ATTACK ON TITAN Exclusive: Voice Actress Jessica Calvello Discusses Hange's Character Balance And Perseverance

ATTACK ON TITAN Exclusive: Voice Actress Jessica Calvello Discusses Hange's Character Balance And Perseverance

The final season of Attack on Titan is premiering on Monday, and we chatted with Hange actress Jessica Calvello ahead of the release about the character's balance between darkness and light. Check it out!

By LiteraryJoe - Dec 04, 2020 08:12 PM EST
Filed Under: Anime & Manga

Fans of English-dubbed anime should be pretty familiar with Funimation and many of the voice actors who work on multiple projects with them. Attack on Titan, My Hero Academia, and Dragon Ball are just a few of the multitude of franchises dubbed by the company.

Ahead of the premiere of the final season of Attack on Titan, Funimation was awesome enough to set up several exclusive audio interviews with some of the talent. We will be bringing you our chats with voice talent Bryce Papenbrook (Deku), Josh Grelle (Bakugo), Jessica Calvello (Hange), Trina Nishimura (Mikasa), and Clifford Chapin (Connie) over the next couple of weeks.

While speaking with Jessica Calvello (The Stockholms, Cyanide & Happiness), we picked her brain about Hange's character development, perseverance, and antics, as well as why she believes Hange is a good fit for the show.

"This is going to sound like I don't like it, but I do. I think there's a real consistency to the character, not in that Hange hasn't grown, but I still feel that Hange is really super balanced as a character. Hange has got the crazy antics, the strategizing, the science, and all the nutty things and wacky, unethical experiments that Hange does more towards the earlier seasons.

And then Hange has got the dark moments in the exposition, and Hange has got the dark and the light. The character has a good balance for the show's bleakness, with the crazy antics that Hange has. In terms of character development, I don't want to say that she doesn't have it. I think that she's been constant throughout all of the seasons. Hange does what Hange needs to do. Loses an eye, they've got another one; loses a Titan, Hange's going to cry about it, and then Hange is going to persevere."

Check out our full interview with Hange voice actress Jessica Calvello via the podcast player below, along with the trailer and synopsis for Attack on Titan's final season.

*This interview has been edited for clarity.*


 
With Eren and company now at the shoreline and the threat of Marley looming, what’s next for the Scouts and their quest to unravel the mysteries of the Titans, humanity, and more? Well, we’ll just have to find out when Attack on Titan Final Season comes to Funimation.

The final season of Attack on Titan is set to premiere on December 7th.

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LiteraryJoe
LiteraryJoe - 12/4/2020, 8:01 PM
@therealbabyyoda @rocket616 @elric @origame @malesmarcel @riel @mrdoctor @drrichards @thedoctor1225 @reeds2much @saintsinnister @amuro @regularpoochie @inquisitor - More AoT fun, enjoy your weekends!
globaltravels
globaltravels - 12/4/2020, 8:09 PM
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Coolkid
Coolkid - 12/5/2020, 12:33 AM
Keep this Anime awesomeness coming. Can't wait for Dec 7th. Hope the final season blows all our minds...!!!
LiteraryJoe
LiteraryJoe - 12/5/2020, 2:51 AM
@Coolkid - Thanks so much for your support! Funimation has a lot of awesome stuff coming up, and we have Bakugo coming back on next week as well!
Coolkid
Coolkid - 12/5/2020, 8:55 AM
@LiteraryJoe - Do you mean any Boku No Hero Academia stuff is coming up next week.?
LiteraryJoe
LiteraryJoe - 12/5/2020, 9:15 AM
@Coolkid - Connie Chapin, the voice actor behind Bakugo also voices Connie on Attack on Titan, so he's coming back on our show to discuss AoT and MHA in more detail, and we'll be sharing the exclusives here on CBM.

Sorry if I was unclear!
Coolkid
Coolkid - 12/6/2020, 2:36 AM
@LiteraryJoe - Whoa, I never knew that Connie and Bakugo had the same voice actors. If possible, try to get more infos about AoT S4 and BHA S5 and the new movie. :D
And I hope all these AoT S4 production issue rumors are false and S4 has more than 16 episodes.
bkmeijer2
bkmeijer2 - 12/5/2020, 2:18 AM
On a slightly off-topic note, isn't there also a live-action series of AoT in the works? Or am I just remembering things wrongly
LiteraryJoe
LiteraryJoe - 12/5/2020, 2:51 AM
@bkmeijer - If there is, I haven't heard about it. Live action anime adaptations worry me haha
globaltravels
globaltravels - 12/5/2020, 3:42 AM
@bkmeijer - theres been a few live action movies that suck so so [frick]ing much no one should EVER watch them
bkmeijer2
bkmeijer2 - 12/5/2020, 3:46 AM
@globaltravels - thats what I must be thinking of then. Thanks for the reminder to never watch em
Amuro
Amuro - 12/5/2020, 6:54 AM
@bkmeijer - I think there is an american movie in the works somewhere. I don't know if it's still currently in development.

Other than that, there are the two live-action movies. I haven't even bothered to watch them considering their awful reputation.

Other than the french City Hunter movie (a masterpiece) and maybe Alita: Battle Angel (a good enough movie, but not as good as I had hoped for a Gunnm adaptation), I don't remember a good live-action adaptation of a manga or of an anime.
Amuro
Amuro - 12/5/2020, 7:10 AM
@Amuro - It's funny to say because the trailers weren't good at all (the japanese trailer is far more cool), but the City Hunter movie is easily the one adaptation who managed to stay true to its original manga and one of the best movies of 2019.

For once, the fans of the original work have loved it despite fearing the worst at first and there are talks about making a sequel.

bkmeijer2
bkmeijer2 - 12/5/2020, 7:16 AM
@Amuro - haven't heard of City Hunter (the movie nor the manga) so I can't really speak for that. I don't remember any other good adaptations either
Amuro
Amuro - 12/5/2020, 7:26 AM
@bkmeijer - City Hunter and Alita: Battle Angel might be the only good ones. And City Hunter is the only great one. Alita could have been far better in my opinion considering the original work.

Sadly, manga and anime just don't translate well in live-action most of the time. At best, they're often forgettable. At worst... let's just not talk about THAT movie from 2009.
bkmeijer2
bkmeijer2 - 12/5/2020, 7:38 AM
@Amuro - I don't know what movie you're talking about, and I think it's might be better to keep it that way
Amuro
Amuro - 12/5/2020, 7:42 AM
@bkmeijer - Exactly ! That movie NEVER happened ! lol
Amuro
Amuro - 12/5/2020, 7:49 AM
@Amuro - I'm kinda sad for the actors though, especially for James Marsters who is a huge fan of the anime (and who has later dubbed a character in the latest series).
bkmeijer2
bkmeijer2 - 12/5/2020, 7:55 AM
@Amuro - agreed, there are always people who work on project who actually care for it so I don't shit too much on everything (just pretend that it doesn't exist, although it's so bad it becoming good).

As for Marsters, he also dubbed in a video game. So it's not that he is entirely only remembered in the franchise for a bad movie.
LiteraryJoe
LiteraryJoe - 12/5/2020, 8:12 AM
@Amuro - Did you know Perlman was replaced with Matters because of Hellboy 2?

That shit cray!
Amuro
Amuro - 12/5/2020, 8:59 AM
@LiteraryJoe - Yeah, I knew that. Things turned out good for him in the end, except we never had a Hellboy 3.

I still remember the pictures of Yellow Piccolo and the horrible mask of Goku as Oozaru. I had nightmares because of those pics. lol



LiteraryJoe
LiteraryJoe - 12/5/2020, 9:17 AM
@Amuro - I figured you knew, but yikes, I never saw that pic of "Goku".

Have you seen Jaden Smith's "Feeling Like Goku" music video? If not, you might want to keep it that way. Now anything that involves the moon, my girlfriend say's they're feeling like Goku. Lmao.
Amuro
Amuro - 12/5/2020, 9:20 AM
@LiteraryJoe - Ah no, I haven't seen Jaden's music video. Now I'm curious. lol
Amuro
Amuro - 12/5/2020, 9:31 AM
@LiteraryJoe - Oh my god, it's hilariously bad ! The music, the direction of the clip (I didn't understand anything about the intentions, if there are any), the cliches... I prefer Jaden way more when he's feeling like Spidey. lol

And what the hell with that man's blurred face ? They couldn't control the comings and goings of pedestrians while shooting that clip ? They didn't have the autorizations or what ?
LiteraryJoe
LiteraryJoe - 12/5/2020, 10:37 AM
@Amuro - Dude, idfk! I'm so glad you looked it up so you could share in the hilarity hahaha.
Amuro
Amuro - 12/5/2020, 7:01 AM
Hange, one of the craziest characters of Shingeki no Kyojin after Potato Girl. I love that character ! lol

Though she has also proven to be extremely reliable as a leader figure. She's no longer only seen as the crazy scientist she was at her debut. But still crazy enough ! lol

There are really good characters in this show for the viewer to root for, even if I don't like the path the story has taken with its main character.
Reeds2Much
Reeds2Much - 12/5/2020, 11:13 AM
Final season? Didn't they just make it to the coast? That's like the halfway point. Sounds like they're either cutting out a lot, this is the final season for now, or they're not intending to finish animating the story at all.
RegularPoochie
RegularPoochie - 12/5/2020, 6:43 PM
@Reeds2Much - This will be the final season and fully, you can see some things just recently happened in the manga in the trailer, it just feel different because it a once in a month. This will also be 26 episodes,so like a 1 or 2 chapters in one episode.
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