In a black-and-white world, back in the ’50s, were voices from another era.
BILLY WESTThe characters are all, believe it or not, rooted in a reality of some sort.
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Don’t spend your life thinking about what somebody did or if they failed at this or if they did great at that or they got caught with a monkey, in a bathtub, having sex.
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But the throat just kind of falls into line once you realize in your head what it is. You got to remember the musicality of a character you’re going to do.
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Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable.
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Somebody’s real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.
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All actors used to sound different. Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable. They were like men’s voices, but they weren’t Everyman, it was them.
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Tom Kenny is a master of changing a pubic hair this way or that way, and sounding like a totally different character.
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You should at one point become the hero of your own world.
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Futurama is a sonic world, and everyone’s attention is focused on that sound and that little cartoon image. You can change it.
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I did speak out about celebrities because I thought it was appalling. I thought that if the cartoon became popular, it was only going to last as long as the career of the people who are in it.
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Somebody’s real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.
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It’s very hard to take a character out of nothing, and put a hook on it, especially because it’s only sonic.
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The characters are all, believe it or not, rooted in a reality of some sort.
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John Kricfalusi is very talented; he used to really piss me off. But I did good work, you know? The Ren & Stimpy show without me was totally unsuccessful.
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To me, it all comes down to things being character-driven. It’s hard for me to look beyond that. CG and all this cool stuff – so be it. But to me, it pretty much begins and ends with character-driven plots rather than technologically-driven plots.
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The only thing I have to say to people – try being the hero of your own world one day.
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