Speaker 1: Like, lately, I'm doing like you've seen me do it.
Speaker 1: I used to do it on set all the time.
Speaker 1: I like pretend I would like and I'd like, do
Speaker 1: a cigarette out of my mom. I'm like, yeah, that's
Speaker 1: show business, kids.
Speaker 2: More and More Better, More and More, Got a little
Speaker 2: bit more Better More.
Speaker 3: Welcome to More Better, a podcast where we stop pretending
Speaker 3: to have it all together and embrace the journey of
Speaker 3: becoming a little more better every.
Speaker 1: Day, or at least trying to. That's Stephanie Beatrice and
Speaker 1: that's most of a Merrow. Welcome back you guys, hilcome back.
Speaker 1: How you doing, mel You know.
Speaker 3: Girl, remember a few weeks ago when I was like,
Speaker 3: I'm on point, man, I'm doing all these things.
Speaker 1: I'm the again Bandy Believe and I'm killing it and
Speaker 1: you were like You're gonna get burned out. And you
Speaker 1: were like, I don't know what I mean. And guess what.
Speaker 1: I'm sick. Oh, you're sick.
Speaker 3: I'm not that sick. I just have like a cold
Speaker 3: or it's like bad allergies. I also got sick last
Speaker 3: week too, with either like a stomach bug or food poisoning,
Speaker 3: so obviously my body's like chill.
Speaker 1: The fuck out, the fuck out? Yeah, did you get
Speaker 1: the poops or just the bombs? I just had the nausea.
Speaker 1: Actually no output, no output, just the best case scenario, truly,
Speaker 1: except I felt like throwing up all day. Oh yes, ah, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: the first three months of my pregnancy. Yes, yes, that's
Speaker 1: no output, just the feeling of a feeling all day. Yeah,
Speaker 1: tried to make myself throw up. Didn't happen. No, that's source.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Yeah, I'm sorry to get graphic listeners. Hey,
Speaker 1: how are you? You know what they're doing? They know
Speaker 1: who we are at this point, I'm fine, Uh we are.
Speaker 1: I'm packing up to leave Toronto. We leave tomorrow. We
Speaker 1: wrapped season two of Twisted Metal. Thanks so tired. I
Speaker 1: spent most of my day in pajamas the last two
Speaker 1: days trying to get stuff done on my laptop or
Speaker 1: on my phone. And uh yeah, I feel what a
Speaker 1: great time to wrap though. I was just thinking, like
Speaker 1: wrapping right before the holidays, when like things are slowing
Speaker 1: down anyway, and there's usually not like a lot of
Speaker 1: work starting at this time of year, Like, yeah, probably
Speaker 1: we'll get a nice break, which I'm happy. I love
Speaker 1: that for you. I better I was looking through my
Speaker 1: pictures trying to find some photo of something, and you know,
Speaker 1: your phone really acts like a scrap book of time.
Speaker 1: And I was looking at stuff, going like, I just
Speaker 1: need to stop, like it, I need to actually physically
Speaker 1: yeah moving, and you know, and I'm in a very
Speaker 1: lucky position where I can stop. I don't have to
Speaker 1: work for the next month maybe, and that's wonderful. But
Speaker 1: what happens is my brain goes like, what if you
Speaker 1: run out of money? What if you die? What if?
Speaker 1: What if? What if the worst possible thing happens and
Speaker 1: your family is stranded about you. It's like my brain
Speaker 1: just goes like work, work, work, work, work, you know. Yeah, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: no no. So and you can take forward to hunkering down.
Speaker 1: And you can hunker down. You just did two shows
Speaker 1: in a row. You can hunker down. Yeah, it's time
Speaker 1: for me to let go a little bit and take
Speaker 1: the break. So that's what I'm doing. It's more better. Actually,
Speaker 1: transition into my segue. Wow, my segues are getting really good.
Speaker 1: What are you doing? It's more better lately.
Speaker 3: I am staying afloat.
Speaker 1: That's good. That's good. That's all I got. All it
Speaker 1: sounds like maybe you're recognizing that you do need to
Speaker 1: slow down a little bit. Maybe you can't. Yes, that's true.
Speaker 3: I am I think No, I yes, I and I
Speaker 3: have slowed down the last week or so. I think
Speaker 3: getting sick last week sort of forced me to and
Speaker 3: then I was like, okay, let me like listen to
Speaker 3: my body a little more.
Speaker 1: So Yeah, I'm listening to my body a little more,
Speaker 1: more better. That's good. That's good. I like it more better. Okay,
Speaker 1: So this week's topic, go ahead. Oh no, you you go, No,
Speaker 1: you go, Mossa, Stephanie, Okay, we have a fun one today.
Speaker 1: We have a voice note from a listener. Finally, if
Speaker 1: you need help with something in your life listener and
Speaker 1: have a suggestion for a future episode, please email us
Speaker 1: at Morebetter Pod at gmail dot com and include a
Speaker 1: voice note. This is our first voice note and I'm
Speaker 1: really excited. Let's listen to it.
Speaker 4: Okay, Hey Stephanie, Hey Melissa. I just wanted to thank
Speaker 4: you guys for have an ariel on the episode. It
Speaker 4: was really awesome to hear from like a cool Hollywood
Speaker 4: stylist type person that wearing sweatpants and a T shirt
Speaker 4: or jeans and a T shirt is just okay. Especially
Speaker 4: as an artist myself, I've always felt like I needed
Speaker 4: to have these sort of oftentimes like uncomfortable but really
Speaker 4: elevated outfits when really I just want something really clean, simple, practical.
Speaker 4: And to hear that from Ariel was just like great.
Speaker 4: It just made me feel so much more confident and
Speaker 4: not weird, like in the style that I like. So
Speaker 4: thank you Ariel. And one more question that I just
Speaker 4: have is that I know both of you have had
Speaker 4: voice acting experience, and I was just wondering what that's
Speaker 4: like because I haven't really seen people talk about that
Speaker 4: a whole lot. I've seen a lot of voice actor interviews,
Speaker 4: but I've never seen them actually talk about the actual
Speaker 4: like act of doing it. So I was just wondering.
Speaker 4: Thank you, guys, and I hope you continue the More
Speaker 4: Better podcast. It's really made me feel more better. Thank you.
Speaker 1: That's so cute. Oh my god, I I love it.
Speaker 1: I'm so I that's adorable and I want to be friends.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was such a good one. Thank you Archie
Speaker 3: for that voice note. So yeah, we're going to talk
Speaker 3: about voice acting today today's episode, which we've both done. Uh,
Speaker 3: you've done a bit more, a lot more than I have.
Speaker 3: I don't know about that.
Speaker 1: We've both done quite a bit. We're very again, we're
Speaker 1: very lucky, hash.
Speaker 3: Very lucky, bless What how how about you? Because I
Speaker 3: don't know that I know this? What how was your
Speaker 3: What was your journey with voice acting?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 1: What was first time you did?
Speaker 2: Was it?
Speaker 1: During Brooklyn? When I was a kid, I had this
Speaker 1: Fisher Price. It was brown and it was It had
Speaker 1: a handle on the top and you could put a
Speaker 1: blank tape in it and you could press record, could
Speaker 1: play fast, forward, rewind and stop, obviously, but there was
Speaker 1: a record option, and I would eat up blank tapes.
Speaker 1: My dad would buy like a bunch of blank tapes
Speaker 1: and give them to me, and I would pretend to
Speaker 1: do like radio shows, like old style radio shows, and
Speaker 1: I would do different characters. I would interview myself, I
Speaker 1: would do commercials like I At one point I remember
Speaker 1: taping over music that I had bought, or my dad
Speaker 1: had bought, or somebody had bought music, and I was
Speaker 1: taping over the music because I'd ran out of blank tapes.
Speaker 1: But like, I remember wanting to do it from the
Speaker 1: time that I was a little kid, little kid, so cool.
Speaker 3: I don't think I even had like really an awareness
Speaker 3: about it, which is so weird because it's such a
Speaker 3: heighten awareness around acting.
Speaker 1: Theater and acting lead and TV.
Speaker 3: But like for some reason, not radio necessarily, or animation
Speaker 3: or just voice acting, I think in general, until I
Speaker 3: was older, I think that's so cool that you did
Speaker 3: that as a kid.
Speaker 1: I mean, I watched so much animation when I was
Speaker 1: a kid. I watched those animated Disney movies like I
Speaker 1: can quote them. I can. I mean, it's very annoying
Speaker 1: to listen or watch those old ones with me, because
Speaker 1: it is. It's a lot. And I watched a lot
Speaker 1: of cartoons as a kid, too, like I watched the
Speaker 1: old like. I mean, I just watched. I consumed a
Speaker 1: lot of that stuff. And I knew in the way
Speaker 1: that I didn't really understand acting as was like a
Speaker 1: job until I was a little bit older, probably like
Speaker 1: middle school, kind of understood it more. But because I
Speaker 1: wasn't I didn't grow up on the East Coast. I
Speaker 1: didn't see plays, it wasn't, you know, I didn't have
Speaker 1: access to that world that way. But cartoons I understood
Speaker 1: there must be somebody doing that voice. I didn't exactly
Speaker 1: know like all the parameters around. I didn't know there
Speaker 1: was Mike's and booths and stuff like that, but I
Speaker 1: knew and and I think I had seen some kind
Speaker 1: of special on TV that was like, you know, the
Speaker 1: Magic of Disney or something, and they showed some of
Speaker 1: the actors in the booth. So when I remember seeing
Speaker 1: video of Jodie Benson in the sound booth singing part
Speaker 1: of your World, and I was like, oh, well, that's
Speaker 1: that's for me. That's clearly what I was. I also
Speaker 1: like remember Mulan, particularly the the who is That Girl?
Speaker 1: I see what is the song that song called? You
Speaker 1: know what I'm talking about? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Reflection.
Speaker 1: I would go inside our bathroom, close the door, turn
Speaker 1: the lights down, and sing reflection to myself in the
Speaker 1: mirror until I cried, like I was fully having like
Speaker 1: acting like so I was unbeknownst to myself. I was
Speaker 1: like training for it from the time that I was
Speaker 1: a kid. I would just I just loved it. I
Speaker 1: loved it. And then what was your first thing? Like
Speaker 1: how did you break in? You know? I think it
Speaker 1: was because of Brooklyn nine nine. I think some people
Speaker 1: saw that show and saw that you're doing the voice well,
Speaker 1: or that that was the voice that I had, and
Speaker 1: so I got hired to do stuff with maybe that
Speaker 1: in mind. And then when I was in the booth
Speaker 1: finally like actually doing like first recordings and stuff, I
Speaker 1: would like, you know, I'd show up and be like hi,
Speaker 1: so they knew it was very different than Rosa, and
Speaker 1: then I would sort of try to plant seeds of like,
Speaker 1: you know, I do a lot of other stuff, like
Speaker 1: I can do a lot of other stuff, like I
Speaker 1: could do this or that or whatever. So they call
Speaker 1: me whenever you need Mouren Bouchard was actually one of
Speaker 1: the first people that gave me a break on Bob's Burgers,
Speaker 1: and I had watched his animated show Home Movies, and
Speaker 1: I loved, love, loved their stuff. That was the first
Speaker 1: I think that was the first one of the first
Speaker 1: things I did, Yeah, was that. And then you know
Speaker 1: what kind of what it hard about voiceover work is
Speaker 1: that it's hard to start, Like it's hard to get
Speaker 1: ye first one. But then once you have that first one,
Speaker 1: it's easier to get because people go, oh, it's just
Speaker 1: like directing, like yeah, once you do it once people
Speaker 1: are like, oh, you know what you're doing. Yeah, totally, yeah. Agree.
Speaker 1: What was your first?
Speaker 3: Do you remember my So, my very first was in
Speaker 3: my early twenties with my first the first agency I
Speaker 3: was with in New York. They were mostly a commercial agency,
Speaker 3: but they had a theatrical department, so they did get
Speaker 3: me for acting, but their commercial side was really big,
Speaker 3: and so they sort of just it was like automatically,
Speaker 3: I was, you know, in the commercial thing, and they
Speaker 3: just like put me in voiceover and sent me out
Speaker 3: on auditions like off the Bath. Uh, and I booked
Speaker 3: a couple I think I wanted to say I booked
Speaker 3: a commercial. And then I did book an animated show,
Speaker 3: but it ended up being non union.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 3: And so then I got that weird call where they
Speaker 3: were like, hey, I don't know how this one slipped through,
Speaker 3: but like you can't do this because it's non union.
Speaker 1: And I was like, oh no, oh, no, I got it.
Speaker 1: I can't do it.
Speaker 3: And I was really bummed because I was really yeah,
Speaker 3: I was like somebody fucked up or something.
Speaker 1: I don't know, somebody missed something.
Speaker 3: And I was bummed because I was really excited to
Speaker 3: do an animated show. And then I realized, oh, my god,
Speaker 3: this is I really like this. Yeah, And then I
Speaker 3: switched agencies and then I moved to LA and then
Speaker 3: I couldn't get I would tell them, hey, I was
Speaker 3: doing voiceover in New York with this other agency and
Speaker 3: I really liked it, and I booked a couple things,
Speaker 3: and what kind of at the run around a little
Speaker 3: bit of like okay, and then like nothing, and I
Speaker 3: was just like what.
Speaker 1: I submit. I don't know. I don't know if it's
Speaker 1: like maybe it's hard to get us submitted for things
Speaker 1: when we've never done it before. Maybe I don't know.
Speaker 3: But nobody even was like Okay, make a reel or
Speaker 3: like maybe I had to also just like have more
Speaker 3: gumption at that time and like take things more into
Speaker 3: my own hands and like I kind of made a reel.
Speaker 3: I could have like pursued it more, but I was
Speaker 3: just sort of like Marry, like I was sort of
Speaker 3: annoyed by it weirdly. And then I remember when we
Speaker 3: did Brooklyn. I actually remember Andy a couple of times
Speaker 3: being like, do you do voiceover like you should do,
Speaker 3: because you know I would just mess around, fuck around
Speaker 3: on set Wallwood, you and I both would we do
Speaker 3: our stupid voices.
Speaker 1: And uh.
Speaker 3: And then I think after like the second or third
Speaker 3: time that he asked me, I was like, you know what, I'm.
Speaker 1: Gonna say something to my age. Sometimes you just need
Speaker 1: that encouragement for your friends. Yeah. That was like when
Speaker 1: you were like, you better audition for in the Heights,
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm not a singer, and you like,
Speaker 1: you better fucking audition for shit. You're so pushy about it.
Speaker 3: I really was listener, She's not actually exaggerated, but that's
Speaker 3: the reason I got it.
Speaker 1: I kind of yelled at her. I wouldn't never have
Speaker 1: auditioned for us. Sometimes you just need that friend. It's like, hey,
Speaker 1: you're actually good at this, you need to should do it.
Speaker 1: You should do that. Yeah, and then yeah, that's what
Speaker 1: Andy did for you, and that that's what Andy did,
Speaker 1: and it was it was really great. And then the first,
Speaker 1: I think, I want to say, Modoc was the first
Speaker 1: I feel like bigger thing that kinda then got me
Speaker 1: all these other jobs. And that was pat Oswald and Jordan.
Speaker 1: That was a big deal. That was a big deal.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and they later told me that they sort of
Speaker 3: like had me in mind for it, But I still
Speaker 3: like I auditioned I had to send in like a
Speaker 3: bunch of tapes.
Speaker 1: And it was just really fun.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's awesome and so and now I love that
Speaker 3: it's become Yeah, another thing that I do, and I
Speaker 3: feel like, but I also feel like I've learned so much.
Speaker 3: I love my favorite thing, and I want to know
Speaker 3: if this is one of your favorite things. My favorite
Speaker 3: thing is when I book something and they have a
Speaker 3: few of the voice actors in the booth at the
Speaker 3: same time and there's someone who's done it forever, because
Speaker 3: those are the people I learn from the most. They
Speaker 3: have all these like weird, cool tricks that they do,
Speaker 3: you know, like like some of them will like make
Speaker 3: sounds before they say a line, or some of them
Speaker 3: will like you know, really use their body, which was
Speaker 3: something I definitely like picked up for myself.
Speaker 1: Or like right, like, they have all these kind of things.
Speaker 3: Depending on the line, they might do something to like
Speaker 3: gear up into it that isn't necessarily something you would
Speaker 3: do for on camera, but for voice acting.
Speaker 1: Really helps and I just I love watching those guys.
Speaker 3: They're like two masters of that particular craft and it's
Speaker 3: really cool to watch.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel like, you know, I haven't gotten the
Speaker 1: experience to do much in the same room with people.
Speaker 1: Although the first the first maybe two times that I
Speaker 1: did Bob's there were people that we were all in
Speaker 1: the same room together, all on mice, and that was
Speaker 1: really nice because the improvisation that was happening, we could
Speaker 1: just overlap a little bit and like it didn't matter.
Speaker 1: You weren't just alone sort of, you know, most of
Speaker 1: the time, if you don't know anything about voice over acting,
Speaker 1: most of the time you are by yourself in a booth.
Speaker 1: It could be very small, but it's you and a
Speaker 1: music stand with your script and a microphone and headphones,
Speaker 1: and then everybody else is in another room that's like
Speaker 1: across from you through a window, and you're kind of
Speaker 1: isolated in there. So it's really lucky when, like you're saying,
Speaker 1: there are other actors in the same space with you,
Speaker 1: because you can visually learn from them and see what
Speaker 1: they're doing, and you can like play off their performance
Speaker 1: and you can, you know, like you said, learn from them.
Speaker 1: I have spent more time, I think alone in the booth.
Speaker 1: But because I'm alone, my child like and I say
Speaker 1: childlike because like I think childlike, child pretend is so free.
Speaker 1: It's ultimately way freer than any pretend that we will
Speaker 1: ever be able to do as adults, because we're just
Speaker 1: looking at it through the mesh of adulthood and our
Speaker 1: insecurities and our vulnerabilities, and people are watching me and
Speaker 1: they're listening to me. And so when you're alone in
Speaker 1: the booth, and maybe you're lucky enough to have, you know,
Speaker 1: a booth that isolates you in a way that you
Speaker 1: can still obviously you can still hear everybody through your headphones,
Speaker 1: but you really are alone in the space, then I mean,
Speaker 1: I think I recorded most of a Gunho with my
Speaker 1: eyes closed, because I saw so many of the images
Speaker 1: they would show me, you know, like this is the
Speaker 1: part we're recording today, and then they would show me
Speaker 1: the storyboards, and so I could see it in my mind,
Speaker 1: and I would close my eyes and I could see
Speaker 1: the characters, and I could see the world, and I
Speaker 1: could see everybody that was talking to me. And so
Speaker 1: I inhabited it physically in a way that helped me
Speaker 1: free my voice into that character, into that fifteen year
Speaker 1: old girl, you know. Yeah, And there was this camera
Speaker 1: what they call it, but like there's this big bar
Speaker 1: that it looked like an upside down you okay, And
Speaker 1: it had these like it was very heavy. I think
Speaker 1: at one point they might have bolted into the floor,
Speaker 1: but it was the poll like a pull bar, and
Speaker 1: so like for all of the the stuff you know,
Speaker 1: like where you're like, oh like that, like I would
Speaker 1: actually pull up on the bar or like yank on
Speaker 1: the bar. It was so helpful. Oh my god, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's so helpful. It was incredible, Like and now it's
Speaker 1: easier for me to do that stuff. But like it
Speaker 1: definitely sounds more real when you're actually when you're trying
Speaker 1: to yank something right, and then like you know, stuff
Speaker 1: like you just feel so free to do stuff like
Speaker 1: when you're running, you know, running in place and not
Speaker 1: feeling dumb about being like you know, like breathing into
Speaker 1: the you know, like it you just go for it
Speaker 1: in a way that I think at least I try
Speaker 1: to pull some of that into my work on film sets,
Speaker 1: TV sets and stuff. But sometimes you really do need
Speaker 1: to look you know, elegant or put together or you
Speaker 1: know whatever in the moment, and you you maybe the
Speaker 1: physical thing doesn't really match like what you need to
Speaker 1: look like on screen. So like does that make sense?
Speaker 1: You know what I mean.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yah yeah it does because I
Speaker 3: think in voice acting everything is like a tiny bit
Speaker 3: heightened because trying to convey so much more through your voice,
Speaker 3: and so you will do something. Sometimes it is something
Speaker 3: physical that you have to do that doesn't necessarily match
Speaker 3: what you're saying or the intention, but like that's what
Speaker 3: you need to do to get the right sound or
Speaker 3: emotion through and on set you would just feel really
Speaker 3: fucking dumb doing it. Kind of yeah, that's there is
Speaker 3: something about when you're in the booth by yourself.
Speaker 1: You know, and sometimes it is about sound, right, Like
Speaker 1: sometimes it's like, yeah, I remember one of our directors
Speaker 1: from Angantha was trying to get me to make this
Speaker 1: sound and he was like, you know, like like make
Speaker 1: He was specifically trying to get me go like that,
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, in my mind, I thought like, oh, okay,
Speaker 1: so make a sound sort of like that, make a
Speaker 1: make the expression of like exhaustion or like frustration kind
Speaker 1: of like tired of it, over it. And I tried
Speaker 1: all these things and he was like, literally, I just
Speaker 1: want you to put your lips together and then like
Speaker 1: like let the breath out, right, because in his mind,
Speaker 1: he had something very specific that he wanted and you
Speaker 1: can see it. It's that take in the film where
Speaker 1: she sits down in her bed and like leans back
Speaker 1: and goes like, it's that take that he wanted. And
Speaker 1: I tried like a million things. Sometimes it's just the
Speaker 1: sound that they have in their mind matched to an
Speaker 1: image that they've been working on. You know, they know more.
Speaker 3: A little more intimately than they do sometimes because they've
Speaker 3: been working on it for five years and you have
Speaker 3: to trust them that.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Thing is like I find this a lot with like
Speaker 3: sound effects, like sounds like you just described where it
Speaker 3: gets very technical and.
Speaker 1: It's very technical.
Speaker 3: Yeah, even if you do one that in your mind
Speaker 3: feels right right intention it doesn't sound right. It doesn't
Speaker 3: write to them like the thing to them, and you
Speaker 3: have to like just figure out the technicality of that
Speaker 3: specific sound.
Speaker 1: And it's interesting. Lynn said something similar. Linn Manuel Miranda
Speaker 1: said something similar about Welcome to the Family. Madriuel. He
Speaker 1: was like I kept doing like let's go, you know,
Speaker 1: Like I was like, let's go. He was like no, No,
Speaker 1: like let's go. Like, yeah, you really wanted a very
Speaker 1: specific thing, and it becomes your job as a voice
Speaker 1: over actor, and you get hired more and more if
Speaker 1: you can give the thing that they want, right, Like,
Speaker 1: if they have a very specific thing in mind, it's
Speaker 1: your job to go, how can I give them that
Speaker 1: very specific thing while still remaining like feeling honest about it. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: And so like that becomes your job. Is like marrying
Speaker 1: those two things and kind of trying to find you know,
Speaker 1: and also it's your job. On the other the flip
Speaker 1: side of that is also to bring things that maybe
Speaker 1: they hadn't even thought about, you know, like to bring
Speaker 1: your own creativity and to bring stuff that they would
Speaker 1: never have done until you were in the room you specifically,
Speaker 1: that's yeah, that's the other thing about voice overacting. It's
Speaker 1: really fun because like people can sound like each other
Speaker 1: for sure, But I do think it's like a combination
Speaker 1: of the fingerprint of your individual personality and the voice
Speaker 1: that you're doing and the script. It's like all those
Speaker 1: things combined makes them for a very like specific performance.
Speaker 3: Have you had because this has happened to me a lot,
Speaker 3: and it's always embarrassing every time, and it's hilarious to me. Uh,
Speaker 3: where you like come in for something and usually I
Speaker 3: mean usually this is like an offer situation, so a
Speaker 3: very nice offer situation where like you did an audition
Speaker 3: and so you just kind of like go in.
Speaker 1: You're like, oh my god, it's so nice.
Speaker 3: They want me to be here, and you like get
Speaker 3: your your audition, your sides or whatever, and you get
Speaker 3: an idea and like I've gone in and like done
Speaker 3: a voice and they go, oh no, no, no, no, we
Speaker 3: just we just want your voice.
Speaker 1: Most of the time. Actually, no, I get your answer.
Speaker 1: Was I honestly get like, oh, can you do like
Speaker 1: a more like a gravelly or like like a tougher
Speaker 1: you know, like oh.
Speaker 3: Like closing, yeah, like that's so funny, like grittier or
Speaker 3: like I think honestly could show.
Speaker 1: Those kind of lower voices a lot in your stuff.
Speaker 1: I think the first time that somebody was like I
Speaker 1: think it was in Ganto where they were like, you know,
Speaker 1: you know, like sometimes it would have to tell me
Speaker 1: like don't let it go into your lower register, like
Speaker 1: try not to let it go there, but like mostly
Speaker 1: do your own voice, like do you do you don't
Speaker 1: try to get it up higher or anything like that,
Speaker 1: Like just sit in the place that's normal for you.
Speaker 1: And I was like, really show my reaction? Really sure
Speaker 1: that because I've heard it and it's pretty nasal.
Speaker 3: Is there anything about voice acting that you want that
Speaker 3: you think you like, specifically want to get better at
Speaker 3: more better?
Speaker 1: Oh my god, Yeah, I want to get better at
Speaker 1: having a more Like I think I want to get
Speaker 1: better at having a bigger library of voices to choose from,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like like lately I'm doing
Speaker 1: like you see me do it. I used to do
Speaker 1: it on set all the time. I'd like pretend that
Speaker 1: I would like and I'd like do a cigarette out
Speaker 1: of my I'm like, yeah, that's show business kits. Like
Speaker 1: I want more like in my repertoire, Like yeah, and
Speaker 1: I probably just need a little time by myself with
Speaker 1: my voice note recorder on my phone to like dick around.
Speaker 1: But I don't have time, you know. Yeah, but I
Speaker 1: wish I had more of a repertoire. What about you?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think similarly. I think, Yeah, I think I
Speaker 3: just want to do more of it, And yeah, I
Speaker 3: have have more of a range. I feel like there's
Speaker 3: right now just kind of like a few voices that
Speaker 3: have been go tos.
Speaker 1: You know, it helps a lot weirdly reading books to
Speaker 1: my kid. Yes, you know what I mean, Like you do,
Speaker 1: you do a lot of I do a lot of accents,
Speaker 1: shitty accents. She doesn't know. You know that it's a
Speaker 1: shitty accent. And then they want it every fucking, every
Speaker 1: fucking time, and then that sometimes I'm like, I don't
Speaker 1: want to read the books tonight because it's like a
Speaker 1: one woman show for an hour and a half of
Speaker 1: reading books. Same.
Speaker 3: I always wonder if other actors feel like this. I'm
Speaker 3: not getting pale. Sometimes I delay this all day today.
Speaker 3: I don't want to do it to perform for you.
Speaker 1: I'm just so tired right now. I'm so sorry. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think most parents feel that way, but the actors
Speaker 1: specifically have a like we feel the need to like
Speaker 1: do the voices or do the you know, before the
Speaker 1: sudden sets. On her sixteenth, we're reading Sleeping Beauty and
Speaker 1: I did the whole poison. Now ros is like, do
Speaker 1: it again. I'm like, my god, okay, but I mean,
Speaker 1: like that's the stuff that like stuck in my mind
Speaker 1: as a kid. Though it really affected me, those like
Speaker 1: those voices that were like whoa, that is a scary bitch,
Speaker 1: like she's scary. Yeah, yeah, I love that.
Speaker 2: More Better.
Speaker 1: This was fun to talk about. This was fun to
Speaker 1: talk about.
Speaker 3: Thanks for the suggestion, Archie, Oh, Archie, we hope this
Speaker 3: helped make a bunch of voice notes.
Speaker 1: Archie. Just fuck around.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just get creative, find your voice. You can always
Speaker 3: make there's places you can go. I mean, I think
Speaker 3: you have to pay money, but also if you're tech savvy,
Speaker 3: you can make your own real a voice stuff. Yeah,
Speaker 3: if you're trying to break in, most.
Speaker 1: Laptops come with the garage band already in them, and
Speaker 1: you can just stick on a little mic that you
Speaker 1: get from Amazon and start to dick around and see
Speaker 1: what you come up with. Yeah.
Speaker 3: So we hope you enjoyed it. Yeah, we'll see y'all
Speaker 3: next time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, bye bye, More Better. Do you have something you'd
Speaker 1: like to be more better at that you want us
Speaker 1: to talk about in a future episode.
Speaker 3: Can you relate to our struggles or have you tried
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