Cast interviews?
RedGuard
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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.
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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.
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.