VoltronSeason 5 saw a shift in the fan favorite character of Shiro.
More prone to outbursts and working outside of the team, something was amiss.
You read that right.
Talk a little about Shiro, or Kuron, or whatever the hell your character is in season five.
Take us through the whole season and what it was like playing him.
You definitely start seeing him make some more unilateral decisions, shall we say.
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However, Shiro is definitely somebody who is no stranger to hard choices.
In war youve got to make the hard choices.
This season we saw more of an angry Shiro.
Hes yelling at Lance and thats a new side for the character.
Were starting to see some of the situations where that can kind of rear its head.
In terms of playing it, whats it like for you as an actor?
Lance just wants everybody to be happy.
Having to do that was not super fun.
It definitely serves a story purpose and thats what Im here for.
Yes, I would say so.
My kids have attitudes now.
Back when we first started recording one wasnt even born really.
One of them was like an infant.
Now they have opinions.
Now they talk back.
Now theyre not so easy to corral.
Ive definitely been getting more frustrated kind of, in parallel with Shiro.
I still definitely use them as a touchstone though.
I didnt really have to think of anybody outside of myself.
Even being married, my wife is still an independent being.
I know she can take care of herself.
You interact withVoltronfans a lot on your social media pages.
I know there can be hardships sometimes and not everybodys nice.
Most people are but are of course there are some bad apples.
What keeps you wanting to do it?
I would say the response.
I cant say the mini enough.
The overwhelming response from the fandom is so positive.
I look forward to it.
I watchVoltronas a fan.
Its such a good show.
Im happy that theres so many people that like to share that with me.
My wife will say, You should do this song as Shiro.
Ill be like, Okay, sweet.
Its really just having fun.
Thats what honestly keeps me coming back, theres so much material in the show to have fun with.
I love doing it.
You did that delightful music video of Youre Welcome with theVoltroncast.
Talk about the genesis of that, the making of it, and the response?
That was literally my wifes idea.
We have songs from pretty much every kids movie playing in our house 24/7.
Then the wheels started turning and I was like, Yeah.
Learned Final Cut in that couple days where I was editing it.
Id never used it before.
It was actually pretty easy to start picking up.
I started going through all of the process to do it.
I called up some of theVoltroncast.
Tyler, Rhys, Steven, theyre always filming on location, so theyre fairly reasonably tough to get.
Everybody that was in town came over.
We hung out at the house.
I live kind of out in the suburbs, so Im a little bit far away from everybody.
Maybe I might have a little season six viewing party at the house.
Maybe well film some reactions or do some stuff like that for the fans.
It was really just a super.
My wife had this idea and we just took it, we played it out until its conclusion.
The response has been overwhelmingly positive.
That was just completely something that we did in our house for fun.
Again, stuff like that, we love doing that.
Does that mean we arent getting an officialVoltronmusical episode?
I mean I dont write the show.
Ive actually already got an idea that Ive started writing another song for.
Yeah, keep an eye out for that.
What would happen between the two of them?
Would they bro it out?
Theres really no way to answer that without assuming so many things.
You would have to say, Okay, is the first one the original?
Is the second one a clone?
Is one from a different reality?
Do they interact with the same person?
Youd have to kind of assume one or the other for this situation to happen.
Lets just say that they are two different Shiros and they meet.
I think that both of them are both kind of under the impression that they are Shiro.
Youd probably have that initial, Whoa, whoa.
Hey, you look like me.
What the hells going on here?
Where did you come from?
Where did you come from?
Why are you here?
Why are you here?
Youd have the Abbot and Costello Whos on First happening for a little bit.
In my world, in my head canon, they would go and troll everybody.
Just that sort of stuff.
Thats what I would love to see.
The two Shiros working hand in hand to troll all of the Paladins and Coran.
I think thatd be fantastic.
We talked a little bit about interacting withVoltronfans, and whats it like.
Theyre seeing this character that for all intents and purposes is like them.
Hes super strong and hes infallible, or at least you think.
Somebodys texting me, did you hear that?
I just got a yoohoo, because my text chime is actually Sven saying that.
My cars named Shiro and I have Sven saying yoohoo to me when somebodys texting me.
It would feature every single Shiro thats been in the show.
What do you think that show would be like?
I think it might get a little confusing.
What do you think Sven and Slav are doing right now in the alternate reality?
I mean its the reality where everything works out fine.
They made it to space hospital.
Im sure that the space doctors took care of his space injuries very space well.
I really think that theyre still doing their Gamara stuff.
Theyre still being space cowboys and saving that reality.
Very important question for you.
Which Shiro hairstyle do you prefer?
Season one/two or season three onward?
Well youre forgetting the one-off with the long hair.
I like that one.
I think long-haired Shiros pretty bad ass.
I dont necessarily hate the hair that so many people are hating on.
I guess I would probably have to go with OG Shiro there.
I do like the long hair.
I think that Shiro looks great with whatever hair hes got.
Any final words to the Shiro fans out there, or just to Josh Keaton fans as well?
Thank you so much for hanging around and checking out my silliness.
I wouldnt be here if it wasnt for all the fans that still like what I do.
Ill always be around doing silly stuff, thats what I love doing.
