Few people understand the idiosyncrasies of voicing a character as Corey Burton does. He’s certainly done it long enough, and with “The Book of Boba Fett,” he was presented with the unique challenge of transposing Cad Bane from an animated setting into live action. Naturally, some changes are required in the vocal performance. As Burton explained, “Animation is surrealistic. It was Walt Disney that called it the ‘illusion of life.’ For live action, it’s a cinematic illusion where you are seeing more real human beings as characters, and it’s a different style of performance. It’s more intimate in a way, whereas in animation, it’s a heightened reality; it’s exaggerated.”
Like a true professional, Burton then performed as Cad Bane with a line reading. It doesn’t quite read written out, but it perfectly exemplified what makes a character sound different in animated settings versus live-action ones. When describing how he would talk as Cad Bane in a live-action project, he elaborated, “It becomes a more breathed kind of performance. It’s smaller than life in a way, but it’s a macro. It’s an amplified, quiet, subtle performance. There’s nuance that you don’t do necessarily in an animated performance.”
Of course, the medium wasn’t the only thing that changed. Cad Bane had aged quite a bit in “The Book of Boba Fett” from when audiences had seen him in “The Clone Wars.” That naturally brings its own variations as well, but if there’s anyone up to the challenge of voicing a character multiple ways, it’s Corey Burton.
“Tales of the Jedi” is now available on Disney+.
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