Matt Lanter (Star Wars: The Clone Wars)

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Speaker 2 (00:43):
Welcome back, everybody to another episode of Tuned In with
Jim Cummings. I'm producer Chris, joined as always by the
legend himself, mister Jim Cummings. How are you doing today, sir?

Speaker 1 (00:51):
Hello, Hello, very good. It's a beautiful day, wonderful day
in paradise here.

Speaker 3 (00:56):
Absolutely, it's a hot day out today.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
Today we have a very special for you, the very
talented Matt Lancer.

Speaker 3 (01:02):
How are you doing today, sir?

Speaker 4 (01:04):
Thank you, I'm I'm I'm well, I'm in Nashville, so
it's quite hot here too. Are you guys in l
a row? Oh yeah, yeah, ye humidity, so we might
have your beat.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
That's true, that's true. But you're in Atlanta, right, Nashville, Nashville, Nashville, Nashville.

Speaker 4 (01:22):
I'm a stone's throw from James Old Taylor. Oh yeah,
literally a stone's throw.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
Wow, no, kid, it's funny.

Speaker 4 (01:29):
It'd be a good throw.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
Well yeah, yeah, good throw. Well tell him, get him
stoned and tell him that.

Speaker 4 (01:36):
I said, yeah, can on the on the on the string. Yeah,
there you go.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
They work.

Speaker 4 (01:43):
Hey.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
Yeah, great to have you here, man, that's that's a
it's a beautiful thing. My old Star Wars clone Wars buddy.

Speaker 4 (01:51):
Thank you absolutely, thank you for having me. It's an
honor to an honor to be on the line with you. No,
you're you're a legend.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
So in my own mind, that's right, everyone's mine. Well,
thanks for being here, and thank you for that.

Speaker 4 (02:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
We've been doing this for a while now. Lots of
folks out there. We come in, we have fun and
you know, nothing too, having nothing to I don't think
what what politics and religion, that's about the only thing
we we haven't solved.

Speaker 4 (02:21):
And if you do, you know you need to go
to Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
Yeah, it's good luck. Yeah, yes, indeed it's great to
have you man. Thank you. And you know, I was
doing I was doing some research on you, and I
realized that we were born not that far away from
each other. I mean I saw Northeastern Ohio and I said,
wait a minute, I'm from Northeastern Ohio.

Speaker 4 (02:45):
You know, you know I had seen that before too, Jim.
I was. I had done the google on YouTube because
I'm like, I know, I've seen him in six million projects.
I want to feel somewhat knowledgeable. And I saw that
as well. You were born in Youngstown, is that right?

Speaker 1 (02:57):
Yeah, I'm afraid so.

Speaker 4 (03:01):
Yeah. So I was born in Maslin, Ohio. Which I
don't know how far that is, but it can't be
more than an hour an hour and a half.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
Yeah it's not because it's in Ohio, right, Yeah, I understand.
They play a little football there.

Speaker 4 (03:16):
They play some football, that's right. Yeah, that's like one
of my first memories, you know, living with Ohio. I
was there until I was eight years old, and you know,
the little kid NFL uniforms, like the little uniforms that
was my first you know, intro to football. I had
a Cleveland Brown's Bernie Cozar number nineteen. Wow, Bernie Cozar,

(03:37):
a little jersey and helmet, and you know, I've just
sort of been a Browns fan my whole life. I'm
a Falcons fan too, because I more or less grew
up in Atlanta after eight years old until I was
an adult. But there's something about the Browns and this
nostalgia of it. My wife is actually from Akron, oh
and my whole family, at least my mom's side, is

(03:58):
actually still in Ohio and we actually own a home
in the Canton area in Ohio. So unfortunately I am
a Browns fan. Uh well but close. You get a
choice with the Steelers though, too, right.

Speaker 1 (04:11):
That's true. Yeah, well I was literally right between them,
so you know, whoever was had a more winning season,
that's who I went with them.

Speaker 4 (04:19):
So you're a Steelers fan?

Speaker 1 (04:20):
Yeah, yeah, I suppose so.

Speaker 4 (04:23):
Yeah, I think the Browns had a couple of years
in the history of the Browns, you know, yeah, they
were good.

Speaker 1 (04:28):
But definitely an Ohio State fan, how about that? So
we got to get that out.

Speaker 4 (04:33):
So I'm not an Ohio State fan. Yeah, because I
went to Georgia and I moved there and then I
actually went to University of Georgia. So I'm a bulldog guy.
But my fans not bad.

Speaker 1 (04:45):
Yeah, well that's not bad. Well you got it, not bad? Yeah,
good for you. Ye. Well, this is interesting because it's
a it's good to see you without a line of
people in front of you dying for your autograph. It's
kind of cool.

Speaker 4 (05:00):
Don't know about that, you know, but it's fun. We
go to these things and you know people now you know, Jim,
we've been doing the Clone Wars. We started in like
what two thousand and six, I think it came out,
you know, And so now you got all these people
that are mid twenties and young twenties, and they literally
grew up with the show. Yes, and this show is

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a core part of their childhood and their memories. And
so that's a lot of the people that I'm getting
at my table. I'm sure you've got a whole lifetime
of characters.

Speaker 1 (05:33):
But yeah, I've got too. Yeah, what I've got those
kids and their parents and the parents.

Speaker 4 (05:40):
Good for you. But it's it's really cool. It's really
fun to have people come up and say you know, man,
this was my childhood and this show meant so much
and oftentimes I'm sure, as you know, it's more than
just I like the shows. Yeah, it means a lot
more to a lot of people in certain ways, and
numerous stories that more pertain to you know, heart and

(06:03):
life situations than just oh I like the show. Not
that we don't love that as well, but it's a
pretty cool and unique spot to be in.

Speaker 1 (06:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (06:12):
I'm getting getting to kind of witness and hear these
people's stories.

Speaker 1 (06:15):
Yeah, yeah, oh, I agree. I agree. It's it's nice
to know, and it's it's interesting over the years I've
noticed doing these conventions and conferences and everything that you know,
cartoon character, especially like with Winnie the Poo and everything,
He's helped people get through things, get through tough times,
get through you know, oh my gosh, you know, and

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you hear stories about Grandma's funeral and you know, God
bless them, you know. And I said, well, thank you.
I'm very very grateful, and I never you know, I
don't take myself seriously. I'm sure you're the same, but
I take the work seriously because it means something to
other people, and.

Speaker 4 (06:53):
I can't imagine, you know, the stories that I get
and I play, you know, in the Star Wars. It's
it's an action hero and fantasy. Sure, I can't imagine
the stories that you probably get with what you just
said Winnie the Pooh, because Winnie the Pooh, it's he's
such a kind of a soft, kind of nurturing, kind
of comfort food. Yeah, he's kind of like your your

(07:14):
pillow in your safe bed, you know what I mean.
So I can't imagine the stuff that you get. I mean,
I've got people coming to me saying I can't fall
asleep without Clone Wars, and I'm like, really, with all
the blasters and the King, that's what puts you to sleep.

Speaker 1 (07:28):
But yeah, but I can imagine that was my bed blaster.

Speaker 4 (07:35):
And Winnie the Pooh was our comfort.

Speaker 1 (07:37):
Yes, that's what it was, that's for sure. Well yeah,
well it's always nice to know that Winnie the Pooh
comforts people, because then I build up my camera and
then it can go back to being a jerk. Yeah yeah,
and still break even.

Speaker 4 (07:51):
Yeah, you can put in your nice guy bank and
then just go about your business until.

Speaker 1 (07:56):
Absolutely absolutely, but again, you hear good stuff.

Speaker 4 (08:01):
Absolutely.

Speaker 1 (08:02):
Like I said, it's good to see you without a
line of people between us.

Speaker 4 (08:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (08:08):
And in fact, at the end, we'll have to you know,
we have to make an announcement of any place that
people can come and see you in the near future.
And we won't tell him now because we're gonna make
him late.

Speaker 4 (08:18):
Wait. Yeah, okay, I have to think about it for
a minute.

Speaker 1 (08:21):
Anyway, Yeah, there you go.

Speaker 2 (08:23):
Were you a big Star Wars fan before you got
the role of Anakin?

Speaker 4 (08:27):
Not really, No, I had seen Star Wars, sure, you know,
I think I think my first introduction to Star Wars
was because my parents weren't Star Wars people either. I
didn't really come from Star Wars family. So I really
think that my first Star Wars film that I saw
was maybe Attack of the Clones just in my basement

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as a very young teenager. You know. Of course, I
knew Star Wars characters through pop culture. Everyone knows Darth
Vader and Luke Skywalker, but I didn't know the story.
I didn't really know how it how it all came together.
So no, And then once I booked the job, though,
you know that, I really dug into it and it

(09:11):
kind of became a Star Wars nerd and people know this,
but but my I had Star Wars kind of a
Star Wars themed wedding. My dog's name is Ahsoka.

Speaker 1 (09:20):
Oh my god, dog that goes over well.

Speaker 4 (09:24):
She's yeah, she's thirteen years old now and we named
her Soka thirteen years ago.

Speaker 1 (09:28):
So, oh my gosh.

Speaker 3 (09:30):
What what's a kind of Star Wars themed wedding.

Speaker 4 (09:33):
Well, we had Star Wars elements to it. We My
groom's cake was the Death Star I had. I had
some Clone Troopers, some great great guys from the Fible
first came out to the wedding and walked in the
wedding party, you know the yeah, yeah, yeah, and uh.

Speaker 1 (09:52):
Those guys are cool. They're really They're a lot of fun.

Speaker 4 (09:55):
They're great. They're wonderful people. They do some cool things. Yeah,
and you know children's hospitals and charities and stuff like that.

Speaker 1 (10:03):
They're like the New Shriners, you know, they go out
and do cool stuff for people.

Speaker 4 (10:08):
It's really neat make a lot of people happy. They
made me yeah yeah, oh yeah, but man, yeah, it
was fun. We had a little couple of Star Wars vows.
I think my wife said something like you're the Obi
Wan for me. No, under a you know, like a

(10:28):
you know, they do like military swords if you're like
a marine. Well, yeah, not a marine. But we had
like the lightsabers, so we had party favors and people
held up the lightsabers and we walked we walked out.

Speaker 1 (10:39):
Oh that's cool.

Speaker 4 (10:40):
Yeah, we had Star Wars elements.

Speaker 1 (10:42):
I was looking around for because the five Ozho first
gave me an honorary plaque for being hondo O Naka.

Speaker 4 (10:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (10:48):
And uh, and I think we haven't packed up. I'm
sorry to say, because uh, you know, we're doing a
little juggling here. But but yeah, it's really great and
they're into it. My gosh, these guys are dead serious.
They walked through. I remember years ago I was walking through, uh,
just hanging out with Mark Hamill. It was at the
San Diego San Diego Comic Con, you know, the big

(11:10):
big mamou and uh and and these guys walk in
tandem there at marching to boom boom boo boom, you know,
dead dead, dead serious and Mark and I were just
hanging out in the hallway. I think Tom Kenney was there.
And so anyway, Luke Skywalker, uh, you know, cat Dog

(11:31):
and Winnie the Pooh we're all talking anyway, uh, and
you hear all of a sudden they they stop dead
dead in their tracks and they see Mark, and you hear, oh.

Speaker 4 (11:41):
My god, Oh my god.

Speaker 1 (11:46):
And then Mark goes, I gotta go, and he runs
down the hall and it cracked me up because he
literally ran down the hall. So we're standing there watching
Luke Skywalker being shape east by storm troopers and.

Speaker 4 (12:02):
I'm thinking, should have filmed it? Yeah, I wish.

Speaker 1 (12:06):
I'd love to get them to recreate that, and I'm
sure they'd be happy to do so, except maybe not Mark.
But it's a fun world. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (12:17):
We definitely have some passionate fans and that's what makes
it fun though.

Speaker 1 (12:21):
Yeah, oh god, yeah, yeah. They must go nuts at
you over you at the conventions, and I know they do.

Speaker 4 (12:28):
Sometimes sometimes no one cares a thing in the world.
Oh you never know you.

Speaker 1 (12:34):
I don't know about that. I don't know about that. Well,
you've had a lot of people caring a lot of
things in the world. We were doing some research on you,
and oh my gosh, you're all over the place right
you were command did Commander in Chief with Geena Davis,
who I'm crazy about years ago.

Speaker 4 (12:53):
Yeah, that was one of my first really really big jobs.
Yeah yeah, quick, quick fun story with that, Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.
I had been out in LA for a relatively short
amount of time. I think it was around six months
by that point, and then I booked that job. And

(13:14):
that does not happen to people, you know, all of
a sudden, I was a series regular on an ABC
show with an Oscar Winner as my mom. I mean,
it was wild. Had no idea what I was doing.
I mean, I tend to look back on all my
work and cringe, but truly back back then, yeah, it's bad, bad, bad,

(13:34):
But man, I'm proud to be a part of that show.
And you know, I got to work with Gina of course,
and Donald Sutherland to a degree. We we didn't have
a lot of scenes where we had dialogue, but I was.
I was in scene with him at times. Getting to
watch these people work when I was so young and

(13:54):
fresh and green. It was a lot of experience.

Speaker 1 (13:57):
And yeah, well he's a great actor too. I mean
on Marvel, Donald Suthams, he's wonderful.

Speaker 4 (14:03):
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 1 (14:04):
Yeah, good for you man.

Speaker 4 (14:06):
Yeah. And then that just sort of, you know, paved
the way, and I ended up ended up on a
lot of other really great shows with a lot of
a lot of great people.

Speaker 1 (14:14):
Well, you were on the cult hit, right, Heroes.

Speaker 4 (14:17):
I was on Heroes. I was on Heroes before it
became a hit because I think I did like episodes.

Speaker 1 (14:24):
Well you probably helped make it a hit, then, how
about that?

Speaker 4 (14:26):
Yeah, there you go, that's the way to go. It
wasn't many of the other series regular actors.

Speaker 1 (14:33):
But yeah, it couldn't have been.

Speaker 4 (14:34):
Yeah it was. I think I did like episode three
through seven or something on that and you know it
had just aired maybe.

Speaker 3 (14:41):
And where did they shoot that?

Speaker 4 (14:43):
They shot it in la for some reason. Yeah, the
majority of my stuff was in like Valencia. We shot
a lot out there. So yeah, but yeah, that was
then it just sort of season two, that thing really
really blew up, and you know, it really wasn't a
part of it, Uh didn't. So I didn't really feel

(15:03):
the fandom from that really, But but yeah, yeah, mmm,
a lot of a lot of good stuff. I was
able to do a play with Lawrence Fishburne. It was
me and him and one other girl man. That was
an experience.

Speaker 1 (15:17):
I was going to ask you about that.

Speaker 3 (15:19):
Yeah, you gotta tell us about that well, that was
a play.

Speaker 4 (15:23):
Uh Alfred Yuri wrote that and it was like I said,
me and and Lawrence and another girl. I believe her
name was Amanda McDonald. Maybe I haven't seen her in years,
but uh that was really the first theater I'd really done.
And then all of a sudden, I'm in and I
mean one in one, one on one scenes with with

(15:45):
Lawrence Fishburne at all?

Speaker 3 (15:48):
Was that? Was that nervous.

Speaker 4 (15:49):
As I nervous? Oh my god. I mean every night
before I went out there, I was trying to do
push ups or whatever I could do to like just
try to call myself. It's one of those things with theater.
And by the way, this was at the Mark Taper
Form in LA. I think this might be the second
largest theater in LA. I think it seats around eight
hundred and of course we sold out every night. It's

(16:11):
it's you know, Florence Fishburn's more years so and he's wonderful.
Uh So that was intimidating and scary, but it's like
taking five acting classes at one time. I remember one
night we had been doing it several weeks at this point,
and looking back, I totally understand. But he came to
my dressing room and he goes, I'm gonna throw you
a curve ball tonight. I want you to hit it.

(16:32):
I want you to hit it out of the park.
And I was like, oh, no problem. And he left
and I'm like, what does that mean?

Speaker 1 (16:39):
Right?

Speaker 4 (16:39):
Yeah, you know, but no nerves, no nerves. But looking back,
I really what he was saying is I'm gonna I'm
gonna do things just a little bit different. We want
to keep it fresh for ourselves. And looking back, I
understand it, and you know, whatever, whatever, don't remember you
know specifically what he did that night, but but eventually,
you know, we the words just kind of we're there,

(17:01):
and uh, you know, you sort of ben begun to
look for things to sort of go wrong to kind
of you can work with it? Yeah, can can we
work through this? And one one evening we there was
a scene in the kitchen where we had to open
up coke bottle or something that I had to open
it and the thing exploded everywhere perfect, you know, yeah, exactly, Yeah,

(17:24):
but I remember it because you know, coke or whatever
was went everywhere. We're grabbing towels out of the kitchen
and we're just continuing this scene while we're the blocking
is totally different than what we'd rehearsed, and it worked.
And I remember that because I was like, this is
really interesting. We had to figure out how to make
that thing work and we did, and no one would

(17:44):
have known the difference.

Speaker 3 (17:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (17:45):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (17:46):
To me, that's the most exhilarating part about acting on
stage is like the game within the game, that's what
I call it. It's like when you've reheard something so
many times that you know it like the back of
your hand, but like exactly what you're talking about. The
intricacies that come up with even a different inflection on
something or like you mentioned, you know, different blocking. To me,
that's like the most fun part about being on stage.

Speaker 4 (18:08):
It's so vulnerable being on stage, right, Yeah, so vulnerable.
You know, you can hide behind a microphone, you can
hide behind a camera because you can just cut and
then just restart. But when you're out there in front
of eight hundred people on Saturday night and you've got
long fish for next to you, and these people are
paying good money and they're expecting to see art, and

(18:29):
I'm just trying to survive.

Speaker 1 (18:32):
You know, He's a hell of an actor. My gosh, yeah,
you know, oh he really is.

Speaker 2 (18:36):
And I don't think a lot of people know how
good he is on stage, Like he really has a
thespian background, Like he was a theater actor first and foremost.
You know, obviously he got the fame from the Matrix,
but he is a phenomenal actor.

Speaker 4 (18:49):
When they when they use the word presence on screen
or on stage, he is that. He has such a
presence about him. And I haven't seen him since actually,
but I kind of want to apologize just for like
ruining his play.

Speaker 1 (19:05):
Generous. I'm sure you're in I'm standing.

Speaker 2 (19:09):
Did you did you grow up as a theater kid
where you're doing plays? As a kid, I did church plays.

Speaker 1 (19:16):
I went with the first time you were on stage?
Can you remember that?

Speaker 4 (19:20):
Well? That that the first time I was really stage?
Was that the first time? But aside from yeah, I mean,
aside from you know, church skits, but I don't think
you can really count that. But I did not grow up.
I grew up. I grew up as a sports kid.
I was playing more sports and I can't kind of
came from a sports family. My sister did some stage

(19:45):
and you know, she was part of chorus and and
she did. She did some some theater when she was
in high school, so I remember going to watch, but
I was a part of it, not the same as
being on stage, you know, so that really I really
did not have a back gruned in. And I think,
I feel like, maybe I still feel like this. And
I have heard this before, so I get it. But

(20:07):
a lot of times I just feel like I'm a faker,
you know what I mean. I don't know how I'm doing.
I'm just faking.

Speaker 1 (20:12):
Care, fake it till you make it right.

Speaker 4 (20:16):
I guess, I guess, But you know, it's like you
feel like you're sometimes you feel like you're a phony.
I mean, Jim, You've got about a million projects under
your name, so I can't imagine you feel like that
at any time. But but sometimes I'm like, why am
I here? You know? They could cast someone away with me,
you know, But I don't know. It's just it happens.
And then and then sometimes sometimes things do fall into place,

(20:37):
and and you know, like in for example, the case
of Star Wars, we've gotten great feedback Shore Wars and
just me personally actually with the character of Anakin. For
the most part, I I mostly get love and I'm
not saying that's all me. I'm not saying that's all
my performance. But I obviously like to think that I.

Speaker 1 (20:56):
You know, yeah, I can contribute it to that.

Speaker 4 (21:00):
Yeah, but I mean, but I but I'm I'm not
just being humble. I mean, I mean obviously, like you know,
being a voice actor, you are a small part of
a larger Oh.

Speaker 1 (21:07):
Yeah, you're that's exactly my words.

Speaker 4 (21:09):
You know that the animation and the writers and the director.
So I'm not just trying to be like, you know,
QUI with that or what. Yeah, but but yeah, but
but but response, you know, has been really wonderful and
you know, as we talked about a little bit earlier,
it's really impacted people in positive ways. So yeah, I
don't know. I just do what I do and hopefully
I get work and I try the best that I

(21:31):
can and and commit myself to it.

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dot com, Slash Jim Cummings podcast, Do It Now. Well,
I always say that it's just such a blessing, especially
for a guy like me. You know, I've said it before.
I've worked steel mills, I worked a deckhand on a riverboat,
and so I'm in heaven forever. This is wait what
what now? What do I get to do?

Speaker 4 (22:14):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (22:14):
And it's the kind of I always said, you know,
it's the kind of stuff I used to do in
the shower for free. Yeah, you know, and and if
they'll pay you, geez, forget it. Yep, ding ding ding
ding ding ding ding. That's that's like hitting the lottery.

Speaker 4 (22:27):
To me, I say the same thing, you know. With
with vo especially, I feel like it's one of those
things that we all have done as kids. We give
voices the characters in the sandbox, and it's literally what
it is.

Speaker 1 (22:41):
Yeah, it's just you just.

Speaker 4 (22:42):
Got to understand how to kind of commit and perform
in a little bit more of a deeper way and
you get paid for Yeah, but it's that's what it is.

Speaker 1 (22:51):
Yeah. And I remember, you know, I did a I've
done one or two, maybe maybe a half dozen workshops
over the years for friends who have you know, classes
or whatever. And I always think, you know, it's instincts
are the best thinks, right, and if you know, if
you think something in your head, because I'm ad lib

(23:11):
a lot and it's and it's good for me because
back in the day when I was doing plays, I
couldn't remember the lines very well, so I had to
learn to add lib otherwise you have this dead air.
And I just tell people, you know, if you you know,
when it comes to advice and things like that, do
the impression of your uncle or your aunt or somebody,
or if you do a terrible impression, nobody knows who

(23:33):
it is. That's a new character. And you know, all
these little things can go into go into formulating and
developing and fleshing out all these characters that were asked
to do. Do you have a process like when they
say you know, well you're you know, I don't know
if you've ever had this, but you know, we want

(23:53):
you to play an old prospector in the eighteen seventies
and east from Alabama. You know where does that take you?
Well besides Alabama?

Speaker 4 (24:03):
Right, I think that I tend to when it comes
to voiceover. I definitely tend to. I don't think I'm
probably known in the casting world as as a accent
guy or a dialect guy, you know. I And I'm
okay with that. I mean, obviously I'd love to work

(24:23):
more than I do. We all do. But I would
like to think that when I do perform a character
that it feels like it's got a real life behind it.
And so, you know, for me, I just want to
make sure that I'm that I I am, I'm bringing
life in an authentic way and that I and that
I'm I'm a good actor. That's my goal as far

(24:45):
as like process goes. And kind of the same thing
really for me too. On on camera, you know, they're
really they're really not going to give me much of
a chance for something that I couldn't sort of fit
into a mold anyway. But you know, I don't know,
I mean, when it comes to on camera or really

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behind the mic, I guess it's just watch what's out there,
watch what's out there, and imitate the great you know,
and then you know, even even if that if that
other actor, that other project is is just a starting
canvas for you, and then you can kind of start
to fill in your own colors, and I think that's

(25:26):
that's what I do. I always look at an audition
and you know, I feel like it's my job to
the painting is kind of there, which just that's sort
of the dialogue and that's sort of the scene, and
it's my job to paint with the colors and I
can have the downs, I can I can add the
the tempo, I can control. You know. It's things like that.

(25:48):
I think I look for ways, you know, that I
can control. And I know that's maybe not quite answering
the question you asked, but it's just sort of I'm
just sort of going and you know, process.

Speaker 1 (26:00):
And of course, yeah.

Speaker 4 (26:02):
You know, I had like a we had a role on.
It was a Netflix show called Jupiter's Legacy. It was
a few years back, and I'm proud of the work
that I did on that. It was a sort of
slightly eclectic character. He was sort of a nineteen thirty
sort of a playboy, kind kind of flashy.

Speaker 1 (26:21):
Oh that's kind of cool.

Speaker 4 (26:23):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, the show was awesome. I really had
Netflix had this big plan for it. Supposedly spent hundreds
of millions on the IP. It was a market Killar
comic which has done really well as a comic book.
But we did eight eight episodes. They ended up and
what was the what was the comic book that was

(26:43):
called Jupiter's Legacy. It was okay, yeah, Jupiter's Legacy, and
then the show is also called Jupiter's Legacy, and there
was actually there was like a prequel comic called Jupiter's
Circle and it's a whole ip. But but anyway, for
that particular audition, this kind of kind of flashy playboy.
I loved what Robert Downey Jr. Was doing and as

(27:05):
as Iron Man, as Tony Stark, you know, he's he's
kind of big and loud, and so I kind of
took that confidence and kind of rolled with that. You know.
It's like sort of a Robert Downey Jr. And just
at times incorporate the coolness of like a Harrison Ford
and as Han solo or even Indiana Jones.

Speaker 1 (27:25):
That's a pretty good mix.

Speaker 4 (27:26):
Yeah, you can't go wrong with that mix, right, Like
a Paul Newman, you know, Paul Newman. Paul Newman is
one to me that I always try to draw from
a little bit. He's a really interesting leading man to
watch and you know, if you watch Paul Newman, to me,
he always looks like he has a secret, and he's
always got this like sort of kind of a smirk,

(27:49):
kind of a smile, kind of a smirk going on,
and it always looks like he's got a secret that
you want to next time you watch Paul Newman, watch
you know, he looks like he's got a secret. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (27:58):
I think that's always interesting. And Luke, that's for sure.

Speaker 4 (28:01):
Yeah, I mean really yeah, but I kind of borrow
from that too, you know. And uh, I don't know, man,
I just don't.

Speaker 1 (28:10):
Yeah, yeah, put it together. It's sorcery. It's a it's
a recipe, and you hope and you hope it comes
out half more than half baked. Yeah. Oh man, Well
that's good stuff and you have done. But I was
I was looking up your your your voice credits here,

(28:30):
and you've got some pretty cool stuff here, you know
what the Secret of Wings, the Ultimate Spider Man, the
Justice League, and of course Star Wars, the Bad Batch
and uh you do you have any favorites? Do you
like villains or heroes or you know the male man.

Speaker 4 (28:49):
Well, I feel like I've had a lot of fun
with the hero until he becomes the one with yea
with Star Wars. But uh, yeah, I have I mean,
you know, not compared to again, like someone like yourself
or James Arnold Taylor, you know, legends like this. But yeah,
I've had some fun with THEO. I did Ultimate Spider Man.

(29:10):
We did that four or five seasons. And for that
one I did, I was doing Flash Thompson, who's kind
of the you know that bully. Yeah, just just kind
of loud in your face bully. And then for whatever reason,
they had let go there Harry Osbourne, so they wanted
me to do Harry Osborne. So I was doing Flash
Thompson and Harry Osborne, who's he's a low key a

(29:31):
hero friend in that show.

Speaker 1 (29:33):
Yeah, and he became the Green Goblin.

Speaker 4 (29:35):
He did, he did, But I didn't do Green Goblin.
But I did do Agent Venom because Flash Thompson becomes
Agent Venom and so that was kind of.

Speaker 1 (29:44):
Fun too, wow, sort.

Speaker 4 (29:46):
Of the heroic version of Venom. But yeah, I've done man,
I've done little bits on Scooby Doo and yeah, Secret
of the Wings, which my daughter loves that movie. That's
on a lot in our house right now than your
old daughter so great. It's it's one of the Disney
tinker Bell movies and part of that and that's what

(30:06):
that was. So yeah, it's it's been it's been a blast.
I mean, I really love the world of voiceover, and
it's it's interesting because I feel like a lot of people,
maybe especially like ten years ago, now it's a little different.
People are really people are really like kind of looking
at your social media and your IMDb and seeing the
thing the different projects you do. But you know, definitely

(30:28):
ten years ago when I did like I did five
seasons of nine to two and zero, and it was
you know, mostly aimed at young girls, you know, and
so I had I had people that had no idea
that I did vo and sometimes still now people that
are fans of Star Wars, fans of Anak and they
have no idea that I do on camera work. Oh
you know, I'm like.

Speaker 1 (30:47):
Well, sure, well, Star Wars fans are rabid. You know,
if you if you do anything in the Star Wars,
you're in you.

Speaker 4 (30:53):
Are you are? Yeah, and vice versa. You know, a
lot of a lot of on camera people that know
me strictly from an on camera career, I have no
idea that I you know, I have done some really
great voice over roles as well.

Speaker 2 (31:06):
On that note, I think it's really interesting these days
how you can even throw like social media into the mix,
Like how many times do you come across like a
profile with like millions of followers and like you've never
heard of this person and it's like, oh, like they
have like such a massive audience and like I've never
never seen a clip of this.

Speaker 4 (31:22):
Like same And I feel that way, Like I guess
I'm not I'm not really a music buff kind of guy.
I like music, but I couldn't name you all the
bands from the seventies and I'm just not that guy.
Uh But even now, I mean there's there's like artists.

Speaker 1 (31:40):
That I'm oh, yeah, I can't do it now, she's
got I can't do it for the seventies.

Speaker 4 (31:45):
Yeah, I think I listened to like Spotify nineties for
me is what it is. I'm working out. I'm listening
to like, you know, I don' a Nirvana and things
like that, and I'm like, yeah, don't know, I know,
you know, I think it makes I feel like I'm
getting older.

Speaker 1 (32:00):
Oh hear tell me about it.

Speaker 4 (32:02):
Well, time doesn't stop for anyone doesn't.

Speaker 1 (32:05):
No, it doesn't.

Speaker 2 (32:06):
But I just want to go back to your childhood
for a second because I wanted this to ask this question.
So you talked about you were into sports as a kid.
When did you decide that you wanted to be an actor?
At what point was there like a moment did you
kind of dip your feet in. I know you were
on the on that reality show Manhunt, and that you
mentioned how that was kind of how you got your agent.

(32:28):
You know, he saw you on that show and that
was kind of your introduction. But where was the precipice of, like,
I want to be a performer.

Speaker 4 (32:35):
Sure. Yeah, So I was in college and I was
working with the Atlanta Braves as a bat boy, and
I was also working simultaneously at a golf course as
a cart guy, you know. So I'd be there at
five am and get the cars ready and it was
a it was a pretty nice golf course in my
area in Georgia. And we had a fax come through,

(32:58):
not anything else, not internet.

Speaker 1 (33:00):
It was a fact, that's right.

Speaker 4 (33:02):
We had the facts come through to our pro shop
that they were looking for extras on a movie that
they were doing in Atlanta. It was a golf movie
called Bobby Jones Stroke of Genius. Jim Caviezel was in
that as Bobby Jones.

Speaker 1 (33:16):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 4 (33:17):
And so they shot that thing in Atlanta, and I thought,
that's amazing. And you got to keep in mind Atlanta
twenty twenty five years ago, there was nothing going on.
There's no industry in Atlanta like there is now. So
for me, you know, growing up as a kid, that
that didn't cross my mind at all. That's just that
was a world I could never be a part of.

(33:38):
It literally didn't cross my mind. Right. I was watching
things like Jurassic Park and whatever movies, but I that
connection that I could be a part of it was
not in my wheelhouse. And so after that facts came through,
of course I went to be an extra because I
thought it would be awesome. And I really that's kind
of where I got bit with the bug, so to speak.

(33:58):
You know, I saw all the big line heights and
and I think when I saw that happening in real
life with my own two eyes, that's when it opened
up that I was like, wait, I maybe I could
be doing that. And I think that's where it became
real and uh, and that's how it started and and
and from that I was an extra, but I got
selected to be a featured extra, which I still had

(34:21):
no I still had no lines, no dialogue.

Speaker 1 (34:24):
I was going to ask you that no any line
that meant like one line.

Speaker 4 (34:27):
Or no, no, not one line. But it was called
featured because I played. I got to play Bobby Jones
caddy for one of the tournaments. So they actually had
the camera kind of close up on my face book.
Oh ye, looks a couple of looks. You know, he'd
miss a shot. It would be you know, you know,
stuff like that. So uh and you know, we went
to the Fox Theater in Atlanta with my family and

(34:49):
it was this big premiere. And so from there I
started taking some acting classes at the Alliance Theater in Atlanta.
M hm. And and then the reality show happened. And
again it was a newspaper casting call and I went
into this hotel, big ballroom that they were seeing a

(35:10):
bunch of guys and really essentially that show was kind
of like the America's Next Top Model, you know, the
Tyra Banks Show, but it was for men. And whoever
won got one hundred thousand dollars for a contract. And
I mean that was un.

Speaker 2 (35:25):
What were like the competitions like on that show, like
what would you guys have to do?

Speaker 4 (35:29):
Well, so I basically I let's see, well i'll tell you.
I'll tell you. One of the competitions that I actually
won was an acting competition, and so good that competition was.
There was a there was a board room of fake
actors that they had hired. Of course, we as the
contestants on the show, we didn't know that they were

(35:51):
not real executives. We thought they were real advertising executives
for a jeans company. And so my gosh, that was
they had us doing. Of course silly things. We had
our jeens, and you know they would say, well tell us,
tell us why so and so should by these jeans,
and we kind of had to pitch them their jeans,

(36:12):
and you know, of course stupid things happened. They were like, well,
get up on the table and do a little walk
on the on the boardroom table. And I was, I
was up there doing this thing, and anyway, I guess
I put together, you know, in my pitch in my head,
a pitch that was like a sellable pitch and kind
of sold the jeans. And so I won that competition.

Speaker 1 (36:31):
Oh that's great. Yeah, but then you got a free
pair of jeans.

Speaker 4 (36:36):
I don't even think I got a free pair of
jean Oh no. But when I got out of that,
I actually I ended up getting kicked off the show
and like I don't know, eighth place or something because
I was too fat for a modeling show.

Speaker 3 (36:47):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (36:47):
And I was like, yeah, I said, you know, it's okay,
I can't see that, but okay, well compared to a
bunch of models, so you know, I had never done this,
and so I was like, you know, it's so cool,
it's right. You know. I don't know if you guys
have ever seen it, but they have these exit interviews.
You get kicked off, they interview you where they they
hope to get some really some tears out of you

(37:09):
and some drama. But I was like, you know, it's
all right. I would rather be an actor anyway. I'm
not really a model. I don't have a model's body.
I'm five ten, I'm not six two. It's perfectly fine.
I'd rather be an actor. So on that show, my
manager at the time happened to be He said he
was playing poker one night and channels were going and

(37:31):
he saw me say I'd rather be an actor. He
found my email. I was back at the University of
Georgia's you know, finishing school, and he emailed me and said, hey,
I'm a manager in LA If you were serious, let
me know. And that's how we connected. And yeah, finished
the semester and saved up a few grand and I

(37:52):
drove out my car with you know.

Speaker 1 (37:54):
Kill What year was that that was?

Speaker 4 (37:59):
I was literally driving on December thirty, first of four,
So I literally arrived like day one in.

Speaker 1 (38:06):
My apartment of five, no kidding, wow, Yeah, And the
rest is history.

Speaker 4 (38:12):
The rest is history. I had a rough time just
for a few months. I was probably think I was
down to you know, the last dollar or something, and
and and I ended up booking two jobs at one time.
My first job was eight Simple Rules for Dating my
teenage daughter with Ritter.

Speaker 3 (38:32):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 4 (38:32):
It was like an ABC comedy, oh yeah. And then
roughly at the same exact time, I booked a recurring
role on a on a Fox teen horror show called
Point Pleasant. And I remember that vividly because I could
afford a small Starbucks vanilla latte, and I thought I

(38:53):
was on top of the world.

Speaker 1 (38:55):
I was like, yes, I wait, you can shop at Starbuck.

Speaker 4 (39:01):
Well I did. No point point being is I couldn't
really afford anything. I was about to run out of
my last buck. And then all of a sudden, you know,
I was getting top of show, which at the time
was like I don't know, fifty eight hundred dollars or
something for an episode, and I did three or four episodes,
and I was like, I've made it.

Speaker 1 (39:17):
Oh yeah, heck yeah.

Speaker 4 (39:20):
I was so naive. But but I could afford my latte.

Speaker 1 (39:24):
Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 4 (39:25):
I remember cruising up the four or five. We shot
that thing in San Diego. I remember cruising up the
four or five. I talking to my mom or my
aunt on my phone, had a Starbucks, my ninety eight
accuracyl and life was good.

Speaker 1 (39:38):
Yeah, no doubt. Well, hey, you know, if you I
think anybody who's success successful, is anybody who's working.

Speaker 4 (39:46):
Hey, especially now man especially Yeah.

Speaker 1 (39:49):
Yeah, because it's it's scary out there, I wouldn't be
I don't. I don't think I would like to be
starting out now. It would It would be a little scary.

Speaker 4 (39:58):
We don't you feel that constantly? My friends and I
because I have a lot of friends that are in
the industry. We constantly say, we literally don't know how
people make it in LA if they're not working as
a doctor or a series regular on some show or something.
We just I don't know how you do it. Now,

(40:19):
I really don't. As expensive as rent prices are and
food process you're working. You gotta be working three jobs
just to get by, you know, if you're not always
trying to get started, Well.

Speaker 1 (40:32):
You can't eat at McDonald's anymore money wise. No, it's
it's yeah, it's kind of scary.

Speaker 4 (40:40):
You know.

Speaker 1 (40:40):
We'll do these little trips on the weekends, as you know,
and we'll go to convention here or there, and I'm shocked,
you know, we can have dinner for four people and
it's a couple hundred bucks instead of flirting with a
thousand easily. Well, it's unbelievable.

Speaker 3 (40:56):
I can speak to that.

Speaker 2 (40:57):
You know, as a little bit younger of an actor,
I kind of experience this whole like social media shift,
and it's really like I feel like as an actor,
you know, trying to make it, you really have to
have like a whole bunch of different things going, you know,
like social media. I had a clothing company selling clothing,
you know, just like you got to do what you
can and just keep hustling. And then I was very fortunate,
you know, to get this opportunity, you know, to produce

(41:19):
this show with Jim, and it's just like, you know,
my main app focus has always been acting, but like
there's other creative aspects where I feel like you can
exercise and still get that gratification, maybe in a little
bit different way.

Speaker 1 (41:31):

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slash Jim Cummings podcast. Do it now.

Speaker 2 (41:57):
I think maybe you experienced that too with your podcast.
You had a podcast with your wife, correct, the Hello
Baby we did?

Speaker 4 (42:04):
Yeah, yeah, this was back in twenty seventeen, which now
feels like this is prior to most people having a podcast.
But yeah, we we just sort of we started that
one chronicling our journey as first time parents, and oh yeah,
you know, I'm a bit of a tech nerd. I

(42:24):
like my tech and my microphones and my things like that,
and so back then it was a lot of fun
for me to technically set this thing up. And then
we kind of just started doing this for ourselves, just
sort of talking about what we were feeling, what she
was feeling, what I was feeling, and I think a
couple episodes in we just decided like, we're going to
make this a real thing, and so we you know,

(42:44):
got the ad placement agency and we basically, yeah, we
did an episode every week. And it's really really cool
because now we can go back and listen to that,
and that is so awesome and so awesome that we
have that audio for my daughter to go back and
listen to twenty years from now about how mom and

(43:06):
dad were feeling in that moment, you know, because we
were we were joyful, you know, we we we had
prayed for her and so and actually we were you
probably know, Jim, we're pregnant again right now. My wife
is twenty three weeks right now.

Speaker 3 (43:19):
And congratulations, well, thank you, thank you.

Speaker 4 (43:22):
Yeah, we were contemplating doing the you know, another season
of the podcast. We've just been so busy. You tend
to be a little busier when you have children already.

Speaker 1 (43:32):
Yes, that's for sure.

Speaker 4 (43:34):
So we haven't gotten to record anything, but we might
just kind of record, you know, a few, not not weekly,
but that's what we did. And yeah, man, we're so
glad we had it. And we got some really really
great response off that well, off that one as well,
just a lot of people saying, you know, hey, at
that time in twenty seventeen, there maybe was a couple,
maybe a few, a small handful of podcasts that we're

(43:57):
parenting and pregnancy related podcasts. Oh sure, yeah, and at
that time, and it really helped a lot of people.
We got a lot of comments, like, you know, because
we had like overall is very healthy pregnancy, but of
course we had things that happened and scarers that happened,
and oh yes, as they as they do. And you know,
we had people, you know, oh, we're listening along to

(44:17):
you know whatever week nineteen and we felt the same
way or my daughter had the same thing and we
had to see the doctor. And it really gave me
a lot of comfort that you guys had experienced this
and I could. So it was really cool in that
way too.

Speaker 1 (44:29):
Yeah, oh, that's beautiful. Yea, yeah, yeah, well that's a
great memory.

Speaker 2 (44:33):
I think a cool thing you mentioned about it was
how it was like a like a journal, almost like
a journal, and being able to share that in the future.
And you know, I've kind of experienced that too, just
in the last two years on this podcast. It's really
interesting to like go back and look at like how
you've developed, like even just as like an interviewer.

Speaker 3 (44:51):
You know.

Speaker 2 (44:51):
I know me and Jim have talked about this before
because this is both our first time, you know, doing
something like this, and it's really fascinating to like tweak
all those little skills that you don't even necessarily think
of when you're watching somebody do it, you.

Speaker 4 (45:03):
Know, yeah, absolutely, it's that's that's the cool part about
you know this audio and video even say performing you know,
doing TV shows and movies and stuff. You look back
and you know, although I'm embarrassed about it, it is
fun to see progression of how I've gotten better at
certain things and you know, things that I can look

(45:26):
back and be proud about. But yeah, certainly that diary
aspect of our.

Speaker 1 (45:31):
Pregnancy, and you know that's beautiful, yeah, yeah, yeah, and
it'll be nice for the little one too.

Speaker 4 (45:38):
Absolutely, you know.

Speaker 1 (45:39):
That's that's gonna be that's gonna be cute, that'll be sweet.

Speaker 4 (45:42):
Could could be the most valuable ball for her.

Speaker 2 (45:44):
Yeah, you mentioned she's seven now has she has she
gone back yet or is still too young? Has she
listened to any of them?

Speaker 4 (45:51):
She hasn't listened to it. I don't even really I
don't even really know that she knows we have that,
but because we haven't like sat down and said, hey,
listen to this. But she's she's really into, you know,
going back in our phones and looking at pictures and
videos of herself she was a baby and mommy was pregnant.
You know, at this time, she's really really into this

(46:14):
pregnancy now as a big sister. She's really excited about it.
You know, we have all the pregnancy apps, the bump
app and all that sort of stuff, and she wants
to look at it every day and you know, how
big is the baby and what you know, what do
you what fruit do you compare it to today? What's
the size? What's developed in today? And she's been so
involved in the excitement of this current pregnancy.

Speaker 1 (46:39):
That she's going to be an excellent big sister.

Speaker 4 (46:41):
Absolutely. Yeah, this is as much her baby as it is,
you know, me and me and Mommy's baby. Oh yeah,
so yeah, she's she's really really pumped to be a
big sister.

Speaker 3 (46:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (46:51):
Well I remember at that age. You know, my kids
are all adults now, but I remember, you know, telling them,
you know what, girls, what these are the good old days?
And they go, oh, okay, And then of course eventually
I'd say, you know what, girls, yeah, dad, these are
the good old days. Okay. Then I go, well they
will bae dang it.

Speaker 4 (47:08):
Yeah, I promise you.

Speaker 1 (47:09):
Yeah, you know, you don't have that perspective until you do.

Speaker 4 (47:12):
Man. Man, it's uh, it's wild. Do you guys remember
this song came out in nineteen ninety nine, Chris, I
don't know how old you are, but and I don't
remember who it was by, but it was kind of
the first of its kind. It was a song, but
it was a guy and he was just talking. It
might have been called like sunscreen, and he was like
the very it was. It was like he was talking

(47:32):
for a couple of minutes about advice, and he was like,
where your sunscreen? You're gonna wanna wear your sunscreen? It's
the most valuable thing, you know, talk to your parents
and and uh, it just popped up on social media things.
It reminded me of that. But yeah, but the advice
is so true. Came out in nineteen ninety nine and

(47:54):
everything applies today still. It's yeah, except the sunscreen thing,
because I've seen articles that talk about sunscreen now causes cancer.
You know, we can't win.

Speaker 3 (48:03):
Oh yeah, so you're doomed if you do and doomed
if you don't.

Speaker 4 (48:07):
Yeah. I guess, so that's that's not fair.

Speaker 1 (48:12):
Yeah, you know, yeah, yeah, what was it? I remember
that commercial about eggs. The eggs were walking around looking
at the camera, going, well, I guess we're okay for
you again. You can eat us again. For a couple
of years there, we weren't allowed to eat eggs because
they'll kill you till you're dead. Yeah, and uh and
now well we're back. You can you can have us.

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So I thought that was nice.

Speaker 4 (48:35):
I don't understand. I don't you eat a raw egg
and you could die from salmonella if you're making brownies,
But then you can eat you can drink six raw
eggs if you're trying to build muscle. I don't get it.

Speaker 1 (48:44):
What's the Yeah, right, yeah, Rocky looked okay, he did.

Speaker 4 (48:47):
All right, but yeah, yeah, clearly.

Speaker 1 (48:51):
No, huh, that doesn't look like it. Yeah, that's funny.

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slash Jim Cummings Podcast.

Speaker 2 (49:19):
Do it now, Well, we usually do with this little
game on this podcast, and it's a it's a little
voice swap game. If you're interested in playing, I went
on sure. It's pretty simple. So Jim will say a
line of one of his characters, one of his voice characters,
you know, say Winnie the Pooh, and then you'll copy
that same line in one of the characters that you've voiced,

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and then we'll swap back and forth.

Speaker 1 (49:45):
And then yeah, and then you can give me one
of your line.

Speaker 4 (49:47):
So no, and then this can be This could be
from any vo or any on camera.

Speaker 3 (49:52):
Anything you want, anything you want.

Speaker 1 (49:54):
Whatever, whatever pops into your head.

Speaker 4 (49:56):
Okay, and you have to preface it, which with which
character it is?

Speaker 3 (50:00):
Yeah, yeah, just for the audience.

Speaker 2 (50:02):
Yeah, So like, for example, like we have Hondo and Anakin,
so Jim would say a Hondo line, and then you'd
say that Hondo line as Anakin and vice versa.

Speaker 3 (50:12):
Okay, how about we start off.

Speaker 1 (50:14):
With all right, there you go. I think Hondo is
a good place to start. Okay, Hondo here is an
actual of course, I had lived all the lines, so
they're easier for me to remember. I don't think I
ever said I didn't say half the words that they wrote.
I did give them one as written, and then I
don't know if you ever remember reading along in the script,

(50:35):
you know, and then I would do it as it
should have been. So I'll do one of my favorite
ad libs that I came up with. Alright, so Hondos
was reminiscent. He said, Oh my goodness, the stories, the
stories I could tell, so many of them.

Speaker 4 (50:54):
True, Okay, so Anakin is really my voice in the
later seasons. Yeah, a little. I'm a little deeper, a
little more down in here, so it'd be a little
more like, Oh my goodness, the stories I could tell
about me and padme something like that.

Speaker 1 (51:14):
Any of them true.

Speaker 4 (51:17):
All of them are true.

Speaker 1 (51:20):
The rumors are always true.

Speaker 4 (51:22):
Always true, always true.

Speaker 1 (51:23):
There you go, All right.

Speaker 3 (51:24):
Did Anakin and Hondo ever interact in Clone Wars?

Speaker 4 (51:28):
I can't recall, Jim, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (51:31):
I gotta believe we did. Yeah, I mean I think so.

Speaker 4 (51:36):
I don't know. You know, Anakin, I feel like he
wouldn't mind tagging along. Actually, Hondo's pretty fun, So yeah,
I could see Anakin wanting some adventure with Hondo. Get me,
get me away from this old Obi Wan guy. He's
a rule follower.

Speaker 1 (51:51):
Yeah. Well, I remember one of the things that I
enjoyed doing was cracking up Steve Bloom and kind of
screwing up his lines because you know, he would start
laughing instead of doing his line. Yeah, so that's how
I knew I was onto something.

Speaker 4 (52:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (52:07):
Did you guys ever do any sessions together while recording
the Clone Wars?

Speaker 4 (52:11):
I feel like we kind of entered in the booth.
I just don't. I just don't don't recall if we
had immediate exchange of dialogue.

Speaker 2 (52:18):
Yeah, yeah, let us know in the comments. I'm sure,
I'm sure they're fans will know, I'm.

Speaker 1 (52:22):
Sure that is true.

Speaker 4 (52:23):
We could queue up the you know, I haven't gone
back and watched any of these episodes in a long
long time, and I made it a point I want
to go back and watch a handful of these episodes again,
ones that people talk to me about often. For me,
it's like the Umbara arc and there's a there's a

(52:44):
Mortis uh Forced God Planet arc that people talk a
lot about. Now I remember that pretty well, but there's
a few. But anyway, I want to go back and
watch these things because I want to be able to
talk with a little more Star Wars knowledge when people come.

Speaker 1 (52:56):
To the table. But yeah, you have to get refreshed. Yeah,
watch them or you know, because you know, people will
come up to me and they'll a lot of times
I told the story before those that do the word
do the line? Do the line? Like I what line?
Oh bother, No, the line, you know, And and it's
and it was from a video game that I did

(53:17):
a hundred years ago, and it was Go Ford the
Ice Boo and it was and now I'm not going
to remember the name of the damn game. Oh gosh. Anyway,
we'll edit that up.

Speaker 4 (53:31):
You know, what's what's interesting, though, is is is people,
you know, they come up to your table and let's
for example, that they're a fan of Winnie the Pooh
and that's their thing, right, so they know the line,
they remember these lines. But for you, you know, I'm
not and I'm not saying Winnie the Pooh or even
Anakin is just a job. But it's a job for us,
and we've done we've done a lot of them, and

(53:52):
we've said a lot that's the problem for a lot
of different projects. And I think I think that's something
that and and I find it enduring and it's very sweet.
I think people just kind of don't. I don't realize that.
They don't realize that, Yeah I don't. I've been doing
this for fifteen years with lines from all kinds of characters.

Speaker 1 (54:08):
So yeah, yeah, oh god, they just can't.

Speaker 4 (54:11):
I don't. I don't have a cue up like like
you do, you know.

Speaker 1 (54:14):
Like they do. Yeah, they do well, yeah, and you know,
and it's very gratifying and it's wonderful that it means
that much to them that it impacts them and they
carry it around in their head their heart.

Speaker 4 (54:25):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, you.

Speaker 1 (54:26):
Know, and it just makes me grateful. I'm sure you're
in the same category.

Speaker 4 (54:30):
It does it does it is? You know, yeah, it's
I it feels like I'm disappointing them when I can't
come up with it though, you.

Speaker 1 (54:39):
Know, yeah, so yes, yeah, well what are you going
to do? But yeah, man, well, I just thank you
so much for being here. It's really great.

Speaker 4 (54:48):
Always, it's always fun to come in and just you know,
have a loose chat with others and yeah, especially in
the industry. And absolutely, I know you know it's been
around you for a while and it's it's true, it's truly,
it's an honor to be, you know, even considered to
be doing this podcast with you because, oh, thank You're
an absolute legend someone I look up to.

Speaker 1 (55:09):
Well, thank you. I appreciate that. Yeah, sir, it doesn't.
I don't feel legendary. But I'll on the other hand,
I'm well stupid.

Speaker 4 (55:14):
I'll take you are You're.

Speaker 1 (55:17):
Absolutely bless you, bless you, thank you, and anything you
want to close with that, we should be looking forward
to anything you want to talut anything.

Speaker 4 (55:25):
Okay, By the time this probably comes out, I have
a show coming out on Amazon Prime actually tomorrow, so
oh wow, it's May twentieth is the release date, and
I believe all episodes are being released. It's called Motorheads.
It's a nice yeah. So for those watching, if you
haven't seen it, it's I'm sure it's on there, Go
to Amazon find it. It's a it's kind of a

(55:46):
teen teen kind of coming of age television show, sort
of like we keep comparing. It's a Friday night lights
meets Fast and Furious to the town laws, street racing,
not football.

Speaker 1 (55:57):
Wow, that's that's pretty good.

Speaker 4 (55:59):
It's really cool, and the scripts were wonderful. It's the
first time I'm playing a dad to a teenager and
that's weird for me, but really good scripts. I saw
the first two episodes and I was really impressed. It's
shot really well. So you know, yeah, anyone watching, go
check that out. I'm looking forward to its release. I've

(56:20):
mentioned James Arnold Taylor before. James and I are working
on a show called Gabriel and the Guardians, and that
is a It's an animated series on the Angel platform
and we've released one episode and it's gotten some really
great attention. It's beautiful to look at it is.

Speaker 1 (56:37):
I love Angel. They're they're great people.

Speaker 4 (56:39):
It's it's eye candy to look at. Performances are amazing,
Christina Viz in there, Johnny Young, Bosh, myself, James and
it is a show that's loosely based around a lot
of ancient Hebrew text. So it's very cool, very very
there's bifficult ties and connections and inspiration. I should say,

(57:00):
if you look for it, you will find the inspiration.
But in and of itself, it is a fantasy story
with fantasy characters. But really proud to be a part
of that one and can't wait to see more of that.
I think we've we've done six episodes. I think we're
about to gear up to do the second half of
the season, so maybe another six or something. I don't know.
Don't don't take my word on that.

Speaker 1 (57:18):
I'm just avoided good. But check out too many more. Yeah, hopefully, hopefully, hopefully. Well,
I'll knock wood for you. Thank you well, thank you brother.
I appreciate you being here. Thank you ever so much.

Speaker 4 (57:31):
It is my pleasure, ad a blast. Thanks for having me. Yes,
thank you very much. Yeah, I'll just take us, take
us home. Thank you everybody, ladies and gentlemen for watching.
That was another episode of Tuned in with Jim Cummings.
Today we were joined by Matt Lanter. Thank you again
so much for being here. If you guys like this content,
be sure to like and subscribe. We really appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (57:50):
It helps you out as well, find more episodes and
stuff like that. Did you know on YouTube you can
really watch a video and it's never recommended to you again,
so be sure to like and subscribe to that doesn't
happen because it's really frustrating. If you like this content
even more, guess what, there's bonus content on Patreon.

Speaker 3 (58:07):
That's right, Patreon members. We appreciate you all.

Speaker 2 (58:09):
There's extra episodes, extended episodes, and much much more. We
do contest, giveaways, all that good stuff, so be sure
to check us out there. What else, Jim, Oh, you
can get merchandise Jim Cummings closetm Shopify. You can get
some cool T shirts, some little keychains. There's a whole
bunch of good stuff. Go check that out. And I
think that just about does it for today. We will

(58:31):
see you in the next one.

Speaker 1 (58:32):
Thank you.

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