Then they had a callback where it was just a Zoom meeting and I read the scenes with them. S o I read six or seven of the scenes via Zoom, filmed it with me walking around being Cortana. “I got a call in August of 2020 asking me If I would audition. “They came to me partway through filming when, COVID shut everything down,” she detailed. Unsurprisingly, the showrunners knew exactly who they wanted as Cortana.
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The Halo television series recently finished its first season and introduced us all to a new take on the dynamic duo. I think that personally when I watch Halo 4 cutscenes, I can feel that connected energy.”ĭownes isn’t the only Chief Taylor’s Cortana has partnered up with either. S o we got to be together in the room, and that was a remarkable experience. We came in to voice over these motion capture actors’ performances. “ Halo 4 is the only project that we worked actually in the booth together. I felt like, you are the only other person on the planet who understands the journey that I’ve been on. “After Halo 3 came out, there was a celebration, and a t the 10-year anniversary I just walked right up and gave him the biggest bear hug in the world.” “W e had never met until 10 years into the process,” Taylor says. While Cortana and Master Chief have been side by side since 2001, I was blown away that Taylor and Chief’s voice actor, Steve Downes, didn’t physically meet until 2011. Like Cortana, Taylor hasn’t gone through this journey alone. So I’m going to have to process that stuff ’cause I didn’t know that that was actually happening. “N ow that you tell me that, it’s even more intense. They blended them all together to become one, so those takes when she’s starting to fracture are actually like 20 different takes blended together.” And now I want you to do Wizard Cortana.’ I mean, we did as many different variations, sort of personalities, as you say, that we could come up with. Like ‘OK, we’re going to do standard Cortana voice reading this particular line. “F or example, my director for those scenes pushed me to explore all these different sides. “ I was directed to play as many different facets and extreme sides of one’s personality, and we blended them all together,” she says. It was an emotional experience f or me at the time. My own father is going through that, so that is a really remarkable thing that I’ve just learned from you and shocking to me that I didn’t know,” Taylor says.
When asked about this, Taylor was visibly shocked and said she felt an added layer to her relationship with Cortana, years after that performance. For the Halo 4 saga, 343 Industries franchise creative director Josh Holmes revealed Cortana’s rampancy was based on dementia going on within Holmes’ family. While she’s quite literally grown with the character, there are pieces of Cortana that shocked Taylor during her long run with the character.
I’m working with a lot of other people and I don’t want to take solo credit for this project because there’s so many people working on this character.” It also depends on my director and how they pushed me. I’m just exploring and getting to know them. It feels more like different aspects of her personality that I’m focusing on. “I feel like, especially with Cortana, I’ve become so familiar with her after playing her for 21 years that I feel very comfortable finding her. “So much of it has to do with timeline and knowing which arc I’m playing,” Taylor tells Digital Trends.
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