But it’s fun bringing new people and they’re seeing it through a different lens of like ‘this is so bizarre’ Now I’m so used to seeing a Finn in a cosplay, or any other weird cosplay concoction now it’s just ‘oh yeah’. But I guess once you get out there and you see it you’re so overwhelmed by it and you just take it in. Yeah, the first time I was at comic con I was about 13, yeah – so I was very nervous the first time. It must’ve been pretty weird as a, what, 14 year old? I think that the biggest time that you realise that – because even when you hear the numbers coming in for when it airs and they’re big numbers, that’s one thing – but it’s when you see the fan response and get to actually go to a comic con – the first one I went to was San Diego comic con and you get to go the panels with the whole cast and autograph signings and stuff – that’s when you really get the scope of ‘wow, there’s a whole family here that made their own costumes from scratch at home and they’re all dressed up as different characters from the show.’ And that’s generally when you know that something’s huge, when you see that response and you’re ‘ok that’s pretty cool’ And at what point in Adventure Time‘s run did you realise that it was going to be the hit that it is? So the recording process is pretty short for the most part – the bit that takes forever is the animation process which takes about 9 months! We usually do one episode a week, so it’ll take us about 3 hours to record an episode from start to finish with all the voices. I think my dad just thought it would be ‘oh ok thanks for coming’ and nothing would come of it, but after that we went out and started booking jobs and we’ve been working ever since and it just went from there.Īnd an episode of Adventure Time – how long do they take to make? Or, if you don’t want to then do something else 100% – so we just loved movies and TV shows and we live in LA so it was a possible thing to do, so they were kind enough to humour us and take us to an agent and see what happened. Yeah yeah – there’s a lot of times when you’ll have kids in the industry and there’s obviously parents pushing them and going ‘you will be famous’! For us, that wasn’t the way at all – my parents have always been very supportive of us, but it was ultimately – if you want to do it ‘awesome’, we’ll help and support you in that, but if you wanna do it then do it 100%. I don’t think that I even thought it was a thing – I just though ‘oh that’s that cartoon’ and didn’t necessarily know there was someone behind the cartoon in a booth doing a voice, so when that possibility came up it was obviously awesome and I very much enjoy doing itĪnd you obviously come from quite a strong acting family, so were your parents supportive of you taking the role? I think it was mostly just chance – I think with acting and voice acting, and entertainment in general, you go in to one avenue and just other opportunities sometimes come up. Interviewer giggles like nerdy schoolgirl*Īnd when you were doing acting at the start of your career, did you always know you wanted to go in to voice acting or was it just a chance? It doesn’t sound like my normal low speaking voice now, but it’s very easy to do it up in the higher pitch *does Finn voice. After season 1 – because that season my voice was changing – so I think season 3 on, it’s much more steady. It’s the same character, for sure, but there’s some voice change somewhere along the line in there. Luckily for me they’ve aged the character throughout the show which definitely helps – if you go back and listen to season 1 Finn and season 8 Finn, it’s definitely different. Yeah, he took the role initially, and then when Cartoon Network picked it up about 3 years later I picked up the mantle and I’ve been doing it ever since for the past 7 years nowĪnd is it difficult to keep your voice at the same sort of age, as you’ve grown up in that time? Could you tell us a bit about this family affair? Jeremy Shada, you’ve voiced Finn in Adventure Time for all 8 seasons, but it was actually your brother Zack who initiated the role on the pilot. I know you’re excited – we are too – but try to contain yourselves for long enough to read a quick interview with the voice of Finn the Human Jeremy Shada. At 9am on Monday 30th May, Cartoon Network will air ‘Bad Jubies’ a special stop-motion episode of Adventure Time, guest directed by Kirsten Lepore (of Bottle and Move Mountain fame).
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