| Project: A-Kon - Sunday
- Tiffany Vollmer |
 You won't
often hear the name of actor Carol Burnett mentioned in connection with
anime dubbing, but that name was brought up when Tiffany Vollmer briefly
chatted about her work as the latest English-language voice of Bulma in
the Dragon Ball Z anime. Bulma is stranded by herself on a planet in the
first episodes voiced by Vollmer, and there's as much screaming and moaning
as dialogue in those episodes. Vollmer said her voice director told her
she had to "Carol Burnett-it" when she made those noises, in the the style
of the veteran actor. "It was so easy," Vollmer said. |
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not so easy on the throat...because those screams are at full voice. And
maybe not so easy when the dialogue arrives, because there are subtle differences
in the writing style from episode to episode. When Vollmer has trouble
with a particular line of dialogue, "Sometimes they well me to go take
a break and try again." A-Kon was the first anime convention for most of
the Dragon Ball Z cast, based in Funimation's home state of Texas, and
Vollmer said "It's so new to me - it's exciting at this point." She also
found that there are a lot of convention fans who want to become voice
actors: get some acting training if you want this job, she suggested. |
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