Isaac Hempstead-Wright, best known for his portrayal of Bran Stark on the hit HBO fantasy drama "Game of Thrones," currently stars in the 3D stop motion animated fantasy-comedy film "Boxtrolls," and he said that there is a huge difference between voice acting and traditional acting process.
"It's a very different process," the 15-year-old British actor told Comic Book Resources of voice acting. "Because you're not really out there in the thick of it, and you really feel like you're there when you do live-action because you're in a costume and you're using real props and you're on a location, so you feel like, for all intents and purposes, you are where the character is."
"But when you're in a recording studio it's different, because you're just in a recording studio and pretty far removed from the world of Cheesebridge, so you have to think a bit more and put yourself in that zone," he explained, referring to the setting of film, which is based on the novel "Here Be Monsters!" by Alan Snow.
Hempstead-Wright lent his pipes to the lead character of the film named Eggs, a human boy raised by trash-collecting trolls, and who attempts to save them from Archibald Snatcher (Ben Kingsley), a pest exterminator.
In an interview with Metro, Hempstead-Wright said that voice acting was a bit easier.
"You don't have to get up at the crack of dawn to go and put a tight costume on, and then go through hair and makeup and get a load of dirt on you and then put a wig on, and then go and wait for five hours, and then go on set in the mud and get freezing cold, then wait another hour again whilst they move the shots," he told Metro.
"It was really nice, you could just get up at 10:00 in the morning, go down to the studio, nice food there, you don't have to get into any costume, you sit and you can do it over and over again," he added.
But he acknowledged that voice acting has its challenges, too.
"You can't use your face or your body, so it definitely required a bit more of a sort of a 'Dramatic!' kind of voice, where you can be more subtle in TV work," the young actor explained.
"Boxtrolls," which opened on Sept. 26, has already grossed $17.2 million in the US and $17.7 million in international markets, according to Box Office Mojo. The film, which has a $60 million budget, also stars Elle Fanning, Toni Collette, Jared Harris, Nick Frost, Richard Ayoade, Tracy Morgan, Simon Pegg and many more.