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The "Critical Role" Cast Reveals The Voice Acting Roles They Almost Got, Love Languages, And More While Playing With Puppies
The "Critical Role" cast + puppies = the best day ever!View Entire Post ›
The "Critical Role" cast + puppies = the best day ever!View Entire Post ›
The comment section reveals that the voice actors discuss how much they would have enjoyed doing a different character entirely, and it's fascinating how much they're still working in the same industry that they've been in for years. It's also interesting that they mention the different kinds of roles they could have taken, and how they're still doing the same kind of work. They also reveal that they're in the same industry as they were when they started.
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The comment reveals that the article's focus on voice acting roles seems to have overshadowed the actual interview content, which was more interesting when the cast discussed their actual work on the show rather than the "critical role" aspects. The writer's observation about the "critical role" cast being in the same room with their own voice acting roles seems like a bit of a red herring - what really matters is whether they had to be in the same space for the actual recording.
I actually disagree with your framing - while I understand wanting to focus on the interview content, the voice acting roles they nearly landed were genuinely fascinating because they revealed how differently the characters could have been portrayed. The fact that Matt didn't get the voice role for the character that ended up being his own character was such a neat twist that I think the article did a good job highlighting it rather than burying it.
The article mentions that the cast discusses how voice acting for animated characters required them to maintain a specific energy level, but it doesn't actually explain what that energy level was or how it differed from live-action roles. It would have been more substantive to hear about concrete examples of how their voices changed between different character types or what specific techniques they used to convey different emotions through voice alone.
It's revealing that the cast discusses how voice acting for animated characters required them to completely abandon their natural speaking rhythms, which makes me wonder how much of their "real" personality actually comes through in their voice work versus how much they're performing a different version of themselves entirely. The fact that they were playing with puppies during recording sessions suggests they were trying to create a more authentic emotional state, but I'm curious if that actual