Princess Zelda is undeniably a very important character in the Legend of Zelda series, so casting her first voice actress was a huge task. However, it seems like the actress they picked has an excellent grasp of the character in Breath of the Wild. In an interview with Game Rant, Patricia Summersett discussed her inspiration when voicing the Hylian Princess and what she thinks about the character. Check out the full interview here.
Where did you draw your inspiration from when auditioning for the role of Zelda?
“Well, when I auditioned for the role I didn’t know what I was auditioning for, so I was more going with the themes of the kind of cadence that they were looking for. You know, an interpretation of. When I first came in with my initial ideas. I had a feeling it was a princess, she was younger but had the weight of the world on her shoulders, and had a kind of timeless/ageless quality where age was not necessarily equivalent to the age on paper. And, yeah, that she had a sort of regal sense to her. That’s kind of what I picked up from the breakdown of it. So, that’s what I initially went with. Once I found out that I got the part, which was quite further down in the process, we started recording. I think a lot of the decision have been made about what the direction would be anyway, so it was a negotiation between, I guess, my sensibilities and that of Nintendo’s vision.”
who cares she was payed to a do a job now go away
Wow, what’s with this rudeness? It’s not at all uncommon for fans to be interested in voice actors. People stand in long lines just to meet them at conventions.
I’d LOVE to meet Charles Martinet some day. But I probably never will. He’d never come to blah, boring cities like where I live. Even though it’s really building up.
exactly, my drama class has alot of good actors and actresses and we know how frustrating that is.
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Let me be clear: of course you’re allowed to say what your opinion is and what you think about a situation, but at least try to keep an open mind. People want to talk about subject, but you come in and cut the entire conversation off because “it is blasphemous to go against nintendo”
Yo, leave these characters be. They don’t harm nobody, and they give the site personality.
It’s better to ignore that one, but knock yourself out.
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Don’t mind the Commander. He woke up on the wrong side of the metal slab this morning… :P
Very rude!
Shut up, Clitoris!
Fuck, there needs to be a way to unlike, I would never like a comment like that. Screw this smartphone I browse this site on.
There is. Click the star next to where it says “like.”
Jeez! It’s just an interview! Chill out!
Zelda has bigger boobs
I never imagined Zelda’s voice in the past as the way it was in Breath of the Wild. But I do love the voice of Zelda and think it fits her character perfectly.
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I thought her performance was the weakest of all of the voiced characters in the game
I thought Mipha’s was pretty weak. It was like she was trying too hard to make the character come off as cute.
Really? because everyone is saying that zelda + British voice = hotness overload.
She’s not British, though. Nor is her accent straight up English, either. She’s actually an American from upper Michigan where they speak something called yooper (I think that’s what it was called) which is an offshoot of the English accent.
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The Commander’s opinion is final, now shut up slave.
he/she is just a person like all of us, and I am personally completely done with his superiority complex that shows up after almost every post on this site.
did you just assume that the commander has a gender??
She might voices Zelda again in the future titles.
They do like to keep using the same voice actors in the Mario franchise. 80% is Charles Martinet of course.
Exactly.
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I dunno in some scene’s I thought her voice worked very well but in others I really didn’t like the voice. but I atribute that more to the voice direction than the actress
I wonder who does the voice of the goron champion, Daruk? Every time he talked, he reminded me of John Goodman.
Daruk was voiced by Joe Hernandez.
Thanks! It’s a great voice.
She did a fine job.
I just wonder though, what’s with Nintendo holding these auditions and not saying what the roles are people are trying out for? They did it with the role of Fox for SFZ: The Battle Begins, and now this. What goes through these peoples’ minds when they learn they are THE voice of a character like these? Is it like “oh, shit, I have to nail this” or like “HOLY SHIT I CAN’T BELIEVE IT THIS IS AMAZING!”
I hope to feel that someday, voicing a character.
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Never thought of it that way… Well put, Commander.
BotW’s voice acting is about as basic as many dubs of japanese games tend to be. Listening to the voice acting of a game in the language it was developed in is almost always the best way to play. Except that isn’t an option like it is with 90% of other imports :/
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Wasn’t a fan of her acting in the game.
But I would not mind her taking the task in the future, there is definitively room for improvement.
She did a pretty good job, but I really never incisioned her with an English accent
She didn’t have an English accent. That may have been what she was attempting, but it’s not what she achieved.
I don’t care for Zelda’s English voice in BoTW. It sounds far too mature for the appearing age of the character. It sounds more like a 25 year old than a 16/17 year old.
I had no problems with any of the voice acting in the game… did it ruin the game? No.
Personally, I think she did an excellent job. I’m glad Link is still mute, although it is implied in the game that he can speak. I wish more of the characters were voiced, but baby steps…
Link has always been able to talk. It’s why everyone knew his name & such in past games when he was just a nobody to the rest of the world. It wasn’t til Breath of the Wild that most characters of his time period knew who he was (Link) & what he was (the Hero that saves Hyrule time & time again since time immemorial.)
I enjoyed her voice. Was there more to be desired? Yes. But such is the world. Nearly everything can be better than what it is. Whether she’ll stand up to future Zelda voice actresses if she doesn’t become the go-to gal for future games remains to be seen. Either way, I look forward to more Zelda games with actual voice acting. Now if they could just port Hyrule Warriors to Switch with full voice overs instead of it being relegated to the narrator.