You're listening to Voice Acting Mastery, episode number 173.

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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 the second and final part of my interview with voice actress and voice director, Lisa Ortiz.

Lisa has worked on such seminal anime series as Record of Lotus War, The Slayers, Revolutionary Girl Utina, and the irresponsible Captain Tyler.

She's also played many characters in Pokemon, in addition to voice directing over 150 episodes of the show.

Lisa and I started voice acting in anime in the late 1990s. But whereas I moved to Los Angeles in late 2001, Lisa has only recently moved to L.A. in late 2019, after having spent the previous years pursuing voice acting and voice

directing in New York City. I've been eager to get Lisa on the podcast to share her East Coast

perspective on voice acting for those of my listeners who may reside closer to the Big Apple

than to Southern California. As we dive deeper into our discussion, I ask what inspired Lisa to become a performer in the first place.

It turns out we both got into acting for very similar reasons.

Lisa's primary motivation for pursuing acting was to understand people better.

She was shy when she was young, and found acting to be a useful way to help her understand other people's

psychologies and motivations.

I, too, was an incredibly shy person, who didn't always understand the emotional physics of how people related to each other.

Role-playing as different characters and different situations gave me a safe space to explore both my own psyche, as well as

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