Christine Auten - Anime Convention Personality of the Week - Jan. 23, 2005
While
many female actors play girls in anime dubs, Christine Auten usually
plays women. "I do all of the strong, silent types," Auten said at
Anime Weekend Atlanta in 2004. "You see them but they don't talk very
much." Few of those roles are more silent than Sakaki in Azumanga Daioh
or stronger than Kekko Kamen, but Auten's best-known voices are even
tougher, if that's possible. "Who wouldn't want to be Priss and who
wouldn't want to be Lady Death?" When ADV Films got the rights to the
Bubble Gum Crisis 2040 TV series, Auten was cast as Priscilla Asagiri,
playing the latest version of the character that defined tough females
for the the 1990's generation of English-speaking anime fans. It was a
tough role for Auten, who struggled at times with the demands of the
role, but she got through the sessions in fine fashion and was prepared
for the Lady Death role, who may be one of the few animated females who
is tougher than Priss. Lady Death was a departure for Auten and ADV
because it was the Houston company's first major original animation
project. All of this was special for a woman who grew up watching Star
Wars and wanted to be Han Solo, not Princess Leia.
While
many female actors play girls in anime dubs, Christine Auten usually
plays women. "I do all of the strong, silent types," Auten said at
Anime Weekend Atlanta in 2004. "You see them but they don't talk very
much." Few of those roles are more silent than Sakaki in Azumanga Daioh
or stronger than Kekko Kamen, but Auten's best-known voices are even
tougher, if that's possible. "Who wouldn't want to be Priss and who
wouldn't want to be Lady Death?" When ADV Films got the rights to the
Bubble Gum Crisis 2040 TV series, Auten was cast as Priscilla Asagiri,
playing the latest version of the character that defined tough females
for the the 1990's generation of English-speaking anime fans. It was a
tough role for Auten, who struggled at times with the demands of the
role, but she got through the sessions in fine fashion and was prepared
for the Lady Death role, who may be one of the few animated females who
is tougher than Priss. Lady Death was a departure for Auten and ADV
because it was the Houston company's first major original animation
project. All of this was special for a woman who grew up watching Star
Wars and wanted to be Han Solo, not Princess Leia.
