- Woo hoo!
I said woo hoo!
What's up everybody, this is Cyborg
playing Cyborg.
Boo yah
and boo yah ska doo.
Hello.
This is Rafiki.
Hello. This is Aqualad.
I talk too much as it is sometimes.
I get tired of hearing myself.
(laughing)
When I come home,
there's a lot of times
that I can hear my voice
blaring out of that TV,
and sometimes I'm like,
"Man, you gotta turn that dude off."
Man, that's a lot of me.
(laughing)
What's up everybody.
My name is Khary Payton.
I am a voice actor.
I have played Rafiki from the Lion Guard.
I'd like to do him.
Aqualad was very calm
and tries to get everyone to listen.
His father
who is angry,
Black Manta.
I also play a fella named Cyborg.
Boo yah.
Boo yah ska doo.
And this is the rest of my crew over here.
Look at that, the Teen Titans.
Boom, boom, boom.
You can't just go around having fun
while the Ravens are kidnapped
and the Trigons are on the loose with the worlogog.
I started voice acting
about 10 years into my career.
I did a lot of theater,
a lot of Shakespeare,
commercials and
little movies.
Teen Titans was actually my first voiceover audition.
The funny thing about auditioning
for Cyborg the first time is that,
it was literally me just excited to have an audition.
That is the whole emo behind my voice.
It's like, really?
You're going to let me do this.
That's crazy.
What are you guys doing?
The hell you doing?
I was exuberant and I'm loud.
And they wanted a nice loud dude
who could stay loud
for four hours at a clip.
(screaming)
Cyborg is near and dear to my heart
because he's closest to me.
I wasn't trying to change my voice,
I was just excited.
Boo yah.
I never in my wildest dreams
thought somebody would let me play Rafiki.
They do not stop talking.
It's the one time I called my mom
to tell her I got a job.
I was like, "Mom, you're not going to believe this."
And I can only do it for about 15 minutes.
Cause it's tiring
to play Rafiki.
(laughing)
He's so all over the place that
by the time I finish I am exhausted.
I just found it
kind of like a dance
and you feel the
waves of him moving up and down
and the dynamism of his voice.
It is easy,
after it is hot.
Outside of my voiceover work,
I also play
King Ezekiel on The Walking Dead.
I am King Ezekiel.
I don't think I would have been casted
it if it wasn't for
all of the Shakespeare
and experimental black box theater
that I did in my twenties.
I was just kind of uniquely qualified
to do that job because he has kind of a
Shakespearian vocal quality.
I provided a light to lead my people
forward through the darkness.
And they have made my fictions realities.
And that wasn't
a part of the audition,
when they asked me to do it.
I read it and I was like,
"No, this guy talks a certain way.
And they need to change the way that he speaks,
depending on the circumstance."
And so, because I had played with my voice for so long,
it was natural to me.
Welcome to the kingdom.
One of the coolest things that ever happened to me
being Cyborg is that,
I was at a convention once and this big dude,
this big burly dude.
He was like six four.
And he slides over this picture of Cyborg.
And he was like,
"I got to tell you,
this show got me through a lot of rough times in my life."
I just picked my arms out. I was like,
"Man, come here."
And this big old dude just gave me
this big old bear hug.
And over the last couple of years,
I have met so many people
that the stories that I've helped to tell
have been integral in their life.
Just keeping them going,
keeping them moving in the right direction.
That's all I've ever really wanted.
I'm living the dream, I guess.
Call Cyborg.
He can shoot a rocket from his shoe.