00:07When we started working on season one, we talked a lot about what made each of these
00:13people who they were.
00:14We felt like we needed to find who they were at the core and then build out on that.
00:20Each character is different.
00:22That seemed really important to try to make them all different from one another.
00:26So, each one is an individual, but kind of how they all fit together is really good.
00:32I think the voice actors defined the characters and their individual personalities helped shape
00:38the characters and really helped us separate one from the other.
00:43We knew we wanted distinctive, realistic sounding voices because these characters truly are heroes.
00:49You wanted to get some sort of heroic quality as well.
00:52Titans, go!
00:54When we were talking about Robin, we were walking around this mall where we had lunch,
00:59and we saw these kids doing skateboard tricks.
01:01I realized all of a sudden, well, that's who Robin is because there's a fearlessness about
01:05that.
01:06And when you blow that up to super heroic proportions, it's a kid who will jump off the roof of
01:11a building
01:11and figure out how to survive on the way down.
01:15One of the things that I think is so cool about Robin is he's the one Titan that doesn't have
01:18any super powers.
01:19He's gotten to where he is just through, like, perseverance and training and training.
01:23And he's this martial arts master.
01:25So, for the voice of Robin, we auditioned a gentleman named Scott Menville.
01:30He's got kind of a raspy quality to his voice.
01:32It's an identifiable voice.
01:33Titans, have you heard anything from Hotspot?
01:36I've lost his signal.
01:37It's pretty close to my voice.
01:39It's just I pitch it up to make him sound a little younger and kind of try to make him
01:43sound steely and a little cold.
01:45Early on, they threw out the reference of Clint Eastwood.
01:48Like in the first couple episodes, Andrea, the director, would say, give me a little Clint
01:52Eastwood.
01:52Scott Menville definitely brought an intensity to it.
01:58And that kind of matched what we needed for the heroic cut to and the leader in charge.
02:02And you can give somebody Titans, go, but it could also sound really hokey if you don't
02:08give it to the right person.
02:09And, you know, he's made it a very cool, you know, signature phrase.
02:14Titans, go!
02:21Raven's a little bit more worldly, and she's kind of experienced more, and she's kind of
02:27more withdrawn than the other characters.
02:29She was just instantly the goth, and we kind of knew how to approach that character.
02:34We needed a different kind of voice than the other gung-ho hero voices that we were looking
02:39for for the rest of the cast.
02:40Initially, I just thought maybe she'd be cool and down here and dark and not your standard,
02:47over-the-top animated performance.
02:49And so I went in and I did Raven really just as my own voice was really low-key.
02:54She did three or four different takes, three or four different versions of what Raven might
02:59sound like.
02:59And they were all quite good.
03:00And as she walked out of the studio during the callback audition, she said, I have one
03:06more thought.
03:06I just had this idea that since she is part, you know, devil, that maybe there'd be some
03:12kind of odd texture to her voice.
03:14And I thought it'd kind of be cool if she had like a little bit of Zelda from Poltergeist
03:18in her.
03:19And I just started reading her with this, you know, unusual rasp that sort of rotates, as
03:24opposed to a boy rasp where, you know, if I'm doing a little bullet, he's got a rasp here.
03:28She's got like a rolling rasp that's kind of strange and eerie.
03:32And that's what booked the part.
03:33The mirror you found is for meditation.
03:35It's a portal into my mind, not a toy!
03:40Heh heh.
03:41My bad.
03:43Beast Boy's kind of the class clown and the shape changer.
03:46He can be any animal he wants, but he's really insecure.
03:50Imagine being a little green 14-year-old kid in this world and how people would look at
03:56you.
03:56And so that right there, I connected with that, because I've always been kind of like
03:59the outsider of everybody.
04:01So me and Beast Boy have that in common.
04:03For the voice of Beast Boy, Greg Sipes, he had a quality to his voice that I just loved.
04:08It was so innocent and so sort of free.
04:11Can you beat any fish in the sea?
04:13I don't think so.
04:14When I came into the audition, they had a picture of Beast Boy on the stand.
04:19And all of a sudden, I was like, oh, so Raven, so you want to play some basketball or whatever?
04:25It just came out.
04:26I never did that voice ever before in my whole life.
04:28I think that the way that I would have written Beast Boy had we not cast Greg would have been
04:34a little bit more crass and a little bit more of a jokester.
04:37So hearing his voice coming through Beast Boy really led me to write the character a very
04:44different way.
04:45Come on, you guys.
04:46Can't anybody take a joke?
04:47He'll never stop just being himself.
04:50No matter how mean people are to him or they don't get his jokes, he'll come up with more
04:54jokes.
04:58People don't really get Beast Boy all the time and people really don't get me a lot
05:02of the times, too.
05:05Cyborg is a kid who got hurt when he was in high school.
05:09He used to be an athlete.
05:11And so now he's this half robot, half teenage guy.
05:15And the robot part of him, you know, has made him stronger, you know, faster, you know,
05:21and given him these powers that he never would have had before.
05:24If you were 15, 16 and all of a sudden you could do all of these things.
05:29Yeah, there would be some regret, but there would also be a lot of, wow, this is amazing.
05:34He's either really happy or he's really down.
05:38There's very few points where Cyborg's just kind of like, how you doing?
05:42I'm all right.
05:42I'm okay.
05:43I can take it.
05:44I can leave.
05:45He's like, let's do it.
05:46He's like, what are we going to do?
05:48You know, you know, so he's just really exuberant.
05:51When he would say, booyah, it was totally believable.
05:55You knew that he was behind it.
05:57He was enthusiastic.
05:58It didn't sound silly.
05:59Give me a booyah out there.
06:00I'm going to say booyah.
06:02Booyah!
06:02Give me a booyah.
06:04I love it.
06:07We must mend your dispute by the sharing of unhealthy junk foods.
06:11I shall fetch them.
06:12Starfire is not familiar with things on earth.
06:15So we were saying, well, she has to be innocent, but everything's new to her.
06:19So we started talking about her as the fact that she was a foreigner, that she was a foreign exchange
06:23student.
06:23And it started to make sense that, okay, she's just, she's from another place.
06:27Maybe she would hang a toilet seat on her wall and think that was, you know, that was art.
06:32We knew we wanted some quality about her that was unique.
06:35So we needed something that was slightly different than what the other Titans sounded like.
06:39Because she's just learning about the planet.
06:41She sometimes messes up the terminology.
06:43She'll say, you know, he has not yet done the booyah.
06:47So she'd have these phrases because she didn't really understand the language yet.
06:51Hinden Walsh came in and, and brought the character to life.
06:54She would put a certain inflection on things or she would throw a word in or take a word out.
07:00And we started writing more and more to that.
07:03I suggest a large pizza with pickles, bananas, and mint frosting.
07:11When all the Titans came together and we recorded the first episode, that's when we knew that it was really
07:16gonna work.
07:16Because it was so much fun and all the different voices and all the different characters really worked together.
07:20The writers can't help but watch the interplay that takes place between the actors, between the characters,
07:26and then they feed upon that as they go on and write scripts from there.
07:31The actors have taken an active role in helping us determine who these people should be.
07:38So at every level, people have really had a lot of great input.
07:42I think that allowed them to become much more complete as characters.
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