Should Funimation have kept Dameon Clark as Gohan?

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Re: Should Funimation have kept Dameon Clark as Gohan?

Post by DB_Fan1991 » Mon Jul 04, 2022 5:07 pm

Here’s the thing, Dameon was not asked to audition at all for Teen Gohan. That’s what he told me when I met him 2 years ago. FUNi had already intended to recast.
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Re: Should Funimation have kept Dameon Clark as Gohan?

Post by SorikaiWolf89 » Tue Jul 05, 2022 12:53 am

DB_Fan1991 wrote: Mon Jul 04, 2022 5:07 pm Here’s the thing, Dameon was not asked to audition at all for Teen Gohan. That’s what he told me when I met him 2 years ago. FUNi had already intended to recast.
Oh nice you met him that must have been quite the experience!
I’m guessing that by that point they already cast Kyle Herbert so that’s why they didn’t recast him probably bc they wanted to put him in another role which eventually became Cell

I thought he was good for a darker more mature and serious Future Gohan but I kinda agree with the recast they chose to do as Dameon Clark would have sounded too awkwardly serious during the high school and Saiyaman episodes

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Re: Should Funimation have kept Dameon Clark as Gohan?

Post by MasenkoHA » Tue Jul 05, 2022 10:05 am

SorikaiWolf89 wrote: Tue Jul 05, 2022 12:53 am
DB_Fan1991 wrote: Mon Jul 04, 2022 5:07 pm Here’s the thing, Dameon was not asked to audition at all for Teen Gohan. That’s what he told me when I met him 2 years ago. FUNi had already intended to recast.
Oh nice you met him that must have been quite the experience!
I’m guessing that by that point they already cast Kyle Herbert so that’s why they didn’t recast him probably bc they wanted to put him in another role which eventually became Cell
Hebert would have likely been casted for teenage Gohan after Clarke had already recorded for Cell not before.

Funimation has never been against giving an actor multiple roles (see Sabat or even Laura Bailey voicing most of the minor female roles) so Clarke voicing Cell would have had zero bearing on being recast for teenage Gohan.

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Re: Should Funimation have kept Dameon Clark as Gohan?

Post by jjgp1112 » Tue Jul 05, 2022 10:19 am

Maybe they thought it was weird that Dameon Clarke would play Cell and Gohan :P
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