#139 - Ellen McLain Interview (Portal 2, GLaDOS, Voice Acting, Improvising, Broadway, Valve etc.)

Ellen McLain is an accomplished singer and voice actress who is best known for voicing GLaDOS in Portal 1 and Portal 2.

 

#portal2 #valve #glados

SOCIAL MEDIA

TWITTER - @ellenmclain

 

TIMESTAMPS

00:00 - Intro/Kiwi Talkz Name

01:23 - Original Intention Of Robotic GLaDOS Voice

03:35 - How To Sound Like A Robot/Initial Recordings

06:07 - Candide Operetta/Broadway

08:05 - Throwing Out Ideas In The Studio

09:02 - Dynamic In The Studio With Valve Devs

10:32 - Advocating For More Valve Games/Erik Wolpaw

11:45 - Ellen Worked On Portal 2 From The Very Beginning Of Development

14:42 - Working On Other Projects Well Working On Portal 2

15:20 - Studio Sessions Never Became Monotonous/Ellen Never Gets Bored

16:40 - Books Ellen Is Currently Reading/Russia & Putin

20:02 - Drawing On Your Own Life To A Voice Project

21:00 - Ellen Has Dreams Of Murdering People

22:50 - Working With Valve

24:20 - How Still Alive Song Came About//Jonathan Coulton/Turret Choir

29:00 - Approaching Recording GLaDOS different for the Portal Songs

32:00 - Recording Dialogue Out Of Order

34:00 - Ellen Got Given Recordings Of Stephen Merchant & JK Simmons For Portal 2

34:38 - Outlaws/Stephen Merchant/Not Disappointing Fans

38:00 - Whiplash/JK Simmons/Juiliard School//Teaching

40:34 - Ellen Is Keen For Portal 3

41:10 - The Job Of The Actor Is To Not Make A Role Stale/Ellens Marriage

43:30 - Bickering Couple In Left 4 Dead/Valve Not Knowing Ellen Was Married To John Lowrie

45:58 - Improvising On Portal

48:20 - Getting The Call To Come Back For Portal 2/How GLaDOS Influenced Ellens Work On Pacific Rim

51:22 - Projects Ellen Has Worked On Recently

54:50 - Ellen Loves Working & Rehearsing 

56:24 - Ellens Favourite Performance Was Opera

58:40 - Ellen Doesn’t Like Watching Her Own Performances

1:01:00 - Where To Follow Ellen McLain