Yes, it’s meticulously decided on what these characters are going to do. I know what he's going to do in this or that situation. So, after a certain point in recording, just to be overly floral about it, Mugman is my best friend. You meet somebody, and you get to know them. Valentino: It's kind of like when you meet somebody, either in a romantic or just a regular social relationship. How did your approach to your respective characters evolve since the first day of recording The Cuphead Show ? I don’t know about being cautious, but I relate to Mugman in a lot of ways. So there are some exaggerated qualities of my personality that I think are definitely in Cuphead. I can also be a little crazy and loud and goofy sometimes. Especially with some of his irrationality and carelessness. I try to be very aware of my surroundings and not try to get myself into trouble, but I can definitely see a younger version of me in there. Valentino: Cuphead is so unaware of impending doom that I don't think that part of me is too similar. Todaro: It’s a testament to ’s directing and what the team had in mind, because it really does sound like we were together, especially that really back and forth quick repartee between us.ĭo either of you see yourselves in Cuphead or Mugman? So, if there were lines where we had to say stuff at the same time, I would be able to hear Frank's version of it and try to match him. And I think it’s pretty cool that we were able to play off each other so well knowing that we recorded it completely separately and probably on different days.įrank typically would record before me. Valentino: We really haven't had an opportunity to really dive into Cuphead and Mugman in the same room. I think we had one session before the pandemic where we were in the same room. Did you record separately while working on The Cuphead Show ? You both have a chemistry that's palpable throughout every episode. For sentimental reasons, the fact that the world is watching this thing and there's a little bit of my family in there is very sweet. There's a little bit of my grandma in there. There’s also the impressions I would do of my family that are in there. The DNA is from that era of animation, the old Fleischer stuff, those Lower East Side, New York voices. There’s also this very staccato delivery, which Mugman has, especially when he yells. Listening to my audition, it was a lot more like Lou Costello, because that was one of the notes that they gave in the audition. Todaro: I'm a small cog in the machine that made that character what it is. A lot of different hands were in the pie when creating the delicious dessert that is The Cuphead Show! If I go back and look at my audition for Cuphead, it doesn't sound like what he sounds like when we really started getting the ball rolling. That gave us a lot of leeway to find that ourselves, and it's been a collaborative process. Valentino: I think they had an idea of where they wanted to go in terms of. What went into the process of creating the now-iconic voices you've given Cuphead and Mugman? You had the unique opportunity to establish a voice for characters who didn’t previously have them. You're used to disappointment, but it's just so great and so beautiful that you just keep watching it. It’s an exercise in patience, like being a Mets fan. I did finally play it and failed egregiously over and over and over again. I’m a big fan of its inspirations: the era of animation, all the stuff that I watched with my family growing up. I'm basically in my car just sweating, trying to record this on my phone and hoping that it's good enough to get a callback.įrank Todaro: I knew what Cuphead was. I literally did it in my car after coming out of a recording session for some other show and I had to turn the car off and do it. Then when I got the audition and found out that it was for Cuphead, I was like, "Man, I really want this.” I remember recording my audition. I never really knew exactly what it was, but I was familiar with it and always wanted to play it. I would always see the game people playing it online or YouTube, playthroughs and stuff.
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