![]() Well, he laughed, and he said, “A truck? What does a truck sound like?” I said, “Larry, I don't know. I did all of it, every reel, and they’ve been using it ever since… for free. He had just found his happiness streak, and there it was. He said, “Alright, that's enough!” He got up, and the voice came from behind him and said, “You better come up here and listen to this.” He went up, and he was so cranky going up those stairs, and I think about five minutes later he comes, he's going like this. And so they finally get it down to about right here where I need it, and I just said, – I did it better back in those days – as this streak went across the screen, and he got so annoyed. Is it big like a tuba or small like a bugle? The voice, I think, will come from what it looks like," Cullen explained.When they asked me to do the Predator, “What do you see?” and this gray streak went across the screen, and they said, “Can you come up with something?” And I said, “Yeah, bring that studio mic down here.” It was one that was way up there, about 20 feet, and I said, “No, bring it down,” and the director behind me is getting really annoyed. "Are they big? Are they small? Do they have a small neck? Do they have a big neck? Do they have a big belly? A small belly? I will relate that to, what would it sound like? Like a musical instrument. More broadly, when Cullen is developing a voice for a new character, the sketches have a big impact on how he approaches the voice. The voice actor has frequently spoken about how the actual voice of Optimus Prime was inspired by his brother, Larry, who was in the Marine Corps. "A father to many who don't have a father," Cullen said about the character. In terms of Optimus Prime, Cullen highlights that the character is a good example of "leadership, as well as "honour and courage" for children. It's a very rewarding life."Ĭullen also did some work with NASA, specifically the OPSPARC project, the Optimus Prime Spinoff Promotion and Research Challenge for elementary, middle and high school students. "It's all very special to me when it involves kids and the effect that it has. "I like anything that has to do with helping children and helping youth," Cullen stressed. While there have been so many impressive roles and iconic voices for Cullen, being able to impact the lives of children is high on the voice actor's priority list when it comes to projects he's particularly excited to be a part of. (Stew Milne/AP Images for Hasbro, Inc.) 'I like anything that has to do with helping children' Peter Cullen, right, helps Frank Welker, the voice of Megatron, make handprints in Play-Doh compound at HASCON, the first-ever FANmily™ event from Hasbro, Inc. "We travel together to a lot to these conventions and I look forward to it, because it's just non-stop laughter. "Working with Frank, that was the beginning of a huge, huge ongoing career," Cullen said. Cullen still celebrates Welker's talent and creativity. Especially with Frank Welker."Ĭullen met Welker on 1979's Mighty Man and Yukk, and the pair have been friends ever since. "It was an opportunity to work with other actors and replenish that absence of performing. "I was a seven-day-a-week, in-front-of-a-microphone for years and it was a story of constant work, and then finally into cartoons, when the cartoons were massive. there was really no time for for acting in film or television," Cullen said. "In voiceover, it just took off with commercials and movie trailers, cartoons. ![]() From the National Theatre School of Canada and summer stock theatre in New York, he also did one-hour radio shows for CBC and television work for the public broadcaster, as well. "I look forward to it always."Ĭullen has an achieved an impressive career going back decades. "It is an opportunity to say thanks," Cullen told Yahoo Canada. (Photo by Theo Wargo/Getty Images)įew voice actors are as beloved as Montreal-born Peter Cullen, most famously known for voicing Optimus Prime in the Transformers franchise.Īs the 82-year-old makes his way to Toronto for Fan Expo Canada, Cullen said he feels "honoured" to continue to have the opportunity to meet fans - Canadians in particular - at fandom events. Peter Cullen attends Paramount's "Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts" premiere at Kings Theatre on Jin New York City.
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