While that is hilarious, there could be a rationale behind it: voice acting and acting are different things. For a cartoon you have to be able to exaggerate your speech mannerisms, basically talk like a caricature of yourself. A subdued performance can be fantastic in a movie, but come across as boring in a cartoon. So it might instead have been something like "Can you be Ernie Hudson dialed up to 11?" and he couldn't do that as well as Arsenio Hall could.
But then again, Ernie Hudson has done other voice acting work as well and done a good job at it. So who knows what that whole thing was really about?
True. Keanu is a major character in Cyberpunk 2077 video game, and I don't think he's very good. It could be direction, but he seems even more wooden than usual.
Haley Atwell was terrible in the first season of What If...
I would imagine the rationale behind it was because of SAG bylaws they probably would have had to pay Ernie more than they wanted, since he was reprising his role from the movies.
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u/DickRhino 1d ago
While that is hilarious, there could be a rationale behind it: voice acting and acting are different things. For a cartoon you have to be able to exaggerate your speech mannerisms, basically talk like a caricature of yourself. A subdued performance can be fantastic in a movie, but come across as boring in a cartoon. So it might instead have been something like "Can you be Ernie Hudson dialed up to 11?" and he couldn't do that as well as Arsenio Hall could.
But then again, Ernie Hudson has done other voice acting work as well and done a good job at it. So who knows what that whole thing was really about?