Holy crap voice acting! (Destiny)

by General Vagueness , The Vault of Sass, Wednesday, March 25, 2015, 15:20 (3779 days ago) @ Dagoonite

For the most part, I feel the same way. Dinklage wasn't the best choice, not by a longshot. But most of the rest of the celebrity casting was spot freaking on. Fillion works well for Cayle, Torres played a role type that she genuinely excels at, Reddik is Morgan Freeman Jr. Claudia Black genuinely enjoys voice acting and got the role of Morrigan in Dragon Age by asking to be in one of their games.

THAT SAID, voice acting and regular acting are two different beasts. It surprisingly requires a different skill set. Some actors make the transition extremely well, such as Keith David. Some struggle more before finding their way in it. Others never do.

But voice acting is starting to become more appealing to big name actors for a variety of reasons -- it's a good way to make money on the "off season," the kinds of roles that demand voice actors are gaining more legitimate respect, and it's a new challenge. You wouldn't believe how many actors will gladly pass up a good paycheck for a pittance role that offers them a challenge.

For the people doing the hiring, casting a celeb also has a certain marketing appeal. Add those two factors together, and we're entering an era where more celebs will be easing their way into voice acting, like it or not.

What's interesting to me is actors that have had a whole second career or revitalized their career with successful voice acting like Mark Hamill, Cree Summer, and arguably Katey Sagal and Michael Madsen. What's even more interesting is that we're getting to where voice actors can be celebrities in their own right, with names like Billy West, Tom Kenny, and John DiMaggio coming to mind (and for that matter Cree Summer again, she's much more familiar to me as a voice actor than for her one big live action role). We're even starting to have examples where a voice actor makes it big and "breaks out" into live action like Mila Kunis.
What do you guys think of casting someone who's known as a voice actor, but mainly just because that's what they're known for, because they have some measure of name recognition?