You're listening to Voice Acting Mastery episode number 48.

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insider information to help you portray characters in animation, video games and beyond. And now

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Hi there, my name is Crispin Freeman, and I'll be your guide through the world of voice acting.

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This week, I bring you the third part of my interview with the amazingly talented Steve Bloom.

In the past two episodes, Steve has told me how he approaches voice acting, as well as his rather unconventional

story about how he broke into the business. For this episode, Steve graciously shared some of the

greatest challenges he faced as a voice actor. Actors are not always comfortable discussing when they've had difficulties pursuing their

career. It can be a sore subject. So I'm especially grateful that Steve was willing to be

so honest and candid about what it took for him to overcome some of the obstacles he faced.

I found it incredibly inspiring, and I'm sure you will too.

And now, the feature segment.

So that is fascinating to me that I didn't realize that you were still basically holding down sort of a day job while you were working on Cowboy Bebop.

40 hours plus, sometimes 60 hours plus.

Wow.

Yeah.

And the Big O came pretty soon after that, didn't it? Because

I remember that. I remember hearing you in Cowboy Bebop and then hearing you in the Big O. And then I came out to Los Angeles and we started working on shows together. So at some point, you made the switch from doing voice over part time to doing it fulltime. Was that part of that, you said that mindset

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