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This must be the Month of Dreams Coming True.
Last Tuesday, I did three voices for EverQuest 2, and this Thursday, I get to record a lead voice in a game called “Stonewall” that will be out in the fall.
I also had an audition last week for “Knights of the Old Republic 2: Electric Boogaloo*, and I think I managed to keep my geek under control long enough to not suck while I recorded an audition for a character that’s described as “The Next Han Solo.” (!)
Check this out: when I arrived at my agency for the audition, I didn’t know I’d be reading for KotR2:EB*. I was there for a Nickelodeon cartoon, and a commercial (it’s very common to go there for one thing, and end up reading for two or three other jobs.)
So I was in the waiting room, and my VO agent handed me the copy.
“Do you know what this game is?” She said.
“Jabba wah nichiko, Solo, ha ha ha ha ha.” I said. “Kresko, klinto kweecho coo . . . la orka!”
“I’ll take that as a ‘yes,'” she said.
“I’m a little bit of a Star Wars nerd,” I said.
“That’s ‘a little bit’?”
I giggled.
“Knights of the Old Republic is better than Episode 1, and I’m told it’s better than Episode 2, which I refuse to see.”
“Why do you refuse to see it?”
“Fool me once, and all that,” I said.
She laughed. “Okay, well, look it over and let me know when you’re ready.”
I spent about ten minutes looking over the material. “When I was playing with my Star Wars figures on the kitchen floor twenty years ago — holy shit. Was it really twenty years ago? — I never thought I’d get a chance to be part of it . . . even if it’s just an audition.”
The material was very straightforward, so I came up with a couple of character ideas, tried a few voices, settled on the ones that I liked, and told her I was ready.
I steadied myself, did my audition, and felt really good about it.
“That was great,” she said. “Do you want to do it again?”
“No, I’m happy with that. But if you could let the clients know, as part of my interpretation of this character . . . Han shoots first.”
“Why do people keep saying that?” She said.
“It’s a nerd thing.”
*(It is, of course, not really called “Electric Boogaloo.”)

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