Cast interviews?

RedGuard

Since we're seeing some of the cast return to reprise their roles, would it be possible to have them interviewed about their experience with Baldur's Gate? I'd love to hear from people like David Warner and Kevin Micheal Richardson on their roles of Irenicus and Sarevok both with the original and the new Enhanced Editions. It would be interesting to hear how they and the other actors saw and approached their roles and created lasting characters like Minsc, Jaheira and Viconia etc.

JuliusBorisov

I'd take another 10 videos of "How not to die under the Siege" by Mark Meer

AndrewFoley

bengoshi said:

I'd take another 10 videos of "How not to die under the Siege" by Mark Meer

I'd like to see that too, even though writing them is a stone cold pain in my side.

Fun fact: at one point during the early planning for the SoD announcement, Alveus Malcanter was going to be the emcee.

As for interviews with the Big Names, I'd like to see those too, but the logistics would make it tricky.

BelgarathMTH

They actually might not remember much about doing the job originally. Voice actors try to get as many gigs as possible, and when they have a job, it involves sitting for hours in a studio, reading lines over and over, usually out of story context, and following directions. They listen to info about the character and make up a voice, and then the directors give them instructions to tweak whatever reading they're giving.

I once found out the name of the actor who voiced Jan Jansen and wrote to him asking for some details about influences from other actors. (I thought Jan sounded sort of like Wallace Shawn from Princess Bride, and asked if he had been thinking about Mr. Shawn while performing Jan Jansen.)

He actually wrote me back. He said thank you, he was glad I enjoyed his performance, and he took it as a compliment that I thought he sounded like Mr. Shawn. But, he said he unfortunately didn't remember much about doing the performance. He said he had a lot going on at the time, and that he had moved on to some other career opportunities besides voice acting, and hadn't thought about that Baldur's Gate gig in years. He said he doubted that he was thinking about any other characters or actors when he was reading for Jan. He said he always just made up a voice on the spot, off the top of his head, that he thought fit a character when he was doing a voice-acting job.

EDIT: I learned a lot about the industry by watching the documentary movie "I Know That Voice". It's not free. I watched it through Netflix. Here's a link to a trailer on YouTube if you want to check it out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFKq3J7eLIQ

RedGuard

@AndrewFoley I'm not necessarily picturing full comprehensive and on cam interviews. I'd be happy with a short e-mail or letter with a handful of questions about Baldur's Gate, their work as voice actors etc. Just a little something. Even if, like @BelgarathMTH says, they don't really recall the original, a couple of general questions on what they think of reprising their roles could be interesting.