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I was in my early 20's. Shafrira Zakai, the Israeli legend - Disney dubbing translator and director (who just recently celebrated her 87th bday :) was looking for the voice for Snow White. She couldn't find the matching voice. She asked around and a very famous musician told her about this young singer (me) who, to his opinion, can do the job. She called me and we set a date for my audition.
Two days before my audition I became very ill and was hospitalized. I remember saying to myself : "Oh my God, I blew my big chance with Disney! They will never call me again because they will think I'm not a serious artist, cancelling like that..." It turned out I had the typhus! It was very hard to diagnose and I was in a very serious and dangerous condition... |
I knew Ofra Haza well. We worked together in a few shows including the musical "Rumpelstilskin". I did not see her at the recording studio when we recorded "The Prince of Egypt".
I remember that it was funny for me playing Dudu Fisher's sister (he played Moses) since I knew him well and was performing with him at that time. |
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Shlomit Aharon is a famous Israeli singer. She was a celebrity in the 80's and was chosen for Ariel's voice (this was dubbed here before I even started dubbing, nor Rama, it was before Snow White). She is not an actor/voice actor. In the early 90's there was a very successful TV series "Adventures of the Little Mermaid" ("Ariel" is called "Marina" there). I was Marina's voice and also sang the opening song of this series. All the kids recognized my voice as the Little Mermaid's voice from this very popular TV series. I did not audition for "The Little Mermaid 2: Return to the Sea" (probably because I was in another Disney project, or had just finished one). I was invited to audition for "The Little Mermaid 3" and got the part. (I have no idea if Rama auditioned for it or not).
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- 2010 was your first time dubbing a villain: Mother Gothel in "Tangled", how was it different from your "Princess's work"? Did you enjoy dubbing the villain? |
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- What are you doing nowadays? Do you still do dubbings?Oh yes!!! A lot! I recently did the voice of Poly the parrot/narrator from "Dr. Dolittle" (2020) (voiced by Emma Thompson). I also recently did the voice for Michellee from "Green Eggs and Ham" (2019) on Netflix (voiced by Dianne Keaton); also for Netflix, the voice of the leading role in "The Main Event" (2020) (played by Tichina Arnold); Netflix - the voice of the lunatic mother in "The Willoughbys" (2020) ; "Frozen 2" (2019) - Yelena; "Spiderman" (2018) - Morales; "Missing Link" (2019) - Yeti Elder (voiced by Emma Thompson).
Interesting anecdote - I have dubbed lately 3 roles which were originally dubbed by Emma Thompson ("Brave" - Queen Elinor, "Missing Link" - Elder Yeti, "Dr. Dolittle" - Poly). |