Maitreyi Ramakrishnan tells us about voicing Zipp in 'My Little Pony: Make Your Mark' and what she can tease about 'Never Have I Ever' Season 3.
The 44-minute Netflix animated special My Little Pony: Make Your Mark, meant to tease the September debut of a new eight-episode series, follows Sunny Starscout and her pony friends as they celebrate magic’s return to Equestria on Maretime Bay Day.
You’re still pretty new to the whole professional acting thing. Along with leading your own TV series, you’re now branching out into voice work with My Little Pony and Turning Red. How have those projects compared? Is the process of recording basically the same, or were there any differences between those two projects?
How cool has it been for you to see how much people have loved the friendship aspect of Turning Red? People have fallen in love with that group of characters. What was it like to see and hear the response for that film? RAMAKRISHNAN: I think Zipp and I are both very sarcastic and we like to laugh at our own jokes. I realize, as we’re recording more episodes, the writers like to put in my own tendencies and my own sayings. I like to say, “Cool, cool, cool, cool,” Jake Peralta/Brooklyn Nine-Nine style, so they started adding that in for Zipp as well. And they’ve added more sarcastic comments and Zipp laughing at her own dry humor.
RAMAKRISHNAN: Yeah, 100%. Zipp is my girl. I love Zipp. I definitely love her to death. She’s obviously my favorite pony. She’s the greatest. I do feel a sense of, “Yeah, go Zipp. Let’s go.” The writers protect her quite well, so there’s not much that I need to do. RAMAKRISHNAN: For me, the biggest challenge is not being able to see what it’s gonna look like. You record first, and then the animation comes after, once they get the voice. That’s the biggest challenge, but it’s also what makes it exciting because in animation, you can do anything. I might not be able to physically jump over a building, but Zipp definitely can fly through, over and under everything in Zephyr Heights.
RAMAKRISHNAN: That’s exactly what I like the most about it. They’re so different from each other, but they get along so well. What’s great about how they’ve written the series and the specials, and everything that you’re gonna see, is that there’s no pair. They truly put every character with each other. It’s like, “This episode, these two will be together. But the next episode, these two will be together instead.
What can you say to tease fans about Season 3 and what they can expect from what I’m sure will be plenty of upcoming character drama? I love how My Little Pony can have the simplest of messages, like how everything is better when you face it together. Zipp has these friends and family that she can count on, Priya had that in Turning Red, and even Devi has that in Never Have I Ever. Do you have that, yourself? Is that something that you can also rely on, when you need to?
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