I Know That Voice Page #5

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This is the job you want. "

Hi, I'm Ed Asner.

I love to act, I don't care

what form it takes.

Be it improv,

voiceover, narration,

anything that requires

my pretending to be

someone else I leap at.

To be a good voice actor

you have to be

an actor, that's all.

I think you're born

with that talent.

You can't teach anybody to act.

You can, you can teach them

techniques of getting closer,

or whispering,

but it comes from the heart.

The good voice actors

are so good

the cartoons don't even

have to be that good.

I gotta tell ya,

that's the sad truth.

When you get started,

when you really start,

start listening to what people

are actually doing.

A lot of actors get into it

and they don't know

how to act for voiceover.

It's a very different

style of acting.

It's much bigger,

it's much more theatrical.

It is not about I can say,

"Eh, what's up, doc"

better than anybody else,

you know, no.

It's can you read anything

as that character,

can you become that character.

It's about hearing

all those little voices

in your head beforehand.

When you look at a script

and you have to give an A,

a B, and a C take.

When you look at a script

you have to give an A,

a B, and a C take.

When you look at a script

you have to give an A,

a B, and a C take.

All of 'em have

to be different.

Voiceover's about creating

characters who may be funny

or may be dramatic,

or may be scary or whatever.

It's the same as acting

it's just you don't have

to get up at six o'clock

in the morning,

which is why I'm interested.

Even before I knew

it was Mel Blanc,

I would have told you

it was Bugs Bunny

was my hero and then,

and Daffy Duck

and Foghorn Leghorn,

I really loved Foghorn Leghorn.

I didn't know who I was

listening to back then

except for guys like Mel Blanc.

- Mel Blanc.

- Mel Blanc.

- Mel Blanc.

- Mel Blanc.

Mel Blanc.

Mel Blanc, of course,

is the name you have

to kind of throw out first

because he lit the way

for just about everybody else.

I remember what really

astonished me was

that Mel Blanc did everything.

That's what I thought

was pretty magical,

was that Roadrunner,

and Tweety, Wile E. Coyote,

and Bugs, and Daffy,

and Elmer Fudd.

You break down the voice.

It's New Yorky, it's nasally,

and he's a smart aleck.

That could be such

an unappealing voice

and yet endearing,

timelessly endearing.

Well, he told me that he was

a tough little stinker.

So I thought maybe Brooklyn

or the Bronx.

So I uh, put the two of them

together, doc,

that's how I got

the voice for Bugs.

In the episode uh,

"Wabbit Season, Duck Season",

that episode of Bugs Bunny

where they're sort of

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