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Anime Central - Day One - Brett Weaver
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"I'm not going to parrot somebody else," Brett Weaver said about his
work in anime dubs such as the Carrot Glace character in Sorcerer Hunters.
"I've got to use my ability as an actor to bring out a character." That's
Weaver's response to those who criticize dub actors for not sounding just
like the Japanese voices in anime. |
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| Weaver agrees with Japanese actor Akira Kamiya's observation that anime
acting is overacting and not natural, something that may not come to American
actors who have been trained for the last half century in the understated,
"method" style. "You can't underplay Carrot. He's larger than life," Weaver
said about his Sorcerer Hunters role. Anime's art style influences Weaver's
voice performances more than the Japanese voice tracks, he said. Good guys
have to sound heroic and villains have to clearly sound like bad guys,
he said. |
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Weaver's favorite (printable) recording booth horror story comes from
an ADV Films session where he laid down some voice tracks and figured he
was finished - only to later learn that all of the tracks had been lost
somewhere in the morass of electronics used in the studio. Weaver had to
go back into the booth and record everything again. At least the producer
was apologetic and paid him for the extra session, Weaver said. |
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| Weaver said he could have ended up working in Japan, if he had taken
Kamiya's suggestion. The veteran Japanese actor liked Weaver's voice and
said that if he learned Japanese, he could make a living dubbing English-language
roles in that country. Weaver chose to stay in the U.S. and concentrate
on an acting career while supporting himself as a computer network administrator. |
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