I have just returned from the dubbing studio where I spoke into a microphone as Severus Snape for absolutely the last time.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I've only used my own voice about four times on film.
The beauty of voice-over work is that maybe you come in and record once every two weeks for a couple of hours and do a couple episodes a session. It's awesome! You spend an afternoon playing in the booth, and there you have it. It doesn't interfere with much.
I use my voice as an instrument.
Voice is my instrument.
But here I am today recording this and I'm in the studio with all the others on a clean mic. It's extraordinary, the actor's found a way of doing it for himself.
I got more used to my own voice, but still it's hard for me to listen to my own voice, or hear the recordings.
When I am in the sound booth, I am trying to convey as much as I can through just my voice.
I definitely use 'smiling while rapping' as a tool in the booth. I want to have fun while recording.
Of all the games I've done, the only time I've ever lost my voice was on 'Call Of Duty 2,' playing a rasping Russian captain on the Stalingrad level.
Voices are like fingerprints, from Cagney to Bogart. They never lost it. My voice is instrumental in categorizing me.