You're listening to Voice Acting Mastery, episode number 158.

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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 part two of my interview with the voice of Porky Pig himself, Bob Bergen.

While Bob is most famous for playing Porky, he's also played many other Looney Tunes characters,

including Tweedy, Marvin the Martian, Speedy Gonzalez, and Sylvester Jr.

He's also done work on Disney animated movies, the Star Wars games, and anime as well.

His resume is long and varied,

and he's been nominated for an Emmy Award three times. Bob has been teaching voice acting classes since 1987, and is a wealth of information and experience. I'm very grateful he spent so

much time talking with us. In the first part of our interview, Bob shared the story of how he broke into voice acting.

Ever since he was a kid, Bob wanted to play the voice of Porky Pig, and he was relentless in the pursuit of his goal.

Before the advent of the internet and easy access to information online, Bob was resourceful enough

to use whatever means at his disposal to research famous voice actors and to learn about

recording studios. His path into the voice acting world is a clear demonstration that

almost anything is possible if you truly set your mind to it. In this episode, Bob and I talk about what inspired him to become a performer in the first place.

It turns out, he can't imagine himself doing anything else.

This is a common refrain I hear from actors.

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