I Know That Voice Page #2

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I walked into the room

and all of my radio

friends where there.

Radio is... is very much

like an animation session.

You just borrow from whatever...

whatever experience you've

had as the radio actor

or animation person.

It all seems to work out.

Back in the days

of old time radio,

as they call it now, that was

essentially voice acting.

Strangely enough

when you do a cartoon

and they edit it all together

and get it ready

for the animators to animate,

they call it "the radio show. "

My first real gig was

being dropped on my head

in a church which

rendered my relationship

to the deity problematic.

The first one I ever did

where I went,

"Wow, these people

are reacting,

like, as if I was a baby

speaking my first words"

was Peter Falk, was "Columbo. "

I'd seen "Columbo"

the night before

and my teacher, Mr. Fraser,

was doing it in the schoolyard

for a bunch of my schoolmates,

and I don't know how I did it,

but I just went up to him

and said, "Mr. Fraser, Sir",

I'm sorry to bother you.

This is,

this is very embarrassing.

"You're murdering

a Peter Falk impression. "

And the eye went and everything

and I just, I discovered

I could do something well.

I remember I was 10 years old

and there was this woman,

Phyllis, who was running

the front desk

at Lee Strasberg.

And she was so funny with me.

I'd be at the 7/11

across the street

and she'd, you know,

run across and say,

"Alanna, I know you

across the street"

smoking marijuana

with the homeless.

You get your ass

over here right now

"and you learn how to act. "

And then the phone would ring

and she'd say,

"Lee Strasberg Theater

Institute,

may I help you, please?"

I never forgot that.

My parents are

from Buenos Aires

I can hear it.

And then my other,

my best friend's parents

were from Glasgow, Scotland,

so if I wasn't listening

to

I was listening to

"Carlos and Kevin,

get outside for Pete's sake. "

So right there I had

an early influence

of wanting to imitate people.

I always was doing voices

from the time

I was really small.

Um, my mom did

cartoon voices at me, like,

you know, she would talk

like a little baby,

"What are you doing

over there?"

And so I would

talk back to her.

And people would say,

"She's never gonna learn

how to talk normally

if you keep doing that. "

I knew about voiceovers

when I was little.

I did like, you know,

Burger King commercials

and stuff like that.

And then it wasn't

until later um,

that I discovered

that I could marry the two

with, you know, acting and

voiceovers, animation.

If you wanna do animation,

you have to be in LA.

This is the animation

capital of the world.

This is in every single

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