Lucy Lawless (SCI FI Channel's Battlestar Galactica) told SCI FI Wire that she lapsed into her old voice from her Xena: Warrior Princess days while recording dialogue for the upcoming animated movie Dragonlance: Dragons of Autumn Twilight. Based on the popular Dragonlance role-playing game and novels and their fantastical world of dragons, warriors and magic, the film features Lawless as the powerful female barbarian Goldmoon.

"Dragonlance is funny, because ... I hadn't really heard of it," Lawless said in an interview. "It was just a chance to work with my old friend George Strayton, who I knew back in the Xena days [and who wrote the Dragonlance screenplay]. I play the role of Goldmoon. We went in there, and I had only read it that morning. I was working on Galactica, so I'd only read it that morning and was a little bit behind. I went in there, and they dropped the bomb on me that she's actually Native American. Well, I'd never heard a Native American talk, really. We don't have Native Americans where I come from, you know?" (Lawless is a native of New Zealand.)

Lawless added: "So we tried that, and they'd say, 'Yes, let's make it softer. We want something warmer, less staccato. Now try more staccato, something harder, more commanding.' And I said, 'Do you guys just want me to do Xena [who speaks with an American accent]?' And they said, 'Ah, give that a try.' So I just did the Xena voice, and they went, 'Ah, that's perfect.' I realized that that's what a lot of those roles are going to want me to be, just reprise that." (In Battlestar Galactica, in which Lawless plays the Cylon D'Anna Biers, she performs with her actual New Zealand accent for the first time.) Dragonlance: Dragons of Autumn Twilight is in post-production with an eye towards an autumn 2007 release.

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Last update : 15-11-2006

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