In a recent interview, Chris Edgerly let slip that he will be voicing a character in the next Respawn game...that is, the next Respawn Entertainment game release! During the interview, featured in Win.gg, Chris also talks a little bit about his work as Pathfinder and his work on video game voice-overs in general.
Next Respawn Game to Feature Chris Edgerly, Voice of Pathfinder
For those of you who don't know, Respawn Entertainment is the same company that produced Apex Legends (that's the game in which Chris voices the character of Pathfinder - an automaton in search of his creator) and according to his most recent interview featured in Win.gg, Chris is all set to feature in their next Respawn game too!
Although Chris is holding his cards close to his chest (a requirement of most voice actors when a project has yet to be released), he is able to share that he is currently working on a performance-capture role for a Respawn Entertainment video game.
What is Performance Capture?
Performance capture work in the video game industry requires actors to wear sensors that track their movement so that those movements can be incorporated into the game to give it a more realistic vibe. During this most recent interview, Chris tells his interviewer that since he doesn't pursue on-screen acting roles, this type of work is the closest that he comes to it. Although, if you read the entire article, you will learn that Chris does have on-screen acting roles in his portfolio!
When Will the Next Respawn Entertainment Game Be Released?
So, when can you expect the announcement of the next Respawn game? It's expected that Respawn Entertainment will announce their next title (featuring Chris Edgerly) in September of this year.
Until it's release, though, you can occupy your time by logging in to Apex Legends and finding Chris (Gamertag TheEdgeVoice) on Xbox. Just be sure to give him a chance before you slaughter his character...better yet, give him some pointers. If you're not sure why Chris Edgerly might need your Apex Legends playing tips, take a look at some of Chris's most recent videos of him in action. Although he's been trying to master the Respawn Entertainment game (in which he voiced Pathfinder the automaton) for some time, as you will soon see, progress has been slow. Fortunately for us, though, when it comes to voice acting in video games, Chris has no problems at all!
When it comes to Chris Edgerly interviews, his recent interview with VO Buzz Weekly is definitely in the top ten! If you didn't catch the first half of the interview last week you can check it out here. If you're ready for the second half of the interview, here it is!
Chris Edgerly Interviews: VO Buzz Weekly Part 2
Chuck: Hey everybody Chuck and Stacey here with VO Buzz weekly again! Thank you to all the new subscribers and if you haven't subscribed yet, please do so we'd really appreciate it! And what's happening today?
Stacey: Today we have part two with the amazing Chris Edgerly did you watch part one? You need to!
Chuck: Let's get buzzed!
Narrator: Prepare to get seriously buzzed with your hosts Chuck Duran and Stacey J Aswad!
Stacey: Is it true or false that you got in trouble when you went on the Ariel's Undersea Adventure?
Chris: A little bit, a little bit yeah...I mean
Stacey: Confess, what did you do?
Chris: Well right, I guess the ride was a soft opening
Chuck and Stacey: Yeah
Chris: And so Pat Brady, my agent - the reason I have a career, you know, she said
Stacey: *Inaudible*
Chris: Yep exactly and she had some of her clients that had done voices for the rides like we're all over that Park - between us and some of the other guys were on a few rides, so we went on the Little Mermaid ride and
we're up in the very first car in the front seat and Scuttle starts the ride, you know "Gonna tell you a story about Ariel and the rest of the gang". And I just thought well I'm not gonna miss, this took out my phone, start recording it.
Stacey: That's not good!
Chris: It was just for me, you know I don't even have an active Twitter.
Stacey: Something for you.
Chris: Exactly, I know so we go through the ride have a blast and then at the end of the ride two smiling
young fresh-scrubbed faces greeted us and said: "hey we couldn't help but notice on our security cameras that
you were recording the ride." And I said "oh yeah, yeah, see! Ya, you don't know this but, yeah, I'm Scuttle! They said, "yeah, that's great, can we see your phone, please?" I said well, yeah sure. And he says "We just have to erase this." I said yeah but, but I'm Scuttle! That was my voice I was recording! "Sure, yeah I know and that's great and that's wonderful, you're Scuttle, there you go!" and so...
Chuck: Wow!
Chris: He had to erase it. of course, now on YouTube, you can see the entire ride from every conceivable angle!
Stacey: Yeah
Chris: So they just didn't want it to get out before... but yeah, yeah...
Chuck: Well, I mean, that's understandable...
Chris: So yeah, I like to push it...
Stacey: He's a rebel!
Chuck: No wonder they had to board you!
Stacey: Well, while we're on that note, I love Gobber!
Chris: Thank You
Stacey: Gobber is such a great character!
Chris: He's great, I mean I'm voice masking Craig Ferguson. Craig Ferguson is great, if you're watching...you
better be, it's VO Buzz Weekly, eh?
Stacey: Love Gobber, Cid Highwind in Final Fantasy...
Chris: yeah, Final Fantasy, yeah, yeah
Stacey: You have some very devoted fans!
Chris: I, there...yeah...
Stacey: He's a kooky one, that guy...
Chris: He's a, yeah, he's got that...I always gave him kind of a redneck voice.
Stacey: Yeah?
Chris: Yeah, you know, yeah, I mean he's a lot of guys I grew up with just like Cid once they get a couple of beers in them, you know? There was a guy I went to school with up at the University of Georgia, he was from Appalachia and he had a bit more of a country accent. He used to tell me, "man, last night I drank enough liquor to float a battleship." That...well, yeah...but I've noticed that some of the most devoted and rabid fans are anime fans.
Stacey: Yeah...
Chris: Yeah, I made the mistake of posting a credit a little bit too early...
Chuck: No!
Chris: That was...only happened once I did some dubbing for Naruto and...actually no, it was for the Final Fantasy thing and before the movie got released I just sort of put it up on IMDB that I Cid Highwind and Pat called me and said did you "did you put up your Cid Highwind credit?" And I said, yeah, yeah, cuz it's
official, right? She goes "well, they haven't announced the cast yet." This is like back in '04 and I just didn't know that you didn't do that.
Stacey: Yeah
Chris: Yeah and I thought, okay I'll take it down. I mean, how big of a deal could it be? Nobody's gonna know... and sure enough, there was a 14-page message board already on some anime fan site about who the hell is Chris Edgerly and why is he doing Cid Highwind? And then someone found my original stand-up comedy headshot and put it up, "this is what he looks like". And they found my voiceover demo, snatched it
offline and said "this is what he sounds like! He does orange juice commercials..." Like, well yeah, it was a Tropicana spot...yeah that paid my pension. That was my pension credit that year, buddy! You know? Yeah, I realized, yeah, they do care.
Stacey: Yeah you don't mess with the anime...
Chris: They care lots, yeah, yeah...
Chuck: They're serious about their anime.
Chris: Yeah, I do this character named Hidan on Naruto who's the most despicable, evil, depraved character ever. So, of course, he's fun to play...
Chuck: What does he sound like?
Chris: He actually, he kind of sounds like me but just an incredibly cocky version.
Stacey: A cocky, creepy version?
Chris: If I were also homicidal. Yeah and at an extremely short fuse, you know, he gets mad a lot and he kills a lot of people and of course, it's on Disney XD...
Chuck: Oh my God!
Chris: Well it was, originally, and that I think they moved it.
Stacey: Yeah.
Chris: You know they realized "yeah, this is a bit strong..."
Chuck: Well, that's what the X is for!
Chris: Yeah, I thought do they realize, you know, this is like xxx? It wasn't...I don't think... it's just really...it's just a really intense show...but...yeah. Like, I don't do very many conventions...or I didn't, I'm gonna step into that world a little bit more, I think in future...but people at the conventions love that. Like, you know, do Hidan into my phone and do his laughs and all that. And it's like they're...yeah.
Chuck: So, I have to take you here man...
Stacey: I know, because you love it!
Chuck: One of you or one of your incredible talents is your ability to impersonate.
Chris: Yes
Chuck: You are a master...
Chris: Why thank you!
Chuck:...impersonator!
Chris: Thank you!
Chuck: And there's no way that we're going to let you leave this...
Chris: Okay...
Chuck:...without showing our audience out there,
Chris: Because...
Chuck: ...some of your freaking a-list impressions.
Stacey: Not necessarily your typical, uh...
Chris: Right...
Stacey: But you can also find this on youtube, you guys.
Chris: Yeah, I did a few. I have friends who are always telling me "Look at this guy! This guy does like 80 impressions and it's in one minute!" and he's got all these cuts in there and "You should do one of those!" I
said I used to do that on stage I'm sick of doing that.
Chuck: Yeah
Chris: You know, but I thought finally after somebody asking me for the umpteenth time I thought alright, fine I'll put a small one together and I put together like some of the more offbeat ones. You know and...
Stacey: Liam Neeson, Chuck loves Liam Neeson...
Chuck: I love Liam Neeson! I'd never heard anybody really do him and when I heard it, you do it, I was like oh my God! Like he's freaking nailed that!
Chris as Liam Neeson: Well, the thing about Liam Neeson is this you have to grow about four inches in your own mind, Chuck and you have to be ready to kill a man with your own bare hands. But he was a wolf in a movie and that's that!
Chuck: That's so good!
Chris: I thank you!
Chuck: Yeah, I love that! I love that! Can I, can I throw a couple others at you?
Chris: Sure!
Chuck: What about Matthew McConaughey is McConaughey...is it McConaughAy McConaughI?
Stacey: McConaughay.
Chuck: McConaughay.
Chris as McConaughay: Well, he may say howdy, I don't know. That's the thing about Matthew, is, I mean, he's even more laid-back than I am, I tell you what. All right, all right, all right!"
Chris: Yeah he's got those weird S's. You got to put a couple of dimples in your face.
Stacey: Did you go and buy a Lincoln?
Chris: Yeah I did, I have one of them there Continentals and I just started having monologues with myself.
Chuck: Uh, Jeff Goldblum.
Chris as Jeff Goldblum: Ah yes I okay, hi I'm gonna, I'm gonna I'm gonna take some some weird pauses and I'm gonna get quiet and then Oh something else I'm gonna do is...is...is this, this as I'm gonna ramble, but, but it's gonna sound incredibly erudite because I, in addition to that I'm very well-spoken...
Chuck: What about Antonio Banderas!
Chris as Antonio Banderas: Well, the thing about Antonio Banderas is you have to be very quiet. I mean, you could be louder you know like a Spaniard, you could do that, but, but he's a yeah he's a more sultry...if you can. Like that is how I like to talk to my wife, who is a from Venezuela. Hey, I have to pretend I'm from Espania see, so there is a cultural divide, but we are still, you know, very much a connected.
Chuck: Oh, that is so good man!
Chris: Thank you!
Chuck: Any other, like, favorites that you really like?
Stacey: Your Michael Caine is pretty freaking great!
Chris: Oh...ah... the best Michael Caine you can possibly see is on The Trip, that's with Steve Coogan and, oh God, I'm gonna forget the other guy's name, but it's a great sort of documentary sort of movie and they're doing dueling Michael Caine's.
Chris as Michael Caine: You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off! She was only, she was only 15 years old! And if you're going to do older Michael Caine, your voice has to shake...that's the way Steve Coogan does it. And I like to do it from victories talking to Frank Stallone...no, not Frank Stallone, the one with the career...Sylvester Stallone...Hatch, stay on the bloody line! I can do it better when I shout! He's giving me two...but as Michael Caine that means something else altogether, you're gonna have to blur that out!
Chuck: That is out of this world!
Chris: Well, that's a little seventies...
Chuck: You're freakin' face...like, you, you look like him!
Chris: It's cause I used to do these on stage and you have to kind of sell it.
Stacey and Chuck: Yeah!
Chris: Like I do...I would do Peter O'Toole on stage like a Charlie Rose interview. Peter O'Toole every question he gets asked, his answer has to do with alcohol...like...
Chris as Charlie Rose: Peter how do you prepare for a role?
Chris as Peter O'Toole: Well, that's a very good question, Charlie. The first thing I like to do is to fill an above ground swimming pool with Bbourbon and then I have my script laminated. And into the Bourbon, I go with a pair of swimming trunks and when all the Bourbon is gone I feel as though I've got a handle on the character!
Chuck: Oh my God! I'm gonna pee myself!
Stacey: It's bananas! Well, clean up on set!
Chuck: Hey, Chris?
Chris: Yes, Chuck?
Chuck: Do you audition for jobs still or do they just give you the jobs?
Chris: Yeah, right, would that were true. No, we are still auditioned.
Chuck: I know, I just like asking you.
Chris: Yeah that's a common question - I think people probably just think. They make me live in solid gold houses, are ferried home by limo and...
Stacey: Yeah...
Chuck: I want everybody to know that even the pros, no matter what level they're at, they audition for stuff.
Chris: We grind it out. We're grinders.
Chuck: Yeah, exactly, grinding it out.
Chris: This is...this is the...yeah, I mean I'm a lunch pail guy. I send in auditions every day and the booking ratio is very small because the volume is so big.
Chuck: Now let me ask you, was the booking ratio once upon a time, for you anyways, was it higher and you know it's a little lower or...
Chris: I have no idea because I try not to think about the ones I don't get because they vastly outnumber the ones you do get, you know. I'm thankful for the jobs I do have, like some jobs, they last for years and it's one audition.
Chuck: Right.
Chris: You know I've been doing stuff for Dominoes for nine years. And it was one audition and it was at 4:50 p.m. on a Friday. I lived in Brentwood at the time and I had to be at voice casters in Burbank on Friday at 4:50 p.m. I thought that's the last place I want to have to drive to, but I drove to it because I thought 'you never
know'. I had one line in the audition and I read that and I booked it and I've been doing that for nine years and it's just one audition that went well out of...I don't know how many I had that week...15 or 20?
Stacey and Chuck: Yeah.
Chris: So you know, yeah you...you never know which one is going to be the one that clicks. If I go back and look at the things I've booked, I can't always remember what I did for the audition or what I was thinking...if I knew...
Stacey: Are you a harsh critic of your work or do you kind of just do...
Chris: It's funny...
Stacey: ... go in and get out and move on...
Chris: If I'm at the agency and there's a booth director directing me, I'll go in and I'll usually get it in one take, maybe two and that's it I'm done. I'm completely happy with it and if I'm at home seven eight nine takes because I'll go "yeah, I could do better, I could do better, I could do better. I think that happens to all of us.
Chuck: What are you listening for?
Chris: I just...it's a feel. I just like to imagine if I was the casting director and I was listening to that, would I like it?
Chuck: But you don't you know...
Chris: They give you the breakdown, yeah, but you don't know if that's really what they're gonna go with
because I'll remember certain parts...I'll see it on TV and I think that's not what they were asking for they changed their mind! Right, you know, or someone came in and so blew them away with a different take they thought forget what we wanted that's what we want!
Stacey: Yeah
Chris: They don't know what they want until they hear it sometimes that's...that's probably the way we would all be in that job. It's a tough job.
Chuck: It is!
Stacey: So at this point, you know, hundreds of hundreds and hundreds of jobs later and thousands of auditions later are you pretty much fine tuned with I go with my gut and...
Chuck: I think you have to.
Chris: Yeah, I mean, I've tried second-guessing myself and it's usually the same result as going with my gut. I mean there's the rare thing where if they want something uber specific then you can be uber specific with your read...but basically they shotgun it out there and the fine-tuning happens on the day... you know. I did something for the movie Chappaquiddick which is out now and I read just a couple of different lines with a Boston accent and when I went in to do the gig I did it with an ADR group then they separated me for that one thing and that's when they started to tweak. "Alright try this, try this, try this." I didn't have the ability to do that for the audition.
Stacey: Right.
Chris: I gave him one thing that I thought I could do well, they heard it and thought ok that's what we need and we can work with them from there. So as specific as you want to get...I think when you get too specific you're giving them less than you think you're giving them. If you get tied into one kind of read you're going all out with that, that's great, that might work, but sometimes it's better to let them know that you could go either way. Put in more than one take if you can. Yeah, if you can do more than one thing and if they say it's okay, do it! You know give them more than one way to think of you doing the job.
Chuck: Do you clean your auditions up?
Chris: I do. I'll take some breaths that you know, if I'm at home and I know I've got the...the time, I'll take a good breath so I can get through a long piece of copy, where you can tell they don't want you breathing in the midst of it. So, yeah, I'll clean that up because why let them have to wade through that? You know? Why leave it for them to do it? So I give them something as pristine as possible.
Chuck: Yeah.
Chris: I think it can only help.
Chuck: Yeah, good. You're a good boy.
Chris: I try!
Stacey: He's cleanin' up his act.
Chris: Right.
Stacey: So your brothers...you have a very creative and artistic...
Chris: Yeah, three brothers...
Stacey: ...group of siblings and you guys...is it with one of your brothers that you're creating...
Chris: Mmhmm, my brother Dave.
Stacey: Yeah
Chris: Yeah, my older brother Dave...
Stacey: Hey Dave!
Chris: Yeah, hey Dave!
Stacey: What are you guys working on? What's the...
Chris: Well we have a little side hustle, I like to call Edgy Brothers and...
Chuck: Edgy Brothers?
Chris: Yeah, you know we're Edgerly and we try and be a little bit edgy with what we create. You know, originally like my brother is a very talented artist - I always like to say as good as I am with voices, that's as good as he is with graphic design, with sculpting, with animation...he can do all of that. So we originally created something for Kickstarter. We created a deck of cards because apparently, you can design a deck
of cards and Bicycle, the US playing card company, will print them for you if you give them enough money and so people go on Kickstarter and they design these decks of cards and they get funding for it and then they...BOOM, they go have bicycle make them! So we did a few decks of cards that did pretty well and then we've sold all those. And when you have a physical product you've got to store it, you've got to inventory it, you've got to do wholesale deals, you've got a ship to buyers, and we thought, well enough of that we like to create, we don't like to deal with all that other stuff...
Chuck: Yeah
Chris: So, we finally have settled on just making digital content. So my brother is an animation whiz, he found a good animation program. I'll record these voices. I'll email them to him and he'll animate to them. So we came up with this one-minute series of clips we call Happy Hour. And I asked my brother, what's the easiest thing for you to animate, and he said something with no arms or legs because that's the least amount of movement possible. So I thought all right, well what about what about glasses and cups and things? He goes "perfect, we'll do that!" So he just put mouths on these glasses and it's these bar glasses talking to each other and one of them sounds like Jeff Goldblum, one of them sounds like Harvey Fierstein, one of them sounds like Gary Busey. Like the beer is Gary Busey, the Collins glass is Jeff Goldblum, the hurricane glass where you put pina coladas and fruity drinks is Harvey Fierstein. We have a shot glass, it sounds like Martin Scorsese...he talks really fast and he goes from subject to subject and then he changes his mind every now and then, somebody drinks and he puts them back down, we gotta get filled up again before he talks some more, you know, kind of like that, yeah, and we just have them all interact with each other and we do these quick one-minute clips and we put them up just on YouTube for people to enjoy. And we have, like, the not-safe-for-work version.
Stacey: Right.
Chris: Which is just on Patreon and we don't really have anybody supporting us at the moment because I've barely talked about it.
Stacey: Yeah
Chris: But we put it up on Patreon and we would love to be able to generate some support so we can just pay for being able to make them.
Stacey: Yes, tell people how they can support you!
Chris: Yes go...I guess it's on Patreon. It's Edgy Brothers.
Chuck: Edgy Brothers? Ok
Chris: Just lookup Edgy Brothers it should take us to our page, but Happy Hour is the name of the series we do. But Edgy Brothers Presents is really kind of the name of the series we give it because at some point we'll do a few episodes of that and then we're gonna pivot and do a different animation idea because you know like anybody my brother likes to try something new. So we're thinking about doing something with like animals and maybe do a podcast style with the animals and...
Chuck: That's cool.
Chris: Yeah, whatever voices I sent him he's gonna animate and we'd just sort of like it to be this living breathing thing this is what we're gonna pivot to but...the point is we want to be able to think of voices to do, write something for them, I send it to my brother, he animates it, boom we put it up online, and let's see if anyone wants to support us.
Stacey: Totally cool, it's a family...keep it in the family!
Chris and Chuck: Absolutely!
Stacey: And to be able to generate content and nurture your creativity is fantastic!
Chris: That's, to me, the best thing is, yeah you can decide what you're going to put up there and you can go straight to people who like what you do. Put it up online, let them find it and if they want to...they want to support you...you can support us for a dollar a month.
Stacey: Yeah!
Chuck: Now, is...does it only live on Patreon or does it also live on YouTube?
Chris: You can find episodes on YouTube. Once they've been out for a week or two we put the clean version on YouTube.
Chuck: Yeah
Chris: Then we keep the not-safe-for-work not-safe-for-work version on Patreon where you have to...you
have to kind of support us to see that. You know like, again, a dollar a month.
[Chatter]
Chuck: Hey, why don't we help them out?
Stacey: Yeah!
Chris: Why not?
Chuck: Edgy Brothers!
Stacey: Yeah
Chris: For a buck a month you can see all the stuff we've done.
Chuck: That's so cool.
Chris: Thank you, thank you, it's fun!
Chuck: Hey Chris, what do you think are some of the keys to your longevity besides your awesome talent?
Chris: Why thank you!
Stacey: Mm-hmm and your wife's fashion sense
Chuck: And your wife's fashion...
Chris: She picks it out, I take it to the tailor and say cut it to give me muscles and boom! I honestly wouldn't be doing anything else. This is all I can...it's not all I can do, but it's what I want to do very very badly and I'm going to be a creator until the day I die because that's who I am. My uncle is a psychologist and he used
to tell me don't be an artist you are an artist.
Chuck: Yeah
Chris: It doesn't take any effort to be an artist, that's who you are every breath you take, that's who you are, that's who you guys are, you guys are artists. I hang out, talk with you, you know I can tell you know this is what you do and you have to be around it and your tribe is other artists.
Chuck: Yeah
Chris: Other people who rock out, people who dance, people who do all those things.
Chuck: Yeah
Chris: That's my tribe, that's who I am, that's who I hang out with and I mix it up with civilians all the time. I get along with everybody.
Chuck: Yeah
Chris: But there's a disconnect. I don't quite get them and they don't quite get me because they go to a job that can, for them, sometimes be a chore. But sometimes they go to a job that they feel in their bones the way I feel what I do. There are people who are accountants and they feel it in their bones, that's what they do.
Stacey and Chuck: Yeah
Chris: And they've never worked a day in their lives...so longevity is...I stuck with it because even when I wasn't making any money doing it, it's what I wanted to do and if I was in it for results only, I probably would have quit.
Stacey: Yeah, it's exactly who you are.
Chris: Yes. And when I, like my wife got to go see me do a job where they didn't quite know what they wanted, but they had already worked with me and they said we're fleshing this character out, all this session is gonna be is us throwing ideas at you and my wife is a musician and I told her later I said "That was jazz, what you saw", because they said "Try it with this accent, okay try it from this part of the country, what if he's this age,
what if he's that age, what if he's feeling this or that" and I loved it! They were paying me to go to acting class.
Stacey: Yeah.
Chris: I mean and I walked out of there...I fairly flew out of there...
Stacey: Yeah
Chris: ...on a cloud because they paid me and I got to do the thing that I would do anyway.
Stacey: Yeah
Chris: So my longevity is solely due to the fact that I don't want to be doing anything else. I'm always going to be performing somewhere, somehow.
Stacey: Yeah
Chuck: That's really good.
Chris: Yeah and I think anyone who's looking to get into it, you know if it's what you want to do, you're gonna because you're gonna take a pounding even after you quote-unquote made it. Even after you've had a year where you finally qualified for insurance or maybe you finally got enough money together to put down on a condo or a house or something and you're living like an adult. Yes! I've made it and then the next year it's gonna be brutal for some reason, you can't...you get arrested or whatever, you're gonna think...wait, I thought I had it! It's like no you have it, you still have it. It's never gonna go away, but the way the industry responds to you may change from year to year. But if you can deal with that, if you can deal with that uncertainty, you'll...you'll never quit.
Chuck: Yeah
Chris: You know...
Chuck: Because that's who you are!
Stacey: It's like not breathing, and that's what it is for you.
Chuck: So, let's hear some more impressions...no, I'm just kidding...
Chris: Come on!
Stacey: We have a mystery question for you...
Chris: Okay. Oh boy,
Stacey: You can pick it from anywhere in the deck...
Chuck: Thin to win, thin to win...
Chuck: Can you read it in one of your favorite characters?
Chris: Okay, let's see...
Stacey: Or one of your least favorite characters!
Chris: Least favorite characters...
Chuck: Or an imitation of a friend you like?
Chris: Hmm I will read this as my sophomore year history teacher in college. "Would you rather meet your great-great grandparents or your great-great grandchildren?" Somehow I fell asleep in his class by the way
Stacey: How could you? He sounds like a...
Chris: I know. How do you make history boring?
Chuck: Now you have used his voice for some product, no?
Chris: No. One day, one day that auditions gonna land!
Stacey: That's hysterical!
Chris: I don't know if he's lucky or...
Stacey: He clearly made an impression on you, not necessarily in the history realm...
Chris: I know, I know, because I could have pulled out any celebrity but no, this guy deserves to be heard, you know.
Chuck: We love him, he's great.
Stacey: Exactly, like the question
Chris: Wow, that is an amazing question...would you rather meet your great-great grandparents or your great-great grandchildren...you know what, I'd rather meet my great-great grandchildren. I can read about my great-great grandparents you know and maybe know them somehow but they've already passed their genes on to me so I'm already carrying them.
Stacey: You're such a good dad!
Chris: Yeah, but I want to meet my great-great grandchildren and I want them...I want them to tell me how's it going?
Chuck: Yeah...
Chris: You know what's the world like? What do you like? Because maybe I'd have something to pass on to them. It's like, what do you like? What's...and I would ask them two questions, I'd say what do you enjoy doing? And what's giving you a hard time, what's bothering you? Aand whatever they're enjoying I'd say good, good, good tell me more about that. Tell me what you love about that so, you know, don't ever forget that and then whatever's bothering them we'll get that sorted out, you know, we'll give them the right attitude about that.
Chuck: Yeah
Chris: You know, so yeah, grandchildren.
Chuck: Great, fantastic man!
Stacey: You are good people, Chris Edgerly
Chuck: You are good peeps, dude.
Chris: I try! At least when I'm on camera!
Stacey: Thanks for being here!
Chuck: Absolutely, dude, and I gotta say, man, right from the friggin moment that we...well I mean, you guys have known each other for a little bit, right?
Stacey: Little bit, yeah.
Chuck: But we just met for the first time...
Chris:...over at the office
Chuck: over at the CESD
Chris: Yeah but you're one of those guys, everybody warms up to you...
Chuck: Well, everybody warms up to you, but well...no I mean like instantly, there was like when we left, I was like wow what a freaking cool guy!
Chris: Well yeah, because my life is charmed!
Chuck: Well, no, by the way, you were like hey why don't you guys come down to this thing and blah blah and you were like instantly giving us gifts, you know.
Chris: It was great!
Chuck: Which was so cool, thank you!
Stacey: Yeah
Chris: Thank you! I mean look, people have done it for me and I do it for other people and, and you just that's what makes the world go around!
Stacey: Well, now we have your fantastic journey on the Internet!
Chuck: Absolutely, Chris Edgerly, ladies and gentlemen. Go check out his Patreon page!
Chris: Thank you! Chuck and Stacey!
Chuck: Go give them lots of dough!
Chris: Edgy Brothers, Edgy Brothers Presents! Yeah thank you
Stacey: Always a pleasure
Chris: Chuck and Stacey!
Chris: Hey this is Chris Edgerly and I just got buzzed with Chuck and Stacey and so can you! Not really, but you know, you can if you watch, but you can't be here, that's for me...
Chris: They want me to say something funny after that...do you want me to ABC it? I can give you three
different voices... I got nothing...I got nothing...proper mic technique with Chris Edgerly don't shout your voice. Just read it the way you would normally, read it and then on camera technique is don't let your eyes cross if it happened...
Stacey: You're lensing...
Chris: No on camera for me!
Chuck: Well, that concludes our wonderful two-part episode with the awesome Chris Edgerly!
Stacey: So great, we love him!
Chuck: What a cool guy man! So, so, so, cool, go out and support his stuff man cuz he's really really a great guy and leave your comments below for us
Stacey: Absolutely and follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. We love you guys, thanks for watching and just remember...
Stacey and Chuck: You always have time for a little buzz...
Did you catch the latest Chris Edgerly interview with VO Buzz Weekly? Don't worry if you missed it because we've got the video right here!
Chris Edgerly Interview with VO Buzz Weekly
Looking for the most recent Chris Edgerly interview? You've found it! VO Buzz Weekly, known for being one of the voice over industries best free resources for advice, tips, and news, recently sat down with Chris and picked his brain on the voice over industry, his experiences in the voice over industry, and his success with working on The Simpsons! If you've ever wondered...well, anything about Chris's voice over career, you will undoubtedly find the answers that you're looking for right here!
Video Transcript: Chris Edgerly Interview with VO Buzz Weekly
Chuck: Hi everybody, Chuck and Stacey here with VO Buzz weekly! I hope you guys are having a good day or night whichever it is, and thank you to all the new subscribers! We really appreciate you doing that and those of you that haven't subscribed, if you're watching our show and digging it, please subscribe! We totally appreciate it!
Stacey: Absolutely! And on the show, we have Cid Highwind from Final Fantasy, Chris Edgerly!
Chuck and Stacey: Let's get buzzed!
Announcer: Turn it up, get ready, you're tuned in to VO Buzz Weekly! And now, prepare to get seriously buzzed with your hosts Chuck Duran and Stacey J Aswad!
Stacey: Our guest personifies versatility, from stand-up comedy to animated TV shows like The Simpsons and films, promos, commercials, and over a hundred video games, thank you very much! He's flat out awesome! We're so happy to have him here! He is getting buzzed with us, Mr. Chris Edgerly!
Chris: Yes!
Chuck: Yes Chris!
Stacey: Welcome!
Chris: Thank you!
Chuck: Get down!
Chris: Thank you for having me. I can't live up to that! This is gonna be one long letdown!
Stacey: Yes you can! Oh but your fantastic shirt, you've got the whole thing going!
Chris: My wife picked this out.
Chuck: It's cute!
Chris: She said, "You need to wear something happy!"
Chuck: Now, if Stacey was wearing full white, we would be red, white, and blue right now.
Stacey: We would be so U.S.A!
Chris: Or France.
Chuck: Dig it!
Stacey: When are you doing the Tour de France? Is it this summer or next summer?
Chris: As soon as I can clear those drug tests.
[Chuck laughing]
Stacey: Well in the meantime, we'll talk about your other little tiny career you have going! Um, you go ahead Chuck!
Chuck: Ohhh
Stacey: Because I feel like I'm gonna hog Chris!
Chuck: Well, let us...why don't you tell us about your career path, man, I mean did you always want to be an entertainer?
Chris: Pretty much. I mean, we're artists, you kind of know. Yeah, I don't think anybody pushed you into this.
Stacey: No.
Chuck: I didn't know I wanted to be a musician, for example, until I was thirteen.
Stacey: And you heard Peter Frampton.
Chuck: And I heard Peter Frampton.
Chris: But you must have loved rock music?
Chuck: I did.
Chris: You were drawn to it. You were drawn...[to Stacey] I've read about you, your dance, your...was it roller...
Stacey: Roller skating
Chris: Like national or world champion.
Stacey: Not roller derby, I didn't knock people down on purpose. It was artistic...allegedly...because the rhinestones.
Chris: So artistic!
Stacey: And the velvet! I like that! Yeah...
Chris: Yeah, ever since I was a kid. I mean you just, you're kind of born with that and I was always cracking my brothers up. And friends, neighbors, whoever. Always wanting to sort of hold the floor and tell stories. And my nickname as a kid was "The Mouth of the South".
Chuck: The mouth of the south?
Chris: Yeah, that was what my dad called me.
Stacey: Savannah, Georgia's never been the same?
Chris: Yeah, exactly! And the reason why I know that it's something you're born with is because my son is exactly the same way and he's already..."
Chuck: Wow!
Chris: Like I went to, when he was in preschool, he was three, yeah, I went to go read a story for the class - I never asked him to do this - he got up, stood next to me and helped read the story to the class! I thought, well, I have to get him his SAG card soon, so...
Stacey: Right! Is he aware of what...does he watch your work and go "that's dad"? Has he made that connection?
Chris: He's...uh, yeah, cuz I point it out to them! It's like I brag on myself. It's telling "Dad's in that! That's dad's voice!".
Stacey: Shh shh, this is daddy's part!
Chris: Yeah, Exactly. Yeah, everybody shut it, daddy's gonna rewind the DVR! That is a double-edged sword because now it's...every show is "did you do a voice in that?" "No. No, daddy's lost that. No, no. "
[Chatter]
Chris: Let's concentrate on the work daddy has done, not what daddy hasn't booked. Okay? Let me tell you about booking ratios, my boy! They're not that high!
Chuck: That's hysterical.
Chris: Yeah, exactly, so yeah, ever since, I couldn't remember when I didn't want to do it.
Chuck: Good, man. And what...in particular, like voice over, how did that happen for you? Like when was the time where you said: "Wow, I wanna do this thing!"
Chris: I think...like I was always aware like you grow up, you watch Warner Brothers cartoons, you think it's great that those voices are there and you walk around imitating them as best you can. But not until I was living in Orlando. So I moved to Orlando after college and I had gotten into standup and I was doing that a little bit. I'd booked uh, you know, a little bit of on-camera work there and I had toured a little as a stand-up. Then I found an agency in Orlando that represented some voice acting work and there's not a lot there, but I was able to get some.
Chuck: Yeah
Chris: And I realized, this is great, you can stay in town! You can sleep in your own bed instead of being on the road. You know, you've done the road.
Chuck and Stacey: Yeah!
Chris: It's kind of a chore after a while so after I eventually moved here, I did a few more years on the road, but after about ten solid years of being a road comic, I really missed just having the consistency of just being in one town. Especially a town like this one.
Chuck and Stacey: Yeah!
Chris: This is a town you wanna be in all the time. This is a good one.
Chuck: Yeah.
Stacey: Well, I've heard you say that Hollywood is like high school without teachers.
Chris: Yes!
Stacey: What do you mean by that?
Chuck: Yeah, explain that!
Chris: It's...it's exactly what you think it means! It's not a compliment! No, you know, all the cliques from high school.
Stacey: Yeah
Chris: The nerds, the cool kids, the jocks, you know, the meatheads, the troublemakers. It's the exact same thing except there's no adults to come in and say "hey, knock that off! Yeah, you shouldn't be that way!" It's like "no, no, as you were..."
Chuck: Yeah
Chris: Keep doing exactly what you're doing.
Chuck: Wow
Chris: Except the people who were sort of on the Year Book Committee kind of run the town now. You can't give them noogies anymore.
Stacey: Right!
Chris: And you know, you've got to be nice to them because...
Stacey: Because it will live on the internet forever!
Chris: Yeah! Yeah, and I was kind of one of the dorky ones and so I, you know, I don't know where I quite fit in. So I went to an all-boys military school.
Chuck: Get out of here!
Stacey: Yeah, not everyone can say that! That's bragging rights, man!
Chris: No, not everybody does say that...even when it happened. You kind of let that go, but uh, yeah, I realized that it's the age-old story - if you don't wanna get pounded (because I was always pretty small), you've gotta learn a sense of humor as your armor, you know, and that's the way you're gonna make friends. And so, yeah, that was a nice defense mechanism I had.
Stacey: Yeah.
Chris: It's worked out!
Stacey and Chuck: Yeah.
Stacey: Is standup comedy...and plus, like you said, you were on the road...
Chris: Right
Stacey: Is it really as grueling as it seems it is
Chris: Well, what you see on TV and what you see on stage if you're in a club is about 1% of the job. The other 99% is the writing, the trying that bit out so you can get it to work, the getting the gig booked...like, if you're just a comic in LA or NY and you only stay in LA or NY you've gotta hustle just to get stage time until you can become a regular and I never went that route. I went the opposite route, which is getting road gigs which is just as hard because you start as an MC. And an MC is the guy that starts the show. He's the guy with the least amount of material and experience and confidence. And here's a cold crowd, go!
Stacey: Yeah
Chris: You know, so he or she is the one that is just torn to shreds for a while.
Chuck: Right.
Chris: And when you finally take enough of that abuse, you finally start to put an act together, you start to move up. And then you're a feature act and then you're a headliner and that takes years.
Stacey: Yeah.
Chris: And it's extremely rare that somebody does it in just a couple of years and to become a headliner. Like after ten years on the road, I was starting to headline consistently, but not every single gig and that took ten years. And that was...
Stacey: Overnight success...
Chris: Yeah, exactly! So, when you're in your 20's, all of it's kind of fun. Even when it's brutal. I mean you guys...
Chuck: Yeah, yeah.
Chris: ...must remember your starving days. In your 20's you don't know how broke you are!
Stacey: Yeah!
Chris: You don't know how bad you have it because you're so thrilled to be doing it!
Stacey: Yeah! You're nice and fit and you're like "Oh I'm so fit and tiny, and...
Chris: You can get by on bread and Ramen...
Stacey: Right?
Chris: And stuff people bring home from their restaurant gigs.
Stacey: Craft service?
Chris: Exactly! Yeah, I'll eat half of that manicotti! Sure it's been out for a couple of days, I'll eat it! I got nothing else, yeah!
Stacey: Yeah, it's got mold on it"
Chris: But in your 30's it kind of becomes a chore.
Stacey: Yeah.
Chris: And I'd say that I hit the wall by about 33 or 34. I said, yeah, enough of this, And luckily I had gotten representation, I started to get some work and I thought I'm done with the road. This is gonna be voice-over or nothing. I'm like Cortez, I burn my ships. I walked into my agent's office (an I'd just signed with him) and I said look, I've got 10 or 12 gigs for the rest of the year I'm canceling. And they said "you don't have to do that" and I said "no, I want to do that!
Stacey: This has to work out!
Chris: Exactly. I'm going to make this work, we're going to make this work because I ain't going back out! Yeah, this is too good of a job to pass up.
Chuck: So, Chris, I got a lot of guys calling me up and saying "hey man, I'm a stand-up comic and I do comedy here and blah blah, and they've been doing shows here and there and maybe they've been doing comedy, but they really now want to do something with voiceover because a lot of their buddies are doing it.
Chris: Right
Chuck: So, is that, in your opinion, is that a natural transition to...for a comic to be able to get into voice over and be good at it, or...?
Chris: It's not unnatural. It's not always the fit they think it might be, but a stand-up comic...somebody who's really been doing it yet who's had to deal with the slings and arrows has an advantage over a straight-up actor because they already should have some mike awareness. As you know...you know, as a musician you've got to know when you're not giving them your best angle as far as acoustically and you also get a feel for how to play it, I mean, so much of our copy is funny copy.
Chuck: Yeah!
Chris: You get a feel for where the joke is, you get a feel for how to play it. So much of commercial copy, I mean, more than half the commercial copy I've read is humorous copy, so getting that joke is invaluable. Comics get the joke.
Stacey: Yeah
Chris: And then so much of an audition. like an on-site audition, a lot of times is being able to flip that switch because you'll spend some time in the wait room and at least...thank goodness for this, voiceover audition wait rooms are not the sharks in the water experience that on-camera...
Stacey: True. Yes!
Chris: wait rooms are.
Stacey: Yeah, if anything you're like 'okay, I gotta focus, stop talking to me, you know? Cause you're having a good time!
Chris: Yeah, Yeah. Exactly! And that's the funny thing that I noticed is that with a lot of people at the agency when you go and you sit and you wait for your turn to read, I just start shootin' the breeze with everybody. And some people are kind of really trying to get into their copy and my wife said "I went with you once to the office. Everyone...well, not everyone, but a lot of people were studying their copy. They handed you yours and you just set it down and started jawin'! And then you walked in and you picked up your copy and you just went bam, bam, bam, bam, like that." And I said because that's how I operate.
Chuck and Stacey: yeah.
Chris: I don't have an intensive process.
Stacey: You're not an overthinker!
Chris: Yeah.
Stacey: When we do the 20 steps of Chris Edgerly's process we're not...we're gonna...get to where you start at.
Chris: You start at one...
Chuck: Now, let me ask you this, were there...
Chris: and then there's a shortcut to nineteen and a half!
Stacey: I read it and then I book it.
Chuck: Yeah, yeah.
Chris: I say it, yeah, well the booking is suspect.
Chuck: So I can prove to my son that I...
Stacey: You book...Chris books a lot of commercials. I love your Pier 1 commercial
Chris: Oh thank you!
Stacey: He books a lot of commercials.
Chris: That was on the set.
Stacey: Really?
Chris: They had me on the set for that! You know, and I thought, don't you guys know that it's...I mean, I guess it's gonna be important to you, but it's never going to sound like that when you do it. But here's the funny thing, I'm on the set, we're at an actual Pier 1 in Hollywood. I should have stolen that rooster out of there!
Stacey: I know!
Chris: Because I wanted to buy it and they said the store's not open right now! So just...
Chuck: Here!
Chris: Can I take it?
Stacey: It crawled into my coat!
Chris: Yeah.
Stacey: You nailed that rooster man!
Chris: Why thank you!
Stacey: Well, that didn't sound right.
Chris: You say that where I come from and they'll...
Chuck: Yeah!
Chris: It's a different response!
Stacey: You did a great job on that!
Chuck: So for you, we're still back in the comedy we're just...
Chris: Standup comedy, yes, can be an easy transition if you also respect the fact that an actor must know the copy and you can't always just deviate from it...
Chuck: Yeah, now that's what I was gonna ask you, so...
Chris: I'm not the writer, the writer's the writer.
Chuck: Yeah, right, so did you end up like, you know, working a little bit with acting and getting your acting chops up, is that...?
Chris: Yes. I was a drama minor in college.
Chuck: Okay.
Chris: I was gonna be a drama major but I transferred from a smaller school and they said we'll take about 1/3 of your credits and I said well, I'll see you later! And the journalism school took all of them, so I said well, I'm a j-school now, yeah. But I did a play or two and I took a couple of acting classes and I'd done some on-camera acting, so I had a basic feel for it. I am NOT as nuanced as a lot of people you've had on the show who've had a lot of on-camera credits. I have some. They're all from the 90's when I had hair.
Chuck: Exactly!
Stacey: It's overrated man!
Chris: Yeah...
Stacey: You've got those beautiful eyes, you don't need hair!
Chris: Why thank you!
Chuck: On the same token, were there things from your comedy side that, because you did that for a long time. Were there things from your comedy side that you're like, you know what? This part of it doesn't really work too well on the voice-over. It doesn't translate very well. Are there little things like that that you kind of had to kind of like balance out a little bit?
Chris: Sometimes, I think, sometimes you have to pull it back a little bit because when you're on stage...as you guys know...a live stage performance, you've gotta play to the whole room.
Chuck: Exactly!
Chris: You've gotta reach the back of the room. You don't have to do that in voiceover! They have levels, they have a mike, they'll modulate it. They'll bring it up when they need to, they'll bring it down when they need to and it's almost like film acting. It's here.
Chuck: Yeah.
Chris: You know, you don't need to use everything. You end up using everything, I don't know about you guys but on the mic, I'm a madman.
Stacey: Yeah.
Chris: I use all of my body parts. So, yeah, you do have to tweak, you have to tweak. The rest of the process I think is the same.
Chuck: Yeah.
Chris: But you have to filter it for where you are. If you're on stage, let it all hang out, but if you're in front of a mic and it's a voice acting audition or performance, you gotta focus it more.
Stacey: Yeah, yeah.
Chuck: Yeah. Now you have, we literally have fans all over the world and I know you've been asked this question like five thousand times, but if you're a really good friend of yours, okay, said to you...
Chris: Those don't exist!
Chuck: "Hey Chris, man..." I know, but if you HAD a friend.
Stacey: We're playing pretend!
Chuck: If you had a friend and he was a really good friend and you actually like them and he said "Hey Chris, man, I really want to get into voice acting man, would you guide me through it? What are some of the first things that I should do in order to start off on the right track? What is some of the advice you can give to people out there about that?
Chris: I would tell them the first two things we talked about! Try stand-up if you think you're comedically inclined and get into an acting class. Just because you have a nice mellifluous voice, just because you're a nice baritone...
Chuck: Well, today it means nothing.
Chris: It means nothing, it means jack! It means people enjoy hearing you talk and that's about it because how do they know you can act? How do they know you can understand the copy? How do they know that you can take direction?
Chuck: Tell a story.
Chris: Yeah, exactly.
Stacey: Think on your feet.
Chris: Yeah, you're telling a story! Even if you're doing, I mean, almost all the storytelling copy I get is for an insurance company, you know? Though it's a product that's the most non-story-like product you've ever heard of. But they're gonna tell you a story about their company and they want a storyteller.
Chuck and Stacey: Yep
Chris: And it's the blandest product you can imagine so you've gotta take it and make it interesting.
Chuck: Yeah.
Chris: If you're a guy who just has a kind of a cool sounding voice, you're not gonna know what to do with that because you're gonna be stiff.
Chuck: Yeah.
Chris: So yeah, get used to performing in front of people, get used to being able to interpret, you know, and get used to being able to take whatever experiences you've had in your life and put them on that microphone you know.
Stacey: Yeah.
Chris: And don't be afraid to be judged for it!
Chuck and Stacey: Yeah
Chris: Be vulnerable.
Chuck: Yeah.
Chris: You know, you've gotta be able to practically make yourself cry, if not on the outside, on the inside when you're delivering something devastating. And it's...you know, there's no shortcut to that.
Chuck: Yeah, would you say that you almost have to eliminate a little bit the fear factor and just go for it?
Chris: Sure
Chuck: And not think about what somebody else might think or...
Chris: Sure, yeah, and everybody cares what other people think, no matter what people tell you.
Stacey: Yeah.
Chris: We all care. We wouldn't be performers if we didn't care! A performer connects with people.
Stacey: Yeah.
Chris: So, I care what they think! I've even told people in other interviews, sometimes you do a character - maybe a beloved character on a video game or something. Half of the people loved what you did, half may hate you and my stance is, they're allowed to hate me. They're allowed to hate what I did.
Stacey: Well, they're invested!"
Chris: Exactly, so if they don't like it, they can get on Twitter. They can get on YouTube. They can say whatever they want, I've already been paid.
Stacey: The check is cleared.
Chuck: Therefore I was great!
Chris: I don't have to give the check back, you know, sorry it didn't connect with you.
Stacey: And you're like, but I love me!
Chuck: Could you imagine if you had to give a check back if it got a thumbs down?
Stacey: That would be...or if you got a boost when you got a thumbs up?
Chris: You know what, yeah, exactly!
Chuck: Give this video a thumbs up, right?
Stacey: This video surged, you get a 10% increase!
Chris: That's when you'd start to play it too safe. So...even if you're afraid, do it scared as they say.
Stacey and Chuck: Yeah
Chris: Fear is a good motivator!
Chuck: It is!
Chris: It makes you really alert.
Stacey: It's just a different flavor of excitement.
Chris: Yeah, that's all it is! Use it!
Chuck: You have this very very unusual gig with The Simpsons that you've been on the show now for what...eight, nine seasons?
Chris: This is my ninth season!
Chuck: Ninth season? You're like the utility guy...
Chris: Yeah
Chuck: ...of The Simpsons, where you do so many freakin' voices. Probably hundreds!
Stacey: He's the voiceover handyman!
Chris: I'm the...
Chuck: He's the voiceover handyman!
Chris: You heard it here first!
Chuck: Oh my gosh, so...
Stacey: Need a wrench? He's got it. Need a ratchet? He's got it!
Chris: I've always thought of my role there as a Swiss army knife. If they just need a random voice here and there, yeah, that's what I get. You know, there's an episode coming up where we did the table read and there was one thing in there for me and I thought great! This is gonna be fun! When we record it I know what I'm gonna do, but sometimes it just comes up, you know? And so, here's a crowd scene, we're gonna pick this person out and he's gonna say this and alright, you do that, you know? And it's usually not that random, it's planned...
Stacey and Chuck: Yeah, yeah
Chris: It's just, it's being around the rest of the cast and filling in wherever they need me to, you know? And just filling things out, you know.
Stacey and Chuck: Yeah.
Chris: I mean, that cast is the most insanely talented cast there is.
Chuck: Absolutely!
Chris: I don't think they need much help!
Chuck: Yeah, they really don't. In fact, you were so cool man, inviting Stacey and I to a table read.
Stacey: Yeah! Got to see you in action at a table read and it was so fun!
Chris: Oh it was my pleasure!
Chuck: I remember, first of all, I've never been to a table read for The Simpsons!
Chris: It's great!
Chuck: And it was absolutely magical because everybody is beyond awesome! Everybody was great, and the cut...
Chris: Yeah
Chuck: That was the first time I've ever heard, not watched, but heard, an episode of anything...
Chris: Right!
Chuck: And gotten so into every tiny little word
Chris: Mmm hmm
Chuck: That I enjoyed it thoroughly, man!
Chris: Mmm hmm
Chuck: It was so cool!
Chris: That's what table reads are really for, is to get a live audience around the actors...and this is a lot of shows do this...
Stacey: Yeah
Chuck: Yeah, sure!
Chris: And the writers are there taking copious notes. Which jokes are landing, which jokes are not, is the storyline working, is the structure solid enough... And between that table read and the time you go in and record, sometimes there are changes. Sometimes things didn't quite work.
Chuck: Yeah
Chris: You know? And this is the proving ground for it.
Chuck: Yeah.
Chris: So you guys were part of determining what was going to be recorded.
Chuck: Cool!
Chris: The following Monday, so...
Stacey: Yeah!
Chris: So I love bringing people in for that experience!
Chuck: That's so cool! And then we had the other privilege of seeing you...
Chris: Oh yeah...
Chuck: go in and do some ADR
Chris: Right...
Chuck: For the show
Stacey: Yeah
Chuck: Which was so freaking cool! Obviously, you do that a lot...
Chris: Every now and then, yeah, they'll say, okay you did this character on the record day, there's been a tweak here and there, so now let's re-record it with this and you know sometimes you're doing it to picture...
Stacey: Yeah
Chris: Sometimes you're doing it to an animatic, which is just sort of a black and white halfway process, but yeah, and sometimes you're doing it and the episode's going to air in two or three weeks! You know, other times its six months away.
Chuck: Exactly.
Chris: Table reads typically can be nine months to a year before that episode's aired.
Stacey: Right, right
Chuck: Really?
Chris: So...
Chuck: Holy Toledo!
Chris: You're seeing an earlier stage and I don't know how long they'd been working with the script up till then.
Chuck: Right, right, right.
Chris: So it's...you know, I mean you've had Nancy on...
Stacey and Chuck: Yeah
Chris: ...to talk about the process, I'm sure this is kind of what she shared, you know...
Chuck: Well, actually, we asked her different questions than we're asking you, Chris!
Stacey: Yeah.
Chuck: So she talked more about all of her awards.
Stacey: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah I can't talk about all those Emmys! Not yet.
Stacey: She's such a doll!
Chris: She's great!
Stacey: She was one of our...what was it like our third guest?
Chuck: Very, very first...
Stacey: Third guest. Literally, our third guest and she was amazing.
Chris: And she embraces Bart.
Chuck: Oh my gosh!
Stacey: She is Bart!
Chris: Yeah, generous, giving person when it comes to that. Kids were there today at the table read. And I said wait until Nancy comes in, she'll do Bart for you and sure enough, I looked over my shoulder and Nancy had found them and boom, she'd do a Bart, she's signing stuff, you know, she's great.
Stacey: She's wonderful.
Chris: Yeah, loves that!
Stacey: Well, to ride on this rainbow...umm...when...
Chuck: Rerun! The Chris Edgerly rainbow!
Stacey: The Chris Edgerly rainbow tour, catch it! Umm, when Nolan North was here...
Chris: And I love that episode by the way...
Stacey: Fellow CESD pride, yay! Umm, he spoke about the times when things aren't so abundant...
Chris: Yeah
Stacey: And mentioned when you guys probably put in all the crown molding in Valencia.
Chris: Yeah
Stacey: So, how do you, and have you, navigated the ups and downs of this...
Chris: That's a memory!
Stacey: ...career?
Chris: Well, here's the funny thing. At the time I was a single guy.
Stacey: Yes.
Chris: Not even a girlfriend, I was just dating.
Stacey: She was the crown molding, baby!
Chris: Exactly! And I even had roommates back then, I think this was around '04.
Stacey: Okay...
Chris: And I didn't need a lot of money to just sort of be "flush with cash" and so I was doing okay! I actually didn't really need the cash, but I needed something to do.
Stacey: Yeah
Chris: I was eating my own brain with boredom and so he said "Dude, I'm gonna put up some crown molding in Valencia" and I said, "I am in!"
Chuck: I'm in!
Chris: Let's hit Taco Bell on the way there and boom, you know. And I know nothing about crown molding...but it's not that hard.
Chuck: Yeah.
Stacey: Yeah, you get the level, you know.
Chuck: Yeah.
Chris: Exactly! He had a miter saw, he had his pickup, we drove around, you know, we did a couple of houses. We did jokes and cracked each other up and...
Stacey: You charmed it until it was straight...
Chuck: I can just imagine what that must have been like!
Stacey: Did you ever go and ring the doorbell and go like "Hi, we used to put up the crown molding and...
Chuck: Is that what you guys did? Hi, would you like some cream...uhh...cream, creampie? No...
Stacey: Cream molding?
Chuck: No, crown molding!
Chris: Yeah, I mean, technically I look at a house now and I look at the crown molding and go...
All three: EH!
Chuck: We could do much better than that!
Chris: I coulda done better than that! Noel and I coulda done it!
Stacey and Chuck: Yeah!
Chris: Me and...
Stacey: Hysterical!
Chris: Yeah, me and Drake's Fortune coulda done better than that!
Chuck: Have you...
Stacey: Cid and Drake Crown Molding, that would be a great uh...
Chuck: Have you had any off jobs in your life that were like, you know, something you could talk about?
Chris: I have had, I have had fifteen jobs in my life.
Chuck: Fifteen jobs?
Stacey: Oh!
Chris: The very first job I ever had at McDonald's back in '86.
Chuck: Wow, all the way...
Stacey: Were you the fry guy?
Chris: I was everything. When you're at McDonald's you're everything. You start on fries, you go to chicken McNuggets, you go to burgers, you go to sweeping out the cooler...
Stacey: Oh, okay.
Chris: You do it all! Uhh, they never let me near the register.
Stacey: Oh!
Chris: Yeah, funny that! Like ehhhh...
Stacey: The background check was a little sketchy? Is that why?
Chuck: Yeah, whatever you do, don't let that guy...
Chris: Yeah, you stay back there near the stuff that can burn you for life. You don't need to be talking to the people.
Chuck: Oh gosh!
Chris: Umm they didn't let me near the cash register, but after that, I worked at a hardware store, I worked...didn't know anything...they kept bouncing me around the different departments.
Chuck: Yeah!
Chris: I once used the paint mixer without securing the lid...
Stacey: Oopsie!
Chris: And got a little paint back there...yeah...
Stacey: That was a short-lived job!
Chris: That was a couple of months! I worked in a pool hall. I got fired from that, you know, I worked in the weight room in my dorm in college! Just cleaning up the weights...
Stacey: Wiping down the weights...
Chris: Spotting people when they needed...exactly. I worked...the very last job I had, and when you're kind of in the performing arts you eventually just drift over to waiting tables because that's the job you can do. You don't need a lot of training and you can pick up quick cash and...
Chuck: Exactly!
Stacey: Right
Chuck: And you need your days typically open.
Stacey: Yeah.
Chris: Right, right. I worked at an Olive Garden, I worked at an Applebees, I worked at a rib joint. My very last job ever, I worked at Disney in Orlando! I worked at the Whispering Canyon Cafe inside the Wilderness Lodge in Orlando.
Stacey: Oh wow! Magical!
Chris: Yeah, until they fired me.
Chuck: You get fired a lot!
Stacey: How long did that little...
Chris: Yeah...
Stacey: This is the glamorous life!
Chuck: That's why he liked voice-over work because nobody fires him for...
Chris: Yeah, this is the only one that's worked!
Stacey: Did you not secure the plate to your hand or how did that work?
Chris: This was actually a hard job to get fired from...but I cracked that code. Yeah.
Chuck: You cracked the code!
Chris: Because...
Stacey: You're so tenacious!
Chris: Yes, yes, I like...at that job they wanted you to kind of be a performer, you know?
Stacey: Right.
Chris: Here at the Whispering Canyon Cafe it's very cowboy, it's very Wild West and you know, you sing songs and you tell stories and they want you to do your accent and dress up like a cowboy. And I would miss work...like I booked a job on Seaquest DSV, that was my SAG job. That was in Orlando. I booked that job so I couldn't make it into work. I was late the day they planned on firing me...so they said yeah, look, you missed this day, you missed that day, you were absent here and then you're late for your own firing...
Chuck: And you said "True"
Chris: Yeah, and a security guard escorted me off. Yeah, by God you're doing the right thing, buddy!
Chuck: Yeah!
Chuck: Hey, that's all we have with Chris Edgerly Part 1! We're gonna be back next week with part 2, so check it out!
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