You're listening to Voice Acting Mastery, episode number 178.

Welcome to the Voice Acting Mastery podcast with Crispin Freeman.

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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 voice actor, film actor, writer, comedian,

and all-around wonderful guy, Fyodor Chin. You may be familiar with Fio's voiceover work

as Mudmug and World of Warcraft, Mists of Pandaria, Harunobu Adachi and Ghosts of Tsushima,

Lee Sin and League of Legends, and one of my personal favorites, Zenaida in Overwatch. In animation,

he's worked on Cartoon Network's regular show, and on camera he's worked on TV shows such as Nash Bridges,

The Mindy Project, and Jane the Virgin. As of this episode, he's also narrated or contributed

narration to over 100 different audiobooks.

Fio has worked as a performer in so many different mediums, and he brings a great perspective

to the challenges of sustaining a career as a working actor.

In this episode, I begin by asking Fio how he got his start as an actor.

When he was in high school,

Fio saw Dustin Hoffman's performance as the character Willie Lohman in the movie adaptation of Arthur Miller's play, Death of a Salesman. Fio was so fascinated by Hoffman's ability to transform

into a different character, that he wanted to explore that sort of transformational

acting himself. So he decided to pursue acting in any way he could. He started taking drama

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