Tony Anselmo and Terry McGovern "Disney Duck Q&A"

[Scroogerello]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=THN5IeWM7Sc

Thought this was pretty interesting. It's Tony Anselmo (voice of Donald) and Terry McGovern (voice of Launchpad) talking about their characters, how they got their roles etc. Anselmo also talks quite a bit about the Legend of the Three Caballeros show (and their plans for possible future seasons, if the show does well!), and the two of them also talk about the (Sigh!) DuckTales reboot, and how McGovern feels about being unceremoniously replaced as Launchpad. 

(it's about 8:17 when they start talking about the DuckTales reboot for a while, and then it's brought up again starting at 14:59 and very briefly at 31:35)

[Matilda]

This was well worth listening to! For one thing, I learned from Tony Anselmo why I could always understand Donald in Legend of the Three Caballeros and why I sometimes couldn't understand him in DT17. It's maddening that some people blamed the difficulty in understanding Donald DT17 on Anselmo ("he's getting old"!!), when the problem was clearly that the writers/team didn't listen to Anselmo on the need to reword some lines. (Anselmo says Donald can't say "r" or "ly" or "ing" understandably.) I agree with Terry McGovern on DT17: "I don't want to be cruel and say it sucks, but I'm not real happy with it." Writing isn't as good, "very flashy".... Anselmo says that the voices on DT17 are sped up 20%--that's something I hadn't heard, which does help explain some of my negative feelings about the sound of the show. A loss of human warmth. I'm glad Anselmo feels so good about LTC, and glad he's saying there's a prospect for more seasons.

Also, gratifying that they share my opinion of Old Bonespur!

[Baar Baar Jinx]

It's interesting to see how both McGovern and Anselmo have a poor opinion of DuckTales '17, and how much better Anselmo likes LTC. Their insights sort of confirm the suspicions we've discussed here about the ways decisions are made by the producers of this show. Although he was talking about a different studio, the frustration McGovern expressed about casting decisions being made based on social media presence and popularity on unrelated shows without regard to how well the chosen actor fits the character probably rings true for all voice actors and applies equally well, from what I can see, to DuckTales '17. Yes, the revelation that the voices are sped up was new to me too, and maybe makes sense for the kids being played by adult actors, but why for Scrooge and Donald, for heaven's sake?

All in all, very informative interview. And I think this is the first time we've heard that the controversial word Donald uttered in Who Framed Roger Rabbit was "window". Snopes needs to update their page.

[Rrr]

Sept 8, 2019 14:40:34 GMT Matilda said:

This was well worth listening to! For one thing, I learned from Tony Anselmo why I could always understand Donald in Legend of the Three Caballeros and why I sometimes couldn't understand him in DT17. It's maddening that some people blamed the difficulty in understanding Donald DT17 on Anselmo ("he's getting old"!!), when the problem was clearly that the writers/team didn't listen to Anselmo on the need to reword some lines. (Anselmo says Donald can't say "r" or "ly" or "ing" understandably.) I agree with Terry McGovern on DT17: "I don't want to be cruel and say it sucks, but I'm not real happy with it." Writing isn't as good, "very flashy".... Anselmo says that  the voices on DT17 are sped up 20%--that's something I hadn't heard, which does help explain some of my negative feelings about the sound of the show. A loss of human warmth. I'm glad Anselmo feels so good about LTC, and glad he's saying there's a prospect for more seasons.

Also, gratifying that they share my opinion of Old Bonespur!

That explains why Scrooge’s voice sounds so high pitched compared to the Danish voice. That was one of the first things I realized when comparing the Danish voices to the originals.

[Scrooge MacDuck]

Sept 15, 2019 12:09:46 GMT Rrr said:

That explains why Scrooge’s voice sounds so high pitched compared to the Danish voice. That was one of the first things I realized when comparing the Danish voices to the originals.

I doubt it. Unless I'm very much mistaken, they speed it up but keep the pitch level. And the fact is that David Tennant has, or can have, a rather high-pitched voice. (Which, in my opinion, makes him perfect to play a Disney Duck; much as I love Alan Young's performance, a deep voice never sounds quite right coming from such tiny people with tiny necks.)