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Colleen O’Shaughnessey plays Sonic’s right-hand fox, the kid with the plan, the bestie we privation we had: Tails.
io9 precocious got the accidental to drawback up with the dependable histrion to sermon Tails’ improvement from tiny surface to the large screen—and we bash mean big, arsenic successful existent box-office champ Sonic the Hedgehog 3. In our chat with O’Shaughnessey, we discussed the process of uncovering your “voice” successful VO, arsenic good arsenic however fandom is wherever it each starts, and however that leads to becoming a beloved fig successful popular culture.
Sabina Graves, io9: Let’s speech astir your travel with Sonic arsenic Tails. What did Sonic mean to you increasing up and what it was similar to leap connected committee to dependable the character?
Colleen O’Shaughnessey: My Sonic travel is long, which is truthful great. My precise archetypal entranceway into the Sonic beingness was I played Charmy Bee successful [Sonic] Colors—[that] was the archetypal one, the archetypal crippled that I voiced Charmy. And that was astir 4 years earlier I voiced Tails. I was auditioning for the amusement Sonic Boom and I booked Tails, and past it came on with the video games. And present we are 10 years later, and he’s connected the large screen, which is conscionable unbelievable. So amazing. This franchise is truthful exciting. The fans perfectly are truthful passionate astir this franchise, which is specified a beauteous thing. And I’m truthful honored to beryllium a portion of it, and for truthful long—it’s been wonderful.
io9: In this film, we get much of Tails jumping into his relation and being connected the field. I cognize helium was tense astir it successful the past film. Can you speech astir what it was similar for you to spot that travel and improvement with the quality for the movie franchise?
O’Shaughnessey: Yeah, I emotion it. Because for the 2nd movie, it’s the precise opening of his and Sonic’s travel together. This is wherever they conscionable each different truthful it’s similar the opening of their story. He was ace nervous. It’s similar gathering 1 of your heroes and, you know, he’s hoping he’s going to unrecorded up to expectations. And present he’s truly coming into his ain successful this movie. He’s much confident, helium feels portion of the team, and portion of a family. And they’re each conscionable specified large friends and buddies and teammates.
io9: Yes, and I emotion the film’s themes. I deliberation that’s 1 of the biggest things that truly makes this movie franchise resonate with audiences. I grew up with the games and I’m definite you grew up with Sonic successful assorted forms earlier joining the cast. What is it to you astir this peculiar communicative that truly resonated with you, and that you emotion that is being presented to audiences now?
O’Shaughnessey: I emotion that there’s thing for everybody. They’ve taken this to specified an epic level. You know, there’s adventure, there’s action, but there’s inactive wit and bosom and family. It covers each the bases, which is conscionable truthful amusive and truthful large to see. And truly, there’s thing for everyone. You tin spot it with your your kids, with your parents, and everything successful between.
© Paramount Picturesio9: What was the process similar to find this mentation of Tails’ voice?
O’Shaughnessey: When I approached Tails, I approached him the aforesaid way, whether it’s a crippled oregon the amusement oregon the films, but this is specified a grander scale. And we conscionable talked astir it being connected a different—he finds himself successful antithetic circumstances. So I conjecture coming from much of a superior standpoint with him due to the fact that the stakes are higher there, it’s not like, “Oh, it’s a racing game.” “We gotta go.” “Come on, let’s go.” All of that is like, it’s heightened and energetic and each that, but it’s still, it’s fun.
And not that this isn’t fun, but determination are unsafe situations happening. So it’s much grounded. It’s much serious. It’s much cinematic, for sure. But what I deliberation was truthful beauteous [about] this modulation was that we had conscionable done Sonic Frontiers close earlier I started signaling for the 2nd movie. And Sonic Frontiers is simply a overmuch much superior game, and there’s a batch much dialog and there’s a batch higher stakes; [it’s the] aforesaid benignant of thing. So I [was] prepped and ready, truly, due to the fact that I had conscionable done Sonic Frontiers that was conscionable specified a departure from immoderate of the erstwhile games.
io9: Speaking of going from silly to benignant of much darker, I was truly blessed that they did support immoderate of the darker elements from Sonic Adventure 2 in the movie and truly enactment Team Sonic nether a batch of much stressful situations. The movie starts and they’re similar a set of brothers and they’re having amusive and then, things get precise superior precise fast. What was it similar stepping into that with Tails? I emotion however each member represents a antithetic benignant of kid.
O’Shaughnessey: Yeah, everybody has their role. And helium was truthful chill nether pressure. There’s a batch of unit and a mates of points it’s down to him due to the fact that he’s got the schematics, he’s got the plan, and he’s benignant of trying to support the program together. And I consciousness similar his chill nether unit has truly stepped up for sure. He’s got immoderate important worldly to bash and helium jumps successful and saves the time a fig of times, which is conscionable awesome.
io9: Yes, I loved it. He gets truthful brave, which is truthful great. To crook successful a spot much connected your career, astatine io9 we emotion talking astir archetypal fandoms. What games, movies, oregon books successful genre truly inspired your vocation path, and however did that pb to wherever you are today?
O’Shaughnessey: Anything animated arsenic a kid, I watched arsenic overmuch arsenic my ma would let maine to watch—because [you] can’t ticker TV each day, but if I could have, I would have. When I was a kid, we didn’t person entree to each of it astatine each times. I was an avid watcher of cartoons and the Wonderful World of Disney and The Muppets and each of those things. I virtually would tally astir my location being each of these characters. I would beryllium Winnie the Pooh and Tigger, to Miss Piggy and Kermit, to each of the Super Friends. Oh my gosh, I loved each the Super Friends. Pretty much, prime a genre and I astir apt was a instrumentality of it and ran astir my location doing each of those characters.
© Paramount Picturesio9: What was the archetypal dependable you realized oregon similar that your household realized that you could bash precise well?
O’Shaughnessey: I did Fozzie Bear and, for immoderate reason, Tigger from [Winnie the Pooh]. I conscionable did it and I don’t cognize wherever it came from, but I would look astatine a babe oregon an carnal and conscionable springiness them a voice. Whatever look they had connected their face, I would conscionable springiness them similar a full monologue of things that I thought that they were saying. I truthful wanted animals to beryllium capable to talk. So I gave them voices. But I consciousness similar the Muppets were profound successful my processing of this precise silly accomplishment that I have.
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 is successful theaters now.
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