Zehra Fazal (Rizavi) Interview & WonderCon Recap

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Zehra Fazal, who played Nadia Rizavi in Voltron Legendary Defender, is interviewed at WonderCon 2019 by Marc, and Marc gives Greg the recap of everything that happened at WonderCon 2019.

Zehra talks about how she won the role for Nadia Rizavi after auditioning for other roles in Voltron Legendary Defender, and how wonderful it was to work with legendary voice director, Andrea Romano. Zehra also talks about her role as Halo on Young Justice: Outsiders, her roles in video games like Apex Legends (Narrator) and League of Legends (Kayle), her musical background, and what she has learned about herself from all her work.

Of course, Voltron Legendary Defender, the entire series is available to stream on Netflix. Young Justice: Outsiders is only available on the DC Subscriber Service, and the last 13 episodes of Season 3 will start streaming on July 2, 2019.

If you don't already follow Zehra Fazal on social media, she can be followed on:

FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/zehrafazalofficial/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ZehraFazal

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zehrafazal/

Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/zehrafazal

Website: https://www.zehrafazal.com

Here is the link to our YouTube video of the entire unedited interview in all its visual glory:

https://youtu.be/24EZjWtdPrE

Here's a breakdown of some of the cool work Zehra has done as an actor:

Animation/Voiceover

Nadia Rizavi in Voltron Legendary Defender

Halo/Violet Harper, Harper Row and Cassandra Savage in Young Justice: Outsiders

Faraday in Craig of the Creek

Pocahontas/Boudica in Adam Ruins Everything

Jupiter/Resolute spaceship on Lost in Space (Netflix)

Video Games

Apex Legends (Announcer)

League of Legends (Kayle)

Titanfall 2

Final Fantasy XV

Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End

Marc gives Greg the lowdown on everything that he experienced at WonderCon 2019, including some interviews Marc did for ToonBarn with Voltron Legendary Defender voice actors who were promoting other projects, like:

Kimberly Brooks (Allura, Bored Unilu, Female Rebel on VLD & Bumblebee on DC SuperHero Girls)

Kari Wahlgren (Luka, Queen Luxia, Swirn, Fentress on VLD & Zatanna on DC SuperHero Girls)

Grey Griffin (Commander Drick, Doctor Haggar on VLD & Wonder Woman on DC SuperHero Girls)

Sumalee Montano (Admiral Sanda on VLD & Emerald Empress on Justice League vs The Fatal Five)

Those interviews will be available on ToonBarn.com within the next several weeks!

Certainly, Marc was happy to see Voltron fans still sharing their love for Voltron with lots of cosplay at WonderCon!

Shiro: @dream.in.silver on Instagram
Keith: @mermaidglitter13 on Instagram
Photo by @boba.fettography on Instagram

Now, see those same cosplayers with Neil Kaplan (Zarkon):

For this next pair of cosplayers, we have no information on who took the photo or who the cosplayers are:

Neil is definitely seeing the same cosplayers, though:

And, it was nice to get a chance to hangout with friends from the podcast, like Shamus, Dani, Shannon, Kevin, and Marc's wife, Kim!

Next on the podcast, we get back to our episode reviews for Season 8 of Voltron Legendary Defender with Knights of Light, Part 1.

As Always, Thanks for Listening! Let's Voltron!