![]() 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. So far SAG has no plans on relenting from the strike, but the publishers aren't willing to give in to all of their demands, either.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. Nevertheless, it will be interesting to see how SAG and the publishers come to an agreement regarding the pay, safety and performance details for the actors. The gaming industry is very secretive because there's billions of dollars at stake based on the tech and the minds who produce that tech. There have been various cases about companies getting embroiled in legal issues over proprietary technology being used in competing products, in fact ZeniMax sued Oculus for that very thing, and EA and Activision dealt with corporate espionage trying to get or keep their hands on Jason West and Vince Zampella, the masterminds behind the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare series. Unlike movies or TV, though, there's a lot of proprietary tech used in games and developers are extremely secretive of code, design techniques and engines that they don't want getting out or talked about. He mentioned that Blizzard isn't being affected by the strike because they've always been good to voice actors, even though their parent company Activision is being affected by the strike. Freeman explains that the actors simply want their safety ensured and to know what they're getting into before signing onto a project, and to garner "a tiny bit of shared prosperity". Ultimately he says that he just wants voice actors to be respected and for publishers to feel as if their performance matters. It's a common drone with a lot of video game stuff I've been asked to work on games without them saying that it's the same game again, and so they tried to undercut my salaries. I've been asked to work on games without knowing what the game was and then shown up and been told that I'm going to have to use the N word repeatedly as my character with no warning ahead of time. Speaking with Gamespot, actor Crispin Freeman, who voices Winston from Overwatch, explained how he felt about the strike and why he was joining in, saying. ![]()
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