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I'm Rebecca Rose and this is how I became a voice actor.
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I'm Rebecca Rose and this is how I became a voice actor.
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Okay, I know why you're watching this.
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Because you want to be a voice actor.
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And you want to listen to how I became a voice actor
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and see if you can implement those things to make your career come true.
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If that's the case, let me ask you three questions first.
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One, how good are your listening skills?
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Two, are you free of any self-consciousness?
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Three, do you really want to be a voice actor?
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Okay, so you're sticking around?
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Well, let me take you on a little journey.
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It was 2015 and I was living in Suwon, South Korea.
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Now I don't know exactly how I heard about this audition.
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I'm a little bit hazy there.
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But it was on a Friday night and it must have been around 9pm, which is a really odd time for this kind of audition.
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It was for people who were interested in doing a little voice acting work at a nearby studio.
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I was a little bit of a trained singer.
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I had some theater experience.
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But voice acting, it never even crossed my mind.
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You can imagine how odd it was that I ended up in a little studio in Suwon, South Korea, sitting on a couch between seven or eight other people who had answered the call.
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One by one, we each went into the vocal booth
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and we were handed a script and we could see the video that was playing on the screen.
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And then we would read if it was a beauty commercial or if it was a little narration or an education thing.
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The director and the engineer would sit outside, look at each other.
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Yes, no, yes, no. Thank you, thank you.
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Okay, you can come out now.
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And finally, it was my turn.
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I remember walking into the booth.
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There was paneling on the wall.
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Everything was soundproofed and you just sat down in front of this little microphone.
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It's silent in there, right?
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You can only hear it yourself and then whatever comes through your ears.
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So you don't even know if you're doing a good job or not.
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I remember I'd finished my thing and I was just sitting there in the sound booth, waiting, when the sound of the director's voice came into my ear.
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Uh, would you be willing to try something else?
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It's a little bit, um, unusual, but we feel like you do a good job.
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So on the screen they put on this little animated clip of a penguin, and the penguin was doing things like waking up, jumping out of bed, opening the windows,
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stretching, looking at the beautiful weather.
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And so as I was watching it, I just acted out whatever came out of me.
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And I guess I liked it.
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Because I remember I came out of the studio and they were all applauding like this.
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There are not many instances in my life where I felt like I nailed it.
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But I remember that was one of them.
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So this is my tip number one.
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Just go for it.
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I found that some of my best work has come when it comes out of me very naturally.
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This may be in voice acting or in acting
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and you receive the script ahead of time and you can memorize it
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and you can study it and you get every single beat down perfectly.
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And if you're really, really good, you'll get it so well that it comes out like the most natural thing.
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However, in a lot of cases with voice acting, you don't have the script ahead of time.
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This is what's happening.
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This is what the character is.
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Let's go.
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So you got to be ready to read it naturally.
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Well, in that moment, as we all watch movies and TV shows, we're probably aware of this,
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but the human eye is really good at detecting false emotion when someone is acting.
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And honestly, it can feel a uncomfortable sometimes because it's like they're lying to my face.
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You are tearing me apart, Lisa!
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The truth is also with the ear.
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The human ear is so good at picking up false feelings.
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You can hear it.
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Oh, they're putting on something.
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It's not coming naturally.
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It's gonna make a huge difference for us.
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That is probably the greatest trick of some of the best voice actors out there.
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They can embody the character so much that whatever they say, it just comes out naturally.
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And that leads to tip number two.
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You must be a good cold reader.
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Like I said before, sometimes you'll get the script right in that moment and you gotta take a look at it, know your own lines, and also see the other characters' lines
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so that you can respond in a way that makes sense to the lines that they have said before, but sometimes it's just go, go, go, go.
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Can you do that?
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Let's give an example right now.
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Okay, I'm gonna read you a little cold text.
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Let's see.
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Let me pull something from my bookshelf.
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All right, let's see.
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This is...
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Oh, Before the Coffee Gets Cold.
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Before the coffee gets cold, I'm just going to pick a random page.
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I have not practiced this at all.
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This is a completely cold read, and my director off camera doesn't know what I'm doing, but here we go.
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The girl stared back at him blankly.
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He no longer looked like the person he had been until a moment ago.
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If her coldness toward me is just out of shyness, I'll try to be more approachable, he thought, and grinned broadly.
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He leaned forward on his elbows in an easy-going way.
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So was it me you came to visit?
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He asked the girl.
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No way.
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Me?
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You came to meet me?
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No. Me?
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No!
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The girl was adamant.
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Kazu heard the exchange and came to a simple conclusion.
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Well, you're completely ruled out. And scene!
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I have no idea what that scene was about.
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So after that first audition, I had hoped that the work would just roll right in.
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And it did not.
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You must be tenacious if you're going to be in this field.
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Eventually I moved from Suwon up to Seoul, where there were a lot more job opportunities.
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And a friend of mine who knew a producer at a radio station got me connected, and then I started doing live radio and I was hosting shows.
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And that was really great practice for me, picking up my vocabulary, listening to a lot of music
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and sounds and learning how to piece that all together just by hearing it.
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Can you imagine it?
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I was fortunate to start booking little gigs here
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and there primarily through word of mouth and it started a lot with educational material.
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So for example, A is for Apple.
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A, A, Apple.
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And that's kind of how I slowly started growing.
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But this is the third thing that I learned that was incredibly valuable during this time.
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Never be late to a gig.
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Come rain, shine, snow, sleet, you missed the train, you woke up late, the bus didn't come.
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Just don't be late.
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I remember getting chewed out really hard when I was new to this gig
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and the manager pulled me aside and was like, do you take this seriously?
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It was not a great lesson for me to learn in the moment
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and honestly sometimes I still struggle with it but I think
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if you can get ahead of the game
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and just remember don't ever be late that will go really far
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and it's really important especially
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when you're working in places with rented studio space do not waste a single minute i always say
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that there are three things that make a person good at their job
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or successful one you're just good at your job you're very good at it you stand out in that way
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two people really like you you've got a great personality you're easy to work with
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and you're fun three you are always on time you never turn in things late
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so people are never checking hey How come you haven't submitted that or why aren't you here?
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Just eliminate that stress entirely I think
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if you have two of those three things in your pocket
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You have a chance of moving forward in whatever career
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that you have the voice acting business in Korea is a little bit smaller Than you might say in the United States,
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so I was really fortunate to work on some big projects I love it!
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2. SK Telecom Vinesh, add more love I auditioned for some really impressive characters.
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I voiced major campaigns that went worldwide.
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I did beauty and narration and commercial work, education, children singing, and I learned the differences on how you would do all of those things and voice styles.
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It was animation and video game and character work that came last, which I always thought was funny because doing
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that audition with the animated penguin in the beginning is what got me started in the first place.
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So I learned everything on the job.
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When I was in the studio is kind of when I figured it out.
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I think the reason why I was able to at least more rapidly excel is because I love to listen.
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I love to hear sound.
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And I love to hear what tone is that beeping sound?
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What key is my laundry machine in?
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These kind of things.
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And I feel like it really trained my ear to actually just hear myself speaking.
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Very easy way to tell if someone has not had much voice acting experience is when you say, okay, give me three different takes.
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And they do it three exactly the same way.
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You gotta be able to hear yourself.
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And in order to do that, this comes down to my third tip, which is to listen to everything, listen widely.
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Consume all the genres of music, listen to different accents in different languages, Listen to yourself, study your own voice.
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I know this was never something that I really enjoyed doing, especially when it came to singing performances, but it really is the only way that you're going to improve.
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More than imitating something, you want to embody it.
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You want to become the character as if you became the character.
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You are not putting that character on you.
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It is as if you became the character.
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I'm sure there's a better way to describe this.
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This is something that actors are studying all the time.
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But the key is, how would I, if I became this character, perform or say this?
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That's how it becomes natural to you.
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This kind of comes back to my earlier question.
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Are you free of the shackles of self-embarassment and self-consciousness?
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In order to do voice acting, you're going to do a lot of silly things.
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And sometimes you just have a director and the clients
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and the engineers sitting there and watching you while you are doing this and you just got to do that.
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For myself, I have a lot of physicality.
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You probably see it when I'm talking.
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I'm using my hands all the time.
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This is actually something that I am really working on so I don't have superfluous energy flowing out of me.
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However, I find that when I'm in the studio, in order to generate the energy for certain things, especially if there's movement-related actions,
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it comes out of my body.
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And I think that helps bring it through my voice and bring to life.
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So you shouldn't feel self-conscious.
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Remember, you're creating a character and you are telling a story.
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And sometimes those kind of stories really affect people.
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We know that.
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That's why you're watching this video.
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Because you love voice acting and you want to figure out what's the secret behind it.
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So what is coming up next for Rebecca Rose?
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Well, subscribe to the YouTube channel so
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that you can just follow me along in what I'm doing here
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and see some of my other work and ask me some questions.
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If you have any, leave them in the comments below.
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And hopefully become an even bigger and better voice actor and actor in the future.
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And to all my voice actor friends, aspiring or currently active, I say good luck and continue with the good work.
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