July 27, 2025 • 45 mins
This week on Toon’d In!, Jim Cummings welcomes the sensational, sharp-witted, and incredibly talented Susanne Blakeslee—the powerhouse voice behind iconic characters like Wanda in The Fairly OddParents, Maleficent in Kingdom Hearts, Lady Tremaine in Cinderella III: A Twist in Time, and countless others across animation and gaming!
From fairy godmothers to formidable villains, Susanne shares her journey through decades of voice acting, what it takes to bring animated icons to life, and how she found her unique voice in a crowded industry. With warmth, insight, and plenty of behind-the-scenes stories, she and Jim dive into the artistry, adaptability, and sheer fun of the craft.
💫 Ever wondered how one voice can shape so many unforgettable characters? Tune in and get Toon’d In!
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From fairy godmothers to formidable villains, Susanne shares her journey through decades of voice acting, what it takes to bring animated icons to life, and how she found her unique voice in a crowded industry. With warmth, insight, and plenty of behind-the-scenes stories, she and Jim dive into the artistry, adaptability, and sheer fun of the craft.
💫 Ever wondered how one voice can shape so many unforgettable characters? Tune in and get Toon’d In!
🎟️ Meet Jim and Susanne in person! Catch Jim Cummings at these upcoming conventions:
- Nostalgia Con (Houston, TX) – August 22-24
- SacAnime (Sacramento, CA) – August 29–31
- Amazing Art Expo (Las Vegas, NV) – September 12–14
- Nostalgia Con (Milwaukee, WI) – September 26–28
- Smoky Mountain Anime Fest (Gatlinburg, TN) – October 17–19
- Armageddon Expo (New Zealand) - October 24-27
- Supanova Comic Con Adelaide (Australia) - October 31 - November 2
- Supanova Comic Con Brisbane (Australia) - November 7-9
- Nostalgia Con (New Orleans, LA) – November 21–23
- Nostalgia Con (Salt Lake City, UT) – March 13–14, 2026
See Susanne at these upcoming conventions:
- Toon Con (Los Angeles, CA) - September 7
- Animate! Philadelphia (Oaks, Pensylvania) - October 3-5
Stay Toon'd for more appearances—because these legends are just getting started!
🎧 Listen on Spotify: bit.ly/4fHWwxa
🍎 Listen on Apple: bit.ly/3AmUYZi
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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(00:21):
slash Jim Cummings Podcast. Do it now? How you doing
out there? It's me Tigger, I am Doc Wayne Duck.
It's me Bunkers keep bobcat All right, y'all? Is it great?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Your favorite firefly.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
You desire Hondo old knock Gud. My name is Jim
Cummings and welcome to tuned In.
Speaker 3 (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.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
How are you today, sir?
Speaker 1 (00:50):
And we're back in the saddle again having a great day.
Not other than ladies and gentlemen, sools, lakes Lee, come
on down.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
Thank you for joining us today.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Thank you for joining us today.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Well, thank you for having me. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Yes, it's a fairly odd day. Yes, so I'm glad
you could make it and welcome.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Welcome, thank you, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
You are humble. I'm honored our humble little podcast. Oh
we are as well. Thanks for being here. And you
didn't have a too big of a drive.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
I take you No, no, took me about fifteen minutes.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Okay in LA. That's that's next door.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
Yeah's you're practically here already, exactly.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Well, I'm just glad you're here. Thank you. And it's
interesting because we run into each other at different conventions
here and there. Yeah, and unfortunately I don't have anything
for you to sign right here, but I'm sure that'll
be taken up for you. A thousand dollars Okay, Yeah,
that's right, good night, everybody. Fantastic. So I always like
(02:05):
to know from people, when did you know that you
were one of my fellow weirdos? Put it that way,
you know, when did you know you had to you
were going to grow up and do this? Oh?
Speaker 2 (02:19):
My, I always wanted to be an actor. At the
age of six, my parents had My Fair Lady the album,
and I wanted to be Julie Andrews and imitated her
for years and years and in New York. I landed
in a show called Forbidden Broadway where we had to
(02:42):
spoof different Broadway stars and musicals. And then I came
here with the show and got an agent and.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
That had to be a ball. It was. It was
really great, way too much fun.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
It was really fun, fun and a lot of hard work.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Eight shows a week, eight shows.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Yeah, but it really you it's the same thing with
voiceover kind of thing. You had to just dive in.
Oh today you need to do Barbers streisand and just
like go, okay, I'll try Oh.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Oh no, should we let her off the hook? Or
are we gonna all right? Give us a little give
us a little strisand back, yes, complete with facial gymnastics.
That's wonderful, ladies and gentlemen. Good for you. Well that
(03:44):
had to be.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
It was really fun and I just I was fortunate
to land in a voiceover. They needed a new Cuella
Deville Disney, and trotted over to my agent's and picked
up a little cassette tape and listened to it all
weekend long. And that was really my first role.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Yeah. Yeah, I can't gosh, I can't think of who
that was the original? Can you so I know she
was very cruel, yes, and she had a fabulous fashion sense. Yes,
black and white. Everything was black white, everything was fucking
including her and her credit one hundred and won Dalmatians.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
But that was really exciting, and my first recording of that.
Wayne and Rusie were there and they had seen me
perform and welcomed me beautifully. Yes, I was nervous.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Well, they they were an amazing people. For those of you,
the three of you out there who don't know, that
was actually Mickey and Minnie Mouse for many many years,
great great, great old buddies of mine. In fact, I
met Rusie almost day one in the business, and she
was she was just a sweetheart of a gal. But
(05:05):
Mickey and Minnie were actually married in real life exactly,
So how about that? Yeah? In fact, I remember when
they got married and the two of them, they were
so darn cute you couldn't stand it. And they were
both well, we can't tell anybody, We don't want anybody
to know, because you know, tabloids will write silly things
and do terrible things. You're Mickey and Minnie. What can
(05:28):
they write?
Speaker 2 (05:29):
What?
Speaker 1 (05:30):
You know? Shame on them? Will we'll get we'll sue
them if you know. But they're just as cute as
they could be.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
They were so in love. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, but
they welcomed me and you sort of gave me their blessing.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Right, thank you. That had to feel good. Yeah, that
had to feel good to Disney legends, approaching a future
legend and hey, we'll take it. Well, you're a legendary
bad girl. I mean, I mean, your the name's alone maleficent. Ye, Cruella. Yeah,
(06:05):
you can't say Cruella without saying cruel.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Exactly, so exactly. I love, I love, give me all
the hags you got. You know.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Oh there's an expression you don't hear like you used to,
but coining a new phrase.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Did you?
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Did you grow up doing theater like when when you
were young in school?
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Yeah? My first part was they were doing we were
doing Prints in the Pauper in elementary school, and I
played the popper's father because I thought it was great.
He was like, really, mean, I I'll do that.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
You played the father. I played the father. Okay, sure,
I take it. Your voice is not changed much, so
you must have been a very.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
I was probably really really terrible. Yeah, and I enjoyed myself.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
That's right. Well as long as that, as long as
I'm sure that came through. Yeah. So theater was your.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Yeah, musical?
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Yeah yeah, mine too, Mine too. I just thought it
was so much fun. Yeah, you know, and and it
was I remember distinctly thinking this is a great way
to meet girls because I wasn't that good an athletes,
so I didn't have that going for me. But boy,
you were in one play and make people laugh and
(07:34):
maybe you got to sing a song. Oh forget about it. Yeah,
I'm doing this.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
And I don't remember meeting you, but had I done so,
we we would have had a much much more interesting past.
But you're here now. It's a beautiful thing. And were
you on fire for it too? Because I ended up
doing it because I mean I've I've said it before.
I do this because I really can't do or want
(08:02):
to do anything else. Were you in that kind of
category as well?
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Well? I did wait tables in New York?
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Okay, well yeah, well ok.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Except but this is no, this is what I've always
wanted to do, and I'm just so grateful that I'm
able to do it. So h yeah, yeah, I agree,
it was I remember in high school, I was determined
to be an actor, and my mom came to me
one time and said, have you thought about home ch
(08:35):
And for those of you who don't know that, it
was this class where you learn to cook and sew.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
And and and like budget things. Yes, it was going
to make grocery lists exactly. I think that's in there.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
That's like wow, I'm like, no, mom, thanks.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Yeah, brownie making.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Public school in the seventies, that's what that's what you did.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
And if a girl wanted to do shop class, that
was considered no, only the boys.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
You know, oh boy, Well nowadays that's changed exactly.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
Did they have those classes anymore?
Speaker 2 (09:17):
I hope not?
Speaker 4 (09:19):
Yeah, shop class.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Yeah, the boys would like make wooden.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I remember it.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
I'm just I'm curious if they still have those type
of classes anymore.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
I don't know. I just remember in home ech, because
it was public schools, everything you made, bake wise was
made with lard. Lard, yes, not butter, not march and yeah,
good old fashioned large.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Yeah, lagassi would be happy, right, pork fat, pork fat rules. Yes, well,
we were health nuts back back then.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Exactly.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
I never met an artery. We didn't want to clog.
Oh my gosh, and yet you made it.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
I made it somehow. Yeah, I'm still here.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Yes, I am too almost, So that's good. This is
working out beautifully.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
So you took over the voice of crawl Deville and
then that was your first introduction.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
To voice acting.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Yeah, and so sort of at the same time, there
was a cartoon Casper the Friendly Ghost, and they needed
a like a Julie Andrews nanny, you know, Mary Poppins thing,
So I did that at the same time.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
But yeah, and that was that the the movie or
the series series. Yeah, they had a few of those. Yeah,
I remember the Casper.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
The Friendly Ghost ghost.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
You know, I've never heard it before. That was just
a lucky guest, just a lucky guest.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
That's why you are you.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Yeah, I plucked it out of the ether. And I remember,
Now this is really a silly aside, but he had
a cousin or something named uh Spooky, and he was Spooky,
the tough little ghost. L I l with the apostrophe
in there somewhere, and I related to him because he
(11:19):
would go on scare raids and he would go down
to the local village or wherever from wherever he lived
and just fly around scaring the crap out of people.
And I thought that was a great, great calling. Yep.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
And I remember being at my grandmother's house poking holes
in a This is how young I was, poking holes
in a large pillowcase, and then running around at the
gate down there when people would pass, Man, get this
kid out of here, come get your child. You know
(11:56):
it was put him in the house with the hell
matter with you? You know I didn't go over Well,
I love it. Yeah, yeah, what are you gonna do now? Well,
Jesus had to leave town to make it big too,
so there you go. You know, no comparison, mind you.
But but if it was tough on him, who can
(12:16):
what can I expect exactly? And do you do you
have more fun playing bad girls than because you've got
a few of them?
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Yeah? I love them, even as a kid when I
you know, you'd go to the uh the drive in
movie theaters and sit on the roof. And I loved
the bad guys. It's just and like with Disney, I
try to I kind of think there's sort of Shakespearean
(12:47):
these villains, and everything is so delicious to them.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Yeah, yeah, it's true.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Yeah, and it's a load of fun to do that.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Yeah. Well, if you think of sleeping beauties.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
Which she was, oh yeah, very classic villainous exactly exactly.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
I just.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
I idolized those characters when I was a kid. I
don't know what that says about me, but.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Yeah, good taste exactly, Oh my gosh. Yeah, and you
know it would lead somewhere, so it seemed to work out.
So hey, yeah, too bad, right, yep, we'll.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Take it exactly exactly.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Well, I think bad guys, bad girls they have more
fun we do. Yeah, it's just seems that way. I mean,
Peter Pan was cool and he could fly, but Captain
Nook was having a great time, you know.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Yeah, I mean yeah, I think there's there's something more
like it's almost like villains can be more human in
a weird way. You know, they don't have to be
so cookie cutter and like, you know, we all make
mistakes and you know, have a struggle between right and wrong,
like you think about iconic villains. You know, it's I mean,
even look at like the Joker, you know, Heath Ledger's Joker,
(14:08):
I mean, yes, so much of his character was like
a choice of morality and immorality, you know, that's how
he terrorized people. Yeah, but like I'm going to challenge
everybody's morals, you know, And I think that's true. What
sticks with people, it's like, oh that's like, you know,
not he's not a hero, but it's like more interesting
to see that rather than like this is right and wrong, you.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Know, exactly. And they they also have the ability to
be very sarcastic, which most actors love, I mean very much.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
So yeah, you know, yeah that's true. That's very true.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
And it's hard to make a hero sarcastic in that
same same vein exactly, it kind of comes off as like,
you know, maybe they're a smart ass or know it
all or something.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
It's like, okay, you can't really have the good guy
doing dark wing.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Duck gets a cute to being sarcastic a lot her
has over the years, and I go, yeah, that's right.
Why you know, it's like, well, gie, oh, I hope
I'm not offending you too much, you know, but yeah,
I mean, you know, you throw a little of that
in next thing.
Speaker 5 (15:16):
You're having fun, so exactly exactly right, yase.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
I mean the great thing about what we get to
do is laugh all the time, and that, you know,
gives you a lot more years in life, I.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Think, Yeah, oh I agree. Yeah. Well I've always said
that I make a living doing the things used to
get me kicked out of class exactly. You know, but
the other kids were entertained, you know, Sister Mary Agnes,
not so much.
Speaker 5 (15:48):
I would have loved to have met you when you
were Oh, I was a bit of a I was
a chore.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Oh yeah, yes, yes you can. If my parents were here,
they'd be going.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
He was a real pain in the ass. But that's okay.
But we made it payoff though, right.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Yes, absolutely.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
So what was the time span between Corelle Deville and
Wanda and Fairly Odd Parents?
Speaker 2 (16:17):
It was maybe five years or four years?
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Yeah, I was thinking it was relatively short.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
We auditioned for a thing called oh Yeah Cartoons, and
I did a couple of those, one of which was
Fairly Odd Parents, and they liked it. They picked up
six and liked it some more, and we started running
and it was fun from the very very beginning. I mean,
(16:45):
those people that I worked with are so talented and
so funny and just great to be around.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
So I'm very fortunate to have managed to drop it.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Yeah, well, worked with our buddy Darren Norris.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
I love Darren.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Yeah, his voice could probably shatter a picture window. Yes,
you always knew, yes, yes, yeah, you know he's got that.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Yeah, it's a you know, Nickelodeon. You could hear him. Oh,
Darren's in the building, okay, Yeah, but we from the
very beginning, we would we would stand next to each
other with the plexiglass in the middle and always be
in sync. And I just have adored him since the
first time I ever met him.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Yeah, he's a good boy. Yeah, he's got he's got
a he's got a delivery. He does and it pays off.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Did you guys improve a lot on that show? Yes,
you can tell, yeah, because it's such like I always
compare it to like a tennis game, you know, when
you're like bouncing off each other jokes and exactly.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
I mean, we of course had brilliant writers, but yeah,
there was a lot of ad libbing. Darren made up
a whole song that got in the show.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
So oh wow, that's pretty good.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
I'm sure if you get him on he'll sing it.
A nuclear reactor. I don't know what it was, but
it was.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
But a sentimental song about reactors.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Isn't it?
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Great?
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Good time? There's a Hallmark card in there some way exactly.
But yeah, we just had the greatest time. And we
you know, added on, you know, Carlos Alis, rocky, amazingly funny,
of course, Greater Lyle and the Wonderful Terror Strong.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Yes she was. She was that in the show.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Yes, Wonderful Terror Strong, Yes exactly.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Sort of mid Atlantic delivery there, Wonderful Terror Strong exactly.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Hello darling. Yes, but we had a just a great time.
And I remember looking at the picture of Wanda at first,
and I thought, I thought a little bit, well Carol Burnett, who.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Is my.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
I idolize her, and a little bit of Joan Whirley.
So she was kind of up in here.
Speaker 5 (19:22):
What oh, yes, yes she was, Hello everybody, Yes exactly.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
The dogs are outside going what wait?
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Well, I know I always say that our show can You.
People said have told me at cons that their kids
watched it first thing in the morning. I'm like, well
that'll wake them up.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Wow, you don't need any coffee.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
And we once did a video and it was this
British producer who could not stand Wanda's voice, and she
kept saying, can you make it softer Darling?
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Oh I can't really yet, very well yeah, yeah, can
you not be your character? Yeah, it's kind of what
she was almost saying.
Speaker 5 (20:08):
Yeah, now you're going to have to suffer through that exactly.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Yeah, that's what I got hired for a lady.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
And that was the first voice you landed on for her. Yes, yeah,
that's nice.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Am Darren with Cosmo started off like a Phil Hartman
type thing and then oh, but just kept going higher
and higher and higher, and he ended up with the
Falsetto voice for Cosmo.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Yeah, it was fun. Yes, Well I see him nowadays.
I'll see him like at conventions. Yeah, he hasn't changed
a bit. He's no hey, yeah, yeah, I feel I
feel like he's going to sell me something in a
minute after you meet him. If you're a fan of
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Speaker 3 (21:22):
What you said just makes me wonder though. A question
for both of you. How often do you use the
first voice of an original character. Do you have to
go through iterations often or is it kind of a
gut feeling of when you first see an image of
a character like this is how they're going to sound.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
I think it's a little of both. This I just
came upon. But I've been in sessions where I'm doing
extra characters, and we had this one thing in Fairly
odd Parents. One day an actor was trying out, Okay,
(22:01):
you're the mailman or whatever, and he did something and
Butcher went no, no, And so our phrase is no, no, no,
no until you find the characters. Yeah, you just try
to pull out as many as you can for.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Some positive reinforcement. No no, no, no, yes, yes, yes.
Did you get a yes? Yes? Eventually? Must have. Yeah.
It's not as fun as no. No, that's right. That
was actually very Carol Burnetti too.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Actually, if you think about it, that's true.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
I could see her doing that. Yeah, oh my god.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
What about for you, Jim.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Well, she's you know, whenever I would do a new character,
I think it's uh. The first thing I ended up
doing is usually what because I don't have that good
an imagination, So I got like one or two in me,
what do you think? First?
Speaker 4 (23:03):
But okay, good, good, like a like a character like Ray.
That was first iteration.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Uh yeah, yeah, well he I knew the cage. It's
a Cajun accent from Princess and the Frog, and I
was the Cajun firefly. And I had been a deckhand
on a riverboat in New Orleans for a long time,
and so I would be the only one on a
lot of boats for that spoke English as a first
(23:30):
language because they spoke you know, Cajun French and and
that that accent that got like that, you know that
they talked this way. Yeah, and I used it for Leatherhead,
the the alligator from Teenage Meeting Ninja Turtles. And then
I couldn't use a voice like that, you know, because
(23:50):
that was a little too big vote for this little
guy like that. So next thing I knew I did,
made him a little bit like that and give him
a little squeak here and there, and uh, and out
came Ray. So yeah, I love that. Yeah, Yeah, it's again,
it's all the stuff you used to get me kicked
(24:11):
out of class exactly. You know the jokes on them
right right.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
I remember touring in a musical and my sixth grade
math teacher showed up. Oh, she said, you were such
a shy kid. I thought you would become a teacher.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Or you know what, Wow, no kidding. You were shy?
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Yes I was. I was a shy kid, but especially
when I got to high school, I just mustard up
the courage. And my first role was Lady Bracknell in
the Importance of being Earnest, and I just tried to
channel my day me Edith evans An. Whether it has
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handles or not, you know, just that's great.
Speaker 4 (25:04):
I love that play.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Yeah, I was probably again really terrible.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Apparently not. But like you say, you got the job
I did.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
I did well. It's kind of hard to fire you
from a high school, That's true.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Would you say that performing helped you with your shyness,
like as a way to express yourself?
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Absolutely? I mean I always, like I said, I always
wanted to be an actor, but I kind of like
kept it inside for several years and uh so performing
really just uh brought out all my my inhibitions were
(25:52):
like you know, thrown out to the side because you
have to be able to jump into character as opposed
to apologize. You can't apologize as an actor really except
after they go no no, no, yeah, yeah, okay.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Well let me finish, let me finish, right, Oh god,
But it's true.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
Yeah, yeah, you got You have to make your choices,
and you know they either work or not, and you
can fine tune around that, but you have to make
a bold choice, bold enough choice absolutely.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Yeah, whether it's.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Small or big, it's still you know, you have to stay.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
I know exactly what you mean.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
And I think that's like something that a lot of
actors right now kind of struggle with. You know, we
don't really have, like my generation younger doesn't really have
like Nicholas Cage, you know, like type of actors. You know,
everybody's so like reserved almost like when you have to
take those like wild that's really entertaining when you're authentic
with it.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
Yes, you know, it's.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Like oh yeah, like I mean, all go any Nick
Cage movie just for his performance. Yeah, you know, because
you know, you know it's going to be unique at least,
and you know it's going to be authentic.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Exactly exactly, Well, that is for sure.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
Yeah, yeah, so I completely agree with what you're saying.
I mean, yeah, you can't be apologetic. I think that's
what a lot of actors need to hear, honestly. Yeah,
so you can't with it, probably with any art forms,
to be truly great at it, I would say sure.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
And you know, let's say you go to an audition
and just give it your all. You might in the
car go oh god, why did I why didn't I
do this or that or the other thing, But when
you're you know, performing or auditioning, you have to just
like put it out there.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
There's a place I'm sure I don't know if you've
ever been to over in Burbank called the Voice Caster.
Oh yeah, yeah, you know. And Bob Lloyd rest is
So he started it many years ago and he had
a I forget what the act in him is, but
it's a practice on your own time, perform on ours excellent,
toyo poo or pool or something like that.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Excellent.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
And I think that's yeah, that's legit, don't you think. Yes?
Speaker 5 (28:12):
I think that's you know, says it all really, Yeah, Yeah,
nothing worse than driving home and going wait a minute, you.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Know what I should have done?
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Yes, yeah, there's always that yeah, should have yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Yeah, but so far, so good.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
So far, so good. Yes, yes, yes, you know you
still kick yourself for not taking full advantage of an
opportunity in your life. But you can never live just
regretting everything. Yeah, go forward.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
You gotta live with what you what you got.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Yeah, And I would say, if you've got a string,
pull it exactly.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Well.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Yeah, yeah, you know, and you've been you've been doing well.
So life is good.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Life is good. Life is good. And again, I'm just
very grateful to be able to enjoy what I do.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
I mean, well that counts.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Yeah. And the daunting thing is that these conventions, don't
you find that it's so humbling that people people sometimes
come up to you and say it changed my life
because I was in a really bad place and it
made me happy, and that just is extraordinary. I'm going
(29:35):
to start to cry, but yeah, it's really it's true.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
I agree. Yeah, I've had stories that will just put
you on your knees. I won't you know, I've delved
into them here and there. But it's it's really interesting
and I think, you know, thank you Lord. Being the
voice of winning to Poo these many decades has given
me a just beautiful chance to get to not know
(30:04):
people that but but become a part of their lives.
And when I meet them, they they impart that to
me and it and it's a really a beautiful bonding thing.
And you know, people will cry and they'll say, well,
you got me through Grandma's death or you know, or
whatever that is got me through that sound. I have
(30:26):
no idea what that is, but water filter.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
It was the safe opening and then all the money
tumbles out.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Hi, folks were one. We're pretending this is live because
we're going to leave that in. I think it was interesting.
It was really a cool sound there. Yeah. I was
expecting somebody to beam down.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
I was like thinking of mechanics at the door or something.
I'm like, what is that?
Speaker 2 (30:56):
Yeah? Yeah, way to kill a heartfelt Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
I'm sorry, what the hell was I talking about? Something
about sentimental blah blah blah yacketty schmacketty.
Speaker 4 (31:08):
Sorry about that?
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Hell, Okay, what are you gonna do? Yeah? Yeah, but
it is true. You know, you don't know, you don't
know the things that we do because we're in a
I've said it before. We performed most of the time
in a vacuum. You know, we don't even have the
whole cast there, like yeah, back back in the old day. Yeah, yeah,
you know I missed those days.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
I do too. I hope that, yeah, it'll come back.
Like what you were mentioning, ad libbing and stuff, you
can't really do that over.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
Zoom no and not, and you can't do it flying
solo either, exactly.
Speaker 4 (31:44):
You know.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
I I hope I'm throwing a bore everybody with the
story again. But in Aladdin three maybe Ladin Yeah, Aladin
the third a Latin. Robin Williams came back and uh,
Dan Castlynetta film did his thing and it was brilliant,
of course because he's Dan Castlenetta and made a lot
(32:08):
of money. So Robin said, oh, you know what, I'll
do the third one. It's fine going I'm back, you know.
And so he came and there's this one scene and
of course he only had libs, and I've been known
to ad lib here and there, and there was this
one scene where he was he imagined the courtroom bloom
(32:30):
and of course Genie is the judge, she's the jury,
he's the prosecuting attorney, and I was in the witness stands,
shackled in there in my character, and he was interviewing me.
And I had lived one or two lines back from
you know, the reader who was there. And they go, oh,
let's keep that, let's keep that. Then I had lived
in number Oh let's keep that. Let's keep that. So
(32:50):
what happened was as a result of them keeping that,
Robin's line didn't work the following after after, so they
had to call him back in. And he said, oh, really, oh,
little mister cartoon man wants to do. Who is his name? Cummings?
Never heard of him, never heard of him, I don't care.
Don't tell me his name again, and so and and
(33:13):
he personally dissed me, goes, well, that'll be enough of that,
and he reached over it and apparently described to them,
and he pulled on my character's feet and rolled him
up into a blind and made him vanish. Well, we're
done with that now. Now we can move forward with
more me and and so I have the distinction of
(33:34):
being personally kind of given the finger.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
I love it by Robert Williams.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
So you know I got that going for me.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
Yeah, I would take that.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Yeah. Yeah, so, and I'm sure he's listening exactly, but yeah,
what are we gonna do? We'll take it. Yeah, So
what's happened? What's keeping you smiling these days? You're doing
lots of appearances.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
Yeah, doing some of those, and doing a bunch of
video games that.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
I don't Can we talk about them?
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Not really, because well, first of all, they give you
alias titles anyway, although you kind of sort out some things,
but uh, those are really fun to do. Although there
was there was a one online game that I one
of those that had a bazillion characters, and I remember
(34:32):
doing maybe a ninth character and thinking, wow, you know,
I'm not sure I sounded different being set on fire
as this woman the other.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
One, yeare similar. I think everybody sounds the same once
they've been set on fire exactly.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
But uh, yeah, I've been killed by bees set on fire.
I was killed by a tree. That was a new one.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
I think you invented a new segment. How many times
have you been killed on microphone or on camera? It's true,
and which was the most painful.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
There's a lot of that, especially in video video games. Yeah,
that's being pulled and.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
You know, just yeah, yeah, fairly odd parents, you were
probably safer.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
Exactly. I could always wish myself out of or or
grant my wish.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
To get the hell out of I wish I was.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
Yeah, I wish actually would be a really good segment.
Speaker 4 (35:33):
What's the worst way you've been killed on my phone camera?
Speaker 1 (35:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (35:38):
Yeah, there's ray, of course, Ray.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
And we we'll make sure not to give you credit.
Don't worry, no problem, good everybody night.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
But yeah, video games, that's a lot of that.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
Yeah, it's a hazard exactly. Yeah, that's the one tough
thing that about video games that I when I do
do them, I always say, well, okay, well the impacts
or you know by that, I mean you've been hit,
because I always get hit a lot of video games.
I get the crap smacked out of me no matter
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what I'm playing. And I say, can we do those
at the end? Ah, you know there's a lot be
boiled alive. Can we do that at the end? Yeah,
you know that way you can still speak, Yeah, to
the end of the recording exactly.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
Yeah, there's a lot of falling from one hundred feet,
falling from fifty feet now, yes, fall down on the ground.
It's like you really.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
Know you're falling from Jupiter exactly, Man, are you sure? Yeah,
it's a.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
Whole other creature. And at one of the conventions, I
think this guy was really disappointed that I didn't play
the game while I was recording it.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
That'd be tough, because.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
He said, well, when you how did you clear on
the concept? I mean, he yeah, how did you get
to there? Well, I just read a script to disappoint you.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
Look words exactly? Is that it? So you were cheating
and looking and exactly? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (37:21):
He was really and he was he looked like he
was gonna get mad at me. I'm like, well, sorry.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, but.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
He was so immersed in that, uh, that situation that
they built up that I'm like, we just And of
course in video games it's a different script almost like
a that's true.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
Yeah, it's not a storyline exactly. You have to imagine
where you are in the storyline, yeah, and then glomb
into it that way, because it's like you're you know,
the other actors there and you say this, and you
act and you react, you act and you react. Yeah,
it's no, it's just boom boom, boom boom exactly.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
And like you said, acting and reacting is really what
acting is all about. So this is sort of its
own little animal.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
Yeah, you have to react to yourself exactly. And I
don't know if you've ever had one of these situations.
Where did they ever give you a reader to read with? Yes,
oh yes, how'd that go?
Speaker 2 (38:36):
It's not very well.
Speaker 1 (38:38):
Did you see that, big son? That's how you know
what's coming? Yeah.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
Yeah, it's worse than it's It makes it worse because
it's just this person who has no idea, has no
emotions involved.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
Now yeah it's oh boy, now I'm going to kill you.
Look out, I'm coming after you. And I was saying, okay,
well I'm not scared exactly, well I'm gonna run, you know.
It's like, yeah, you can't. Can't phone those in and
either commit or shut up exactly.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
And also when when we get the scratch reference and
you know, somebody said.
Speaker 1 (39:25):
Those are great, oh hey Wanda.
Speaker 2 (39:28):
Hey sweetie, I'll help you find this, and you.
Speaker 5 (39:33):
Know, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (39:39):
He didn't mean to hurt.
Speaker 1 (39:41):
Yeah, the dogs going, what what do you want? Yeah.
I had a terrible experience like that, and it was
one It was for a video game that that my character.
I guess I can tell him it was Hondo, Hondo naka. Yeah,
(40:01):
they'll never know the guy. And and they had a
guy who was basically supposed to be me Hondo, and
they were recording him, but he was mimicking my lines
and it was the weirdest shit I've ever seen in
my life. You know, there's a guy going, you know,
(40:23):
And and then he could hear it in his headphones
and I couldn't. And I'm going, I hope I don't.
Don't don't draw me to look like that, you know, don't.
I don't. I don't want him to have that face.
You know. It was like like like as if Hondo
looks like me anyway, you know, Okay, all right, I'll
let you off the hook, but only because it's pretend exactly.
(40:45):
You know, we live in our We live in our
imaginations a lot, don't we do. Yeah? Is that was
that always been a problem for you like it has
for me? Oh?
Speaker 2 (40:54):
Yes, yes, I have many people talking sometimes simultaneously, you know,
from the chatter in my head.
Speaker 1 (41:03):
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Speaker 3 (41:29):
Do it now, Well, that seems like a good segue
to do a little voice swap game if you're interested.
Speaker 1 (41:35):
That's true, the voices in our heads. All right, that's true.
Speaker 4 (41:38):
All right?
Speaker 3 (41:38):
So we play this little game where Jim will say
one line as say, one of his characters, Segunnie, the
Pooh or whoever, and then you'll repeat that line, the
same line, but in a voice of your character, so
like Wanda or Malificen or et cetera, et cetera. And
then we'll go back and forth. You'll say a line
and he'll do it as one of his characters. Okay,
(41:59):
so good, all right? Do you want to start it
off with Wanda?
Speaker 2 (42:03):
Okay? Oh great? Now I smell like a tuna.
Speaker 1 (42:08):
Wow. Okay, Well let's see who should that be? Ray
or Pooh? Do you think Ray?
Speaker 4 (42:15):
Ray?
Speaker 1 (42:16):
Ray? Okay, Ray from Princess and the Frog.
Speaker 6 (42:20):
Oh great, now I smell like a tuna. Remember you
can don a piano, but you can't do a fish.
Speaker 1 (42:32):
All right, I feel better now, I feel better than
James Brown. That's pretty feeling. That's feeling pretty good. Okay,
well let's see, well, speaking of Ray, do I dare
stay with Ray? Or should I just go over to
the hundred acre wood.
Speaker 4 (42:50):
Let's go over to the hundred acre wood?
Speaker 1 (42:52):
I think so? Would you do me a favor please?
And please pass the honey?
Speaker 2 (43:01):
Would you do me a favor? Please? Please pass the honey.
Speaker 1 (43:07):
Yeah, I'm passing the honey. I'll pass on the honey.
That's that's wonderful.
Speaker 4 (43:16):
It's fun to be the bad guy, I know, Corolla.
Speaker 1 (43:19):
Yes, bad guys have more fun they do and a
fabulous fashion sense exactly.
Speaker 2 (43:27):
Okay, I've got an easy one.
Speaker 1 (43:29):
Okay, we go.
Speaker 2 (43:30):
Magic mirror on the wall. Who is the fairest one
of all?
Speaker 1 (43:37):
Magic mirror on the wall, Who is the fairest of
them all? That was Taz in case you're wondering, Oh
my god, up there everybody, Good night everybody, And that's
how we do it here, big time show his Hollywood.
Speaker 4 (44:01):
Well that was great, thank you so much for being here.
Speaker 2 (44:03):
The tuna thing was the best, so Okay, you can't tune.
Speaker 1 (44:07):
Up, but you can.
Speaker 2 (44:11):
I gotta tell you that that got me.
Speaker 1 (44:15):
Well, occasionally give me credit because I stole it from someone.
Speaker 2 (44:21):
That's fine.
Speaker 1 (44:23):
You're about to as well.
Speaker 2 (44:24):
Exactly. You better believe it.
Speaker 1 (44:27):
Life is good, Life is good.
Speaker 4 (44:30):
All right.
Speaker 3 (44:31):
Well, that was another episode of Tuned In with Jim Cummings.
Speaker 4 (44:34):
Once again.
Speaker 3 (44:34):
I'm producer Chris the Legend, Jim Cummings, Suzanne Blakesley, thank
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Speaker 1 (45:15):
And it's just that easy. Oh, thank you, my dear.
It's fun
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out there? It's me Tigger, I am Doc Wayne Duck.
It's me Bunkers keep bobcat All right, y'all? Is it great?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Your favorite firefly.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
You desire Hondo old knock Gud. My name is Jim
Cummings and welcome to tuned In.
Speaker 3 (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.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
How are you today, sir?
Speaker 1 (00:50):
And we're back in the saddle again having a great day.
Not other than ladies and gentlemen, sools, lakes Lee, come
on down.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
Thank you for joining us today.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Thank you for joining us today.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Well, thank you for having me. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Yes, it's a fairly odd day. Yes, so I'm glad
you could make it and welcome.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Welcome, thank you, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
You are humble. I'm honored our humble little podcast. Oh
we are as well. Thanks for being here. And you
didn't have a too big of a drive.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
I take you No, no, took me about fifteen minutes.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Okay in LA. That's that's next door.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
Yeah's you're practically here already, exactly.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Well, I'm just glad you're here. Thank you. And it's
interesting because we run into each other at different conventions
here and there. Yeah, and unfortunately I don't have anything
for you to sign right here, but I'm sure that'll
be taken up for you. A thousand dollars Okay, Yeah,
that's right, good night, everybody. Fantastic. So I always like
(02:05):
to know from people, when did you know that you
were one of my fellow weirdos? Put it that way,
you know, when did you know you had to you
were going to grow up and do this? Oh?
Speaker 2 (02:19):
My, I always wanted to be an actor. At the
age of six, my parents had My Fair Lady the album,
and I wanted to be Julie Andrews and imitated her
for years and years and in New York. I landed
in a show called Forbidden Broadway where we had to
(02:42):
spoof different Broadway stars and musicals. And then I came
here with the show and got an agent and.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
That had to be a ball. It was. It was
really great, way too much fun.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
It was really fun, fun and a lot of hard work.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Eight shows a week, eight shows.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Yeah, but it really you it's the same thing with
voiceover kind of thing. You had to just dive in.
Oh today you need to do Barbers streisand and just
like go, okay, I'll try Oh.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Oh no, should we let her off the hook? Or
are we gonna all right? Give us a little give
us a little strisand back, yes, complete with facial gymnastics.
That's wonderful, ladies and gentlemen. Good for you. Well that
(03:44):
had to be.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
It was really fun and I just I was fortunate
to land in a voiceover. They needed a new Cuella
Deville Disney, and trotted over to my agent's and picked
up a little cassette tape and listened to it all
weekend long. And that was really my first role.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Yeah. Yeah, I can't gosh, I can't think of who
that was the original? Can you so I know she
was very cruel, yes, and she had a fabulous fashion sense. Yes,
black and white. Everything was black white, everything was fucking
including her and her credit one hundred and won Dalmatians.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
But that was really exciting, and my first recording of that.
Wayne and Rusie were there and they had seen me
perform and welcomed me beautifully. Yes, I was nervous.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Well, they they were an amazing people. For those of you,
the three of you out there who don't know, that
was actually Mickey and Minnie Mouse for many many years,
great great, great old buddies of mine. In fact, I
met Rusie almost day one in the business, and she
was she was just a sweetheart of a gal. But
(05:05):
Mickey and Minnie were actually married in real life exactly,
So how about that? Yeah? In fact, I remember when
they got married and the two of them, they were
so darn cute you couldn't stand it. And they were
both well, we can't tell anybody, We don't want anybody
to know, because you know, tabloids will write silly things
and do terrible things. You're Mickey and Minnie. What can
(05:28):
they write?
Speaker 2 (05:29):
What?
Speaker 1 (05:30):
You know? Shame on them? Will we'll get we'll sue
them if you know. But they're just as cute as
they could be.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
They were so in love. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, but
they welcomed me and you sort of gave me their blessing.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Right, thank you. That had to feel good. Yeah, that
had to feel good to Disney legends, approaching a future
legend and hey, we'll take it. Well, you're a legendary
bad girl. I mean, I mean, your the name's alone maleficent. Ye, Cruella. Yeah,
(06:05):
you can't say Cruella without saying cruel.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Exactly, so exactly. I love, I love, give me all
the hags you got. You know.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Oh there's an expression you don't hear like you used to,
but coining a new phrase.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Did you?
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Did you grow up doing theater like when when you
were young in school?
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Yeah? My first part was they were doing we were
doing Prints in the Pauper in elementary school, and I
played the popper's father because I thought it was great.
He was like, really, mean, I I'll do that.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
You played the father. I played the father. Okay, sure,
I take it. Your voice is not changed much, so
you must have been a very.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
I was probably really really terrible. Yeah, and I enjoyed myself.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
That's right. Well as long as that, as long as
I'm sure that came through. Yeah. So theater was your.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Yeah, musical?
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Yeah yeah, mine too, Mine too. I just thought it
was so much fun. Yeah, you know, and and it
was I remember distinctly thinking this is a great way
to meet girls because I wasn't that good an athletes,
so I didn't have that going for me. But boy,
you were in one play and make people laugh and
(07:34):
maybe you got to sing a song. Oh forget about it. Yeah,
I'm doing this.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
And I don't remember meeting you, but had I done so,
we we would have had a much much more interesting past.
But you're here now. It's a beautiful thing. And were
you on fire for it too? Because I ended up
doing it because I mean I've I've said it before.
I do this because I really can't do or want
(08:02):
to do anything else. Were you in that kind of
category as well?
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Well? I did wait tables in New York?
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Okay, well yeah, well ok.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Except but this is no, this is what I've always
wanted to do, and I'm just so grateful that I'm
able to do it. So h yeah, yeah, I agree,
it was I remember in high school, I was determined
to be an actor, and my mom came to me
one time and said, have you thought about home ch
(08:35):
And for those of you who don't know that, it
was this class where you learn to cook and sew.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
And and and like budget things. Yes, it was going
to make grocery lists exactly. I think that's in there.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
That's like wow, I'm like, no, mom, thanks.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Yeah, brownie making.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Public school in the seventies, that's what that's what you did.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
And if a girl wanted to do shop class, that
was considered no, only the boys.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
You know, oh boy, Well nowadays that's changed exactly.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
Did they have those classes anymore?
Speaker 2 (09:17):
I hope not?
Speaker 4 (09:19):
Yeah, shop class.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Yeah, the boys would like make wooden.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I remember it.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
I'm just I'm curious if they still have those type
of classes anymore.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
I don't know. I just remember in home ech, because
it was public schools, everything you made, bake wise was
made with lard. Lard, yes, not butter, not march and yeah,
good old fashioned large.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Yeah, lagassi would be happy, right, pork fat, pork fat rules. Yes, well,
we were health nuts back back then.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Exactly.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
I never met an artery. We didn't want to clog.
Oh my gosh, and yet you made it.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
I made it somehow. Yeah, I'm still here.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Yes, I am too almost, So that's good. This is
working out beautifully.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
So you took over the voice of crawl Deville and
then that was your first introduction.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
To voice acting.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Yeah, and so sort of at the same time, there
was a cartoon Casper the Friendly Ghost, and they needed
a like a Julie Andrews nanny, you know, Mary Poppins thing,
So I did that at the same time.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
But yeah, and that was that the the movie or
the series series. Yeah, they had a few of those. Yeah,
I remember the Casper.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
The Friendly Ghost ghost.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
You know, I've never heard it before. That was just
a lucky guest, just a lucky guest.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
That's why you are you.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Yeah, I plucked it out of the ether. And I remember,
Now this is really a silly aside, but he had
a cousin or something named uh Spooky, and he was Spooky,
the tough little ghost. L I l with the apostrophe
in there somewhere, and I related to him because he
(11:19):
would go on scare raids and he would go down
to the local village or wherever from wherever he lived
and just fly around scaring the crap out of people.
And I thought that was a great, great calling. Yep.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
And I remember being at my grandmother's house poking holes
in a This is how young I was, poking holes
in a large pillowcase, and then running around at the
gate down there when people would pass, Man, get this
kid out of here, come get your child. You know
(11:56):
it was put him in the house with the hell
matter with you? You know I didn't go over Well,
I love it. Yeah, yeah, what are you gonna do now? Well,
Jesus had to leave town to make it big too,
so there you go. You know, no comparison, mind you.
But but if it was tough on him, who can
(12:16):
what can I expect exactly? And do you do you
have more fun playing bad girls than because you've got
a few of them?
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Yeah? I love them, even as a kid when I
you know, you'd go to the uh the drive in
movie theaters and sit on the roof. And I loved
the bad guys. It's just and like with Disney, I
try to I kind of think there's sort of Shakespearean
(12:47):
these villains, and everything is so delicious to them.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Yeah, yeah, it's true.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Yeah, and it's a load of fun to do that.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Yeah. Well, if you think of sleeping beauties.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
Which she was, oh yeah, very classic villainous exactly exactly.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
I just.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
I idolized those characters when I was a kid. I
don't know what that says about me, but.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Yeah, good taste exactly, Oh my gosh. Yeah, and you
know it would lead somewhere, so it seemed to work out.
So hey, yeah, too bad, right, yep, we'll.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Take it exactly exactly.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Well, I think bad guys, bad girls they have more
fun we do. Yeah, it's just seems that way. I mean,
Peter Pan was cool and he could fly, but Captain
Nook was having a great time, you know.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Yeah, I mean yeah, I think there's there's something more
like it's almost like villains can be more human in
a weird way. You know, they don't have to be
so cookie cutter and like, you know, we all make
mistakes and you know, have a struggle between right and wrong,
like you think about iconic villains. You know, it's I mean,
even look at like the Joker, you know, Heath Ledger's Joker,
(14:08):
I mean, yes, so much of his character was like
a choice of morality and immorality, you know, that's how
he terrorized people. Yeah, but like I'm going to challenge
everybody's morals, you know, And I think that's true. What
sticks with people, it's like, oh that's like, you know,
not he's not a hero, but it's like more interesting
to see that rather than like this is right and wrong, you.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Know, exactly. And they they also have the ability to
be very sarcastic, which most actors love, I mean very much.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
So yeah, you know, yeah that's true. That's very true.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
And it's hard to make a hero sarcastic in that
same same vein exactly, it kind of comes off as like,
you know, maybe they're a smart ass or know it
all or something.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
It's like, okay, you can't really have the good guy
doing dark wing.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Duck gets a cute to being sarcastic a lot her
has over the years, and I go, yeah, that's right.
Why you know, it's like, well, gie, oh, I hope
I'm not offending you too much, you know, but yeah,
I mean, you know, you throw a little of that
in next thing.
Speaker 5 (15:16):
You're having fun, so exactly exactly right, yase.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
I mean the great thing about what we get to
do is laugh all the time, and that, you know,
gives you a lot more years in life, I.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Think, Yeah, oh I agree. Yeah. Well I've always said
that I make a living doing the things used to
get me kicked out of class exactly. You know, but
the other kids were entertained, you know, Sister Mary Agnes,
not so much.
Speaker 5 (15:48):
I would have loved to have met you when you
were Oh, I was a bit of a I was
a chore.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Oh yeah, yes, yes you can. If my parents were here,
they'd be going.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
He was a real pain in the ass. But that's okay.
But we made it payoff though, right.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Yes, absolutely.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
So what was the time span between Corelle Deville and
Wanda and Fairly Odd Parents?
Speaker 2 (16:17):
It was maybe five years or four years?
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Yeah, I was thinking it was relatively short.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
We auditioned for a thing called oh Yeah Cartoons, and
I did a couple of those, one of which was
Fairly Odd Parents, and they liked it. They picked up
six and liked it some more, and we started running
and it was fun from the very very beginning. I mean,
(16:45):
those people that I worked with are so talented and
so funny and just great to be around.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
So I'm very fortunate to have managed to drop it.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Yeah, well, worked with our buddy Darren Norris.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
I love Darren.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Yeah, his voice could probably shatter a picture window. Yes,
you always knew, yes, yes, yeah, you know he's got that.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Yeah, it's a you know, Nickelodeon. You could hear him. Oh,
Darren's in the building, okay, Yeah, but we from the
very beginning, we would we would stand next to each
other with the plexiglass in the middle and always be
in sync. And I just have adored him since the
first time I ever met him.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Yeah, he's a good boy. Yeah, he's got he's got
a he's got a delivery. He does and it pays off.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Did you guys improve a lot on that show? Yes,
you can tell, yeah, because it's such like I always
compare it to like a tennis game, you know, when
you're like bouncing off each other jokes and exactly.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
I mean, we of course had brilliant writers, but yeah,
there was a lot of ad libbing. Darren made up
a whole song that got in the show.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
So oh wow, that's pretty good.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
I'm sure if you get him on he'll sing it.
A nuclear reactor. I don't know what it was, but
it was.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
But a sentimental song about reactors.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Isn't it?
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Great?
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Good time? There's a Hallmark card in there some way exactly.
But yeah, we just had the greatest time. And we
you know, added on, you know, Carlos Alis, rocky, amazingly funny,
of course, Greater Lyle and the Wonderful Terror Strong.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Yes she was. She was that in the show.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Yes, Wonderful Terror Strong, Yes exactly.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Sort of mid Atlantic delivery there, Wonderful Terror Strong exactly.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Hello darling. Yes, but we had a just a great time.
And I remember looking at the picture of Wanda at first,
and I thought, I thought a little bit, well Carol Burnett, who.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Is my.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
I idolize her, and a little bit of Joan Whirley.
So she was kind of up in here.
Speaker 5 (19:22):
What oh, yes, yes she was, Hello everybody, Yes exactly.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
The dogs are outside going what wait?
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Well, I know I always say that our show can You.
People said have told me at cons that their kids
watched it first thing in the morning. I'm like, well
that'll wake them up.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Wow, you don't need any coffee.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
And we once did a video and it was this
British producer who could not stand Wanda's voice, and she
kept saying, can you make it softer Darling?
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Oh I can't really yet, very well yeah, yeah, can
you not be your character? Yeah, it's kind of what
she was almost saying.
Speaker 5 (20:08):
Yeah, now you're going to have to suffer through that exactly.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Yeah, that's what I got hired for a lady.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
And that was the first voice you landed on for her. Yes, yeah,
that's nice.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Am Darren with Cosmo started off like a Phil Hartman
type thing and then oh, but just kept going higher
and higher and higher, and he ended up with the
Falsetto voice for Cosmo.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Yeah, it was fun. Yes, Well I see him nowadays.
I'll see him like at conventions. Yeah, he hasn't changed
a bit. He's no hey, yeah, yeah, I feel I
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Speaker 3 (21:22):
What you said just makes me wonder though. A question
for both of you. How often do you use the
first voice of an original character. Do you have to
go through iterations often or is it kind of a
gut feeling of when you first see an image of
a character like this is how they're going to sound.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
I think it's a little of both. This I just
came upon. But I've been in sessions where I'm doing
extra characters, and we had this one thing in Fairly
odd Parents. One day an actor was trying out, Okay,
(22:01):
you're the mailman or whatever, and he did something and
Butcher went no, no, And so our phrase is no, no, no,
no until you find the characters. Yeah, you just try
to pull out as many as you can for.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Some positive reinforcement. No no, no, no, yes, yes, yes.
Did you get a yes? Yes? Eventually? Must have. Yeah.
It's not as fun as no. No, that's right. That
was actually very Carol Burnetti too.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Actually, if you think about it, that's true.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
I could see her doing that. Yeah, oh my god.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
What about for you, Jim.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Well, she's you know, whenever I would do a new character,
I think it's uh. The first thing I ended up
doing is usually what because I don't have that good
an imagination, So I got like one or two in me,
what do you think? First?
Speaker 4 (23:03):
But okay, good, good, like a like a character like Ray.
That was first iteration.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Uh yeah, yeah, well he I knew the cage. It's
a Cajun accent from Princess and the Frog, and I
was the Cajun firefly. And I had been a deckhand
on a riverboat in New Orleans for a long time,
and so I would be the only one on a
lot of boats for that spoke English as a first
(23:30):
language because they spoke you know, Cajun French and and
that that accent that got like that, you know that
they talked this way. Yeah, and I used it for Leatherhead,
the the alligator from Teenage Meeting Ninja Turtles. And then
I couldn't use a voice like that, you know, because
(23:50):
that was a little too big vote for this little
guy like that. So next thing I knew I did,
made him a little bit like that and give him
a little squeak here and there, and uh, and out
came Ray. So yeah, I love that. Yeah, Yeah, it's again,
it's all the stuff you used to get me kicked
(24:11):
out of class exactly. You know the jokes on them
right right.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
I remember touring in a musical and my sixth grade
math teacher showed up. Oh, she said, you were such
a shy kid. I thought you would become a teacher.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Or you know what, Wow, no kidding. You were shy?
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Yes I was. I was a shy kid, but especially
when I got to high school, I just mustard up
the courage. And my first role was Lady Bracknell in
the Importance of being Earnest, and I just tried to
channel my day me Edith evans An. Whether it has
(25:01):
handles or not, you know, just that's great.
Speaker 4 (25:04):
I love that play.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Yeah, I was probably again really terrible.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Apparently not. But like you say, you got the job
I did.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
I did well. It's kind of hard to fire you
from a high school, That's true.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Would you say that performing helped you with your shyness,
like as a way to express yourself?
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Absolutely? I mean I always, like I said, I always
wanted to be an actor, but I kind of like
kept it inside for several years and uh so performing
really just uh brought out all my my inhibitions were
(25:52):
like you know, thrown out to the side because you
have to be able to jump into character as opposed
to apologize. You can't apologize as an actor really except
after they go no no, no, yeah, yeah, okay.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Well let me finish, let me finish, right, Oh god,
But it's true.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
Yeah, yeah, you got You have to make your choices,
and you know they either work or not, and you
can fine tune around that, but you have to make
a bold choice, bold enough choice absolutely.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Yeah, whether it's.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Small or big, it's still you know, you have to stay.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
I know exactly what you mean.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
And I think that's like something that a lot of
actors right now kind of struggle with. You know, we
don't really have, like my generation younger doesn't really have
like Nicholas Cage, you know, like type of actors. You know,
everybody's so like reserved almost like when you have to
take those like wild that's really entertaining when you're authentic
with it.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
Yes, you know, it's.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Like oh yeah, like I mean, all go any Nick
Cage movie just for his performance. Yeah, you know, because
you know, you know it's going to be unique at least,
and you know it's going to be authentic.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Exactly exactly, Well, that is for sure.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
Yeah, yeah, so I completely agree with what you're saying.
I mean, yeah, you can't be apologetic. I think that's
what a lot of actors need to hear, honestly. Yeah,
so you can't with it, probably with any art forms,
to be truly great at it, I would say sure.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
And you know, let's say you go to an audition
and just give it your all. You might in the
car go oh god, why did I why didn't I
do this or that or the other thing, But when
you're you know, performing or auditioning, you have to just
like put it out there.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
There's a place I'm sure I don't know if you've
ever been to over in Burbank called the Voice Caster.
Oh yeah, yeah, you know. And Bob Lloyd rest is
So he started it many years ago and he had
a I forget what the act in him is, but
it's a practice on your own time, perform on ours excellent,
toyo poo or pool or something like that.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Excellent.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
And I think that's yeah, that's legit, don't you think. Yes?
Speaker 5 (28:12):
I think that's you know, says it all really, Yeah, Yeah,
nothing worse than driving home and going wait a minute, you.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Know what I should have done?
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Yes, yeah, there's always that yeah, should have yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Yeah, but so far, so good.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
So far, so good. Yes, yes, yes, you know you
still kick yourself for not taking full advantage of an
opportunity in your life. But you can never live just
regretting everything. Yeah, go forward.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
You gotta live with what you what you got.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Yeah, And I would say, if you've got a string,
pull it exactly.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Well.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Yeah, yeah, you know, and you've been you've been doing well.
So life is good.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Life is good. Life is good. And again, I'm just
very grateful to be able to enjoy what I do.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
I mean, well that counts.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Yeah. And the daunting thing is that these conventions, don't
you find that it's so humbling that people people sometimes
come up to you and say it changed my life
because I was in a really bad place and it
made me happy, and that just is extraordinary. I'm going
(29:35):
to start to cry, but yeah, it's really it's true.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
I agree. Yeah, I've had stories that will just put
you on your knees. I won't you know, I've delved
into them here and there. But it's it's really interesting
and I think, you know, thank you Lord. Being the
voice of winning to Poo these many decades has given
me a just beautiful chance to get to not know
(30:04):
people that but but become a part of their lives.
And when I meet them, they they impart that to
me and it and it's a really a beautiful bonding thing.
And you know, people will cry and they'll say, well,
you got me through Grandma's death or you know, or
whatever that is got me through that sound. I have
(30:26):
no idea what that is, but water filter.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
It was the safe opening and then all the money
tumbles out.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Hi, folks were one. We're pretending this is live because
we're going to leave that in. I think it was interesting.
It was really a cool sound there. Yeah. I was
expecting somebody to beam down.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
I was like thinking of mechanics at the door or something.
I'm like, what is that?
Speaker 2 (30:56):
Yeah? Yeah, way to kill a heartfelt Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
I'm sorry, what the hell was I talking about? Something
about sentimental blah blah blah yacketty schmacketty.
Speaker 4 (31:08):
Sorry about that?
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Hell, Okay, what are you gonna do? Yeah? Yeah, but
it is true. You know, you don't know, you don't
know the things that we do because we're in a
I've said it before. We performed most of the time
in a vacuum. You know, we don't even have the
whole cast there, like yeah, back back in the old day. Yeah, yeah,
you know I missed those days.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
I do too. I hope that, yeah, it'll come back.
Like what you were mentioning, ad libbing and stuff, you
can't really do that over.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
Zoom no and not, and you can't do it flying
solo either, exactly.
Speaker 4 (31:44):
You know.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
I I hope I'm throwing a bore everybody with the
story again. But in Aladdin three maybe Ladin Yeah, Aladin
the third a Latin. Robin Williams came back and uh,
Dan Castlynetta film did his thing and it was brilliant,
of course because he's Dan Castlenetta and made a lot
(32:08):
of money. So Robin said, oh, you know what, I'll
do the third one. It's fine going I'm back, you know.
And so he came and there's this one scene and
of course he only had libs, and I've been known
to ad lib here and there, and there was this
one scene where he was he imagined the courtroom bloom
(32:30):
and of course Genie is the judge, she's the jury,
he's the prosecuting attorney, and I was in the witness stands,
shackled in there in my character, and he was interviewing me.
And I had lived one or two lines back from
you know, the reader who was there. And they go, oh,
let's keep that, let's keep that. Then I had lived
in number Oh let's keep that. Let's keep that. So
(32:50):
what happened was as a result of them keeping that,
Robin's line didn't work the following after after, so they
had to call him back in. And he said, oh, really, oh,
little mister cartoon man wants to do. Who is his name? Cummings?
Never heard of him, never heard of him, I don't care.
Don't tell me his name again, and so and and
(33:13):
he personally dissed me, goes, well, that'll be enough of that,
and he reached over it and apparently described to them,
and he pulled on my character's feet and rolled him
up into a blind and made him vanish. Well, we're
done with that now. Now we can move forward with
more me and and so I have the distinction of
(33:34):
being personally kind of given the finger.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
I love it by Robert Williams.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
So you know I got that going for me.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
Yeah, I would take that.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Yeah. Yeah, so, and I'm sure he's listening exactly, but yeah,
what are we gonna do? We'll take it. Yeah, So
what's happened? What's keeping you smiling these days? You're doing
lots of appearances.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
Yeah, doing some of those, and doing a bunch of
video games that.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
I don't Can we talk about them?
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Not really, because well, first of all, they give you
alias titles anyway, although you kind of sort out some things,
but uh, those are really fun to do. Although there
was there was a one online game that I one
of those that had a bazillion characters, and I remember
(34:32):
doing maybe a ninth character and thinking, wow, you know,
I'm not sure I sounded different being set on fire
as this woman the other.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
One, yeare similar. I think everybody sounds the same once
they've been set on fire exactly.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
But uh, yeah, I've been killed by bees set on fire.
I was killed by a tree. That was a new one.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
I think you invented a new segment. How many times
have you been killed on microphone or on camera? It's true,
and which was the most painful.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
There's a lot of that, especially in video video games. Yeah,
that's being pulled and.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
You know, just yeah, yeah, fairly odd parents, you were
probably safer.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
Exactly. I could always wish myself out of or or
grant my wish.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
To get the hell out of I wish I was.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
Yeah, I wish actually would be a really good segment.
Speaker 4 (35:33):
What's the worst way you've been killed on my phone camera?
Speaker 1 (35:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (35:38):
Yeah, there's ray, of course, Ray.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
And we we'll make sure not to give you credit.
Don't worry, no problem, good everybody night.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
But yeah, video games, that's a lot of that.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
Yeah, it's a hazard exactly. Yeah, that's the one tough
thing that about video games that I when I do
do them, I always say, well, okay, well the impacts
or you know by that, I mean you've been hit,
because I always get hit a lot of video games.
I get the crap smacked out of me no matter
(36:16):
what I'm playing. And I say, can we do those
at the end? Ah, you know there's a lot be
boiled alive. Can we do that at the end? Yeah,
you know that way you can still speak, Yeah, to
the end of the recording exactly.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
Yeah, there's a lot of falling from one hundred feet,
falling from fifty feet now, yes, fall down on the ground.
It's like you really.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
Know you're falling from Jupiter exactly, Man, are you sure? Yeah,
it's a.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
Whole other creature. And at one of the conventions, I
think this guy was really disappointed that I didn't play
the game while I was recording it.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
That'd be tough, because.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
He said, well, when you how did you clear on
the concept? I mean, he yeah, how did you get
to there? Well, I just read a script to disappoint you.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
Look words exactly? Is that it? So you were cheating
and looking and exactly? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (37:21):
He was really and he was he looked like he
was gonna get mad at me. I'm like, well, sorry.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, but.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
He was so immersed in that, uh, that situation that
they built up that I'm like, we just And of
course in video games it's a different script almost like
a that's true.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
Yeah, it's not a storyline exactly. You have to imagine
where you are in the storyline, yeah, and then glomb
into it that way, because it's like you're you know,
the other actors there and you say this, and you
act and you react, you act and you react. Yeah,
it's no, it's just boom boom, boom boom exactly.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
And like you said, acting and reacting is really what
acting is all about. So this is sort of its
own little animal.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
Yeah, you have to react to yourself exactly. And I
don't know if you've ever had one of these situations.
Where did they ever give you a reader to read with? Yes,
oh yes, how'd that go?
Speaker 2 (38:36):
It's not very well.
Speaker 1 (38:38):
Did you see that, big son? That's how you know
what's coming? Yeah.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
Yeah, it's worse than it's It makes it worse because
it's just this person who has no idea, has no
emotions involved.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
Now yeah it's oh boy, now I'm going to kill you.
Look out, I'm coming after you. And I was saying, okay,
well I'm not scared exactly, well I'm gonna run, you know.
It's like, yeah, you can't. Can't phone those in and
either commit or shut up exactly.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
And also when when we get the scratch reference and
you know, somebody said.
Speaker 1 (39:25):
Those are great, oh hey Wanda.
Speaker 2 (39:28):
Hey sweetie, I'll help you find this, and you.
Speaker 5 (39:33):
Know, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (39:39):
He didn't mean to hurt.
Speaker 1 (39:41):
Yeah, the dogs going, what what do you want? Yeah.
I had a terrible experience like that, and it was
one It was for a video game that that my character.
I guess I can tell him it was Hondo, Hondo naka. Yeah,
(40:01):
they'll never know the guy. And and they had a
guy who was basically supposed to be me Hondo, and
they were recording him, but he was mimicking my lines
and it was the weirdest shit I've ever seen in
my life. You know, there's a guy going, you know,
(40:23):
And and then he could hear it in his headphones
and I couldn't. And I'm going, I hope I don't.
Don't don't draw me to look like that, you know, don't.
I don't. I don't want him to have that face.
You know. It was like like like as if Hondo
looks like me anyway, you know, Okay, all right, I'll
let you off the hook, but only because it's pretend exactly.
(40:45):
You know, we live in our We live in our
imaginations a lot, don't we do. Yeah? Is that was
that always been a problem for you like it has
for me? Oh?
Speaker 2 (40:54):
Yes, yes, I have many people talking sometimes simultaneously, you know,
from the chatter in my head.
Speaker 1 (41:03):
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slash Jim Cummings Podcast.
Speaker 3 (41:29):
Do it now, Well, that seems like a good segue
to do a little voice swap game if you're interested.
Speaker 1 (41:35):
That's true, the voices in our heads. All right, that's true.
Speaker 4 (41:38):
All right?
Speaker 3 (41:38):
So we play this little game where Jim will say
one line as say, one of his characters, Segunnie, the
Pooh or whoever, and then you'll repeat that line, the
same line, but in a voice of your character, so
like Wanda or Malificen or et cetera, et cetera. And
then we'll go back and forth. You'll say a line
and he'll do it as one of his characters. Okay,
(41:59):
so good, all right? Do you want to start it
off with Wanda?
Speaker 2 (42:03):
Okay? Oh great? Now I smell like a tuna.
Speaker 1 (42:08):
Wow. Okay, Well let's see who should that be? Ray
or Pooh? Do you think Ray?
Speaker 4 (42:15):
Ray?
Speaker 1 (42:16):
Ray? Okay, Ray from Princess and the Frog.
Speaker 6 (42:20):
Oh great, now I smell like a tuna. Remember you
can don a piano, but you can't do a fish.
Speaker 1 (42:32):
All right, I feel better now, I feel better than
James Brown. That's pretty feeling. That's feeling pretty good. Okay,
well let's see, well, speaking of Ray, do I dare
stay with Ray? Or should I just go over to
the hundred acre wood.
Speaker 4 (42:50):
Let's go over to the hundred acre wood?
Speaker 1 (42:52):
I think so? Would you do me a favor please?
And please pass the honey?
Speaker 2 (43:01):
Would you do me a favor? Please? Please pass the honey.
Speaker 1 (43:07):
Yeah, I'm passing the honey. I'll pass on the honey.
That's that's wonderful.
Speaker 4 (43:16):
It's fun to be the bad guy, I know, Corolla.
Speaker 1 (43:19):
Yes, bad guys have more fun they do and a
fabulous fashion sense exactly.
Speaker 2 (43:27):
Okay, I've got an easy one.
Speaker 1 (43:29):
Okay, we go.
Speaker 2 (43:30):
Magic mirror on the wall. Who is the fairest one
of all?
Speaker 1 (43:37):
Magic mirror on the wall, Who is the fairest of
them all? That was Taz in case you're wondering, Oh
my god, up there everybody, Good night everybody, And that's
how we do it here, big time show his Hollywood.
Speaker 4 (44:01):
Well that was great, thank you so much for being here.
Speaker 2 (44:03):
The tuna thing was the best, so Okay, you can't tune.
Speaker 1 (44:07):
Up, but you can.
Speaker 2 (44:11):
I gotta tell you that that got me.
Speaker 1 (44:15):
Well, occasionally give me credit because I stole it from someone.
Speaker 2 (44:21):
That's fine.
Speaker 1 (44:23):
You're about to as well.
Speaker 2 (44:24):
Exactly. You better believe it.
Speaker 1 (44:27):
Life is good, Life is good.
Speaker 4 (44:30):
All right.
Speaker 3 (44:31):
Well, that was another episode of Tuned In with Jim Cummings.
Speaker 4 (44:34):
Once again.
Speaker 3 (44:34):
I'm producer Chris the Legend, Jim Cummings, Suzanne Blakesley, thank
you so much for being here today. We really appreciate it.
We hope you guys enjoyed that video. If you did,
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There's more on Patreon. Good news, that's right. Patreon subscribers,
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extra content, there's all that good stuff, so check us
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Once again, we appreciate you all. Thanks for watching we'll
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Speaker 1 (45:15):
And it's just that easy. Oh, thank you, my dear.
It's fun
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