Interview With Jennifer Hale And Mark Meer (Mass Effect's Commander Shepard)

Interview With Jennifer Hale And Mark Meer (Mass Effect's Commander Shepard) - MomoCon 2013

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Marianne spends some time chatting with the voices of Mass Effect's Commander Shepard to discuss their work as voice actors in the series.

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@ajaybala8967 9 жыл бұрын

I half expected Mark to punch the interviewer "I've had enough of your disengenuous assertions"

@TheGAVstudio 8 жыл бұрын

hahahahahahahahahahaha

@TheMoorgoth 7 жыл бұрын

I've had enough of your snide insinuations

@fatimapalacios2292 7 жыл бұрын

hahah that would be funny and surprising

@Anonymos185 7 жыл бұрын

Ive had enough of your tabloid journalism

@owaisansari2744 6 жыл бұрын

Dishoom...hahah

@eskimpertush 8 жыл бұрын

"I should go" from Jennifer Hale is priceless. HAHA

@grishemall 8 жыл бұрын

+eskimpertush Best moment of the entire interview, that was pure gold! :D

@kingaragornii9940 4 жыл бұрын

🌟 *Plastic bitch*

@JnEricsonx 3 жыл бұрын

I actually got to say that to her. I followed it up by "I'm sorry, I HAD to say it."

@JMrealgamer 3 жыл бұрын

Where? You should have put a time stamp. I would have loved to hear it. Oh there it is! Lol! Yeah wonderful!

@jaredong 2 жыл бұрын

1:11 for folks wondering

@dragonieprayer 11 жыл бұрын

Mark: renegade! ( wears something red ) Jennifer: Paragon ( wears something blue ) 8D

@yosonimbord 10 жыл бұрын

"I Should Go" she's awesome

@PaladinParamor 10 жыл бұрын

When does she say that?! I don't know why, but I didn't hear it!

@TundraWolfe 10 жыл бұрын

Insightful Lingusit Around 1:10, or shortly thereafter. Pretty great.

@OneEsk19 10 жыл бұрын

***** Oh good, a replay button!

@looinrims 6 жыл бұрын

*”IVE HAD ENOUGH OF YOUR TABLOID JOURNALISM!”*

@osamodeusoftheblacktemplar6174 4 жыл бұрын

*TAKE THAT Sinan-Al Jilani!!*

@aesketches 2 жыл бұрын

Only renegade players know 🤣

@Noum77 8 жыл бұрын

I'm sure the normandy is docked behind that wall

@RKshamrock 9 жыл бұрын

Mark has this "listening face" in interviews where he just looks really, really attentive when being asked a question, it's hilarious :D

@bzqp2 3 жыл бұрын

AH YES, I'M ABSORBING YOUR WORDS

@MrFilbert28 3 жыл бұрын

@@bzqp2 I must say this fits male Shepards natural goofyness perfectly

@takaono7243 2 жыл бұрын

"I don't play games anymore, I don't have time! I spend all my time, you know, DOING THEM..." What a flex, Jennifer Hale. Queen.

@blackbbonnet 9 жыл бұрын

Jennifer Hale is the reason I love Shepard so much. She's incredible.

@allknowingfreddybear9291 4 жыл бұрын

I personally prefer Meer, Hale's acting sounded so forced like she was trying to deepen her voice the whole time. It was really annoying.

@ericbenson2007 4 жыл бұрын

Yes she was absolutely amazing. Much more emotion than Mark, although that they may have wanted him to be that way

@DanIel-fl1vc 3 жыл бұрын

Not to be sexist but a female badass soldier type only could be taken seriously in a fictional universe with aliens. It's not very realistic, especially "her" interaction with male characters. No man's man would buddy up with a female solider like that, headbutt her like the krogan or practice with snipers or hang out in a bar and drink. As a result every line delivered feels forced and she putting on an act. Same can't be said for the male shepard.

@lukavidakovic2385 3 жыл бұрын

one thing that elavates mark above is well bang ok

@pokermitten9795 2 жыл бұрын

@@DanIel-fl1vc good thing it's a fictional universe with aliens Been a femshep user since ME1 because Meer is basically a robot in that one.

@OneEsk19 10 жыл бұрын

''I should go''. Gosh, I had to pause the video because I was laughing so hard. That was awesome! Go Hale!

@obi-wankenobi8406 6 жыл бұрын

OneEsk19 *SPOILERS*

@sleeplesstortoise 8 жыл бұрын

i just closed my eyes and imagine Diana Allers interviewing both Shepard

@Cheburashka207 8 жыл бұрын

+Hagi Bastian And I punched her

@Krinor16 8 жыл бұрын

Get out of my ship !!!

@GenericUsername-qp1ww 7 жыл бұрын

nah, the interview doesn't have a plastic face.

@marctouss1862 6 жыл бұрын

i too always punch her in the face... sorry diana..

@dianaallers4490 5 жыл бұрын

I'm sure you did!

@TheInterestRates 10 жыл бұрын

"STEVE!! You ok?" :D

@raylast3873 4 жыл бұрын

Hai Steve

@physical_insanity 4 жыл бұрын

That was something that really stuck out at me when playing that bit. Just sounded weird.

@CAHurst-uy9uz 8 жыл бұрын

I'm so obsessed with hearing Jennifer's voice. It's so awesome.

@SnipahTV 8 жыл бұрын

Play Star Wars The Old Republic as a female trooper, Jennifer Hale is the voice

@doomsday437 7 жыл бұрын

SnipahTV She is in TONS of game just look up her name on wikipedia and see the games she is in

@Balnazzardi 7 жыл бұрын

+doomsday437 I think Jennifer Hale has the world record voicing videogames....she is kind of Tara Strong of videogame industry :D (although ofc she too has done many videogame roles herself)

@Klavin 10 жыл бұрын

Her voice makes everything she says epic, like Morgan Freeman

@hierophantpurple5163 9 жыл бұрын

Yup

@cosmokicksass 9 жыл бұрын

After hearing the fem shep voice for so long its crazy hearing Jennifer talk normally XD

@Seetiyan 7 жыл бұрын

Yes! it's weird to hear her voice coming out of her face, hehehe.

@MrRevan991 7 жыл бұрын

that's what i thought.... mark didnt sound like Sheppard but Jennifer just talked and it was boom shep speaking

@jyashin 7 жыл бұрын

Probably because Hale is associated with Shepard only. Meer pretty much voiced everybody who didn't have a name, so the association isn't as strong.

@MichaelbrosnanVEVO 10 жыл бұрын

"SHEPARD DOES NOT CRY" I love that. Love you Jennifer!

@outlettered 10 жыл бұрын

She does in the citadel dlc though :'(

@MichaelbrosnanVEVO 10 жыл бұрын

***** Yep. :/

@gzapray7203 2 жыл бұрын

Two words: Thane Romance :(

@alexwright8585 8 жыл бұрын

It's weird when you do something else, and you just hear commander Shepard commenting on commander Shepard.

@ChiaraKeating 9 жыл бұрын

Did anyone else really anticipate the dialogue wheel coming up every time Mark or Jen had a question put to them??

@AlcaTraZXG 8 жыл бұрын

Took me a second to realize that when Jennifer said "I should go" that was an inside joke.

@midoelghawaby825 7 жыл бұрын

the citadel dlc is the best

@brayatanstolethepreciousth2884 7 жыл бұрын

*I* should go

@edalder2000 7 жыл бұрын

"Citadel" was fan service. I swore Josh Whedon wrote it. At the end, I cried.

@brayatanstolethepreciousth2884 7 жыл бұрын

one of the best fanservice I've seen

@physical_insanity 4 жыл бұрын

@@edalder2000 Citadel is the best fan service I've ever seen, and I loved ever second of it. Even got my old love, the Lancer, back.

@GamingSuccub 8 жыл бұрын

I think I know exactly which line Jennifer is talking about. She did cry saying goodbye to Garrus (romace version) after all. ;)

@LightAngelSnow 6 жыл бұрын

Also Thane's...

@rramona88 5 жыл бұрын

Yup , she mentiones during another interview that saying goodbye to Garrus was the hardest lines she had to do in the trilogy .

@basak9746 5 жыл бұрын

I know right she said saying goodbye to garrus was her most favorite moment and she and her director cried because of her great emotional performance in that scene (I know I cried lol). She such a garrus fangirl actually lol

@elliesart_ 3 жыл бұрын

They talked about it on the live stream yesterday, how both her and the director cried when she recorded the garrus goodbye. Canon romance ❤

@SirMandokarla 10 жыл бұрын

Listening to Jennifer Hale is so confusing. Every once in a while I hear Shepard, then I'll hear Bastila, then my trooper from SWTOR... Meer is so much friendlier than Shepard tends to be, I don't hear it as much. That's even with my Paragon Shep.

@KoeNoOri 10 жыл бұрын

Jennifer Hales voice is so powerful (and awesome) that my X-box Kinect listened to her before me while I was playing this video (o_o).

@hartianx1698 3 жыл бұрын

She assumed direct control

@VorchaVideos 9 жыл бұрын

It's hilarious listening to the voices of Commander Shepard talking about the Mass Effect franchise.

@playtoyx 10 жыл бұрын

You go Mark Meer. Way to be a gamer.

@CRYPTfromCATACOMBZ 8 жыл бұрын

Honestly, i'd like to go drink with Mark outside. He seems like a very opend minded and cheerfull person, anyway i could improve my english with half of Commander Shepard. Mark, Keep it up and hope so we will hear your voice in ME Andromeda again!

@Luxai 3 жыл бұрын

Real talk tho, it's heartwarming to hear that the voice acting team became good friends during their run and felt genuine sorrow over parting ways. They became their own crew in the end.

@LostMercenary99 10 жыл бұрын

Think the list would have been shorter if Jennifer listed what she is not in.

@bunsonbaker4156 7 жыл бұрын

At the beginning of Andromeda I need an awesome heartfelt intro dialogue by femshep and then maleshep at the end of it going "NICE".

@BuzzKirill3D 10 жыл бұрын

I have nothing against Jennifer Hale, she did her job of voicing FemShep pretty well, but... Mark Meer actually played the games, and more than once. I find I can relate to him better.

@SmileyCirrusOz 10 жыл бұрын

Haha yeah, i like Jennifer Hale (and i play FemShep) but i prefer Mark in this situation. But like she said, she spends more time voicing games then playing them. And if you look up her career, its not surprising o.0

@Husker_XIII 10 жыл бұрын

We'll bang okay?

@Linkous12 10 жыл бұрын

I think it depends on what you heard first; I just finished the trilogy this evening as a FemShep (~150 hours) and every time I hear the male Shepard it sounds really odd.

@reznov316 10 жыл бұрын

Matthew Davis the reverse happens for me unfortunately. I've played Meer Shep countless number of times and whenever I try doing a Hale shep, I remember the lines mentally and always expect Meer's little deeper voice than Hale. Although I should say Hale used a lot of good voice modulation to give an oomph factor to some of the key dialogues than Meer.

@SteveCowlishaw 10 жыл бұрын

HaleShep (Heh) Is pretty butch, its not exactly a role I'd see a woman really doing, but I actually prefer Femshep over Maleshep.. though I do like both. Mark Meer is awesome. About the roles though, it isnt like Shepard actually does anything, he's just commanding a team, a role a cheer leader could do lol.

@lunawolf3340 3 жыл бұрын

Explicitly saying the story is over.... 2020: HOLD MY BEER

@jazracanah 9 жыл бұрын

Both of their voices give music to my life. The voices of Shepards everywhere! lmao

@pategustavo4392 9 жыл бұрын

I came here just to listen to jennifer talk

@TheStarcraftJACKAL 10 жыл бұрын

I should go - PRICELESS!

@randalmills 10 жыл бұрын

Jennifer Hale, Mark Meer, and David Hayter, now there's an awesome combination.

@c1rcu5fr3ak8 5 жыл бұрын

Randal Mills u talking about The Long Dark?

@Khedaar 4 жыл бұрын

I love Jennifer Hales voice

@rapper250 9 жыл бұрын

I wouldnt mind if they did some cameos in the next mass effect. or a nod to shepard.

@AstralSaiyan 10 жыл бұрын

....I love Jennifer Hale, she is Beautiful and that voice is awesome. Shepard and Rosalind Lutece (Bioshock Infinite). Gonna need to find more video games and stuff that she is in.

@EnforcerX71 10 жыл бұрын

Here's a few: Metal Gear Solid 1 & 4 - Dr. Naomi Hunter Metal Gear Solid 2 - Emma Emmerich Eternal Darkness - Alexandra Roivas Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 1 & 2 - Bastila Shan Metroid Prime 1, 2 & 3 - Samus Halo 4 - Commander Sarah Palmer (head female SPARTAN IV) There's more I'm forgetting I'm sure, but she's easily the most prominent video game voice actress, sort of like the female Nolan North/Troy Baker.

@AstralSaiyan 10 жыл бұрын

EnforcerX71 thanks I fear the metroid ones are Nintendo only?

@EnforcerX71 10 жыл бұрын

Metroid is a Nintendo developed game, so yes.

@AstralSaiyan 10 жыл бұрын

EnforcerX71 forgot that Nintendo owned metroid. Well I only own an Xbox 360. But maybe one day I will own a Nintendo again. (Last one was N64)

@Verunme 10 жыл бұрын

Ardgon Honestly, if you merely seek to play the game for her voice, skip the Metroid games, Samus is a silent protagonist 99.9% of the time, she mostly grunts. But, they (especially Prime 1) are amongst the best games ever, so play them anyway :p

@saintsflot599 Жыл бұрын

Amazing actors, i hope they return to ME4

@thebroo21 9 жыл бұрын

Hahahah. Mark's story about Steve Cortez was hilarious.

@manz92 10 жыл бұрын

Love her voice!

@VIZG88 8 жыл бұрын

so familiar voices i just close my eyes and listen

@iridescenties Жыл бұрын

we all know she was talking about that moment when Sheppard says goodbye to Garrus damn, that hurts so much. brilliant performance!!!

@Gravesend83 11 жыл бұрын

Mark Meer had so many facial expressions in the first 30 seconds.

@theedguardian 8 жыл бұрын

STEEEVE!!!!

@TheStanishStudios 10 жыл бұрын

This is such a good interview, gotta love Jen and Mark of course, but props to the interviewer for having good questions too!

@heidie.mueller1324 10 жыл бұрын

I love listening to Jennifers voice like woah

@TigreDemon 7 жыл бұрын

"Report to the ship as soon as possible, we'll bang ok ?"

@upset_elcor 10 жыл бұрын

That 'I should go' though! I was astonished she actually sounded like the legit at Shepard. Mark Meer also sounded like BroShep...

@CSIHollysgirl 11 жыл бұрын

SO awesome seeing these two together! So much time goes into comparing them but they're so different and so incredibly talented in their own rights!

@bryan199234bs 3 жыл бұрын

Man.. I wish Jennifer's take on how "we need more strong female roles, without being ravenous to the writers; why can't they be female?", would've resonated clear into 2020's games and media. I know Dice and many others could've used some of that mentality during development.

@DaLilShorty8999 10 жыл бұрын

God she has an amazing voice!

@shaolindynasty 10 жыл бұрын

Both are fantastic in the series. Even though I play as the female Shepard the most. And I'm a guy.

@KFieLdGaming 7 жыл бұрын

Jennifer Hale's work in the mass effect trilogy is a god damn masterpiece. Mark Meer is probably more recognizable to most people as I imagine most people play male shepard but after my first initial run through of these games as male shepard, I've never gone back. I've always played female shepard after that because of Jennifer's voice acting. It's just that good. I just recently played through the entire trilogy with my character imported through each game. For whatever reason when I first played these games I always just started a new game and didn't import the character from the previous game. What an idiot I was. I kept the relationship I started in Mass Effect 1 all the way through to the ending of Mass Effect 3. And in my opinion, that is how the game is meant to be played. What a difference. By the end of Mass Effect 3, right before going into the beam, I was pretty emotional. It's extremely rare for a game to effect me emotionally because usually there's this gap that exists that separates the player in the real world from the game world. Mass Effect broke that gap for me, and it's always going to remain one of my favorite gaming experiences ever. And Jennifer Hale did great along the way.

@elliesart_ 3 жыл бұрын

💛

@brianrasmussen1711 3 жыл бұрын

Jennifer and Mark are the best possible choices for Commander Shepard

@homebound56 5 жыл бұрын

I want to hug these guys. Their voices bring back so much nostalgia. I miss you male and female Shepard! :(

@EclipseKarma 8 жыл бұрын

I'm sure Jennifer Hale and Mark Meer will make small appearances in Mass Effect Andromeda. Shepard will not be there in person but possibly a recording for a small part in the game. For example, the N7 Day 2015 video.

@noushinza8142 4 жыл бұрын

Fem shepard is like near me her voice is like a leader

@LuizGustavovic 11 жыл бұрын

Mark Meer is so awesome, down to earth and a gamer himself. Funny guy. Have a lot of respect for him, also always liked his voice for Shepard.

@Matt561 5 жыл бұрын

Jennifer Hale is in so many games, so so many

@BlindGuardianCz 4 жыл бұрын

I'm always soooooo glad when I can hear Jennifer Hale voice in my games. Soo nostalgic. Her voice is just way too awesome and iconic. I think the last time was Female Warden in For Honor, there wasn't too much lines but man.. I played female Warden every time and when Ubi intended to replace the voice in one of the scrapped patches I was very sad to loose Jennifer's voice. Luckily she is still there.

@Kelkschiz 11 жыл бұрын

excellent interview

@TheWickedfan18 11 жыл бұрын

That woman is soooooo lucky, she met both shepards!

@evi948 7 жыл бұрын

God,I had the stupidest smile while watching this.I love them both so much!❤

@horiascarlat6109 7 жыл бұрын

Her English accent in KotOR as Bastila was extremely on point. I honestly thought she was from Britain

@DANfan412 11 жыл бұрын

"STEVE??!!... You okay?" Lol

@The482075 10 жыл бұрын

Meeting both Mark Meer and Jennifer Hale would be AWESOME! That is overload.

@mlgfrog2470 3 жыл бұрын

Mark is such a gentlemen lmao

@biggains1 3 жыл бұрын

"We were still using paper scripts, so yea, several forests probly died." exactly a renegade smart ass thing to say 🤣

@fenixdown4382 5 жыл бұрын

The more interviews I see if Mark Meer, the more I absolutely love this man!!! His personality won me over to team Male Shep, although both are great!!

@Tatooine92 11 жыл бұрын

Oh my gosh. I love these guys.

@indigothecat 11 жыл бұрын

It's so Cray-Cray listening to Shepard and Shepard having a conversation.

@betaraybillfan1750 7 жыл бұрын

Mark is such a cool guy

@Mettal4 3 жыл бұрын

Man...she has an incredibly beautiful voice.

@AdmiralBison 3 жыл бұрын

They ought to do bonus extras in games where the voice actors being interviewed have their characters being the ones interviewed. 4th wall breaking fun. :)

@SyndicateBrink 4 жыл бұрын

This is amazing

@RawLu. 3 жыл бұрын

The only video game/series to ever bring tears to this big burly old mans eyes since I started with Atari. My favorite Console game/series of all-time, Everquest for PC ;-) Also the greatest intro to any game in History IMO, When Shepard walks threw the ship at the beginning on ME1? Still gives me chills thinking about it... Unreal series...

@Shiantor 10 жыл бұрын

These two are awesome :) pity that interviewer has NO idea what she's doing with that microphone though...you can tell when she wants to say something because she just points the microphone at herself, even when Mark or Jennifer are the ones actually speaking.

@croftingsmile 10 жыл бұрын

oh my... her laught! :O I love it!

@tennoshenaniganizer9234 7 жыл бұрын

Their voices are so perfect

@AbsolutelyNotAnthony 11 жыл бұрын

A voice actor actually playing his character? Wow, that's really cool. He even nerds out and says what his paragon and renegade did. :D

@sammulhall 3 жыл бұрын

They’re both so perfect for Shepard

@GwaziMagnum 11 жыл бұрын

It's awesome how when both of them are talking they both sound like the shepard's they voiced so you're hearing both of them at once.

@Darrcness 11 жыл бұрын

I just love their voices~

@BethanyEvams 11 жыл бұрын

I love these two.

@chantalperez7815 8 жыл бұрын

SHEPARD DOES NOT CRY! I

@lucianwong420 3 жыл бұрын

I've only ever played as Manshep because i always romanced Tali, but it looks great seeing the 2 Shepards here!

@chapterblaq 3 жыл бұрын

Mark Meer is amazing (His voice work alone makes me wanna be friends with a Hanar) But Jennifer Fucking Hale! FemShep all day man. I've played thru the trilogy at least 4 times (and now adding a "Legendary Edition" Run) and I always choose Paragon FemShep. (I've done 1 Renegade Male Shepherd Run)

@bubthegreat1 10 жыл бұрын

Too bad she's married - it'd be awesome if they dated each other lolz. If they ever got in a fight, they could just say to each other "I should go", start laughing, then it's make-up/out time

@IamWalkingDead1 10 жыл бұрын

It would kinda be like being with yourself :P

@PKBitchGirl 9 жыл бұрын

They're both married, Mark's married to the actor who voiced that Asari you can terrify on Virmire by telling her there's a bomb and who you also run into on Grunt's loyalty mission

@Renji9031 7 жыл бұрын

Rana Thanoptis? The indoctrinated asari that isn't Demona when indoctrinated and Deanna while free?

@PKBitchGirl 7 жыл бұрын

Yeah, Mark's married to Rana Thanoptis' voice actor, I think her name's Belinda Carlisle

@desolatesoul2304 2 жыл бұрын

@@PKBitchGirl woah, the singer? LOL

@Eleglas 11 жыл бұрын

She also played the Doctor's Daughter in an episode alongside Tennant.

@GhoulMine1 11 жыл бұрын

I'll take your word for it.

@namelessqueen2949 7 жыл бұрын

Hearing Hale's voice relaxes me....God damn you Shepards, you're awesome! 😍

@linkieloos 6 жыл бұрын

MeerShep: Earthborn/War Hero HaleShep: Colonist/Ruthless

@TheN7Spartan 4 жыл бұрын

Although I think of Mark Meer when I think of Shepard, Jennifer Hale is amazing simply because of her decades of experience in the voice acting industry

@MaskofPoesy 10 жыл бұрын

it's a joy to listen Hale's voice

@JohnnyCacheX 11 жыл бұрын

It was great that they modeled Yvonne as Miranda, but they should have done Jennfer as a FemShep too. He voice is hot as hell, but in person she's even better.