You're listening to Voice Acting Mastery, episode number 157.

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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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We have a very special guest on the podcast today. I'm honored to be able to share with you the first part of my interview with a paragon of the voiceover industry, Bob Bergen.

Bob is most famous for playing the voice of Porky Pig, but his resume is long and varied.

In the world of Looney Tunes, he's also voiced Tweedy, Marvin the Martian, Speedy Gonzalez,

and Sylvester Jr. He's played Bucky the Squirrel in the Disney movie The Emperor's New Groove,

where he had long discussions in squirrel speak with Patrick Warburton's character, Cronk.

Bob also plays the voice of Luke Skywalker in both Star Wars games and in the animated

series Robot Chicken. In anime, you may know his work as Lupin III in the castle of Cagliostro,

and No Face in Miyazaki's Spirited Away. Bob's been nominated for an Emmy three times and is a member of both the Television Academy

and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He's also a firm supporter of his fellow

voice actors by being active in the actors' union, Sag Afterra. In addition to all of his

acting accomplishments, Bob has also been teaching voice acting classes since 1987, and is a wealth of information and experience.

In the first part of our discussion, Bob and I talk about how he broke into voice acting.

He became obsessed with voice acting when he was very young, and at the age of five, he told

his mother that he wanted to be Porky Pig.

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