• [joy] Live from New York. It’s Saturday night!
• [anger] Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinkin' badges!
• [sadness] Why can’t we all just get along?
• [menace] You've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?
• [fear] I see dead people, walking around like regular people. They don't see each other. They only see what they want to see. They don't know they're dead.
• [anticipation] There’s no place like home, there’s no place like home.
• [disgust] Please I hate this place. This zoo. This prison. This reality, whatever you want to call it, I can't stand it any longer. It's the smell, if there is such a thing. I feel saturated by it. I can taste your stink and every time I do, I fear that I've somehow been infected by it.
• [surprise] What are you doing here?
• [acceptance/neutrality] Ah well, nobody lives forever.

His voice needs to have an "everyman" feel to it so that it's all the more jarring when we start seeing just how twisted he can be.

Anyway, the voice should neither be too boyish and high-pitched (else I would give it a shot) nor too deep and masculine. Otherwise, well, I don't think it matters too much.

Edit: So you all don't have to go look at Ironeye's profile, he grew up a bit up the coast from Los Angeles, an thus speaks English with a So Cal accent. This is an excellent sample of his accent, and these three clips are good too. Fair warning: You should also be prepared to use the words "like" and "all" in peculiar ways, and you should be able to begin a sentence with "dude" and not sound like a stereotypical surfer. The character grew up around people like that, but he is also an intellectual and tries to avoid sounding unsophisticated.

2nd Edit: Go ahead and take a look at How To Write Season 1 if you want to get a feel for the character. The challenges for the VA will be:

• Seeming warm and friendly even while betraying his friends, talking about torturing someone, and playing both sides of the fence.
• Conveying how the character feels with minimal emotion: he typically tries not to react strongly to anything.
• Expressing strong emotions in a believable (non-hammy) way when he actually does express them. Sorrow, guilt, and fear are the three that will come up most often, but fury is just as important, though not as common.
• Convincingly sound like you're getting raped...while having mixed feelings on the matter.
• Exposition delivery—he's one of the characters who does it

and, my personal favorite...

• Expressing "I want to get into your pants, but I know you don't feel the same way, so I won't ever bring it up even though everyone knows what I'm thinking because of how I'm speaking."

That's it. I hope I didn't scare anyone off.

3rd Edit: Here are some lines you might want to try saying, since they are filled with Ironeye-isms.

• "Good to know." (catchphrase)
• "What? It's not like I'm a picky eater." (Responding to someone, perhaps Murky, questioning why he always approves of Kara's cooking.)
• "Yes, and then we can all ride fluffy bunnies off into the sunset." (Responding to someone being a bit too idealistic for his tastes)
• "Heh, emotional people are quite entertaining: so gloriously unstable that setting them off has almost lost its charm—almost." (Imagine him smirking and whimsical. If it doesn't work with the delivery of the line, something's wrong.)
• "Emotions are just a tool, like any other: if you use them properly, they make things much easier and no one gets hurt...at least, no one that you didn't want to hurt in the first place." (Matter-of-fact manner)
• "Thank you so much for all of your help." (Said completely sincerely)
• "Well, I'm not entirely sure how to respond to that." (He'd actually be amused by this.)
• "Let's look at this logically."
• "If there were any innate justice in the universe, things would have turned out far differently in the aftermath of the Convergence. Well, that is assuming, of course, that that grand plan is one that we can understand and that it has perfect predictive power..." (Guilt-ridden/Sorrowful—he survived only incredible coincidence and doesn't think that he deserved to live through it. Switch to Mr. Exposition at the period—he manages to derail his own moping.)
• "Kara, are you alright?" (This is one of the few times he's not holding anything back, so make it count. Aim for brotherly concern and warmth instead of sorrow or surprise.)
• "Don't run. Don't run. Don't run, don't run, don't run don't run don't run. Crap!" (Trying to reassure himself as a swarm of bats descends upon him, as the plan depends on him standing his ground and legitimately being afraid. Yes, that last word is as he decides to run.)
• "Hey" (Deliver it 3 ways: warm and friendly; mildly surprised and somewhat awkward; "you look beautiful")
• "Dude, so not cool." (Avoid the stereotypical surfer speak!)
• "Yes, Mistress." (Ever so slightly worshipful)
• "...if I convert to polar...but then that doesn't work...it's really all about properly measuring..." (talking to himself, probably not entirely aware that he's speaking aloud)
• "Bloody hell, man." (Deliver the line just like any other—while the expression isn't Californian, the pronunciation is.)
• "Now, what I'm going to do is slice into you with this scalpel. Nothing too deep, mind you—I wouldn't want to cause permanent damage. Some people think that this is all about maximizing the pain. Now, while I can appreciate that sentiment—some of those people are masters at their work, let me tell you—I don't think that that's strictly necessary for what I have going here. It won't take too much to teach you the ecstasy of agony. That's not to say, of course, that I can just start cutting all willy-nilly. No, the incisions have to be made just so...it's a matter of the blood slowly flowing down your chest in the most artful of patterns. We simply can't have a rivulet out of place—it'd ruin the effect! Oh, yes, and I'm in quite a bit of a hurry, so I hope you don't mind if I get started immediately." (Matter of fact, perhaps a bit cheerful—it's all an act to freak someone out.)
• "No, the berserker was a fun one. He was all 'Rah! I will kill you all with my manly muscles! Feel the anger flowing off of my perfectly toned abs! Rage, rage, rage!' Murky's reaction was priceless." (Ironeye enjoys mocking brutish people.)

Here's a starter for you bookhobbit:

Kathirynn Sandalot audition lines: Kat is a Mad Scientist so there’s a lot of enthusiasm for odd things. Interesting point, she’s the sort who, after accidentally sticking a pen through her hand, would note the interesting fractal patterns of the wound and wonder if her new glue formula would help to patch things up. Yeah, the inability to not feel pain has made her kind of loopy. We do need loud, enthusiastic For Science! but also ethereal off-in-her-head moments and girlish giggling.

Here are the quotes from the quotes thread to give the character flavour, also remember to check out her entry on the Character Holding Bin.

• Romance is the glue that binds us. It's also the thing that's never on sale...
• Without hesitation or insulation...
• If mayonaisse can't save it, then nothing will!
• TO THE KAT LAB!!!

Giving Helpful Advice:

• A prince you may be but a ruler needs a couple more inches...
• Don't make a plan as bad as left handed towels.
• Everything is reduced to its common denominator.
• Don't overcompensate on an empty belly.

Situational:

• Zombie Attack: Cool, so many zombies and nowhere to frolic.
• An Big Bad Is Defeated: He met his match with the expiration date...
• Is Upset: Leave Kat alone!!!
• After Hastly Repairing Somethng: It's a fix of temporary proportions!
• Thinks Someone Is Lying To Her: Don't lie to me...especially when you're standing. The only place you should lie is in bed. Unless, of course, you sleep sitting upright.

There are a few bases, I still need checked off, so could you please try these out and get them to me?

Just using a couple of lines in various ways:

To The Kat Lab! - what we have is good but it's a very easy line to try other styles of wackiness. Try it more shouting, then try it more punctuated This! Is! SPARTA!-ish, do you know that song Love Shack? There's the bit where somebody goes Tiiiiin Roof! Rust-ed!. Try to copy that. And get physical while your doing this, punch out your arms, shake em about, try and let it all out. Then try a right old Adam West impersonation: make it, To The Kat Lab, Robin!

Try this one as a cheerleader for science: "Give me an L! An O! A B O Tomy! I got a Lobotomy!"

" Don't overcompensate on an empty belly, Theodore, it doesn't suit you"- do this one now, with more of a ticking off, sour tone.

"Oh all these pneumatics and gear. Oh <giggles>, you know how to make a tech girl blush"- me talking about feminine wiles and flirting would only embarrass us both but I must say there's going to be some "enthusiasm for person's technology mistaken as affection" as well as genuine affection that'll need to be carried off. The giggles should be showing off the innocence.

- so he's the press officer for CERN who now has the job of doing the PSA about the fictite invasion.

The idea is, he's not going to be the slickest press officer in the world. It's CERN so we're looking for a middle aged or older British guy, well spoken and friendly (someone you could imagine doing realeses about a really big magnet or hadrons). Some of the comedy will come from the dissonance between the PSA content and this guys voice. It will be slightly creepier because hopefully it won't quite be like the "Duck and Cover" style of PSA and its parodies. Here's some idea of what I'm talking about from the vent chat:

• Some Sort Of Troper: So I imagine something slightly different from that officious governmental tone that "duck and cover" parodies use
• Some Sort Of Troper: more "nice chap putting a friendly tone on something very bizarre"
• Ironeye: pretty much
• Some Sort Of Troper: CERN- so european
• Ironeye: yes
• Some Sort Of Troper: I imagine british
• Ironeye: note that while Murray is returning later for two episodes, that's all he gets, so there's no need to stress too much over it
• Some Sort Of Troper: well murray doesn't have me worried
• Some Sort Of Troper: I'm getting a nice picture of him and what we need
• Some Sort Of Troper: I imagine the kind of voice you sometimes get on old children's tv shows from the 70s
• Some Sort Of Troper: Imagine Jeremy Irons but he's talking to you like he's your friendly uncle but he's talking about the end of the world
• Ironeye: I think you're onto something there
• Some Sort Of Troper: there's probably youtube clips of Jeremy Irons doing kids tv so people can use that as a reference

So, for the audition please go here start at about paragraph 4 (I met Janice at the door and) and end at paragraph 13 (moans of delight as she reached her heights). The purpose is to demonstrate the grown up voice clashing with the dodgy material. Trying messing about with the names, personally I replaced the first person with the character of Peter Rabbit.

This is a tricky one because this guy definately has a particular voice people know. Advice: focus on the acting side of it, it's more important he feels like the trope namer for Xanatos Gambit and a key example for Magnificant Bastard, rather than that he sounds like Johnathan Frakes.

Now for lines, go here and do everything for the season 1 episode 1 "Awakenings" that relates for Xanatos and then also do a few more, I like these:

• Goliath: She wanted me to destroy humanity. I think I'll start with you.
• David Xanatos: Go ahead. Without me, you'd all still be gathering moss.
• David Xanatos: It's so unlike you to attack first. I simply invited you to talk.
• Goliath: Our previous encounters have not encouraged me to trust you.
• David Xanatos: If you say so. Fox and I are getting married tomorrow night. I want you to be the best man.
• Goliath: You cannot be serious.

• Petros Xanatos: What are you hatching now?
• David Xanatos: That envelope contains my personal instructions for the Illuminati Society, plus two smaller sealed envelopes. The Society is to wait one thousand years, and then deliver the first envelope to a young David Xanatos of Bar Harbor, Maine. That envelope contains one of the coins Prince Malcolm gave me earlier. It's practically worthless now in 975 AD, but by 1975, it will be worth about... twenty grand. The second envelope is to be delivered twenty years after the first. It contains a detailed account of how the coin was obtained. That's how I knew how to set this all up: I received instructions from myself last week. So you see, Pop, I am, indeed, a self-made man.

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• Goliath: If I didn't fear the damage you would do to the time stream, I'd gladly leave you here.
• David Xanatos: But you won't. Because you didn't. Time travel's funny that way.

I also found this which a transcript of Blofeld's first lines from You Only Live Twice. Try doing this famous villain's lines in the style of our villain, Xanatos. Maybe you could try something similar with other villains. Try off your general villain skills.