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Alex Weitzman

Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2012 8:25 am

Joined: 07 Jan 2012 Posts: 21 Location: Southern CA

I was hoping you could shed some light on one of the more interesting tricks that a performance of yours has been subject to, CB. And that would be the "merging" of Lex Luthor and Brainiac during the end of the fourth season of Justice League Unlimited. In the story, Luthor and Brainiac completely unite into one body willingly, and so both yours and Clancy Brown's voices are audible within every line, matching pace and tone exactly. How was this accomplished? I take it you worked together in the same session, but was one actor leading on a line and then the other mimicking the cadences? Or were there actual moments of both of you speaking in tandem? And how did you manage the course of the actual acting through this process?

Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2012 11:46 am

Joined: 14 Dec 2007 Posts: 905 Location: HERE!

Alex Weitzman wrote:

...both yours and Clancy Brown's voices are audible within every line, matching pace and tone...were there actual moments of both of you speaking in tandem? And how did you manage the course of the actual acting through this process?

That was tremendous fun - and along with our characters, Clancy and I solidified a unique professional bond during that session, that continues to this day. Not that we hadn't enjoyed one another's company during previous gigs already (going all the way back to our first Superman and Batman TV animation sessions for WB); but we were both truly delighted to have been written into a melded performance for that particular story arc. It was accomplished in 3 passes: First, playing our characters "normally" and simply covering the tandem character lines as "ourselves"; then mimicking each-other alternately in both character roles; and finally performing the dual-characterization moments side-by-side, in synchronized harmony. It was subsequently up to the writing/production staff and dialog editor to dial-in the appropriate percentages of both recorded individual microphonic perspectives to achieve the desired shading on each line in the final mix.

Though we haven't since been cast to reprise that exact synchronous performance situation, it continues to be a uniquely satisfying joy to be engaged in character dialog together whenever we're cast as scene partners - which happily occurs on a fairly regular basis. More recently, it's been Clancy's "Savage Opress" paired with Count Dooku, as well as other assorted mix'n'match characterizations we've performed together in Clone Wars sessions. ...And there's also Thundercats, and Batman: The Brave & The Bold, and other projects here and there, where we again find ourselves inexplicably thrown back together in sessions of every variety with surprising frequency. It's a modern day equivalent of the kind of Golden Age of Radio Actors' camaraderie that brought the same basic voice casts together time and time again, in a stream of assorted animation and audio productions all along these separate - yet serendipitously linked - "Hollywood Career" journeys. ...Long may this delightful tradition endure!

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