Did you have to record new dialogue for the new season? These Bad Batch episodes started production a decade ago. I see it and it just comes out.' At least, that's how it feels to me. It's like being a piano player and you're asked like, 'Well, how do you play a jazz tune and then a Mozart and then Cole Porter and then a nursery rhyme? How do you play those songs one after the other?' And the answer is, 'Well first of all, I have the facility and second of all, I can just see it. They feel like different people to me, and I can just switch back and forth. I may even shorten that down into a shorthand of a little symbol next to the name if I need to, but generally speaking, it's like I can see them. And then I map that out with Dave Filoni or whoever is in the booth so that we have a tone of authority or of age or of swagger or whatever you want to pin on that clone.īut it probably comes down to maybe an adjective or two, is how I conceive of it. The script will usually lean a character one way or another. They're even more different once you add the Bad Batch in there. How do you keep all the different clones straight? Because they all sound similar but they're not exactly the same. there's a little boy in me that loved Star Wars since I was a kid. It's just great, and it's a bonus that it's creatively challenging. It's such a great thrill to be involved at this level with this army of artists and technicians who are just so brilliantly talented, and to be able to collaboratively make this level of entertainment, it's really gratifying. I've been out here almost 25 years, in Los Angeles, and been performing since I was nine, off and on at least, and there's just nothing like it. So those two aspects of it make it a unique project, a unique thrill in my career. I can perform it well without hurting myself. That prepped me for coming out here and being able to do the extreme stuff, like monster roars or vampire screeches or even a mouse or an elephant or whatever. I could really use my voice a lot, while I lived in Orlando, with various kinds of performing, but doing it in a way that didn't hurt my voice. It also helped that I had a good singing teacher for a couple of years, a fellow named Manny Lou Hahn in Orlando, who's no longer with us, who was also a good part of my vocal training. So, I started building up a Rolodex of sounds that were expressive and that didn't damage my voice. But for me, I didn't care because I just liked doing that kind of stuff. It doesn't serve an actor's vanity to be inhaling a scream while you're driving around in a car. A lot of trained actors are not going to be walking around doing the stuff that I do with my voice. And I like doing it, so why don't I? I'm not inhibited. So, once I got out to L.A., I started just trying lots of different performing, and then it became clear to me that they like creatures and monsters. It all mashed together into this goulash that tasted like voice acting, and that really enabled me to be able to do creatures and monsters. So, you mush those things together, in addition to a lot of performing of musicals and Shakespeare and theme park shows and singing telegrams and everything. I think that's just how I got attention and what people responded to. My own personal version of improv tended to be weird, outrageous, over-the-line characterizations and weird vocalizations. I also like live performing, and in particular improv. But I didn't really have enough of a mathematical mind to follow into something like entomology or medical science or anything like that, and then you add to that that I really like monster movies and I like video games.

I loved science documentaries and I loved animals. Biology classes, some of those were some of my favorite classes in college that I took. The animal and creature stuff rests on a bed of a number of things that I have inside my inner Rolodex of inspiration and abilities. I just dabbled in stuff I liked.Īs a voice actor, you're known for playing animals and creatures in addition to more human characters. I mean, I just liked a whole eclectic mess of things that I just splashed around in for always. I did a lot of improv and some stand-up and I liked popular culture and monsters and video games and movies and reading and science fiction and music.

Perry the platypus voice actor