Once,
actor Monica Rial concentrated on cute characters such as Hello Kitty.
Lately, she's played more roles as characters who shoot at people or
are shot at - characters in Gunslinger Girl, Noir, Burst Angel and
Speed Grapher. "I guess they got tired of my being cute," Rial joked
with fans. Then she noted that her role as Jo in the Burst Angel dub,
where she used the lower register of her voiceand acted tough, changed
her career for a while. It was one of those roles where even Rial's
friends didn't recognize her voice, and wjhat followed were more
low-pitched roles. Rial described those dub parts as being "evil moms."
Most lately, that's turned around and Rial is getting roles with
high-pitched voices again. As she recalled a recent audition where she
was asked to read lines in her upper register, the director said other
actors "...tried to sound like a kid but it's strained. You just sound
like a kid." Rial can't help it; she just sounds that way - despite a
review of her Moon Phase dub performance as the little vampire girl
that criticized her as souding "...like an old woman trying to sound
young." "I thought, dude, that's my speaking voice," Rial replied.
Rial
got her reputation among fans as Hyatt in Excel Saga, but she's voiced
other roles that make no more sense. She's still talking about the
nonsensical Goemon - Legend of the Mystical Ninja, a show which let her
and the rest of the cast cut loose from the typical discipline of dubs
and just be strange. "I played this egg - there were these four eggs
that were bumbling bad guys. We did all these crazy cartoony voices,
for this one we got to be stupid because they were eggs. Mine cried all
the time and she had this little water fall (when she cried)." Another
non-human role was as a parrot in Legend of the Moby Dick, where "The
whole time I squawked - it was fun." Rial's strangest role was as a
snorting pig in Peacemaker Kurogane, where she seemed to be on display
in the studio at the worst time. "It always seemed like the Japanese
would come on a tour while I was playing the pig. You get into it
physically, and I'm sure snot was flying everywhere. They never came in
when I'm doing something dramatic like the end of RahXephon."
Once,
actor Monica Rial concentrated on cute characters such as Hello Kitty.
Lately, she's played more roles as characters who shoot at people or
are shot at - characters in Gunslinger Girl, Noir, Burst Angel and
Speed Grapher. "I guess they got tired of my being cute," Rial joked
with fans. Then she noted that her role as Jo in the Burst Angel dub,
where she used the lower register of her voiceand acted tough, changed
her career for a while. It was one of those roles where even Rial's
friends didn't recognize her voice, and wjhat followed were more
low-pitched roles. Rial described those dub parts as being "evil moms."
Most lately, that's turned around and Rial is getting roles with
high-pitched voices again. As she recalled a recent audition where she
was asked to read lines in her upper register, the director said other
actors "...tried to sound like a kid but it's strained. You just sound
like a kid." Rial can't help it; she just sounds that way - despite a
review of her Moon Phase dub performance as the little vampire girl
that criticized her as souding "...like an old woman trying to sound
young." "I thought, dude, that's my speaking voice," Rial replied.
Rial
got her reputation among fans as Hyatt in Excel Saga, but she's voiced
other roles that make no more sense. She's still talking about the
nonsensical Goemon - Legend of the Mystical Ninja, a show which let her
and the rest of the cast cut loose from the typical discipline of dubs
and just be strange. "I played this egg - there were these four eggs
that were bumbling bad guys. We did all these crazy cartoony voices,
for this one we got to be stupid because they were eggs. Mine cried all
the time and she had this little water fall (when she cried)." Another
non-human role was as a parrot in Legend of the Moby Dick, where "The
whole time I squawked - it was fun." Rial's strangest role was as a
snorting pig in Peacemaker Kurogane, where she seemed to be on display
in the studio at the worst time. "It always seemed like the Japanese
would come on a tour while I was playing the pig. You get into it
physically, and I'm sure snot was flying everywhere. They never came in
when I'm doing something dramatic like the end of RahXephon."
