hey guys how are you doing welcome to the rebel base
today we're going to be going over the behind the scenes look at all the voice
actors the very talented voice actors that make the clone wars come to life
what it is today let's check it out how much damage is
there a separatist command ship is fleeing the battle execute battalion
take 188 300 the man of a thousand voices
commander what is the damage level to the enemy ship did you really think i
would leave the hyper drive unguarded you must evacuate that is an
order master skywalker taught me never to let up when the titties are on the
run
to really bring the characters to life you of course need really good actors
and i think we're really lucky on clone war
to have a bunch of great actors not just in the movie the droid general
grievous has our forces spread then but also the series general
we await the malevolence at the rendezvous point this series is exciting
because the cast can really build on their characters over a long period of
time when you're voice directing the first
moment is really to talk about the characters questions they
have about the script i give them a big breakdown of the episode
we talk about what their characters are going to be like why their characters
are motivated to do what they're doing especially the new characters
and it takes a talented person because they have to imagine
everything around them what the rooms they're in are like
what the vehicles they're in are like with really nothing to look at maybe we
give them a drawing of the character they're picturing in their mind what
this is all going to look like i'm a lizard he's he's almost like
cadmie's little pet but like willing to go into dangerous
situations i try to paint the best picture i can for them but then
let people add to it
obi-wan come in obi-wan anakin i'm afraid is on to us
we'll rendezvous back at the twilight the fleet must engage them
oh we want come in obi-wan our voice actors are also talented they can do
multiple things tom cain he plays several characters in
the show before the battleship malevolence could destroy an outer
encloned medical base a republic strike force under the
command of jedi general does yoda i think triple the warship
disabling its treaded ion cannon general skywalker one of the engines on
that fridge has exploded the communication center perhaps their
target view because some of them play multiple
characters i think it brings an awareness
where they're not just walking cold they're bringing
knowledge of other episodes and other things they've experienced to star wars
matt wood he's a huge fan and he will play many droids in the clone
wars coordinates are locked hyperdrive is
engaging uh i think we have a problem you know he
electronically modifies his voice then that's really
interesting when hear matt's regular voice versus who he is as general
grievous do you really think i would leave the hyperdrive of this
ship unguarded i thought the hyperdrive was fixed
ah but now the computer is heading us right into the moon
yes reset another computer
we really have a great time and a lot of a lot of fun comes out of it and you
know that's when i know the thing's really working well
this is what happened very very dramatic moment
obi-wan's right there walks up to cody and says cody battle positions
cody battle positions i thought you know he had to scream so he could hear
through the helmet no i gotta let you guys do your own
commentary track that'd be hilarious you should you should let us do it in
the characters see oh yeah that would be great like you're
watching it yeah yeah i don't think uh well i look quite good
in this don't you oh yes now you anakin you could use some
hair gel or something no thanks as a director of animation
it's important for us to get the actors all in the studio at the same time
so they can get energy off each other so they can interact and really interact
you will get on the gun ships when we arrive
where's ahsoka about six klixies master we've engaged the enemy and we've gotten
them on the road sometimes i'll i'll have to ask you to get physical and
really stretch their body out or if they're in the middle of a
windstorm you have to be shouting like you're
you're speaking over something loud going up there's a battle you have to
describe the flak explosion so they know to shout
don't worry about me i'm hanging in there master
of course ahsoka she really is this genuine
nice person and ashley really brings that
to the character i know i was wrong i just got so caught up in my own
success i didn't look at the battle as a whole
i wasn't being disobedient i just forgot henry giller and i really thought
we had a couple really good had me candidates
when we were interviewing for padme and uh all of a sudden
cat tabor said annie off stage we both looked up like wow that
that was just right annie my goodness you've grown some of you
she's a huge fan so she had studied more beautiful all the lines and for a
century i make reference to a scene in the movie which i'll do quite often she
knows exactly the attitude and the temper i'm talking about
let's go 201 all the way to 208 what's happening here you've just been
pushed by the force into the elevator the door is shut anakin chops those
battle droids down so then it's like after this moment of
chaos you two get to have a little moment of fun a little tongue-in-cheek
joke moment
ever since i've known you you've been playing with droids
matt and james playing anakin and obi-wan once they were trying to
read some lines back and forth and i was like yeah it's just not just doesn't
quite feel like you're friends and then between
takes they were just chatting with each other kind of fooling around and i'm
like that's exactly what you need to do see
the way you guys are joking now that's that is anakin and obi-wan anakin you're
doing things while everyone's trying to talk to you
so you're like fixing the ship hitting the switches
you're hitting other things pulling the throttle so when you're saying i don't
have a backup plan yet you know so you're doing other
things basically you're doing that because you are prepping the ship but
you don't want to appear to obi-wan like you don't know what you're doing
it's all about being specific and communicating with them
to get the best possible result and luckily i think we get that
and let's just do it again 114 to 126. i trust you've already formulated a
brilliant plan to rescue the senator as a matter of fact i have but do we
have a plan b every operation needs a backup anakin i
don't have a backup yet but i do have a plan for getting on
that ship really the enemy sensors are obviously
damaged so we'll sneak in behind them and dock
at the emergency airlock that's your plan just fly there land
hope they don't spot us and walk in the door basically oh
brilliant let's get going
great i really like that we're not even gonna do it again
he's crazy i know i'm just running reckless now
safety who needs a safety i got it d baker is every single clone you hear
rex has a little bit of a different sound than cody has has a different
sound than a clone i can't tell you about because
it's still top secret but you know he does a great job with that
i've rounded up three brigades sai where are we going we're going to board a
separatist frigate rescue master opel and recover an
archive holocron we have no assault craft sir only a
couple of fighters in the twilight waiting for orders sir we try to bring a
reality to it and the freshness where it doesn't feel like they're reading lines
i just want them to be those people and i think our cast really brings that on
archive security reflect on your actions you can it's
impossible not to mention deadly perhaps your reputation has been
exaggerated the communication center will be crawling with jedi
why do i need to go in there only members of the jedi council
are allowed access he looks like a jedi thank you collectively we have a group
of actors that bring a love of star wars to every
role they play and that's important in this we're
finding people that believe in this universe and want to
be these characters and that really goes a long way to
give the fans the best possible star wars experience we can
it's so cool man
everything that goes into this
now i know of course everyone who's seen star wars knows all the actors from the
films because of what you see them act right
but i wish the voice actors would almost get the same sort of recognition
um because they in a sense embodied the character more so than the
actors who actually play them on screen it's very different and it's
hard for me to even say that but hear me out they have to really
understand the characters emotions so much because they're not seeing the
things that are around them right like on set if you're an actor
let's say for episode two episode three obi-wan knows
how he should react because he's feeding off of anakin's reaction as well let's
say if they're fighting or something's going
on they can feed off the emotions of every
other actor around them and if that person's angry will
know as a human you can tap into that and see okay how would i feel
if this human is giving this sort of emotion towards me
but when you're voice recording there's nothing there to
bounce that energy off of i mean unless it's like this where you got you know
some people around you but that's not all the time so
i feel like they really have to know these characters to a t
now to say for example james arnold taylor would know obi-wan
more than ewan mcgregor it's very tough and i don't think i can say it but i
would like to say that i think you know like matt lantern and and
ashley eckstein all these people they know these characters
on a different level maybe not the same level maybe not more maybe not
less but on a different level than the people who portray them on the film in
the films like i think matt lantern knows anakin
skywalker on a different level than hayden christensen does hayden of
course knows him two t and hayden is anakin but
matt has to know anakin on the inside more so than just you know acting him on
the outside and this is something that i think i'm
not a lot of people really understand like
well you're just reading lines it's like you have to really embody this character
like have you seen sam whitware's outtakes
for maul it's insane he gets so into the role and
so into the character that he's becoming that that person
and he's embodying all of their pains physical
mental their soul and you can really see that when you watch these behind the
scenes like otherwise you would never know you'd
never have a clue so i think you know a big hats off to all
the voice actors in the world especially the ones on the clone wars
for doing such a stand-up job and for dave flony for directing them
because it's very difficult to direct someone and
show them how they should feel by explaining situations to them and
bringing that emotion out of the actor so
they all did a really great job it's a magical team they all came together and
they they made the clone wars so let's go on
to the next one