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With someone that does so much sound-alike work, it's hard to tell if we are actually interviewing the person or just a raft of celebs playing a prank.

What? It could happen!

It was everything Evan could do not to talk to Holly Fields just about Wishmaster, but he managed to find time to bring up Holly's work as vocal stunt doubling for people like Cameron Diaz on the various Shrek video games and other random bits as well as her original work as Nadia Grell in The Old Republic series. Holly also talks about working as a test voice in animation, how Molly Ringwald's sledding accident led her to acting, and the oddly-common path of child actor to voice actor.

Opening Song - KOTOR Main Theme: 8 Bit by NotAHamster

Closing Song - Bebop Rocksteady (Demo) by The Prizefighters

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You want to know what happens when a toad gets hit by lightning? They still can't pronounce people's names right even after being corrected.

Mara (not Mah-ra) Junot has been a shapeshifter for over a decade and as far as we can tell, has only used her powers for voice acting and not to, say, steal nuclear codes. Oh, a vocal shapeshifter. Never mind then.

Mz Junot has graced such small indie titles like Fortnite, League Of Legends, Walking Dead, and World Of Warcraft before taking the role of Storm in Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3. She chats with Evan about her partner's equipment, the difference between Target and Target and how working triple shifts at a radio station in Louisiana led her to sunny shores of voice acting almost stardom.

Opening Song - World Of Warcraft Theme by Glenn Stafford

Closing Song - Bebop Rocksteady (Demo) by The Prizefighters

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Be sure to share this post all over. We need to bump up poor Jared's SEO.

Jared Butler is a writer, a Wasteland Warrior, and a street judge, but most importantly for this show he's also a voice actor known as the current reigning Jack Sparrow. I think he won it in some sort of sword fighting contest, and now he has to look over his shoulder all the time.

Jared talks about working with Blood Money, being bound by the actions of a rich weirdo he has never met, and the loyalty shown to Disney folks. He also expounds on his Depp-th (get it?) as Sparrow in both Kingdom Hearts 3 and on screen as well as other roles like Rango, Alice In Wonderland, and Tonto. If they ever do a Crybaby video game, we'll know who gets the call.

Opening Song - Pirates Of The Caribbean: 8 Bit by WillRock07

Closing Song - Bebop Rocksteady (Demo) by The Prizefighters

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We're back!

After over a year off, The Voice Behind has returned with interview from some of your favorite voice actors in the world (even some you don't know are your favorites yet). To start off this new era of TVB, we wanted to bring back someone who was nice enough to talk to us way back in episode 14, the fantastic Kari (like Ferrari) Wahlgren!

Kari chats with Evan about their shared Midwestern roots, returning to Haruko Haruhara after nearly 20 years, and playing Starfire and Saturn Girl for different audiences. She also gives us tips on how to talk like Zatanna without breaking our jaw, watching someone else take on Proxima Midnight and even a little preview of the new animated Rocketeer.

Opening Song - Ride On Shotting Star (8-Bit) by VOX3L

Closing Song - Bebop Rocksteady (Demo) by The Prizefighters

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You always remember your first Simpson.

Yeardley Smith was a relatively little known actress before she decided to take a job voicing an 8 year old girl in one-minute animated shorts. Nearly 30 years later, she's one of the most well known voice actresses on the planet which means she's somewhere in the top 50,000 most famous actors ever.

Yeardley talks with Evan about starting out working in films like The Legend Of Billie Jean and Maximum Overdrive and how the character of Lisa Simpson has evolved from those shorts to a more well-rounded (and well-loved) character. She also talks about working within the confines of having a distinctive voice and her latest project, Small Town Dicks, the true crime podcast that isn't funny but you can at least google it at work.

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Pronounced like Vincent Van Gogh. Yes you've been pronouncing that one wrong too.

Michael Gough isn't a relation of the one-eared master (that we know of) but he has played a master of ninjitsu, a master of Horadric lore, and a master of the gopheric arts, to name but a few of his well over 200 roles to date. He finds some time driving in between his various masteries to chat with Evan about being a Disney crash test dummy, being a vocal pinch hitter and what it's like to go from working on a small educational title to being the Connery-esque mascot of the one of the most popular gaming franchises in history.

Also he talks about playing the theremin. How cool is that?

Image credit goes to the fine folks at the Great Philadelphia Comic Con, where Michael will be appearing in April.

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Behold the power of big round numbers!

This episodes finally sees one of the inspirations for this show come to chat. The legendary Rob Paulsen has voice ninja turtles, platypii, biker mice and whatever the heck a Warner is. Plus 200 or so other roles. Give or take.

Rob talks about his voice actor show Talkin' Toons, his live shows with Randy Riggle and his fellow Animaniacs and his throat cancer diagnosis (and victory). Evan also gets him to expound on the Tazmaniacs, the shows he was sad didn't take off and what it's like to move to more directing and show pitching.

Kind of appropriate that this episode gets released the same day that new Animaniacs episodes are announced, don't you think? Which means Rob was kept in the dark most of the time or, like most voice actors, is an incredible and shameless liar.

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What's this? A new Voice Behind episode? Must mean 6 more weeks of summer...

That's right, kids, we're back and this episode we've got the man who brought us Mojo Jojo, the non-Wu-Tang Ghostface Killer and the best Cheshire Cat since Sterling Halloway, the great Roger L Jackson!

Roger talks with Evan about how having a library of character references available can be essential to voice actors, the time he replaced Liam Neeson and Mr. Taken returned the favor, and what Neve Campbell thinks about him. He also talks about his upcoming live reading of Stampanato in San Francisco and his very upcoming appearance at the Reno Comic Con. Hopefully we'll get him on after his future Dubai-Con.

Photo credit: Reno Comic Con

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If this were one of those "behind the music" stories, this week's guest will be dating Nikki Six by Thanksgiving.

Cari Scholtens answered an ad. A contest from a little game company looking for voices for its latest game. And so, this high school teacher recorded a short demo which , a few short months later, brought her to Los Angeles to record the role of Jil in Mass Effect Andromeda.

Cari chats with Evan about working alongside FOTS Fryda Wolff, finding new voice gigs on Casting Call Club, being not only bitten but downright swallowed by the voice acting bug and being just generally adorable.

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Machine guns and mandibles. Vetra or this week's guest?

Danielle Rayne may look like the kind of lady who fits in with the high class crowds of Scandal and Revenge, but she's also the kind of bad-ass lady that shoots Terminators, works the Portal Gun like a boss and knows how to handle a Cyclone Assault Rifle whilst gallivanting in the Heleus cluster.

Danielle chats with Evan about wielding a machine gun in an amusement park shortly after 9/11, being thrown into the love pile that is the Mass Effect fandom, wanting to get into performance and motion capture (mandibles optional) and how you never know where your career (or life for that matter) will take you.

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