Stop hiring celebrities and bring back real voice actors!

[theemii]

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"for the vast majority of animation's history, professional voice actors were hired to bring the characters to life. but in the 21st century that's changed, with celebrities being cast instead for their name recognition to be used as a marketing tactic. this has resulted in chris pratt, james corden, jack black, and awkwafina dominating the voice

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[vibeology_e]

I would just be happy if they stopped putting Chris Pratt in everything.

[coquettishkat]

anything* :)

[daredevilwolf]

Patrick Seitz is a voice actor and he's got a great voice

seriously most of funimations voice actors can do better then live action actors

another reason to hate chris rock is when he said voice acting was the easiest thing in the world

that's just because you have no talent chris

some of your favorite voice actors

[daredevilwolf]

Patrick Seitz

Todd Haberkorn

E G Daily

Kevin Conroy

Collen Clinkenbeard

Christopher Sabbatt

Just to name a few

What about you guys?

Re: some of your favorite voice actors

[boodilly]

Billy West!

Re: some of your favorite voice actors

[deerlike]

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John DiMaggio

Maurice LaMarche

Phil LaMarr

Lauren Tom

Re: some of your favorite voice actors

[m14mouse]

Ray Chase

Erica Lindbeck

Yuri Lowenthal

Johnny Yong Bosch

Sean Chiplock

James Arnold Taylor

[bttrsondaughter]

people have been saying the “this wouldn’t have been a problem if they just hired real voice actors” in regards to Bill Hader and Mindy Kaling not returning to Inside Out 2 bc they were lowballed and like. do people think regular voice actors would have been compensated anything even close to what Hader and Kaling were offered and turned down? how many voice actors Disney has screwed over its history and how they would gladly still be doing it now?

[sandstorm]

oh my god please and it's not just Awkwafina and Chris Pratt. Kung Fu Panda 4 had Viola Davis and Ke Huy Quan and they are wonderful actors but they are not voice actors. Brian Cranston was pushing it. I think Wild Robot is doing slightly better. Even smaller features have to do this because that's probably how they get the funds.

I do think people can learn and work with the craft but when you don't change the intonation of your voice at all, you're wasting our time.

[genbu_no_miko24]

Funny enough Bryan Cranston started out his career doing voice acting!

[sandstorm]

And we have to divorce our bias from reality; Yes the first time you heard Puss In Boots was 20 years ago in Shrek 2, so we're inclined to think Antonio Banderas is a voice actor, but lbr he's not. We're just used to it (and he does fine).

[tsukino]

IA They voice is icon in that role and we should remember that. Same as some actors and actresses are iconic in a movie role/as a character. But it doesn't mean they are a good actress or actor, or should go on acting.