Alicyn
Welcome to Alicyn's Wonderland. I'm your host, Alicyn Packard. Join us as we journey through the looking glass and down the rabbit hole into the wild and wonderful world of animation and video games. A do a girl a favor, and please subscribe to this podcast and go on iTunes and leave us a good review. If you like the show, please help spread the word it really helps us to get heard by more people. Thanks so much. Hey, everybody, welcome back to Alice's Wonderland. So from animation voice actors to anime voice director Caitlin glass has done it all. We're here today with this lovely voice actress to chat all about it. Thanks for coming back. This is Alice in Wonderland. Hey, Caitlin. Hi, Alicyn. How's it going? It's going so good. How are you?
Caitlin Glass
I am wonderful. Thank you so much for having me. All the way from Texas. From Texas, California. Beautiful sunny Los Angeles.
Alicyn
Thanks for stopping by. It's always so nice. You know to we've worked together before now we're like in the flesh and blood. No,
Caitlin Glass
it's nice to meet you in person. Yay.
Alicyn
So I know that you just finished up another interview for fruit Smith about Fruits Basket. Yeah. Hey, Luke, can you tell us about the new movie that's coming out? Sure.
Caitlin Glass
So the movie came out June end of June, June 25. Through 29th. It ran in sub and and so I directed the series from 2019 to crush when did we wrap on that? It's all a blur, right? Starting with Season Two. Yeah. No, starting with season while in 2019. So seasons one, two and three they ran ran for three, three years. Not fully. But anyway, it's 60 some odd episodes. But there's a little piece of the story that was left out of the show, Don Todd fans desperately wanted to see it because it's in the manga so they all knew this part of the story. We're expecting to see it during the run of the anime and when it wasn't there. They're like where's this thing? What about Katya and Kyoko? Relax, calm down just calm down you guys. So I had a feeling that they being Japanese producers were going to do something I didn't know what it would be would it be another special anime like a short run mini series? Would it be a film and it was it was indeed a film so see you fans do make a difference? Yeah, and thank you for being a part of it. Ah yes. So the main heroine of course of Fruits Basket is total Honda but Fruits Basket Prelude is about her mother Kyoko and you play Kyoko is mother. So it was wonderful to have you Thank you.
Alicyn
Flashback not I didn't do my granny voice.
Caitlin Glass
No, no and flashback, right. Yes. Thank you.
Alicyn
Yeah, that's amazing. So a lot of buzz around the movie. It seems like people were really excited about
Caitlin Glass
it. Very excited. Lots of positive feedback. Folks love the Fruits Basket story. And it was wonderful to put kind of like a cherry on top to the whole
Alicyn
experience of Fruits Basket. And as a director. Have you ever appeared in that series?
Caitlin Glass
Yes. I was also in the series of Fruits Basket and I play a character named mochi, who is kind of the love interest of one of the other male leads. And when I was reading the story, she was the one that stood out to me a lot. I really loved their story. And before I was a director, Fruits Basket, I was just an anime fan like all of you at home. And I had watched the original Fruits Basket back in the early 2000s. And the character of Yuki was was my favorite. I loved him the most so of course, the one that I play in the show is you keys love interest. I kind of I gave myself that. For all of my hard work on the show. Like you know what, I want that part it had to be approved by the producers that I wasn't just myself whatever they said yes. It says
Alicyn
yes. And Caitlin says yes and
Caitlin Glass
says yes.
Alicyn
Hey, on this show, it does. Alicyn says yes.
Caitlin Glass
It's your show. Your name is in the
Alicyn
title. Yeah. Do you pay for it though?
Caitlin Glass
So I did get to be initiative producer and director Alan, check. Set Designer Allison.
Alicyn
Mike actually Mike Del Rey did wonderful craft services Alicyn has some tasty, tasty water champagne, about bringing about Prosecco. So yeah, so back to foods basket.
Caitlin Glass
What else can I say about it? That it's wonderful. It's extremely emotional show. But I think that's great. People are looking for something to escape into. And for something to give them some catharsis and it was it really came along at just the right time because of the pandemic. I mean, Fruits Basket happened first, a pandemic happened and we were all kind of stuck at home, needing a place to express our emotions. And I was grateful for the opportunity to give that to fans when when they needed it. Oh, yeah.
Alicyn
Amazing. Yeah. Now your story. Can you start even at the very beginning, you're the beginning of your acting career. Sure.
Caitlin Glass
So I have a degree in theater from the University of Texas at Arlington, which is in Dallas Fort Worth, and that is where Funimation now Crunchyroll but then Funimation It was based so I was a fan of anime. And while I was still in college, I ended up with a tour of Funimation studios because a friend of mine was an engineer there. And on the tour, I met a director Eric Vale, who's also an actor who also plays Yuki and Fruits Basket. Oh,
Alicyn
my God, connection goes deep. I
Caitlin Glass
know, he was directing me to come into his particular studio. Nobody was in the booth at the time. And when he heard that I was an actor. He's like, hey, get in the booth. And I just thought that this was part of the tour. You know, no one's in the booth right now. So they're gonna let you get in there and like, put on the headphones and hear everything like okay, neat. And he said, go to this page. We're gonna play this Japanese first and then you'll hear these beeps and then say this line, Mike. Okay, so I did that maybe once or twice when I came out. He goes, Great. Please give your name and numbers to Tara down the hall and you can work here. Oh, my.
Alicyn
So Tara,
Caitlin Glass
is she's our talent coordinator coordinator. Okay, yeah, something that's interesting about Funimation. Now Crunchyroll is that they don't have a casting director directors get to ADR directors do all of the casting. Wow. Sometimes there is input from the Japanese clients when they would like to give approval and but otherwise, it's directors who hold the auditions and cast who they'd like to work with. So that's pretty cool. That is
Alicyn
cool. Because then you're hands on and you're creating really have full ownership. And
Caitlin Glass
it's wonderful. Also, because with anime, the story is already set. Everything about it creatively, essentially has been decided before it comes to us what the characters are going to look like how they're going to sound in Japanese. So the greatest creative freedom that we have as directors is choosing the ensemble. Now how often do you try to really get close to the jet Japanese,
Alicyn
it was just a holiday. We're in terms of sound alike.
Caitlin Glass
Quite often, I use it as a template. And I will listen and determine what vocal archetype they're trying to achieve with that sound. Because I think that's more important. That's what's going to resonate with us as a western audience. Because we're not just putting it in English, we should be localizing it for our culture. So certain sounds speak to us in a different way as English speakers. So I listen to the full ensemble if possible, you know, if I have the entire anime, I will listen to it all and see where each character just kind of sits as if they're instruments in a symphony, for example. So any given instrument can play a number of pitches and a bunch of different keys, but they have a particular sound that they're supposed to represent. So that's what I'm listening for. It isn't so much like, Okay, you're going to play this particular girl. And in Japanese, her voice sits up here. So I need yours to sit there to know if you're playing I need you to play a sound that's appropriate to this 13 year old, or the 17 year old that's going to resonate the most with a western audience that they can recognize themselves or their friends or someone they know in that character. Because the stories we tell an anime are already so fantastic. Most of the time. My favorite stories honestly, are the slice of life, ones that don't have magic and fantasy and sci fi. But majority of the time as you know, anime stories are big, they deal with big emotions, big crazy stuff is happening. So I like the voices to be as close to real life as possible, because you can only suspend your disbelief so far. I really want the audience to be able to be lost in it. And I feel like if it sounds like something that could be real, then they will Ah, wow, that's just my philosophy, I guess.
Alicyn
So how long were you acting and animate before you became a director,
Caitlin Glass
not long, less than two years, a lot less than two years, I took an interest in directing because I just liked being around the studio so much. And as you know, you audition and then you can only work when they cast you. I was fortunate that after about six months of just doing bits and wallah, I landed a pretty big part in a show called spiral in 2004. And by the end of 2004, I was working on Full Metal Alchemist. And then all of that took off and I started to steadily be around the studio more but I haven't come from a theatre background and going through university doing theater. You see all the same people. They become like your family you spend day in day out with them.
Alicyn
You mean Wait, so you're saying at Funimation not they were also injured.
Caitlin Glass
I'm sorry. I'm kind of jumping around a lot. It's like a family. Yeah, and the theater environment. They're like your family especially collegiate theater. And then when you graduate you're not at school every day. You're not seeing all those same people every day. So I was desperate for like the replacement family. And I was finding it little by little at Funimation and what how can I be here more but actually, you know, serve them not just be somebody who's like, hi, you cast me please. I'm just gonna hang on. Wait, yeah, I'm done. I'm done with my session and it's gonna eat these Pop Tarts. They have lots of free Pop Tarts. We don't need more. We have other free snacks did
Alicyn
be pin number two. It
Caitlin Glass
was popular. No, no, we got to do away with the Pop Tarts. I don't know. But we still have plenty of free snacks. Throw up Caitlin. Pop Tarts. Anyway, I don't know how I wandered over to this. But I was looking like I said for a way to contribute and just be there more because I liked it. And I wanted to of course pay my bills and use my degree to do that. So I just asked one day like what would it take to direct what I I have to do it's not like there's a class and in anime ADR directing, just like there isn't one in college one on anime. Yeah yet. So Justin Cook, one of our producers says, um, yeah, you could do it, you could do it. Just come here and train on your own. So it's up to me, like you said, I can't just hang around, I'll just be in the break room. Instead, I was in studios like sitting with directors and learning the sorbing. And eventually, as directors were sick or going to conventions, or just needed a vacation, but the show still had to get done. I would pick up their work. And by late 2005, I started getting my own contracts to direct things. Wow, that was quick. Yeah. And I had my I didn't have my own show until 2007. But still, I worked steadily at directing and acting for all of 2006 and 2007. I got my first show.
Alicyn
Wow. Yeah, here the Funimation is definitely like a family and some that Linda Young is actually the mother of John burgmeier. Meyer and Laura Bailey and Travis will hem at there. So that's so amazing. Did you happen to meet your husband? And if
Caitlin Glass
not, we met through college, we went to the same school for theater but at a different time. So he graduated before me and then we ended up in a play outside of school there. And that's that's how we met
Alicyn
it was meant to be was. Oh, that's so cool. So
Caitlin Glass
then what percentage of your time how do you split your time now between the majority of my time is as a full time director for Crunchyroll. So I am directing animate Dubs. 40 hours a week. Oh, my goodness, we have that many shows. We have 10 or 11. Directors. I'm working all day on staff. And then we have contractors and assistants working at night. So I'm currently directing to series right now. And every every season, every anime season, which is three months, I'll get to new ones.
Alicyn
This shows that you're working on can you talk about them? Or they can Yeah, I
Caitlin Glass
can't. I'm working on a show called talked Opus destiny, which is a really cool show that I adore. It's kind of like a magical girl sort of anime who had met Magical Girl. But these magical girls aren't like the embodiment of very important pieces of classical music and opera. And they fight alongside a male counterpart, who's the conductor, and he'll kind of conduct them and they have these really like badass weapons and the score. The soundtrack of the show is just remarkable, because it's Beethoven and Wagner and Mahler, and really great stuff for classical music nerds to get into. So it's beautiful. I love it. The show was from sometime late 2021. But we held off on dubbing it and I'm glad that I'm so glad I got to work on it. Because when it came out and it wasn't getting dubbed, I was heartbroken because I had my eye on it. And then a few seasons later, like we're dubbing and like, Thank God, please give it to me. So that's what I've been working on. I can mention that one. The other one I cannot mention
Alicyn
it back for the secret. Yes, I heard you grew up watching Toonami and watching Sailor Moon with your mom. Tell us all about that.
Caitlin Glass
I had friends in once again theater, there's always the theater tie in who were big into Sailor Moon and like what is that? They kind of told me and they were showing pictures from like, the early days of the Internet where it was just like scans from art books of the gorgeous art like wow, that is so pretty. Like it's this cartoon. You can watch it. That's when Toonami used to be on in the afternoon. Uh huh. So after school, so my mom would either record it or maybe I would be home and we would watch it together. And that was pretty fun in college. It's interesting. So I go to college for theater, but I kind of fell away from watching anime it was only a burgeoning hobby at the time anyhow, but as I was getting to the end of my college years I was feeling really burnt out because you when you go to study, the thing that you love no longer becomes a hobby. It's like your whole life. It's all encompassing, and you kind of feel the need to get away from it. So I'm like I need to do something else. What can I need a hobby? Oh, wait that anime thing. I was starting to get into that. So kind of picked it up again and would watch whatever I could. And I think one of the first things I saved up my pennies to buy was a boxset of Sailor Moon that ADV put out a long time ago with these huge bricks of like eight disks apiece and they were my gosh, remarkably expensive. And it was Japanese only because there were things that had were cut out of the American broadcast. So it was subs yes with subtitles, and they were very expensive just like your translator. A lot of it was episodes I'd already seen but in English so this is one of my first experiences like I'm going to watch this subtitled because I really want to see it but yeah, it was the kind where anytime I had changed, I would throw it in the dish and then every week I was counting it up to be like okay, how much I don't have enough yet. What's amazing is I was able to take those box sets in 2008 to a convention held an amazement in Raleigh, Durham, North Carolina and Kota know Mitsui she son, who is the voice of Sailor Moon was a guest and I got to meet her and have her sign them as well as an animator and a producer and other other voice actors in this series.
Alicyn
Yeah. Wow. What was that experience?
Caitlin Glass
Oh my gosh, she was spectacular. She's a really lovely woman. We had a lot of fun just hanging out. It's a great man. mention if you ever get a chance to go the majority of their staff are Japanese speakers and will really facilitate you communicating with the Japanese guests so often at conventions are very separate there, you know, because they assume the fandom is only interested in either you or them and never both. But at an amazement, we would do panels together and talk about our shared experiences with the shows. Even if we weren't on the same shows. It's all acting. It was wonderful. We took we share all your meals together. She was a really wonderful lady. It was her daughter's birthday that weekend and she brought her husband and daughter along and they threw a little Disney Princess birthday party for her daughter. She was turning six or eight in the greenroom. So I got to go to that. And I had a moment like, this my life right now. Where am I? I'm at sailor moons daughter's Disney Princess birthday party. Okay, okay, well, I don't whatever I was wearing for the convention. And then I had to get ready for a panel I was about to do which was about origami, because that was an older hobby of mine. So I wanted to just share I'm not great at it. But I could just introduce it to people and be like, here's something you might like, if you like Japanese culture. So I sit down at the table to quickly fold some models that I need for the panel and Mitsui She sounds sees me and she goes, Oh, you got me. And she runs off McCree she going, she comes back with her own paper she happened to have and she sits down next to me and she folds a little ninja star she gave it to me and I still have it. It's one of my most prized possessions it is in a case that I have of like anime figures of my characters. And then this little Oh, yeah. Wow,
Alicyn
what a special really special. Hey, guys, this is Alicyn Packard. Sorry to interrupt, but I just want to let you know that if you like the show, please, please, please remember to subscribe to this podcast. And leave us a review on iTunes. It really helps us to get heard by more people. Thanks so much. So growing up to now me you're a big fan and the voice of Tom you later ended up working with is that right? Hey,
Caitlin Glass
original Tom was sunny, straight, great friend of mine. And of course everyone knows Steve Blum. Who's Tom now.
Alicyn
So Did you know Did you know sunny at the time, though, or was it years later?
Caitlin Glass
How did you Sonny? I'm sure I met him around the building. And he was a director as well. So he directed me on some of the early projects that I worked on at Funimation. And now of course, we are friends and I directed him in one piece. It was one of the first things first contracts that I had as a director was some episodes of that. Wow, please stop. So of course, that was wonderful experience. Ironically, Steve Blum the other voice of Tom I met him at my very first convention, which was in Dallas, and I wasn't a guest. I was like, let me go to this con and just see what cons are all about? Yeah. And a couple of my friends. Yeah, we're and that was I got called out from the audience because someone on stage was like, and Caitlin's here. And she's the voice of Winry and Fullmetal Alchemist, which hadn't even aired yet in English. But suddenly, ever the whole room goes and turns around and looks at me and like, what did I do? That's kind of how I knew and like, this may be a pretty big deal. So then the convention is like, just go sit on any panels that you want. It's fine. Whatever hanging out will feed you. I'm like, Alright, I like free food. I'm fresh out of college. I'll let you get my food. The ones who still like that. Yeah, I went through the whole weekend. And I had a friend kind of tag along with me, who is now a voice actor and a fellow director of Crunchyroll. And Anthony bowling. And he's like, So how was your first weekend? It's been really cool. Thanks for letting me tag along with you. And like it's been awesome. But you know who I haven't got to meet all weekend, Steve Blum. I'm so bummed as the last panel. Last autograph signing of the day. There was one empty seat next to me. And as soon as I said that, I turned and Steve plots down right next to me. And I was like, oh, try not to act like a starstruck idiot. That's that's how I first met Steve. He's lovely. And we still talk. We're still friends. Thanks.
Alicyn
Do you think heart do you? Yeah. I haven't had the chance to see Steve in years there but we just had a game come out neon white. Yeah. So very exciting. Yeah, he used to live right up the street
Caitlin Glass
actually, man there now he's off being being an Islander. Yeah. Living the life we all want.
Alicyn
Yes, exactly. But we can eat we'll get there someday. You know, if we have faith we so choose. So have you watched the new Sailor Moon
Caitlin Glass
I have not had the opportunity to watch it. I've seen clips of it. But I haven't watched the whole show my life now because I direct all day. Sometimes it's hard to watch anime for fun anymore. And sometimes I just don't want to watch anything else because I've spent all day looking at a screen watching
Alicyn
things. What are some of the biggest challenges being an anime director?
Caitlin Glass
Some of the biggest challenges? Wow, thank you for asking left suddenly have to have to think about that. It's a bit of a time juggle. Yeah, really, you really have to be incredibly organized with your thoughts because the actors are coming in and they're relying wholeheartedly on you to explain to them what to do nowadays because of the simultaneous situation. Sometimes the episode you might be working on has aired already in Japanese so you can come in having watched it but you're not required to do that. Nor are you paid to and a busy working actor may not have time to. So it's really up to you You the director to know absolutely everything that you need. And you kind of have to compartmentalize it apart from the other show that you're working on, it's completely different. And then like the episode that came before this, or comes after this, because you could be at any stage of pre or post production on that given episode. So just keeping all of your thoughts straight, is pretty important. And being able to just manage all of the different people and personalities that are going to come through your door at any given time, because they could be in a different headspace than where you need them to be. So as a director, you're often playing psychiatrists, psychologists, therapists, whatever you want to call it. And, and I don't begrudge that at all. I'm an actor too. And I know what that's like to have a whole life experience. And then you have to step into a booth and be somebody else. And sometimes it takes you a minute to navigate to that place. So I'm there to help them get there.
Alicyn
You do it so well, too. I mean, you bring such an art to it. I think when directors are awesome actors, they know how to talk to actors in a way that can make you have the emotional reaction. And that will bring about that required technical change. And it's just one less step on the accurate to then be like, Okay, you want me to pick up the pace? Let me think, okay, how can I? Why would I do that? Well, yeah,
Caitlin Glass
yeah, I can give you some motivation for the thing that I'm looking for.
Alicyn
And that's amazing. I mean, that you found your way to all of that.
Caitlin Glass
I think I understand the actor's insecurities. And that's a part of us. As actors, we always I know it's bad to be a people pleaser as a human. But I think as an actor, if we're trying to please so many people, because on purpose, it's it's part of like, there's a certain thing you have to do to make this character come to life, you again, you, you direct are going to tell me that I've done this thing. So you perform your line, and then you're kind of waiting to know, did I do it? Right? I hate that about it. But it's kind of the truth. Because I've been in their shoes, I know that that's what's in their head. So I'm always thinking about how to reassure my actors, how to make them aware that they're in a very safe space all the time, when they do something that I like, I'm always giving positive feedback. And sometimes it's helpful to remind an actor that we are in this together, like you're not alone in the booth, you want to sound good, I want you to sound good, you want the show to be great. So do I so does our engineer, we're going to do this together. So sometimes I can give like you just mentioned, the more creative note to kind of guide you to this thing. But other times I can be like, Man, Allison, here's my desired and here's what I need, can you help me get there? Like, I don't know you well enough to tell you what to do with your instrument. But one of my favorite things is to tell the actor what I want to elicit from the audience. And here's what I want the audience to feel when they hear you say this, and then you may go, I know exactly how to do that. And then that's one of my favorite notes. Because I like to just see, where does it take the actor? What are they going to give me? And maybe it works? And maybe it doesn't, but it is fun to explore that way. Yeah. So long as we all know, like, yes, you're in there doing an amazing creative work. And I hope that you can be fully immersed in it. And I hope you're not too caught up in the technicalities of it. Let me worry about that. But it's cool to remember, we are making a thing together and your input matters. And so I often like to remind them, like how do we do this? How do you think we should do this? Or if a script gives multiple options for a line, because the writer just you know, thought of different ways to say it, I'll ask the actor like, does any of these alts resonate with you more than the others? Because I don't really have a preference. What do you like for your character? And the guy like the second one, let's do the second one. Stuff like that. That's it's some way more fun to be collaborative. I mean, it's nice at the end, we can all have something we can be proud of together. Yeah.
Alicyn
What do you wish more actors knew about auditioning for anime? Oh, wow.
Caitlin Glass
That's a really cool question. Thank you for asking. You're welcome. That it requires a lot of acting skill so much. It's voice actors are actors. And I'm sure everyone you've had on your show has mentioned that at some point, but to the point I was talking about earlier about how fantastical animate can be people may come into it, even actors who are trained in a lot of other areas expecting it to be extremely cartoony. And I find that most anime is actually not so grounded performance, at least if you're auditioning for me is much more appreciated. But the other thing is anymore, we don't get to audition in person. It used to be out at Funimation and Crunchyroll. We do have in person audition slots, the advantage to just sending in submissions is we can hear a lot more people that way. But you don't get the immediate feedback from a director who would like to hear you I miss those do it differently. So that means you need to be showing me everything that you can do with the piece of copy that you've gotten. So often I hear someone and then their first line, they have a really amazing voice like oh, wow, what a cool voice. I like this. But then they kind of do the same thing for all five lines that are there. And most of the time directors also make their own sides and they've chosen the lines they've chosen for a reason. They want to hear you work with them. They even give you notes on the in the far right hand column for some context what's going on here. So we want to be able to hear the moment before we want to hear you taking risks, even if maybe it's for a show and use seen it, you had the opportunity to watch the first episode and you recognize these lines and you're like, I don't know that this isn't just do something to show your range within the lines that you're given. Because we could hear you do something cool. But I need to know that you're going to be able to do that emotional breakdown, or that you're going to be able to do that freak out. That you can be intimate and soft, as well as really loud and crazy. So use what you've got to show what you've got.
Alicyn
Love it. And so I have to ask about playing Wonder Woman for six
Caitlin Glass
grand a year to deep dive. I'm proud of you. So that was one of my jobs out of college and other that I was so grateful to have because like I said, I'm like I'm gonna use this degree. Darn it. Yes. Now what can I do to not I'm not begrudging anybody who went and waited tables or did whatever they had to, but I was just going to try my darndest to just act and I ended up with an audition at Six Flags to be a costume character. And I didn't actually pass to be Wonderwoman like DC had to approve it and everything I showed up for the audition expecting to be like a Southern Belle, because you know, it's six flags. They represent the Six Flags that have flown over over Texas as kind of like Texas government. So it's Spain and a confederacy in America and yeah, that's what they stand for. So each area of the park represents these different areas. There's a Spain, there's a Mexico, there's the old South, there's all kinds of okay, so they were going to have face characters the same way you meet a Disney princess or something. Okay, so there was a Southern belle character, and I can't even remember the other one. So I went expecting to do that. And in the audition breakdown, it said to come clean faced and all of this stuff, so I assumed they're gonna put makeup on you and wigs and all of that they did none of those things. Allison, none of them. None of that. So of course, I don't look like lean because look at me like I'm extremely pale and they put the dark wig on me. And the leotard and then the park was closed and they take you around the park, and have you pose places to be like, does she look like she could do? Of course not. I did not go expecting to be wider woman. Because the specs also said you needed to be like 511 or taller. Naturally. WOMAN Yeah. Oh, wow. So I didn't pass as her and that was fine. But they still hired me. So I was there to be a Southern Belle and a saloon girl. And it was cool. I just act like a character and tell people where the bathrooms are and how to get to whatever ride was fine. But then one day, they were short on Wonder Women. And I was like Caitlin could do it. Like, can I Oh, wow. All right. They'd slapped me in the costume and threw on some damsel types. I darkened my eyebrows. And off we went. And then I was doing that for the rest of the summer and also through the winter. So it's just maybe a six month gig. It was fun. It was very hot, even in just a leotard, but it's the like triple layer leotard plus dance tights, plus a wig on your head. And then the sun unlike my bear pale skin, but it was so fun. Like what a wonderful character wonder character to get to play and to see how empowering she was for women in particular was really great. And I always felt very safe being the only woman in our little Justice League crew like the Batman and Green Lantern like they're in the flash. They're always looking out for me because I'm there in a leotard. But ever they were all so respectful.
Alicyn
They're all like high school kids, too.
Caitlin Glass
So except the guy who's Green Lantern. He was a college age and he was a model. So I kind of felt like the mom sometimes. And I wasn't that much older. But yeah, like a time ago, guys. Oh my gosh. What's your cow on that, man? Let's go. Oh, it was fun. Like you wrote around a parade at the end of the night. We chatter on like a TV that little four wheeler that we could write. And then when the park was open in the winter, I got a really neat like Cape. So yes, it was very fun to be Wonder Woman. I have a picture somewhere. Should I should find it?
Alicyn
Didn't you meet Susan Eisenberg. I didn't see I did. What a trail about that.
Caitlin Glass
Okay, so a friend of mine from theater, once again, has become an author and also a wonderful like just moderating presence for panels and things at conventions. So she reached out to the variety of people that she knew from her experience. So me my friend Anthony bowling that I mentioned who came with me to my first convention, we were there to talk about anime, Yuri Lowenthal and Tara Platt. Were there and I'd already met them. Also at my first convention. It's really crazy. You guys, that is also where I met Rob Paulsen handle, and then Susan, and I'm like, Oh my gosh, it's Wonder Woman. Oh, whoa, it was very cool. And she was so surprised to when I told him like, you know, I kind of this this was me. I was Wonder Woman. She's like, you look amazing. And we've stayed in touch ever since I just saw her a couple months ago at a convention. It's always so nice when we get to reconnect.
Alicyn
Oh my gosh,
Caitlin Glass
she's a really neat lady and so talented. And I love her Wonder Woman. Wow,
Alicyn
what I mean, we just have talked about like, literally 40 different examples of like, when dreams become reality,
Caitlin Glass
how interconnected the whole thing is.
Alicyn
Wow. I know that we don't have much time because you've got to head to another session. Now it's crazy. It's great that we had a chance to connect while you were here. So Caitlin, thank you so so much. Thank you. Thank you so much. Congratulations onasket Prelude. Thank you and to you as well. Thank you. We'll see you next time guys. Make sure to subscribe, like and subscribe, like and subscribe. Came you're probably already subscribing if you watch this whole thing. But Tune in next week, and we'll see you then.
Caitlin Glass
Bye guys.
Alicyn
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