I had clinical depression for about five years. I say had because, about a year and a half ago, I made a fairly spontaneous and fairly complete recovery. This was great because, honestly, depression really sucks: you can't feel pleasure in anything in life, you're beset by an unrelenting sadness and self-hatred with no obvious cause, and really you just can't do anything anymore and want to stop existing.
Whether by coincidence or by cause, that recovery happened during and in the following days after I first watched the movie How To Train Your Dragon. I've watched it a lot of times since, and I hold it in extremely high regard not just because I'll always associate it with finally regaining my capacity to feel emotions (besides self-loathing), but also because it's a really great movie.
You're sort of the voice of the main character and all, so I thought it would only be proper of me to come by and say thanks for doing such a great job on something that has had such a big impact on my life.
A bit ironically for an "ask me anything" I actually don't particularly want to know anything else about you; I try my best to avoid information about actors and production because it harms my capacity to suspend disbelief while watching movies. Since all top-level comments in this subreddit are required to have a question, though, here's one: what sort of creative control do you have as a lead voice actor on a project like HTTYD when compared to the writers?
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I guess this one is for Jay.
I had clinical depression for about five years. I say had because, about a year and a half ago, I made a fairly spontaneous and fairly complete recovery. This was great because, honestly, depression really sucks: you can't feel pleasure in anything in life, you're beset by an unrelenting sadness and self-hatred with no obvious cause, and really you just can't do anything anymore and want to stop existing.
Whether by coincidence or by cause, that recovery happened during and in the following days after I first watched the movie How To Train Your Dragon. I've watched it a lot of times since, and I hold it in extremely high regard not just because I'll always associate it with finally regaining my capacity to feel emotions (besides self-loathing), but also because it's a really great movie.
You're sort of the voice of the main character and all, so I thought it would only be proper of me to come by and say thanks for doing such a great job on something that has had such a big impact on my life.
A bit ironically for an "ask me anything" I actually don't particularly want to know anything else about you; I try my best to avoid information about actors and production because it harms my capacity to suspend disbelief while watching movies. Since all top-level comments in this subreddit are required to have a question, though, here's one: what sort of creative control do you have as a lead voice actor on a project like HTTYD when compared to the writers?
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