Rubén León Pecheco better known as Rubén León (born February 6, 1966) is a Venezuelan actor, best known for voicing Joker in different series and DC Comics animated films from the 90s to 2017, also for being the voice of Darwin the monkey in The Wild Thornberrys, among others.
Biography
He studied theater in 1978 from the age of 12. In order to cover personal expenses, he decides to look for a job that would have competition with his artistic interests; and that is when he reads an ad in a newspaper requesting trained personnel to direct voice-over actors. He does the casting and surprisingly Walter Veliz invites him to play César Ribeiro in the telenovela Vale Tudo the next day, without even training. With this, graduated as a publicist, since 1988, Rubén León became a dubbing actor.[1]
When Warner Bros did a casting to find the voice of Joker for Latin America, they had a list of actors that did not include Rubén; That day Rubén was in a nearby studio recording the demon of Taz-Mania and due to a joke from the technical operator Rubén began to laugh so hard that he drowned and to get out of that drowning he laughed even harder; After a while the operator told him that another operator from the studio next door wanted to talk to him, Rubén thought it was to scold him for the noise... instead they asked him to laugh again as he had just done, they explained that next door there was a Warner client who asked who laughed that way? using the resources that he already had in theater to revive emotions, he decides to take the test laughing out loud, leaving the client fascinated and requests him to be the Joker, however the studio warns him that Rubén was very busy with other dubbing roles all year long. day, but the client again insisted that Rubén be the one to play the Joker.
The studio trusted Rubén's interpretation but recommended authenticity when it came to dubbing the character to have his own stamp when interpreting him, so Rubén studied the interpretation of the Joker by Cesar Romero as a basis since he liked it when he was a kid, the Jack Nicholson performance and the obvious Mark Hamill performance, and so it was easy for him to play the character comfortably giving him that authenticity that they expected.
In September 2017, he resigned from the dubbing company Etcétera Group for very poor payment for his acting quality, which created controversy on social networks since this would mean that he could not play the Joker, after 25 years of being his official voice.[2]
References
- ↑ Entrevista a Rubén León [Actor venezolano de doblaje y teatro]. 22 de abril de 2014. Consultado el 30 de octubre de 2017.
- ↑ Ruben León. Facebook. 22 de septiembre de 2017. Consultado el 30 de octubre de 2017