Lauren Tom on Voice Acting, Joo Dee, and more!

Avatar: Braving the Elements

Nickelodeon

Animation & Manga, Tv & Film, Leisure, After Shows

4.9 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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We're joined by Lauren Tom, the multi-talented actor and voice artist who brought to life Joo Dee, the smiling guide of Ba Sing Se and so many other memorable characters. Listen as Janet and Dante chat with Lauren about her prolific career in voiceover and on-screen acting, her success as a writer, mother, and being such a prominent figure in the Asian artistic community. In this captivating rebroadcast, Lauren shares her journey and insights into the entertainment industry, showcasing the qualities that make her a superstar. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	Hello friends, benders and non-benders alike. Welcome to Braving the Elements Nickelodeon's
0:24.9	podcast about all things Avatar vs. I'm Janet Varney and I'm Dante Bosco. Now one of the biggest
0:31.5	gets we got this season on Braving the Elements was this absolute legend of a voice actress.
0:37.0	Yes, who I've known since my days on the American Dragon Jake Long. Oh, really got your slidger
0:42.2	other credits in there, huh? Well, she played my mom twice. That's that's history. Absolutely,
0:48.0	it absolutely is. Friends, we are so excited to resurface one of the most iconic voices of the Avatar
0:53.1	vs. She played Judy who was the ever-so-polite front woman of Bossing Say's conspiracies,
0:58.4	the wonderful Lauren Tom. Hello. Thank you so much for being on the podcast. Oh, it's my pleasure.
1:08.2	You got Nickelodeon was so smart to choose you guys to host this podcast. You're both so adorable.
1:13.9	Thank you so much. I want to stop you. You want to adopt us? I do. Oh, Lauren, you're too busy for
1:20.7	that. You have a whole other family and you're like the workingest woman in show business. You
1:25.1	have so many things going on. And some people out there know that you are my mom. That's true.
1:31.2	Yes, I got to play Dante's mom twice. Twice. Yes. And American Dragon Jake Long and a pilot we
1:38.0	did together that didn't get picked up, but it was such a good pilot. It was called the Cheng Family
1:42.3	Face the World, produced by John Ridley and Harris Barclay. Yes. And this was on camera.
1:49.8	This was an ABC pilot somehow Lauren was supposed to pass as your mom. We were like the fantastic
1:56.7	four. We were like this family that found out that we had magical powers. I guess the parents
2:00.8	knew they had magic powers, but the kids we found out that we had magic powers and we had to save
2:04.4	the world. Yeah, our family kicked, but we were awesome. We were awesome for sure. We're at the
2:10.3	Cheng Family saves the world. We'll see if we can find that out. I was going to say we got to get
2:14.1	our hands on that. Oh, beautiful beauty. That's going to be so okay. So we just talked about two
2:18.8	things. Lauren, I'm going to throw out some fandoms. I'm going to throw out some projects
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