Meet a Legend with Lauren Tom

Avatar: Braving the Elements

Nickelodeon

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

4.9 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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You know her as one of the smiling guides of Ba Sing Se, but you probably know her for a lot of other amazing roles. It’s Lauren Tom! The voice of Joo-Dee joins Janet and Dante to continue the streak of voice artists appearing on Braving the Elements to prove once again that the Avatarverse has featured some of the kindest, funniest, and most humble superstars in the business. Lauren talks about her career not just in voiceover, but as an on-screen actor, accomplished writer, mother, and we celebrate her stellar representation as part of the Asian artistic community. We hope she inspires you as much as she inspired us! 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 Avatarverse. I'm Janet Varney. And I'm Dante Bosco. And Varney, I hate
0:30.8	to pet ourselves in the back, but we've done it again. We managed to get another voice over
0:35.6	legend on our podcast. Someone I've known since my days of Jake Long, the American Dragon.
0:42.2	First of all, I want to say I love that you managed to get in one of your own credits in that.
0:46.1	I love that you managed to also compliment the podcast as part of the introduction for this
0:51.2	legend in question. You're a band after my own heart. But why don't we elaborate a little bit
0:55.8	more on how this legend that we're talking about fits into the Avatarverse. And then we'll bring
1:01.2	her into the conversation. Okay. What if I told you she might have given us a breezy tour of
1:06.6	Bossing Say. Aha. Okay. All right. Okay. I'm going to guess. And not just because we booked her
1:12.7	in advance, and I'm staring at her lovely face right now, as I say these words, I'm going to go ahead
1:16.8	and guess it's Lauren Tom, otherwise known as Judy. Judy. Hello. Thank you so much for being on
1:24.5	the podcast. Oh, it's my pleasure. You got Nickelodeon was so smart to choose you guys to host
1:30.3	this podcast. You're both so adorable. Thank you so much. I want to stop you. You want to adopt us.
1:37.3	I do. Oh, Lauren, you're too busy for that. You have a whole other family and you're like the
1:42.0	workingest woman in show business. You have so many things going on. And some people out there
1:46.2	know that you are my mom. That's true. True. Yes. I got to play Dante's mom twice.
1:53.1	Twice. Yes. And American Dragon Jake Long and a pilot we did together that didn't get picked up,
1:58.6	but it was such a good pilot. It was called the Chang Family Face the World, produced by John Ridley
2:04.2	and Chris Barclay. Yes. And this was on camera. This was an ABC pilot. Somehow Lauren was supposed
2:11.8	to pass as your mom. We were like the Fantastic Four. We were like this family that found out
2:17.7	that we had magical powers. I guess the parents knew the magic powers, but the kids we found out
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