Speaker 1: Hi, Christie, Hey will, how are you? I'm so good?
Speaker 1: Are you centered? You seem centered? I'm glad because you
Speaker 1: don't have a green screen behind me, and we can
Speaker 1: do anything with us that we want. We could animate
Speaker 1: this background. I think we could. I like I like
Speaker 1: the inflection too. We can animate this background, which is
Speaker 1: different than animating the background, which is don't anna hate, Okay,
Speaker 1: don't anna hate on the green series? I think so.
Speaker 1: But hit us up at all of our different socials,
Speaker 1: which again I don't know the addresses. I don't know
Speaker 1: social media stuff. Where what is our social stuff? It's
Speaker 1: just I hear voices, podcasts and talk. Yeah, so hit
Speaker 1: us up and let us know, um respectfully. Please what
Speaker 1: we should have on the green screen behind Christie. I
Speaker 1: think that would be great. I have a green screen
Speaker 1: as well. I always make mine look like the same
Speaker 1: booth with books in the back. Just consistency is all. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the best way to do it. How are you
Speaker 1: doing good? How are you? I'm good? I feel like
Speaker 1: I feel like it's really lame because we went from
Speaker 1: going to comic constant other like week after week for
Speaker 1: a good two months, and then it's now now we don't.
Speaker 1: We don't talk, we don't write, We just podcast. I
Speaker 1: know it's the best, isn't it. It's no, I like you.
Speaker 1: I did get I did get feedback from another podcast
Speaker 1: that like, um, well, my other podcast, and they were
Speaker 1: like they were like, oh, so you're like a theater
Speaker 1: kid and I was like, well, yeah, what else? Yeah,
Speaker 1: as opposed to what I don't get what that means.
Speaker 1: Oh man, we had a great show last week, um
Speaker 1: Dietrich Bader. Yeah, how good was There are so many
Speaker 1: like life lessony things, but specifically in the life of
Speaker 1: an entertainer and an actor that we're so helpful, uh
Speaker 1: that we're really pretty amazing. So uh yeah, we we've
Speaker 1: talked about and it's so funny because it seems like
Speaker 1: it's so um, I don't know, it's it seems like
Speaker 1: it is so kind of like a self promoting when
Speaker 1: we have talked about our amazing, incredible contest that is
Speaker 1: coming up, the super awesome contest to become the next
Speaker 1: big Voice actor. Um, I can say I didn't even
Speaker 1: look it up. Now, I didn't write it down. But
Speaker 1: one of the things you said, which is absolutely true,
Speaker 1: which is one of the best ways to prepare for
Speaker 1: the super awesome contest to become the next big voice
Speaker 1: actor is to go back and watch some of our
Speaker 1: old episodes. And again it sounds like we're kind of
Speaker 1: promoting ourselves, but some most, if not all, of the
Speaker 1: actors that we've had on have the greatest advice, the
Speaker 1: greatest different kind of exercises you can use. I mean, again,
Speaker 1: you're talking about Dietrich and just his advice on being
Speaker 1: an actor, putting yourself into it. I was mesmerized. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna lie. I woke up that warning feeling a
Speaker 1: little disillusioned with some parts of the industry, and you
Speaker 1: always get as an actor. You always kind of go
Speaker 1: through these different things. And after we talked to him,
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm in the best business in the world.
Speaker 1: Like he just made you feel good. You know, it
Speaker 1: was great, he really did. He honestly, he was a
Speaker 1: really wonderful person with a great worldview. In my opinion,
Speaker 1: I think our business can make people jaded sometimes, but
Speaker 1: the good thing about the community of voice actors is
Speaker 1: that they are so lighthearted and they love what they do.
Speaker 1: And I mean, I don't know, I mean, I think
Speaker 1: our contest is amazing you know how many people come
Speaker 1: up to us anytime we're at a comic connor like,
Speaker 1: how can I break into this industry? And I mean,
Speaker 1: if you're gonna be famous, you might as well be
Speaker 1: famous doing something where all the people around you were happy. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I love that too. Plus I just love there's it's
Speaker 1: you know, it's not about being famous with VA, which
Speaker 1: is what's so great. It's about the joy of I
Speaker 1: mean we're talking, uh, you and I always kind of
Speaker 1: joke and talk about how, you know, as voiceover actors,
Speaker 1: and we've alway talked about children where I have been
Speaker 1: very lucky in my life not to have any kids.
Speaker 1: Umm yea. As as voiceover actors, though, we talk about
Speaker 1: like what's it like to have Eric Bowser read you
Speaker 1: a bedtime story? What's you know, what's it like to
Speaker 1: to have these actors come on and just tell a
Speaker 1: story to their children. I mean, it's just the coolest
Speaker 1: thing in the world. There's that love and that joy
Speaker 1: of the voice over industry, and it's just such a
Speaker 1: different niche for the rest from the rest of the industry.
Speaker 1: And it's just yes, exactly, it is growing, right, it is,
Speaker 1: I mean becoming more inclusive, which is what it's needed
Speaker 1: for a very long time. So that's that's a good
Speaker 1: thing in that sense, it's a very very good thing, um.
Speaker 1: And that's one that's one of the things that's been
Speaker 1: able to allow us to do this contest. What was
Speaker 1: what was the name of the contest? Again, Christie, Oh boy,
Speaker 1: you do this every time where I have my guard
Speaker 1: down and then you're like, go for it. What was it?
Speaker 1: I can't remember the name? Oh, I really don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm going to write it down next time, will and
Speaker 1: it's going to be a post it and I'm never
Speaker 1: going to make this mistake. You're gonna be crowning the
Speaker 1: winner and and you're gonna be like, thank you so
Speaker 1: much for joining the what was it called? Today? For
Speaker 1: us today it's the super awesome contest to become the
Speaker 1: next big voice actor. Super awesome contest to become the
Speaker 1: next big voice over actor, just voice actor. I thought,
Speaker 1: I don't think we added over and I think we
Speaker 1: probably should have. I don't know. I like I like it.
Speaker 1: And they can follow us and all of our announcements
Speaker 1: about the contest that are coming up, um, you know,
Speaker 1: on socials and of course, like he said, like, listen
Speaker 1: to other episodes to brush up on your skills, because
Speaker 1: big things are coming. And there's a number of reasons
Speaker 1: why we are not getting into the actual specifics of
Speaker 1: what's happening because we're working I know, but that's the
Speaker 1: thing you gotta understand. We are working out some things
Speaker 1: that are so okay, so I don't want to build
Speaker 1: it up too much, but they're so unbelievably awesome that
Speaker 1: you're gonna love it. So today we have an amazing guest.
Speaker 1: It's Amy Landecker. That's right. She plays Ugga on The
Speaker 1: Crewes Family Tree, and season two is now streaming on
Speaker 1: Peacock and Hulu. Amy Landecker, We're super excited to have
Speaker 1: you here on your voins. It's fun to be here.
Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us. Thank you so much for
Speaker 1: joining us. I don't know if you're you've been told this,
Speaker 1: but you are here for our Golden Girls. At episode
Speaker 1: where that's all we're gonna be talking about. Is the eighties? Really? No?
Speaker 1: No one mentioned it to me. No, I'm kidding. That
Speaker 1: would be the worst, isn't it if you just weren't
Speaker 1: prepared to do whatever. It's like, we're gonna be talking
Speaker 1: about season three A magnum p. I are you ready?
Speaker 1: I est finished. Such an incredible coincidence, I just finished,
Speaker 1: how are you good? I meant to like dry my
Speaker 1: hair and be a little more presentable, but the day
Speaker 1: got away from me. So you're getting like, I feel
Speaker 1: like this is my detective look from your honor. But
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. This is a voiceover, isn't it wonderful?
Speaker 1: Does it affect your performance when you know you're just
Speaker 1: doing voice over and all you have to concentrate on
Speaker 1: is pormance so free? I mean, it's weird. I'm a
Speaker 1: weird on camera actor because I actually try to do
Speaker 1: it like I'm doing voiceover. Like I go into hair
Speaker 1: and makeup, and then for the rest of the day
Speaker 1: that I shoot. I have this really strange ritual where
Speaker 1: I never look at myself the entire day, So I
Speaker 1: won't if I go to the baths, so I won't look.
Speaker 1: If I'm in my trailer, I don't look because I
Speaker 1: don't actually want to think about it, because I think
Speaker 1: I started in voice over and I learned and theater,
Speaker 1: which is a much freer form too, because you know,
Speaker 1: like a camera drilling down on you and you know,
Speaker 1: people always like you have no like you have no
Speaker 1: vanity or ego in your work. I'm like, because I'll
Speaker 1: look terrible and not care. But I really think that
Speaker 1: came from starting in voiceover in theater and wanting to
Speaker 1: keep that freedom. I don't want to like limit myself
Speaker 1: worrying about I mean, the times I'm the most dysfunctional
Speaker 1: in this business is like red carpet stuff, where I'm
Speaker 1: just like, because I do come from the tradition of
Speaker 1: like blah blah blah blah lah. You know, like just
Speaker 1: like yeah, like use your hands, use your voice, be
Speaker 1: whatever you and you have no limits. So I feel
Speaker 1: really lucky for that because I feel like it's helped
Speaker 1: me not fall into some of the traps of the
Speaker 1: on camera world. Although you know, certainly I'm susceptible like
Speaker 1: anybody else, but um, I try to remember that my
Speaker 1: roots and how much I enjoy that freedom, you know. Interesting.
Speaker 1: So it's a balance for sure, I mean, because because
Speaker 1: like you know, you do like to, you know, put
Speaker 1: some makeup on and walk the carpet now and then.
Speaker 1: But for sure, but it's like pressure. Sometimes it just
Speaker 1: feels nice to take that away completely and voiceover always
Speaker 1: takes it away, you know, I always takes Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: people always like fun. I'm like, let me ask you,
Speaker 1: let me ask do you like having your picture taken?
Speaker 1: Do you like like in most nine of people. No,
Speaker 1: nobody's like, oh my god, I love having a picture
Speaker 1: taking me. It's right, those are the same. It's a
Speaker 1: very rare person who I think enjoys all of it.
Speaker 1: But you know, I mean, it looks really good from
Speaker 1: the couch at home. That's what I realized. I was like, No,
Speaker 1: it's actually much more fun to watch than it is
Speaker 1: to do it, you know, because it's stressful. But voiceover
Speaker 1: is always it's a performance. And I you know, my
Speaker 1: dad's a diss jockey. I don't know if you guys
Speaker 1: need that in Chicago. So I very very very very
Speaker 1: very Uh. He's in the Rocketell Hall of Fame museum.
Speaker 1: He's been a ward. He's in the Hall of Fame. Uh.
Speaker 1: He was inducted let John Record Decker. So he was
Speaker 1: on w LS. Oh yeah, so like he's yeah, so
Speaker 1: I grew up around microphones as my point and kind
Speaker 1: of like, yeah, well, I mean he he had to
Speaker 1: get into that with the middle name of well I know,
Speaker 1: and that's really his middle name. But here's the creature.
Speaker 1: But the craziest thing is his first radio job. They
Speaker 1: told him to change his name to Scott Walker because
Speaker 1: they said, you'll never work in this business with John Records.
Speaker 1: Land Decker is your name, which is so weird because
Speaker 1: that's what got him into like Ripley's believe it or
Speaker 1: not at first because of his middle name, but he
Speaker 1: like not only was his middle name Records, because my
Speaker 1: great grandfather's last name was Records, so he was just
Speaker 1: given his grandfather's last names the middle name. But he
Speaker 1: also would pretend by the way, I'm so distracted by
Speaker 1: how beautiful Christie is. I'm like, well, there's an on
Speaker 1: camera and like right there at the hair, not not
Speaker 1: really not it goes away, it goes away. It's just green.
Speaker 1: Is that what it is? Oh? Yes, you know that's
Speaker 1: what most people, I would say, makes them more beautiful,
Speaker 1: is like a big green screen in the back. Now, um,
Speaker 1: first of all, you're right, most most most of our
Speaker 1: guests say exactly after like, oh my god, I'm so
Speaker 1: mesmerized by Christie and Will I can see why you
Speaker 1: picked so I get that character. He's back very good
Speaker 1: looking person on a microphone. Very but I but he
Speaker 1: was he pretended he was a disc jockey at his
Speaker 1: closet as a kid, like he always wanted. So I
Speaker 1: grew up actually reading like I would literally view in
Speaker 1: the bathroom and take in a Veno bottle and be like,
Speaker 1: I would make ads like protecting hydrate sunscreen, and that's
Speaker 1: what I did. Really, so you're doing, you're starting, I don't,
Speaker 1: I'm I have know And then I mean, that's what
Speaker 1: I did before animation. For a good fifteen years in view,
Speaker 1: I was just commercial for until I move to l A.
Speaker 1: And I always wanted to do animation because of course
Speaker 1: that's the creative side of it. But I'm also not
Speaker 1: a natural, you know. It's so funny. I watched the
Speaker 1: crews and I see these like insanely gifted voiceover actors
Speaker 1: who can do like a thousand things that is not
Speaker 1: my that is not my gift. But and I'm so
Speaker 1: in awe of them. And I think that's why it
Speaker 1: took me a while to get into animation, because it's
Speaker 1: sort of off shot more from my on camera career
Speaker 1: that I started to get to shoot, which don't feel
Speaker 1: really really lucky about but no, I was always like
Speaker 1: the voice of Hallmark or Simbalta or like, you know,
Speaker 1: just very serious, like you know, very emotional. That's huge.
Speaker 1: I mean it was. It was incredible. I loved every
Speaker 1: second of it and I felt very very There's nothing
Speaker 1: that makes you feel like you don't belong in a
Speaker 1: room like standing next to Dee Brad. Yeah, exactly. You know,
Speaker 1: it's like you walk in going, oh, I think I'm
Speaker 1: pretty cool with this and you're like, oh man, I
Speaker 1: have no idea what I'm doing. Gifts are It's extraordinary. Really,
Speaker 1: it's kind of extraordinary. It's insane. It really started the
Speaker 1: crudes in COVID in Quarantine. That's when we first started recording,
Speaker 1: when you weren't leaving the house, right when we were
Speaker 1: all like afraid to open a box from Amazon. So
Speaker 1: we did like our we did this where we met
Speaker 1: on Zoom. I mean, I got to watch everybody do
Speaker 1: their performances for the first like six episodes, and it
Speaker 1: was pretty intimidating. I was like, oh my god, so
Speaker 1: so talented, so funny, and normally you don't really have
Speaker 1: access to that process at all. It's just you alone.
Speaker 1: So it was cool, I have a So wait, let's
Speaker 1: I want to go back origin story time we're doing.
Speaker 1: We got to do your origin story. So you're from
Speaker 1: Chicago and you said you started on stage, so other
Speaker 1: than doing what most kids do, which is sitting in
Speaker 1: the bathroom and doing ad read too machine bottle um.
Speaker 1: Totally normal. By the way, again, to other voice over actors,
Speaker 1: it's like, yeah, okay, right, that's true. Did yeah, did
Speaker 1: you know that that entertainment was something that you always
Speaker 1: wanted to do? You know? I really I did. I did.
Speaker 1: Like I was my my sister and I used to
Speaker 1: like write plays and perform them at um at like
Speaker 1: for our parents, and we were really little. And then
Speaker 1: in high school I ended up going to this small
Speaker 1: private school in Chicago called Francis Parker, which oddly was
Speaker 1: not a performance or at school, but we had a
Speaker 1: lot of um, wonderful actors and so much so that
Speaker 1: Jeane Siskel, when he was still alive and was a
Speaker 1: big film critic, came to visit our school to find out,
Speaker 1: like what was it about this theater program because we
Speaker 1: were in a performance school, but we had like um,
Speaker 1: Billy Zane came from our school and Daryl Hannah, and
Speaker 1: this was when those movies were like huge, like splash.
Speaker 1: And then from my class alone was, um, I mean,
Speaker 1: I make a living at it. This guy Paul Adelstein
Speaker 1: who's on prison Break and who's a very you know,
Speaker 1: he's on camera all the time. I don't know what
Speaker 1: else he's been doing. But and Tim Griffin, who's another
Speaker 1: actor from Chicago that I just did a movie with
Speaker 1: Searching Too, and um r I P and H was
Speaker 1: in our class, um and just so tragically but we
Speaker 1: were a very um we we did tons of plays,
Speaker 1: all all four of us. Um I was interesting, you know,
Speaker 1: all the plays. And I went to college thinking, I
Speaker 1: will be honest with you, speaking of looks, I um,
Speaker 1: I didn't think I was like the look of an
Speaker 1: actress on camera at the time when I was in
Speaker 1: high school, and so it never really like occurred to
Speaker 1: me that I could make a living at acting. And
Speaker 1: I went to University Wisconsin and I was going to
Speaker 1: be a broadcaster. So that and I think because of
Speaker 1: my dad and I loved sports and I love Chicago sports,
Speaker 1: and I thought I'd be a female sportscaster, which I
Speaker 1: think is actually a really great idea. I think it
Speaker 1: would have amazing career path, but I did end up
Speaker 1: um getting a crush on an acting teacher in college
Speaker 1: who told me to join the acting program, so of course,
Speaker 1: to be near him, I joined the acting program and
Speaker 1: started have inadvertently falling into it. And then when I
Speaker 1: got out of college, my sister started a theater company
Speaker 1: with some friends from New York and they asked me
Speaker 1: to do a show with them, and I just got
Speaker 1: these insane reviews and I was like, oh, I guess
Speaker 1: I I like I candased. And at the same time
Speaker 1: Amy Brenneman, who now I've become friends with and I
Speaker 1: get mistaken for all the time, oddly enough, was on
Speaker 1: NYPD Blue and people started to say to me, you
Speaker 1: look just like this actress on NYPD Blue. And the
Speaker 1: irony that, like, twenty five years later, I would live
Speaker 1: in l A and many times people will come to
Speaker 1: me be like I love you on The Leftovers or
Speaker 1: they'll tell her I love you on Transparent and we're like,
Speaker 1: I'm not that Amy. So weird, so weird, But she
Speaker 1: sort of was like an inspiration, like, oh, maybe I
Speaker 1: could do that. You know, she's from our neck of
Speaker 1: the woods. Amy Brennaman, I believe is a Connecticut native.
Speaker 1: She really and I think her mom was a judge,
Speaker 1: which is why she did and both my parents are
Speaker 1: Connecticut lawyers. Are you're kidding? Yeah, she's really like brilliant, Like, yes,
Speaker 1: what is it about Chicago that is just in the
Speaker 1: water there where everyone is so freaking talented? Well, I think,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it is weird. I was talking to
Speaker 1: someone about the theater scene there too, like nobody. I
Speaker 1: think the weather first of all, like you're locked inside
Speaker 1: like most of the year, and there's no other I
Speaker 1: think there's a real like working class attitude about acting
Speaker 1: that actually makes people like very grounded and very realistic,
Speaker 1: like step in Wold Theater was obviously like this massive
Speaker 1: influence on even the way people act now on camera
Speaker 1: in general, like that really rock and roll, like rooted naturalism.
Speaker 1: And I think because we knew, I mean it was
Speaker 1: funny because I actually so. I did a play with
Speaker 1: Michael Shannon, who has been nominated for million Oscars and
Speaker 1: is a big Chicago guy Boardwalk Empire and stuff. I
Speaker 1: did a play with him at the Red Organt Theater
Speaker 1: and an agent came and I did a bunch of
Speaker 1: voices in it, and she said, um, have you ever
Speaker 1: thought about doing voiceover? So actually got into voiceover from
Speaker 1: literally a play that I did. I didn't realize too
Speaker 1: that they really the only way to make money as
Speaker 1: an actor in Chicago, in a living wage is to
Speaker 1: either do on camera commercials or voiceover because there are
Speaker 1: no there's not enough film work, that's not enough TV work.
Speaker 1: You're never gonna be you know, it's you're not gonna
Speaker 1: make a living maybe now with all the Chicago p
Speaker 1: D shows, but maybe that's one or two people who
Speaker 1: get that contract. So there were but there are all
Speaker 1: these ad agencies. You know, there's j Walter Thompson, there's
Speaker 1: Leo Burnett. All these ad agencies are based in Chicago.
Speaker 1: So it allowed like theater people in Second City and
Speaker 1: those kinds of actors to stay. I wasn't going to
Speaker 1: leave Chicago. I left because of play took me to
Speaker 1: New York. I. I was just going to live there
Speaker 1: and do voiceover and have make a great living and
Speaker 1: do theater and be creatively fulfilled. Um so it just
Speaker 1: has it doesn't. As soon as I worked in New York,
Speaker 1: I was like, Oh, everyone's in New York is not everyone,
Speaker 1: but there's definitely a sense when you're in New York
Speaker 1: there's way more pressure because there's like way more money involved,
Speaker 1: and there's and there's a sense that you might get
Speaker 1: something from it, or you're also working on cameras, so
Speaker 1: you're you're always like one ft out the door to
Speaker 1: leave to do something. Like Chicago, there's nothing else to do,
Speaker 1: you know, you're just there to do the play. And
Speaker 1: I think that it makes for some of the best
Speaker 1: acting I've ever seen, Honestly. I also think Chicago has
Speaker 1: a real emphasis on improv Yes, that's true. And and
Speaker 1: and improv is is one of the most important facets
Speaker 1: of any style of acting. I don't care if you
Speaker 1: are a voice over actor, if you're on stage, if
Speaker 1: you're a dramatic actor, just being able to instantly think
Speaker 1: on your feet and work and reacting stuck, yeah, that
Speaker 1: you're listening, it's really It makes a huge difference. And
Speaker 1: there is such an emphasis on that with Second City
Speaker 1: and everything else. It's there and and and Stephen Wolf
Speaker 1: has like an improvisatory like you were saying, even in Trauma,
Speaker 1: there's we've all either taken classes at Second City or
Speaker 1: we've we get such a such a vibe in Chicago.
Speaker 1: You're right that that energy can be used even if
Speaker 1: you're not actually changing the words every time, but you're
Speaker 1: you're creatively improvising, like emotionally improvising. You're being open to
Speaker 1: it being different every night, and that that's not true
Speaker 1: everywhere else. I feel like people can't. And Amy, you
Speaker 1: said that you don't do like a thousand voices, but
Speaker 1: that's not I mean, I don't. I would, I would.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's not de Badley Baker like that that talent
Speaker 1: that he has, right, But I think that you're also
Speaker 1: a testament to being rooted in all of that educational
Speaker 1: you know, development and all of that beautiful technique work
Speaker 1: over those years, really though, because because I I definitely struggled, um,
Speaker 1: you know, when we were doing Kimpossible and other things
Speaker 1: where you have to enrich the voices that you do
Speaker 1: with so much subtext in the choices that you make
Speaker 1: in the voice that there's a lot more that goes
Speaker 1: into it that makes you a good voice actor rather
Speaker 1: than you know what I'm saying. So you don't need
Speaker 1: to do a thousand voices to be a good voice actor. No,
Speaker 1: I agree. That's one of the things is people think
Speaker 1: that being a great voice actor means doing a thousand voices,
Speaker 1: and then a lot of us can't. I mean that
Speaker 1: is it to to sit next to a John DiMaggio
Speaker 1: or a d. Bradley Baker or a Terror Strong and
Speaker 1: watch them do fifteen voices? That's they're amazing at that,
Speaker 1: That's why they are who they are. Most people can't
Speaker 1: do that. I have several questions following up on a
Speaker 1: couple of things you said. The first is because I
Speaker 1: can't get this out of my head. Searching too Is
Speaker 1: that t o O? Or searching too? As the second
Speaker 1: searching I think it's yeah, I'm going to make sure
Speaker 1: see this is my My husband always has a joke
Speaker 1: like if only we had a device when I'm like, what,
Speaker 1: I just want to meet I say the same thing
Speaker 1: to my wife. But I love the fact that are
Speaker 1: you googling you as well, because I want to make
Speaker 1: sure I get this right. So searching one, I just
Speaker 1: want to make sure it's it was. It was actually
Speaker 1: a huge hit. I know obviously you haven't heard of
Speaker 1: it because you're asking me what searching too is? Well, no,
Speaker 1: that's how money If that was Searching also, but there's
Speaker 1: literally like there is a sequel, although not totally related.
Speaker 1: Um and but Searching One, and I am now I
Speaker 1: am going to look up my own movie to tell you,
Speaker 1: Oh wow, I started this. Well, I don't have like
Speaker 1: a huge part in it or anything. Um but I'm fine.
Speaker 1: It's good Nia. It's it's Nia long and Ken long
Speaker 1: and Storm read and so I play the best anyway.
Speaker 1: I'm not even gonna say what. I'm like her Mom's
Speaker 1: best friend and all both of that and the first
Speaker 1: one are found footage. They're all found footage. So it's
Speaker 1: like like the and I've done. Yeah, I did another
Speaker 1: found footage and I can't remember the name of it.
Speaker 1: Oh god, you got to google another film you're in,
Speaker 1: Like I want to say Paranor World too, But that's
Speaker 1: not it. That's where let's pretend it is. Let's pretend
Speaker 1: what was it? But it was really fun. I had
Speaker 1: a great time. But I know this this one is
Speaker 1: like I just think that there's some that are more
Speaker 1: like I really felt like the first I watched Searching
Speaker 1: One before I said yes to Searching Too, because I
Speaker 1: did not know about Searching One, which I will say
Speaker 1: I think it was a Sundance movie, so it wasn't
Speaker 1: didn't have high expectations. So then the fact that it
Speaker 1: made as much money as it did, they were like,
Speaker 1: we need to do a sequel. So but it works
Speaker 1: really really well, Like I I felt like they really
Speaker 1: pulled it off and and hopefully this one does too.
Speaker 1: It was so weird because Tim Griffin and I and
Speaker 1: our graduating class at Francis Parker there was about sixty kids,
Speaker 1: so it's not a really big class, and We're like
Speaker 1: walking down all at the at our fitting and I'm like,
Speaker 1: what the hell are you doing here? And We've been
Speaker 1: cast in this movie together. And we had our our
Speaker 1: thirty five year high school reunion this year too, and
Speaker 1: we were like there at the reunion, I'm like, we
Speaker 1: just did this movie together. It's very it's very small.
Speaker 1: I tell people that I start in a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of never found footage, Like I mean, oh, I did
Speaker 1: eleven movies last year. They just have never been able
Speaker 1: to find any of the footage. Did you just make
Speaker 1: that up? Or is that really that's improx really funny?
Speaker 1: Never found footage? I ever found footage films. I was
Speaker 1: very good in several. Um. My other question for you
Speaker 1: is you're a huge Chicago sports fan, but you go
Speaker 1: to school in Wisconsin on Wisconsin fight. Um yeah, well okay,
Speaker 1: first of all, Wisconsin, I'm not a huge Chicago college
Speaker 1: sports fan. Okay, you're a pro. You're it's you're the
Speaker 1: Bulls and the Blackhawks. And I don't have a real
Speaker 1: investment in any Chica, in any Alchanic colleges. Like I mean,
Speaker 1: not that I don't want Northwestern to win or whatever, like,
Speaker 1: but I'm not if anything. My my both of my
Speaker 1: um grandparents were professors at University of Michigan, and so
Speaker 1: I grew up with like go blue, big time, like
Speaker 1: it was all about what did they what did they teach?
Speaker 1: My one was a sociology profession professor and one was architecture. Um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and my my one project dolmanac. Sy, I did look
Speaker 1: it up, project Dolmanac. You did not paranormal to um my,
Speaker 1: So my great my grandfather, well here's all my my
Speaker 1: tribute about my family. My great grandfather on my mom's
Speaker 1: side was Joseph my Welch, who prosecuted McCarthy. So I
Speaker 1: came from a very like cool like American history story
Speaker 1: of a Republican who was really decent um and and
Speaker 1: not that they can exist now, but it was at
Speaker 1: a time when it was. He did some really amazing things.
Speaker 1: And then my my my dad's family was like the
Speaker 1: Democrats of vann Arbor. So there were these two families
Speaker 1: and they all they loved each other and they got along.
Speaker 1: They were completely opposite politically. Um, but my my dad's
Speaker 1: dad was blind. Uh. He lost his eyesight at like
Speaker 1: age thirty through something that now we could easily fix,
Speaker 1: and he still became a professor. He was a German Jew.
Speaker 1: He left during World War Two. He escaped because University
Speaker 1: of Michigan sponsored him to come over here. He was
Speaker 1: a really bright, brilliant guy who would would not have
Speaker 1: survived if he stayed in Berlin, so they smuggled him
Speaker 1: out and he became a professor and the head of
Speaker 1: the sociology department and wrote textbooks blind. So I come
Speaker 1: from very brilliant. I am luckily. I always say, I'm
Speaker 1: just dumb enough to be happier than a lot of
Speaker 1: people my family. I'm not as luckily, not as smart
Speaker 1: as all the really smart hard thinkers. But anyway, they
Speaker 1: that's my I thought it was always interesting that my
Speaker 1: dad became a disc jockey with a blind parent, and
Speaker 1: it was something that like he could relate to. How
Speaker 1: did I get on my family? Where did I go? Oh, Michigan.
Speaker 1: But that's great, Yeah, we're talking about it was a
Speaker 1: big turn. So so I was really into University of Michigan.
Speaker 1: But I didn't want to go to University Mission because
Speaker 1: my grandparents were there. And I didn't want to go
Speaker 1: to University of Illinois because it was too close to him.
Speaker 1: And I wanted to go to a Big ten school
Speaker 1: because I was really into football. I was a huge
Speaker 1: football fan. Oddly, Wisconsin sucked when I went to University Wisconsin.
Speaker 1: We were like the world. I hated the games. It
Speaker 1: was completely unpleasant. I didn't realize, but that was how
Speaker 1: that now really funny as my husband now, Bradley Whitford
Speaker 1: is Fromasonsin and his ex wife went to University Wisconsin.
Speaker 1: So I think he's also a Connecticut boy. Is he is? He?
Speaker 1: Bradley isn't Bradley Whitford Connecticut boy? I believe he is
Speaker 1: from where he's also, you know, it might just be
Speaker 1: his character in Western was, yes, but that's not that's
Speaker 1: not Can I ask you a question, has your has
Speaker 1: your husband ever done his impression of a throwing up
Speaker 1: cat for you? I actually, you know Bradley, okay, because
Speaker 1: it's one of the funniest things I've ever seen, because
Speaker 1: I was in a movie with his ex wife and
Speaker 1: he yeah, Jane played my mom and no, Jane played
Speaker 1: my mom. She's she's wonderful, and and he came and
Speaker 1: she and he did his impression of the throwing up cat,
Speaker 1: and it's one of the funniest things. I think. I
Speaker 1: wish he was here. You know why he's not here.
Speaker 1: He just too literally no joke, took the cat to
Speaker 1: the vet stop it because the cats throwing up. He
Speaker 1: does this thing. It's literally really really visually, he's like gross,
Speaker 1: it's just like backing up. He's like backing up as
Speaker 1: he's trying to do. It's it's a physicality. So do
Speaker 1: you so? Bradley also is a voice actor. That's so
Speaker 1: I will tell you here's what I want to say
Speaker 1: about the business that's so weird. First of all, yes,
Speaker 1: he does animation and he's wonderful, but he also is
Speaker 1: like one of the best, most iconic voices I've ever heard,
Speaker 1: and he drives him crazy because he never he's not
Speaker 1: invested in the way you need to, and he like
Speaker 1: never gets commercial voice over. And we watched John ham
Speaker 1: on like every damn commercial and I just want to say, like,
Speaker 1: somebody hired my husband, like if I had, if I
Speaker 1: had product the animation he gets. But like you know,
Speaker 1: he should be like the voice of a car, like
Speaker 1: he has this, he has reallything right. Fortunately, you know
Speaker 1: he was the bad guy in Revenge of the Nerds.
Speaker 1: Well that's that's when you're the bad guy, and Revenge
Speaker 1: of the Nerds too, it's over at that point. I'm
Speaker 1: friends with Ted McGinley. It was the same thing bad
Speaker 1: guy in Revenge of the Nerds. One is he a
Speaker 1: bad guy in Marvel? In that Marvel? What if? Is
Speaker 1: he a bad guy in that he's in Marvel's What if?
Speaker 1: My husband is Yeah, why do your husband Colonel Flynn?
Speaker 1: He's Colonel Flynn. He and I were in Paranormal three together,
Speaker 1: did you I think? I think with the Marvel thing,
Speaker 1: if I'm remembering correctly, we were having dinner with Patton
Speaker 1: Oswald and we had to ask Patton what the canon
Speaker 1: was of the Marvel story. For yeah, we knew everything
Speaker 1: because we didn't know. And by the way, so that
Speaker 1: man works so much that like, well, we'll get invited
Speaker 1: this is no joke and that sounds terrible, but he'll
Speaker 1: get invited to like a premiere and we can't remember
Speaker 1: what movie it is that that happened more than once
Speaker 1: where we're like, wait, which one for what? It's like
Speaker 1: that sounds that's how much she's doing. Great if you yeah,
Speaker 1: if you're If you're not an actor, it's great. If
Speaker 1: you're an actor, you want to like punch him in
Speaker 1: the face. Like we're not going on discuss all right,
Speaker 1: so wait, let me ask you a question. Let me
Speaker 1: ask you a question other than reading the voiceover copy
Speaker 1: in making up the ads in your bathroom growing up?
Speaker 1: Did you grow up an animation fan? Did you like
Speaker 1: cartoons and watch cartoons when you were Absolutely? But I
Speaker 1: wouldn't say, like, I mean, it wasn't anything I ever
Speaker 1: sort of envisioned myself doing. It wasn't really until I
Speaker 1: got into voiceover. There were these two camps, right, It
Speaker 1: was always like are you commercial animation? And I was like, well,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm commercial for sure, right, But then I would
Speaker 1: like it was always like almost on camera work was
Speaker 1: that like dream animation became that where it's like, well,
Speaker 1: I want to do the thing where you actually like
Speaker 1: play a part, you know, and you actually get to
Speaker 1: be creative. But I mean, I loved I grew up
Speaker 1: on you know, Bugs Bunny. I grew up on Saturday
Speaker 1: morning cartoons. I mean, I'm so old that there were
Speaker 1: only Saturday morning cartoons. So I didn't have like the
Speaker 1: breath that people have now, like now it's like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, it's unbelievable what's out there. But it wasn't. No.
Speaker 1: I mean. The funny thing was, as I had the
Speaker 1: fantasy of being a commercial voice over, my dad's friend
Speaker 1: quit being a disc jockey because he became the voice
Speaker 1: of Heinz Ketchup. And I found out money he made
Speaker 1: doing Ketchup, and I was like, that's the job I want.
Speaker 1: And even still to this day, there's something about the
Speaker 1: bang for your buck on commercial voice over that is
Speaker 1: unparalleled in any other area. It's like a ridiculous the
Speaker 1: less work you do, the less you say. We used
Speaker 1: always say, the less words, the more money you're gonna make,
Speaker 1: Like you know, it was crazy and and and I
Speaker 1: got these. I finally got into animation, and I was like, like,
Speaker 1: The Crues is really my first if I'm if I'm
Speaker 1: not mistaken, like my first like ongoing series regular voiceover
Speaker 1: animation job. I mean I've done like guest stars, I've
Speaker 1: done like recurrings, but it was the first time I
Speaker 1: really got to play a character for a series. And
Speaker 1: it has been. I mean, I've said it like the
Speaker 1: funnest job of all jobs that I've ever had. Easy,
Speaker 1: isn't it ridiculous? Can't be, but it can't be like
Speaker 1: the other jobs. It does it and now is a shock.
Speaker 1: Like I thought, well, if you had an animated series.
Speaker 1: I remember when I booked like the Commen Brothers movie,
Speaker 1: um a serious man, and my friends were like, well,
Speaker 1: you don't have to worry about money anymore. I was like,
Speaker 1: I think I made like like there's a per second
Speaker 1: of something that you're going to make a lot of money.
Speaker 1: And then and I always thought, well, if I had
Speaker 1: a series regular on an anime and show, But it
Speaker 1: doesn't work like that, like I mean, unless you're doing
Speaker 1: the Simpsons and you're in like your sep you know,
Speaker 1: yeah seven try seven. Yeah, it's yeah, that's and people
Speaker 1: don't also realize there's different stages of even animation, so
Speaker 1: like that you get the the primetime animation is much
Speaker 1: different than daytime animation, which is much different than eleven
Speaker 1: Men and animation which is much different. So this is
Speaker 1: a perfect time, Amy to let you in on what
Speaker 1: we're doing as well, and you can tell everybody out
Speaker 1: there how important being the awesome uh you know, voice
Speaker 1: of different products is and doing commercial reads. Because we
Speaker 1: have announced here at I Hear Voices that um, we
Speaker 1: are doing the super awesome contest to become the next
Speaker 1: big voice actor and literally the title and we are
Speaker 1: will be launching in the next month or two, but
Speaker 1: we are allowed to promote it right now, at least
Speaker 1: parts of it. And the first the first prize that
Speaker 1: we got to announce to people is the winner wins
Speaker 1: a one year contract with a voiceover Agence, So one
Speaker 1: amongst amongst other things. Oh, there's amazing things coming up
Speaker 1: that we can announce. But one of the things we
Speaker 1: talked about is everybody thinks that we're just gonna have
Speaker 1: you become the contestants are just gonna have to come
Speaker 1: and do a whole bunch of funny voices and what
Speaker 1: we're trying to explain to people is no, we we're
Speaker 1: looking for somebody who's well rounded. So there might be
Speaker 1: a level or two of our contest. That's just so
Speaker 1: it's And now, I mean, can you tell us, as
Speaker 1: you're approaching how different is it to approach a group
Speaker 1: of ads you're going to read as opposed to a
Speaker 1: character that you're going to develop for animation. I think
Speaker 1: when I'm doing AD reads, I'm so much more focused
Speaker 1: on who I'm talking to, like as opposed to like
Speaker 1: in a in an animated series. I'm more like I'm
Speaker 1: in my character, I'm in dialogue. I'm but like AD
Speaker 1: is like intention So who who is my audience? And
Speaker 1: what am I what? What? What is the main message
Speaker 1: of what I'm trying to say here? And I would say,
Speaker 1: like the most successful ad campaign that I was a
Speaker 1: part of was definitely Simbalta, which was one of the
Speaker 1: early days of antidepressants, and it was this whole new
Speaker 1: genre of commercial where we were trying to talk to
Speaker 1: people who had like mental health issues and to and
Speaker 1: I'm trying to communicate in a compassionate and an empathetic
Speaker 1: way and get into the state and you can't judge.
Speaker 1: I mean I had a friend who tried to do
Speaker 1: commercial voice already just couldn't do it because he judged
Speaker 1: it left and right. Like you have to just go
Speaker 1: in and know, like, yes, it's an ad for something,
Speaker 1: but it needs to be treated and performed in a
Speaker 1: way that you're really you're communicating something to somebody for
Speaker 1: a purpose, whether to heal them, to inspire them, to
Speaker 1: help them. But it's very other directed as opposed to
Speaker 1: like and I think one of the big mistakes people
Speaker 1: make is they like think about how does this how
Speaker 1: does my voice sound? Whereas actually an animation that's kind
Speaker 1: of more important a lot, like especially when I'm playing,
Speaker 1: like we always are dropping it like drop it, drop it,
Speaker 1: because I like, I need to stay in a certain
Speaker 1: zone to not sound like hope, you know, like I
Speaker 1: need to to differentiate myself. I make sure asked, Yeah,
Speaker 1: But when it's me in the spot, I mean, yes,
Speaker 1: my voice quality matters, but it's the intention behind it
Speaker 1: that's going to create the quality of the voice. So
Speaker 1: I would treat it like uh much more a monologue
Speaker 1: in a scene and think about who is that other
Speaker 1: person in the scene with you? Is it your best friend.
Speaker 1: Is it a it? Is it? You know? I mean
Speaker 1: I think it's going to really influence is it your father?
Speaker 1: Is it? It influences the way that you interpret the copy.
Speaker 1: And I also think there's in copy if you really
Speaker 1: take your time reading it, there's so many clues to
Speaker 1: what's important to the copywriter and to the client that
Speaker 1: you can tap into, Like they have very carefully constructed
Speaker 1: the language, and so try to find the clues of
Speaker 1: like what is the main message of this? You know
Speaker 1: what am I what is the most important thing to this?
Speaker 1: And um, yeah, it can be fun. It's like a puzzle,
Speaker 1: you know, I think it it people. The other thing
Speaker 1: I'm sure you guys get this all the time is
Speaker 1: when you do voice over, everyone thinks like, oh, I
Speaker 1: have a good voice, I could do voice over, And
Speaker 1: it really is not about that. Yes, that's a wonderful thing,
Speaker 1: but there's a lot of people with good voices. That's
Speaker 1: not what's causing someone to be a good voiceover person.
Speaker 1: It's like that you know how to perform in a
Speaker 1: in a medium that's a small microphone, right, so you're
Speaker 1: not using your body as much. I mean, it's funny.
Speaker 1: I always talk with my arms. But like, I to
Speaker 1: be very careful when I do animation because I start
Speaker 1: to jump or you know, and they're like, you have
Speaker 1: to stay on the mic, you know, like you know,
Speaker 1: all right, Yeah, I'm like, it's yeah exactly, So you
Speaker 1: have to. You know, there's a skill set to being
Speaker 1: able to perform in a small space like that and
Speaker 1: making it you know, real and intimate. So but yeah,
Speaker 1: ad copy has just as much potential I think for
Speaker 1: performance as animation is just a different focus. That's great advice. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And and I you know, we keep trying to to
Speaker 1: reiterate everybody, it's not voiceover. You're a voiceover actor. You
Speaker 1: can't forget to reacting part, which is the most important
Speaker 1: part of anything you're doing. You are an actor. I
Speaker 1: say it's my husband all the time because when he
Speaker 1: I would help him with auditions sometimes and you know,
Speaker 1: it's like he's thinking about how his voice sounds because
Speaker 1: that's because he thinks I'm doing voice over now, Like no, no, no,
Speaker 1: do the same thing you're doing a camera. It's just
Speaker 1: you need to do it in this amount of space.
Speaker 1: But you're gonna do the same You're gonna use that
Speaker 1: same part of your brain. You know, Um, I don't
Speaker 1: think about it because he was also yeah, well yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: So he's so apparently evil and incompetent at the root
Speaker 1: of thing. That's what I found when pretty much. I
Speaker 1: wonder if your dad knew Steve Downs We had him on.
Speaker 1: Remember Steve was a disk job. Steve totally rings a bell.
Speaker 1: So I have he does he have the voice of
Speaker 1: of Halo? Oh wow, Oh, I'm sure they do, and
Speaker 1: he was I'm sure they do. The names. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: Now I have a question, and I never really have
Speaker 1: asked this now when we know that animation folks like
Speaker 1: all sort of like are very the camaraderie is very
Speaker 1: is very vibrant. But what about commercial? Yeah, you absolutely,
Speaker 1: I'm still really close to I have really good commercial
Speaker 1: voiceover friends in Chicago, and I have really good voice
Speaker 1: over commercial friends in New York. I don't have him
Speaker 1: as much in l A because we don't although he
Speaker 1: used to when we would go to the agency to read.
Speaker 1: I feel like everything has changed. Oh, I those are
Speaker 1: some of my best friends in the world. Was I
Speaker 1: have like a total crew in New York because you're
Speaker 1: going especially when you're all in the same you know
Speaker 1: you're all in the same category. And it's so different
Speaker 1: than on camera because I feel like you're on camera,
Speaker 1: there's such a bigger level of competition. It's such a
Speaker 1: weirder energy, like people don't you're also way more nervous,
Speaker 1: Like nobody's talking to each other. It's totally neronic, whereas voiceover,
Speaker 1: you read your script, you're ready to go and you
Speaker 1: just get to chat and everybody is just like super cool.
Speaker 1: Most people also weren't starving or terrified like there was.
Speaker 1: It was usually like people who were lucky enough and
Speaker 1: felt lucky enough, and so we would just like run
Speaker 1: around New York. I mean some of my favorite memories
Speaker 1: of my life is running around Chicago, New York to
Speaker 1: those voiceover auditions during the day and like seeing my
Speaker 1: friends getting a cup of coffee and yeah, very much
Speaker 1: so in UM commercial because you're just all going out
Speaker 1: for the same thing. And I feel so terrible with
Speaker 1: the way it is now. I don't think any of
Speaker 1: us see each other anymore, and I think it's a
Speaker 1: huge it's totally different. Is it just not going to
Speaker 1: go back? Is it never gonna go back? Or like
Speaker 1: what do we think? Well, it's one of those things
Speaker 1: where you you know, you get a lot of producers
Speaker 1: that it's kind of I call it the reality show vibe,
Speaker 1: where it's you know, you get a bunch of people
Speaker 1: that get together and they go, hey, we can take
Speaker 1: eight people and throw them in a house and not
Speaker 1: have to pay them as actors, not have to pay writers,
Speaker 1: not have to pay produce. Why don't we just do that?
Speaker 1: It's cheaper? And so you get that with voiceover now
Speaker 1: where it's like, hey, everybody does zoom, everybody has a microphone.
Speaker 1: Why would we rent the space? Why would we do this?
Speaker 1: Why would we do that? So you hope it will
Speaker 1: go back and and I think it's going to come
Speaker 1: down frankly to some actors starting to insist, which I
Speaker 1: think will be great. But until then, I think this
Speaker 1: is going to be the norm for a little while. Okay,
Speaker 1: so a couple more questions because I thought this was
Speaker 1: pretty cool. What is Julia Roberts, Oh, yes, we have
Speaker 1: to go there. I'm just curious if you could just
Speaker 1: very quickly do it, Julia Robert. If you can't, I
Speaker 1: understand it, and I'll wait to see your Julia Roberts
Speaker 1: impression in Paranormal three priminal activity but searching to searching, searching.
Speaker 1: I got to work with her this year, and everybody
Speaker 1: I was on gasolet. I played her best friend from
Speaker 1: her childhood, and everyone's like, are you gonna tell what
Speaker 1: are you gonna tell? Are you gonna tell her? Did
Speaker 1: you did? But she had no idea? She's like what
Speaker 1: are you talking about? And I was like, well, like
Speaker 1: when I even had to go back to my agent
Speaker 1: and go like it's legal that I do that, right,
Speaker 1: because they're like absolutely. I mean so basically if people
Speaker 1: don't know if you're a massive movie star, like you're
Speaker 1: so busy that if they have one line change, they're
Speaker 1: going to find a voice double to do it, like
Speaker 1: or and I've done like a trailer. I did a
Speaker 1: trail her for her that was like almost all me.
Speaker 1: She has no idea, UM, and I did like I
Speaker 1: don't know if I got used in the final, but
Speaker 1: I get like day residuals on like snow White or
Speaker 1: some anyway, she has no idea. But I learned that
Speaker 1: she had no idea, So I learned that I could do. UM.
Speaker 1: I learned that I could do for Julia Roberts because
Speaker 1: she was the voice of America Online. Okay, years ago,
Speaker 1: I was like, America, Why she America, that's my ride
Speaker 1: or die. By the way, I'm still not yes, I
Speaker 1: am there, I will be Yeah, my mom, the three
Speaker 1: of you. So there were all these commercials running. She'd
Speaker 1: had twins, and so she started doing voice over and
Speaker 1: my dad called me and said, congrats, I love the
Speaker 1: new America A O L spots and I went, I'm
Speaker 1: not the voice of America Online. And then I was like,
Speaker 1: I gotta find out who the voices. And when I
Speaker 1: found out it was Julia Roberts, I was like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, I guess I sound exactly like Julia Roberts
Speaker 1: if my dad thought that was my campaign. So I
Speaker 1: told when I moved to l A, I told my
Speaker 1: agents that I must sound exactly like her because my
Speaker 1: dad thought this. So when they would have doubles casting,
Speaker 1: I auditioned for the first one and then once they
Speaker 1: kind of know you can do it, you start to
Speaker 1: get used. So I did it. I don't It wasn't
Speaker 1: like a ton but I'd say maybe four times and
Speaker 1: then the last what I do is I just go
Speaker 1: it's not very different. By the way, it's a little
Speaker 1: more it's just a little more southern. So it's a
Speaker 1: little like I always do like them. What does she say, Like,
Speaker 1: I'm just a girl standing in front of a boy
Speaker 1: asking him to love her. Like, so it's a little
Speaker 1: more dry and it's it's a little more southern, but
Speaker 1: it's hardly different, right, It's just like, but I when
Speaker 1: I went to the trailer and I was sitting next
Speaker 1: to my ex husband at the time, and I was like,
Speaker 1: you're practically married to Julia Roberts because that's like that's
Speaker 1: me and I couldn't believe it. Um. But anyway, she
Speaker 1: didn't know, and I was like, okay, zip it. She's like,
Speaker 1: what do you do? Yeah? I was like, never mind,
Speaker 1: I don't want to talking about that's like I need
Speaker 1: to secure it. And I didn't tell her, like, oh,
Speaker 1: I guess I won't tell you that I did an
Speaker 1: impersonation of you on James Cordon, so we'll just like
Speaker 1: skip that. She's like, are you talking about are you
Speaker 1: talking about scratch or something? And I was like, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I'm sure it was scratch. I'm sure it was Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's it. Um Okay. So one one important last question
Speaker 1: that we love to ask people you can be any
Speaker 1: animated character you want the voice of whoever old knew,
Speaker 1: whatever you want to be, who do you play? You
Speaker 1: know what's so weird as Catwoman's coming to mind, which
Speaker 1: is very odd to me. That as like, but I
Speaker 1: guess I think that would be really fun to be
Speaker 1: like or something like, to be like really sexy and
Speaker 1: scary and weird sounds fun to be amazing, But that
Speaker 1: would be awesome in my other life because I'm more
Speaker 1: so so much the mom. Maybe that's what it is
Speaker 1: to like, you know, I want to be like I
Speaker 1: want to wear I wear the cats suit. I want
Speaker 1: to be like, Yeah, I get that, I feel that.
Speaker 1: And finally, what do you think we should put behind
Speaker 1: Christie in the green screen? Yeah? I was going to ask,
Speaker 1: what is that? What is it like? What did your
Speaker 1: side later? Or No, I exactly exactly screen. By the way,
Speaker 1: I started to see a new therapist and I was like,
Speaker 1: his office is really nice because it's by zoom, and
Speaker 1: I realized it was one of those backdrops and the
Speaker 1: kind of freaked me out, like if I'm not even
Speaker 1: allowed I can trust you? Yeah, how can I trust you?
Speaker 1: I trust you? He's like in prison? He could be anywhere.
Speaker 1: He's a solitary confinement on Zoom. Seriously, just call me
Speaker 1: Dr three nice h What should we put behind her?
Speaker 1: Um uh, trying to think of like like you know
Speaker 1: we're gonna do I'll just wait like a Sims character.
Speaker 1: We are just going to put on a giant poster
Speaker 1: for paranormal activity too. That's what it's going to be.
Speaker 1: Right behind Christie. I think I did. I think Amy
Speaker 1: Landecker's greatest performance. I did audition for that. I don't
Speaker 1: think I just like randomly pulled that out of my butt.
Speaker 1: I do think I have Yeah, it happened or just
Speaker 1: put would Julie, Robert's behind you and Robert's back there.
Speaker 1: That is awesome, man, you are so talented. You're so
Speaker 1: glad it was really for joining us, really fun. When
Speaker 1: the when the contest kicks off and we get to
Speaker 1: ad read stuff we'd love to have. I would love
Speaker 1: to if you can. We know you're super really not
Speaker 1: He's like, well, one of the things we'd like to
Speaker 1: have people do is when they get farther along in
Speaker 1: the contest, for you know, a week or so, they're
Speaker 1: going to get it'll be you're gonna come stay with
Speaker 1: me or something A mentor A mentor. Yes, they're going
Speaker 1: to crash on your couch'd they're going to wake up
Speaker 1: with Bradley Whitford and you standing over them, going, he's
Speaker 1: gonna be a cat. He's gonna be a cat throwing up.
Speaker 1: That's how he's gonna he'll He'll teach him that and
Speaker 1: I'll do Julia Roberts impersonations. The person will be like,
Speaker 1: love to do something like that. That sounds like that's awesome. Well,
Speaker 1: thank you so much. Okay, thank you for joining us.
Speaker 1: Wait before you go really quick, where can people find you? Um?
Speaker 1: I am on Instagram at any Land Hecker. I really
Speaker 1: hate it, but that is the only place seems you
Speaker 1: need to like see me performer to bother me. Anything
Speaker 1: you got stuff you want to put you on to
Speaker 1: press or I'm I just start your on your season two.
Speaker 1: So that's and I'm on a movie that I really love.
Speaker 1: I'm not any massive part of it, but I promoted
Speaker 1: all the time because I really love it, which is
Speaker 1: I Love My Dad with Patton Oswalt. That's on demand
Speaker 1: now that just one south By this year released theatrically
Speaker 1: so you can get it on pay per view, and
Speaker 1: it's a really great movie, a true story about this
Speaker 1: kid's dad cat fished him because he wasn't talking to
Speaker 1: him anymore, and he pretended he was a young woman
Speaker 1: and he kind of fell in love with his dad.
Speaker 1: Really weird, really creepy, really cringe um smart. So yeah,
Speaker 1: that's it. Oh, that's great, great movie. It's really good
Speaker 1: and Pat unbelievable in it. I mean, he's he's really good.
Speaker 1: It's also very moving, like it's kind of it's very
Speaker 1: cringe e. I have to prepare anyone, like, if you're
Speaker 1: not in a cringe comedy, don't watch it because you're
Speaker 1: not actually like, but if you like a good cringe,
Speaker 1: this is like top notch cringe. Everybody loves it. They
Speaker 1: try to say they don't, and yet they ye. And
Speaker 1: now before you go, as Julia Roberts, can you say,
Speaker 1: please join the super awesome contest to become the next
Speaker 1: voice actor. You actually don't have to get you, she
Speaker 1: could say, I hear voices. I want to try the
Speaker 1: long line. Okay, you gotta feed it to do you
Speaker 1: know it? I know, I'm sure I don't. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do my version. I'm going to improve it okay a
Speaker 1: super awesome please no, please join this super awesome contest
Speaker 1: to be the world's next most famous fabulous. Julia Roberts
Speaker 1: impersonating voice over actor, Oh you're the best. Thank you
Speaker 1: so all right, bye, thank you bye, Amy, thank you. Wow.
Speaker 1: I don't even know what to say. First of all,
Speaker 1: can we talk very briefly about the amazing advice she
Speaker 1: just gave voice over actors about reading ads, About how
Speaker 1: important that is, I mean, honestly huge. I as a
Speaker 1: female voice, a person that doesn't have a thousand voices
Speaker 1: and isn't really plugged into the game. If I were
Speaker 1: to go back in, I would think that I would
Speaker 1: probably book commercial work before I book my next like animation,
Speaker 1: like like regular series, because I've just not been in
Speaker 1: it for a while. But what she's saying is really
Speaker 1: sound because it is purely intention and um, I do
Speaker 1: think you can make a living in many different ways.
Speaker 1: There's not just one way to make a living with
Speaker 1: you think about I mean, just her advice. I it's like,
Speaker 1: it's not about thinking about you, It's about thinking about
Speaker 1: who you're talking to and who that's receiving the monologue.
Speaker 1: Taking acting monologue instead of a commercial and the person
Speaker 1: that's actually received that's totally brilliant advice, Like, regardless of
Speaker 1: what the words say, that is a huge takeaway from her.
Speaker 1: And you know, I think we could do this will
Speaker 1: where we do the takeaways from these guests just so
Speaker 1: that the people go back and listen to these and
Speaker 1: sort of like take these nuggets of information with them,
Speaker 1: you know, for our contest or whatever it is. But honestly, she's, she's, she's.
Speaker 1: That was really fun. Well, thanks everybody for hanging out
Speaker 1: with us yet again, and don't forget, we will be
Speaker 1: announcing more about the super awesome contest to become the
Speaker 1: next big voice actor. Oh I'm getting better at saying that.
Speaker 1: I'm also assuming that's that's the title. We'll get there, Christie,
Speaker 1: We'll get there. But there will be much more information
Speaker 1: coming out about it because our amazing friends at I
Speaker 1: Heart have made this happen. So uh, there's some incredible,
Speaker 1: incredible announcements coming up. I mean truly incredible stuff. We
Speaker 1: are just getting all of our ducks in a row,
Speaker 1: as it were, But keep tuning in every week to
Speaker 1: learn more about it. You can also hit us up
Speaker 1: at the I hear Voices TikTok and I Hear Voices
Speaker 1: on Instagram and anywhere else that you might need it.
Speaker 1: And again, if yeah, go ahead anywhere else anywhere where
Speaker 1: I am not so I won't know what you're saying,
Speaker 1: but please please try to keep it nice because Christie
Speaker 1: looks at this stuff. Uh, but enjoy yourselves out there
Speaker 1: and don't forget. If you think you have what it
Speaker 1: takes to step up to the microphone, well put your
Speaker 1: voices where your mouth is. Thanks everybody, by I Hear
Speaker 1: Voices as hosted by Wilfred l and Christy Carlson Romano.
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Speaker 1: Ernst Chang. Our executive in charge of production is Danielle Romo,
Speaker 1: Our producer is Lorraine Vera Wez, and our editor slash
Speaker 1: engineer is Brian Burton. And that was my announcer voice.
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