Eric Bauza, voice of Bugs Bunny, gives props to Canada for skyrocketing success | 24CA News

Scrolling Eric Bauza’s Instagram feed is sort of a step again in time — it’s jam-packed with nostalgic tv and film throwbacks to the Nineteen Eighties and ’90s, when Saturday morning cartoons dominated the day and also you had to ensure your VCR was set as much as document your favorite sitcoms.

His enduring love for traditional cartoons actually hasn’t hindered his profession as a voice actor. In truth, it’s helped propel him to what’s arguably the highest of the cartoon world — he’s the newest voice of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Marvin the Martian and Tweety Bird within the Looney Tunes Cartoons.

And he’s crushing it. The Filipino-Canadian voiceover artist and Scarborough native received the award for Outstanding Voice Performance in an Animated Program on the 2022 Children’s and Family Emmy Awards final December.

Becoming the voice of a number of the cartoon world’s most beloved characters, nonetheless, began out with pencil and paper. Watching tv as a child, he’d sketch the characters he noticed on display.

Cartoons had been “always an escape and always something that I could turn on and I would just be instantly entertained and just full with joy,” Bauza advised Global News, including that he obtained his begin in Hollywood as a cartoonist and character designer.

“I think the combination of being a cartoonist as well and, you know, wanting to draw what I saw on screen and then the voices just kind of followed.”

A self-admitted class clown, Bauza grew up entertaining his classmates and lecturers with impressions and was so good that he was invited to do them for his faculty’s morning bulletins.

“It was so nice that I wasn’t reprimanded for being too much of a distraction. … They allowed for that kind of creativity in my high school growing up in Scarborough. I was such an inviting and nurturing environment to be in.”

In truth, Bauza credit his Canadian upbringing for a lot of his success.

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“We have such great talent that has come out of Scarborough and Toronto in general and such great impressionists. There’s definitely something in the water,” he mentioned, itemizing Jim Carrey, Mike Myers, Catherine O’Hara, Rick Moranis and Eugene Levy as a number of of his heroes and inspirations.

Bauza revealed to Global News his favorite cartoon character to voice, how he believes Looney Tunes has tailored through the years and what it feels prefer to be the newest voice of a number of the most iconic cartoon characters in historical past.

You can watch the video interview, together with some stellar impressions, up high.

Check out Bauza’s voice work in Looney Tunes Cartoons, obtainable to stream on Corus’ streaming platform, TELETOON+.

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