screened on YouTube<\/a>, its snowballing popularity among hard-pressed preschooler parents eventually attracted the attention of Netflix.<\/p>\nVoicing multiple different characters in the same project can be a challenge, says McGonagle (She provides the voices for 20 in the video game Game of Thrones: Kingsroad, \u201cand that was a lot\u201d).<\/p>\n
How does she keep them distinctive? \u201cI write a bio for my characters and think about what they look like, how old they are, where they might be from and give them some backstory in order to bring that character to life. And then I will adapt my voice to make it younger, make it older, or I might add an accent. It\u2019s all about the way in which you move your body and even your mouth itself.\u201d<\/p>\n
The characters she voices in Spike include the main character\u2019s mother, a girl giraffe, a boy elephant, and the canine police officer. Some speak with various English accents, some American. \u201cThose were just the accents and characters I put forward when I auditioned,\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019s not ultimately my decision.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a very international team and we do all communicate online but there haven\u2019t been any in-person meetups. We have spoken on Zoom calls but nobody has ever met in person because we all have our own home studios,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n
McGonagle\u2019s sons, Finn and Jack, are now 11 and nine, and far too old for preschool dragons. They must be proud of her unusual career path, though? \u201cThey\u2019re not really that bothered by it, which is probably a good thing,\u201d she says. When she read them bedtime stories when they were younger, \u201chonestly, they would just tell me: \u2018Ah stop, don\u2019t do the voices\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cQuite often I\u2019ll be going around the house talking in different voices just to practise and they do get annoyed with it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emily McGonagle was on maternity leave from her job as a lawyer, juggling the care of her new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,85,46],"class_list":["post-661571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}