Adam Dudley -
Anime
Convention Personality of the Week - March 16, 2008
Randel Oland seems like
a harmless creature in the Pumpkin Scissors series. The retired
corporal isn't as goofy as Abel Nightroad from Trinity Blood or
Vash the Stampede from Trigun, but he also seems as harmless at
first, until he has a reason to fight. Then Oland gets dangerous and
becomes your worst enemy. The actor who meets the challenge of voicing
Oland's wide swing of moods is Adam Dudley. Usually, Oland is played as
passive and understated. Get him mad enough, and you can say "goodbye"
to your head. "With Randel, we learn more about him...he's struggling
with whether he wants to be a killing machine or not," said Dudley at
the Ikkicon convention. "The sinister part of his history doesn't come
out -- he's more of a buffoon." Oland has the kind of voice and
presence that usually gets him cast as villains, something he
appreciates because Dudley's one of the actors who says that bad guys
are more fun to play than good guys. That's a dream come true for
Dudley, who got to play a Gatchaman villain in the ADV Films,
fulfilling a wish he'd carried since he was a child and watched the
original dub of the series on TV. Dudley admits that he had an
interesting experience when he searched for web links to his name: he
found several references to the "Dudley boys" pro wrestlers, performers
to which he isn't related and whose real names aren't "Dudley."
Randel Oland seems like
a harmless creature in the Pumpkin Scissors series. The retired
corporal isn't as goofy as Abel Nightroad from Trinity Blood or
Vash the Stampede from Trigun, but he also seems as harmless at
first, until he has a reason to fight. Then Oland gets dangerous and
becomes your worst enemy. The actor who meets the challenge of voicing
Oland's wide swing of moods is Adam Dudley. Usually, Oland is played as
passive and understated. Get him mad enough, and you can say "goodbye"
to your head. "With Randel, we learn more about him...he's struggling
with whether he wants to be a killing machine or not," said Dudley at
the Ikkicon convention. "The sinister part of his history doesn't come
out -- he's more of a buffoon." Oland has the kind of voice and
presence that usually gets him cast as villains, something he
appreciates because Dudley's one of the actors who says that bad guys
are more fun to play than good guys. That's a dream come true for
Dudley, who got to play a Gatchaman villain in the ADV Films,
fulfilling a wish he'd carried since he was a child and watched the
original dub of the series on TV. Dudley admits that he had an
interesting experience when he searched for web links to his name: he
found several references to the "Dudley boys" pro wrestlers, performers
to which he isn't related and whose real names aren't "Dudley."