Had a role for years as a kid, and now there's a sequel series coming where the character is an adult, and you're now old enough to play her this way too?
FUCK YOU, Michaela Jill Murphy (formerly Jessie Flower)! You're not Toph anymore! A blind character MUST be played by a BLIND ACTRESS, and preferably an Asian one since the character is clearly Chinese-coded! Dionne Quan, you're in!
...Seriously, they're doing that. The actor must share the same disability. In VOICEOVER.
Dionne Quan is a good actress, but come on, even Crunchyroll brought back Chuck Huber to voice Android 17 in Dragon Ball Sparking Zero, and he's very openly pro-Trump! How the fuck are you worse than Crunchyroll?!
I met and talked to Murphy at a con a couple of years back. The woman knows her shit. She got screwed.
The entire thing is extra hilarious to me because basically 95% of all male characters under the age of 18 are played by women, in aggressively noticeable women voices. So clearly they only care sometimes.
Its one of the reasons why I cannot stand DB Kai. Because Gohan went from sounding like a regular young boy to a screaming harpy. And if I wanted that I'd watch the Japanese version with Grandma.
It gets worse in voiceover.
Had a role for years as a kid, and now there's a sequel series coming where the character is an adult, and you're now old enough to play her this way too?
FUCK YOU, Michaela Jill Murphy (formerly Jessie Flower)! You're not Toph anymore! A blind character MUST be played by a BLIND ACTRESS, and preferably an Asian one since the character is clearly Chinese-coded! Dionne Quan, you're in!
...Seriously, they're doing that. The actor must share the same disability. In VOICEOVER.
Dionne Quan is a good actress, but come on, even Crunchyroll brought back Chuck Huber to voice Android 17 in Dragon Ball Sparking Zero, and he's very openly pro-Trump! How the fuck are you worse than Crunchyroll?!
I met and talked to Murphy at a con a couple of years back. The woman knows her shit. She got screwed.
(EDIT: Her middle name is Jill, not Lee. Fixed.)
Weird. Wasn't middle-aged Toph played by Kate Higgins?
For that flashback scene in Korra? Yes she was. I forgot about that scene.
But TOO BAD, Katie-baby, you're not blind! NEXT!
I'm just more surprised that Michaela wasn't reprising the middle-aged Toph flashbacks.
She quit acting in 2009. Her last role at that point was as Toph in some ATLA video game.
She only returned to acting a couple of years ago.
The entire thing is extra hilarious to me because basically 95% of all male characters under the age of 18 are played by women, in aggressively noticeable women voices. So clearly they only care sometimes.
Its one of the reasons why I cannot stand DB Kai. Because Gohan went from sounding like a regular young boy to a screaming harpy. And if I wanted that I'd watch the Japanese version with Grandma.