In this companion episode of DC High Volume: Batman, host Coy Jandreau is joined by Jay Paulson, the voice of Jim Gordon, to discuss playing the hero cop of Gotham City, bringing the iconic character to life, and more. Next, Coy sits down with composer Sam Ewing to discuss crafting the music for the audio series, finding the themes for characters like Catwoman and The Joker, and his Eureka moments. © & ™ DC. Listen to DC HIGH VOLUME: BATMAN: https://lnk.to/DCHighVolume Learn more at: https://www.dc.com/highvolume Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Hi, I'm Koi Jandro and welcome to DC High Volume Batman. In this monthly companion series, we sit down with the cast and crew and beyond for DC high-volume Batman.
Where we last left off in the story, we had the paralleling moments between Harvey Dent and our, at this point, Captain Gordon, as well as the moment where Poison Ivy completely and absolutely corrupts Bruce Wayne because no man can resist Poison Ivy.
Now, today on this show, I am honored to welcome Captain Gordon himself, Jay Paulson, as well as the composer for DC High Volume Batman, the one and only Sam Ewing. But first, I want to bring out a man who has taught me more about Jim Gordon than I ever knew. I didn't know. I'm learning all new things about characters I've loved my whole life. I want to bring out the one and only Jay Paulson.
We're sitting down with Jay Paulson. You know him from Mad Men, from Rust Creek, from Catch-22. He is our Jim, not yet Commissioner Gordon. How are you, man?
I'm doing great, Coy.
I'm so excited to talk about this character. I was telling you before, this is one of the roles that immediately leapt out to me. It is so iconic. It is so big and robust, but it's also a character that is our eyeline. He's the human element in this increasingly larger-than-life series of characters. I have to know for you, what was your personal entry point into this world and into this character?
Well, my personal entry point was reading the books as a youth. Amazing. And I was a huge fan of them and I loved them. Dark Knight was my Batman growing up in the book, you know, the graphic novels and the comics and stuff. That was my technical entry.
Now, as far as this project, it came about pretty much the way a lot of these sort of do standard, my people or what have you sort of send over the appointment. And I recorded it, you know, sent in a tape, and the positive response, we went and met on a Zoom and did more of that, and yeah.
It's really special because it is a character that people know from the comics and know from all the media that's adapted it, but I feel like year one is kind of
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