Joshua Alan Doetsch(1/6) One of the cooler things I've done while writing for Dune: Awakening, is get to work in the recording booth with the Re-Animator himself, Jeffrey Combs. The whole situation manifested strangely.
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(2/6) I wrote the Twisted Mentat character Zayn De Witte. When I write a character, I often think of some actor or character as a starting point. It's not something I tell the eventual voice actor, just a springboard to develop a voice as I write.
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(3/6) For Zayn, my springboard was Jeffrey Combs, specifically his character Milton Dammers from the film The Frighteners. It's important to remember, I did NOT tell anyone on the team I had Combs in mind. This was just a voice to reference and read back to myself as I wrote.
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(4/6) Time passes. A teammate messages me about casting and says, "Hey, what do you think of Jeffrey Combs for this part?" What!? Did I manifest this? Am I the god-monster-boy from The Twilight Zone?
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(5/6) The recording session was awesome. I allowed myself a little bit of geeking out at the top of it, particularly over the audio of Mr. Combs's one-man show as Edgar Allan Poe. He was surprised and delighted I'd listened to it.
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(6/6) Looking over the Zayn dialogue, he said it gave him Milton Dammers vibes. Then we got to it. He was lovely to work with.
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