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GRIEVOUS
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“We captured a
lot of George’s
really bad coughs
from the day, and
ended up rolling
some of them
into Grievous’
performance.”
start coughing. We captured a lot of
George’s really bad coughs from the
day, and ended up rolling some of
them into Grievous’ performance.”
Wood thinks of Grievous’
voice as comprising of two-parts:
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the dramatic element and the
processing layer. “I pitch him down
about a semi-tone to give him that
eventually create Darth Vader. By lower pitch register, and in a way
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luck, both Wood and Lucas were that his voice has an artifacting
in a state to provide the required quality to it where it doesn’t sound
rattles and hacks. perfect,” he explains. “I’m going for
“For a lot of those lines, you imperfection, so when he’s yelling,
really have to use the diaphragm I want to make it almost like he’s
big time and yell this guttural so angry that his vocal processor is
performance,” Wood recalls. “I unable to translate his emotion into
would run out of breath and cough, voice perfectly.”
and George himself had a really Wood had to perform with a
bad cough that day. I remember hyper-enunciated yell in order to
telling Chris Scarabosio to keep the get Grievous’ words and emotion
tape rolling, because George would across through the gravelly, scratchy
come up to direct me and he would qualities in his voice. The delay
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