Rehearsals Make A Huge Difference.

You Grow Up Latin In This Country And You're A Third Class Citizen From The Word Go, And So You Have To Deal With Everything Around You From That Point Of View And Trying To Feel Entitled.

But When You Are Doing An Animated Voice, It Has To Have More Energy Than Usual Or It Falls Flat And Doesn't Work. For Myself, I Found That I Had To Put Myself In The Same Physical Or Emotional State As Sid, In Order To Make That Voice Sound Alive And Authentic. So If There Was A Scene In Which He Was Running, I Would Be Running Beforehand To Sound Out Of Breath. That's Important Because The Audience Can Tell Intuitively If It Does Not Sound Real.

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Well I Was About To Be Expelled From School, I Had Been Arrested And A Teacher Said: "why Don't You Try Acting, Instead Of Distracting The Class? Why Don't You Use Your Comic Talent For Something More Productive?" My Maths Teacher Suggested I Do Comedy And I Decided To Have A Go. I Pursued It After That. I Was About 17.

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