Lucio voice actor talks Overwatch fame and his unlikely friend in the biz

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Lucio voice actor Jonny Cruz, whose video of Overwatch voice actors goofing around recently spread like wildfire, once turned down some sage advice, years ago, from someone you've probably heard of.
"Voiceover was not my main focus when I started. I was going to be a theatre actor," Cruz told Don't Feed the Gamers. "Years ago ... I moved to [Los Angeles] and I was calling the people I knew from Texas who were doing stuff, and I called a friend of mine and he was like, 'Hey man, you need to get into this voice over stuff - this is where it's at.' And I was like, 'No no, I'm an ac-tor.'
"A few years later I'm watching [a friend play The Last of Us] and I was like oh man that voice sounds so familiar. That sounds so familiar," he said. "So I looked it up and on my friend's IMDB it was title after title after title of - that's how he makes his living, voice overs for video games.
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