You're listening to Voice Acting Mastery, episode number 188.

Welcome to the Voice Acting Mastery podcast with Crispin Freeman.

Voiceactingmastery.com is your place to learn both the skills and the mindset you need to become a professional voice actor, even if you're just getting started.

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.

If you'd like to know more about me, feel free to check out my personal website at www.crispinfreeman.com.

Regular listeners to the podcast may recognize the name and voice of my next guest from the

lovely comments that he called in and left for my 10th anniversary podcast episode.

I'm talking about the talented, ambitious, and industrious Paul Castro Jr.

Paul has extensive experience performing on stage, on camera, and in front of the microphone.

You can hear his voice acting work in the Square Enix game, Neo, The World Ends with You,

where he plays the lead character Rindo Kanade.

He also plays the character of Dragon in the award-winning anime film Bell.

If that wasn't enough, imagine my surprise to discover that Paul worked with me

on the game Lost Judgment, the

Quito files, where I played Quito and Paul played June Sotomoto, a young man who believes

he's actually Quito's son. It was a true pleasure to hear Paul's voice in our scenes together.

In the first part of this interview, Paul shares with us how he got started as an actor.

When Paul was young and growing up in New York and New Jersey, he had no idea what acting even was.

While he was a fan of animation and video games, he never gave much thought to how actors might be providing the voices for the characters that he watched and interacted with.

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