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Does anyone know if Kevin Bacon was interviewed for his rule on voicing Balto in the first movie. I just wonder his opinion of portraying such an selfless and noble animated wolfdog ?

Questions belong on the main site.

He tends to shy away from such questions, simply because Balto is seen as a children's movie, and he has gained a reputation for being in more- adult themed movies.

Wouldn't be the first time someone did so. The original voice actor for Bambi never told his buddies in the army for fear of being teased.

Not everyone knows that. And this topic is NOT against the rules. Kevin Bacon did, after all, voice Balto in the FIRST movie. So this topic is in the right place anyway because, clearly topics related to the first movie go here.

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I imagine some adults are proud to give their voices in an animated movie. Some talk about it, some don't. And Kevin Bacon seems to be one of those people who shyed away so as not to get too much publicity or something, which probably would have happened if Balto had come around during a time when so many other animated movies weren't coming out exactly the same time or close to the same time.

Annnnd maybe that's why I said so. It's called being informative.

Don't start accusing me of saying this topic was against the rules, because I never said or suggested it was.

Now be a good little member and behave yourself.

I have that same problem too. I sometimes start a topic in the wrong section. I wonder if you can move the topic onto another section... or do you have to delete it and start it all over again?

I have that same problem too. I sometimes start a topic in the wrong section. I wonder if you can move the topic onto another section... or do you have to delete it and start it all over again?

Mods have to move them.

This is terrible, why would Kevin Bacon be reluctant to talk about portraying Balto

He did the voice and even looks like similar to balto's face and hair.

A. It's a cartoon, and one which didn't go over big enough to benefit his career in spite of Spielberg being attached to it.

B. Just because an actor or actress does a one-up voice over for an animated feature (or even a direct-to-video one) doesn't mean they are going to think like fans. For most of them, it is a job. And a temp job at most. It comes, and it goes. They have tons of other things in their work history...probably which they take more pride in...especially when it's live-action where they can be SEEN.

JC's right.

Also, JohnWolf, there is a certain degree of disdain out there for cartoons, which I do not agree with, that holds them to be somehow inferior media simply by virtue of being animated. This is particularly so when something is directed to kids, despite the fact that kid-oriented media often carries more power than material directed toward adults (for example, how many movies with an environmental message directed to adults have the fame or the sympathy-garnering ability of Bambi?). How people can be dense enough to miss this, I don't know. Be that as it may, actors and actresses are likely to distance themselves from any association with animated movies they've made because of this stigma.

Whatever peoples' reasoning behind a cartoon's reputation for just being a cartoon is, surely is not helped by a crazy fandom who threatens people who question it.