You're listening to Voice Acting Mastery, episode number 154.

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In each episode of this podcast, you'll discover valuable tips, tricks and insider information

to help you portray characters in animation, video games and beyond.

And now here's your host, voice actor Crispin Freeman.

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

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Welcome to the first part of my interview with the stunningly multifaceted Julie Nathanson.

You may recognize Julie from her performances as Samantha Maxis in Call of Duty,

Silver Banshee and Julie in Suicide Squad Heldepe, Jess Black in Far Cry 5,

Captain Scarlet Turner in Elena of Avalore, and Crimson Widow in Avengers

Assemble. Not only is Julie an accomplished voice actress, but she's also a professional

screenwriter as well. She was a staff writer and then executive story editor on the NBC TV series

Just Deal, where she was nominated for a Writers Guild Award for one of

her episodes. She's written and consulted on games such as guildlings, an RPG currently available

on Apple Arcade, and Vader Immortal, a Star Wars VR series. If that weren't enough, she also has a master's degree in clinical psychology.

Julie's interests are wide and far-ranging, which is one of the reasons I was so eager

to interview her on the podcast.

In the first part of our discussion, we go all the way back to the beginning, when Julie

was only six years old, to find out where

her fascination with acting comes from. She shares with me the story of her first time on stage,

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