With the Loki finale nearly upon us, we were able to catch up with legendary voice actress Tara Strong and chat with her about voicing the instantly iconic Miss Minutes, who has become one of the show's brightest spots throughout its six-episode run - and has also gradually become one of the frontrunners to (possibly) be revealed as tomorrow's big bad!
While the affable star understandably couldn't divulge too much about what's to come in tomorrow's hotly-awaited season finale, she's been really appreciative of how much love fans have showered on her character and, like all of us, she's really enjoyed reading the wild theories about how Miss Minutes may be revealed as the biggest, baddest villain of them all.
"I love looking at them, they’re so much fun seeing how invested everyone is, to see how much they love the show and love Miss Minutes," Strong told us. "You never know when there’s an animated character or even an unusual character in a world that already exists, so I’m so grateful to the fans that they’ve taken to her so much and they loved her. They fell in love with her before the show aired, even from the promos, they loved this little character.
I’m really happy and I love reading all of the ideas of where people think she’s going or whether or not she’s the mastermind behind everything. It’s really fun. I like interacting with the fans on social too, so I see a lot of it and the fan art has been amazing, my gosh, I’ve been trying to retweet all of the artists that have taken time to make something special to show their love for her."
Miss Minutes isn't the first A.I. character Strong has voiced, but it may very well be the most unique. Drawing some inspriation from both Jurassic Park's Mr. D.N.A. and Apple's Siri, she explained where she found her character's charming voice and touched on her secretive audition process for Marvel Studios.
"It was a very collaborative process, finding the voice for her, and any time I’ll have an audition, I’ll get a good drawing of the character, the character description, sometimes a show bible to understand her world, but I didn’t really get any of that from the initial audition.
I didn’t know what the show was. I didn’t know who I was auditioning for. I didn’t know much about the character, except that she was somewhere between a Siri and a sentient creature and I tried to get information and I couldn’t and it wasn’t until I booked the job that I knew who she was and in the audition, they said to lay down a couple different versions with an accent and they seem to love the Southern one, so I’m very grateful and then even within that, as we went along, we played along with her, did many, many different takes to find exactly the right pocket for her."
Stay tuned for more from Tara and be sure to check out the full video interview below!