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all right my name is Brian Drummond and
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this is my five Question Interview
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number one how do you expand your range
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as a voice actor how do I expand and do
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you study accents or voice
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qualities I copy it's a great thing to
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do copy steal do whatever you can use
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listening to other actors uh
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performances other voices other accents
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online watching programs from other
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countries like British television
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Australian television European
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television listening to the accents and
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finding ways to use your own instrument
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to create those so it's a lot of copying
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and back and forth and listening and
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recreating and using my own little phone
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just to play with things all the time
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that's part of what I do and I do study
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accents and other voice qualities that
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way um what's your routine for taking
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care of your voice especially during
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demanding projects it is tough
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especially Dragon Ball Z that type of
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screaming and fighting Warhammer playing
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Orcs all those type of things I've done
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before the best care and maintenance is
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rest when you scream which is hard to do
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when you have a lot of bookings but
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hydration is probably the number one
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thing the more you can lubricate and
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hydrate your vocal cords your instrument
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to keep those vocal flaps um uh
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lubricated is is important and if you
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can't do that you have to rest it's the
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only way to sort of repair any kind of
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damage you done cuz when you've done cuz
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when you scream it's damaging
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lubricating and rest those are the the
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two things when signing autographs what
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quotes are quotes are you asked for the
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most I'm wearing one on my hat right now
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oi Vegeta from Dragon Ball Z it's it's
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9,000 that one I get asked for a lot and
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um ryuk this character from Death Note
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humans are so interesting is a very
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popular one as well but there's all
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every fan has some unique ones as well
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what's the most surprising Direct
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a director has ever given you during a
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session that's funny I can't think of a
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surprising Direction but I remember a
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surprising sequence when I was on Dragon
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Ball Z and had to scream for an
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extremely long sequence so Vegeta's
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mouth is open screaming and we're
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dubbing this so his mouth has to stay
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open my scream has to stay long I found
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it difficult to keep that scream going
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Barry Watson who was the producer on the
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show at that time said Brian I've got
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this this box of donuts in here and I
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know it's getting close to lunch I'm
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going to offer up some of those donuts
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to you if you can just try one or two
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more times to get that scream to extend
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as long as you could I didn't really
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want the donuts but I really wanted to
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finish screaming and somehow that
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direction managed to help me get through
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the long scream without them having to
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Loop it and to make it work I don't just
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work for donuts but you know as a
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Canadian a Tim bit or two will help me
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get through um do you use hook lines to
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get into character at the start of your
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sessions or other methods to make sure
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you maintain consistency yeah we do
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usually um almost every show pre-lay or
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dubbing the the engineers and the and
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the directors will have a voice ref for
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our character so that means a voice
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reference they keep a little clip of a
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certain line or two where they think
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your voice is sitting right in the
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pocket and if they feel you're drifting
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or they want to hear it right before you
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start the session or I want to hear it
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they want to hear it and say can you
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play my ref I feel like I'm drifting or
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can you play my ref before we start they
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get it in their heads I get it in mine
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and we go from there it's usually not a
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specific line but it's a specific thing
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that they found that works for them um
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and they liked the most and lastly you
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can find me on Instagram Brian Drummond
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vo as in voiceover and I'm also on
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Twitter X Brian Drummond vo as well
