AEG Challenge the Expected

I was pleased to be asked to add my voice to this new campaign for AEG and it was interesting how it came about. My company CKUK Media was originally helping cast the spots and AEG’s brief was that they wanted the voice to be German-accented English. We know some great German voice actors and submitted two rounds of auditions to the client but nothing quite seemed to be working, so as a wild card in the second batch I threw in one of my own with a German accent. That’s the one the client chose without realising it was me, then when they did realise decided to get me to do it without any accent after all. Which just goes to show… I’m not sure what, except that it’s often worth persevering even in the face of unlikely odds!