Gametraders Live September Magazine

At this point we were getting the wind
up from the AVCon media staff, but
Neil decided that after two interviews
he wanted to make sure I had all of my
questions answered. I decided to ask
Neil what he loves about Australia and
why he keeps coming back.
“What do I like about being down here?
Well, that I can come down here and
do my Scottish dialect and none of
you know it’s crap! … You know, that’s
fun. That’s nice. You know… each time I
come down to do a convention I make
new friends and it’s not a commodity
that I have overflowing in my life… so
that speaks to me. I’m attracted to the
architecture down here. I enjoy the
people, and let’s be honest: Not a whole
lot of South American countries are big
fans of the work I’ve done because they
hear my Spanish counterpart, so that
kinda limits some of the places I can go
to as far as convention travel. As much
as I’d love to go to China or Japan it’s
like ‘well, I’m gonna have to do that on
my own’ because they’re hearing their
guys”.
Neil would love to meet some of his
counterparts, particularly the Japanese
seiyuu for Madara Uchiha, whose voice
he used as a basis for the English dub.
After a quick tale about voice actors in a
karaoke bar, which really doesn’t translate
to the written medium, we are given
the hard wrap up. We thank each other,
and he goes off to do his next interview
possibly anticipating our third encounter.
Interview conducted by Paul Monopoli