Tyger Drew-Honey interview
Tyger Drew-Honey voices Luke Watson in Scream Street...
Can you introduce us to your character?
Luke is a pretty cool guy. He's like a normal teenager - he's popular and sporty, and just wants to have a good time. He's a bit annoying to his parents; he's not very keen on doing his homework, as he would much rather be out with his friends.
But there's also a darker side to Luke and he can turn into a werewolf. He doesn't do this at full moon or anything; instead he turns into a werewolf when he gets uncontrollably angry.
It's pretty dangerous for everyone around when he goes into angry-werewolf mode. He can also part-transform into a werewolf, so when he's in a situation where he needs to listen out for an important sound, he can part transform his ears. He's not particularly good at it, though, and often he gets it wrong and gets a bit annoyed with himself.
Luke is on Scream Street because he's a monster, as he turns into a werewolf and this made him quite unpopular in the real world. Because of this, he was relocated to Scream Street and his parents came with him. He much prefers Scream Street, as he's got all his monster friends there.
The only problem really is that because he's taken his parents there to give him a better upbringing and they're normal, they don't particularly like it - especially his dad, who doesn't like living in Scream Street whatsoever.
Can you relate to Luke?
There are a few aspects to Luke's character that I can relate to; he just wants to go out and have fun and he doesn't tidy his room. My room is normally quite messy!
What should we look out for from Luke in the series?
There's one episode where Luke gets his own music teacher, and that's quite cool. But obviously being Scream Street not everything is as it seems and the teacher turns out to be a ghost.
What is your favourite moment of the series?
There's an episode that involves Otto, the horrible mayor of Scream Street. Otto is someone that Luke hates with a very strong passion, but when Otto doesn't want to live in Sneer Hall anymore he comes and actually moves into the Watsons'!
Can you tell us your grossest habit?
I fart unashamedly. If I had one now I would do it, but I don't.
Can you tell us the grossest thing you parents do?
My mum sometimes will eat chocolate in bed and fall asleep, and the chocolate will fall onto the duvet. The next evening she will be too lazy to go downstairs and get any chocolate, so she will pick the chocolate off the duvet and eat it!
Where's the spookiest place you've ever been to?
I did some work in Wales last year and one of the locations was a big stately home. I think I was told it took 10,000 men 15 years to build. It was magnificent, but when we did the night shoot there it was very scary and spooky.
My favourite Halloween was about three or four years ago when we moved onto a new estate. Everyone on the estate was going around trick or treating and we knocked on one door - it was an American family and they had gone all out on Halloween. The family had bought all these black drapes and draped them around the whole house, and the house was like a maze. It was like a little theme park; they had people jumping out from behind the drapes, and at the end they gave you a picture that they had taken through the maze.
Do you believe in ghouls, ghosts and monsters?
Personally, I don't believe in them, as we've come far too far as a race and a species scientifically to actually believe in proper monsters.
What's it like to voice a character?
Voicing an animated character is really different to acting in vision because when you're acting in vision you have to think of loads of things involving your face, and you have to learn all your lines and hit marks. When you're voice acting for an animated character it's far more relaxed; you can stand in the studio and you only have to focus on your voice and your lines.
What tone have you adopted in your voice for Luke?
It's a similar voice to mine, but maybe a little younger. With an animated character, the voice is usually a bit bigger than a usual character speaking, but it doesn't strain my voice too much.
Werewolf Luke speaks as well, but sometimes in the studio we have a lot of trouble as it's quite hard to do - it's hard to deliver lines and sound like a werewolf and not sound really weird. When he's a full blown angry werewolf, he actually can't string any sentences together because he's just far too angry.
How do the voice records work?
Generally we record together - not the entire cast, but Rasmus, Tala and I record together. It happens once every couple of months and then everything has to be animated, so it's quite nice to come back and do Scream Street every few months.
We usually start at 10am and finish at 6pm, and we're probably in the booth for about six hours. The hardest bit for me personally is standing up constantly; there are seats in there so that we can sit down when we're not needed. Towards the end of the shift, the balls of my feet often hurt.
Can you give some advice to anyone wanting to be a voice actor?
Basically just put yourself out there and put yourself into as many situations as you can to show people what you can do. Try and meet people, try and mingle and introduce yourself. Hopefully one day someone will say 'I need someone who can do that', and maybe you'll get a job - and then maybe you'll get a few other ones! Just put yourself out there, I guess.
What's going to get everyone excited about Scream Street?
Scream Street is a comedy horror show, so I guess everyone is going to love the comedy and they're going to love the horror. Which one more? I'm not sure!
Will adults like the show as well?
I don't see why adults wouldn't like the show; it's a great show! It's full of action and I think there's some humour that they would like as well. In fact, there are jokes that maybe only adults will get.