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Anime Weekend Atlanta - Day Two - Orr and
Fernandez
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Trixie and Speed Racer were at Anime Weekend Atlanta on Saturday. Anime
fans will know Corrine Orr (left) and Peter Fernandez (right) best as the
voices from the Americanized Mach Go Go Go; how many voices is hard to
tell, because this was half of the show's voice cast. All of the four voice
actors on Speed Racer doubled, tripled and quadrupled on voices for the
series - and that was just for a single episode. Union rules discourage
that sort of thing nowadays, Orr said, but it was a great time in the 1960's. |
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| A newer generation of fans grew up to Orr's voice in the TV commercial
where she played Snuggles the bear in the advertisements for the fabric
softener. Those little 30 second epics took months to produce, she recalled.
Her initial voice tracks took three hours to record, the bear needed three
puppeteers to operate, another month or so was needed to assemble the commercial
- and she still needed to handle retakes on the voice tracks before the
advertisement was ready to air. And on top of that, Orr recorded the childrens'
voices for the first dub of the Gamera movie. |
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Fernandez wrote the scripts for Speed Racer, and Orr had to deliver
the lines. How did she create Trixie's voice? "I always look at the picture
and I get the character," she said. "Trixie was higher than my regular
voice. I approached her with as much sincerity and feeling as I could."
Orr said it look a lot of concentration to get the dubbing cues just right,
and Fernandez added that it took some tolerance for Orr to survive the
roles with three other male actors who smoked - Orr didn't smoke, and it
was rough for her to get along in those smoke-filled dubbing booths. |
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| Decades ago, Fernandez was playing stage roles in Atlanta, and he's
seen a big change in acting styles since then. "The acting was more `acting,'
more stylized then. Now it's more of people acting absolutely real." Fernandez
stays close to the Speed Racer world outside of conventions: on the Labor
Day weekend, he was invited to travel to Auburn, Indiana for the huge Kruse
auto auction where a full-size replica of the Mach Five car from the series
was sold for $180,000. |
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