Ladies and gentlemen, the hardest working man in show business!
On May 4th (natch), Disney+ will be launchingStar Wars: The Bad Batch.
How does he do it?
The clones of ‘Star Wars: The Bad Batch’.Lucasfilm
DEE BRADLEY BAKER:The thrill of working on this show kind of comes down to a two-fold thrill.
The thrill number one is being a kid who loved Star Wars.
“I’ve got my picture of me as a Jawa in 1977 in my Jawa costume.”
So to be a part of this universe is a thrill personally to the little kid in me.
And then carrying whole scenes, whole episodes.
Now a whole series.
And I don’t think that I’ll ever see anything like this.
It’s not something that a voice actor gets thrown.
It’s a very unusual challenge to be thrown into it.
And that’s the fun of it.
That’s the twofold gratification for me of doing this is it’s both.
Like no other project.
And it’s also got a covered sound to it like that.
And then Tech is very precise.
And everything is easy breezy for Tech.
If ducks existed in theStar Warsuniverse.
And Wrecker, Wrecker’s just like a big kid.
He’s honest, he’s immediate, unfiltered.
And he’s great fun because of it.
He makes me laugh.
And Crosshair, Crosshair is like a coiled snake.
He’s like waiting with his shooting gear to pick things off one by one.
And it might be you if you get in his way or he doesn’t like you.
He used to be a reg, but now he’s half-human, half-machine.
And he’s trying to find his way in with all this group.
And so he’s a little bit at odds with that.
With the weird decisions, they often come up with.
So that’s kind of my nickel version of what differentiates these Bad Batch guys.
Because of what he went through before, you have to alter it a little bit.
And I think that might be how it worked out for Echo.
But then he found his armor and he found his footing and his ability.
And then he found this new group, and he’s now part of this new company.
And this is his version of being a part of it.
Who was the hardest one to nail and find the right voice for in this group?
Oddly, I think of these, the hardest one to nail, I think might’ve been Hunter.
It’s always very contained, and cool, and covered like that.
So how do we record the episodes?
how does that work?
No, we go scene by scene, and we go straight through the scene.
But otherwise, we just go scenes straight through.
You literally are jumping between voices on the fly like that?
Yeah, because they’re different.
The thing is, I don’t feel like I’m doing this.
I don’t feel like it’s me.
But they’re different.
They’re not me.
They’re somebody else.
The rocks are very defined.
They’re very clear.
And I land on that rock, and then I can just jump back and forth between them.
Once I get used to,okay, there’re rocks, I’m going to be safe.
Finally, who’s your favorite member of the Bad Batch and why?
And I wish that I were that strong, and that big and all that.
But I’m not.
