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As someone whose body just...doesn& #39;t always do what they want it to do, that hurts more often than not, that has never quite looked like they want it to look, can I just talk about how FREEING voice acting is????
I absolutely love being onstage and I& #39;m confident in my abilities as a stage actor, but the reality is that appearance plays a certain role (heh) in casting, and my own body& #39;s ability to do what the role requires matters a great deal.
I did The Sound of Music a couple years ago and it was the first musical I had done in years. It was a BEAUTIFUL experience and I& #39;d go back and do it all over again, but it literally took me three months to recover after it closed because it was so physically demanding.
I& #39;m a runner, I lift, I used to box, I walk a lot, I& #39;m generally pretty active, but still...there& #39;s a certain amount of OOMPH that a stage performance requires that is very challenging for my body.
Voice acting is gentler on me. It& #39;s so freeing.
Voice acting is gentler on me. It& #39;s so freeing.
I don& #39;t have to pop three Aleve and soak in an epsom salt bath and ice all my joints the next morning after I record, you know? I can give my all in a vocal performance and be exhausted afterwards, but I can still MOVE afterwards. It& #39;s amazing.
I still want to go onstage sometimes, I& #39;d still like to do a musical here and there. Musical theatre is where I started, that& #39;s where my roots are. But voice acting really lets me soar, and without the physically painful consequences.
All this to say: it& #39;s amazing, as someone with chronic pain, to have this space to do my thing.
And it& #39;s amazing that it& #39;s just...me, my voice, what I can do with it, that& #39;s what I& #39;m judged on. I was told some very unkind things in high school and college about my body and general appearance that really hit my confidence and held me back for a long time.
And now, in large part due to getting the kind of roles I& #39;ve always WANTED to play but rarely if ever GOT to, my confidence has gone way up! Funny how that works!
I hope this translates more and more to visual mediums.
I hope this translates more and more to visual mediums.
