My Hero Academia Voice Actor Interview: Jason Liebrecht

<p>Ernesto Jason Liebrecht is an American voice actor based in Austin TX who has been working as an actor for well over a decade&period; He voices a number of English versions of Japanese anime series and video games&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Some of his major roles include <strong>Dabi in My Hero Academia<&sol;strong>&comma; Mordecai in the Borderlands series&comma; Lo Wang in the Shadow Warrior series&comma; Qrow in Rwby&comma; Tapion in Dragon Ball Z&colon; Wrath of the Dragon&comma; Syaoran in Tsubasa&colon; Reservoir Chronicle and <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;&quest;s&equals;Cardcaptor&plus;Sakura">Cardcaptor Sakura<&sol;a>&colon; Clear Card&comma; Rob Lucci in <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;&quest;s&equals;One&plus;piece">One Piece&comma;<&sol;a> Akira Takizawa in Eden of the East&comma; Train Heartnet in Black Cat&comma; Hei in Darker than Black&comma; Larcade Dragneel in the final season of <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;&quest;s&equals;Fairy&plus;Tail">Fairy Tail<&sol;a>&comma; Vulcan Joseph in Fire Force&comma; Hiroto Suwa in Orange&comma; Yato in Noragami&comma; Mars in <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;black-clover-anime-review&sol;">Black Clover<&sol;a> and Zeke Yeager in <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;&quest;s&equals;Attack&plus;on&plus;Titan">Attack on Titan<&sol;a>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;&quest;s&equals;funimation" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">Funimation<&sol;a> graciously provided us an opportunity to interview the seasoned actor to discuss his role as Dabi in My Hero Academia&comma; as well as his opinions&comma; history&comma; and process of voice acting&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"aligncenter wp-image-173094 size-large" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2021&sol;08&sol;27091440&sol;Jason-Liebrecht-819x1024&period;jpg" alt&equals;"My Hero Academia - Jason Liebrecht " width&equals;"819" height&equals;"1024" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"aligncenter" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;denofgeek&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;04&sol;My-Hero-Academia-Dabi&period;jpg&quest;fit&equals;1200&percnt;2C679" alt&equals;"My Hero Academia - Dabi" width&equals;"1200" height&equals;"679" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center">Interview<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p><strong>Q&colon;<&sol;strong> <strong>What inspired you to pursue a voice acting career&comma; and how did you get your first voice acting role&quest;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p><strong>Jason<&sol;strong>&colon; I’ve been an actor since I was a child actually&comma; on stage and in films&period; Oddly enough&comma; twenty years ago I was in a birthday party and ended up sitting in a bar with a friend I knew kinda through the theatre world&comma; turned out he was a director for a company called ADV films and they had a studio in Austin where I’m from where I lived in at the time called Monster Island studios and he said &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;hey I’m looking for an actor for this show called The Getbackers would you be interested in coming in Monday and giving it a shot&quest;” and I did&comma; and that was almost two decades ago&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><strong>Q&colon; So how did you become a voice actor for My Hero Academia&quest;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p><strong>Jason<&sol;strong>&colon; Oh jeez&comma; it’s been a few seasons I think that Dabi’s been in it&period; Basically I was in the first round of auditions and was not cast in immediately and Colleen the director at some point saw me in the hallway and she said &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;hey I found your character&comma; he’s pretty cool” and when I came in I was not disappointed&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><strong>Q&colon; Were you always a fan of the series or was it just another role to you&quest;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p><strong>Jason<&sol;strong>&colon; I love my characters that I get to play&period; The villains are in my opinion very gratifying&period; In the beginning of my voice acting career I played a lot of heroes and honestly it got the point that I wanted something a little bit saltier&comma; a little bit more interesting and Dabi definitely fits the bill in terms of mystery and all-round being a bad A dude&comma; the most emo of the villains and the show&period; With that permanent thousand yard stare I just couldn’t imagine a cooler character&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><strong>Q&colon; How did you go about portraying Dabi&&num;8217&semi;s personality and did you encounter any challenges while doing so&quest;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p><strong>Jason<&sol;strong>&colon; So far I find that he’s been very cool and hold his intentions to the chest and he’s not giving anything away thus far&period; And in terms of the difficulty I’d say no I don’t find it all that difficult to tap into that part of myself maybe because of my own life experiences that I won’t go all the way into but that’s the kind of actor I am anyway&period; I tap into past pains et cetra and try to be as detailed as possible when I portray a character&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><strong>Q&colon; So you used past experiences to portray a character like Dabi&quest;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p><strong>Jason<&sol;strong>&colon; Yes&comma; yes indeed&period; I bring to mind my troubled childhood&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><strong>Q&colon; What have you learnt from voicing your characters so far&quest;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p><strong>Jason<&sol;strong>&colon; Not as much as I’d like to honestly&period; I’d really like to as much as any fan I want to know who he is I want to know all that back story&semi; I want to know what made him who he is today&period; And I’m just as excited as anyone for that to be hopefully revealed in the future&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><strong>Q&colon; Alright last question&period; Is there anything specific you are looking forward to seeing in this upcoming arc&quest;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p><strong>Jason<&sol;strong>&colon; The villains getting a bit of screen time to me is exceptionally gratifying&period; And I watch the show and it’s not just because I’m in those parts&comma; but I’ve said before many times when they get into those dark warehouses and the fighting starts with those villains&comma; that’s where I get excited&period;  So if we’re about to get into a zone where that’s happens more frequently that’s to my taste personally if that makes any sense&period; Now I don’t know what’s going to happen&comma; but I look forward to that hopefully being a regular occurrence&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><strong>I agree&comma; and we look forward to seeing you in action in the upcoming arc Jason&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p><strong>Jason&colon;<&sol;strong> I appreciate that Abdul&comma; me too&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><strong>The &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;my-hero-academia-reveals-new-key-visual-for-upcoming-my-villain-academia-arc&sol;">My Villain Academia<&sol;a>” Arc of My hero Academia is available to stream now on <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;funimation&period;com&sol;en&sol;shows&sol;my-hero-academia&sol;my-villain-academia&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">Funimation<&sol;a>&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Are you a fan of My Hero Academia&quest; What do you think of our interview&quest; Let us know your thoughts in the comments section below&period; <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;