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In a world where cat videos and memes rule the feeds,
one media company will rise above the noise,
this is Great Big Story.
Okay, Redd, that was great.
Thank you. You got it.
Yeah, that was great. Cool.
You can stop speaking like that now though.
What do you mean?
This is how I always speak.
Okay, cut!
My name is Redd Pepper, I'm a voice over artist.
In the UK, I voice hundreds of movie trailers,
"Men in Black," saving the Earth from the scum of the universe.
"Blair Witch Project," "Armageddon,"
"Space Jam," "Mr. Bean's Holiday,"
so many, I forget half of them, to be honest with you.
I started doing television adverts,
animations, audio books, I do a lot of video games as well
and a lot of them are sound effects,
a goose in the background.
(donkey braying)
(roaring)
Mr. Bean.
When I first started doing movie trailers,that was fun:
one man, coming soon to a cinema near you.
Sometimes I do romantic movies . . . in a sleepy town;
sometimes I'm doing horror . . . don't answer the door!
You've got to use your voice;
you've got to raise it sometimes;
and you've gotta take it to the depths.
Very occasionally I get recognized,
but generally no, but the time I do get recognized,
the phone goes off on the train, guaranteed.
Hello, and people look up from behind the newspapers.
The way I got into being a voice artist was kind of strange,
I used to drive trains on the London Underground;
one morning I was making my announcements,
all stations (passengers) to Harrow, mind the doors.
A television executive was a passenger on my train;
he got off at the next stop,
ran up to my cab, we exchanged details;
and the rest is history.
I've had some strange experiences as a voice artist,
I was doing a trailer for "Jurassic Park, The Lost World,"
Steven Spielberg movie and, kindly, they chose me to do the voice in the UK.
Something is coming, something big!
And as I said that, a voice in my headphones said,
"Wow, that's a great voice!"
And I didn't recognize it was Steven Spielberg,
he was listening in from the States into London.
Well I swore, I said, who the (expletive) is that?
Everybody went crazy in the studio,
"Shh, shh, no, it's Spielberg on the set!"
I appreciate what I do;
I'm still meticulous about what I do;
I'm still proud of what I do.
I really don't look at it as a job.
I'm having fun. It really is a cool job;
it's gotta be up there with one of the coolest jobs on the planet.
Right, you got it?
Cool, I'm out of here.
Oh, that's a wrap.