May 2, 2007: Hear from Jess Harnell how his character "Wooton" came to life!
The Official Adventures in Odyssey Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2007
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. This is Jess Harnell, and I am the voice of Wooten Bassett. How you doing? Welcome to the official adventures and Odyssey podcast |
| 0:16.4 | Hey, everyone. I'm Bob editor of Plugged In magazine. Thanks for joining us for another podcast |
| 0:21.3 | I'm Jess the editor of Focus on the Family Clubhouse magazine |
| 0:24.1 | We're your host for this May 2nd 2007 edition coming up later on the podcast |
| 0:28.4 | You'll learn about the making of the episode Odyssey sings a spoof of the television show American Idol |
| 0:33.4 | That was the episode where we first got to hear the surprisingly beautiful singing voice of mailman Wooten Bassett |
| 0:38.1 | That's right, Jess, and speaking of which Wooten is played by the incredibly talented Jess Harnell first up today |
| 0:43.9 | Executive producer Dave Arnold catches up with Jess to give us the scoop on other parts he's played and how he started with adventures |
| 0:49.9 | Odyssey and we'll learn why all cool guys are named Jess right take it away Dave |
| 0:59.4 | Jess Harnell, man of a thousand voices. Well, 999. I'm working on the last one |
| 1:06.7 | What's the last one? I don't know. I haven't figured it out yet. That's why it's not a thousand |
| 1:11.4 | How did you come up with the voice of Wooten? Was there somebody that inspired the voice? |
| 1:15.8 | Was it just something that came to you on the spur of the moment when you were researching the character? |
| 1:20.4 | That's a good question |
| 1:21.2 | I mean this this started just like any other acting job starts for an actor |
| 1:24.3 | You know I went in and I auditioned for it and I think I'd heard the name of ventures in Odyssey |
| 1:29.0 | But I'd never actually heard the show and it just gave this character description of of Wooten |
| 1:33.1 | And it's interesting in animation a lot of the time you like to see a picture |
| 1:37.3 | I remember I did not get to see a picture of him |
| 1:39.1 | So I was kind of running blind as far as what he might sound like and I think I threw out a couple of suggestions |
| 1:43.3 | But just the fact that he was quirky and kind of unusual and I could even tell from the dialogue that he was kind of an odd guy |
| 1:49.4 | You know, I figured that it's just a straight-ahead voice might not work |
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