Hello Patrick how are you?

Hey George. How are you doing?

Good.

You have the perfect voice for voice over work. Talk about how comfortable you are taking a specific role and making it your own.

Vocally?

Yes.

I do a lot of voice work. As a matter of fact, I just did a session this morning. I was in London, I came back from London yesterday and I did a radio commercial, recorded a radio commercial in London and they decided to rewrite it and so they e-mailed me the rewrites and I went into a sound studio here to record the rewritten version of the radio commercial. So I do a lot of voice work, so I’m used to working vocally. With ‘Star Wars’, the description of the character that they gave me gave me a hook on the character before I walked into the recording studio, so I practiced at home and had gotten more of a fix on the character. You always leave yourself a little bit open because the director might have other thoughts. I did have a hook on the character when I reported to the recording studio. Then I listened to the other actors, which was a real stimulation and it gets my juices going. As I said to the other question, it’s much more satisfying, fulfilling working with the other actors.

So they give you a chance to see the character first.

You read the characters description that they send you over the e-mail and then you get work on the lines and you get a fix on it and then when you get to the studio, they show you the sketch and that fills out the mind’s eye picture of the character that much more and then you have a run through with the other actors and then the director might give you some pointers like ‘Pick up his rhythm,’ or you get a bit more power, more punch. That sort of thing. Then you dive in and do it.

You’re an obvious draw at Star Trek gatherings in terms of autographs and taking pictures with people. Now that you’ve crossed over into the Star Wars world, are you hoping to be able to take advantage and make appearances at various Star Wars gatherings?

Any work that one does with the public, has a way of expanding your access to the audience. As you probably know, I’m a recurring character on ‘Heroes’ so when I do conventions, I notice there are a lot of ‘Heroes’ fans that come up with pictures of me as Kaito Nakamura, my character in ‘Heroes,’ to have autographed. Perhaps now at ‘Star Trek’ conventions, I’ll have Lok Durd pictures that will be presented to me to autograph, or I may get invitations to ‘Star Wars’ conventions. We’ll see what happens.

You’re a star of many shows.

Of many worlds as a matter of fact. As I said, I was in London. Last year, I did a British reality show called ‘I’m a Celebrity, Get me Out of Here.’ Where they got 12 celebrities from many, many different arenas. Somebody who was a member of Parliament or someone who was the Barbara Walters of British television or a children’s TV show host. The only one I knew for this British reality series was Martina Navratilova, the tennis star. We were sent to the rain forest of Australia for three weeks, living on beans and rice and facing various challenges and this show was enormously popular. It was the highest rated show on for three weeks. It’s on every day in Britain and so when I’m walking around London down the Piccadilly, people left and right are saying ‘Hi George, I loved you on ‘I’m a Celebrity,’ so every work you do, that becomes enormously popular, just expands and adds to the audience base and whatever image they may have of you. Although, I don’t know if I’ll be visually recognizable as Lok Durd, every time I talk, I’m sure ‘Star Wars: Clone Wars’ fans will turn around and say ‘You’re Lok Durd.’ I think it has expanded my sphere of identification.

Thank you George.

Thank you.