November 14, 2022 • 49 mins
Olivia Hack is known for her roles in such animated hits as Hey Arnold!, Family Guy and Avatar: The Last Airbender. Today she joins Christy and Will to discuss voice vs live acting, the power of Gen Z and how she got busted at a comic-con not knowing the details about her own character!
Plus Christy shares her audition hack and we meet another undiscovered talent of the week!
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey Christy, Hi will Fredell. What's up? How wow? I
got the full last name today? You did, because you
know what, I'm really excited. You just shared all this
amazing news. You did um the pod Meats World Live show,
and you packed the house. We did. We packed the house.
It was a ton of fun. And you've moved to
Speaking of houses, you've moved to another house and you
are reporting from a new cave. You're watching video. Yeah,
(00:23):
and everybody's sick. I mean, there's just so much going
on in the world, right, Is everyone in your family sick?
Because everyone around here is really I've got one child
on antibiotics and another one that's you know, healthy on
the mend, and a third child that you're married to
that also has a sinus infection and has been gone
for a week while we were moving in. Everything's good, though,
like honestly, like I can't complain. You can. You got
(00:45):
a big microphone in front of you can complain to
everybody you want to. That's the joy. That's true. I
guess I could. And it's echo E two it is.
I noticed you're in kind of a new cave. You
have to we'll we'll have to de ecify your ecify. Yeah,
I'm gonna. I'm going with itfy id your your room.
But I like but in a weird way. I like
the way that it makes my voice sound more womanly. Really,
(01:06):
you think makes you sound more womanly? Weirdly, I feel
like more sexy. Is that what you think? It sounds ephemeral?
What does that word mean? Even? I feel like I
know what that word you're asking. Ephemeral. Ephemeral is the
largest bone in your leg. I broke. I broke my
(01:27):
ephemeral when I was a kid. I'm kidding. Hold on now,
I really want to Now you want to know what
it is? I would tell you, but I'm not going wrong.
Hold on if I actually got this, yeah, no lasting
(01:48):
for a very short time. Fashions are ephemeral, ethereal. Then
that's what I meant. Don't use words you don't know
what they mean. I do that every now and then.
I'm just I'm sorry. I'm just looking back as my
as my career as a lover, and being called ephemeral,
I realized was not was not the compliment I thought
(02:10):
it was. I was like, man, was totally aphemeral, And
she had to tell me quickly um oh no, that's
so funny. How are you so you're are you not sick?
You're not sick. I don't know. I'm mom sick, which
basically means like, especially like our producer can share our
sentiment as well, Um yeah, I'm mom sick, which means
(02:33):
you really can't get sick. It's like you're sick, but
like you laugh at it because you have to keep
going and pretend like it's not really happening. Yeah. My
wife Sue says that I'm one of those people where
I sneeze once and I've got to be in bed
for a month, or it's like don't don't come here
of yourself, take care of yourself. That's important, honestly. But no,
I get that. Like we we've been doing a lot
(02:53):
of different podcasts, both of us have separately from each other,
and and obviously we're doing our next con together. We're
doing is in San Francisco. San Francisco. Yeah, and we're
doing a live I hear voices at San Francisco Comic Con,
which is great. Which is I think it's the twenties
fifth it's right after Thanksgiving, the day after thanks You,
it's November, putting my pie fork down I'm heading exactly.
(03:16):
We're actually having Thanksgiving in San Francisco with our with
my my stepdaughter and new son in law, so it
will be there. Yeah, that's where they live. So though,
oh my gosh, that's great time. So they will be
there for Thanksgiving, the giving of thanks Um and have
turkey in the city. I haven't had turkey in the
city and as long as I can remember. And some
(03:36):
chowder what why would there be chowder? Do they have
great clam chowder? First of all, you're talking to a
guy from New England. Don't ever bring up West Coast
chowder to talking to somebody who you're from. You, by
the way, are from Connecticut. You should be all about
New England white real clam chowder. This is what they
serve though at the wharf Fisherman's work they serve both
(04:00):
types of chowder. I'm sure. I'm sure they're trying to
get it just as good as in the New England
clam chowder, and they don't. My friend canceled, canceled without
the chowder. Fly your Connecticut flag high. You gotta fly
your Connectic So I'm very excited about today's guests. Are
you excited about today's guest. I am because I actually
(04:21):
know our guest from way back, and we're going to
be able to reconnect because it's been years. For sure,
it's been years, and um, I remember seeing her in
audition rooms and whatnot, and I'm so happy that she's
doing so well in our little voice over community now
crazy well, I mean, we're talking about she was on
Hey Arnold, and she was on Last Airbender, and she
(04:41):
was on the care Bears, and she's been a Jedi,
and it's Harry Potter video games and burn the Witch,
which is a new crunchy role. There's so much to
talk about that. Frankly, I don't know if we're gonna
be able to get everything. So I think we should
just end this podcast here and not even bring her out,
because I we're just not gonna be able to get
to all the stuff that we have to get to.
I can't wait to hear her on our little show,
a little, our little vignette. Oh when we're going to
(05:03):
do our across the Garden, which is great. We've got
a fun fun across the garden today and have fun.
Um amateur voiceover actor, undiscovered voice over, I don't like
the word amateur. An undiscovered voiceover actor like that is
going to join us today, and that will also lead
us to a wonderful conversation about the best way to
be discovered, because we're going to help out with that
with our amazing um contest, which I can never remember
(05:25):
the name of christ can I don't even ask. I
can't remember what it's called. What is it? What is
it again? Dude, you're so good. I'm just curious if
you can remember what it is, because it's out of
my head. What's it called again? It's got out of
my head to you know. Come on, Google, come on,
(05:47):
it's completely drawing, It's completely Maybe if I keep drinking
my diet code. There you go. It's the super Awesome
Contest to become the next voice Actor, Next Big Voice.
The super Awesome Contest to become the next voice actor
the Big Voice. Yeah, the next Big Voice. We'll get it.
We'll get it, we'll get it. I think the first
thing you're gonna have to do is learn the title
to win. But oh my god, who do we have today?
(06:09):
Who's joining us? Christie? We have Miss Olivia Hack. Let's
get into it. Hey, it's all happening. It's all happening.
She's here. How you doing? I'm happy, Christie is Olivia
every single time, every single time a guest comes on,
(06:29):
Christie is amazed they're actually here. It's so funny. It's
like whatever. I like, It's like we've been planning this
for weeks and then the person actually pops up like
you're here. First of all, yes, because I'm so grateful
when people come on to our our show, and ours
has had everyone on those seriously, we continue to well done, Olivia. Dude, Olivia,
(06:54):
when's the last time I saw you? I don't know,
fifteen years ago at some club in l A or
something probably okay, think okay, so club in l A. Sure,
but I thought we were I thought we were like
the same, we were agent or CSD. Yes, yes see
I was right, you know will Okay, I'm still still
I've been with C E. D. S D for twenty years.
(07:15):
But I don't want to skip over the club in
l A story. So I don't, you know, I don't
know young people in l A. Whatever. Do you guys
still live in l A? I feel like neither of
you do. I'm basing that on. I do nothing I
don't live in l A and I don't go to club.
It's so sad that I live in l A and
I've never been to a club in my life. Good choices, yeah,
(07:37):
because I know, but I'm now I want to get
to do it. What was the last I don't know.
He was literally like lood do or some I mean
like back, Oh my gosh, day. I think Olivia and
I hung out like all the time that day. I
think we like. I think yes, and I miss you
in my life. We are the cup. You're in Austin.
(07:57):
Oh oh that's right. Yeah, as I moved to Austin, Texas.
How do you like training here? It's beautiful. I've been
your two and a half years. I've found a beautiful
house as well now, um that I just moved to.
So I'm really comfortable and my girls are really you know,
I have two kids, Olivia crazy crazy, I have to
(08:19):
no club time. You don't need to do that. You
really don't the babysitters club more like it. But yes,
oh my gosh, this is so cool. I'm so happy
to see your face, happy to see well, thank you
for joining us, thanks for having me. Happy to be here.
Now I have to know. Are you in l a A. Yeah,
raise if I die Hills, girl, if I die here,
(08:42):
I'll be really disappointed myself. But you know it's probably
gonna Did both of you grew up in l a too, No,
we're actually both from Connecticut randomly, Yeah, but you were
like kid actors. I feel like you're only a kid actor. Well,
I guess kids come out for pilot season, then they
do that whole. That's what we did. So I was
in the UID in New York and I would take
the bus down, she would take the train, and then
(09:03):
when Boy MEA's World started, I moved out here, so
that I've been here since I was sixteen. Um, so
I'm essentially have been a California person forever at this point. Well,
and that makes sense Connecticut but really New York City. Yeah,
so that's how that happens. Yeah, we were New York
kids that came west. Yeah, that's kind of our vibe.
But I'm not a Beverly Hills. It says Beverly Hills
(09:26):
on my like I AMDB, which is like unchangeable because
I was like born at I grew up in Hollywood
and then moved to Burbank and I'm still in Burbank,
so but it is interesting because you don't meet a
lot of people that are like from Beverly Hills or
l A. You know. Um, both my daughters were born
in One of them was born in Beverly Hills and
(09:46):
then the other one was born in Newport when we
moved down to Orange County. But it is it is
fun to see like somebody who's like from l A.
What's a different vibe. Like my favorite people are the
people that grew up here, because it's like, oh, that's
that's why like you, because you're just relaxed into it,
you know, because I think you meet a lot of
people and they come to l A and they try
(10:07):
and be l A whatever that is in their mind
that they grew up watching or think that, you know,
but I don't know that the locals are a little
bit more you know. Well, and Olivia always you've always
struck me as and this is funny because this will
trans this will transition into sort of just the sentiment
of using your voice and whatnot. But like you have
(10:27):
like a more East Coast sensibility to you, Like if
if somebody would be like, hey, look at this actress.
Where would you cast her being from I think somebody
would be like, oh yeah, she's kind of like sassy,
and I feel like she could be more East Coast
than people have asked me if I'm from New York.
But it's just it's direct, like I have very male energy,
which is just kind of I'm just more. I'm just direct.
(10:48):
I don't know. I don't like, who is time for
anything else? I like that. I like that. So let
me ask you a question. Then, how do we talked
about being child actors? How did you start in the industry?
I mean I literally it was like three years old.
Started in commercials like all kid actors do, as as
you do, you know, and then I started doing TV
(11:09):
and then movies and all that stuff. Um. And that's
why it's so funny because fans, you know, I do
a lot of comic cons, and so the question is
always like, how did you how did you start, you know,
voice acting? And the look on their face is just
so disappointed when I tell my story, because I think
there's a lot of especially anime actors and things that
(11:29):
have these like I was just an office assistant and
then I became a voice actor or whatever. And it's
like for me, like my first animated series was a
show called Hey Arnold, and I think I started that
when I show it. You know, when you do something
though you don't know, it's like what I have ever
heard of Hey Arnold? If I wasn't on it, I
don't know. You know, when you do a project, it's weird,
(11:49):
but uh, but yeah, I started doing that when I
was like, I think I had just turned twelve and so,
and I've done a little bit of voiceover before that,
and so it's like not this origin story where as
an adult I just started doing voiceover. So it's always
a little I feel disappointing two fans that I don't
have this like you can do it too story because
(12:10):
I've just been doing it forever. I don't know, but
there's part of me that thinks that's that, in a way,
is even a more interesting story because it's more rare.
The A lot of the people that we're meeting are
not people. I mean, you meet child actors that started
on camera exactly the way you're talking about it. We
all did commercials, so we kind of started or we
started on stage and then you transition, you know, if
(12:31):
you're back East, you do a law in order. You know,
it's every that kind of thing you always exactly so
everybody does that kind of stuff. And then as you're older,
you get maybe your first voiceover gig if you're you're
lucky enough to transition into voiceover. So to meet somebody
that has been doing voice over since they were young,
I think is more rare in the industry. I can
(12:53):
right now the people that have at least been on
this show. I can think of you. I can think
of Marsden, Jason Marsden, um, and that's kind of it.
We were young right when you were doing v O
or not that we're not all super I mean I
was like sixteen, so that's um no, no, I'm sorry
(13:13):
it's seventeen with Kim. But but but I do find
interesting with Hey Arnold was and then maybe you can
speak to this experience. But it seems like with Hey Arnold,
they really want wanted, like real kid voices. Yeah, and
that's why it's so cool. Like people always say like, oh,
what's your favorite animated project, and they want me to
say Avatar because that's so popular and Avatar is great
(13:34):
and everything. Um, now that I finally watched that show
after twenty years but another little tiny showy but but hey, Arnold,
I was a kid doing it and it wasn't all
kid cast, which was really rare for that time because,
as you know, they don't want to do kids because
school and time and spans and all that stuff. Um,
(13:54):
and you know, and voices change, like we had yeah yeah,
so you know the girls, Allen and Arnold. Yeah, Philip
van Dyke was another Arnold, um all these yeah. Well,
and there's like a real sweet spot I think for
boys where they have this like they've got this rasp
(14:17):
and they have this certain I don't know, and then
it's like twelve years old, and twelve years old is
right when it you know, flips so flip instantly. I
had that happened because I sang as a kid. I
sang and you know, and you know, I got the
lead and everything in the third grade and fourth grade
rolls around and then your voice starts to warble and
that's it. You're like, now you better learn how to
(14:37):
sing in a lower key, which I didn't. I discovered smoking,
which I liked way better. Got to be such a
weird thing like women, it just changes. But again, I
never thought I was going to be a voice over actor.
But that's the thing that was so cool about Hey
Arnold is it was not just a great show, but
it seemed to kind of be taking the next evolution
(14:58):
or step from the origin Charlie Brown stuff because that
was all kids too, and one of the very rare
things where they said, no, we're just going to use
all children. So to kind of piggyback on that, Hey
Arnold said, we're going to do the same thing. It
might have been one of the last shows all kids
was Recess because Recess wasn't all kids. I feel like
they do it stren now it's a little like more
(15:21):
of a hipper thing to do. Um. But yeah, I
don't know. I yeah, that show is just really special.
I think it's really ahead of its time. Like and
to speak on your point about like the whole Charlie
Brown thing, like yeah, I mean, if you go back
and you watch that show, there's like an episode where
this it's called Chocolate Boy, but he's like addicted chocolate
(15:41):
and really he's a drug addict and like helda his
mother through the whole series. If you really are watching it,
like she's an alcoholic she's always making these smoothies in
the morning and it's barely awake, and you know, there's
episodes where like Arnold gets mugged, or their city kids
and they grew up in the city. And so yeah,
there's a lot of people come up to me all
the time and talk about that show because it, I
(16:02):
don't know, it dealt with like very topical issues as
opposed to now a lot of animation is very a
d D and just kind of you know, in your face.
So there was a little more nuanced with that show
that I think. Really, Yeah, the eighties and the eighties
and the nineties did this thing where because we're talking
about it when we're going back and looking at a
lot of nineties shows, even the on camera shows, they
did these things where they were for multiple audiences. So
(16:27):
you know, a kid would watch Hey Arnold and see
one thing, an adult would watch Hey Arnold to see
something else in somebody seventeen would watch Hey Arnold and
see something else. And the eighties and the nineties really,
especially the nineties, really had that going where it was
that kind of again, like you said, the kids and alcohol.
The mom's an alcoholic, but you're you're eight years old
watching that. You're never going to pick that up unless
(16:48):
your mom is also an alcohol and your mom is
also but exactly, I mean it is. It's one of
those things where it kind of appealed to a whole
range of people, which is why Hey Arnold was one
of those shows you would hear about college kids like, well,
we'd wake up and we just watched Hey Arnold, and
they would watch it completely differently than the kids that
would wake up in the morning and do it. Was
very Nickelodeon back in the day was doing stuff that
(17:09):
was very cutting edge in that sense. Nicolodeon, do you
know what they I got slimmed. So that's how long
ago I was on Nickelodeon. I've heard different things about
like is it pudding? Is it like corn start? Like
did it taste? How did it taste? It was, well
the thing. So I got slimmed on the set of
the original. You can't do that on television. Oh no,
(17:32):
I was, I was nic I was, I was, I
was on Nickelodeon. I started hosting a show on Nickelodeon
in nighties seven called what Don't Just Sit There? Oh
my gosh, best it was the best. It was a
you were a young Saturday Night Live. There was four
of us hosting. We had a band, we had special
(17:53):
kids like we had you know, new kids in the
Block came on and Freddy Krueger came on and we
will Wheaton's where I met Wheaton for the first time.
So we were shooting in New York. And it's so
funny because I know and well you we just had
a reunion. We just had a don't just sit the
reunion for the first time since at my house two
(18:13):
weeks ago. It was great, it was but it's people
I hadn't seen since I was twelve. Did they write
in your bathroom? They did? They did? Actually I have
I'm sorry that for for the audience listening. I have
a bathroom that is off a little screening room and
there's pens everywhere, and you write up your favorite movie
quote on the wall. So it's just the whole wall
is just covered with with your favorite movie quotes. Will
(18:35):
when you sell your house someday, that's going to be
like valuable, Yeah, well, well we'll see. But that's why
we're gonna We're gonna triple the price of just that room. Um,
but if so, they flew me up to the set
of You Can't Do That on Television to interview all
them for don't just sit there. And part of the
thing was I had to actually do one of the
skits and I got to say I don't know, and
(18:56):
I grew up obviously, you know, a year or two
before that, just watching You Can't Do That on television
the original opening the lockers like, hey Lucy, Hey, alistair,
it was the coolest thing in the world. And then
to kind of be there and there's just a guy
on a ladder smoking a cigarette with a bucket and
it's the thing that makes it all stringy is is
baby shampoo. So it's like they're just dumping this like
(19:18):
slimy oatmeally baby shampoo, and they were teaching me how
to do it. It's like you're supposed to first get
hit on the top of the head, and then when
you feel like it hit, you're supposed to look to
this guy like I can't believe this is happening, so
then it covers your whole face. Um, it was a
whole Yeah, it was a whole thing, but it was
like old school original, but it was some guy in
Canada and Ottawa with a cigarette hanging out like Amy,
(19:39):
We're gonna yeah. So it was, it was. It was interesting,
but that's that was Nickelodeon back in the day. And
to get back to what we were talking about, Hey
Arnold was then the next generation of Nickelodeon, like one
generation removed from the start where they really started to
capture I think what kids were about UM because they
were doing this kind of multi level writing where it
(20:03):
did it meant something to one generation, something to the next,
and something to the next. So I'm going through the
same thing right now with the Nightmare before Christmas UM,
which which works on those two levels. And my daughter
is now obsessed with it and she wants it for
her sixth birthday and it's kind of, you know, kind
of kept me up last night because I was like,
is it going to scare her friends? Is it? Or
(20:23):
is it? Mostly just the tone of it. You can
be enjoyed by the mayor in that movie Scary when
I was young, but everything else is kind of I
don't know, it's whimsical. Yeah, I think so too, Yeah,
I think so too. All right, all right, so you
(20:47):
go from Hey Arnold, now I want to jump ahead
a little bit because I see one word that always
sticks out to me. I don't care what I'm reading
or what I'm doing, but when I see the word jedi,
oh yeah, yeah, just changes everything. So can you tell
me a little bit about that? Are you? Is there
a word for real? Quick? Is there a word for
Star Wars fans like Star Trek fans or Trunk nerd
(21:07):
or Star Wars fans not like anyone. I guess that's weird,
okay a nerd? Yeah, that was cool because when you
do that show, hey, it's just cool, right. And when
you do that show, you work with this guy, Dave Feloni,
who's kind of be like, you know, okay, the guru
of Star Wars. I don't like the next George. Basically
(21:31):
he's kind of in charge of and he's very hands
on and so and every Star Wars fan when they
see his name attached, including to a live action show,
they know it's going to be awesome because they know
that he loves the source material. So it's you know,
you're gonna get It's not going to be some random
person like I'm going to try a Star Wars project.
You see Feloni's name and you're like Okay, this is
(21:52):
gonna be handled well, yeah, it's very cannon and you know,
and so he was really instrumental now, so he was
there for all the records, and you know, he's kind
of like, I'm the direct line to George Lucas. You
can ask me anything, you know. And I'm sitting there
with like Greg Sipes. I don't know if you know
him voice you think, so, do Jedis have sex? And
(22:13):
he's like, you know, Jedi's actually are allowed to have sex,
and there's like a whole story about that, you know.
And of course that and like you know, you'll be
doing a scene and he's like, now, George for this scene,
sat me down in the screening room and he showed
me this movie from nineteen two and the scene is
going to be like that scene and did a little
(22:34):
like he's so involved in it, you know. And the
thing that was like cool and also unfortunate about that
arc is that it's like a very specific arc because
it was the first time that they explained like how
lightsabers are made. Uh oh with the ki crystal, Yeah exactly.
And Jesus, I'm a total nerd what so many things
(22:59):
I've it's blue um, you think it's blue. I don't
know you Yes you do, yes you do. But but
that whole the reason they gave us such an important storyline,
if you will, is that was supposed to be a
whole spinoff series of like Young Jedi's Padderwans or whatever.
And then right is I mean, it wasn't like production
(23:22):
and how to budget and stuff. And then right then
Disney bought Star Wars and their thing was that any
TV show that was going to get made had to
fuel the movies and be tied in with that, and
so they canceled it before it whatever. Uh so, which
is like basically the story of my career. Um, but
(23:44):
we know we've all been there. Um. But yeah, so
it's still a cool it's still a cool arc that people. Um,
I don't know, it's important to a lot of fandom
people because just that origin story of crystals now I
know that, Yeah, the Kiber crystal of course, which is
also the thing that fueled the death start. We're not
(24:04):
going to get into this, okay, So, um, I'm sorry,
but as a total nerd, I go I go through
your resume, which again, we could talk Avatar, we could
talk old school, which is new school, old school with
care bears, care bears um. But I want to get
into who did you play in the Harry Potter game. Oh,
(24:24):
it's not even out, well, it is out, but it's
not out here in America yet. Her name is Lottie
and she's like this little artist and she's great. I've
been I've been working on this video game for three
and a half years and it's still not out domestically
huge in China. It's like gigantic and China. I don't
even think they it's so popular in China that I
(24:45):
don't even think they care, Like it's supposed to come
out this year. But I'm like, guys, October TikTok um.
But but I've really been enjoying it. I mean, I
it's really it's a great It's been a great gig
in terms of just like consistency and also fun to
be you know, little little British chick. But yeah, oh
(25:05):
she's very sweet and she's always just looking for her paintbrush.
And you know, it's like I think it takes place
after Harry's graduated or something, so it's a whole new
cast of characters and the art is beautiful. It's really
stylistically beautiful. It's very different from other Harry Potter stuff. Um,
but yeah, what I don't know. I don't know this
(25:26):
if don't know, it's so funny because the guy who
directs it, he's like, when I gave the audition, I
put in all these very like specific Harry Potter lingo
spells and words, hoping that that would you know, suss
out that filter out the people that didn't know anything
about Harry Potter. But this slipped in. I don't know.
(25:49):
Well wait what what now? I want to know what
did you put in? You know, I'm a Harry Potter.
I pronounced everything. Yeah, I don't know, but it's all
those you know, incanto, phosphorus or whatever. I don't know
that things are things don't know. Well, I just you
don't need to just read the lines. But let's talk
(26:12):
about like how you have this canon and how you
approach a franchise. Then, um, you know, and still give
a great performance enough for you to be hired. Because
a lot of people who are auditioning for things that
are very much not they're necessarily they're casting or their
interests or something that they know about. How do you
find your way into a character that you don't know
(26:32):
anything about. Well, I mean, at the end of the day,
like it's acting. And so I mean people same thing
at cons or whatever. We'll say like, well, how do
I get into acting? Into voice acting? And and they
never said that to me when I was doing on
camera work. There's something I think about voice acting that
seems more accessible to just random people. But like, at
(26:56):
the end of the day, it's like little V big a, right, Like,
so it's all acting and it all comes from that.
So I always say to people I go take an
acting class and they go oh, and I'm like, yeah,
because you could do a million voices. But at the
end of the day, it's right, yeah, you have to
be an actor. And so yeah, I don't know. I
just come at everything from that. And so like with
(27:17):
her particular arc is like very emotional and whatever. So
it's just about knowing you know, how to convey all
that stuff and with your voice and and all that.
So with the cannon stuff, I mean, you guys, I'm
the worst. So when I did Avatar, I never read
the scripts. So because I'm sure I tried to read
one script that's that's Will's mortal. That's the mortal sin
(27:40):
of I'm terrible, You're gonna hate, Like I'm actually more
in your camp. So like like here's the thing, if it,
if it makes sense, maybe, but like with Avatar, like
I'm sure I got the first script and I was
like Fire Nation, Water Tribe something lord like, I don't know,
I don't know, and I'm sure I went there and
(28:02):
they said, now this is this, and the four nations
are fighting and there's one avatar that's going to unite
everyone and the Chakras and and it just I didn't
even whatever, right, So I get there and I see
my character and whatever, and she's pink and she's cute.
So I just made her pink and cute. I don't know.
So it wasn't until like eight years later. I was
(28:24):
at my first comic con ever, this is like ten
twelve years ago now, and someone said, like, what's it
like to be a villain? And I said, what do
you mean? And they said, well, she's a villain. And
I had no idea, and that's why she's so like
perky and cute and whatever, because I didn't know. I
thought she was pink, man. I didn't know. I didn't know,
(28:45):
so you wait, were you literally not reading the scripts?
You were just reading your line? Okay? And she you know,
and she did a great jobs. So funny because we're
talking just Star Wars' just the Last Airbender, Star Wars.
(29:09):
I just read some of the biggest in some of
the biggest franchises. So I take it you are not
like you don't read fantasy novels. Then the world building
is not. I like sci fi, but fantasy is the
one thing that just like doesn't do it for me.
Like Game of Thrones. All that stuff like just does
not came of Thrones isn't my favorite either, But that's yeah, interesting.
(29:34):
I'm more of the Harry Potter and Game of Thrones.
I'm more of a fantasy I guess are you? Are
you watching the New House of the Dragon thing? You
keeping everything? Don't tell me anything. I haven't seen it yet.
I like to let the entire series come out and
then I binge it by myself. The kind of waiting
thing doesn't just alone in a little hole, just in
a tiny, little darkened room, dressed like a dragon. Perfect
(29:55):
it's going to be. That's That's what I'm gonna do.
That we always ask bowl, um, do you because you know,
one of the other things that you're you're obviously known
for on camera. You do a lot of on camera work.
But the Brady Bunch movie sure yeah, um was was
very big and then the sequels very big too, great films. Uh,
my question is is there one style you prefer? Do
(30:18):
you prefer on camera to voiceover? Do you prefer voice
over to on camera? Do you have one? You know,
it's like my well, like it wasn't a choice to
go into voiceover, right, Like my career just went that way,
and I'm not I resist nothing, So I just kind
of go with the flow with that stuff. So that's
a really great mantra. I mean, you know, so it's
(30:41):
like I like doing on camera, or liked doing on camera,
but honestly, like I love not memorizing lines. And so
now every once I really I really don't do on
camera anymore, but every once in a while I'll get
an audition and just I when you don't have that
memory or muscle that you've been using that uh you know,
(31:04):
muscle memory for performing in line, I mean, it's it's
just gone. It is gone. I don't know, if you
guys something truly, but yeah, um so yeah, and also
too in terms of you want to hear something crazy, Olivia. Yeah, literally,
when I get auditions, I have a teleprompter, like you
(31:26):
have your professional teleprompter, but I have a teleprompter. It's
basically a piece that you can put on your home device,
your home camera, and you can upload your script and
you can literally, well will you go. We can't see
Will is like shaking his head with his head in
(31:46):
his hands right now. You know why, because I don't
have the time or the energy either. But look, I
still watch and I still look at my performance, and
I still say, I am acting. This is rooted in reality,
and I look great and I'm not stuttering, and I've
been acting for so long and the odds are so
(32:09):
like the odds. It is a very competitive thing. So
that if you feel strong about your performance, no matter
what it looks like, as long as you feel like
it's rooted personally. I think what Olivia is trying to share,
and I agree with, Okay, is not to sweat the
small stuff in your performances, like I'm sorry. The learning
of the dialogue is not small stuff. The reading the
(32:34):
reading of the material is not small go with me
on this. Maybe maybe it's just me, but like if
it's written well, it's a lot easier to memorize than
if it's just a Most things that you go on
are terrible, and so you get these things and they
don't flow or like I do still audition for commercials
(32:57):
and I had this commercial audition the other day and
I had to talk about cell phones and five G
this into and I was just reading. They usually have
the lines behind the camera and I was reading it,
and after I did it, he was like, can you
do it more to camera? He's like, oh, yeah, but
you know when it gets technical or any of that stuff,
you know, you know, God, we sound like the laziest
(33:17):
actors a lot. It's I didn't want to say that,
but there's a guy on my street he went to Juilliard.
What's going on? No, it's just there's there's a guy
on my street who is Australian who is an actor
and I always see him and he's out walking with
his wife and his little baby and we always say
hi to each other. But he's always memorizing his sides
and his lines. And there's Luke Cook. I don't know,
(33:42):
Oh is it I don't know who Luke Cook is.
Maybe you don't know who who this guy. I don't
know who Luke Cook is. I could be Luke Cook.
I have no idea who that um. But it's one
of those things where and then I all people always
ask like why is everybody that's getting cast British or Australian,
And it's because they put in the work, that's one
of the reasons. Probably. So it's we we as Americans
(34:04):
have have lasified out are acting chops well and also
like as child actors too. It's like we've been doing
it so long, Like there is a thing where like
to our credit, you know, it's that ten thousand hour
rule or whatever, like once you've been doing something ten
thousand hours, like you're kind of a professional. And we
all have and so I don't know what kind of
(34:26):
rule is that you haven't heard about. That that's the mastery.
So it doesn't matter what you're doing. If you've done
it for ten thousand hours, you're kind of an expert. Yeah,
that's why they say the Beatles were so good because
they played and played and played and played like way
before and it's a whole thing. Yeah, I'm Malcolm glad,
I gotta, I gotta go. I gotta put that on
my teleprompter so I can read it later. It's called
what's it called, Christie. I'm never going to live that
(34:47):
one down. That was an honest share and I thought
I was in a safe space and again I'm not
again though, But Olivia is percent right. If you don't
exercise the muscle, you lose it. So if you get
one of these jobs and you haven't been memorizing the lines,
working that muscle, you're gonna have trouble again memorizing your dialogue.
But here's the here's the real rub. What happens if
you actually book it. That's what I'm saying, and I
(35:08):
would actually do the job. Okay, Well, speaking of speaking
of acting, we've got a wonderful scene we're coming into.
By the way I read, I also read that once too,
So let's see how that's fine. As long as you've
(35:28):
got all your spells down, we're going to be good. Um,
and you are playing a villain. Safe space. That's what
most important. Is a safe space. It's absolutely a safe
but you are That's the other thing is you. Your
resume is ridiculous. You're talking before you got out here
where it's like we only have an hour show and
(35:49):
she's done so much, so very quickly. Then before we
get into across the garden with our wonderful we don't
like to say, amateur undiscovered voiceover talent, who's going to
come and play with us for the day. Um, is
there anything? I mean, you've got a crunchy role hit
coming out, You've got the new, um Harry Potter game.
Is there anything you Potter game? We're doing more Brats.
(36:09):
They've brought Brats back, another huge branch, another huge thing,
and so we're doing episodes on that for TikTok and
then I think they're trying to turn that into a
series as well, and some video games and whatever. So yeah,
that's god bless like gen Z or whatever. They're bringing
all this Y two K stuff. They're making me all
this Y two K stuff. Love that. That's very very
(36:33):
all right. So it is hip. It's good think. I'm
so glad. You know how happy Christie I are that
the nineties are important again. Jeez, I don't know what
we do. I don't know what we would do. I
(36:57):
guess if we want to go ahead and bring in
our are It's Kyle. How are you good? Are you
welcome to the show. Thank you for joining us, thank you,
thank you for having me. I'm Will. That's Christie and
that's Olivia. Yeah you too, you too? Hi? Where are you?
(37:20):
Upstate New York? About an hour and a half from
New York City? Where an upstate can? I ask? Okay?
I love that. We're all we're East Coast people here?
Well three are two of us? Are East Coast people here?
And then Olivia was born and raised in Beverly Hills.
You can see it on her IMTB Paige. She's in
a giant mansion too. By the way, is the year
(37:47):
wrong or right now? It's all unfortunately very correct it is.
Now do you age differently in giant mansions in Beverly Hills?
I'm just curious. I mean, clearly, Look, I'm almost forty.
Look at this, Look at this, Look at this phase?
Pretty dunk? So Kaylee, what has what has interested you
in voice overacting? Um? To be honest, the show? Really, Yes,
(38:11):
you're that's awesome. So I actually, um, I actually went
to school for theater, live theater, um. And then just
the kind of roller coaster that is live theater. Um,
you know how Broadway shows have been closing up down
left and right, And I actually, um, you know, kind
(38:33):
of started dipping my feet into this show. And I
you know, I had always done you know, voices here
and there, just for fun. But you know, when I
came across the show, I was like, you know what,
I think this might be. Uh this, I think this
might be. That's amazingired somebody, Christie right now? So you
(38:56):
want to will you will you play with us? Will
you come and play Across the Guarden with us? Sure?
So for those of you joining us for the very
first time ever, we play a fun game called Across
the Garden where Christy and I came up with two
very interesting characters right on the fly that we still
look at each other and go, man, we wish we
came up with different characters. But we've got our two
little mice friends, Ricky and Mocha, who are trying to
make it across the garden so that Mocha can see
(39:18):
her boyfriend, which is the story. Again we came up
with on the fly, um, and they've been having trouble
getting across the garden. So this week Olivia is going
to be playing Rose and Kayleie, you're gonna be Jack
if that's all right, All this is great. Christie once
again will be Mocha and I will be We're just
(39:40):
reading this like a scene, right, Yeah, just absolutely reading
it like a scene. And what we're hoping to have
happen is that because we love people that are trying
to catch a break in the animation industry, So we're
going to take all the scenes that we've recorded with
all of our undiscovered talent, and we're going to have
amateur um animators animate the hire thing together and we're
(40:00):
gonna have everybody's gonna get to see themselves in their
own cartoon, which is going to be really really cool.
We can't wait. So here we are. I will be
reading the stage directions and we will go from there.
So we are fading in exterior woods continuous. We come
up on Ricky and Mocha standing on the deck of
a small ocean liner crossing the pond, the wind in
their hair. This is actually pretty nice. Pan over to
(40:23):
see Ricky hurling over the side of the boat. Yeah,
it's magical. Well, I mean, at least we're finally going
to get to them all it has been a bit
of a journey. Have you decided how you're actually going
to dump your boyfriend? I want to see his face
as I tell him what he's done to me. I
want to look him in the eye when he knows
(40:46):
that it's over. Or I'll just text him. As the
siblings are talking to grasshoppers walk behind in mid discussion.
One of them is dressed to the nines while the
other looks a bit lower class. Oh, Jack, this just
can never work. My family has made me after Lord
John Hoppington the second, and you won your tickets for
this maiden voyage on the tot on the to tintic
(41:07):
on a random game of chance a rose. I know,
I'm just dependingless artists struggling to make it. But we
can run away together in fine happiness. It won't work.
It went shot. It was chant. Oh well, can I
(41:27):
at least draw? You? Draw me? What draw you? You
know as an artist draws a model? Do you mean? Yes?
Naked Rose wheels around on? Jack? Are you crazy? In
this day and age? Something like that gets in the
Internet and never disappears. Lord John's family would never accept me.
(41:49):
Then Jack turns, Wait, you're still going to marry Lord
John Hoppington, the second yer, watching the scene play out.
Watch this. Of course I'm still marrying him. His family
don't half the garden. But come on, man, you're a
nice guy and all, but you're a fling. You're a
(42:10):
nice distraction. I can think about in the years to
come when my mega wealthy husband is working too much
and the tennis instructor stopped seeing someone else. Oh, I
thought we really had something. I thought we were in love,
and I thought you were the bell hop deliver in
my bags. We all make mistakes, dude, a voice out.
I spurg dead dead, Thank god. I would rather this
(42:35):
whole built sinc Than spending out a second with you.
Back at your chief. I'm gonna go find a lifeboat
while you hunt down some woman's close so you don't
have to float on a door or something. She turns
to leave, Tootles Jack is left in the deck by himself.
Well that didn't go the way I thought it would.
Ricky and Moka walk over. That's love, man, it totally sucks. No, No,
(42:59):
that's not true. Love can be a beautiful thing filled
with passion and respect. How would you know? At Nicholas
Barks novels, The gang just looks over in time to
see a giant floating slushy cup clip the side of
the boat. It immediately starts to sink. Well, here we go, Rickey,
make look at each other, swim for it, swim for it.
(43:21):
Good luck finding love, Jed, They jump off the boat.
It's jack whatever. Yeah, Kaylee, thank you so much for
joining us. You were absolutely wonderful. Yeah. She dipped her
energy up, which I feel like is so important, especially
on the cold reads. Right, it was incredible. So where
(43:43):
can people find you if they're looking for you on
socials and stuff? So I am on Instagram. It's just
my name, Kaylee Mercado, Kaylee Marcott with two ease, Yes,
two ease M E R c A d O. And
is there any of kind of voices you want to do?
You want to showcase before you go? You don't have
(44:04):
to ums pressure. Um, what have you been working on
since you were inspired from the show? Well, I don't
know if if you guys have seen the Aristocats of course,
Olivia Dave amazing Arista cats. Yes, yes, I can do,
(44:26):
I can do Marie, I can do Napoleon do one.
Let's here what you got, um, ladies, do not stud sights,
but they can finish them very nice. All right, well,
thank you so much for joining us. Break your voice
(44:50):
and keep listening to the show because with the contest
coming out, you never know what could happen, so hopefully
you're going to enter. Yes, of course, thank you guys much,
thank you for joining us. Thank you. That's nice. Guys
do that. That's so cool. So it's kind of like
what we offer on our show, you know, because it's
(45:12):
like our show is is so community based and we
love our fans so much, and like you said, Olivia,
like people have come up to us too, all these
comic cons and have asked us how do I start?
How do I get into it? I'm so passionate. I
have all these voices I'm working on. And what I
love about our show is that it's kind of a
guidebook episode to episode on how to sort of build
your you know, your footing in what you want to
(45:34):
do and what you want to contribute to the voice
acting world. It feels it's so much more accessible now,
especially like, yeah, I don't know doing all these cons,
and it's like it used to be such a small
click and especially with anime and all that like, it's
just exploded in terms of accessibility. And then also we're
all or a lot of us are recording from home
(45:54):
now too, you know, so it's not like you have
to be in l Are, you have to be in
New York and and that sort of it does. It
makes a big difference. And we love having the the
undiscovered talent comes on, which which and that leads us
to our thing we've been talking about now and I
think we're we're stepping up to the point where we're
actually going to be uh taking it live in the
next couple of weeks. So we are doing, of course
(46:16):
the Super Awesome Contest to become the next Big Voice Actor.
And we've talked about that before. So somebody out there
is going to win some incredible prizes, including Voiceover Agent. So, uh,
you get to sign with the voice Over Agent. And
we are we we we say, you know, we don't
get to to throw you into the business. We can't
give you a career, but we can crack the door.
(46:36):
So what's what's the contest called again, Christie? I keep,
I keep forgetting the Super Awesome Contest to become the
next Big Voice Actor. Yes, you got it, man, finally
tell that we are getting close to launching the contest exactly.
That's exactly what I'm doing right now. I love thank you.
(46:56):
That's very funny, Olivia. Thank you so much for joining us.
You're so awesome. Thanks for having me. Guys, Like, I
miss you. I miss you. I feel like I have
to I'm gonna have to message you. Yeah, oh, please
to go to the club. And where can nice where
can people find you if you're looking at the club? Honestly,
the one club in Beverly Hills near the Giant House.
(47:18):
I was, oh my god, kill me. Um, I'm on Instagram.
It's like the Olivia Hack. You can find me there.
And I'm basically at a comic con every weekend. So
because I love that's awesome. Yeah, I'm surprised that we
haven't seen each We're probably crossing pads of thousand you.
We will see each other next year, I'm sure. Yeah,
(47:38):
I'm sure. I did like twenty this year and I've
already got like twenty lined up for next year. So
nex yeah, I want any chance going? Did you know
I want to this next year? Okay, you guys go.
Last year, yeah, nineties con and Hartford was awesome. Yeah,
she was the host and the cast deploy mean, Okay,
when's the next nineties con are you doing? I think
(48:00):
there's one in March and Hartford that we're not doing
the one in Hartford again, but then I think there's
another one in Florida that I think we're doing, so yeah,
so it's it's gonna be cool. But yeah, well we'll
sure see you and check out Olivia, who I'm sure
you can find on Instagram, and we'll tell everybody all
of the convention she's going to so you can go
out and uh see what it looks like when you
(48:22):
were raised in Beverly Hills by surrounded by wealth. Um up, awesome,
Thank you so much for joining us. Check out everything
she's doing because it's cool. And that Harry Potter game
sounds amazing, and we're going to find out exactly what
(48:43):
color that kaibra crystal is, um because that is also
very important. But thank you everybody for joining us this week.
And don't forget if you think you have what it
takes to step up to the microphone, then put your
voices where your mouth is. Thanks everybody. I hear voices
as hosted by Wilfred and Christy Carlson Romano. Executive produced
by Will Ferdell, Brendan Rooney, Amy Sugarman and Vicky Ernst Chang.
(49:05):
Our executive in charge of production is Danielle Romo, Our
producer is Lorraine Vera Weez and our editor slash engineer
is Brian Burton. And that was my announcer voice. Some
side effects of listening to I Hear Voices are sore
abs from hilarity falling down the Coco melon rabbit hole,
sneezing due to mass nostalgia, and hugs. Follow I Hear
Voices wherever you listen to podcasts so you don't miss
any of the amazing voices. Be sure to follow us
(49:26):
on Instagram and TikTok at I Hear Voices podcast. To
see the video stream, subscribe to my YouTube channel. You
can also check us out on my space, omegal Vine,
lime Wire. Hey I'm a napster. Okay, well, let's teach
you about the Internet. The who
Hey Christy, Hi will Fredell. What's up? How wow? I
got the full last name today? You did, because you
know what, I'm really excited. You just shared all this
amazing news. You did um the pod Meats World Live show,
and you packed the house. We did. We packed the house.
It was a ton of fun. And you've moved to
Speaking of houses, you've moved to another house and you
are reporting from a new cave. You're watching video. Yeah,
(00:23):
and everybody's sick. I mean, there's just so much going
on in the world, right, Is everyone in your family sick?
Because everyone around here is really I've got one child
on antibiotics and another one that's you know, healthy on
the mend, and a third child that you're married to
that also has a sinus infection and has been gone
for a week while we were moving in. Everything's good, though,
like honestly, like I can't complain. You can. You got
(00:45):
a big microphone in front of you can complain to
everybody you want to. That's the joy. That's true. I
guess I could. And it's echo E two it is.
I noticed you're in kind of a new cave. You
have to we'll we'll have to de ecify your ecify. Yeah,
I'm gonna. I'm going with itfy id your your room.
But I like but in a weird way. I like
the way that it makes my voice sound more womanly. Really,
(01:06):
you think makes you sound more womanly? Weirdly, I feel
like more sexy. Is that what you think? It sounds ephemeral?
What does that word mean? Even? I feel like I
know what that word you're asking. Ephemeral. Ephemeral is the
largest bone in your leg. I broke. I broke my
(01:27):
ephemeral when I was a kid. I'm kidding. Hold on now,
I really want to Now you want to know what
it is? I would tell you, but I'm not going wrong.
Hold on if I actually got this, yeah, no lasting
(01:48):
for a very short time. Fashions are ephemeral, ethereal. Then
that's what I meant. Don't use words you don't know
what they mean. I do that every now and then.
I'm just I'm sorry. I'm just looking back as my
as my career as a lover, and being called ephemeral,
I realized was not was not the compliment I thought
(02:10):
it was. I was like, man, was totally aphemeral, And
she had to tell me quickly um oh no, that's
so funny. How are you so you're are you not sick?
You're not sick. I don't know. I'm mom sick, which
basically means like, especially like our producer can share our
sentiment as well, Um yeah, I'm mom sick, which means
(02:33):
you really can't get sick. It's like you're sick, but
like you laugh at it because you have to keep
going and pretend like it's not really happening. Yeah. My
wife Sue says that I'm one of those people where
I sneeze once and I've got to be in bed
for a month, or it's like don't don't come here
of yourself, take care of yourself. That's important, honestly. But no,
I get that. Like we we've been doing a lot
(02:53):
of different podcasts, both of us have separately from each other,
and and obviously we're doing our next con together. We're
doing is in San Francisco. San Francisco. Yeah, and we're
doing a live I hear voices at San Francisco Comic Con,
which is great. Which is I think it's the twenties
fifth it's right after Thanksgiving, the day after thanks You,
it's November, putting my pie fork down I'm heading exactly.
(03:16):
We're actually having Thanksgiving in San Francisco with our with
my my stepdaughter and new son in law, so it
will be there. Yeah, that's where they live. So though,
oh my gosh, that's great time. So they will be
there for Thanksgiving, the giving of thanks Um and have
turkey in the city. I haven't had turkey in the
city and as long as I can remember. And some
(03:36):
chowder what why would there be chowder? Do they have
great clam chowder? First of all, you're talking to a
guy from New England. Don't ever bring up West Coast
chowder to talking to somebody who you're from. You, by
the way, are from Connecticut. You should be all about
New England white real clam chowder. This is what they
serve though at the wharf Fisherman's work they serve both
(04:00):
types of chowder. I'm sure. I'm sure they're trying to
get it just as good as in the New England
clam chowder, and they don't. My friend canceled, canceled without
the chowder. Fly your Connecticut flag high. You gotta fly
your Connectic So I'm very excited about today's guests. Are
you excited about today's guest. I am because I actually
(04:21):
know our guest from way back, and we're going to
be able to reconnect because it's been years. For sure,
it's been years, and um, I remember seeing her in
audition rooms and whatnot, and I'm so happy that she's
doing so well in our little voice over community now
crazy well, I mean, we're talking about she was on
Hey Arnold, and she was on Last Airbender, and she
(04:41):
was on the care Bears, and she's been a Jedi,
and it's Harry Potter video games and burn the Witch,
which is a new crunchy role. There's so much to
talk about that. Frankly, I don't know if we're gonna
be able to get everything. So I think we should
just end this podcast here and not even bring her out,
because I we're just not gonna be able to get
to all the stuff that we have to get to.
I can't wait to hear her on our little show,
a little, our little vignette. Oh when we're going to
(05:03):
do our across the Garden, which is great. We've got
a fun fun across the garden today and have fun.
Um amateur voiceover actor, undiscovered voice over, I don't like
the word amateur. An undiscovered voiceover actor like that is
going to join us today, and that will also lead
us to a wonderful conversation about the best way to
be discovered, because we're going to help out with that
with our amazing um contest, which I can never remember
(05:25):
the name of christ can I don't even ask. I
can't remember what it's called. What is it? What is
it again? Dude, you're so good. I'm just curious if
you can remember what it is, because it's out of
my head. What's it called again? It's got out of
my head to you know. Come on, Google, come on,
(05:47):
it's completely drawing, It's completely Maybe if I keep drinking
my diet code. There you go. It's the super Awesome
Contest to become the next voice Actor, Next Big Voice.
The super Awesome Contest to become the next voice actor
the Big Voice. Yeah, the next Big Voice. We'll get it.
We'll get it, we'll get it. I think the first
thing you're gonna have to do is learn the title
to win. But oh my god, who do we have today?
(06:09):
Who's joining us? Christie? We have Miss Olivia Hack. Let's
get into it. Hey, it's all happening. It's all happening.
She's here. How you doing? I'm happy, Christie is Olivia
every single time, every single time a guest comes on,
(06:29):
Christie is amazed they're actually here. It's so funny. It's
like whatever. I like, It's like we've been planning this
for weeks and then the person actually pops up like
you're here. First of all, yes, because I'm so grateful
when people come on to our our show, and ours
has had everyone on those seriously, we continue to well done, Olivia. Dude, Olivia,
(06:54):
when's the last time I saw you? I don't know,
fifteen years ago at some club in l A or
something probably okay, think okay, so club in l A. Sure,
but I thought we were I thought we were like
the same, we were agent or CSD. Yes, yes see
I was right, you know will Okay, I'm still still
I've been with C E. D. S D for twenty years.
(07:15):
But I don't want to skip over the club in
l A story. So I don't, you know, I don't
know young people in l A. Whatever. Do you guys
still live in l A? I feel like neither of
you do. I'm basing that on. I do nothing I
don't live in l A and I don't go to club.
It's so sad that I live in l A and
I've never been to a club in my life. Good choices, yeah,
(07:37):
because I know, but I'm now I want to get
to do it. What was the last I don't know.
He was literally like lood do or some I mean
like back, Oh my gosh, day. I think Olivia and
I hung out like all the time that day. I
think we like. I think yes, and I miss you
in my life. We are the cup. You're in Austin.
(07:57):
Oh oh that's right. Yeah, as I moved to Austin, Texas.
How do you like training here? It's beautiful. I've been
your two and a half years. I've found a beautiful
house as well now, um that I just moved to.
So I'm really comfortable and my girls are really you know,
I have two kids, Olivia crazy crazy, I have to
(08:19):
no club time. You don't need to do that. You
really don't the babysitters club more like it. But yes,
oh my gosh, this is so cool. I'm so happy
to see your face, happy to see well, thank you
for joining us, thanks for having me. Happy to be here.
Now I have to know. Are you in l a A. Yeah,
raise if I die Hills, girl, if I die here,
(08:42):
I'll be really disappointed myself. But you know it's probably
gonna Did both of you grew up in l a too, No,
we're actually both from Connecticut randomly, Yeah, but you were
like kid actors. I feel like you're only a kid actor. Well,
I guess kids come out for pilot season, then they
do that whole. That's what we did. So I was
in the UID in New York and I would take
the bus down, she would take the train, and then
(09:03):
when Boy MEA's World started, I moved out here, so
that I've been here since I was sixteen. Um, so
I'm essentially have been a California person forever at this point. Well,
and that makes sense Connecticut but really New York City. Yeah,
so that's how that happens. Yeah, we were New York
kids that came west. Yeah, that's kind of our vibe.
But I'm not a Beverly Hills. It says Beverly Hills
(09:26):
on my like I AMDB, which is like unchangeable because
I was like born at I grew up in Hollywood
and then moved to Burbank and I'm still in Burbank,
so but it is interesting because you don't meet a
lot of people that are like from Beverly Hills or
l A. You know. Um, both my daughters were born
in One of them was born in Beverly Hills and
(09:46):
then the other one was born in Newport when we
moved down to Orange County. But it is it is
fun to see like somebody who's like from l A.
What's a different vibe. Like my favorite people are the
people that grew up here, because it's like, oh, that's
that's why like you, because you're just relaxed into it,
you know, because I think you meet a lot of
people and they come to l A and they try
(10:07):
and be l A whatever that is in their mind
that they grew up watching or think that, you know,
but I don't know that the locals are a little
bit more you know. Well, and Olivia always you've always
struck me as and this is funny because this will
trans this will transition into sort of just the sentiment
of using your voice and whatnot. But like you have
(10:27):
like a more East Coast sensibility to you, Like if
if somebody would be like, hey, look at this actress.
Where would you cast her being from I think somebody
would be like, oh yeah, she's kind of like sassy,
and I feel like she could be more East Coast
than people have asked me if I'm from New York.
But it's just it's direct, like I have very male energy,
which is just kind of I'm just more. I'm just direct.
(10:48):
I don't know. I don't like, who is time for
anything else? I like that. I like that. So let
me ask you a question. Then, how do we talked
about being child actors? How did you start in the industry?
I mean I literally it was like three years old.
Started in commercials like all kid actors do, as as
you do, you know, and then I started doing TV
(11:09):
and then movies and all that stuff. Um. And that's
why it's so funny because fans, you know, I do
a lot of comic cons, and so the question is
always like, how did you how did you start, you know,
voice acting? And the look on their face is just
so disappointed when I tell my story, because I think
there's a lot of especially anime actors and things that
(11:29):
have these like I was just an office assistant and
then I became a voice actor or whatever. And it's
like for me, like my first animated series was a
show called Hey Arnold, and I think I started that
when I show it. You know, when you do something
though you don't know, it's like what I have ever
heard of Hey Arnold? If I wasn't on it, I
don't know. You know, when you do a project, it's weird,
(11:49):
but uh, but yeah, I started doing that when I
was like, I think I had just turned twelve and so,
and I've done a little bit of voiceover before that,
and so it's like not this origin story where as
an adult I just started doing voiceover. So it's always
a little I feel disappointing two fans that I don't
have this like you can do it too story because
(12:10):
I've just been doing it forever. I don't know, but
there's part of me that thinks that's that, in a way,
is even a more interesting story because it's more rare.
The A lot of the people that we're meeting are
not people. I mean, you meet child actors that started
on camera exactly the way you're talking about it. We
all did commercials, so we kind of started or we
started on stage and then you transition, you know, if
(12:31):
you're back East, you do a law in order. You know,
it's every that kind of thing you always exactly so
everybody does that kind of stuff. And then as you're older,
you get maybe your first voiceover gig if you're you're
lucky enough to transition into voiceover. So to meet somebody
that has been doing voice over since they were young,
I think is more rare in the industry. I can
(12:53):
right now the people that have at least been on
this show. I can think of you. I can think
of Marsden, Jason Marsden, um, and that's kind of it.
We were young right when you were doing v O
or not that we're not all super I mean I
was like sixteen, so that's um no, no, I'm sorry
(13:13):
it's seventeen with Kim. But but but I do find
interesting with Hey Arnold was and then maybe you can
speak to this experience. But it seems like with Hey Arnold,
they really want wanted, like real kid voices. Yeah, and
that's why it's so cool. Like people always say like, oh,
what's your favorite animated project, and they want me to
say Avatar because that's so popular and Avatar is great
(13:34):
and everything. Um, now that I finally watched that show
after twenty years but another little tiny showy but but hey, Arnold,
I was a kid doing it and it wasn't all
kid cast, which was really rare for that time because,
as you know, they don't want to do kids because
school and time and spans and all that stuff. Um,
(13:54):
and you know, and voices change, like we had yeah yeah,
so you know the girls, Allen and Arnold. Yeah, Philip
van Dyke was another Arnold, um all these yeah. Well,
and there's like a real sweet spot I think for
boys where they have this like they've got this rasp
(14:17):
and they have this certain I don't know, and then
it's like twelve years old, and twelve years old is
right when it you know, flips so flip instantly. I
had that happened because I sang as a kid. I
sang and you know, and you know, I got the
lead and everything in the third grade and fourth grade
rolls around and then your voice starts to warble and
that's it. You're like, now you better learn how to
(14:37):
sing in a lower key, which I didn't. I discovered smoking,
which I liked way better. Got to be such a
weird thing like women, it just changes. But again, I
never thought I was going to be a voice over actor.
But that's the thing that was so cool about Hey
Arnold is it was not just a great show, but
it seemed to kind of be taking the next evolution
(14:58):
or step from the origin Charlie Brown stuff because that
was all kids too, and one of the very rare
things where they said, no, we're just going to use
all children. So to kind of piggyback on that, Hey
Arnold said, we're going to do the same thing. It
might have been one of the last shows all kids
was Recess because Recess wasn't all kids. I feel like
they do it stren now it's a little like more
(15:21):
of a hipper thing to do. Um. But yeah, I
don't know. I yeah, that show is just really special.
I think it's really ahead of its time. Like and
to speak on your point about like the whole Charlie
Brown thing, like yeah, I mean, if you go back
and you watch that show, there's like an episode where
this it's called Chocolate Boy, but he's like addicted chocolate
(15:41):
and really he's a drug addict and like helda his
mother through the whole series. If you really are watching it,
like she's an alcoholic she's always making these smoothies in
the morning and it's barely awake, and you know, there's
episodes where like Arnold gets mugged, or their city kids
and they grew up in the city. And so yeah,
there's a lot of people come up to me all
the time and talk about that show because it, I
(16:02):
don't know, it dealt with like very topical issues as
opposed to now a lot of animation is very a
d D and just kind of you know, in your face.
So there was a little more nuanced with that show
that I think. Really, Yeah, the eighties and the eighties
and the nineties did this thing where because we're talking
about it when we're going back and looking at a
lot of nineties shows, even the on camera shows, they
did these things where they were for multiple audiences. So
(16:27):
you know, a kid would watch Hey Arnold and see
one thing, an adult would watch Hey Arnold to see
something else in somebody seventeen would watch Hey Arnold and
see something else. And the eighties and the nineties really,
especially the nineties, really had that going where it was
that kind of again, like you said, the kids and alcohol.
The mom's an alcoholic, but you're you're eight years old
watching that. You're never going to pick that up unless
(16:48):
your mom is also an alcohol and your mom is
also but exactly, I mean it is. It's one of
those things where it kind of appealed to a whole
range of people, which is why Hey Arnold was one
of those shows you would hear about college kids like, well,
we'd wake up and we just watched Hey Arnold, and
they would watch it completely differently than the kids that
would wake up in the morning and do it. Was
very Nickelodeon back in the day was doing stuff that
(17:09):
was very cutting edge in that sense. Nicolodeon, do you
know what they I got slimmed. So that's how long
ago I was on Nickelodeon. I've heard different things about
like is it pudding? Is it like corn start? Like
did it taste? How did it taste? It was, well
the thing. So I got slimmed on the set of
the original. You can't do that on television. Oh no,
(17:32):
I was, I was nic I was, I was, I
was on Nickelodeon. I started hosting a show on Nickelodeon
in nighties seven called what Don't Just Sit There? Oh
my gosh, best it was the best. It was a
you were a young Saturday Night Live. There was four
of us hosting. We had a band, we had special
(17:53):
kids like we had you know, new kids in the
Block came on and Freddy Krueger came on and we
will Wheaton's where I met Wheaton for the first time.
So we were shooting in New York. And it's so
funny because I know and well you we just had
a reunion. We just had a don't just sit the
reunion for the first time since at my house two
(18:13):
weeks ago. It was great, it was but it's people
I hadn't seen since I was twelve. Did they write
in your bathroom? They did? They did? Actually I have
I'm sorry that for for the audience listening. I have
a bathroom that is off a little screening room and
there's pens everywhere, and you write up your favorite movie
quote on the wall. So it's just the whole wall
is just covered with with your favorite movie quotes. Will
(18:35):
when you sell your house someday, that's going to be
like valuable, Yeah, well, well we'll see. But that's why
we're gonna We're gonna triple the price of just that room. Um,
but if so, they flew me up to the set
of You Can't Do That on Television to interview all
them for don't just sit there. And part of the
thing was I had to actually do one of the
skits and I got to say I don't know, and
(18:56):
I grew up obviously, you know, a year or two
before that, just watching You Can't Do That on television
the original opening the lockers like, hey Lucy, Hey, alistair,
it was the coolest thing in the world. And then
to kind of be there and there's just a guy
on a ladder smoking a cigarette with a bucket and
it's the thing that makes it all stringy is is
baby shampoo. So it's like they're just dumping this like
(19:18):
slimy oatmeally baby shampoo, and they were teaching me how
to do it. It's like you're supposed to first get
hit on the top of the head, and then when
you feel like it hit, you're supposed to look to
this guy like I can't believe this is happening, so
then it covers your whole face. Um, it was a
whole Yeah, it was a whole thing, but it was
like old school original, but it was some guy in
Canada and Ottawa with a cigarette hanging out like Amy,
(19:39):
We're gonna yeah. So it was, it was. It was interesting,
but that's that was Nickelodeon back in the day. And
to get back to what we were talking about, Hey
Arnold was then the next generation of Nickelodeon, like one
generation removed from the start where they really started to
capture I think what kids were about UM because they
were doing this kind of multi level writing where it
(20:03):
did it meant something to one generation, something to the next,
and something to the next. So I'm going through the
same thing right now with the Nightmare before Christmas UM,
which which works on those two levels. And my daughter
is now obsessed with it and she wants it for
her sixth birthday and it's kind of, you know, kind
of kept me up last night because I was like,
is it going to scare her friends? Is it? Or
(20:23):
is it? Mostly just the tone of it. You can
be enjoyed by the mayor in that movie Scary when
I was young, but everything else is kind of I
don't know, it's whimsical. Yeah, I think so too, Yeah,
I think so too. All right, all right, so you
(20:47):
go from Hey Arnold, now I want to jump ahead
a little bit because I see one word that always
sticks out to me. I don't care what I'm reading
or what I'm doing, but when I see the word jedi,
oh yeah, yeah, just changes everything. So can you tell
me a little bit about that? Are you? Is there
a word for real? Quick? Is there a word for
Star Wars fans like Star Trek fans or Trunk nerd
(21:07):
or Star Wars fans not like anyone. I guess that's weird,
okay a nerd? Yeah, that was cool because when you
do that show, hey, it's just cool, right. And when
you do that show, you work with this guy, Dave Feloni,
who's kind of be like, you know, okay, the guru
of Star Wars. I don't like the next George. Basically
(21:31):
he's kind of in charge of and he's very hands
on and so and every Star Wars fan when they
see his name attached, including to a live action show,
they know it's going to be awesome because they know
that he loves the source material. So it's you know,
you're gonna get It's not going to be some random
person like I'm going to try a Star Wars project.
You see Feloni's name and you're like Okay, this is
(21:52):
gonna be handled well, yeah, it's very cannon and you know,
and so he was really instrumental now, so he was
there for all the records, and you know, he's kind
of like, I'm the direct line to George Lucas. You
can ask me anything, you know. And I'm sitting there
with like Greg Sipes. I don't know if you know
him voice you think, so, do Jedis have sex? And
(22:13):
he's like, you know, Jedi's actually are allowed to have sex,
and there's like a whole story about that, you know.
And of course that and like you know, you'll be
doing a scene and he's like, now, George for this scene,
sat me down in the screening room and he showed
me this movie from nineteen two and the scene is
going to be like that scene and did a little
(22:34):
like he's so involved in it, you know. And the
thing that was like cool and also unfortunate about that
arc is that it's like a very specific arc because
it was the first time that they explained like how
lightsabers are made. Uh oh with the ki crystal, Yeah exactly.
And Jesus, I'm a total nerd what so many things
(22:59):
I've it's blue um, you think it's blue. I don't
know you Yes you do, yes you do. But but
that whole the reason they gave us such an important storyline,
if you will, is that was supposed to be a
whole spinoff series of like Young Jedi's Padderwans or whatever.
And then right is I mean, it wasn't like production
(23:22):
and how to budget and stuff. And then right then
Disney bought Star Wars and their thing was that any
TV show that was going to get made had to
fuel the movies and be tied in with that, and
so they canceled it before it whatever. Uh so, which
is like basically the story of my career. Um, but
(23:44):
we know we've all been there. Um. But yeah, so
it's still a cool it's still a cool arc that people. Um,
I don't know, it's important to a lot of fandom
people because just that origin story of crystals now I
know that, Yeah, the Kiber crystal of course, which is
also the thing that fueled the death start. We're not
(24:04):
going to get into this, okay, So, um, I'm sorry,
but as a total nerd, I go I go through
your resume, which again, we could talk Avatar, we could
talk old school, which is new school, old school with
care bears, care bears um. But I want to get
into who did you play in the Harry Potter game. Oh,
(24:24):
it's not even out, well, it is out, but it's
not out here in America yet. Her name is Lottie
and she's like this little artist and she's great. I've
been I've been working on this video game for three
and a half years and it's still not out domestically
huge in China. It's like gigantic and China. I don't
even think they it's so popular in China that I
(24:45):
don't even think they care, Like it's supposed to come
out this year. But I'm like, guys, October TikTok um.
But but I've really been enjoying it. I mean, I
it's really it's a great It's been a great gig
in terms of just like consistency and also fun to
be you know, little little British chick. But yeah, oh
(25:05):
she's very sweet and she's always just looking for her paintbrush.
And you know, it's like I think it takes place
after Harry's graduated or something, so it's a whole new
cast of characters and the art is beautiful. It's really
stylistically beautiful. It's very different from other Harry Potter stuff. Um,
but yeah, what I don't know. I don't know this
(25:26):
if don't know, it's so funny because the guy who
directs it, he's like, when I gave the audition, I
put in all these very like specific Harry Potter lingo
spells and words, hoping that that would you know, suss
out that filter out the people that didn't know anything
about Harry Potter. But this slipped in. I don't know.
(25:49):
Well wait what what now? I want to know what
did you put in? You know, I'm a Harry Potter.
I pronounced everything. Yeah, I don't know, but it's all
those you know, incanto, phosphorus or whatever. I don't know
that things are things don't know. Well, I just you
don't need to just read the lines. But let's talk
(26:12):
about like how you have this canon and how you
approach a franchise. Then, um, you know, and still give
a great performance enough for you to be hired. Because
a lot of people who are auditioning for things that
are very much not they're necessarily they're casting or their
interests or something that they know about. How do you
find your way into a character that you don't know
(26:32):
anything about. Well, I mean, at the end of the day,
like it's acting. And so I mean people same thing
at cons or whatever. We'll say like, well, how do
I get into acting? Into voice acting? And and they
never said that to me when I was doing on
camera work. There's something I think about voice acting that
seems more accessible to just random people. But like, at
(26:56):
the end of the day, it's like little V big a, right, Like,
so it's all acting and it all comes from that.
So I always say to people I go take an
acting class and they go oh, and I'm like, yeah,
because you could do a million voices. But at the
end of the day, it's right, yeah, you have to
be an actor. And so yeah, I don't know. I
just come at everything from that. And so like with
(27:17):
her particular arc is like very emotional and whatever. So
it's just about knowing you know, how to convey all
that stuff and with your voice and and all that.
So with the cannon stuff, I mean, you guys, I'm
the worst. So when I did Avatar, I never read
the scripts. So because I'm sure I tried to read
one script that's that's Will's mortal. That's the mortal sin
(27:40):
of I'm terrible, You're gonna hate, Like I'm actually more
in your camp. So like like here's the thing, if it,
if it makes sense, maybe, but like with Avatar, like
I'm sure I got the first script and I was
like Fire Nation, Water Tribe something lord like, I don't know,
I don't know, and I'm sure I went there and
(28:02):
they said, now this is this, and the four nations
are fighting and there's one avatar that's going to unite
everyone and the Chakras and and it just I didn't
even whatever, right, So I get there and I see
my character and whatever, and she's pink and she's cute.
So I just made her pink and cute. I don't know.
So it wasn't until like eight years later. I was
(28:24):
at my first comic con ever, this is like ten
twelve years ago now, and someone said, like, what's it
like to be a villain? And I said, what do
you mean? And they said, well, she's a villain. And
I had no idea, and that's why she's so like
perky and cute and whatever, because I didn't know. I
thought she was pink, man. I didn't know. I didn't know,
(28:45):
so you wait, were you literally not reading the scripts?
You were just reading your line? Okay? And she you know,
and she did a great jobs. So funny because we're
talking just Star Wars' just the Last Airbender, Star Wars.
(29:09):
I just read some of the biggest in some of
the biggest franchises. So I take it you are not
like you don't read fantasy novels. Then the world building
is not. I like sci fi, but fantasy is the
one thing that just like doesn't do it for me.
Like Game of Thrones. All that stuff like just does
not came of Thrones isn't my favorite either, But that's yeah, interesting.
(29:34):
I'm more of the Harry Potter and Game of Thrones.
I'm more of a fantasy I guess are you? Are
you watching the New House of the Dragon thing? You
keeping everything? Don't tell me anything. I haven't seen it yet.
I like to let the entire series come out and
then I binge it by myself. The kind of waiting
thing doesn't just alone in a little hole, just in
a tiny, little darkened room, dressed like a dragon. Perfect
(29:55):
it's going to be. That's That's what I'm gonna do.
That we always ask bowl, um, do you because you know,
one of the other things that you're you're obviously known
for on camera. You do a lot of on camera work.
But the Brady Bunch movie sure yeah, um was was
very big and then the sequels very big too, great films. Uh,
my question is is there one style you prefer? Do
(30:18):
you prefer on camera to voiceover? Do you prefer voice
over to on camera? Do you have one? You know,
it's like my well, like it wasn't a choice to
go into voiceover, right, Like my career just went that way,
and I'm not I resist nothing, So I just kind
of go with the flow with that stuff. So that's
a really great mantra. I mean, you know, so it's
(30:41):
like I like doing on camera, or liked doing on camera,
but honestly, like I love not memorizing lines. And so
now every once I really I really don't do on
camera anymore, but every once in a while I'll get
an audition and just I when you don't have that
memory or muscle that you've been using that uh you know,
(31:04):
muscle memory for performing in line, I mean, it's it's
just gone. It is gone. I don't know, if you
guys something truly, but yeah, um so yeah, and also
too in terms of you want to hear something crazy, Olivia. Yeah, literally,
when I get auditions, I have a teleprompter, like you
(31:26):
have your professional teleprompter, but I have a teleprompter. It's
basically a piece that you can put on your home device,
your home camera, and you can upload your script and
you can literally, well will you go. We can't see
Will is like shaking his head with his head in
(31:46):
his hands right now. You know why, because I don't
have the time or the energy either. But look, I
still watch and I still look at my performance, and
I still say, I am acting. This is rooted in reality,
and I look great and I'm not stuttering, and I've
been acting for so long and the odds are so
(32:09):
like the odds. It is a very competitive thing. So
that if you feel strong about your performance, no matter
what it looks like, as long as you feel like
it's rooted personally. I think what Olivia is trying to share,
and I agree with, Okay, is not to sweat the
small stuff in your performances, like I'm sorry. The learning
of the dialogue is not small stuff. The reading the
(32:34):
reading of the material is not small go with me
on this. Maybe maybe it's just me, but like if
it's written well, it's a lot easier to memorize than
if it's just a Most things that you go on
are terrible, and so you get these things and they
don't flow or like I do still audition for commercials
(32:57):
and I had this commercial audition the other day and
I had to talk about cell phones and five G
this into and I was just reading. They usually have
the lines behind the camera and I was reading it,
and after I did it, he was like, can you
do it more to camera? He's like, oh, yeah, but
you know when it gets technical or any of that stuff,
you know, you know, God, we sound like the laziest
(33:17):
actors a lot. It's I didn't want to say that,
but there's a guy on my street he went to Juilliard.
What's going on? No, it's just there's there's a guy
on my street who is Australian who is an actor
and I always see him and he's out walking with
his wife and his little baby and we always say
hi to each other. But he's always memorizing his sides
and his lines. And there's Luke Cook. I don't know,
(33:42):
Oh is it I don't know who Luke Cook is.
Maybe you don't know who who this guy. I don't
know who Luke Cook is. I could be Luke Cook.
I have no idea who that um. But it's one
of those things where and then I all people always
ask like why is everybody that's getting cast British or Australian,
And it's because they put in the work, that's one
of the reasons. Probably. So it's we we as Americans
(34:04):
have have lasified out are acting chops well and also
like as child actors too. It's like we've been doing
it so long, Like there is a thing where like
to our credit, you know, it's that ten thousand hour
rule or whatever, like once you've been doing something ten
thousand hours, like you're kind of a professional. And we
all have and so I don't know what kind of
(34:26):
rule is that you haven't heard about. That that's the mastery.
So it doesn't matter what you're doing. If you've done
it for ten thousand hours, you're kind of an expert. Yeah,
that's why they say the Beatles were so good because
they played and played and played and played like way
before and it's a whole thing. Yeah, I'm Malcolm glad,
I gotta, I gotta go. I gotta put that on
my teleprompter so I can read it later. It's called
what's it called, Christie. I'm never going to live that
(34:47):
one down. That was an honest share and I thought
I was in a safe space and again I'm not
again though, But Olivia is percent right. If you don't
exercise the muscle, you lose it. So if you get
one of these jobs and you haven't been memorizing the lines,
working that muscle, you're gonna have trouble again memorizing your dialogue.
But here's the here's the real rub. What happens if
you actually book it. That's what I'm saying, and I
(35:08):
would actually do the job. Okay, Well, speaking of speaking
of acting, we've got a wonderful scene we're coming into.
By the way I read, I also read that once too,
So let's see how that's fine. As long as you've
(35:28):
got all your spells down, we're going to be good. Um,
and you are playing a villain. Safe space. That's what
most important. Is a safe space. It's absolutely a safe
but you are That's the other thing is you. Your
resume is ridiculous. You're talking before you got out here
where it's like we only have an hour show and
(35:49):
she's done so much, so very quickly. Then before we
get into across the garden with our wonderful we don't
like to say, amateur undiscovered voiceover talent, who's going to
come and play with us for the day. Um, is
there anything? I mean, you've got a crunchy role hit
coming out, You've got the new, um Harry Potter game.
Is there anything you Potter game? We're doing more Brats.
(36:09):
They've brought Brats back, another huge branch, another huge thing,
and so we're doing episodes on that for TikTok and
then I think they're trying to turn that into a
series as well, and some video games and whatever. So yeah,
that's god bless like gen Z or whatever. They're bringing
all this Y two K stuff. They're making me all
this Y two K stuff. Love that. That's very very
(36:33):
all right. So it is hip. It's good think. I'm
so glad. You know how happy Christie I are that
the nineties are important again. Jeez, I don't know what
we do. I don't know what we would do. I
(36:57):
guess if we want to go ahead and bring in
our are It's Kyle. How are you good? Are you
welcome to the show. Thank you for joining us, thank you,
thank you for having me. I'm Will. That's Christie and
that's Olivia. Yeah you too, you too? Hi? Where are you?
(37:20):
Upstate New York? About an hour and a half from
New York City? Where an upstate can? I ask? Okay?
I love that. We're all we're East Coast people here?
Well three are two of us? Are East Coast people here?
And then Olivia was born and raised in Beverly Hills.
You can see it on her IMTB Paige. She's in
a giant mansion too. By the way, is the year
(37:47):
wrong or right now? It's all unfortunately very correct it is.
Now do you age differently in giant mansions in Beverly Hills?
I'm just curious. I mean, clearly, Look, I'm almost forty.
Look at this, Look at this, Look at this phase?
Pretty dunk? So Kaylee, what has what has interested you
in voice overacting? Um? To be honest, the show? Really, Yes,
(38:11):
you're that's awesome. So I actually, um, I actually went
to school for theater, live theater, um. And then just
the kind of roller coaster that is live theater. Um,
you know how Broadway shows have been closing up down
left and right, And I actually, um, you know, kind
(38:33):
of started dipping my feet into this show. And I
you know, I had always done you know, voices here
and there, just for fun. But you know, when I
came across the show, I was like, you know what,
I think this might be. Uh this, I think this
might be. That's amazingired somebody, Christie right now? So you
(38:56):
want to will you will you play with us? Will
you come and play Across the Guarden with us? Sure?
So for those of you joining us for the very
first time ever, we play a fun game called Across
the Garden where Christy and I came up with two
very interesting characters right on the fly that we still
look at each other and go, man, we wish we
came up with different characters. But we've got our two
little mice friends, Ricky and Mocha, who are trying to
make it across the garden so that Mocha can see
(39:18):
her boyfriend, which is the story. Again we came up
with on the fly, um, and they've been having trouble
getting across the garden. So this week Olivia is going
to be playing Rose and Kayleie, you're gonna be Jack
if that's all right, All this is great. Christie once
again will be Mocha and I will be We're just
(39:40):
reading this like a scene, right, Yeah, just absolutely reading
it like a scene. And what we're hoping to have
happen is that because we love people that are trying
to catch a break in the animation industry, So we're
going to take all the scenes that we've recorded with
all of our undiscovered talent, and we're going to have
amateur um animators animate the hire thing together and we're
(40:00):
gonna have everybody's gonna get to see themselves in their
own cartoon, which is going to be really really cool.
We can't wait. So here we are. I will be
reading the stage directions and we will go from there.
So we are fading in exterior woods continuous. We come
up on Ricky and Mocha standing on the deck of
a small ocean liner crossing the pond, the wind in
their hair. This is actually pretty nice. Pan over to
(40:23):
see Ricky hurling over the side of the boat. Yeah,
it's magical. Well, I mean, at least we're finally going
to get to them all it has been a bit
of a journey. Have you decided how you're actually going
to dump your boyfriend? I want to see his face
as I tell him what he's done to me. I
want to look him in the eye when he knows
(40:46):
that it's over. Or I'll just text him. As the
siblings are talking to grasshoppers walk behind in mid discussion.
One of them is dressed to the nines while the
other looks a bit lower class. Oh, Jack, this just
can never work. My family has made me after Lord
John Hoppington the second, and you won your tickets for
this maiden voyage on the tot on the to tintic
(41:07):
on a random game of chance a rose. I know,
I'm just dependingless artists struggling to make it. But we
can run away together in fine happiness. It won't work.
It went shot. It was chant. Oh well, can I
(41:27):
at least draw? You? Draw me? What draw you? You
know as an artist draws a model? Do you mean? Yes?
Naked Rose wheels around on? Jack? Are you crazy? In
this day and age? Something like that gets in the
Internet and never disappears. Lord John's family would never accept me.
(41:49):
Then Jack turns, Wait, you're still going to marry Lord
John Hoppington, the second yer, watching the scene play out.
Watch this. Of course I'm still marrying him. His family
don't half the garden. But come on, man, you're a
nice guy and all, but you're a fling. You're a
(42:10):
nice distraction. I can think about in the years to
come when my mega wealthy husband is working too much
and the tennis instructor stopped seeing someone else. Oh, I
thought we really had something. I thought we were in love,
and I thought you were the bell hop deliver in
my bags. We all make mistakes, dude, a voice out.
I spurg dead dead, Thank god. I would rather this
(42:35):
whole built sinc Than spending out a second with you.
Back at your chief. I'm gonna go find a lifeboat
while you hunt down some woman's close so you don't
have to float on a door or something. She turns
to leave, Tootles Jack is left in the deck by himself.
Well that didn't go the way I thought it would.
Ricky and Moka walk over. That's love, man, it totally sucks. No, No,
(42:59):
that's not true. Love can be a beautiful thing filled
with passion and respect. How would you know? At Nicholas
Barks novels, The gang just looks over in time to
see a giant floating slushy cup clip the side of
the boat. It immediately starts to sink. Well, here we go, Rickey,
make look at each other, swim for it, swim for it.
(43:21):
Good luck finding love, Jed, They jump off the boat.
It's jack whatever. Yeah, Kaylee, thank you so much for
joining us. You were absolutely wonderful. Yeah. She dipped her
energy up, which I feel like is so important, especially
on the cold reads. Right, it was incredible. So where
(43:43):
can people find you if they're looking for you on
socials and stuff? So I am on Instagram. It's just
my name, Kaylee Mercado, Kaylee Marcott with two ease, Yes,
two ease M E R c A d O. And
is there any of kind of voices you want to do?
You want to showcase before you go? You don't have
(44:04):
to ums pressure. Um, what have you been working on
since you were inspired from the show? Well, I don't
know if if you guys have seen the Aristocats of course,
Olivia Dave amazing Arista cats. Yes, yes, I can do,
(44:26):
I can do Marie, I can do Napoleon do one.
Let's here what you got, um, ladies, do not stud sights,
but they can finish them very nice. All right, well,
thank you so much for joining us. Break your voice
(44:50):
and keep listening to the show because with the contest
coming out, you never know what could happen, so hopefully
you're going to enter. Yes, of course, thank you guys much,
thank you for joining us. Thank you. That's nice. Guys
do that. That's so cool. So it's kind of like
what we offer on our show, you know, because it's
(45:12):
like our show is is so community based and we
love our fans so much, and like you said, Olivia,
like people have come up to us too, all these
comic cons and have asked us how do I start?
How do I get into it? I'm so passionate. I
have all these voices I'm working on. And what I
love about our show is that it's kind of a
guidebook episode to episode on how to sort of build
your you know, your footing in what you want to
(45:34):
do and what you want to contribute to the voice
acting world. It feels it's so much more accessible now,
especially like, yeah, I don't know doing all these cons,
and it's like it used to be such a small
click and especially with anime and all that like, it's
just exploded in terms of accessibility. And then also we're
all or a lot of us are recording from home
(45:54):
now too, you know, so it's not like you have
to be in l Are, you have to be in
New York and and that sort of it does. It
makes a big difference. And we love having the the
undiscovered talent comes on, which which and that leads us
to our thing we've been talking about now and I
think we're we're stepping up to the point where we're
actually going to be uh taking it live in the
next couple of weeks. So we are doing, of course
(46:16):
the Super Awesome Contest to become the next Big Voice Actor.
And we've talked about that before. So somebody out there
is going to win some incredible prizes, including Voiceover Agent. So, uh,
you get to sign with the voice Over Agent. And
we are we we we say, you know, we don't
get to to throw you into the business. We can't
give you a career, but we can crack the door.
(46:36):
So what's what's the contest called again, Christie? I keep,
I keep forgetting the Super Awesome Contest to become the
next Big Voice Actor. Yes, you got it, man, finally
tell that we are getting close to launching the contest exactly.
That's exactly what I'm doing right now. I love thank you.
(46:56):
That's very funny, Olivia. Thank you so much for joining us.
You're so awesome. Thanks for having me. Guys, Like, I
miss you. I miss you. I feel like I have
to I'm gonna have to message you. Yeah, oh, please
to go to the club. And where can nice where
can people find you if you're looking at the club? Honestly,
the one club in Beverly Hills near the Giant House.
(47:18):
I was, oh my god, kill me. Um, I'm on Instagram.
It's like the Olivia Hack. You can find me there.
And I'm basically at a comic con every weekend. So
because I love that's awesome. Yeah, I'm surprised that we
haven't seen each We're probably crossing pads of thousand you.
We will see each other next year, I'm sure. Yeah,
(47:38):
I'm sure. I did like twenty this year and I've
already got like twenty lined up for next year. So
nex yeah, I want any chance going? Did you know
I want to this next year? Okay, you guys go.
Last year, yeah, nineties con and Hartford was awesome. Yeah,
she was the host and the cast deploy mean, Okay,
when's the next nineties con are you doing? I think
(48:00):
there's one in March and Hartford that we're not doing
the one in Hartford again, but then I think there's
another one in Florida that I think we're doing, so yeah,
so it's it's gonna be cool. But yeah, well we'll
sure see you and check out Olivia, who I'm sure
you can find on Instagram, and we'll tell everybody all
of the convention she's going to so you can go
out and uh see what it looks like when you
(48:22):
were raised in Beverly Hills by surrounded by wealth. Um up, awesome,
Thank you so much for joining us. Check out everything
she's doing because it's cool. And that Harry Potter game
sounds amazing, and we're going to find out exactly what
(48:43):
color that kaibra crystal is, um because that is also
very important. But thank you everybody for joining us this week.
And don't forget if you think you have what it
takes to step up to the microphone, then put your
voices where your mouth is. Thanks everybody. I hear voices
as hosted by Wilfred and Christy Carlson Romano. Executive produced
by Will Ferdell, Brendan Rooney, Amy Sugarman and Vicky Ernst Chang.
(49:05):
Our executive in charge of production is Danielle Romo, Our
producer is Lorraine Vera Weez and our editor slash engineer
is Brian Burton. And that was my announcer voice. Some
side effects of listening to I Hear Voices are sore
abs from hilarity falling down the Coco melon rabbit hole,
sneezing due to mass nostalgia, and hugs. Follow I Hear
Voices wherever you listen to podcasts so you don't miss
any of the amazing voices. Be sure to follow us
(49:26):
on Instagram and TikTok at I Hear Voices podcast. To
see the video stream, subscribe to my YouTube channel. You
can also check us out on my space, omegal Vine,
lime Wire. Hey I'm a napster. Okay, well, let's teach
you about the Internet. The who
Popular Podcasts
24/7 News: The Latest
The latest news in 4 minutes updated every hour, every day.
Therapy Gecko
An unlicensed lizard psychologist travels the universe talking to strangers about absolutely nothing. TO CALL THE GECKO: follow me on https://www.twitch.tv/lyleforever to get a notification for when I am taking calls. I am usually live Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays but lately a lot of other times too. I am a gecko.
The Joe Rogan Experience
The official podcast of comedian Joe Rogan.