Andrea Romano

Right.

that masters is and just really took it all at surface value of oh all right that's an interesting design okay you know if i were 10 years and again i don't mean this in a condescending way if i were 10 years old and he man was happening i would have i would have gotten sure absolutely so silver hawks again it's something i can't a lot of those 80s and 90s cartoons It really took, I think, the attitude of Andrea Romano and what we got with Batman in the animated series, that the writing got better and the acting got better.

Because a lot of it really feels like, hey, we really need to get Timmy out of the well.

And it's like, all right, you don't have to yell at me.

Well, the funny thing is that I never, and I made a joke about it at...

Andrea Romano's Retirement Party.

Oh yeah, I'm very familiar with her.

Oh yeah, she's been around and definitely my education in voiceover started every day after school with Animaniacs, Batman the Animated Series, Tiny Toons, Freakazoid, all the classic Warner Brothers, the classic 90s cartoons.

I would love a series covering animation.

How about the work of legendary voice casting director Andrea Romano? She's like the one who cast all the

Tim, Batman, Superman, Justice League cartoons.

Okay.

You and I were trained to be

voiceover artists by Andrea Romano.

The legendary Andrea Romano.

So you

know I got her on the phone.

That's right, that's right.

And we should mention how incredibly received, well-received, um, the episodes with Andrea Romano have been.

Yes.

Um, the feedback I've gotten has just been, you know, off the charts.

Yes.

I was happy to see your name attached, too, 'cause we were talking, we were, uh, we, you and I were talking briefly before we got started that I just saw Susan and Dan at, uh, Cincinnati Comic Expo.

And we were talking about we need guests coming up 'cause we just finished our two-part Andrea Romano, uh, episode, where we kinda covered a day in the life of how she goes through everything.

But Dan said, "Oh, you know what? Stan's, Stan did Hunter's Moon." And Susan and I lit up 'cause we're like, "Stan told us he was done." [laughs] So we're very-

... you know, again, uh, really amazing and, um, I, I will tell you this.

Um, e- Andrea Romano, of course, is, is, you know, premier, uh, when it comes to voice directors.

Absolutely.

Um, I, I did get to do a tiny, tiny bit of directing in the sense that there was some Greek in it, and I had contacted a, a linguistics professor at UCLA because I wanted to make sure that the magic spells ...

Hi, welcome to Rewind as I look back on Batman the Animated Series.

As we've heard so far, this series really changed televised animation and really brought to life a lot of the DC Comic superheroes, not to mention casting an incredible voice cast with Andrea Romano leading the way in that department.

But the series had ...

The series was also guided by Bruce W. Timm, Paul Dini, among others, writing some great episodes.

[laughs]

Actually, I showed up that day to do a couple of incidental parts, and the lady, I don't know who it was, that was supposed to be Poison Ivy didn't show up, was sick, was delayed, whatever it was.

And Andrea Romano, that wonderful voice director we had, said, "Diane, would you like to give this a shot?" And I went, "Sure." And I looked at it and I went, "Okay." And I read the lines, and they said, "You got it." And it was one of those mwah, serendipity, timing, whatever, just delightful.

What did you know about Poison Ivy beforehand?