Brad Swaile
v i t a l s t a t i s t i c s
Height: 5' 7"
Weight: 120 lbs.
Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Brown
Interests/Skills: Singing, reads music, plays drums and guitar, swimming, skiing (cross country and powder), horseback riding (Western), skating (ice and roller), baseball, football, hockey, sailing, tennis, billiards, bowling, basketball, soccer, hacky sack.
Previous Roles: (Live-action): THE ODYSSEY, TELL A TALE TOWN (Animation): "Ace," MY LITTLE PONY TALES; "Mousse," RANMA 1/2; DOUBLE DRAGON, SONIC THE HEDGEHOG; "Quatre Raberba Winner," GUNDAM WING
Interviewer: Toshifumi Yoshida
Brad, how did you get into voice-acting?
It all started with theater in elementary school, and high school, and things like that...eventually I got involved with a place called the Vancouver Youth Theatre, and through them I got involved with the Tarlington Talent Agency, who started sending me out on auditions and things, and it just so happened that I started going on voice-over auditions. Mu first break in voice-over roles was in MY LITTLE PONY....
Who did you play?
In MY LITTLE PONY TALES I was "Ace"... I was the mean pony. And from there...I don't know, it was just such fun that I worked on a couple of other ones, just as I was going along.
Do you do anything special to prepare yourself for a role? Like warm-ups?
For warm ups, I just try to relax, as I'm saying certain lines...especially if IŒm quacking as in RANMA 1/2. [LAUGHS] I just try to think the dialogue that I would be saying, and just try to quack the lines in keeping with the duck character. But basically, I just relax.
Do you have a "type" of character that you're usually cast for?
Usually your typical pre-teen or teenager...average, boy-from-a-troubled-family-kind of character. Either that, or the hero role.
Do you have a favorite character that you've played?
I'd say it'd have to be "Ace" from MY LITTLE PONY. Because all the other ponies were so proper, and so straight-laced, and it was nice to have one pony that would give them a little nudge once and awhile.
What would you say is the strangest role you've ever played as a voice-actor?
That would have to be the duck.
[LAUGHS] Do you also do live-action work?
Yes, yes I do. There's a CBC series called THE ODYSSEY-in the first season of that I was "Commader Scud of the Liberators." We hiked up to Seymour and shot these big army-type scenes. Other than that, mainly government videos and things like that. Nothing like THE X-FILES yet.
How would you say voice-acting compares to live-action work?
I feel a lot more comfortable doing voice-acting, because I don't have to worry about what I'm looking like when I'm doing this. It seems that a major importance of being a film or TV actor is how you look, and it's nice to find a certain kind of job that doesn't rely on how you look to get the role.
Exerpted from Animerica Vol. 4, No. 8. See this issue for the full interview.
Fan Mail for Brad Swaile can be sent to:
Tarlington Talent Inc.
Suite 609, 525 Seymour Street
Vancouver, B.C., Canada V6B 3H7