{"id":215,"date":"2014-11-14T19:07:29","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T19:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amazingvoiceovers.com\/ryan-potter-on-4-ways-to-approach-voiceover-acting\/"},"modified":"2014-11-14T19:07:29","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T19:07:29","slug":"ryan-potter-on-4-ways-to-approach-voiceover-acting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.amazingvoiceovers.com\/index.php\/2014\/11\/14\/ryan-potter-on-4-ways-to-approach-voiceover-acting\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Potter on 4 Ways to Approach Voiceover Acting"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Actor and martial arts wunderkind Ryan Potter got his start as a teenager on the Nickelodeon show \u201cSupah Ninjas\u201d and will now be voicing the part of Hiro in Disney\u2019s upcoming \u201cBig Hero 6.\u201d<\/p>\n

On his character in \u201cBig Hero 6.\u201d
<\/strong>\u201cHiro is a Japanese-American kid who lives in San Fransokyo; an average teenager except he\u2019s as smart or smarter than kids his age. There are many spoilers and I don\u2019t want to give too much away, but his friends help him stay on the right path. Hiro creates this new technology and it gets stolen, so he goes on this mission to get his invention back.\u201d<\/p>\n

On balancing school and an acting career.
<\/strong>\u201cIt\u2019s very difficult. You do school on set, and with that comes the time constraint and trying to get all the work done in the day. Legally, you have to get a certain amount of hours a day. We shot five days out of the week, so sometimes it was very difficult. But I\u2019ve graduated now.\u201d<\/p>\n

On how martial arts training<\/a> affects his approach.
<\/strong>\u201cI\u2019ve been doing martial arts for 12 years now. This character is very active in the film, and there are certain physicalities you have to create with your voice. I would run around, jump around, throw myself around; it had to match the energy of the character. Those are all things I\u2019ve experienced before; I know what those sounds actually sound like.\u201d<\/p>\n

On preparing for \u201cBig Hero 6.\u201d
<\/strong>\u201cThere was really no prep work because the character is me. I didn\u2019t do anything to my voice, although throughout the course of the film my voice did get a bit deeper. This character and I are very similar in our personality but also in our childhood. I grew up in Tokyo and lived in San Francisco. I\u2019m a huge anime and manga fan. I loved Disney films and Marvel comics, so it\u2019s crazy to be given this opportunity. We are very much similar. They wanted to cast true to the characters. This character is Japanese-American, so when I went into the audition and they saw what I looked like…they wanted to cast true to the ethnicity of the character.\u201d<\/p>\n

On voiceover acting<\/a>.
<\/strong>\u201cI think with animation there\u2019s a certain freedom that you\u2019re given. You don\u2019t have a thought at the back of your mind, that worry that you\u2019ll have to cut and go back to the top of the scene. You\u2019re not working with anyone else from the cast. It\u2019s just you. It\u2019s crazy how the film all comes together. It\u2019s mind-blowing to think none of us were in the room at the same time. The directors did a really good job of making it seem like we were all there [acting off each other].\u201d<\/p>\n

On advice he gives young actors.
<\/strong>\u201cWhatever it is that you like to do, really truly pursue that. It\u2019s so brutal. If you\u2019re not passionate about it, it\u2019s not the business for you. If you really want to do it you have to have that work ethic. The projects you get are going to reflect your work ethic.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the nonprofit organization Big Brothers Big Sisters of America.
<\/strong>\u201cI\u2019ve had a Big Brother for years now, and he\u2019s a huge role model in my life. There are so many kids in smaller towns that are on the waitlist. I\u2019d love to be able to shorten the list, as some kids have been waiting for years. I want to be able to spread that message of being a role model in a child\u2019s life. They\u2019re a phenomenal organization.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Actor and martial arts wunderkind Ryan Potter got his start as a teenager on the Nickelodeon show \u201cSupah Ninjas\u201d and will now be voicing the part of Hiro in Disney\u2019s upcoming \u201cBig Hero 6.\u201d On his character in \u201cBig Hero 6.\u201d\u201cHiro is a Japanese-American kid who lives in San Fransokyo; an average teenager except he\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4,5,6],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amazingvoiceovers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amazingvoiceovers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amazingvoiceovers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amazingvoiceovers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amazingvoiceovers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.amazingvoiceovers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amazingvoiceovers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amazingvoiceovers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amazingvoiceovers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}