Dubbing voice over actors don\u2019t always get the credit they deserve, though, most especially since their voices are being applied to a face and a persona, and people forget the voice behind the face because in dubbing, they are only heard and all people see is the face.<\/p>\n
Dubbing voice over actors<\/a>, people would say, need to be a notch or two more skilled than an actor. They need to take that script and sync their read with that of the actor on screen\u2019s facial expressions, the mood of the scenario and the movement of the actor on screen\u2019s lips. They have to mold themselves to the script, the actor and the scene. Sometimes, they need to do all this in a shorter time allotted, too.<\/p>\n Let\u2019s take a few moments to listen to what they have to say as them and not the persona they dub.<\/p>\n In dubbing for Kirsten Dunst, Claudia says she does not imitate the actor. She gets into the personality of the role. She says what she likes to do is to focus on the actor\u2019s gestures and reflect those gestures in her voice. She adds to the drama and she says that \u201cto dub well you have to be as good an actor, or better\u201d. She laments that distributors do not put voice actors like her in the credits and it would be nice if they did. For those who do not know her, she also dubbed Mary Jane in the movie Spider-Man<\/em>, she also provided Bart Simpson\u2019s voice for ten years.<\/p>\n Giuppy\u2019s father used to tell her and her three sisters that \u201cYour voice is the soundtrack of your life.\u201d She and her sisters were born into the business, in fact, one of her sisters is a dubbing director and a dubbing artist just like her. Giuppy started dubbing when she was ten and was the voice for Ren\u00e9e Zellweger in the two Bridget Jones<\/em> movies. She studied Ren\u00e9e\u2019s diction, movements and breathing so intently she feels like she knows the Hollywood actress even if they have never met.<\/p>\n Fran\u00e7oise shares that people take dubbing seriously in France, that there are people there who keep scrapbooks about dubbing. Unlike other parts of the globe, people in France know their dubbing voice over actors, despite their names being kept out of the credits. Fran\u00e7oise says she finds dubbing artistic and enjoys dubbing films<\/a> a lot. She is also a theater playwright and dubbing is what allows her to keep on doing work for theater. Fran\u00e7oise has been Angelina Jolie\u2019s voice since Lara Croft<\/em> in Tomb Raider and is also Lara Croft<\/em> in the video games.<\/p>\n Prior to dubbing for Tom Cruise, Ren Wei has dubbed for several other Hollywood actors such as Joseph Fiennes in Enemy at the Gates<\/em>, Vincent Perez in Fanfan la Tulipe<\/em>, Ewan McGregor in Moulin Rouge<\/em>, and Hugh Jackman in Kate and Leopold<\/em>. His career in voice dubbing began when he joined the Shanghai Film Dubbing Studio in 1986. Then he was asked to voice Tom Cruise for his role in Mission: Impossible III<\/em>. Ren shares that while Tom Cruise had four months to do the film, Ren had to learn the whole script and then dub the lines in four days. He confesses that they always had to rush because of the piracy in China. They either had to get it done first or someone else unauthorised will. Ren said while doing Mission Impossible<\/em>, he had to work 12 hours every day in those four days. The fact that it was an action movie packed with running and shouting made it hard to emulate in a studio after which he had to switch voices and mood for those romantic scenes with Tom Cruise\u2019s role and his wife. He said it was \u201cvery intense and I had to cover a big range of emotions.\u201d He had to watch the original English film quite a few times to get it right.<\/p>\n According to dubbing voice over actors, dubbing can be hard if the actor they dub for is speaking very, very fast, considering they have to make the script fit the lip movements of the actor on screen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Four dubbing actors, from Mexico to China, on matching lip movements, working to brutal deadlines, and why their names rarely hit the credits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2171,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[427,36],"tags":[402],"class_list":["post-2161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marketing-your-voice","category-voice-over-industry","tag-dubbing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\tClaudia Motta is Mexico\u2019s Kirsten Dunst<\/h2>\n
Giuppy Izzo is Italy’s Ren\u00e9e Zellweger<\/h2>\n
Fran\u00e7oise Cadol is the voice for Angelina Jolie in France<\/h2>\n
Ren Wei is China\u2019s Tom Cruise, Ewan McGregor, John Travolta and Hugh Jackman<\/h2>\n