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Interview: Vic Mignogna [2018-05-09]

Cardcaptor Takato wrote:

whispers of rumors over the years that it shouldn't be just dismissed

Well I dismiss baseless rumors. Fans get offended all the time and start rumors. Every fan has a cell phone and wants to record their interaction, where is the proof? An actor being super friendly that someone confuses with hitting on people is not a sound argument. Some more popular actors become a target from crazed fans so its hard to tell.

He'd express his personal view and some crazed fans would get offended. He'd be super friendly and some crazed fans get offended. Its silly.

Just an FYI the VAST majority of the time the English VA's are not even in the same room together when shooting. They do their lines solo in the booth most of the time. So for example Greg and Vic could do a show together and never even meet during the course of it. Most of the English VA's also tend to not "shit talk" each other, or other anime staff, publicly. Whether it's due to not wanting to cause a scene, possibly hurt their own career by coming of as hard to work with, or just because they have some class and keep their personal opinions to themselves (or at least in closed door environments). This is not Hollywood where everyone is beefing with everyone and TMZ is following you for more gossip.

This is my take. I've heard so many rumors that always end up in well I actually just heard from somebody who heard from somebody. Allegedly there is some mysterious YouTube clip that like people have never seen, but they've heard from someone who knew someone who said they saw it and on it Vic was doing some deplorable things.

These are what the Vic rumors are like. Anyone who has ever started a rumor about someone knows that this is classic tell tale traits of shenanigans and tomfoolery. Like you said, where is the evidence? Why is it never a first hand report, it's always like 5 layers of telephone being played.

The worst I've heard is that one time he got angry at a restaurant, because heaven forbid somebody got upset in public once after a long day of meet and greet with otaku.

people love to accuse him of being homophobic

xchampion wrote:

I've met Vic a few times already and he is just a really nice guy overall. My interactions have been nothing but pleasant.

Normally I would agree with you. I’ve seen him do a lot of nice things for fans at conventions, such as staying long past his autograph session to sign. But I’ve also seen him do some creepy things, especially when around young, possibly underage, cute girls/women.

My Vic story is that, during one of his appearances at SakuraCon, I was at Cheesecake Factory waiting in the lobby for a table when he came in. He initially was pissed off that they wouldn’t seat him right away, even though it was Easter and many others were already waiting for a table. In front of a full waiting room with many children present, he gets a call, becomes enraged and yelled “I don’t give an F—K what you have to do, just clear my schedule.” Yeah, no. This is not a pleasant man in the slightest. If you have to take a call like that in a restaurant, the courteous thing would be to step outside. And if you can’t do that, watch your language. The pleasant act is just that, an act. If it weren’t, why are there so many stories by other, most women attendees, who have seen another side of him. I doubt all of us are seeking attention, and if we were, why would we have a Vic story when we could focus our efforts on getting a good, TMZ-worthy story with a real celebrity? You have to ask yourself,, if this man is so pleasant, why have several conventions banned him?

Every Vic M. interview or article that involves him always involves people talking crap about how he acted at a con or whatever when the article really has nothing to do with it. Leave it alone. I’ve had bad experiences with some VA’s, but I don’t keep bringing it up in every article they’re in.

Vic was the 1st ADV VA to do work in a Funimation title (Broly in the DBZ movies). While I don't know if the freq. of ADV actors working Funi would have still happened had Vic not played Broly, I still call this the "Vic Mignogna effet".

KENZICHI wrote:

Every Vic M. interview or article that involves him always involves people talking crap about how he acted at a con or whatever when the article really has nothing to do with it. Leave it alone. I’ve had bad experiences with some VA’s, but I don’t keep bringing it up in every article they’re in.

It's the mindset when somebody is subjected to rumors. Take Michael Jackson for example. Even after he's been proven innocent, he was the butt of many pedophilia jokes until the day he died.

Cadmos1 wrote:

Vic was the 1st ADV VA to do work in a Funimation title (Broly in the DBZ movies). While I don't know if the freq. of ADV actors working Funi would have still happened had Vic not played Broly, I still call this the "Vic Mignogna effet".

It was actually a little sooner than that. He was two characters in "Yu Yu Hakusho" during the Dark Tournament arc (Urashima and Bui), which premiered in the Spring of 2003 while the first Broly movie came out in the Fall of that year.