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Patricia Summersett (Voice of Zelda) Interview | GalaxyCon Oklahoma City 2025
May 25, 2025
I caught up with voice actress Patricia Summersett at GalaxyCon Oklahoma City 2025 for a quickfire 5 Questions interview! Best known as the voice of Princess Zelda in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom, Patricia shared insights from her career in voice acting and more.
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hi my name is Patricia Somerset and this
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is my five question interview
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how do you expand your range as a voice
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actor do you study accents or voice
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qualities great question i do all of
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that um currently for the last couple of
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years I've been expanding uh my vocal
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range and techniques by doing ESTL
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training with an awesome teacher um
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Cynthia Revo does a lot it's it's a very
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well-known uh technique but I find I've
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learned great new things about my the
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anatomy of my voice that have become
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very useful and yes for characters that
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need it and sometimes just on my own
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I'll I'll do accent studies great
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website idea for international dialect
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and archive for all of you aspiring
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voice actors out there it's free free
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resource real people recorded and they
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all do like this basic text and you can
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get uh real accents it's good to use
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like one or two references uh what's
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your routine for taking care of your
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voice especially during demanding
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projects
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sleep hydration got to do those things
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um and I do warm up depending on the
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project and I if I know what range it's
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going to be in and stuff I'll do kind of
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like a 15 to 20 minute warm-up until I
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find that I've hit the range that I need
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to and I feel relaxed about it and
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that's that's sort of what I'll do but
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um generally just in general like any
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muscle kind of keeping it in shape um
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and vocal rest if you're tired there's
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very little you can do other than just
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like take a break unfortunately
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uh when signing autographs what quotes
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are you asked for the most yes please
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there's a quote that I really like from
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Zelda courage need not be remembered for
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it is never forgotten and so I'll write
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uh parts of that one open your eyes
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protect them all from tears in the
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kingdom and I write them in English and
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highen
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what's the most surprising direction a
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director has ever given you during a
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recording session we have that as a
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texture
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i mean everything's a surprise um I
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can't think of something offhand that
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would be so surprising i've gotten
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conflicting directions before i remember
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doing a PECAP session hilariously I had
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one person like a cinematics director go
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"Okay we need you to slow everything way
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way down and like you know take the
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corner here and but get there like take
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like twice the amount of time to get
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there." And then I had the other
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director because they were both
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directors on the same game for the same
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take come up and say "I need you to
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speed everything up we need to get there
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faster." And I was like "How do you even
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do that?" But that's active
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like when you think "Uh do you use hook
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lines to get into character to start
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your sessions or other methods to make
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sure you maintain consistency?" Yes I do
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especially when I'm doing something like
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accent work or something that's like uh
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a bit divergent from my regular um voice
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and vocal quality or resting place uh I
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usually and with theater too I would use
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like hook phrases um something that the
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character will say every time or you
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know if I was doing an Irish accent as
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an example you might do like over the
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top of the phrase and down and like
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start start with that and sort of like
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move into your accent i find yeah uh
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phrases and psychological gestures
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really useful as like like a quick way
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in like a nice little nice little pinch
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into the character uh and you can find
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me on patricia somerset.com is my
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website i'm on Instagram uh at
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somerset and just remember the double t
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and my name um and uh have an awesome
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