SCOTT MENVILLE TALKS "TEEN TITANS GO! VS. TEEN TITANS" & MORE (VIDEO)
Since today marks the release of Teen Titans Go! Vs. Teen Titans on digital, I thought I would take everyone back to San Diego Comic Con 2019. It was a sweltering Sunday in July when, on assignment from Bleeding Cool, I had the chance to chat with the cast, writers, and director of this multiverse madhouse.
With just about an hour to go until the world premiere of Teen Titans Go! Vs. Teen Titans , Scott Mellville sits down to chat for a few minutes about his double starring role as two different Robins. Scott has been playing Robin since 2003, and is pretty much the voice he you hear when an animated Robin is on screen. Now that we he is here with us, Scott tells us what he loves about getting to voice Robin:
“On the original Teen Titans the thing I loved the most were the dark gritty episodes, and the real grounded dramatic acting. And what I love most on the new one is to be able to go crazy, the sky's the limit. Do a monologue in Pig Latin. Sing an opera duet with Hynden Walch. Like, I'm a punk rock kid and all of a sudden I'm getting paid to sing opera in a cartoon? It's amazing. Just the craziness of (Teen Titans) GO!, I love. And I think Robin is an amazing character. No superpowers, he is just driven to be better. “
A fair amount of time has passed since Teen Titans first aired in July of 2003, we asked Melville to recall his favorite memories from the first series:
“Working with the wonderful Andrea Romano, our voice director she's amazing, Glen Murakami, working with them. Also, getting to act with Ron Pearlman. Getting to go to to toe in some of those "head to head" standoffs. A lot of the grounded, gritty dark episodes are some of my favorite memories
Talking about the " Self Indulgence 200th Episode Spectacular" parts one and two Scott tells us.
“There was a lot of inside jokes and ad libs in those episodes that made it into the final. Like, Greg and Tara in the booth doing selfies, that actually happens. It was a trip to voice myself. The funniest thing was Hynden Walch, who is always at the mic next to me when we record- she is Starfire, she did her Starfire lines and when it was time for her to do herself she looked at me and said " Scott, I don't know how to do me. I'm like 'Its your own voice.' She's like, "What do I sound like?"
With so many different Robins in the we ask Melville to explain the differences between the two different Robins?
“The original Robin, from Teen Titans, is a leader and very much an Alpha Male, but he doesn't have anything to prove necessarily. The Robin from Go! is a leader but he feels like he always has to prove it. And he's an Alpha Male and he feels like he always has to prove it. He's always trying to prove it, and go nuts!”
