

While it didn’t alter Heroes Rising’s production process, can you tell us a little about how COVID-19 has affected your schedule and workflow when it comes to My Hero Academia? This film was one of the last that was able to premiere in theaters before the COVID-19 pandemic hit.
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I don't know, just, I feel like they really did learn from Two Heroes to make an even better movie out of Heroes Rising. Everybody has a moment in here and the fights are even more epic. Like they learned a lot from doing Two Heroes and then it was like, well, how do we do it even better? How do we take what we learned and do it better and honor the greater cast at large? Everybody gets their little moment in this one, whereas in Two Heroes it felt like a lot of characters were really sidelined. I think everything about Heroes Rising sort of steps up off of Two Heroes. I'm excited to see where they take it from here.ĬC: Yeah, I agree. So it was just sort of a fun, natural escalation from our first bout with doing a film to the second one where everything from the creation on up was cranked up a notch, you know? It's just very rewarding. JB: I just feel like there's more of everything from the last movie. Has your experience with Heroes Rising differed at all from Two Heroes? Heroes Rising is the second My Hero Academia film you’ve worked on.

I'm sure there are people out there who have been that person and portraying that very honestly is always the goal. It wasn't necessarily anything that I felt like I resonated with or had a personal experience of being that person.

But now we see that character growing beyond it and becoming something better and more conducive. We've seen him grow and be humbled in ways that maybe I wished the bullies of my school had been. That's not really all there is to the character anymore. That's what I brought into those early phases, but now we've moved pretty far past that. Like, I would hope that I was never anybody's bully, but there were kids that I considered bullies, you know? So I was in that mindset of thinking, well, this is what I experienced. And I would equate that to kids that I knew growing up in school. He's had everything work out for him up until now, that kind of thing. You know, for me with Bakugo it was important to understand that character up front, like, okay so this kid is a bully, he's the popular one. And I think rewarding for fans of these characters to watch them grow and learn and become confident in the kind of people they are.ĬC: Yeah. To see where he's come from Episode 1 to Episode 80-something is pretty staggering. So I had hoped that if I could play this character, I would bring some honesty to that and then kind of give the fans of this character, a character to root and cheer for. I'm certain that there are many children around his age or younger who are going through similar stuff - they're doubting their self-worth, they're doubting that they can accomplish their goals, that sort of thing. He's been bullied for a while and my impression was this feels kind of real to me. JB: My first impression of Izuku was that he's not very confident. RELATED: My Hero Academia Season 5: What to Expect From the Anime's ReturnĬBR: Can you tell me a bit about your characters – Bakugo and Izuku? What were your first impressions of them, and how does that differ from how you see them now? Ahead of the film's American DVD release, CBR spoke to Justin and Clifford about their thoughts on the film and how the pandemic has affected their work on the series.
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Heroes Rising's English dub is voiced by the same cast as the TV series, with Justin Briner playing Deku and Clifford Chapin playing Bakugo.
