Archer... very funny show.
JUDY: [Delighted] I love Archer!
What's the biggest difference for you doing voicework like Archer as opposed to being on set and filming?
Well, Archer takes 15 minutes. I go into this awesome little room with this cool sound engineer and Adam Reed is in Atlanta on the phone and I get to spaz out for fifteen minutes to half an hour every couple weeks. It's so fun. IT'S SO FUN. It's so freeing. You can go in your pajamas. It exercises a different muscle and in a weird way I think it's helping my on camera acting.
In what way?
Because I'm all by myself in this little room recording this voice. I have to act it out a little bit. I have to be near the microphone but I get into it but I have to act it out in order to make it sound good and funny and real. Because nobody is really watching me -- except for Jody the sound engineer and he's used to it because we're in the third season -- I can really let go. There is so much vanity in my profession. Sometimes I think that when you start to get conscious of how you look then you start to think that's important. 'If I make this face in this scene I'll look ugly and I don't want to look ugly.' You know? When you get that in your head that can be dangerous, especially if you're a character actor. Sometimes you need to look ugly. Being in a tiny room and recording Archer is reminding me to let go and not care what anyone thinks or how I look when I'm doing what I'm doing. That's my hypothesis but I can feel it happening a little bit when I'm at work.
That's awesome. Usually people don't talk about their voice work in these terms.
I dunno. Maybe if it was a different show I wouldn't want to but Archer is so awesome, I love talking about it. I wish I could only do Archer sometimes!
A live action version of Archer?
That would be dirty [Laughs]
Source: Full interview @ The Film Experience
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