I keep hearing Julia Roberts, Donald Sutherland and Susan Sarandon's voiceover work

[applegrove]

in commercials. Is this how capitalists have tamed the Hollywood liberals? Just a thought.

[djean111]

1. I hear Gene Hackman all the time. ALL the time.

[senseandsensibility]

2. How would this tame them?

Do you think they have to agree to shut up to get voice over work?

[applegrove]

4. Well you don't hear them. Maybe they self sensor. They used to be so outspoken. Maybe

voiceover work is a new and really lucrative form of acting and has washing them up into the corporate world in a way they never expected. I just wonder. Why all the liberals? Maybe corporations are trying to appeal to liberal audiences?

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. Voiceover work is new?

Ads have been using well known actors in the UK for decades, and it's surely the same in the USA. And it's been lucrative as well - reading Michael Palin's biography, he got paid very well in the 70s for the work he did.

More likely the agencies want professionals with familiar voices.

[applegrove]

11. I guess I'm watching more American TV these days.

[mathematic]

9. Voiceover work is definitely not new, as this famous actor/director can attest

IN July?!

[uppityperson]

3. And Tommy Lee Jones is now doing ads too.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

5. Alec Baldwin was probably the most active voice over artist in Hollywood

Didn't really shut him up, did it?

[applegrove]

6. No it didn't.

[Brickbat]

8. As actors age, their voices become more valuable than their faces.

[applegrove]

10. True. Maybe I'm just more in tuned to liberal actors. Maybe actors of liberal by nature.

But Hollywood does seem quiet on politics these days.