Voice actor David Kaye still remembers getting the news he’d been cast on “Transformers: Animated.” Two weeks after a callback where he read for multiple characters, he got a call from his agent.
Kaye, who was driving in downtown LA, answered his phone and heard the news: he’d got the part …
of Optimus Prime.
Kaye’s response as he swerved his car: “Who?!”While Kaye had read for Optimus Prime (and noticed voice director Susan Blu liked what he was doing), he walked into the audition expecting to get a different part.
The part, in fact, that was furthest from Optimus Prime — Megatron.
At the time, Kaye had been voicing Megatron for about a decade, first in “Beast Wars.”During the 1990s and 2000s, Kaye was a staple of Canada’s voice-acting pool.
Mainframe Entertainment, based in Vancouver, developed “Beast Wars” and recruited local talent, Kaye among them.
A few years later,…
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