Greg Ellis, host of Quillette Narrated, talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about his career as a voice actor

Quillette Podcast

Quillette

Society & Culture, Politics, News, Science, News Commentary

4.6 • 917 Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Voice actor Greg Ellis talks to Jonathan Kay about working with the producers of Dragon Age, Call of Duty and God of War, and the difference between voicing video game characters and cartoon characters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Colette Podcast. My name is Claire Lehman and I am editor and chief of Colette.
0:08.0	Colette is where Free Thought lives. We are an independent grassroots platform for heterodox ideas and fearless commentary.
0:15.3	Our podcast is a team effort and is jointly hosted by myself,
0:18.8	associate editor Toby Young and Canadian editor Jonathan Kay.
0:22.4	You can support our podcast by
0:24.1	visiting Patreon.com forward slash quilette and becoming a monthly patron. By
0:29.1	becoming a monthly patron you'll also receive our weekly newsletter.
0:32.4	Welcome to the quilat patron you'll also receive our weekly newsletter.
0:34.0	Welcome to the Quillett Podcast.
0:36.0	I'm your host for today's episode, Jonathan Kay.
0:39.0	As many of you have noticed, no doubt, this is no longer the only Quilett podcast.
0:44.7	Along with my co-hosts, Claire and Toby, I'm now sharing the Quilett Airwaves with Greg Ellis,
0:50.1	the host of our new Quilett Narrated Podcast.
0:53.0	On Quilett narrated, Greg takes the best of the articles that appear on our Quilett.com website
0:59.0	and brings them to life with the skill of a veteran voice actor.
1:03.2	So on this episode of the regular everyday Colette podcast, we thought we'd take listeners
1:07.9	into the studio to meet Greg and learn some of the backstory on what it takes to bring characters to life in everything from hit
1:14.6	video games such as Dragon's Age to children's cartoons, to spoken word versions of our own
1:20.2	quillette essays. Greg spoke to me from his home studio in California. Here are excerpts from that conversation.
1:27.0	So Greg, I see pictures of you on the internet where you're speaking at conventions and meeting fans and stuff like that.
1:36.2	And obviously there are some subcultures of entertainment where you're a real celebrity.
1:42.1	When you go to a convention, what are you best known for?
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