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For characters who don't yet have voices, or for characters who don't have a very good voice actor (say, in games where they're not really used much), or even characters from your own writing, who would be most suitable?

Also, you can put actors into real life positions of characters from videogames/anime and your own work. That's what this is all about.

For my vampire character who looks and acts a lot like Alucard from Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, I'd choose someone like Brian Drummond who plays Zechs Marquise in Gundam Wing. Don't you think this guy's voice would suit Alucard, Hypno?
Zechs - Tallgeese Destroyed.

For my pirate, it would be someone like Jude Law (only voice wise). If you could imagine Jude Law at least voice acting a flamboyant young pirate captain, blonde, and who's good with the ladies.

For my Northern, Scandinavian-type warrior (who's friends with the pirate), both in voice and facially, Kiefer Sutherland.

I'm hoping Jasta will like this thread.... smile

I don't mean Jude Law as in how he looks, I mean just his voice. It's very smooth and cultured and that's how my pirate sounds. You just have to add a bit of a seafaring accent on to it (no - not "arrgh Jim Laad!" style). You'd understand more if you could hear me. We must find a way to do this....

I know what you meant Mel! It's just that because I don't like Jude Law, I can't really remember what he sounds like. I think, from what little I remember, that his voice isn't as cool as other voices I've heard.

And yes, it would be cool for us to chat on messenger. If you keep logging in on it next week, I'm gonna make sure to attach a mike to this computer and look you up. 3nodding

I'm glad Jasta came, saw and liked this thread. mrgreen

BTW, I still have no idea who could play any of my characters yet. I don't concentrate on their voices until after the whole story is done. And even then, sometimes I forget to figure out what they could sound like. sweatdrop

I saw that movie cuz it seemed interesting. I certainly didn't see just cuz he was in it!
Well, if that's the sort of voice yer character should have, then who am I to argue? mrgreen

But he has had a voice!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66qUm2ypmIE

Ahhh... eighties cartoons!

As for my own characters, I guess I haven't really thought about who would voice them, though I certainly have imagined their voices. My RPG characters tend to have some variation of my own voice, but that's mainly because I play them around the gaming table and voice them myself, anyway. And, similarly, the other characters in the group, for the most part, have my friends' voices (unless there's cross-play involved).

For some reason, I don't really tend to cast real people as the voices of or even the whole person of my character (for some reason, I tend to imagine stuff as cartoons). But at the same time, I tend to want to cast voices or actors for fiction that I read. I have, of late, taken to wanting to put Ewan McGreggor's voice to Danilo Thann from Forgotten Realms (not his native Scottish accent, though; the one he used for Obi-Wan).

Berz.

He did an even more phenomenal job in Big Fish, but the southern US accent isn't anywhere close to what I think of for Danilo, so...

On a somewhat related note, as it, too, involves voices, has anyone ever imagined a tune for poems in books that are supposed to be songs? I got to thinking about it a little bit when I was going over some parts of LoTR again. There's one song in particular that Aragorn and Legolas are both supposed to sing parts of and it got me thinking about how they would each sing their versus. Aragorn strikes me as a baritone and Legolas seems like he would be a tenor.

Berz.

Well, it was basically by way of bringing up another sort of voice to talk about; singing voice. It can sometimes be very different from a character's speaking voice, depending on circumstances. It's applicable to bard characters.

Berz.

Please don't mention Jude Law again. I still haven't gotten over that scene in Sleuth where he says "witty" in a peculiar way over and over again. rofl

Finding one to play one of my major characters, an assassin, would be pretty hard. The closest you can get is Gackt Camui, a Japanese singer and actor, the way he looks when playing Uesugi Kenshin. Even he isn't quite perfect, but close enough. Actually, the one who could portray my assassin almost perfectly is in fact a woman - Li Gong. She scared the crap out of my friend and me in her role as Hatsumomo from Memoirs of a Geisha because she reminded us so much of my assassin, both appearance and personality wise. He's a bit androgynous-looking but not that much, unfortunately.

Johnny Depp could play my assassin, but at the same time not. Haha. sweatdrop

My main character is also hard. I'd say Cate Blanchett would be perfect for her if she coloured her hair white; however, they'd have to make her shorter as my main character is barely above 1,50 m. Natalie Portman could also work, but Cate's voice suits my main character better. Her face, too, I think.

There is one who is absolutely perfect for one of my "middle" characters: Jeremy Irons. He'd be wonderful in the role as one of my earls, both when it comes to appearance and voice. Even if M - the earl - should change and Irons no longer fits as that character, I'd make a character form him to play. He's one of my favourite actors, can you tell? Only reason I watched Eragon.