Green said the Call of Duty job was \u201cworse than talking\u201d because he repeatedly had to yell and grunt.<\/p>\n
\u201c[My voice was] shredded. And I was doing all of the shows at the same time, and I developed a condition called chondroid metaplasia within my vocal folds.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said the painful condition occurs in extreme athletes when a muscle receives constant trauma without rehab and forms cartilage where muscles were previously.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe doctor said, \u2018Well, you\u2019re a vocal athlete\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd then they asked, \u2018Would you be a cast study? We\u2019ve literally never seen this before\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was like, \u2018That\u2019s cool\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n
Green said doctors had to use \u201cscalpels and lasers\u201d to fix the issue, which has made him \u201cdefinitely better at taking care of myself\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t have access to my highest registers, but they assured me with practise and time that I could get there,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Green is best known for playing Scott Evil in the Austin Powers movies and voicing Chris Griffin in the Fox animated sitcom, Family Guy.<\/p>\n
Family Guy first aired in 1999 and, after overcoming an early cancellation, has broadcast new episodes since 2005.<\/p>\n
The show follows the dysfunctional life of the Griffins \u2013 Peter, Stewie and smart dog Brian (all Seth MacFarlane), Lois (Alex Borstein), Chris, and Meg (Mila Kunis) \u2013 as they navigate a life full of crazy scenarios.<\/p>\n
Family Guy has recently marked its 450th episode.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Green said the Call of Duty job was \u201cworse than talking\u201d because he repeatedly had to yell and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":597002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[74,3043,156707,17153,98,156,2109,2518,82216,8241,293,111,139,69,1118,294244,312,10689,294243,2737,437,82524,4576],"class_list":["post-597001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-after","tag-call","tag-cords","tag-damaged","tag-duty","tag-entertainment","tag-family","tag-green","tag-guy","tag-himself","tag-his","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-overworking","tag-says","tag-seth","tag-shredded","tag-star","tag-tv","tag-vocal","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}