And when I got into High School and after High School. But I started doing theater when I was in grade school. You have a really unique speaking voice! Do you feel you were born to do this pretty much? Where you pushed into this career or steered into it somehow? ( does voice) You have to find ways to make it easier on yourself. If you’re working on a character like initially Mokona in xxxHolic/ Tsubasa: RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE. Some of the ways that I learned to warmup in school, I still use some of those tricks to warm up my voice.
In theater school, I learned about how to free up the voice and how to support it so that you’re not damaging things. And I have 30 to 45 minutes of stretching that I also do, prior to going to any audition or voice work. In New York, the difference is I have to do that in my bathroom and I don’t have as much time! So, I don’t get to do all the singing with it. I used to do that in my car and I had a lot of time because it was LA and there was traffic. Like, if I’m going to play an old lady, it’s going to a different place in my whole system. And then I would do all the characters because the way they speak was different, the placement was all different. I did that, I sang, and I used different parts of my voice when I was singing in different placements. So, that I could warm up the softest kind of voice, ( does voices) down to the low part. I would go from highest to lowest and I would do all these little snippets of all these characters in a row. Some of them were from classes I took and some of them were actually characters that I did. And then I developed like this list of about twelve characters. When I was in LA, I used to have these these certain CDs that I would sing with in my car to warm up my voice. Yes, this kind of applies to my theater auditions also. What kind of rituals do you have when you go into a booth? Do you have something you do every time, where if you don’t do it you feel off for the rest of the day?
The Walking Dead Character Database: TV Series.Fantasia International Film Festival 2020.