Hello, Odyssey fans, I'm Bob.

And I'm Jesse. Welcome to the official Adventures in Odyssey podcast.

Coming up on the podcast, we're talking to Mia Lynn Mangoonan, voice of Darcy.

Darcy is bright, fun,

and goofy. She first showed up in an episode titled Hurricane Perkins. And she'll be in another adventure coming up in Album 80. We chatted with Mia Lynn about acting, auditioning, comedy,

serious scenes, and what it's like to jump into Odyssey. Let's hear that now.

Welcome to the podcast, Mia Lynn. Hello. All right. So let's hop in our own imagination station

and go back to the first time that you thought, oh, hey, acting is fun.

So were you in a class, a school play, an audition, something else?

Like, what was it?

The first time I thought acting was fun, it was probably when I filmed my first big show

because it was like one of my first glimpses into acting.

And it was on this huge downstage and I got to wear a cool costume with my hair and makeup

done. And everyone was really nice to me, so I thought that was really fun. Wow. That's a great way

to start. You got the role of Darcy through an audition. What can you tell us about that experience? Oh, yeah. I remember recording the audition at home, actually, in my closet because it was during COVID. Right. Right. How many auditions do you have in, you know, a typical month? And when you're auditioning, is there anything that you do to kind of stay focused and relaxed? Right now, it's been kind of slow because the holidays just finished.

So around like one to two and to feel relaxed during auditions, I just like to take deep breaths, like in and out and just go with the flow.

Well, that's, yeah, a great attitude to have.

So, okay, let's fast forward in our imagination station adventure to your first day. So you landed the role as Darcy in the episode titled Hurricane Perkins. What was that first session like? And was there anything that surprised you most when you were in the booth? Yeah. it was one of my first recording since COVID where I was actually in the booth.

And what really surprised me when I was there was that I got to record with all the other actors

because I was just so used to recording at home or like in a booth by myself.

Yeah.

Well, Darcy as a character, she is social.

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