Oh, man! Honestly, I loved SO many characters from THOHH, but I knew in advance there were some I just wouldn't get the voice right (Nell and Theo were BOTH considerations I decided against), and also I just fell so in love with Luke in the series. I think both actors/stories are to blame for that but there was something beyond his cuteness in the way Julian played him, this way of taking everything (even mischievousness) very seriously and being very intentional that was so different from a stock scared horror movie kid, and I just...wanted to protect him, and even moreso watching all he had to deal with from not just life but his family as he got older. ;____;
I hemmed and hawed a long time about whether I wanted to play adult Luke or kid Luke, but I threw little Luke into TD kind of in the spirit of seeing what would happen if he HAD an alternate future where more people would believe him, and his voice just STUCK. I wasn't even expecting to app anybody, but he just, CLICKED. Probably faster than many of my characters!
I do want to work on playing his internal struggles and just, dealing with grief, more, and also having him work through that. It's a struggle to play because it's so internal and so quiet, a lot of the time, but I want to do that justice. I do mostly let him react to things because sometimes it results in some really fun weird stuff I'm not expecting (a good example is wanting to learn to ride horses because Nell would have wanted to, and his friendship with Eowyn in general)! He's a cool, weird kid. If I get to him being more pre-teen, definitely playing with crushes and rebellion and things like that.
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I hemmed and hawed a long time about whether I wanted to play adult Luke or kid Luke, but I threw little Luke into TD kind of in the spirit of seeing what would happen if he HAD an alternate future where more people would believe him, and his voice just STUCK. I wasn't even expecting to app anybody, but he just, CLICKED. Probably faster than many of my characters!
I do want to work on playing his internal struggles and just, dealing with grief, more, and also having him work through that. It's a struggle to play because it's so internal and so quiet, a lot of the time, but I want to do that justice. I do mostly let him react to things because sometimes it results in some really fun weird stuff I'm not expecting (a good example is wanting to learn to ride horses because Nell would have wanted to, and his friendship with Eowyn in general)! He's a cool, weird kid. If I get to him being more pre-teen, definitely playing with crushes and rebellion and things like that.