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muriel_volestrangler

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7. Voiceover work is new?

Reply to applegrove (Reply #4)

Fri Mar 28, 2014, 09:41 PM

Mar 2014

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.

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I keep hearing Julia Roberts, Donald Sutherland and Susan Sarandon's voiceover work [View all] applegrove Mar 2014 OP

I hear Gene Hackman all the time. ALL the time. djean111 Mar 2014 #1

How would this tame them? senseandsensibility Mar 2014 #2

Well you don't hear them. Maybe they self sensor. They used to be so outspoken. Maybe applegrove Mar 2014 #4

Voiceover work is new? muriel_volestrangler Mar 2014 #7

I guess I'm watching more American TV these days. applegrove Mar 2014 #11

Voiceover work is definitely not new, as this famous actor/director can attest mathematic Mar 2014 #9

And Tommy Lee Jones is now doing ads too. uppityperson Mar 2014 #3

Alec Baldwin was probably the most active voice over artist in Hollywood ProudToBeBlueInRhody Mar 2014 #5

No it didn't. applegrove Mar 2014 #6

As actors age, their voices become more valuable than their faces. Brickbat Mar 2014 #8

True. Maybe I'm just more in tuned to liberal actors. Maybe actors of liberal by nature. applegrove Mar 2014 #10