I think everybody wants to be remembered forever." After a pause, he adds, "Actually, I don't want to be remembered for Duke Nukem Forever!" I wanna leave something behind when I'm gone.
"I wanna leave a mark that lasts forever. It may seem strange, but the man behind Duke Nukem is still seeking a great role he will be remembered for. Irish I can do, but Scottish is very challenging for me." I hate trying to do a Russian dialect, and yet they keep casting me in these things! Scottish is the other one. "I've been cast in Soviet spy games and they want me to do a Russian character, and I'm not good at it. So I don't! I keep it to myself!" he says with a laugh.
"If I tried to do an Aussie voice now I'd probably offend you. St John's vocal range is impressive - during the interview he slips from Irish to English to Valley Girl - but he admits that there are some accents that challenge him. You're not just targeting Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, for American voice actors. "Today you market yourself on the worldwide web. He adds that old-school ideas like moving to Hollywood and getting an agent have been superseded by new ways of doing business. Cut to the chase: the job is auditioning constantly!" I don't teach technique or anything I teach people what the business is, how do you get into voice acting, what is the job once you've become a voice actor. You've got the job.' And that was my very first gig, really, was doing Duke Nukem!" He laughs and adds, "Followed by Candyland! How's that?"Īpart from vocal work, St John has also begun passing the skills he has learned to a new generation of voice actors. "I heard Broussard chuckle, and he said, 'That's it.
"George on the other end of the phone said yeah, that's good texture, like the style, but Duke is on steroids! I said, oh, I gotcha, so he's bigger, beefier, lower pitched?" St John's head tilts slightly, and there it is, the voice of Duke Nukem, saying, "Go ahead, make my day." "Lani said to just think of Dirty Harry, Clint Eastwood."Īt this point, he delivers the Eastwood catchphrase: "Go ahead, make my day." It is flawless. "She hooked me up with a telephone interview with George Broussard, the creator - he and Randy Pitchford pretty much created the character - and Broussard was on the phone from Texas and he said do some lines," St John recalls.
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