![]() ![]() I think often the best experience s are about the people you’re working with too. Great Motion Capture, great process.and got to work with one of the greatest game geniuses in the work Mark Cerny. I also loved working on Knack, I played the Doctor on that. I’ve been very lucky to work in the Batman world recently, I also did Beware The Batman -the cartoon series, which was slightly ill-fated but has just been nominated for four Emmys (go figure!). And a giant brute! The honour of working on a giant franchise like that is great because its exciting, its risky, it’s a storied franchise. But the process of it was really fun because they really wanted to get into the depths of the character and when I first arrived for my first session, they set me up with all the comic books and all the history that had ever been written about Bane and really encouraged me to find this character who’s really well educated and well spoken. also because so many of my friends had played him before and I felt terrible to try and take it on. Bane in Arkham Origins was a great challenge and great fun. I love doing Motion Capture, so I loved working on the Uncharted games, where I played a guy called Roberto Guerro, that was a lot of fun. In terms of what you could bring to the Characters you have played, which was your favourite game character to play? and why? Well a lot of them are seriously fun. ![]() I think my record for number of characters in a game is 28! And it was a British game that allowed me to do all these different accents and ages and all that kind of stuff so I guess that’s my ‘trait’, if there is one. And I think that’s what gives me as much versatility as possible. On television I think I have only ever played one Brit in fifteen ‘guest stars’ and movies. What is unique about my voice? I think I have pretty good range but I guess my big strength is dialects. You don’t know your limits until you’ve tried everything, so I tend not to think in terms of limits and that clears the way for me to just look at the specifics of a character and really use image and my experience and other voices that I’ve done, sometimes an amalgamation of several voices that come to you – but it really depends on the project. I think you’re always working to be better and find out what your boundaries are and not think of yourself as having those boundaries but pushing further than that- pushing as far as you can. What do you think is unique about your voice? Did you have to work on / cultivate specific traits? So that was the first and I just auditioned for it. We’ve been friends ever since and still work together a lot. It was the start of a great relationship between me and Chris Zimmerman, who is a storied video game director. Northern Irish is quite a difficult language to do. I played a guy called Aiken O’Rourke I think- and ‘he was from Northern Ireland and would say thinks like ‘GET DOWN TAKE COVER’, very loud, very shouty. You have voiced characters in some of the greatest game franchises ever, - What was your first video game voiceover? How did you get that job? It’s where I got to know Crispin Freeman, Taliesin Jaffe, Liam O’Brien, Sam Riegel and all those people from early anime gigs. And also it was a really fun team as well. Hearing yourself do that and seeing the images on screen, and anime is such a beautiful art form- and Hellsing was a great example of it. He was a very sinister character and he said. The first thing I think I did was the ‘Cheddar Priest’. And I remember some of my lines from that. The first time I got to perform characters was I think when I came to L.A in 2001 and worked on a show called Hellsing. (laughing) The first was something very dry and very boring. And so I did some errr Industrial, err medical, instructional. Even when you’re working in professional theatre and I worked in some great theatres, including The National Theatre, it’s still hard to make money. I was absolutely starving and made no money for years and years and years actually. I started as a theatre actor in the UK and trained at RADA (Royal Academy of Dramatic Art), which is a big fancy drama school in London- and I also had my own theatre company. My God, NO! I certainly don’t remember what my first line was. How did you start in Pro Voiceovers? Do you remember what your first line was? I don’t think that’s a particularly original story but one I think you hear quite a lot from voice actors. The best defence I could use against this was to do imitations. ![]() Sounded a little different and so I used to get picked on. And you know, I looked a little different. I was born in France but grew up in England and in England in the 70’s it wasn’t good if you were different. And kind of a foreign kid in a foreign land. JB Blanc, video games industry veteran and the recent voice of Kingpin in Amazing Spider Man 2 and Bane in Batman: Arkham Origins.
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