KHARY PAYTON TALKS "TEEN TITANS GO! VS TEEN TITANS & MORE (VIDEO)
Booyah! Teen Titans Go! Vs. Teen Titans is out, and Dang! It’s Good. I’ll take you back to a sweltering Sunday this past July. I was on assignment from Bleeding Cool. As I recall there was just about an hour to go before the thrilling premiere of Teen Titans GO! Vs. Teen Titans at San Diego Comic Con 2019 when Cyborg himself, Khary Payton, transformed into a chair and told me what it is like voicing the hamburger-and-pizza-loving hero for so long – as well as his thoughts on a certain other project he’s involved with. Maybe you heard of it: Young Justice: Outsiders
I have never seen someone sit down with so much energy. Looking suer asual in his olive green t-shirt, Khary discusses the challenges of voicing two different versions of his animated alter-ego Cyborg:
No... Honestly, these are very much different versions of myself. I've been doing g Cyborg for almost 17 years and he's probably the character that's closest to me, and who I am. I've done a lot Of different versions of Cyborg and it's always just different aspects of myself. It's me with a couple shots of espresso…. It's just me in different moods.”
Payton first voiced Cyborg back in 2003 and you has cemented his place in the character’s distinguished history. What does he think of the live action versions on Titans and Doom Patrol?
“I feel like a proud poppa, man, honesty. Because I don't think any of that would have happened if the first Teen Titan show hadn't been such a big success. I feel like if you were a comic book person in the 80s then you knew who Cyborg was. Until the OG Teen Titans show the greater world didn't really come up. Kids growing up now they just assume Cyborg has been a really big part of the DC Universe. I think that has a lot to do with what we did with Cyborg, maybe about 20 years ago. I feel very proud of the fact that you can't look very far in the DC Universe without seeing Cyborg somewhere “
“It's very exciting to know that the Booyah has traveled across the multiverse of Cyborgs. ...I think just about every Cyborg has said it.
Khary has been pretty busy voicing several characters on Young Justice: Outsiders so we asked what is like to play different characters on the same show:
“Kalderon and Lightning/Jefferson, that display, are two of the most complicated and amazing characters I've ever been allowed to play. My mind is blown every time I get a script from Brandon Veitti and Greg Wiesman, the Executive Producers of Young Justice, it just blows my mind the complexity that I'm able to work with.
