Petunia Petals
Elaine J for Petunia (Lead Role)
Lead role in a 2D/3D animated pilot for YouTube.
Petunia is an alien from a dead planet, come to Earth through a time-space wormhole localised in Camden Town, London. With her ragtag friend group of fish-men, robots, holo-people and a 3' long insect larvae (all stranded aliens, like her), Petunia defends the Earth from alien wrong'uns and any other threats that fall through the wormhole.
Petunia mixes joy and thirst for life with the weight of living and awareness of death that come from surviving her planet's end. She does so without contradiction; one causes the other. She lives the British 20-something year old's dream: a great job (saving the planet), a great flat (above a stationery shop in Notting Hill), a great best friend/romantic interest (an ordinary human), all of which she loves; but when it's quiet, she often feels a particular, unnameable type of loneliness.
The project is a 20' animated pilot, with 3D backgrounds and 3D/2D mixed characters. If successful, we would love to continue it as a regular series.
Audition lines from the script are below. There are many sci-fi terms/names in the script - a good inspiration for reading this type of dialogue is David Tennant in Doctor Who, or LeVar Burton in Star Trek TNG. Generally, it should be read a bit quickly, and it should be suggestive of a bigger world outside the particular story. Petunia is prone to monologues, which she is (usually) morally justified in delivering. The lines below are a good mix of 'expository' dialogue (i.e., lots of strange sci-fi terms) and dramatic monologue.
The type of voice acting we're looking for is 'naturalistic', not 'exaggerated'. Think 'feature film', 'theatre' or 'realistic game' rather than 'cartoon' or 'anime'. Please try to work in that style.
Feel free to record one, two, or all of the audition lines, but please don't record more than 3 takes each for any given line. Any format is fine to submit. Any accents or ethnicities are welcome, though Petunia is an alien living in the UK, so British, European and unidentifiable accents are favoured.
No AI will be used in the production of this project, and voice role contracts will contain an AI rider to guarantee against data being used for AI training.
- english
- nonbinary
- female adult
- androgynous
You'll die today anyway. You're a Shade. I knew Shades, in the Sunset Shoals. Good soldiers, great singers. But Shades live on Coronal Sun worlds. You're Goldilocks when it comes to sunlight: too little, you die of thirst, too much, you drown. Well, burn.
If you stay here, you will die; and if you have some plan to get around that, a plan that involves killing humans, I will stop you, and you will die; and if I fail, if you succeed, if, somehow, you make this planet habitable to you, human beings will die, and the continuance of your species will be predicated on genocide. No matter what, you lose. It's a chance, but a chance is more than you have right now. So: let me help you.
A HYDROGEN BOMB! Sunshine in a bottle! It's a fusion reaction, just like a star - detonate it over London right as the eclipse starts and BOOM! Every hungry Shade-brood baby gets burned to nothing! Two stones, one bird!!
