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Across a number of Five Nights at Freddy's games, voice actor Kellen Goff has had a few monstrously memorable moments. The Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach star came to MCM London Comic Con in May of 2023 to discuss how he makes his voice so ragged and inhuman without damaging it, and we here at Popverse couldn't help but realize he was talking about something we heard from a very different voice actor:

Hazbin Hotel's Sir Pentious himself, Alex Brightman.

Joined onstage by costar Marta Svetek (Roxanne, Gregory), and FNAF streamer Dawko, Goff recounted learning about how his throat made the uncanny sounds that have given him such an edge in creature voicing. 

"Who here knows what an ENT is?" asked the actor, "That's an ear, throat, and nose doctor. They put a little camera down your throat and show you your vocal cords as you're talking. It's surreal and creepy and scary. I went to this ENT, I did the creature stuff I usually do for her, and she's like, 'How do you do that?' And I'm like, 'Want to find out?' She's like, 'Yeah.' So, she put the camera down. Apparently, I vibrate my epiglottis off the side of my throat. I guess that's not something that people can do, but that's how I make the sounds. I didn't even know I was doing it. I was just listening to people."

We'll save you googling what an 'epiglottis' is, as costar Svetek was happy to expand on the subject.

"It takes some practice," said Svetek. "The more technical side of it is that you're able to relax certain things in [motions to throat] this apparatus. Actually, making the really creature-type sounds, to go full-on voice nerd here, is a lot more about relaxing your throat and using your core and and pushing from the bottom up. You visualize that as opposed to straining [...] you kind of want to also relax your face. If you have metal singers, you know, screamers, this part of their face is very relaxed when they actually do it. They're not going [screams] because then everything's tight and then you're shredding everything. You're pushing against it."

Because we're all in favor of going "full-on voice nerd" here at Popverse, we're going to direct you to back to our interview with Alex Brightman from ECCC '25, where the Hazbin Hotel and Broadway star got even more technical about what apears to be a very similar technique in tweaking his voice.

"It's a trick that I learned it's called ventricular fold phonation," Brightman explained, "There's ways to learn it, and I took a lot of time off to learn how to manipulate cartilage that's above my vocal chords, so my vocal chords aren't the ones that are grinding together to make that noice. My vocal chords are making this noise, the one that I'm making right now. I'm adding vibration on top of it, so the voice remains this way [Beetlejuice voice] and that I add this on top of it."

So to be very clear here, readers - though it's very cool that both Goff and Brightman have this talent, it's no superpower. As Helluva Boss's Fizzarolli made very clear, all it takes is practice.

"Everyone has what I have," Brightman told us, "There's this big misnomer where it's like, 'You have this extra vocal cord,' I don't know where the hell that came from. It's not true. Which I also find offensive. Because I'm like, 'No, it's not an extra vocal chord, I worked hard.' You know what I mean? Is it a boring answer to say that somebody worked for a year to get this right?"

You can watch the entirety of the Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach panel, featuring Kellen Goff, Marta Svetek, and Dawko, from MCM London May 2023 right here:

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