Sweet Little Queen
09-21-2007, 06:54 AM
King of Hill: Behind the Voices
We visit a recording session and speak to the cast, including Tom Petty, about bringing their characters to life.
by Eric Goldman (http://tv.ign.com/email.html)
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September 20, 2007
...There was also the opportunity to watch Najimy and legendary rock star Petty record together, and it was especially funny to see Najimy improv a couple of lines onto the end of the scene, in which Peggy Hill makes some un-Peg like advances towards Petty's character. On King of the Hill, the main cast often also voice other incidental characters, and so it was this day, with Petty pulling double duty and doing a very good job changing up his voice to play a character simply referred to as "Driver" in the script.
Petty then sat down with Adlon, Root and Hardwick, to talk about his surprising second job as a voice actor. He said it began simply enough, recalling "They called me and I came down and did a part for them. They liked the character and kept writing him in, and now he's been going on three years." Petty revealed "I loved the show long before I did it and it was a complete coincidence that I got called, because it was really one of my favorite shows." He also said he felt comfortable with his character because "I know who Lucky is pretty well. Lucky is very philosophical. He's a philosophical idiot."
Petty had lots of praise for his costars, saying "they're a fantastic cast." The others all laughed when he said "It's intimidating because they're real actors," because as Adlon put it "he's Tom Petty and he comes in and he's intimidated by us!" Added Petty, "They're great people, and they made me feel at home. It's a privilege to work with them."
Joking aside, Adlon said she could understand Petty's remark about being intimidated, noting "Everybody has a level of insecurity when they go into a room and you're doing a voice. You kind of just want to say 'Can you all just turn around? Don't look at me! Let me just do it.' Because you're almost more exposed. Even though it's just your voice, where you do it, in the room, it's just raw, because people are looking at you saying 'That's so funny', but you feel totally exposed. The point is that everybody feels that way. Everybody feels nervous and green, no matter how many jobs you do."
The cast said they have definitely not gotten over having someone as iconic as Petty working with them, with Root saying "Are you kidding? It's one of our biggest calling cards!" Hardwick revealed "I came home the other weekend and I said 'I just sang with Tom Petty!'" Hardwick said this came about during "An episode where Dale's doing a Queen ripoff, and Lucky got written into the scene as saying he was doing a great job." Petty noted that the next thing they knew "We started [singing] together."
Adlon said that Petty's longevity on the series is "not because they knew what was gonna happen with Lucky. It was because he's good. He came in and he was a really good actor. You were so good. If you sucked, then there would be no Lucky." Before Petty had to leave, I asked him what his family felt about his role on King of the Hill. Everyone in the room laughed, as Petty replied "I think they're more impressed by that than anything I've done. That gave me an incredible validation with the kids, you know? 'Oh, That's what he does! I get it!'"
http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa236/kavery13/edu-macating-lucky-2006051111342551.jpg
Tom Petty voices Lucky (kneeling) on
King of the Hill
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We visit a recording session and speak to the cast, including Tom Petty, about bringing their characters to life.
by Eric Goldman (http://tv.ign.com/email.html)
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September 20, 2007
...There was also the opportunity to watch Najimy and legendary rock star Petty record together, and it was especially funny to see Najimy improv a couple of lines onto the end of the scene, in which Peggy Hill makes some un-Peg like advances towards Petty's character. On King of the Hill, the main cast often also voice other incidental characters, and so it was this day, with Petty pulling double duty and doing a very good job changing up his voice to play a character simply referred to as "Driver" in the script.
Petty then sat down with Adlon, Root and Hardwick, to talk about his surprising second job as a voice actor. He said it began simply enough, recalling "They called me and I came down and did a part for them. They liked the character and kept writing him in, and now he's been going on three years." Petty revealed "I loved the show long before I did it and it was a complete coincidence that I got called, because it was really one of my favorite shows." He also said he felt comfortable with his character because "I know who Lucky is pretty well. Lucky is very philosophical. He's a philosophical idiot."
Petty had lots of praise for his costars, saying "they're a fantastic cast." The others all laughed when he said "It's intimidating because they're real actors," because as Adlon put it "he's Tom Petty and he comes in and he's intimidated by us!" Added Petty, "They're great people, and they made me feel at home. It's a privilege to work with them."
Joking aside, Adlon said she could understand Petty's remark about being intimidated, noting "Everybody has a level of insecurity when they go into a room and you're doing a voice. You kind of just want to say 'Can you all just turn around? Don't look at me! Let me just do it.' Because you're almost more exposed. Even though it's just your voice, where you do it, in the room, it's just raw, because people are looking at you saying 'That's so funny', but you feel totally exposed. The point is that everybody feels that way. Everybody feels nervous and green, no matter how many jobs you do."
The cast said they have definitely not gotten over having someone as iconic as Petty working with them, with Root saying "Are you kidding? It's one of our biggest calling cards!" Hardwick revealed "I came home the other weekend and I said 'I just sang with Tom Petty!'" Hardwick said this came about during "An episode where Dale's doing a Queen ripoff, and Lucky got written into the scene as saying he was doing a great job." Petty noted that the next thing they knew "We started [singing] together."
Adlon said that Petty's longevity on the series is "not because they knew what was gonna happen with Lucky. It was because he's good. He came in and he was a really good actor. You were so good. If you sucked, then there would be no Lucky." Before Petty had to leave, I asked him what his family felt about his role on King of the Hill. Everyone in the room laughed, as Petty replied "I think they're more impressed by that than anything I've done. That gave me an incredible validation with the kids, you know? 'Oh, That's what he does! I get it!'"
http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa236/kavery13/edu-macating-lucky-2006051111342551.jpg
Tom Petty voices Lucky (kneeling) on
King of the Hill
All article here
http://tv.ign.com/articles/821/821832p1.html