April 20, 2023 • 27 mins
While the contest continues Will and Christie seize the moment to chat with someone that has already made it big in the voice acting world! Nichole Sakura sits with them to discuss anime…along with details about her new role in the film Suzume! Plus, listen as Will geeks out about another role she landed! All those details and a whole lot more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi, Christy, Hi Will, How are you.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
I'm good? How are you?
Speaker 3 (00:04):
I'm excited because we have a nice little like episode
here that we're doing amongst our contest Rigamarole.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Yeah, like a whole Like you know, we it was
one of those things we're in the middle of the contest.
We know we're in the middle of the contest, but
this guest popped up that was so cool that we
had the opportunity to interview that. We're like, you know what,
we need to take just a quick breath from the
contest just so we can interview this person. I'm a
big fan. Are you a big fan?
Speaker 1 (00:29):
I'm a huge fan.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
And also I think there's just so much that we
can chat with her about in terms of like how
she's approaching her voice career, because she's such an amazing
on camera actress. And it's funny because as I've watched her,
I'll mention this to her.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
As I've watched her, I've always like she is the
best voice for voiceovers.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
And now it's working, and I know, I know, I know,
that's really cool. So who is joining us today, Christy?
Speaker 1 (00:54):
We have Nicole Sakura.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Hello, Nicole, Hi, Thank you so much for joining us.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Yeah, a pleasure to be here.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
We know you're super busy, so it was really nice
that we were able to chat with you for a
little bit.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
Of course. Yeah, I'm yeah, happy to be here.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
So I'm a huge fan obviously, but Cloud nine is
like our comfort food. Superstore is our comfort Bacon. Like
it's not the same, they're different titles, but I literally
watch it, I could say a couple times a week.
It's like a rotation of Superstore, parks and rec and
the office. So it's like you and I've always I've
(01:35):
always said to my husband too, I was like, she
is the best voice. Love Obviously, I love your character
and I love your acting, but you have the best voice.
And so sometimes I feel like as folks with voice
acting backgrounds, they're like, oh, she could have a career
and voice acting and all of the hold you do.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
So we're excited to chat with you about Suzume.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
Yeah, it's funny that you say that always wanted to
do voiceover stuff, and I I, yeah, I thought, oh,
I feel like I have a voice.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
But we all think we do, right, Yeah, everyone I said,
not it.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
At first I hated my how my voice sounded like
I remember the first time hearing it and being like, oh, like,
I feel like everyone has that experience.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
No, no, you do you get that because you go, no, wait,
that's not me. That's that's not how I sound, because
I sound so different in my head. It can't that
can't be.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Actually, yeah, yeah, yeah I could. I could see that.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
I can understand that because I think also too, we're
just so critical of ourselves as actors. Like some people
don't even want to watch themselves on you know, playback
or even in the movies that they make.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
But the actors. Actors aren't insecure people. What are you
talking about. We're the most secure people on the planet.
I have a quick question because you said that you've
you thought you always wanted to do this, It's something
you wanted to jump into. So then what did you
grow up watching it was like your animation jam when
you were a kid.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
Oh, well, my mom is Japanese, so I would go
to Japan every summer, and yeah, I'd see all the
Miyazaki films like in theaters and I yeah, I remember
one summer I watched like total every single of the
time I was there at my aunt's house, So yeah, definitely.
And I mean also, like, you know, grew up on
(03:24):
American cartoons as well. But it's like any part of
this business, though, it takes time to like break into.
And even though I had this on camera career, I
was like, wow, I got these voiceover jobs. Not easy
to come by. Yeah, and this was like such a
(03:44):
just total out of the blue. You know, they want
you for this film, and I was, you know, I
already knew who Makato Shinkai was, so it was a
very easy yes obviously, but yeah, so lucky.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
So what was your audition process? Like I knew your
voice from Superstar from an audition.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
I didn't have to audition for it.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
I don't know that how they Yeah, And then I
met at the premiere and he was like, yeah, I
really liked your.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Voice, which makes sense.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
But I thought, oh, maybe they asked me to do
it because I'm half Japanese and I understand Japanese and
so like in the booth, you know, watching the Japanese
version translating it'll be I don't know. I just didn't
think it was as simple as like I really loved
your voice, and yeah, it was such a nice, nice compliment.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Well, so Will and I we are doing a contest
as well, right, And so much of these things are
just you're born with some of it, and I think
that you can teach a lot, you can teach most,
but it helps so much when you have this like
sort of almost like magic sensibility about how you pitch
(04:54):
your voice. And I don't know if it was just
natural or if maybe you picked up on the dynamic,
the dynamicness of I feel like the Japanese culture has
like when women pitch it their voices, there's you generally
very high and very feminine and very dainty. So I
am curious, like, what were your first sort of introductions
(05:17):
into just your dynamic vocal range.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
Yeah, it's funny you asked that.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
I feel like I'm still kind of learning about that,
and it's true with Japanese. Yeah, like I it goes
a little bit further up in my head or whatever.
But I honestly don't know how much like vocal awareness.
I'm a horrible singer. Like I feel like I'm like
I don't have that much control over my voice. Yeah,
(05:47):
But like for Cheyenne, for instance, I think I like
the pilot episode is I'm a little bit more in
my own register. And then something about that character she
just felt so young, and you know, she's high school.
I was already mid twenties, and something about that role
just felt very like it felt natural, It felt necessary
(06:08):
almost for me to pitch it up, like I couldn't
say some of the dialogue without you know, kind of
like putting it a little bit more in this area,
because like some of it sounded so ridiculous, like it
just wouldn't.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Sound She's not a grounded.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
Character, so I couldn't, you know, be in my own register.
But yeah, I'm still like playing around with that. And
even now, you know, auditioning even for on camera stuff
with roles that are like a little bit more dramatic
or grounded or like, you know, like not not comedic.
(06:43):
I'm still trying to figure out like how to get
in that lower register like sound more like my own age.
Even I you know, I feel like I don't sound
like a fully grown adult.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Do you have any But that is such a bonus
in the voice over world to be able to still
do young voices when you're older. I mean that makes
Tara strong and Tara strong, you know, is that you
get to kind of go off and be somebody six seven,
eight years old. But there's also something So it's funny
that you say you don't sing, because I don't sing either,
and I know a lot of times that the really
good voice over actors also have great vocal range when
(07:19):
it comes to singing, which I don't at all. But
there's something very melodic about the Japanese language that is
almost like listening to a song. So there's something kind
of in that, just as you were speaking before, there's
something very kind of melodic about that. So I wonder
if that translates into almost like singing when it comes
(07:41):
to dialogue, because it's yeah, I can't sing either, so
it is a very strange thing. And I only know
how to say two things in Japanese. When I learned
when I was my brother lived there. I was a smoker,
so I learned how to say hai isaa only guys,
you must is that a astray?
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Okay? It's maybe I just don't know that word, yeah, okay.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
And then I learned how to say McDonald's wadesca, so
that was it. Where's there are McDonald's? And can I
have an ashtray? Was all I learned the entire time,
and so.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Yeah, making Americans prim office.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
At least I learned those two I tried. Before we
get into uh Susume, which is just the world of animation.
There is just one of the most beautiful things ever.
(08:40):
I want to talk a little bit about your Western
animation stuff because you also joined kind of an exclusive
club that not everybody gets to be in, which is
you've done something for Star Wars.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Oh yeah, I know that is pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Yeah, the most voice myself. I've now been in the
voiceover industry for twenty five years. I've never done anything
Star Wars. You are, that's that is a an exclusive club.
What was it like to find out that you were
going to be joining that world?
Speaker 3 (09:12):
It's so funny, A great laugh.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
That's the most beautiful laugh.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
I don't think things, no, I just think it's like
I don't know, you knows.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
As actors, as artists, we all are like fans of
different things.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
We all have these things that we really want to do,
you know, like I'd love to be in a a
David Fincher movie, like whatever it is. You know, someone
else might not care about David Finch. I mean, how
could you not but like Star Wars is one of
those things that is so iconic. But I you know,
the world of Star Wars is amazing. Like, don't get
(09:51):
me wrong, I'm laughing because I'm like, I don't know,
I don't even know.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
It's not a nerd. Will she's not a herd.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Well, she's not a Star Wars nerd.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
It just wasn't some that I grew up like, well,
like being a huge fan of.
Speaker 5 (10:04):
But obviously I am so honored to be in that category.
So I just think it's like kind of funny how
we find ourselves doing things and.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
I don't I don't know, like it's like I I
maybe I.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Don't have to apologize.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
I know exactly exactly what you're saying everybody. So as
a nerd, you have your nerdoms and you and some
people are very specific about their nerddom.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
Animation KAI like that that is part of.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
My exactly right, So we could talk or we could
talk you know, Mirzaki films, and that's your nerddom, that's
what you love. So it doesn't mean you don't like
Star Wars as much, it's just not your nerdom.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
Yeah, yeah, but no, it was really amazing to be
asked to do, Like I didn't have a sense of like, wow,
this is a really cool, special thing, and.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Yeah, I have a horrible memo. Me too.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
I have such a bad memory. It's the worst.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
My shelter. Every time we start an I think.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
And I keep calling it my husband's name. It's very odd.
I also don't sleep enough.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
But if you're saying that anime really is sort of
your nerd dumb, then how did you feel about the
suzum like experience of you know, you were a kid
watching this stuff in Japan and now you're sort of
I mean when.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
You did they show you the character first?
Speaker 3 (11:30):
I know that they they offered it to you, but
did you what was your first experience into entering.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
They they sent me the screener, but and I watched it,
and you know, I was so moved by the movie.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
It's really surreal.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
I think it's one of those moments in your career
when like something comes along that you just genuinely love
and you know, yeah, you're being offered to do it.
It's a dream come true, like I yeah, and then
you know, meeting him and it's definitely been like a
huge highlight of this year, and it all happened so fast,
like they they sent me the project and then you know,
(12:06):
they're like, we have to complete the recording within like
a couple of weeks, and so.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
So organized, Yeah, compared of something that's like new, you know,
it's like you, I remember when I did you I
did U fee for Kingdom Hearts in the first Final
Fantasy you know, Kingdom Hearts Disney thing, and I just
remember how organized they were at wanting, you know, U
fee to be English and to have it be that,
and it was different, and then it wasn't.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
I guess, is Kingdom Hearts anime?
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Well, it's not.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
It was a video game. It's Final Fantasy.
Speaker 5 (12:35):
It is.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
It's Final Fantasy. But it's it's a combination of different
you know when I because I was Cipher in Kingdom
Hearts too, So they'll take different aspects of different types
of animation. So there's some anime characters, there's some Western
animation there.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
There, there's like goofy and faking in that one in particular.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Exactly, so when you throw all that kind of stuff in.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
But so when they were directing you for this, did
it feel like you were sort of paying homage to
the anime qualities of the voice. So like what we
were talking about, okay, interesting, Well, we.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
Had an English director.
Speaker 5 (13:07):
His name's Bill Millsap and he was he was so
helpful because I've done little cartoons here and there, you know,
did the Star Wars thing, but nothing on this scale
of like the future. Yeah, and I think yeah, part
of what was interesting was like negotiating kind of the
Japanese isms and like translating them into English or deciding
when to keep it, you know, in that Japanese flavor,
(13:30):
like some of the some of the things that the
character does a lot, or even an anime in general,
or these like gasps, you know, like the and like
all these like little sound effects, and like the Japanese
language has a lot of those where you know, someone
might take and like just that down means like oh
(13:51):
my god, like can.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
You believe it. It's like.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
It's like built into the language kind of. And so
there are like little things like that, and hmm.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Yeah, sometimes we would.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
Keep it Japanese because it also still worked within the
context of the dialogue. But it was always just I
don't know this in a constant negotiation and then like
getting the dialogue to match the mouth flaps, and you
know it's.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
So difficult too. It's such a.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Difficult process, right, I have mentioned about that.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
But the thing that's going through my head now is
how how ecstatic the director, both both the Japanese director
and the American director, must be for having an actor
that is fluent in Japanese.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
I mean that just changes the whole ballgame that you
can be in there because we're sitting there as Western
actors having no idea what the Japanese is, and so
we're just trying to cram the dialogue into the mouth flaps,
which is a very difficult process. But you can kind
of come at it from a completely different angle and
be like, no, no, no, here's what we're going to do.
And that must just be such a wonderful experience for
(14:56):
the directors to be able to rely on that. It
must just change.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
You might have found it annoying.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
What I'm saying is really more like this, but yeah,
sometimes you take my suggestions and sometimes I would be
uh overalled, But but I can still stand by the
movie and say that it's a Yeah, it's a really
good translation.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
It feels really accurate.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Now, do you have any idea because this is something
we've talked about on the show quite a bit and
something we're seeing so much at conventions. Do you have
any idea why the pandemic seemed to explode anime? I mean,
anime just has had this this resurgence in the country
where now we go to these conventions and the actors
with the most lines are all anime actors. I mean
(15:42):
there's there have lines that are an hour and a half,
two hours, three hours long. And I mean, do you
think is is it just people are finally finding it
or they're understanding that the storytelling for anime is just
next kind of level. Why do you think the explosion
has happened?
Speaker 5 (15:59):
I didn't know there was an explosion, actually, because I
know that there's always been, like you know, they have
the Anime Expo every year, cosplay is really popular.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
I have no idea. I didn't know this explosion was
happening big.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Really, you're hitting it the perfect time. It is just
huge everywhere now One punch Man and all these kind
of even Naruto and all the shows that have been
around for a while are all having a new resurgence
and really finding new audiences. And we think it's because
mostly people had nothing to do, so they just started
binging everything they could find. And then when you get
(16:36):
I mean the first time so my best friend growing up,
it did the American voice for Spirited Away. And people
are finding films like that, which then lead them into
kind of the rabbit hole of all of anime, and
it's then you know, by the fourth or fifth show,
you're going the storytelling is so insane. It's so amazing.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
It's insane.
Speaker 5 (16:58):
One of my favorite anime and I've been talking about
it as I do press for Susan May because it
was just one of the most impactful Your.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Dads, Susan May do we say, Suzumi, it's fine. What
did I don't know.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
What have you guys been saying?
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Saying?
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Whatever you said?
Speaker 3 (17:18):
Yeah, we said that you're fine.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
But there's this movie called Grave of the Fireflies and
it's in It's a studio Ghibli movie, but I saw it.
I was like, one of the do you know it?
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Yeah, I don't know the movie, but I know studio
it's not.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
When I was like ten years old in Japan and
my relatives are like, let's put on an anime movie,
and it's like it's like this these uh siblings, brother
and sister, and it takes place in World War two
and they're trying to like survive the war. And it
is the most gut wrenching thing you'll ever see. It's
(17:55):
who wait, it's like a crazy movie. I mean, it's amazing.
But yeah, they don't make cartoons like that in America
for families to see.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
So it's true.
Speaker 5 (18:07):
The anime, they just they really go there like there's
no subject left unturned.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
But that was the thing is I think anime. I
think the directors, which which hasn't happened here until quote
unquote recently, they it was just another film. It's like,
so it happened to be animated, but it was a film.
They approached it like they were doing a piece of
artistic film, and the Western animation hadn't gone on too
that for a while.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
They were just we've talked about this that they just
they were trying to sell toys.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Yeah, the longest time here in our animation, the GHO,
well that's.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
All it was. They were twenty two minute cartoons for
our twenty two minutes for whatever. They were trying to
the toys they were trying to sell. Whereas the Japanese
storytelling was No, we're just we're using actors, We're using
this beautiful animation, but we're making a film. And so
that was a much different mindset than we had here
in the West. Think it's starting to change, but uh,
it's also people going back and now finding all these
(19:04):
amazing anime films again. Every time I'll watch a Kira
once a year, and every time I see it, I'm like,
this is this hasn't been touched.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
I mean it's really beautiful too. Like with we watch
it a lot. My girls have the toys and they
they love the story because you know, there's there's two girls,
you know, and and I have two daughters and I'm
actually seeing this that you mentioned recently. Your favorite character
is Diegin. Yeah, oh my god, it's a cat. Yeah,
(19:37):
my daughters love cat.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
I have to watch this movie like immediately after I
go off this.
Speaker 5 (19:44):
Yeah, take your daughters.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
We know we don't have you for too much longer.
So here's some questions we love to ask. First of all,
you get to pick any animated role you want to do,
good person, bad person, anything you want to do. Who
would you be cast as?
Speaker 4 (20:14):
What? Okay, is this like an existing.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Whoever you want, whoever you want. Is there somebody you've
really wanted to play or somebody that wowated like what
I mean, who would you want to be?
Speaker 4 (20:28):
There are always characters that I see within anime or
like manga world.
Speaker 5 (20:34):
You know, or I'm like, oh, I'd love to voice
that character, and I can't think of one right now.
But I mean I've never done like a straight up
like superhero kind of thing, so that would be fun,
like someone with like special powers or I don't know,
I mean Susan Mey kind of has her own super
I mean she's she's a human obviously, so I don't know.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
Yeah, something something where I'm like flying around in a
cave or something.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Okay, cool that works? And then where where can other
than Susan may where where else can we see you?
First of all, when is Susany's out already?
Speaker 4 (21:07):
It's out. Yeah, it just came in the BEG.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
It's in theaters.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
You can watch you can watch the duve if you
want to see my performance, or you can watch it
with subs. So yeah, both versions are available.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
I think just because now we've spoken, i'd have to
normally I watch this, but I think We've got to
watch your version. Got to watch your version.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
Yeah, watch my version everyone, And then.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Where else can people see you?
Speaker 5 (21:36):
Well, I just did a little guest stark on a
show called Ghosts. It's on CBS, so that's out. I
think that's on Paramount Plus. And then I have a
few projects that are coming out. I'll be in a
film with these guys from SNL called Please Don't Destroy.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
They just made it.
Speaker 5 (21:55):
We made this feature film in the summer. I think
it's coming out this summer. What you are we in
twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Okay, it blends after a while, really, so I don't
know what.
Speaker 5 (22:07):
The title that movie is, but they can keep an
eye out for that too.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Cool.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Yeah, I'm so exciting. And we'll get you on your
socials where you're on Instagram.
Speaker 5 (22:15):
Right, I'm on Instagram at Nicole Sucker spelled with an
H and I see h o ellie like Natchell Sockera
find me.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
That's awesome.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
Well, there we go.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Everybody go check out the film. It looks absolutely amazing.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Yeah, I'll DM you after we go see it.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
Okay, yeah, let me know what you thought.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
I will thank you.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
This is absolutely incredible and thank you. Just so much
for taking the time to join us. I know that
you are super busy and you've got a bunch of
stuff going on, so coming and talking to us on
our little podcast is always so nice.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
So yeah, thank you for having me. This is really fun.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
I appreciate it. And everybody go check out the film.
It just came out this weekend and it looks like
it's going to be just gorgeous. So yeah, everybody go
give it, give it a try.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
Susan By, that's right.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Thank you so much for joining us, and we can't
wait to see what happened with the movie. We know
it's going to be gonna.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
Be big, so yeah, thank you, and.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
You will then you just get ready because when this
thing becomes what it's supposed to be, they're going to
have you at conventions and you're going to have the
five hour line of people dressed like your character and
wanting pictures and it's you watch it's absolutely gonna happen.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
Thank you so much, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
God. That's so funny. It looks beautiful, Yeah it does,
it really does that. Yeah, the film looks amazing, So
thank her so much for joining. We know we're doing
kind of a drop in episode here for everybody, but
she was. She's so nice and so talented, and the
film is going to be so big that we had
to take had to take a pause from the contest
just to interviewer because I feel like we just interviewed
somebody that could be very big, especially in the anime world,
(23:51):
but in the animation world, you know, in total.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
So really, I mean, obviously, we've had legends. We've had
almost like every legend that I know of. There's been
a few that we haven't gotten, like you know.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Kevin.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Kevin Michael Richardson.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Yeah, we haven't had Kevin, but we can still get
of course.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
I was gonna say, I have a huge crush on him.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
I love him so much.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
But you know, there's there's a few folks that I
think that, you know, in a perfect world, we would
have gotten every single legend, and I think all of
them are so awesome that they would have come on
I HV. But I've really enjoyed, like, you know, the
voice of Megan that we had, she was fantastic and she's.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
In the beginning of her career.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
And that other gentleman that we had early early on
I HV, who was also an anime, and you know,
there's a it's good for everyone that's a fan of
this culture, this part of the industry to see that
there's new talent coming up and yeah, and it's it's
really nice for us to see it too, because we
don't want to just like, you know, be the elderly.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Folks in the.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Exactly. No, it's true. And and again the convention circuit
completely opened my eyes to anime. Where again, I watched
some anime growing up, but I did not like all
amazing nerdoms. I found this out, especially when I started
my mini painting show. You scratch the surface of any
nerdom and next thing you know, you are down the
rabbit hole of this amazing world that is just so
(25:16):
enriching and gorgeous and uh and that's anime now for me,
I mean, I'm about to be taking the plunge and
knowing that it's like, all right, here we go, because
you're entering a world that is gonna Are you.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Going to go into an anime?
Speaker 2 (25:29):
I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna start, I'm really gonna
start kind of jumping deeper into anime because it's okay,
become so.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Popular watching it or acting in it.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Well hopefully acting it, but really just watching it. Just
it's so beautiful. And this again, the storytelling is so rich.
And the films that they were doing, the Ghibli Studios,
all that stuff, these were These are amazing films that
just happened to be animated, like you're going to see
an animation.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
An animated age, beautifully aged, beautifully like my kids are
watching things that are decades and decades old without without
a play.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Again, I watch Akira all the time. It changed the ballgame.
You can see it in Batman Beyond, you can see
it everywhere. So it's yeah, go check it out. But
thank you so much for joining us Nicole, and check
her out at Nicole sakara at on Instagram Instagram. Ah,
you know how much I know my social media stuff.
(26:22):
Yeah she didn't say she was on the top tick,
but whatever, So thank you everybody for joining us. Of course,
we will be back with our super awesome contest to
become the next big voice actor, which we are right
in the middle of right now. We have gotten some
amazingly talented people and we are going to find that
next big voice actor. So thank you for joining us
(26:44):
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if you think you have what it takes to step
up to the microphone, put your voices where your mouth is.
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Speaker 3 (27:28):
The who
Hi, Christy, Hi Will, How are you.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
I'm good? How are you?
Speaker 3 (00:04):
I'm excited because we have a nice little like episode
here that we're doing amongst our contest Rigamarole.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Yeah, like a whole Like you know, we it was
one of those things we're in the middle of the contest.
We know we're in the middle of the contest, but
this guest popped up that was so cool that we
had the opportunity to interview that. We're like, you know what,
we need to take just a quick breath from the
contest just so we can interview this person. I'm a
big fan. Are you a big fan?
Speaker 1 (00:29):
I'm a huge fan.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
And also I think there's just so much that we
can chat with her about in terms of like how
she's approaching her voice career, because she's such an amazing
on camera actress. And it's funny because as I've watched her,
I'll mention this to her.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
As I've watched her, I've always like she is the
best voice for voiceovers.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
And now it's working, and I know, I know, I know,
that's really cool. So who is joining us today, Christy?
Speaker 1 (00:54):
We have Nicole Sakura.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Hello, Nicole, Hi, Thank you so much for joining us.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Yeah, a pleasure to be here.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
We know you're super busy, so it was really nice
that we were able to chat with you for a
little bit.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
Of course. Yeah, I'm yeah, happy to be here.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
So I'm a huge fan obviously, but Cloud nine is
like our comfort food. Superstore is our comfort Bacon. Like
it's not the same, they're different titles, but I literally
watch it, I could say a couple times a week.
It's like a rotation of Superstore, parks and rec and
the office. So it's like you and I've always I've
(01:35):
always said to my husband too, I was like, she
is the best voice. Love Obviously, I love your character
and I love your acting, but you have the best voice.
And so sometimes I feel like as folks with voice
acting backgrounds, they're like, oh, she could have a career
and voice acting and all of the hold you do.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
So we're excited to chat with you about Suzume.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
Yeah, it's funny that you say that always wanted to
do voiceover stuff, and I I, yeah, I thought, oh,
I feel like I have a voice.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
But we all think we do, right, Yeah, everyone I said,
not it.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
At first I hated my how my voice sounded like
I remember the first time hearing it and being like, oh, like,
I feel like everyone has that experience.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
No, no, you do you get that because you go, no, wait,
that's not me. That's that's not how I sound, because
I sound so different in my head. It can't that
can't be.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Actually, yeah, yeah, yeah I could. I could see that.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
I can understand that because I think also too, we're
just so critical of ourselves as actors. Like some people
don't even want to watch themselves on you know, playback
or even in the movies that they make.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
But the actors. Actors aren't insecure people. What are you
talking about. We're the most secure people on the planet.
I have a quick question because you said that you've
you thought you always wanted to do this, It's something
you wanted to jump into. So then what did you
grow up watching it was like your animation jam when
you were a kid.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
Oh, well, my mom is Japanese, so I would go
to Japan every summer, and yeah, I'd see all the
Miyazaki films like in theaters and I yeah, I remember
one summer I watched like total every single of the
time I was there at my aunt's house, So yeah, definitely.
And I mean also, like, you know, grew up on
(03:24):
American cartoons as well. But it's like any part of
this business, though, it takes time to like break into.
And even though I had this on camera career, I
was like, wow, I got these voiceover jobs. Not easy
to come by. Yeah, and this was like such a
(03:44):
just total out of the blue. You know, they want
you for this film, and I was, you know, I
already knew who Makato Shinkai was, so it was a
very easy yes obviously, but yeah, so lucky.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
So what was your audition process? Like I knew your
voice from Superstar from an audition.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
I didn't have to audition for it.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
I don't know that how they Yeah, And then I
met at the premiere and he was like, yeah, I
really liked your.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Voice, which makes sense.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
But I thought, oh, maybe they asked me to do
it because I'm half Japanese and I understand Japanese and
so like in the booth, you know, watching the Japanese
version translating it'll be I don't know. I just didn't
think it was as simple as like I really loved
your voice, and yeah, it was such a nice, nice compliment.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Well, so Will and I we are doing a contest
as well, right, And so much of these things are
just you're born with some of it, and I think
that you can teach a lot, you can teach most,
but it helps so much when you have this like
sort of almost like magic sensibility about how you pitch
(04:54):
your voice. And I don't know if it was just
natural or if maybe you picked up on the dynamic,
the dynamicness of I feel like the Japanese culture has
like when women pitch it their voices, there's you generally
very high and very feminine and very dainty. So I
am curious, like, what were your first sort of introductions
(05:17):
into just your dynamic vocal range.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
Yeah, it's funny you asked that.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
I feel like I'm still kind of learning about that,
and it's true with Japanese. Yeah, like I it goes
a little bit further up in my head or whatever.
But I honestly don't know how much like vocal awareness.
I'm a horrible singer. Like I feel like I'm like
I don't have that much control over my voice. Yeah,
(05:47):
But like for Cheyenne, for instance, I think I like
the pilot episode is I'm a little bit more in
my own register. And then something about that character she
just felt so young, and you know, she's high school.
I was already mid twenties, and something about that role
just felt very like it felt natural, It felt necessary
(06:08):
almost for me to pitch it up, like I couldn't
say some of the dialogue without you know, kind of
like putting it a little bit more in this area,
because like some of it sounded so ridiculous, like it
just wouldn't.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Sound She's not a grounded.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
Character, so I couldn't, you know, be in my own register.
But yeah, I'm still like playing around with that. And
even now, you know, auditioning even for on camera stuff
with roles that are like a little bit more dramatic
or grounded or like, you know, like not not comedic.
(06:43):
I'm still trying to figure out like how to get
in that lower register like sound more like my own age.
Even I you know, I feel like I don't sound
like a fully grown adult.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Do you have any But that is such a bonus
in the voice over world to be able to still
do young voices when you're older. I mean that makes
Tara strong and Tara strong, you know, is that you
get to kind of go off and be somebody six seven,
eight years old. But there's also something So it's funny
that you say you don't sing, because I don't sing either,
and I know a lot of times that the really
good voice over actors also have great vocal range when
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it comes to singing, which I don't at all. But
there's something very melodic about the Japanese language that is
almost like listening to a song. So there's something kind
of in that, just as you were speaking before, there's
something very kind of melodic about that. So I wonder
if that translates into almost like singing when it comes
(07:41):
to dialogue, because it's yeah, I can't sing either, so
it is a very strange thing. And I only know
how to say two things in Japanese. When I learned
when I was my brother lived there. I was a smoker,
so I learned how to say hai isaa only guys,
you must is that a astray?
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Okay? It's maybe I just don't know that word, yeah, okay.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
And then I learned how to say McDonald's wadesca, so
that was it. Where's there are McDonald's? And can I
have an ashtray? Was all I learned the entire time,
and so.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Yeah, making Americans prim office.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
At least I learned those two I tried. Before we
get into uh Susume, which is just the world of animation.
There is just one of the most beautiful things ever.
(08:40):
I want to talk a little bit about your Western
animation stuff because you also joined kind of an exclusive
club that not everybody gets to be in, which is
you've done something for Star Wars.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Oh yeah, I know that is pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Yeah, the most voice myself. I've now been in the
voiceover industry for twenty five years. I've never done anything
Star Wars. You are, that's that is a an exclusive club.
What was it like to find out that you were
going to be joining that world?
Speaker 3 (09:12):
It's so funny, A great laugh.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
That's the most beautiful laugh.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
I don't think things, no, I just think it's like
I don't know, you knows.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
As actors, as artists, we all are like fans of
different things.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
We all have these things that we really want to do,
you know, like I'd love to be in a a
David Fincher movie, like whatever it is. You know, someone
else might not care about David Finch. I mean, how
could you not but like Star Wars is one of
those things that is so iconic. But I you know,
the world of Star Wars is amazing. Like, don't get
(09:51):
me wrong, I'm laughing because I'm like, I don't know,
I don't even know.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
It's not a nerd. Will she's not a herd.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Well, she's not a Star Wars nerd.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
It just wasn't some that I grew up like, well,
like being a huge fan of.
Speaker 5 (10:04):
But obviously I am so honored to be in that category.
So I just think it's like kind of funny how
we find ourselves doing things and.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
I don't I don't know, like it's like I I
maybe I.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Don't have to apologize.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
I know exactly exactly what you're saying everybody. So as
a nerd, you have your nerdoms and you and some
people are very specific about their nerddom.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
Animation KAI like that that is part of.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
My exactly right, So we could talk or we could
talk you know, Mirzaki films, and that's your nerddom, that's
what you love. So it doesn't mean you don't like
Star Wars as much, it's just not your nerdom.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
Yeah, yeah, but no, it was really amazing to be
asked to do, Like I didn't have a sense of like, wow,
this is a really cool, special thing, and.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Yeah, I have a horrible memo. Me too.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
I have such a bad memory. It's the worst.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
My shelter. Every time we start an I think.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
And I keep calling it my husband's name. It's very odd.
I also don't sleep enough.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
But if you're saying that anime really is sort of
your nerd dumb, then how did you feel about the
suzum like experience of you know, you were a kid
watching this stuff in Japan and now you're sort of
I mean when.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
You did they show you the character first?
Speaker 3 (11:30):
I know that they they offered it to you, but
did you what was your first experience into entering.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
They they sent me the screener, but and I watched it,
and you know, I was so moved by the movie.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
It's really surreal.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
I think it's one of those moments in your career
when like something comes along that you just genuinely love
and you know, yeah, you're being offered to do it.
It's a dream come true, like I yeah, and then
you know, meeting him and it's definitely been like a
huge highlight of this year, and it all happened so fast,
like they they sent me the project and then you know,
(12:06):
they're like, we have to complete the recording within like
a couple of weeks, and so.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
So organized, Yeah, compared of something that's like new, you know,
it's like you, I remember when I did you I
did U fee for Kingdom Hearts in the first Final
Fantasy you know, Kingdom Hearts Disney thing, and I just
remember how organized they were at wanting, you know, U
fee to be English and to have it be that,
and it was different, and then it wasn't.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
I guess, is Kingdom Hearts anime?
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Well, it's not.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
It was a video game. It's Final Fantasy.
Speaker 5 (12:35):
It is.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
It's Final Fantasy. But it's it's a combination of different
you know when I because I was Cipher in Kingdom
Hearts too, So they'll take different aspects of different types
of animation. So there's some anime characters, there's some Western
animation there.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
There, there's like goofy and faking in that one in particular.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Exactly, so when you throw all that kind of stuff in.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
But so when they were directing you for this, did
it feel like you were sort of paying homage to
the anime qualities of the voice. So like what we
were talking about, okay, interesting, Well, we.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
Had an English director.
Speaker 5 (13:07):
His name's Bill Millsap and he was he was so
helpful because I've done little cartoons here and there, you know,
did the Star Wars thing, but nothing on this scale
of like the future. Yeah, and I think yeah, part
of what was interesting was like negotiating kind of the
Japanese isms and like translating them into English or deciding
when to keep it, you know, in that Japanese flavor,
(13:30):
like some of the some of the things that the
character does a lot, or even an anime in general,
or these like gasps, you know, like the and like
all these like little sound effects, and like the Japanese
language has a lot of those where you know, someone
might take and like just that down means like oh
(13:51):
my god, like can.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
You believe it. It's like.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
It's like built into the language kind of. And so
there are like little things like that, and hmm.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Yeah, sometimes we would.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
Keep it Japanese because it also still worked within the
context of the dialogue. But it was always just I
don't know this in a constant negotiation and then like
getting the dialogue to match the mouth flaps, and you
know it's.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
So difficult too. It's such a.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Difficult process, right, I have mentioned about that.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
But the thing that's going through my head now is
how how ecstatic the director, both both the Japanese director
and the American director, must be for having an actor
that is fluent in Japanese.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
I mean that just changes the whole ballgame that you
can be in there because we're sitting there as Western
actors having no idea what the Japanese is, and so
we're just trying to cram the dialogue into the mouth flaps,
which is a very difficult process. But you can kind
of come at it from a completely different angle and
be like, no, no, no, here's what we're going to do.
And that must just be such a wonderful experience for
(14:56):
the directors to be able to rely on that. It
must just change.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
You might have found it annoying.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
What I'm saying is really more like this, but yeah,
sometimes you take my suggestions and sometimes I would be
uh overalled, But but I can still stand by the
movie and say that it's a Yeah, it's a really
good translation.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
It feels really accurate.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Now, do you have any idea because this is something
we've talked about on the show quite a bit and
something we're seeing so much at conventions. Do you have
any idea why the pandemic seemed to explode anime? I mean,
anime just has had this this resurgence in the country
where now we go to these conventions and the actors
with the most lines are all anime actors. I mean
(15:42):
there's there have lines that are an hour and a half,
two hours, three hours long. And I mean, do you
think is is it just people are finally finding it
or they're understanding that the storytelling for anime is just
next kind of level. Why do you think the explosion
has happened?
Speaker 5 (15:59):
I didn't know there was an explosion, actually, because I
know that there's always been, like you know, they have
the Anime Expo every year, cosplay is really popular.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
I have no idea. I didn't know this explosion was
happening big.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Really, you're hitting it the perfect time. It is just
huge everywhere now One punch Man and all these kind
of even Naruto and all the shows that have been
around for a while are all having a new resurgence
and really finding new audiences. And we think it's because
mostly people had nothing to do, so they just started
binging everything they could find. And then when you get
(16:36):
I mean the first time so my best friend growing up,
it did the American voice for Spirited Away. And people
are finding films like that, which then lead them into
kind of the rabbit hole of all of anime, and
it's then you know, by the fourth or fifth show,
you're going the storytelling is so insane. It's so amazing.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
It's insane.
Speaker 5 (16:58):
One of my favorite anime and I've been talking about
it as I do press for Susan May because it
was just one of the most impactful Your.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Dads, Susan May do we say, Suzumi, it's fine. What
did I don't know.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
What have you guys been saying?
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Saying?
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Whatever you said?
Speaker 3 (17:18):
Yeah, we said that you're fine.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
But there's this movie called Grave of the Fireflies and
it's in It's a studio Ghibli movie, but I saw it.
I was like, one of the do you know it?
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Yeah, I don't know the movie, but I know studio
it's not.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
When I was like ten years old in Japan and
my relatives are like, let's put on an anime movie,
and it's like it's like this these uh siblings, brother
and sister, and it takes place in World War two
and they're trying to like survive the war. And it
is the most gut wrenching thing you'll ever see. It's
(17:55):
who wait, it's like a crazy movie. I mean, it's amazing.
But yeah, they don't make cartoons like that in America
for families to see.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
So it's true.
Speaker 5 (18:07):
The anime, they just they really go there like there's
no subject left unturned.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
But that was the thing is I think anime. I
think the directors, which which hasn't happened here until quote
unquote recently, they it was just another film. It's like,
so it happened to be animated, but it was a film.
They approached it like they were doing a piece of
artistic film, and the Western animation hadn't gone on too
that for a while.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
They were just we've talked about this that they just
they were trying to sell toys.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Yeah, the longest time here in our animation, the GHO,
well that's.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
All it was. They were twenty two minute cartoons for
our twenty two minutes for whatever. They were trying to
the toys they were trying to sell. Whereas the Japanese
storytelling was No, we're just we're using actors, We're using
this beautiful animation, but we're making a film. And so
that was a much different mindset than we had here
in the West. Think it's starting to change, but uh,
it's also people going back and now finding all these
(19:04):
amazing anime films again. Every time I'll watch a Kira
once a year, and every time I see it, I'm like,
this is this hasn't been touched.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
I mean it's really beautiful too. Like with we watch
it a lot. My girls have the toys and they
they love the story because you know, there's there's two girls,
you know, and and I have two daughters and I'm
actually seeing this that you mentioned recently. Your favorite character
is Diegin. Yeah, oh my god, it's a cat. Yeah,
(19:37):
my daughters love cat.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
I have to watch this movie like immediately after I
go off this.
Speaker 5 (19:44):
Yeah, take your daughters.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
We know we don't have you for too much longer.
So here's some questions we love to ask. First of all,
you get to pick any animated role you want to do,
good person, bad person, anything you want to do. Who
would you be cast as?
Speaker 4 (20:14):
What? Okay, is this like an existing.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Whoever you want, whoever you want. Is there somebody you've
really wanted to play or somebody that wowated like what
I mean, who would you want to be?
Speaker 4 (20:28):
There are always characters that I see within anime or
like manga world.
Speaker 5 (20:34):
You know, or I'm like, oh, I'd love to voice
that character, and I can't think of one right now.
But I mean I've never done like a straight up
like superhero kind of thing, so that would be fun,
like someone with like special powers or I don't know,
I mean Susan Mey kind of has her own super
I mean she's she's a human obviously, so I don't know.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
Yeah, something something where I'm like flying around in a
cave or something.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Okay, cool that works? And then where where can other
than Susan may where where else can we see you?
First of all, when is Susany's out already?
Speaker 4 (21:07):
It's out. Yeah, it just came in the BEG.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
It's in theaters.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
You can watch you can watch the duve if you
want to see my performance, or you can watch it
with subs. So yeah, both versions are available.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
I think just because now we've spoken, i'd have to
normally I watch this, but I think We've got to
watch your version. Got to watch your version.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
Yeah, watch my version everyone, And then.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Where else can people see you?
Speaker 5 (21:36):
Well, I just did a little guest stark on a
show called Ghosts. It's on CBS, so that's out. I
think that's on Paramount Plus. And then I have a
few projects that are coming out. I'll be in a
film with these guys from SNL called Please Don't Destroy.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
They just made it.
Speaker 5 (21:55):
We made this feature film in the summer. I think
it's coming out this summer. What you are we in
twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Okay, it blends after a while, really, so I don't
know what.
Speaker 5 (22:07):
The title that movie is, but they can keep an
eye out for that too.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Cool.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Yeah, I'm so exciting. And we'll get you on your
socials where you're on Instagram.
Speaker 5 (22:15):
Right, I'm on Instagram at Nicole Sucker spelled with an
H and I see h o ellie like Natchell Sockera
find me.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
That's awesome.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
Well, there we go.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Everybody go check out the film. It looks absolutely amazing.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Yeah, I'll DM you after we go see it.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
Okay, yeah, let me know what you thought.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
I will thank you.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
This is absolutely incredible and thank you. Just so much
for taking the time to join us. I know that
you are super busy and you've got a bunch of
stuff going on, so coming and talking to us on
our little podcast is always so nice.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
So yeah, thank you for having me. This is really fun.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
I appreciate it. And everybody go check out the film.
It just came out this weekend and it looks like
it's going to be just gorgeous. So yeah, everybody go
give it, give it a try.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
Susan By, that's right.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Thank you so much for joining us, and we can't
wait to see what happened with the movie. We know
it's going to be gonna.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
Be big, so yeah, thank you, and.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
You will then you just get ready because when this
thing becomes what it's supposed to be, they're going to
have you at conventions and you're going to have the
five hour line of people dressed like your character and
wanting pictures and it's you watch it's absolutely gonna happen.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
Thank you so much, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
God. That's so funny. It looks beautiful, Yeah it does,
it really does that. Yeah, the film looks amazing, So
thank her so much for joining. We know we're doing
kind of a drop in episode here for everybody, but
she was. She's so nice and so talented, and the
film is going to be so big that we had
to take had to take a pause from the contest
just to interviewer because I feel like we just interviewed
somebody that could be very big, especially in the anime world,
(23:51):
but in the animation world, you know, in total.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
So really, I mean, obviously, we've had legends. We've had
almost like every legend that I know of. There's been
a few that we haven't gotten, like you know.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Kevin.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Kevin Michael Richardson.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Yeah, we haven't had Kevin, but we can still get
of course.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
I was gonna say, I have a huge crush on him.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
I love him so much.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
But you know, there's there's a few folks that I
think that, you know, in a perfect world, we would
have gotten every single legend, and I think all of
them are so awesome that they would have come on
I HV. But I've really enjoyed, like, you know, the
voice of Megan that we had, she was fantastic and she's.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
In the beginning of her career.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
And that other gentleman that we had early early on
I HV, who was also an anime, and you know,
there's a it's good for everyone that's a fan of
this culture, this part of the industry to see that
there's new talent coming up and yeah, and it's it's
really nice for us to see it too, because we
don't want to just like, you know, be the elderly.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Folks in the.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Exactly. No, it's true. And and again the convention circuit
completely opened my eyes to anime. Where again, I watched
some anime growing up, but I did not like all
amazing nerdoms. I found this out, especially when I started
my mini painting show. You scratch the surface of any
nerdom and next thing you know, you are down the
rabbit hole of this amazing world that is just so
(25:16):
enriching and gorgeous and uh and that's anime now for me,
I mean, I'm about to be taking the plunge and
knowing that it's like, all right, here we go, because
you're entering a world that is gonna Are you.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Going to go into an anime?
Speaker 2 (25:29):
I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna start, I'm really gonna
start kind of jumping deeper into anime because it's okay,
become so.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Popular watching it or acting in it.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Well hopefully acting it, but really just watching it. Just
it's so beautiful. And this again, the storytelling is so rich.
And the films that they were doing, the Ghibli Studios,
all that stuff, these were These are amazing films that
just happened to be animated, like you're going to see
an animation.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
An animated age, beautifully aged, beautifully like my kids are
watching things that are decades and decades old without without
a play.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Again, I watch Akira all the time. It changed the ballgame.
You can see it in Batman Beyond, you can see
it everywhere. So it's yeah, go check it out. But
thank you so much for joining us Nicole, and check
her out at Nicole sakara at on Instagram Instagram. Ah,
you know how much I know my social media stuff.
(26:22):
Yeah she didn't say she was on the top tick,
but whatever, So thank you everybody for joining us. Of course,
we will be back with our super awesome contest to
become the next big voice actor, which we are right
in the middle of right now. We have gotten some
amazingly talented people and we are going to find that
next big voice actor. So thank you for joining us
(26:44):
for this and please join us for that, and remember,
if you think you have what it takes to step
up to the microphone, put your voices where your mouth is.
Thanks everybody. I Hear Voices is hosted by Will Fredell
and Christy Carlson Romano. Executive produced by Will Fredell, Brendan Rooney,
Amy Sugarman. Our executive in charge of production Isa Anielle Romo,
Our producer is Lorraine Viuez, and our editor slash engineer
is Brian Burton. And that was my announcer voice.
Speaker 6 (27:07):
Some side effects of listening to I Hear Voices are
sore abs from hilarity falling down the cocoa melon rabbit hole,
sneezing due to mass nostalgia, and hugs.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Follow I Hear Voices wherever you listen to podcasts so
you don't miss any of the amazing voices.
Speaker 6 (27:18):
Be sure to follow us on Instagram and TikTok at
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Speaker 2 (27:22):
You can also check us out on MySpace, omegle Vine, LimeWire.
Hey I'm a napster.
Speaker 6 (27:26):
Okay, well let's teach you about the Internet.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
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