Pablo Torre

This is actually really good.

It's a dark comedy called The Artist, set in the Gilded Age, starring Mandy Patinkin, Janet McTeer.

I played Thomas Edison in it, oddly.

Also not on my bingo card.

How do you work up the Thomas Edison voice?

It's funny you ask, Pablo.

I was reading it out loud.

I'm like, I don't have, my voice does not have enough gravitas, especially because he's sort of the straight man in this.

It's a very sicko.

It's set in the Gilded Age, and they use the C word like every page.

Thomas Edison doesn't say it, but I reacted to it quite a lot.

And...

It just didn't seem right as my voice.

I'm too moderate.

I don't know.

And so I came up, I was like, it needs to be deeper and it needs to be more erudite and have weight.

And it's Superintendent Chalmers is what it is.

I was going to say, I didn't want to out Thomas Edison.

He sounds like a superintendent.

He's Superintendent Chalmers, but apparently Gary Chalmers always wanted to be a great inventor, and he admires Edison very much, so I cast him.