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One of my dubbing-tasks was as 10-11 years old, with a part in Peanuts as Peppermint Patty for 11 episodes. I also had to sing, and thought it was really funny, and I got the feeling that I was good at it. Valhalla was a great project and fun, I auditioned and got the part for a man!: - Tjalfe. The movie was very famous here-and-there for its original drawing-techniques. I like the movie and have shown it to my own daughter. Beside many other tasks, I was one of the mice (Tanja) in An American Tail, where I also sang, and I sang in Babar The Elephant, and so on.
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It was intense… I remember being picked up from school by the director. And we had a lot to do that day. There was always crosschecking with the original version. The technicians were (in my eyes) two quite old men… they must have been doing that work for many years. We would have lunch together and then work again. It was only me and them, my script, headphones and the big screen. It required lots of concentration. I think I was 15 at the time.
I liked the scene where Ariel kisses her father and says ‘I love you daddy!’ :-) |
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- Did you meet the other voice actors of the movie? Did you know them before?Yes I knew some of them because of my parents, But we did not meet at all during the making of the film. I met the Prince (Lars Thiesgaard, ed) first time at the premiere, sitting next to him. That was odd :-D
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- What do you think about Sissel Kyrkjebø's rendition of Ariel's songs? Did you change your own speaking voice to suit her singing voice better?I think Sissel is a very talented singer, but it sounded weird with her Norwegian accent. I didn’t hear her singing before I recorded the voice of Ariel.
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- In 2006, you released your debut album, "Mary - in the Head of a Dreamer". What has been your inspirations for those songs?Uh, my life I guess… thoughts of meaning, purpose, thoughts of life and death, and the connection between them. In my first album there is a song is called ‘Reality is only imagination’, and another called ‘All the way around’: ‘It all ends and it all begins at the same place, somehow everything is looking round’ it says.
My second album is called ‘The other side’: ‘The other side goes side by side with here and now’ it says. It also includes a cradlesong for my daughter. |