Creating Batman's voice

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been

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the only voice of batman for any

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animated show

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but i've been doing it the longest of

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anybody and i've been the one that's

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sort of referred to as the animated

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voice come into the light

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i was a new york theater actor i studied

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at juilliard

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and the people i worked with were robin

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williams

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kelsey grammer harriet harris francis

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conroy

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i did broadway off-broadway a lot of

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classics shakespeare the greeks

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address your love and might to honor

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helen

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and so when my agent told me they were

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doing this new animated batman

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show the only thing i knew about batman

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was the

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adam west show i didn't even know it had

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never been an animated show i was that

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naive to it

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and so when i was first auditioning for

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the role the director described it as

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this very dark

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noir character i went to exactly what i

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know

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which is the theater and so i used my

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imagination to fill that out

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and for me with my voice try to create

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a dark gritty filthy

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new york