 oh hello hello hello how are you i'm good hang on oh everything's gonna skew it hang on a second i'm trying to work this thing over the technical difficulties so i'm sure this will all go swimmingly i'm sure i'm sure alright how's the weather for you down there you look like you've got sunshine yeah surprisingly uh the autumn quite hasn't quite hit yet i think it's still grabbing onto the last bits of summer so i'll take yes your life yeah work your camera on this thing i don't like being on camera but i feel it's not fair if you're on camera if you don't feel comfortable that's absolutely fine doesn't need to be i'll just uh i'll just use random images i'll use a sock puppet to feel it not the one with the teeth surely oh that one easily yeah yeah yeah the only proper one but he must be haves right i need to quickly fill up my drink because i get very dehydrated i can imagine so yeah i'm sure as a voice actress you know that talking for too long can work up a first yeah so end up by the end of it sounding a little bit lower than usual i'm like that with um the tenth doctor i'm trying i'm doing something for rassilon productions at the minute as him and christ my voice can't last well that's fantastic let me know when it's out um and normally see it but sometimes i don't see everybody's post so please send me the link to it well i will i will have to do that it's not out yet i'm having to do the recording in small chunks because i die right real big right are we ready to go oh yes excellent excellent um i always this is my first time in a while i don't know how to really introduce this um hello alia hello jack well i mean we've been talking in the dms for ages probably since around the community show started so it's nice to finally hear your voice live i guess and likewise it's nice to see you and hear you um thanks for all the support as well and for supporting our entire community um and being a big positive light to us i've said a million times so yes feed my ego more watch the brains well yes right i'm this close to going into a scottish accent i can't help it i can't help myself just don't wear the wig again oh come on that was fun yeah whenever i hear a certain accent i always my brain can't help but go we'll do it give it a go and i'm like no you want to pretend me in a cupboard that's i know that's how you record okay so i was only doing it to be accurate i'm all about accuracy you see professional right question one off to a great start um so what would you say sort of in the online community you would be most known for on the online community most known for did you say voice most known for or well i suppose sort of in general whether it be a voice acting role or or part or whether it's just you on twitter well i talk a lot shit on twitter so sorry tor um but uh probably well in my voice acting um it's really the only reason i went back on twitter so um i literally i started on the amino and um met somebody called harry gozling who was doing some audio dramas and uh also a kiran nun who was doing like his own writing and i made one of his audio things and it started there so i loved it so much i just had to keep it going um and there you go so i would probably say yes it's the voice acting uh definitely yeah missing that's definitely how i came across you because i think in almost every single community show and this is episode eight this will be in you have had a mention in pretty much every single one just based on how much you did you just kept popping up and i'm like who is this alia tori being all over the place it makes a change um like me and the camera fell out a long time ago so at all so it makes it makes a great change and to actually be doing a lot of i class like you know the sort of non-paid work and the paid work as the same it's work it's my life it's a job and i love it you know um so yeah i i i don't generally turn anything down because i if i stop i feel like it all stops do you know what i mean well on the uh on the same lines as that um what would you say you find so enjoyable about doing voice acting in comparison to on camera stuff oh it's a challenge um because let's put this way you're open to so much more um when you're on camera there's judgement about how you look whether you're like five foot nothing or six foot ten you know um literally i'm a short ass so i don't fit the dashing leading email um i'm sure i'm stumpy and i'm getting older and once you cross 25 you know generally in the phone world they tell you to take a hike so um with voice acting i know it's pain in the pain in the bohuki but with voice acting you've got so much more variety you can be anything anyone any time any age um any character god have you been down here capaldi come on he would kill me for my hold on where is that project and how haven't i seen it 500 times it's starting with a project called michael um which was written by kira nun he's a very promising young irish writer and when i read it i said i have to turn this into an audio and it was the first one i'd kind of ever done um myself and um i narrated it as my own but it was a 12th doctor story and i thought i have to do the voices i can't narrate without doing all the voices so of course my peter capaldi came into question and it's terrible you know sounds more like billy connelly it does it does sound like billy connelly i mean at least you've got a billy connelly impression in the bag there we go add that to the resume to the spotlight account no such thing as bad weather only the wrong clothes yes oh god sorry billy i'm so well on this again i'm not leading these in very well on the same lines as the impressions um you you do a lot of them that's how i came across you specifically your missy i came across but i mean how many do you think you've done impression wise over the years oh i i don't know i don't know um i think with with dr who wise um as i said i've even done nardle as well which is terrible but with dr who it's like i get contacted to the scripts do you think you could do this and i've never done even tried the impression before and i'm like should i say yes should i say no i'll say i'll try if i get it bad please don't kill me um what do you think you know um and generally i just i take them on as they go and i say missy's been the most predominant serah jane i've always every time i get offered that one i panic because i'm like please do less slaving some you know some credit please please and um because i did get criticized for it once if people say it really good and then someone i was a bit toothy once with it and someone said it sounded well like jimmy's church so it came out part of it it's an interesting combo this is another one i love it yes um i had to do two in the same project so it was like talk serah jane talking to ace i had to swap between the voices it was quite funny um and then i think recently i've been asked to play the rani um so that's a good challenge i quite like the villains i've done 13 um that was challenging because i kept going cockney even though she's who just feels i kept going cockney it's like honestly i'm cockney serah what's a jony waker like a chimney sweep i know oh jeez um and it's like it it is it's a mashup of accents and especially you're going back and forward you probably start hearing voices on your head you know um and it's i can't count them now um i think there's been about 135 on credits god i wish i was getting money for this yeah christ somebody pay this one maybe i wouldn't be living off biscuits pay me you know but yeah it's it's good fun you know i'll stop there because i was i ramble too much sorry no don't ramble away honestly it's the best kind of answer you can get because in the edit i can just sort of chop it up a bit and just make it even funnier than it already is but just you know flashing up a picture of billy connelly just for the reference you know stuff like that rambling is the best when it comes to interviews the worst thing you could ever do is go yeah that's it so what would you say no so what would you say is your most um not well no what you do the best do you think what would you say is your critical self is your favorite the the my best impression i say i don't know how close i am to her but i absolutely adore missy um she has so much energy she's so much energy imagine me in my tiny closet right my tiny little cupboard of a studio and how much energy missy has the amount of times i've maybe punched a wall and i'm like wey but she she certainly livens up the dull morning and she's just fantastic to play and i must say the villains you know you you have to work out what their motives are for being badass baddies and you know and missy's kind of complex because she isn't really bad but she's bad but she's the doctor's friend but she's a total enemy yeah you know i i love her wet and i love her um i just love her so she's wonderful and michelle go miss oh she put scotland on the map oh she's amazing yeah sorry i don't know what that's because it is like the smallest of delays so i want to make sure i don't cut you off but then that just leads to sort of an awkward moment where we're just like yeah once again i'm linking these like a pro yeah you mentioned the cupboard the famed cupboard under the stair well that's how i imagine anyway like harry potter just cramped in there so what is your sort of recording setup what does it look like basically i will send you a picture of it it is a it's an old cork a coal cupboard um i mean two entrances to this terrace house it's not a big house if you think it's good two doors um it's where they used to bring in all the coal and just shove it into this cupboard and um recently i thought my dog's next door neighbour's dog was barking and going off his head and i was like shut it out feral yeah um so i literally tore apart my house and i was like i couldn't find an ideal place to record and then there was this cupboard my fridge was sitting in and if you imagine it's about the size of a fridge um and um i basically just put foam tiles on the walls it's stone thick so there is no reception in there um really um you can't breathe in there there is no air um so it's at the cut yourself some air holes alia um it's a backward stardust really it's smaller on the inside um and it's concrete solid concrete so um i do have a motorway outside so if i do cut air holes you will hear the motorway and i fight traffic all the time so every time i hear like a cut going along i'm like no no i can hear it coming in the distance here it comes here it comes yeah i'm like i'm a train's mortal enemy flying vehicles why is that i see you poking your head out the window with a sonic screwdriver at the plane and save car-sew damage honestly maybe not outside the window but i've definitely done that like years ago when i could film in my uh my parents garden i'd be doing what whatever it would be and genuinely the planes would just fly overhead and i just yell i'm sure there's outtake somewhere just be like go away my neighbours understand and they were correct well you should definitely pretty much the same you should hear me in this wee box it probably comes out like to any other neighbour like oh god i can totally see that like maybe like your husband or your kids just sort of walking past and like it's so soundproofed you can barely hear it but as you walk past the door it's just like it's like father jack and he's quarantine tent you know if you've ever seen father ten yes he's got this he's got this virus and they put him in this in the hairy hands virus and they put him in this quarantine tent and normally he's really loud he's like drink drink and they put him in this this tank and all you hear is oh my god oh i need to now make father ten the community show if people don't know what that is they need to know um so do you have any sort of voice acting or really just acting inspirations oh yes um oh god it's so hard to name acting inspirations like obviously Michelle Gummett oh yes oh yeah he's a Capaldi yes Emma Thompson yes oh yes sorry just that name just i'm a huge fan of Assassin's Creed so i absolutely adore the voices of Adrian Huff and of course you've got um Roger Chris Matthew is basically the voice of Sonic as well and i mean i came late to the voice socket really as i said it was something i never considered what sorry just going from Sonic the Hedgehog to Assassin's Creed you can imagine in the in the recording booth because of it confused like mate it's the pirate one or it's just like oh you're gonna go fast wait no shame you see i love actors who i'm wondering whether this is too early in the morning and i love actors who are kind of um i don't chameleons is the best way to describe them that they can play anything any accents any voices they blend naturally into their surroundings and i i i love actors that can do that and they inspire me to do that if you know what i mean it's like um especially ones who you know are able to to play with their native accents a little bit as well play with i mean the complete physicality when they're on screen um i mean as i say most of them were screen actors as well as like you're talking Alan Rickman was a huge one for me when i was younger um and i think the reason i kind of idolized sort of the more male characters is i feel they've always got more to do they have more of an adventure they have more bloody brilliant writing and sadly a lot of women are kind of cast as mother figures and you know and it's always the same two-dimensional character and i was like no but i don't want that i want what these guys have you know i love misty because of that because essentially you know she's in that way she's genderless but she's also wearing this kind of very victorian get-up you know i love the victorian period and i'm a big fan of mary poppins and to be scary poppins it's just brilliant um and she she just she holds all of that because there's a moment um you see her in world in a different time and she's it's just that moment where she you know she is breaking completely from that totally insane woman to a very subdued broken thoughtful person and she's coming out of this um i mean she's complex she's coming out of this really sociopathic behavioural most and almost seeing the light to what she maybe once upon a time was before staring into the untempered schism you know and um you know that she is i mean it could go on forever about her so i'm not going to but um i i love playing characters with that level of depth that you can really um i don't know you can really get into them you can find out what makes them tick you know their motives everything you know their past they have a history and i love it when they have history um doing a lot of short film and film i found every character i had was very two-dimensional they didn't have a past i had to create a past um they they were not a challenge in any way there was no complexity but with missy oh my god yes you know oh god complex describes her very well very very well um the anti doctor you know um but she's close to the doctor than most people know and it's like the doctor has equally a bad sight um i did the what was it recently a week in a short film i got bored and filmed it in my little box of a studio and it was just improvisation is what would happen if the master regenerated to look identical to the doctor you would have a hell of a lot of trouble and um there was part of that discussion was as i've killed as many people as you have and it was the doctor that utters this you know so they're both light and dark and they're both wonderful to play that's that's very interesting again i keep hearing you keep mentioning things that i haven't watched and i'm like how haven't i watched it that's great yes you're right it's a point in your as my is my whole thing is to show watch and show off different things in the community and i've just missed everything you'll catch up dear boy i mean i shouldn't ask your age but you're probably a lot younger than me i'm 57 years old uh 58 coming up no no no it's none of your business now i'm 22 and i don't care got my whole life ahead of me i do well i'm 14 next year and they say life begins at it but i'll be doing the the whole Jackie tyler banner thing every year saying i'm only 40 i would pay good money i will be honest if it wasn't for lockdown i maybe wouldn't have gone back and like totally you know Brett boxed it for months and marathoned the hell out of classic yeah because i grew up with this doctor he was my first but and i remember him clearly he got me into doctor who you know he was the first one i truly remember was seven and i absolutely adore sylvestre mccoy and ace you know i i i just love sophia alger and you know they're just pure nostalgia for me and i had to go back i had to go to where did this all start oh jealous jealous show off quickly i also broke my nose but going back to classic i had missed all this there's things people talk about living community you know and i i sit and they're going i i don't feel like a fan i'm disgraced with myself how could i i'm like that all the time um well you're young yet you can catch up so yeah marathoned at all saw it from different angles as well and see sometimes when you even rewatch the stuff you're familiar with you spot things you never noticed the first time yeah so there you go trying to think of examples off the top of my head i can't think of anything call myself a fan yeah don't break could you see the smoke coming out of the ears as thought was trying to happen and the nostrils and i could smell bacon as well oh good yeah yeah honestly that's yeah i'm half baking at this point so one more question before we get a little bit of fun at the end i've got oh don't think i haven't gotten something fun in store last question you recently decided to sort of step away from a lot of the fan productions and i was just yeah i know the reason why but i am i'm sure the viewers the the folks at home would be interested to sort of know what happened because it is it is both sad and something that probably should be said yes it should be said um you know me i'm quite politically outspoken um so i probably won't hold back but one thing about the community is i really want to say is guys everybody stop just stop what a time to lag out hello alia etore that's what i should have asked i'm gonna be done at the time at the time i'm in a smart idea hello who was there um oh hello hello can you hear me so you you lagged out the second you said stop and i thought you just went silent but you're back now you're back so you may have to repeat okay where did i get to uh you said everybody stop and then it cut out everybody and i'll say it again stop bitching you know stop fighting each other stop slapping your projects each other's projects off um i think what everybody here is doing is wonderful you still got me so don't have to start that again um well everybody's doing is absolutely wonderful creatively you know whether it's got huge budget time budget whatever we're all doing something and not just sitting down and talking about it we are actually doing something for the love of dr hoot and now i work closely with black love studio i've been black love studio serah jane for quite a while and the ranny is well soon um and i sort of i haven't met christin person but i've spoken to him online quite a few times and like on zoom and things and over various projects and things and he has a lovely kindness and a nice innocence to the project he's doing just now and it basically is to bring the brigadier back to life in a sense is to give him a proper farewell a goodbye there was a scene that um nicholas courtney was meant to be in and it was in serah jane's wedding but nicholas courtney was far far too ill to make the shoot and chris had a dream one night and he dreamt the brigadier and the brigadier came to him in this dream i know it sounds kind of corny but i think it's quite sweet came to him in this dream and says you have me for one day so chris kind of took it as a sign is okay i want to give the brigadier a proper goodbye a proper farewell one for nicholas courtney the actor and two because he never got the chance to have that goodbye and so he has been working on this project which does involve quite a bit of deep faith and people got up in arms about it and instead knowing what the project was about and the true motives and the fact that chris has actually had a blessing from sady miller for the project he said a blessing from um you know john leeson i think might be involved in it i don't want to think it he said a blessing from nicholas courtney's biographer as well so i think it's absolutely beautiful and again as i say the motives are lovely they are their sound they're meant with kindness they're not meant to belittle or to do anything to damage nicholas courtney's reputation or the character and brigadier and i was quite surprised by a few people i've also worked with in the past jumping on this bandwagon and tearing apart this project without knowing anything about it someone model high grounds and i just went ethos i'm not standing for this this is bull this is utter crap right and of course you may have seen my rant on twitter about it again you're getting very scottish there i could feel the swears just building i'm trying to hold back the swears if they were worse they could go Malcolm Tucker on this one and maybe a lot of leaps i'm trying very hard not to this is a community show and um little rory's watching alia sorry rory i was just beating me beat me honestly but i was i was very surprised by a few i worked with before and i do have a good relationship with a few of them and i i literally have said to them and i won't mention who they are at this moment because i don't want to bring them they have been apologetic um i mentioned to them no as of furthermore i'm not doing projects with you you cannot slam another one's project the whole core of dr who is to be kind these are our fan projects these are projects you know we do for the love of dr who and you know we have that we should be knitting together and helping each other and press reached out to ask for help to complete this project and instead of people going hey i've got these skills i could help you it was more i want no part of this and it was like listen this is we are on an amateur level we are not the bbc but we want to make something that tells the story and brings people in and you know um show the love for us show we all care about and to see the amount of victory and fighting and bitching and nonsense that goes on it just drove my gears as i have had enough of this and i nearly left twitter as well but there are some wonderful people in the community yourself included especially because you're one of what i would say is one of the lynchpins that keeps us together um you support everybody that is in the community you um you encourage others to support others in this community you support myself you know there's been times i felt like throwing the towel in and if it wasn't for these fan audios i will be honest with you i did give enough acting the minute lockdown started because i saw no hope for a future in it so yeah i very nearly threw in the towel i was at the worst point in my acting career my acting life and i just i went where is this going there's nothing um i'm at an age where roles are becoming few and far between um and especially good ones and i nearly chucked it completely until somebody until i say harry bosling was the very first and obviously kiran noon with his stories was the very first um they gave me the opportunity to say to live a dream and this is a doctor who community that should be existing one that helps other people in this community dream and live a dream of what they wish to do and want to be part of in their future and as i say love doctor who's in stage of two so you know it's kind of it's a given we should be nice and sharing stuff instead of killing each other sorry i'm blabbing again no quite right i'm getting ready for a revolution after hearing that speech i'm ready to pick up some weapons and just yeah hardest flags everybody i should have worn my pirate hat i've got it in the next room i don't know why i didn't think to i'm an idiot but um right so to get things on a slightly lighter note towards the end i thought as you are a terrific voice actress i would give you three random characters just in it just a visual and you've got to figure out what they would sound like all right do you think you're up for the challenge yes i hope yes go for it okay right let me get the first one one moment the first as a as a slightly you know a slightly simple one one one community show members might know this guy what does he sound like hang on let me clear the pipes something about i've heard you do this before so he's a bit groovy isn't he well in my way i'm great i'm doing it against the green screen like that's going to help yeah yeah yeah the whole green well no jack i am going to destroy your entire planet why because he sounds like a really grumpy yoda he auditioned for yoda he didn't get he didn't have the ears right yeah he did no he's still bitter about it i hate charge me i think well i think we've nailed that one i'll put i'll put drashing to one side he can he can sit there and judge me number two now this is one the next one is near and dear to my heart ellie and i uh my family has given this one a voice it is my dog here he is this is a picture of my dog what's what's my dog sound like ellie is your dog always have its thumb sticking out uh not always but he likes to do so we like to stick the tongue out a little bit nothing like trick me on this spot here do a voice of the dog this is what i like to do for the challenges no one should need to know what's happening everyone should be confused at all times did i insult your doggy what's your doggy's name my doggy's name is fred and he's an old fred we love fred fred is a good fred changes everything he's like he's full fred and he's an old boy then a bit more like this come here let me slobber all over yeah i mean that's definitely true to fred there is no doubt in my mind he slobbers like there's no tomorrow that boy and there's i don't know if you've seen it there's a video here's the voice my family have dubbed him right there's a video of a dog who's been dubbed over really wanting like the sandwich that their owner has and he's like is it the maple kind i like that one i like the maple kind because he's always begging at the day we sat there like i would like some food now please and that's just the voice we've given him it's just been that for years right i have saved i have saved the hardest one for last right there is one last one and i'm going to get it now one moment prepare yourself oh dear we'll see you soon well except when they get really angry and slobbering go feral in which case they're more like um i am i don't know it cannot be a serious actor right now with your hands on your head what do you mean this is totally serious look how serious i am right that's it i'll have to backwards challenge you to do shakespeare with that that is the winter of my discontent to be or not okay that is the question it stinks in there this is a good look i've got ears there we go well i think that challenge was a roaring success oh i can't breathe that's what i was like wearing the mask again breathe well it's fun thank you you're welcome look this is something i like doing now i did it with doctor that did the dw 2012 with then challenge i did it with james sutton with his with the sonics and this is just something i'm going to do now i'm going to spring a challenge on everyone and confuse everyone involved keep it fresh jack keep it fresh oh god go get like fresh fresh bakery smells fresh well thank you thank you so much alia oh you're most welcome thank you so much for having me on the show it's been a it's been a an absolute honor i don't normally do interviews because well i totally crap myself but you know well check your pants make sure you haven't that'd be horrific well thank you i'm nothing but nice to my guests vulgar boy as much as i would have loved to come down to scotland and uh and done it in person i i don't i've got money none no money not not enough for the for a fly out and we are artists and artists have no money this is the this is this is it unless you get that one job is or you just keep working you know yeah no money all those great fun but the bank balance is scary it sure is unfortunately um michelle gomas is still working so there's not really much of an in the voice actresses to step in quick kidnapper quick they're done see that's the thing as soon as i learned big uh david tenant was doing big finish i wasn't like really happy about it i was like dammit i can't sneak in and say we'd like dudman i might well great there's go there goes my in first when you start sort of formulating evil plans you know yes you have to do the pyramid jack the pyramid review fingertips early and say the mr burns classic right well thank you and i will i will let you get back to your day thank you jack and it's been a pleasure speaking with you and meeting with you of course a long time coming this has been on the cards for a couple months and i've finally finally got into your name on the list so you won't do any more wiggy impressions of me then that'll be fine well i mean i'm not going to say it's never going to happen never say never you know a good joke to fall back on if look if your name keeps popping up i'm gonna keep having a laugh with it all right let me be me oh well you have a lovely day and i look forward to seeing the edits please be kind i'll think about it you know i'm not kind i'm actually really rude and a bad boy that's me totally