If there's anyone we can thank for Warner's immaculate voice casts, it's Andrea Romano. Hired as a casting director for the company at the beginning of the 90s, Romano has gone onto cast some of DC's most iconic characters with now definitive performances, most notably with Kevin Conroy as Batman and Mark Hamill as The Joker. From then on Romano has since become a staple of WB's animated features, even starring in some of the titles she helped to cast. Though a fan of recurring castings the voice director has never been one to shy away from mixing up the formula, as demonstrated by her variation of style when casting actors in roles already traversed rather famously by others. It's hard to argue against the fact that her influence has been positive, as these casts have proven their worth time and time again. Indeed, it shouldn't really come as a surprise to hear that apart from Assault on Arkham, Gods and Monsters and Batman vs Robin, Romano has been largely absent from DC's latest comic book adaptations. Without being too harsh on the pseudo-52 casting line up, I really don't think people will be rushing to cite the performances given so far as being definitive in any sense of the word.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
