James Wan

We're at the CHNC 2026 Symposium, and there are just no shortage of interesting topics.

Next up, I have Dr. James Wan.

You're an associate professor in the Department of Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and you are the director of the Human Factors and Systems Design team at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

Thank you for joining me.

Anyway, her uncanny talent for completely reproducing a different voice soon made itself known, and she'd end up re-dubbing all the female cast members except Lois Maxwell's Moneypenny and Zena Marshall's Miss Taro.

This means that she's not only the first woman's voice in a James Wan film, the radio operator W6N, she's also the next one you'd hear as well, when Nikki replaced Eunice Gason as Sylvia Trench.

And before you start banging your head against the wall saying Diana Coupland was the singer according to IMDb, she was the vocalist heard on the radio at Miss Taro's house.

Nikki was born in the Berlin of 1935, to a prominent Jewish household, so their flight to Britain during her formative years was essential when friends and relatives were being systematically exterminated.

So congrats.

James Swan, talk about your distinctive filmmaking voice and bringing something unique to this franchise.

What does it feel like to get that call and then hear something like that from the person who created Saw?

It's wild, to say the least.