The Stars of ‘Rick and Morty’ on What It is Like Voicing the Iconic Characters

Rick and Morty is about to kick off its eighth season, nevertheless it’s solely season two for the voices behind the principle characters. Ian Cardoni (Rick) and Harry Belden (Morty) joined the show forward of season seven, coming aboard after Justin Roiland’s departure. Followers had been delighted to appreciate the switch sounded nearly seamless—and now, Cardoni and Belden can chill out a bit having settled into the roles. Or can they?

“I’d say that the nerves by no means go away so long as you care,” Cardoni instructed io9 at a current Rick and Morty press day. “We’ll at all times be our personal hardest critic to be sure that we’re delivering on the fabric that we’re given. However I’ll say that season eight offered us with so many alternatives to discover the vary of those characters.”

No spoilers, however Cardoni is wanting ahead to followers listening to his work on the upcoming season. “I used to be thrilled to learn all of the completely different iterations of Rick, and Rick’s emotional journey, and the expansion that isn’t linear by any means for Rick, and actually discover and produce as a lot of myself to the position as attainable, to hopefully give followers a very superior curler coaster to observe alongside.”

Belden agreed. “Yeah, identical right here. I feel that preliminary massive momentous feeling of stress perhaps pale a bit of bit in that we aren’t ready for individuals to listen to precisely what we sound like. It’s form of on the market. It’s identified. It’s not an enormous shock.”

However that doesn’t imply they’re easing up on themselves. “However now it’s like Ian mentioned: we at all times need to be doing good jobs. So I get up daily that I am going within the sales space and I’m simply ‘okay, this you realize, it is advisable be giving it 110% as a result of that’s what the followers anticipate.’ And that’s I anticipate no much less of myself, you realize, so I feel now it’s simply with that out of the way in which, let’s say we are able to simply deal with being the characters to one of the best of our capability and supply do justice to those unbelievable scripts that we’ve received.”

Rick and Morty season eight arrives Could 25 on Grownup Swim.

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