{"id":2632,"date":"2009-07-06T22:21:33","date_gmt":"2009-07-06T22:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pixarplanet.com\/blog\/behind-the-voices-behind-up"},"modified":"2009-07-06T22:21:33","modified_gmt":"2009-07-06T22:21:33","slug":"behind-the-voices-behind-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pixarplanet.com\/blog\/behind-the-voices-behind-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Behind the Voices Behind Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 194px; height: 129px\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/pixarplanet.com\/blog\/images\/773.jpg\" width=\"194\" height=\"129\" \/>In this post I&#8217;ll be passing along another one of those Pixarian stories I love so much: It&#8217;s great that&nbsp;critics have been praising <a href=\"http:\/\/disney.go.com\/disneypictures\/up\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Up<\/a> for its story&nbsp;<em>and<\/em> for its phenomenal voice talent! <\/p>\n<p>The latter&nbsp;is thanks to people behind the sound booth&nbsp;such as Pixarian&nbsp;Amera Rizk. After all, in an animated film actors are the cherry on top. For example, whenever I come back from a screening of Up I always think to myself, &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000799\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ed Asner<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2973712\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jordan Nagai<\/a>&nbsp;portrayed Carl and Russell&nbsp;perfectly!&quot; On the other hand, while I&#8217;m watching the film it&#8217;s the <em>character<\/em> of Carl Fredricksen, not Asner, I&#8217;m thinking of.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tribtotalmedia.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pittsburgh&#8217;s Tribune Total Media<\/a> sat down with former local Amera Rizk who is currently working behind the&nbsp;booth&nbsp;for Pixar. In the article, she&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pittsburghlive.com\/x\/pittsburghtrib\/ae\/movies\/s_632480.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">talks about<\/a> how lucky she was to be working with legendary actors, her reaction to the tremendously positive reception Up has had and, of course,&nbsp;how&nbsp;her persistent nature&nbsp;got her to the studio. It&#8217;s a very interesting read for casual fans but most of all for those waiting for inspiration.<\/p>\n<p>At Pixar, Rizk was the second assistant editor on Up, previously working on Cars, currently working on Cars 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"tmnf_excerpt\"><p>In this post I&#8217;ll be passing along another one of those Pixarian stories I love so much: It&#8217;s great that&nbsp;critics have been praising Up for its story&nbsp;and for its phenomenal voice talent! The latter&nbsp;is thanks to people behind the sound booth&nbsp;such as Pixarian&nbsp;Amera Rizk. After all, in an animated film actors are the cherry on &hellip;<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":4020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,7],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Behind the Voices Behind Up - Upcoming Pixar<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pixarplanet.com\/blog\/behind-the-voices-behind-up\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Behind the Voices Behind Up - Upcoming Pixar\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In this post I&#8217;ll be passing along another one of those Pixarian stories I love so much: It&#8217;s great that&nbsp;critics have been praising Up for its story&nbsp;and for its phenomenal voice talent! 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