitt and I'm like, oh wait, because
Speaker 1: I didn't you forget how much energy you have to
Speaker 1: put into it. But to like when I was younger,
Speaker 1: was the first time that I have I was doing
Speaker 1: a TV show and I was doing animation at the
Speaker 1: same time, The Proud Family the first time around, and
Speaker 1: I used to love it. But I used to lose
Speaker 1: my voice all the time, and I didn't realize that,
Speaker 1: you know, as a young actor, I was thinking about
Speaker 1: like my facial expressions and how I was looking. But
Speaker 1: then when I got behind the microphone, I didn't have
Speaker 1: to worry about that, and I think I was able
Speaker 1: to become like Sillier and Goofier and just making the
Speaker 1: faces in order to get out whatever I needed to
Speaker 1: get out, you know. So that kind of affected me,
Speaker 1: and so now I don't know how to not look silly.
Speaker 1: We've talked before about how essentially every actor is insecure,
Speaker 1: and you're especially when you're on camera, You're worried about
Speaker 1: how I'm looking, what I'm doing and then when you
Speaker 1: get behind the microphone, there's just this freedom of the
Speaker 1: acting where it doesn't matter exactly what you said, it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter how you look, doesn't matter how people are perceiving.
Speaker 1: You just get to just act like you're a kid
Speaker 1: again in front of a microphone, and it's just absolutely wonderful.
Speaker 1: It's it's amazing. What's crazy is like the first time
Speaker 1: I did it, I was I was fourteen, and of
Speaker 1: course we all have our issues. Always tell people like, look,
Speaker 1: we're actors, were very unstable, just just deal with it, okay.
Speaker 1: But I was like, at first, I was like, wait,
Speaker 1: my voice sounds crazy. Like now, because you couldn't see me,
Speaker 1: I was finding something else wrong with me, something else
Speaker 1: that where I didn't like, and so I didn't really
Speaker 1: like my voice and I was like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: how am I doing voice over? This is not gonna work.
Speaker 1: They're gonna fire me, Like, oh my voice sounds crazy.
Speaker 1: And then after doing this show, I'm like so many
Speaker 1: people my voice is so distinctive, and so many people
Speaker 1: love my voice, and it kind of made me be like, okay,
Speaker 1: stop picking it yourself, stop picking it every little thing,
Speaker 1: like everything about you is how it's supposed to be.
Speaker 1: And ultimately it made me stop finding reasons or things
Speaker 1: that I didn't like and it was like, let it go,
Speaker 1: Like you're making up stuff. Now, that's amazing. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think people forget that because we were we were quote
Speaker 1: unquote child actors. We're still just people growing up and
Speaker 1: we have the same issues that every other person has
Speaker 1: growing up. We're just doing it in front of everybody else. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: And I'm I'm always a very big mental health advocate
Speaker 1: and I'm always talking to people about you know, realizing
Speaker 1: and recognizing that people that a lot of people put
Speaker 1: on these pedestals and it's like, no, no, we're human
Speaker 1: beings and we're experiencing the same things that you've experienced,
Speaker 1: and sometimes most of the time at a heightened level,
Speaker 1: and it's it's it's more intense, you know, and it's
Speaker 1: just I'm like, hey, we're normal people. We go through
Speaker 1: crazy things and we're extremely insecure about everything we do.
Speaker 1: So now it's like everything is amplified. And so but
Speaker 1: I think as a as a kid in this business,
Speaker 1: once you recognize that, you go, okay, I'm tripping, don't
Speaker 1: don't don't make fun of yourself or don't down yourself,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Like I'm I've always been
Speaker 1: super self aware, so I realized as when I'm doing
Speaker 1: it to me and so yeah, I think that's amazing
Speaker 1: working on it. I think, well, I think you gotta
Speaker 1: We're gonna have to work on that for entire lives. Um.
Speaker 1: And so this is a perfect I was going to
Speaker 1: get into the mental health stuff a little bit later,
Speaker 1: but this is, uh, you know, a perfect place to
Speaker 1: do it since you mentioned it, because I've been open
Speaker 1: about the fact that when I was about twenty three,
Speaker 1: I got hit with an anxiety disorder that totally changed
Speaker 1: the course of my life. And you talk about that
Speaker 1: as much as you can, because talking about it is
Speaker 1: one of the most important things you can do. I
Speaker 1: would argue it is the most important thing you can
Speaker 1: do for for your positive mental health is being okay
Speaker 1: about you know, speaking about it when you have to,
Speaker 1: when you can with anybody who's dealing with it. So
Speaker 1: how did you get into the whole kind of world
Speaker 1: of mental health advocacy? UM? I feel like I kind
Speaker 1: of just fell into it. I have UM, I've always
Speaker 1: questioned certain things about me, but I was always very
Speaker 1: uh confident, like out loud. As a kid. UM, I
Speaker 1: didn't really beat myself up up too much. It was
Speaker 1: little things here and there. But as I got older
Speaker 1: and I became a mom, I started to question, UM
Speaker 1: so many things. I started to be nervous that I
Speaker 1: wasn't going to be the best mom, and um I was.
Speaker 1: I was. I was putting pressure on myself and knowing
Speaker 1: that there were so many things that I can do
Speaker 1: and say that I can put on my children and
Speaker 1: they can ultimately affect them mentally, and I just became overwhelmed.
Speaker 1: And when I had my youngest daughter, UM, she was premature,
Speaker 1: and I realized that I started feeling negative all the time.
Speaker 1: Like I am the most positive. I find the good
Speaker 1: in everything. And I really started to like be like,
Speaker 1: you're not good for this, You're not able to do this,
Speaker 1: and I'd be like no, no, no, no, no, what
Speaker 1: where where is this coming from? So my positivity was
Speaker 1: fighting off the negative thoughts and I just, you know,
Speaker 1: I didn't feel myself for so long. And when I
Speaker 1: started to slowly feel myself again, I said, this is
Speaker 1: something that I should talk about, like in interviews or
Speaker 1: with other people, because I know that other people are
Speaker 1: going through these things, and if you hear someone talking
Speaker 1: about it, it helps you feel not alone. Um, if
Speaker 1: you're struggling through the process, and I think to me,
Speaker 1: a mental health like that's something that can help nourish
Speaker 1: other people is knowing that someone else is experiencing the
Speaker 1: same feelings that you're feeling and you're not alone in
Speaker 1: this feeling. It doesn't last forever, and take deep breaths
Speaker 1: and it's okay, You're not abnormal. And I think it's
Speaker 1: always been taboo because everyone wanted to seem perfect. Everyone's perfect,
Speaker 1: we are or we're celebrities. Were supposed to have the
Speaker 1: best skin and the best hair and all of this
Speaker 1: money that's gonna handle all of our problems. So people
Speaker 1: look at you like, who do you think you are
Speaker 1: having issues? Or who do you think you are? You? Oh,
Speaker 1: you have anxiety? Like you have a good life, because
Speaker 1: they see what we show them. And I constantly am
Speaker 1: trying to let people know, like, no, baby, I have days, Okay,
Speaker 1: I don't want I want to lay down, I am
Speaker 1: overworking myself, or I need to make time for certain things,
Speaker 1: or all of a sudden, now feel anxiety and I'll
Speaker 1: be like, what is going on? And I'm like, wait, wait, wait,
Speaker 1: I'm just having anxiety. I have to take deep breaths
Speaker 1: and and when you start to recognize it and you
Speaker 1: become more aware of how you're feeling, you know, it
Speaker 1: helps you get out of this. It's a lifelong journey
Speaker 1: for all of us. And I think constantly telling people
Speaker 1: you're not alone, and these people who you think have
Speaker 1: it all together are going through a similar things, so
Speaker 1: just it's okay, you know, no, I agree. I think
Speaker 1: it's amazing, and I also think i'm One of the
Speaker 1: things I talked about a lot is the fact that
Speaker 1: I personally believe that social media has not helped at
Speaker 1: all because it is one of those things where everybody's
Speaker 1: putting out that they're having their best life, and everybody's
Speaker 1: looking at it thinking, wow, all these people's lives are
Speaker 1: so much better than mine, when in reality, everybody's going
Speaker 1: through their own stuff. I mean, just like you said,
Speaker 1: it doesn't it doesn't matter how many fault. We won't
Speaker 1: even get into the fact that they're called followers, but
Speaker 1: how many uh you know, people are are watching you
Speaker 1: and thinking to themselves, well, yeah, that your their life
Speaker 1: is perfect. They're working all the time and you have
Speaker 1: to kind of remind them like, no, we're we're all
Speaker 1: real people and we're all going through the same stuff.
Speaker 1: And um, just like you said, nothing helped me with
Speaker 1: my anxiety more than talking about it and and other
Speaker 1: people talking about there's because just like you said, then
Speaker 1: you know you're not alone. You know that there's other
Speaker 1: people out there going through exactly what you are. So
Speaker 1: I cannot applaud you enough for bringing that to the
Speaker 1: forefront because it's it's hugely important. Thank you. I did
Speaker 1: an interview recently and I didn't realize that I I
Speaker 1: felt that way with social media. Like I always say,
Speaker 1: I'm so glad I didn't talk UK during that time
Speaker 1: and having kids right now during that time, it's like
Speaker 1: I'm holding off as long as possible. But I had
Speaker 1: told someone recently I was like, you know, growing up,
Speaker 1: my mom always told us like movies and TV, that's entertainment,
Speaker 1: not real life. This is entertainment. These people are not real.
Speaker 1: This is just to entertain you. And so it kind
Speaker 1: of helped me not think like, oh, watching a certain movie,
Speaker 1: that's how I'm supposed to add to These are things
Speaker 1: I'm supposed to do. So now I'm kind of letting
Speaker 1: people know, like, hey, social media is entertainment. That's all
Speaker 1: it is. It's entertainment. It's entertainment. I'm like I'm today,
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, what's the best picture I can post?
Speaker 1: And every once in a while, I go, Okay, I
Speaker 1: need to post a picture with my makeup not done.
Speaker 1: So when people see me when I'm not doing interviews
Speaker 1: and stuff, they know Tyler is not like this all
Speaker 1: day every day. It's not happening. My favorite way to
Speaker 1: be is hair on the pony's tail, face washed, moisturized,
Speaker 1: sweats on, and chilling. So in a while I'm like, dang,
Speaker 1: I haven't posted anything like that recently. I gotta do that.
Speaker 1: I gotta make sures like the normal. Yeah, because that's
Speaker 1: what it is. Again, one of the best things I
Speaker 1: ever different my anxieties. I erased all my social media.
Speaker 1: It's been almost three years and it's been just wonderful.
Speaker 1: So I always say, you know what they're saying about
Speaker 1: the saying about me on the internet, because I don't.
Speaker 1: I have no idea. I don't know it's and that's
Speaker 1: hard because I remember I saw something recently where it
Speaker 1: was like my name come came up in something and
Speaker 1: I was like what, Like, I'm not even and I
Speaker 1: had to go get alone let it go. And I'm
Speaker 1: one of those people. I'm really big on address saying
Speaker 1: like people, but in the social media world, it's like
Speaker 1: there's no points. Like social media has made it okay
Speaker 1: for people to just say anything and everything they want
Speaker 1: with no consequences, and it's like you can't argue with people,
Speaker 1: like just let them be and just you know what,
Speaker 1: enjoy whatever. This makes you feel good about enjoying. So
Speaker 1: you mentioned growing up that your your mom made sure
Speaker 1: you knew that it was just entertainment. So speaking of entertainment,
Speaker 1: you know, cartoon wise, what did you grow up watching.
Speaker 1: What were your favorite kind of animated series when you
Speaker 1: grew up and were you even an animation fan growing up?
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, I'm trying to like flash back because
Speaker 1: I feel like I've just been a Disney kid my
Speaker 1: entire life, like well before being a part of the
Speaker 1: family officially. Um, and I mentioned I'm trying to think
Speaker 1: of anything animated. Um, I mean we were talking all
Speaker 1: morning about the Lion King. I was also like the
Speaker 1: bed knobs and Broomstig's Girls or mixture of animation and
Speaker 1: real life. We I had all the VHS is the
Speaker 1: little the white cassette. Um now I'm like, I know
Speaker 1: I look younger than I am, but we had all
Speaker 1: the all the white cassette tapes, and we just had
Speaker 1: them lined up with Sleeping Beauty and beauty and the best,
Speaker 1: all the big, all the big ones with the big
Speaker 1: plastic opening thing and the pictures of the front and
Speaker 1: as soon as you step on it, now that VHS
Speaker 1: doesn't fit in anymore and you're trying to readjust the inside.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I loved all of those. A hunchback and
Speaker 1: not like everything I was. I'm a big like I'm
Speaker 1: a big kid, and I and I and I love
Speaker 1: that I've kept that. I feel like every adult needs
Speaker 1: to keep that in order to like just be happy
Speaker 1: my kids. I want them to be kids as long
Speaker 1: as possible, and then I don't want them to lose
Speaker 1: that essence. I feel like being able to create and
Speaker 1: use your imagination, I've but like that helps as well,
Speaker 1: because once you go into this like large world of
Speaker 1: like no more play time, time to work, time to
Speaker 1: pay bills, it's like, wait, you just you just took
Speaker 1: colors out of their hand and just said, hey, learn this,
Speaker 1: and that's not fair like allow them to, you know,
Speaker 1: keep that. And I think if everyone kept that the
Speaker 1: world would be such a better place. I agree. One
Speaker 1: of the mottos I live by, and my wife always
Speaker 1: makes fun of me for this in a fun way,
Speaker 1: is there's a very big difference between childish and childlike. Yes,
Speaker 1: so childlike you should never lose. I mean ever, childish
Speaker 1: not so good? Childlike wonderful. I love. I've never heard that,
Speaker 1: and I love it because I agree that no childish
Speaker 1: nothing we don't do. We don't do childish things. But
Speaker 1: childlike absolutely amazing. Absolutely. Okay, So gonna put you on
Speaker 1: the spot. Disney movies growing up? What's your favorite one?
Speaker 1: I mean, between Lion King and all that kind of stuff,
Speaker 1: what's your favite? What's your favorite one? You have to
Speaker 1: pick one Disney movie, the favorite one. I gotta pick one, uh,
Speaker 1: the first one that pops in ahead. I'm gonna say Aladdin.
Speaker 1: I have to say Aladdin. I loved everything about it.
Speaker 1: Robin Williams, is this the freaking genie man like? I
Speaker 1: just I love from the voices from the like anything
Speaker 1: and everything, the music, the carpet ride, the Jasmine being
Speaker 1: stubborn but still wanting to be a princess and still yes,
Speaker 1: a whole new world. But hold on, I can handle this.
Speaker 1: I love everything about Aladdin. Aladdin was phenomenal. It really
Speaker 1: was phenomenal. They had four or five in a row
Speaker 1: there where they just kept getting better. It seemed like
Speaker 1: I love it. Just it felt like, I think, just
Speaker 1: reminding us of magic, you know, like we never we
Speaker 1: if you could have three wishes, what would you want?
Speaker 1: And then the street street rats trying to Um, trying
Speaker 1: to con him into more wishes and getting him. I
Speaker 1: love everything about it. And I think also for me,
Speaker 1: I think that movie was like I saw other movies
Speaker 1: as a kid, but I feel like that was for
Speaker 1: me where I felt the first time seeing like someone
Speaker 1: with brown skin, and so it made me feel I
Speaker 1: felt more relatable to the character. And uh so I
Speaker 1: think that's why that's the first one that popped into
Speaker 1: my head. That's incredible. I love that. Okay, so then
Speaker 1: how did you find voiceover where you know? What was?
Speaker 1: How did you because again we can I I can
Speaker 1: sit here and I have your resume that I've been
Speaker 1: studying all morning and we can talk about everything from
Speaker 1: Dr Doolittle, love and basketball, fat alb our Hotel for
Speaker 1: dogs one on one, Let's stay together, call me Catro.
Speaker 1: I mean, you're just doing one thing after another. So
Speaker 1: how did you find v O? What's crazy is that
Speaker 1: I started auditioning for voiceovers, and I was like, why
Speaker 1: my voice is weird? And I was like, not knowing
Speaker 1: that that's a good thing for your voice to be
Speaker 1: weird in that in that in that area. But um, yeah,
Speaker 1: I just I auditioned for the Proud Family and it
Speaker 1: just so happened that the character looked like me and um,
Speaker 1: and then I I hopped on board. But what's been
Speaker 1: amazing for me is that this time around for the Loud,
Speaker 1: the Proud Family louder and prouder. Now it's like twentysothing
Speaker 1: years later, and I'm so much more comfortable within myself
Speaker 1: and with my voice. And so now I've been able
Speaker 1: to see my growth in the voiceover lane. I've been
Speaker 1: able to push my limits and and be singing and
Speaker 1: dancing and just screaming. And I even did UM recently.
Speaker 1: I did UM some voiceover work for Adam's family too. Yeah.
Speaker 1: When I first heard about it, I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: look cool, I'm gonna log on. Everything was via zoom
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, yeah, I'm gonna log on.
Speaker 1: Let's see what characters I don't know what they're gonna
Speaker 1: have me play. And they're like, oh no, we're gonna
Speaker 1: have you play several characters. And I'm like, I'm sorry, what,
Speaker 1: oh I have to do different voices, like oh, okay,
Speaker 1: but one thing about Kyla kinda likes a challenge, so
Speaker 1: and and and I'm talking about Kyler the third person.
Speaker 1: That's how you know that. But I also like to
Speaker 1: make sure, like I don't like to feel like there's
Speaker 1: anything that I can't do, Like I love to try
Speaker 1: new things, and with that project, I I wanted to.
Speaker 1: Like they were like, oh, you're gonna be a little kid,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, okay, a little kid boy or girl,
Speaker 1: boy or girl. And then I would just like say,
Speaker 1: let's see what comes out, and I just I just
Speaker 1: went with it. And I end up being like four
Speaker 1: characters in the film, and my kids watched it, and
Speaker 1: but they knew all the characters. Of course. Now I'm curious,
Speaker 1: how did you do? How did you do how did
Speaker 1: you do the little how did you do the little
Speaker 1: kid voice? Um? Which one did I? I think I
Speaker 1: just swim here and I just start talking very silly
Speaker 1: and going like this, and how do you mean that's amazing?
Speaker 1: How much fun is that? How much fun is that? Right? Right?
Speaker 1: Just to be able to like try to do different
Speaker 1: things and be different people. And I, you know, I
Speaker 1: don't like to doubt myself, but it's not something that
Speaker 1: I sat back and was like, Oh, how many voices
Speaker 1: can I do? Now? I'm just like, oh you little man?
Speaker 1: All right? Like I just come like randomly. I'm like,
Speaker 1: all right, let's see what comes from that. So did
Speaker 1: you I guess I'm how long before you started recording
Speaker 1: Proud Family the second time did you hear there was
Speaker 1: a possibility that the show could be rebooted? Um? Not
Speaker 1: long at all, really, Actually, I got the call from
Speaker 1: Bruce Smith and Ralph Farkar are creators and UM, when
Speaker 1: I found out that they wanted to revive it, and
Speaker 1: they asked me if I wanted to be a part
Speaker 1: of it. I was like, what do you mean? I
Speaker 1: was like, are you guys gonna try to get someone else?
Speaker 1: Like a lot of beautiful talented young women in this industry,
Speaker 1: but don't play with me. You're a penny, your penny. No,
Speaker 1: But I was like absolutely, And then knowing that they
Speaker 1: were going to be a part of it, I knew
Speaker 1: that the essence of it would be the same um.
Speaker 1: Reboots in revivals sometimes scare me because I'm the one
Speaker 1: that's like, no, that's classic, leave it alone or don't
Speaker 1: you messed up? But knowing that they were going to
Speaker 1: be a part, I was like, Oh, this is gonna
Speaker 1: be just basically Proud Families two point oh, which it
Speaker 1: turned into be like and I love the name of it.
Speaker 1: We are literally louder and prouder and there's no way
Speaker 1: that I would not be a part of this. That's amazing.
Speaker 1: So your kids, your kids essentially grown up watching you
Speaker 1: as Penny Proud. Yes, what's crazy is um? Back in
Speaker 1: the day, I didn't have like I had all the DVDs,
Speaker 1: but they were like in storage or something like and um,
Speaker 1: we had the Proud Family movie and I think my
Speaker 1: oldest was probably like five, my youngest was two, and
Speaker 1: I was like, they'll only play this movie and see
Speaker 1: if they recognize my voice, which they did, so that
Speaker 1: was an amazing feeling. And then um Disney Plus released
Speaker 1: The Proud Family, the original series on Disney Plus, and
Speaker 1: so my kids were able to binge watch it. And
Speaker 1: with the revival, like literally last the first season back,
Speaker 1: we were releasing a new episode every Wednesday, and so
Speaker 1: my daughter would come home and be like, Mommy, is
Speaker 1: it Wednesday? Mommy, is it Wednesday? I'm ready for a
Speaker 1: new episode. And now this time around, she's been asking me,
Speaker 1: we're counting down to February first, like literally every day
Speaker 1: She's like, well, Daisy, how many days? Okay? And then
Speaker 1: she just found out that all of the episodes are
Speaker 1: gonna rerelease at one time, and she's just like, I'm like, no,
Speaker 1: you have to go to sleep. You cannot watch Okay,
Speaker 1: maybe two episodes tonight, you can't binge. You can't binge. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The fact that they're so excited you do it just
Speaker 1: helps me become more excited. I know in a couple
Speaker 1: of years they're gonna be old and not want to
Speaker 1: hang out with me, even though I'm going to force
Speaker 1: them too, But I'm excited that they love something that
Speaker 1: I'm doing. Well. We are super excited as well. I
Speaker 1: just very quickly want to read. So some of the
Speaker 1: not only is the original cast back, but some of
Speaker 1: the guest stars coming out. Gabrielle Union, Chance, The Rapper,
Speaker 1: um Leslie, Odom Junior, Anthony Anderson, Dominique Dowes, Gabby Douglas,
Speaker 1: Holly Robinson, Pete Mario. The list goes on and on
Speaker 1: of the amazing guest stars that are coming out. So
Speaker 1: make sure you check out because you got all the
Speaker 1: episodes of the second season of the Emmy Award winning
Speaker 1: original series The Proud Family, Louder and Prouder. They're gonna
Speaker 1: be streaming only on Disney Plus. Kyla, I cannot thank
Speaker 1: you enough for for joining us. I know that you
Speaker 1: are so busy, uh, not only in work, but in
Speaker 1: your personal life, and you are just crushing it on
Speaker 1: all fronts, and to uh to come on and take
Speaker 1: the time to talk to us is very very sweet.
Speaker 1: So Christie ms, poor Christie. I appreciate it. I know
Speaker 1: I missed her and we've been talking about this for
Speaker 1: so long. Thank you. You are definitely a part of
Speaker 1: my childhood. I tell you my brothers are gonna be
Speaker 1: so jealous that I've talked to you today and I
Speaker 1: appreciate you and sharing all the things that you've experienced
Speaker 1: and staying strong and keeping going and thank you for
Speaker 1: your time today. Well, thank you so much. Don't forget
Speaker 1: you still need to sleep, take care of yourself during
Speaker 1: all this junk and stuff too. I will sleep. But
Speaker 1: Proud Family, Louder and Prouder call me Cat. Essentially turn
Speaker 1: on your TV and there she is, Kyla. Thank you
Speaker 1: so much for joining us, Thank you so much for
Speaker 1: having me. Bye. Man, How amazing was that? Christie? Oh
Speaker 1: that's right, still not here? Um, yeah, she missed a
Speaker 1: great one. Uh. And I get to she's gonna be jealous,
Speaker 1: and I get to rub it in her face that frankly,
Speaker 1: I got to sit here and talk to Kyla Pratt.
Speaker 1: Who is I said at the beginning of the show,
Speaker 1: Disney Royalty and in everything? And rightfully so. She is
Speaker 1: truly one of those people where you look and you say,
Speaker 1: I'm so glad she's as successful as she is because
Speaker 1: it couldn't happen to a nicer person, you know how,
Speaker 1: you say that that's her. Uh, So go watch call
Speaker 1: Me Cat, Go watch uh the new Proud Family again,
Speaker 1: Louder and Prouder. I'm gonna plug it again because if
Speaker 1: it's half as good as the original one, it's going
Speaker 1: to be one of the best animated series out there.
Speaker 1: It is all episodes of the second season, so you
Speaker 1: don't even have to wait. Of the Proud Family. Louder
Speaker 1: and Prouder are streaming only on Disney Plus. Go check
Speaker 1: it out. Uh Kyla is going to kill it again,
Speaker 1: I'm sure because when you're that talented, you kind of
Speaker 1: don't know any other way. So thank you for joining
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