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ThunderCats Cast and Crew While there have been no announcements on a possible cast, ThunderCats has amassed an impressive crew behind the scenes. A bizarre host of creatures and villains stand in their. Lion-O, the newly appointed Lord of the ThunderCats, attempts to lead the team as they make this planet their new home. Lion-O and the ThunderCats Tygra, Panthro, Cheetara, Wilykat and Wilykit barely escape the sudden destruction of their home world, Thundera, only to crash land on the mysterious and exotic planet of Third Earth.

This is fine as we can all be right now, right?Melissa: Yeah. How are you doing?Larry Kenney: I’m just fine. How are you?Melissa: I’m doing really well. I’m thrilled to welcome voice actor, Larry, Kenny to the shell.Larry Kenney: Oh, thanks, Melissa. Kong , which has grossed almost 200 million worldwide.Today Melissa got to sit down with the one and only voice of Lion-O from the 1985 original Thundercats cartoon, Larry Kenney! Larry has done a whole lot more as well, but this is the role that sticks out as it resonates with our 80’s nerdom.“Drinks and Comics with Spoiler Country!” Melissa: This is spoiler country and I’m Melissa’s for chat today.

How did you get into that? And, and how did you make the jump into voice acting?Larry Kenney: Well I got into it by, let’s see if, start from the beginning, I guess in 1963, when everything was black and white, I got I was doing a we actually had a. Now you got into, you got started in radio. And you say you moved to New York in what year?Larry Kenney: I came here in 74, I think.Melissa: Okay. Well and are you from New York?Larry Kenney: No, no, I’ve been, well, I may as well be, I’ve been out here over 45 years now, but I’m from a little town in Illinois originally.Melissa: Okay, great. And are you a West coast? East coast?Melissa: Okay. But you know, you do what you gotta do to get by, right? Yeah, absolutely.Melissa: Yeah.

And then one day I get a call from the program director is this the big station in the area and Peoria and then lane. So moms wouldn’t know what not to cook for dinner. About the school, you know, it was just, you know, with what was going on at school that day.And we get the school lunch menu. Over telephone lines over the local radio station. And, and and we did a 10 minute radio show every day.

Then I moved to, as we do in radio, I moved on to. And, and then I worked there for a few years. So I started as a disc jockey when I was 15 the station.Yeah.

Hopefully if you want to make it, but I learned that I love making people laugh and they love, you know, people who, people kind of flock to people who make them laugh. Yeah.Larry Kenney: All right. And that made me feel good, but I also learned much later in therapyMelissa: as we do learn things from that. She tells me that when I was by the time or from the time that I could talk, I was doing cartoon voices, mimicking what I saw on television, you know? And and then I got into, I just, I don’t know why, but at that age you don’t know why you’re doing anything, but I, I noticed right away that doing cartoon voices and impersonating.Funny people and comedians Was a great thing because it made people laugh. And I’ve been here ever since.Melissa: And so what was when did you know that you had a talent for, for voice acting and how did you, you know, make that transition?Larry Kenney: Well, my mom knew first.

Did you have to take any acting classes to prepare as you were making your career as a voice actor?Larry Kenney: No, I didn’t I’ve I’ve I never took any acting classes. We all want to be around, you know, someone that can make us laugh all the time. And that’s all it took for me.Melissa: That’s great.

I I made sure I took speech courses, you know, all the different kinds of speech courses, public speaking, you know, I even took the bait.My kind of my mentor in radio at the time told me stay in school. Once I knew that this is what I wanted to do, you know, it was beyond radio. I did a couple of plays in college, but mostly in high school.

Now, if I had tried to do him. I am Richard Nixon and I’m not a crook.Okay. I just, I just said, let me, let me try it.

And I feel kind of funny about that.You know, I hear guys tell stories about man, this took me three years to get this voice down, you know? Wow.Larry Kenney: yeah, yeah. And most of them have had to work really hard at it. I joke about it, but I really, you know, I, I’ve known so many wonderful people in my business over the years. I have a natural gift for it, which is rare and awesome.Larry Kenney: It is. I’ve gotten away with it.Melissa: Yeah. I am not one of those kind of people who listens to hours and hours of tape, you know, lazy let’s face it.

Thundercats Tv Show Cast Series From The

That I’ve done is sunny, Coco puffs, birdLarry Kenney: I’ve been his voice for 40 years. You know, the show has become iconic and everybody from, you know, 20 years old to 50 knows, you know, Thundercats and Lionel.So I guess that, you know, that would be my, my favorite in a way, because most people know me for that in terms of the most fun voice. Because, well, first of all, it’s so I it’s become iconic. So it’s an animated series from the eighties. Well, gosh, there’s so many and so many that I like, I guess I have to say lion Oak because Lionel from Thundercats. Few and the ones that I can do, they just, they just come, you know,Melissa: what’s your favorite, favorite voiceYeah.