Well, no, it's not.SSJGFrieza wrote:The whole "not being able to talk fast enough" is a load of crap.
If you want her back, that's a perfectly valid opinion to have, but not being able to talk fast enough is a completely valid reason for firing or not hiring an actor for an anime dub. Just ask Crispin Freeman, who said that he was cast as the lead villain in Cowboy Bebop and a role on Digimon when he first moved out to LA, only to lose both roles shortly thereafter--and have all of his recordings replaced with those of other actors--because he was not providing reads at the efficiency that the dubbing studio required. Voice actors are paid an hourly rate, after all, so too much time spent is regarded as wasted money.
Please bare in mind that when dubbing an anime, the animation is already done, so it is the duty of the dubbing voice actor to be able to match the lip movements of their character on screen (it is true that their delivery can be adjusted in post-production a little bit to fit the lip flaps better, but only a teeny bit). The previous scripts that Linda Young was given were not very faithfully adapted at all. Those scripts gave Freeza rather generic, slower, simpler dialogue. The newer scripts, which were much more faithful to the original Japanese scripts, had a lot of fast, upper-class dialogue. It just wasn't what she was used to, and Chris Sabat decided that she wasn't performing efficiently enough.
FUNimation initially had every intention of using her again, as demonstrated by the initial press release they put out for Kai listing her in the dub cast, and the fact that they left her laugh from episode 1. The decision to re-cast her was a relatively last-minute one, necessitated by the fact that Young was, in director Chris Sabat's opinion, not delivering useable takes at the speed and efficiency that is expected.
