All
of the female actors on a Project: A-Kon panel started voice acting in the
early or mid twenties. However, Amanda Winn Lee, Amy Howard Wilson, Monica
Rial, Stephanie Nadolny and Tiffany Grant got different starts in the business.
Wilson, in her 24th year of acting, was trained in New York. Nadolny has
a singing background and has been with several bands. The rest have a college
stage background and performed in theater performances, mostly around Houston,
before they got roles with ADV Films. They all started with low wages and
were able to make more money as they progressed to lead roles (but don't
ask about residuals). And all had fascinating stories to tell when they met
the fans.
Lee
chatted about the session where she dubbed Gally in Battle Angel, which she
described as her favorite dramatic anime. Easy for Lee, but not when you're
ill. "I had never been so sick - I had a 102-degree fever and a complete
respiratory infection," said Lee. Always the trouper, Lee started doing "battle
foley." her character's fighting grunts and groans, in an ADV booth. Matt
Greenfield, the director, "looked up and there was no one in the booth. I
had passed out in the booth because I was so congested." Wilson, who started
as the first Nova in Star Blazers, chatted about the days before digital
processing of voice tracks, when a producer couldn't just push a button and
make a line fit an onscreen character's lip flaps. That led to some bizarre
ad libs like "Your fly is open."
Rial
retold the story of recording Izumi in Princess Nine, the girls' baseball
show, where she nearly broke some studio equipment. Actors are encouraged
to physically play out their roles, and a taped-up, rolled-up script was
being used as a "bat.' "And all of sudden I hit the microphone," Rial recalled.
Added Nadolny, "A lot of us can't keep still when we're recording scenes.
When I'm recording Goku, I've hit the mike and the doorknob." Of course,
Lee retorted "That's why we don't dub hentai - it's so physical." Grant had
a story about meeting Japanese visitors in the studio who were told she had
acted in ADV's dub of Power Dolls. "They started laughing, and I thought
they must have seen it," Grant said.
All
of the female actors on a Project: A-Kon panel started voice acting in the
early or mid twenties. However, Amanda Winn Lee, Amy Howard Wilson, Monica
Rial, Stephanie Nadolny and Tiffany Grant got different starts in the business.
Wilson, in her 24th year of acting, was trained in New York. Nadolny has
a singing background and has been with several bands. The rest have a college
stage background and performed in theater performances, mostly around Houston,
before they got roles with ADV Films. They all started with low wages and
were able to make more money as they progressed to lead roles (but don't
ask about residuals). And all had fascinating stories to tell when they met
the fans.
Lee
chatted about the session where she dubbed Gally in Battle Angel, which she
described as her favorite dramatic anime. Easy for Lee, but not when you're
ill. "I had never been so sick - I had a 102-degree fever and a complete
respiratory infection," said Lee. Always the trouper, Lee started doing "battle
foley." her character's fighting grunts and groans, in an ADV booth. Matt
Greenfield, the director, "looked up and there was no one in the booth. I
had passed out in the booth because I was so congested." Wilson, who started
as the first Nova in Star Blazers, chatted about the days before digital
processing of voice tracks, when a producer couldn't just push a button and
make a line fit an onscreen character's lip flaps. That led to some bizarre
ad libs like "Your fly is open."
Rial
retold the story of recording Izumi in Princess Nine, the girls' baseball
show, where she nearly broke some studio equipment. Actors are encouraged
to physically play out their roles, and a taped-up, rolled-up script was
being used as a "bat.' "And all of sudden I hit the microphone," Rial recalled.
Added Nadolny, "A lot of us can't keep still when we're recording scenes.
When I'm recording Goku, I've hit the mike and the doorknob." Of course,
Lee retorted "That's why we don't dub hentai - it's so physical." Grant had
a story about meeting Japanese visitors in the studio who were told she had
acted in ADV's dub of Power Dolls. "They started laughing, and I thought
they must have seen it," Grant said.
