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Ellen McLain is an accomplished singer and voice actress who is best known for voicing GLaDOS in Portal 1 and Portal 2.

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TWITTER - @ellenmclain

TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - Intro/Kiwi Talkz Name
01:23 - Original Intention Of Robotic GLaDOS Voice
03:35 - How To Sound Like A Robot/Initial Recordings
06:07 - Candide Operetta/Broadway
08:05 - Throwing Out Ideas In The Studio
09:02 - Dynamic In The Studio With Valve Devs
10:32 - Advocating For More Valve Games/Erik Wolpaw
11:45 - Ellen Worked On Portal 2 From The Very Beginning Of Development
14:42 - Working On Other Projects Well Working On Portal 2
15:20 - Studio Sessions Never Became Monotonous/Ellen Never Gets Bored
16:40 - Books Ellen Is Currently Reading/Russia & Putin
20:02 - Drawing On Your Own Life To A Voice Project
21:00 - Ellen Has Dreams Of Murdering People
22:50 - Working With Valve
24:20 - How Still Alive Song Came About/Jonathan Coulton/Turret Choir
29:00 - Approaching Recording GLaDOS different for the Portal Songs
32:00 - Recording Dialogue Out Of Order
34:00 - Ellen Got Given Recordings Of Stephen Merchant & JK Simmons For Portal 2
34:38 - Outlaws/Stephen Merchant/Not Disappointing Fans
38:00 - Whiplash/JK Simmons/Juiliard School//Teaching
40:34 - Ellen Is Keen For Portal 3
41:10 - The Job Of The Actor Is To Not Make A Role Stale/Ellens Marriage
43:30 - Bickering Couple In Left 4 Dead/Valve Not Knowing Ellen Was Married To John Lowrie
45:58 - Improvising On Portal
48:20 - Getting The Call To Come Back For Portal 2/How GLaDOS Influenced Ellens Work On Pacific Rim
51:22 - Projects Ellen Has Worked On Recently
54:50 - Ellen Loves Working & Rehearsing
56:24 - Ellens Favourite Performance Was Opera
58:40 - Ellen Doesn’t Like Watching Her Own Performances
1:01:00 - Where To Follow Ellen McLain