But generally speaking, it's a very nicely self-contained joke. I've been really lucky to work with some of the most creative people of the last 20 years. I don't remember asking you a goddamn thing. And Genndy Tartakovsky is definitely among that pantheon.
He did something with that cartoon that had never been seen in American animation. The first episode has nine and a half minutes of silence. Everything was [gibbers]. No, he said, I want a show that has action. It also tells a story with everything at our disposal. Not just words. Music, sound, color. And it was also I think groundbreaking in that the characters had no black outlines, which at the time nobody did.
We sat down in the booth and Genndy was there and just sort of you work back and forth with the creator to try to find the voice that he's hearing in his head. The only reason he had an accent was to tie him to his roots and to honor that he was coming from ancient japan. And it was interesting because a few years before I was part of a comedy group that was predominately Japanese called Cold Tofu.
Lot of the folks in the group were, you know, first or second generation Japanese-Americans who had grown up hearing Japanese. And I noticed that they had, not an accent so much as just a way of speaking, which is like oh this is how you speak English if you're hearing Japanese at the same time you're hearing English.
So instead we had a little bit of the accent. There were simply words that he would say in a way that he had heard something differently growing up than you had. I'm alive. Virgil was a 14 year old boy in city of Dakota who accidentally gets superpowers and then becomes a hero. But at the same time, he's also a 14 year old boy. So he's gotta go to school, he's gotta finish his homework. He's gotta deal with his annoying sister.
Since when does your narrow behind play football at all? Who asked you, Miss Nosy? And fight for what's right. That was actually my very first show where I was the main character. And it was the first time that a teenage African-American superhero was the star of his own cartoon. As a comic book person growing up, reading mostly stories that didn't reflect my life, it was so amazing to actually be part of something that did, and Denys Cowan and Alan Burnett and Dwayne McDuffie, all of the creators were so great about making it good stories first.
And also dealing with things that actually mattered. The show won a Humanitas Award for an episode we did about guns in school. They did these great stories that were fun and exciting, but somehow grounded in something that felt real. So it wasn't like, This is a very special episode. No, it was just Virgil dealing with the stuff in his life. You know, 'cause, you know, I'm a city kid, and this is sort of things that happen.
But he had electrical powers. Please welcome Bolbi Stroganovsky. Hello fellow learners. Call me Bolbi. I also did the voice of Bolbi Stroganovsky on the Jimmy Neutron cartoon, which is weird beyond weird.
It's a great show, and they had been going for a while before they brought me in to play that character. And I think I played maybe a couple other characters. But that's the one that people still remember to this day. Bolbi is just strange and weird. And that's all, that's really it. And he's from like a weird foreign country. Oh, you mean that Bolbi is from a country where they worship giant space rats? I just went as goofy and as crazy as I could. And it worked. But I could have been far worse.
In playing the part of Aquaman on Young Justice, that was a really sort of interesting path. Because originally I auditioned for Aqualad. And didn't get it. Then of course, I heard what my buddy Khary Payton did, and I was like oh dang. No that's it.
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Luckily for everyone involved, LaMarr had an accent that he used when auditioning for Cool Runnings several years earlier, as he explained to Vanity Fair :.
I remember Matt Groening coming up to me in the hallway and said, 'We want to try something with Hermes, can you do a Jamaican accent? By giving Hermes an accent, Phil LaMarr believes it gave him and the writers more to work with in terms of the characterization and depth of the jokes.
And to this day, LaMarr credits Matt Groening's suggestion with boosting his voice acting career. Being cast in the role was a powerful moment for LaMarr because he had grown up a big comic book fan, and he was able to draw inspiration from his own father to flesh out the character, as he told Vanity Fair :. They talked about the character and said he was a Marine, and he's from Detroit. I was like, 'My dad is from Detroit,' so I added a little bit of a level and an homage to my dad.
Phil LaMarr was featured heavily on the two shows from to , during which time he lent his voice acting talent to perhaps the biggest cult classic on Cartoon Network. The animated series Samurai Jack is one of the most well-loved and groundbreaking cartoons to be broadcast on Cartoon Network, and a lot of that is due to Phil LaMarr's subdued yet engaging vocal performance as the show's titular character.
Coming up with the proper voice for Japanese prince sent eons into the future to a nearly-destroyed Earth was no easy task, but as LaMarr told Vanity Fair , he took inspiration from one of his old improv groups:. It's interesting because a few years before I was part of a comedy group that was predominantly Japanese called Cold Tofu. A lot of the folks in the group were first or second-generation Japanese-Americans who had grown up hearing Japanese, and I noticed that they had not an accent so much as a way of speaking which I thought this is how you speak English if you are hearing Japanese at the same time you're hearing English.
The voice actor explained that thinking about his old improv buddies helped him better formulate an accent that would help Samurai Jack honor his roots and the fact that he's coming from ancient Japan. The limited engagement gave LaMarr the chance to finally perform on one of the world's biggest stages.
Sitting down with Theater Mania in , LaMarr had this to say about the experience:. As an actor, this is one of the things you hope for one day.
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