Meet the Cast: Cricket Leigh ("Mai")

Avatar: Braving the Elements

Nickelodeon

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

4.9 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Delight in this conversation with the incredibly warm and energetic Cricket Leigh, whom you also know as the voice of the significantly less warm and energetic Mai! Janet and Cricket sit down for a chat about the Avatarverse and its emotional depth, digging into how Cricket became a part of the show-- even as she wrestled with doubts about her own magnificent voice! Find out Cricket's thoughts on shipping and bending, Ty Lee and Azula, and of course, a certain moody hero whose name starts with a "Z." See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	Hello, friends! Welcome to Braving the Elements Nickelodeon's podcast about all things Avatar
0:26.1	I'm Janet Varney and I got to break the news that our dear Dante Bosco is still working on
0:33.2	location and he could not be here today but have no fear, he will be back my friends. Also, I
0:40.6	100% know and I take no pleasure in this. I know he is super bummed to be missing this conversation.
0:47.3	For a couple of reasons, both of them have to do with the same person. Number one, he loves this
0:51.6	person. Number two, this is also a sometimes Zuko lady friend that we're going to be talking to.
0:58.7	So he is super bummed to miss it. I mean, I can try to talk like Dante a little bit. It's never good.
1:06.0	If I try to, no, I should let it. Okay, I'm going to let that go. So I have her all to myself.
1:12.8	Please welcome fan favorite character, sometimes Zuko lady friend, voice behind me,
1:17.6	cricketly. Yeah, thank you for having me. And I thought your Dante impression was spot on.
1:24.1	Fire Nation. It's rough. Fire Nation forever. You're always safe. You're always safe. You say
1:28.5	Fire Nation. You're also totally safe if you say that's rough, buddy. This is very exciting for
1:35.7	me because while I am very familiar with you and I got to see the wonderful Avatar panel that
1:42.6	Dante and company pulled together during the pandemic, you and I have never had a face-to-face
1:49.6	computer to computer conversation. It feels long overdue. I'm so happy. It's not fair at all.
1:53.9	In fact, I think it's illegal. I think this is amazing. Who can we blame? Who do we want to blame?
1:59.8	Yes, but I am so excited. I know to get to see you even like this. It's really awesome. And
2:05.8	of course, I'm a huge fan of yours. So this is mutually beneficial.
2:11.0	Geez. Well, we've been looking forward to book two, basically since the beginning of book one,
2:15.7	because like the fans who tweet at us, they're like, when are cricket? When's the living? When's
2:20.9	gray? We're like, but hey, it's the second book. So, you know, it's kind of chronological.
2:26.9	And so we've just been like counting down like, okay, yes, we can satisfy ourselves, satisfy the
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