Who should be Scrooge's official new VA?

[donalddisneyfan]

Given how Alan Young is dead with Scrooge's VAs varying from show to show, I'd like to know who this site would pick to be the current official voice of Scrooge in all media?

Between the post Young VAs, which would you pick and why with choices being:

1. John Kassir (Rudish Mickey shorts)
2. David Tennant (Ducktales 2017 and a Scotsman)
3. Eric Bauza (Legend of the Three Caballeros)
4. Alan Reid (Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck record from 2014 and a Scotsman)
5. Enn Reitel (Kingdom Hearts III and a Scotsman)


If you need voice clips for reference, see this video for their takes: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RuWRR5ouFY 

[That Duckfan]

1. sounds like Mike Myers
2. no... just no
3. doesn't sound very Scottish to me
4. I like this one
5. this is video game acting, he sounds like an NPC

Maybe I'm biased because the Life and Time record is on a whole other level, but out of these ones Alan Reid sounds the best.

I don't know a whole lot of Scottish actors, let alone voice actors, but Craig Ferguson has a nice Scottish-American accent. It's also slightly deeper than the ones on this list, which I like.

For Don Rosa's Scrooge specifically, there's one actor I associate with him and that's the classic character actor Finlay Currie. I'm sure Rosa would appreciate this one as a great classic movie buff, but I believe he's gone on record saying he imagines his Scrooge with an American accent only.

[RobbK1]

What about Robbie Coltrane?

[bats]

Dec 22, 2021 22:27:23 GMT That Duckfan said:

I believe he's gone on record saying he imagines his Scrooge with an American accent only.

I've always done this too. Scrooge never speaks with any Scottishisms in the comics, so the idea that he's "supposed to have an accent" seems to mostly be one held by those that grew up on the original English-language version of Ducktales.

[juicymcduck]

Dec 23, 2021 8:56:58 GMT bats said:

Dec 22, 2021 22:27:23 GMT That Duckfan said:

I believe he's gone on record saying he imagines his Scrooge with an American accent only.

I've always done this too. Scrooge never speaks with any Scottishisms in the comics, so the idea that he's "supposed to have an accent" seems to mostly be one held by those that grew up on the original English-language version of Ducktales.

Barks' Scrooge is definitely supposed to have a Scottish accent, though --- or at least Donald thinks so. (Yes, you might argue that it's contextual, because he's just said "laddie," but a word isn't an accent.)

[aldwayne]

I mean Barks established Scrooge as being from Scotland to begin with. Him having a accent is hardly a stretch.

Also, FYI, everyone who can speak properly has an accent.

[juicymcduck]

However, it does seem unlikely that Scrooge would still speak like a Scotsman after living in the US for decades, unless he actually made a deliberate effort to keep his Scottish brogue. (IIRC, Arnold Schwarzenegger said he's only "keeping" his Austrian accent because people seem to like it and it made him famous.)

[The KKM]

I've found it often depends on person- there's some people who just find it hard to drop their accent. Scrooge kept moving everywhere, never being somewhere long enough to retain much of a local accent, and then when in the US in his later life he was mostly isolated, if we're using Rosa as a guide. I can believe he kept something of a Scots accent- changed enough that Scottish people would find it weird, but still Scot-sounding to American ears.