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- I'm Timmy Turner
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and I sure wish Cosmo and Wanda were here
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to help me review some impressions.
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- I wish I could go inside the internet.
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- Here doggy doggy.
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- What was that?
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Didn't quite catch that.
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- I'm hardcore.
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- Hi Vanity Fair, I'm Tara Strong.
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I'm an actress mostly known
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for my animated voiceover roles,
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like Timmy Turner from the Fairly OddParents,
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Bubbles from the Powerpuff Girls,
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Twilight Sparkle from My Little Pony,
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Raven from Teen Titans
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and Harley Quinn from the DC Universe
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and today we're gonna hear some people do impressions
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of my characters.
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♪ Obtuse, rubber goose, green moose, guava juice ♪
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♪ Giant snake, birthday cake, large fries, chocolate shake ♪
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♪ Obtuse, rubber goose, green moose, guava juice, ♪
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♪ Giant snake, birthday cake, large fries, chocolate shake ♪
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- So that's Megan, she's awesome.
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I've met her.
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I let her do her Timmy impersonation in this studio.
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We shot a little vine video together.
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- Hi, Timmy Turner.
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- What are you doing? - Nothing.
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- I'm Timmy Turner.
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She's adorable and she's so brilliant
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and she's probably one day gonna take all my jobs.
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That impression was pretty close to perfect.
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I would just say
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she could go a little bit deeper in her register,
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'cause I still hear like a little girly in her voice,
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but it's not something she can't do.
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Like if she did that again right now and I said,
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"Go a little deeper."
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She could do it.
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So she's gunning for me, I see you Megan.
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It's just that in this particular impression,
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she's thinking a little bit too young
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and she's doing like a little
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♪ Obtuse, rubber goose ♪
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It's just a little bit younger,
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she could probably do a bang on like,
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baby deal or a young Timmy,
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but for the Fairly OddParents
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Timmy still has to sound like a 10 year old boy.
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So instead of going too cutesy,
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you think teenage boy.
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♪ Obtuse, rubber goose, green moose, guava juice ♪
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Get little girl gestures and thought processes
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out of your mind and really become a little boy.
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When you think too cutesy,
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it puts you in that different register,
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where you can kind of break off into girl territory
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and we definitely need to know that Timmy is a boy
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that makes a lot of mistakes like boys do.
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I wish I was inside the internet.
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♪ Obtuse, rubber goose, green moose, guava juice ♪
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♪ Giant snake, birthday cake, large fries, chocolate shake ♪
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- I don't believe in luck, but I do subscribe
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to the theory of horribly inconvenient coincidences.
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I wish I could go inside the internet.
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- Maddie, what a great job.
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She sounds a lot like Timmy Turner,
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I would say her only flaw was the same as Megan's
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where it still sounds like a little girl.
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She rushed it a little bit.
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So I think if she slowed down
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and just went a little bit lower in her register
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and add a little bit more rasp.
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Timmy has a little bit more rasp
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than she did in that last impression.
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When you watch her you can see that she's into it.
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But she's thinking more of the voice.
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I want her to think more of the moments.
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When you think of the Fairly OddParents theme song
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and you think
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♪ Obtuse, rubber goose, green moose, guava juice ♪
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Wow, picture all those things.
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Each word is important.
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Each syllable in animation is important.
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And she can get there too.
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If she was in my studio I'd have her there like that.
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She's gunning for me too, I can see.
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He's not stupid, he's my friend
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and I should have treated him better.
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- He's not stupid, he's my friend
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and I should have treated him better.
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- So she also sounds a lot like Timmy Turner,
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all these people are so close,
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I'm so touched that it's inspired all these people
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to do impressions.
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She's actually too pinched, too high.
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So I would say to in her case, relax the rasp a little bit.
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When you do Timmy Turner, you are pinching your vocal cords,
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you need to make that raspy sound.
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But she's doing it so much that it's up here
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a little bit too much.
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So again, she's gotta lower her pitch a little bit.
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There's a rhythm to how boys talk.
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So she's going a little bit too fast.
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She needs to slow it down
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and have a little more highs and lows
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and not just all appear really fast.
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And maybe it's a challenge
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of someone doing something for YouTube
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as opposed to being in an actual studio
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and visualizing all those moments.
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Because if she really took the time
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to think about those moments,
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I shouldn't have done that
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almost act it like you're acting on camera.
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He was my friend,
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and that will bring you into those boy moments
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instead of sort of looking in the camera and saying,
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"He was my friend, I should have done this."
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He was my friend, I should have done that.
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Even if you're speaking higher or faster,
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if you're imagining those moments,
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they're gonna translate more
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and they're gonna get you more into that pocket.
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So I think the people doing impressions
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and it may be they're not imagining
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they're in each of these animated worlds.
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I'm just as tough as Blossom and Buttercup.
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I can handle the rough stuff too.
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- I'm tough, I'm just as tough as they are,
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I'm hardcore.
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Hi, I'm Bubbles from the Powerpuff Girls.
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[indistinct]
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She's talking to squirrels again.
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- Oh, my gosh, she's so cute.
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That is a great Bubbles.
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It sounds just like her totally.
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I would say again for her to slow down the acting beats.
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Bubbles has this funny thing
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where she pronounces words funny, like picky.
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So when she's like,
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I'm just as tough as Blossom or,
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she needs to slow it down.
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I'm just as tough as Blossom and Buttercup.
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Buttercup, see how it got a little bit weird
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where I put the T.
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There's little like weird inflections that Bubbles has
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that would get her from her pretty awesome impression
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to even greater.
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So slow it down, imagine all the moments,
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take every syllable.
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I'm just as tough as Blossom and Buttercup, I'm hardcore.
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Even though Bubble's voice lives in a high register,
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she drops down from it periodically.
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So that would help to capture her musicality
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if she didn't always stay up high all the time
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and she came down a little bit
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I think it would sound even better,
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but that's pretty darn close.
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I'm just as tough and strong and mean
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as Buttercup and Blossom
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and I'll prove that I can be hardcore.
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- I'm just as tough and mean as Blossom and Buttercup,
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I'm hardcore.
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- She's great too, it's pretty close too.
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The only thing I can see she's doing with her mouth
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is she's making her a little too babyish.
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Even though Bubbles is super cute,
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she almost has to fight the baby.
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It's almost like you can't play her too cutesy
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or it doesn't work,
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you almost have to play against the cutesy with a cute sound
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if that makes any sense.
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So instead of thinking like this,
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if you're thinking like this, I'm hardcore.
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It's naturally gonna kind of take her down,
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again, she can find a few more places
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to go a little bit lower,
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even though it's a high pitch sound.
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I know this is probably very confusing.
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Just because Bubbles is small
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doesn't mean her moments are small.
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I'm just as mean and tough as everybody else.
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She still has to have that real determined sound.
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It's not all baby,
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it has to have a bunch of different layers,
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but vocally she's like, and totally pitch wise,
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she's really close.
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You have to have highs and lows in your acting
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to keep the audience engaged
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and keep the character authentic.
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When you speak in your own voice,
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there's a musicality to it.
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It's like you're singing a song with words.
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So you wouldn't always speak like this
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or people would be really bored with you talking to them.
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So think of how you have highs and lows in your own world
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and then bring that forth with your character work.
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I'm still getting his drool off my face.
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I don't want him anywhere near my brain.
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Here doggy.
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Here doggy, doggy.
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- I'm still getting his drool off my face.
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I don't want him anywhere near my brain.
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Here doggy.
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Here doggy, doggy.
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- Brizzy is awesome.
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She's off and running on her own voiceover career
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so she's doing great.
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To make Raven even more perfect,
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it's already pretty perfect,
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is to not have anything forced or pinched at all.
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She doesn't have any nasal quality to her.
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For Raven you actually have to try less
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than people think you do.
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That guttural roll isn't always there when she speaks
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it kind of fluctuates in and out
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so she does have some highs and lows,
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way less highs and lows than any other character I do.
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In fact, Raven's challenge is in high action sequences
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to maintain the voice
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because if you get too excited,
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you can't keep that guttural roll.
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So I would say less nasal, more natural.
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Sit back a little bit on the roll
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and just like let it flow,
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but you can see like, acting wise,
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she's in the right pocket.
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It's super close.
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She could play Raven.
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I know this isn't my style,
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but we just kicked Slade's butt,
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shouldn't we celebrate or something?
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- Evil be where we have waffles,
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azarath metrion zinthos.
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I know it isn't really my style,
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but we just kicked Slade's butt,
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shouldn't we celebrate or something?
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- It's the same sort of category as Brizzy
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where it's just a little bit too forced,
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a little bit too nasal.
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If you just sit back,
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it's also a great impression, by the way,
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but if she just sits back on a little bit
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and doesn't push so hard or tries so hard.
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There's no pinch sound when you do Raven.
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When you do Timmy Turner there's a pinch sound.
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But when you do Raven, there's no pinch sound.
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Raven almost needs to sound like
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it's a chore to speak, it's boring.
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So if you sound pushed,
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or you sound like you're trying to be a teenager
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or you sound upbeat,
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it's not gonna sound like Raven.
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And you really have to think about