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Animation World has a fantastic two-part interview with Andrea Romano. Andrea had been, and still is, the leading force in how DC Comics characters sound. She was the voice director on Batman the Animated Series, Superman the Animated Series, Teen Titans, and the Justice League. She has also directed the voices on the latest batch of DVD features. It’s always her name that comes immediately before the list of actors.
Andrea was interviewed by Nancy Cartwright (the voice of Bart Simpson). In the interview she talks about working as first an actor’s agent and then as an employee of Hanna-Barbara. From Part One:
I used to go to some recording sessions at HB because there is no bigger fan of cartoons than I am — a huge fan since I was child and HB’s were my favorites. Every once in a while when one of my clients would be working I would ask can I come sit in on the session and Ginny McSwain, who was the casting director at the time said sure. I met the great Gordon Hunt and I watched some of the recording sessions.
In Part Two she talks about the establishment of the TV animation studios and how she works with actors.
I love working with voice over actors because they are not being judged by how they look, it doesn’t matter if they are tall enough, blonde enough, young enough, pretty enough or thin enough. Either they can do the voice or they can’t do the voice. So their ego’s different than the on-camera actor ego. They’re not as neurotic, they’re not as possessive. They are more generous that way. I love actors, period. I love the creative input that they have and that’s the thing about directing too. You prep a script, like what I talked about and you hear it in your head and how the script is going to run. But I have to be open-minded when I get into the recording studio because actors have ideas and you want to hear what they have. That’s why you hire an actor instead of a technician to work for you.
[Via Voice Chasers]
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