Reddit AMA Recap: Dan Mintz (Bob’s Burgers)

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Last Friday, the voice of Tina for Bob’s Burgers aka Dan Mintz took part in a Reddit AMA where he was promoting his new stand-up, but of course he fielded a bunch of questions about playing one of the voice popular animated characters on television. During the course of the AMA, Dan gave us a bunch of highlights on how his career took off, most of which, was by accident!

How he came up with the groan for Tina

I remember Loren asking me to make a nervous sound for an episode and I guess that’s what I did. Don’t remember why I thought of that one in particular, but now I do it all the time when I’m nervous without realizing it.

 

On being cast originally as a boy character, but eventually turning that character into ‘Tina’

Thanks! They originally picked me to play a boy – Gene and Louise’s brother – but then changed the character to a girl after I was already cast. I was very skeptical but when they showed me an animation with my voice it somehow actually really worked with that character

 

On the kind of money you can make when being a popular voice actor on a prime-time animated series

It’s the kind of money where if you were making it every year until you retired you could live well off of it, but since no show is on the air forever, you have to save most of it and it’s good to take other jobs when you can get them.

 

But how do you get into that sort of gig?

I wish I had better advice, but I just kind of fell into it. A good first step to take a class – not just to learn how to do it but to connect with other people in the industry. And then at some point you need to make a reel and use that to get an agent. But it really all comes down to luck.

 

My background is just in standup and I was just extraordinarily lucky to be in the right place at the right time to cast on Bob’s Burgers. Tina is my natural voice because it’s the only voice I can do. I’m always so impressed by people who can do a hundred different voices. But it just takes a lot of luck to get a voiceover job. The first step, though, would be to take a class and make a reel.

Read the rest of the Reddit AMA here, Bob’s Burgers returns with new episodes on November 2nd, check your local listings.

 

 

 

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