Hey guys, welcome to Steel Wars. I am comedian Steel Saunders and I do love Star Wars. Please enjoy this classic clip which is available in full at patreon.com forward slash steel wars.

So how did you break into doing voice acting?

Just by the virtue of the fact that I just kept pestering people about it wherever I worked.

When I worked with Richard Edland, you know, at his visual effects company, they would be working on stuff where, you know they were working on early uh motion um what

motion simulator uh ride films you know like star tours yeah they would do those and uh and they

were working on uh producing early video games and by early i mean not the ones you play at

home the ones that would go into the arcades uh So I would always volunteer to do a scratch track,

which is a temporary voice track for things like that. So I got kind of a reputation. Because

when I wasn't doing that, I was going around pestering everybody by doing, you know, impressions

of like Kerry Grant and things like that, you know, going around, you know, having conversations

and character voices.

So everybody knew that I was kind of like into that.

And at the time was your Star Wars game strong?

Were you doing good Star Wars voices?

No, you know, I was just doing a lot of, you know, I was really into, I was studying a lot of films.

So I was watching a lot of classic movies and studying how not only the acting was done at that time period, because as a friend of mine who was an acting and a voice teacher,

and we would watch films specifically to look for different actors' performances. So I was

watching a lot of classic stuff. And prior to working for Richard at Boss, I was working a little

place on Seward Street in Hollywood.

And Seward Street is, you know, between Santa Monica and Melrose. It's all little motion

picture companies. Everything there has something to do with the industry. Animator Bob Clampett

has had his studio. Joe Westheimer, who had done the

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