It’s good when the actors know how to voice act. Acting compliments but doesn’t completely transfer over to voice acting. There are actors who can’t voice act if their life depended on it. Christian Bale is fortunately not one of those. He seems to love voice work and you can tell as much with his Batman. Luckily, most of the Ghibli dubs seem to defer the main roles to professional voice actors and it’s the rest of the cast where they use Hollywood movie stars.
While that’s true, I think sometimes the direction is to blame for not getting the performance out of them. A lot of times Ghibli dubs the actors just kinda mumble their lines or say them emotionlessly.
I see where you’re coming from, but find it hard to agree when I remember how well Howl’s Moving Castle was voiced.
It’s good when the actors know how to voice act. Acting compliments but doesn’t completely transfer over to voice acting. There are actors who can’t voice act if their life depended on it. Christian Bale is fortunately not one of those. He seems to love voice work and you can tell as much with his Batman. Luckily, most of the Ghibli dubs seem to defer the main roles to professional voice actors and it’s the rest of the cast where they use Hollywood movie stars.
While that’s true, I think sometimes the direction is to blame for not getting the performance out of them. A lot of times Ghibli dubs the actors just kinda mumble their lines or say them emotionlessly.