![]() I thought, “that’s weird.” I re-found Japanese animation again after college, because I was going to school in New York City, and there was a cool store down in the East Village called Anime Crash that sold anime on VHS tapes. Speed Racer, Star Blazers, Battle of the Planets, Robotech, Voltron. When I looked back, I realized that all my favorite cartoons tended to be Japanese. And I had been watching it all during my childhood without knowing. I’d always loved animation as a kid, and it wasn’t until high school that I realized animation could come from different countries, and that there was Japanese animation. First, I rediscovered my love of Japanese animation. Luckily, around that time, I discovered two things. Why am I not always interested?” I said, “Yeah, that’s a problem.” The head of the program turned to me and said, “Crispin, you look good, you move well, you speak well. My artistry was suffering, my personal relationships weren’t so great. And I realized that I didn’t know why I was acting, I didn’t know what I had to say, I didn’t know why I was doing what I was doing. Things were not working, which is something that can happen in grad school, because it’s a very stressful environment, and they’re trying to break you down and build you back up. Back then, things in my college were still on reel-to-reel tape decks, and I was like, “Are you kidding me? This needs to be on mini-disk decks, and we need to be running through a Macintosh, and blah-blah-blah.”īut then, when I was in graduate school in New York, I was going to Columbia University to get my Master’s in acting, I had an artistic crisis of sorts. I was not only acting on stage, but I was doing sound design for the theater as well. Then when I was going through high school and college, computers were just getting fast enough to do professional quality audio. But then I started getting into computers when I was younger, and I was a computer nerd long before I was a theater geek. ![]() I learned about audio probably by breaking a lot of the equipment he gave me, his hand-me-downs. I guess, I was raised in an audiophile family, my dad always had fancy audio equipment. I was initially a computer nerd, who became an actor. How did your interest in mythology start? Were you initially a history student, and then you became a voice actor? Was this something that you developed on your own? I also did the Male Wizard in Diablo III, Vindicator Maraad in World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor. And in the video game world… most recently, I’m probably most famous for the character of Winston in Overwatch. Maheshwaran, the father of Steven Universe’s girlfriend, Connie. Young Justice, where I play Red Arrow and Speedy and Arsenal, and I’m cloned in a million different ways in that show.Īlso worked on Steven Universe as Mr. In terms of domestic American animation, I’ve worked on Spectacular Spider-Man, where I played Electro. And I did some background voices on Ponyo. I’ve also worked on a couple of Miyazaki films, including Howl’s Moving Castle, where I played Prince Turnip. ![]() Ghost in the Shell, where I played Togusa. I started working in anime, Japanese animation, and some of the big titles I’ve worked on there are Naruto, where I play Itachi. My name is Crispin Freeman, I work primarily as a voice actor, but I’m also a mythology scholar, and I do presentations on how the different religious traditions of different cultures and countries affect pop culture storytelling.īefore we discuss your mythology scholarship, can you just list off a couple things people might know you from in voice acting? So just to begin, could you introduce yourself to our readers? Note: there is a spoiler for Young Justice in this interview when Crispin is describing his roles – you can avoid it by skipping to the first question (“How did your interest in mythology start?”) He spoke with me about how his interest in mythology began, the role it played in his career, and how myths have shaped our popular culture. Crispin Freeman, while perhaps best known for his many voice-acting roles (Alucard in ‘Hellsing’, Itachi in ‘Naruto’, Winston in ‘Overwatch’) is also a mythology scholar. ![]()
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