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We're used to seeing actor Tiffany Grant in a costume
from a character she plays, but isn't that a Star Trek uniform? And what
is that blue-haired outfit that actor Jessica Calvello is wearing? Fans
got those answers at an Anime Weekend Atlanta panel featuring the actors.
Grant got the Star Trek uniform because a friend who also was a Trek fan
encouraged her to get the outfit. And Calvello got the Shiokaze outfit
to promote her work in the Virgin Fleet series produced by Central Park Media. However, Calvello was really interested in discussing the new Boogie Pop Phantom release from The Right
Stuf in which she had a major role in the first episode. |
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"People compare (Boogie Pop) to (Serial Experiments) Lain, but it doesn't really compare to Lain - except that it's twisted," Calvello said. Boogie Pop also was very hard work for Calvello. You'll hear actors often say that they wish they could reform a role all
over again, but Calvello turned that wish into reality. She didn't like
her work on the first Boogie Pop episode, and pleaded with the producers
to let her revoice her part. For once, the producer relented and brought
Calvello back into the studio. "I redid every single line. There was one
line the director wanted to keep from the first session and we did," said
Calvello. "I feel really great in getting a chance to do it the way I wanted
to do it - it was really an amazing day." |
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Grant got a similar opportunity when the Neon Genesis
Evangelion movies were dubbed and she entered a studio to reprise her role
of Asuka. Much of the first movie is made of clips from the 26 Evangelion
TV episodes, which meant that Grant revoiced many of Asuka's lines. "It
was so bizarre," she commented. And more bizarre - downright creepy, she
said - was the fate of the "Arlington Road" film in which Grant appeared
as an extra. That movie, starring Jeff Bridges, includes a terrorist bombing
as a plot point, and one review said the simulated TV news reports on the
film were eerily close to the real reports that followed the September
11 terrorist attacks. |
