by Jake Friedman

Terry McGovern has built a name for himself as an actor, a voice artist, and a teacher of both. You can read all about him ( or hire him!) via his website, terrymcgovern.com. His screen credits vary from Star Wars to “Transformers,” but perhaps his best known character is Disney TV’s Launchpad McQuack, right-hand-duck to both Uncle Scrooge and Darkwing. In honor of the recently released volume of “Darkwing Duck” and the upcoming release of the second “Ducktales” volume, I chewed the fat with Terry, and his alter ego waterfowl.

JF
What do you tell your students is the secret to good voice acting?

TM
Practice. Knowing what to practice and doing the work every day, not just taking classes. Classes are good, but people think that if you take enough classes you’ll suddenly be good at this, and it doesn’t work that way, unfortunately. You have to do the work on a daily basis. This is an athletic undertaking. You have to drill on your weaknesses and make them better. (Read the article)

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