Self promotion. What an ugly, indulgent, self-serving practice. So very Hollywood, and so very contemptible in every way. So, now that we’ve gotten that out of the way…. watch me! Please watch me! Okay, perhaps not exactly watch as much as hear me as I provide the voice for George W. Bush in the HBO original movie Recount premiering this Sunday at 9pm EST. As you will see in the film, they used actors who resembled Bush and Gore to play the on camera parts, but the voice of Bush was provided by me. Gore was some other dude. I’ve been doing dubya for 8 years now in cartoons and so forth, but it’s sort of a fitting end to cap it all off with actually playing a more real version of him than the usual caricature version. Although, he is never far from caricature land no matter how hard you try to pull him out of it.
Anyway, I really enjoyed doing this gig and am proud of it, so I hope you enjoy it.
(and yes, the above picture is some Photoshop trickery on my part, apologies to Tom Wilkinson for kicking him out of the line up)
Jack Silbert, curator