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First Impressions: Netflix's Voltron Legendary Defender

wonderwomanhero wrote:

the stereotypical lack of women though.... hard pass.

I agree, it's very weird, especially considering one of the two showrunners is a female...

wonderwomanhero wrote:

the stereotypical lack of women though.... hard pass.

I agree, it's very weird, especially considering one of the two showrunners is a female...

Pidge? That might explain his introversion. I'm just saying give us some head's up.

Beatdigga wrote:

Pidge? That might explain his introversion. I'm just saying give us some head's up.

Personally, I'm thinking they might actually make Pidge transgender. He's the only one of the boys who is voiced by a female voice actor, and he certainly looks like he could biologically be female. Just thinking that since in the original series Pidge always looked like a girl but was voiced by a guy, perhaps the opposite could be true here.

Obviously Pidge has lost his family and that sucks, but has Pidge gone through anything else that informs the character?

Well, I could tell you that but it would spoil all the fun of watching it. There are a lot of layers to Pidge that it’s going to be very fun to peel off throughout our eleven episodes.
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With the original Voltron, Pidge had this really squeaky, almost muppet voice. When you heard about the audition for Pidge were you like, “Oh god, I do not want to do a muppet voice.”

Well I was warned. When I went in for Voltron, I took the character and went in with a voice that I thought would fit the character. This fifteen year old boy. Not squeaky but not normal puberty boy level either. I went in there and they seemed to enjoy it and I was warned afterwards that the old voice had been so squeaky that no one would recognize me as Pidge. And I was like, “Okay, well, maybe they’ll like this one. Maybe they can listen to Pidge talking for more time.” And I didn’t wanna be a muppet. I thought it’d be more fun this way to give him a real voice.

Obviously in the voice acting industry they get women to play boys but do you think there was a reason they cast you specifically? Is it because they were going for that more boyishness with Pidge, because he is a little younger than everybody else?

Yeah, Pidge is the youngest on the team for sure and I think the reason they chose me? Well, for girls with more androgynous voices like myself, it’s easier to play up or down. So for Pidge it’s fun to play around with both just because he’s so young and kind of in the throes of age and all those changes.

I really wouldn't look too much into Pidge possibly being a girl given the general trend for younger boys to be voiced by women, both in the US and in Anime (which this Voltron is taking quite a few influences from).