The cowardly Jedi killer General Grievous makes for an intriguing and villainous cover star to a 2005 issue of the French LUCASFILM magazine.
“I was involved in the sound processing of
Grievous’ voice, which we had to do before we even picked an actor. So myself
and Chris Scarabosio were asked to come up with a process. Rick McCallum put
out a casting package in L.A., Sydney, and London, and we were asked to apply
the process to each candidate’s audition, which involved pitch and ring
modulation.
So I had been processing theses voices
involving the same scene-the one on the bridge with Anakin, Obi-Wan and R2-and
Chris encouraged me to give it a shot myself. After I did one, I used an
anonymous name and sent it with the rest of the auditions. George picked
it. I knew George would hear it (the
accent) so I wanted it to be good. I had done some voice work at ACT, and I had
just spent some time on vacation going to Prague and also Moscow and St.
Petersburg, I liked that accent. George also mentioned when he was talking
about the character that (he) was slightly vampiric, so I kind of went for
that. There’s some Bela Lugosi in (there for good measure).
MATTHEW WOOD - ONLINE HYPERSPACE
INTERVIEW (2006)
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