FAMILY GUY INTERVIEW
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lex Borstein talks about being Lois from Family Guy and what comes next. You might not know the name Alex Borstein, but you’ll
certainly know her voice.
Alex plays Peter Griffi n’s long-suff ering wife Lois in Family Guy, as well as turning her hand to most of the show’s other main female characters, such as Tricia Takanawa, Loretta Brown and Barbara Pewterschmidt.
The Student Room caught up with Alex ahead of the release of Family Guy: The Best Of
When you recorded the Family Guy pilot show, did you have any idea how popular it would be?
I had no idea what it was going to become. I thought it was just another little pilot and I would do a little bit of voice work. Lo and behold, it became the monster that it is.
But it almost ended before it had properly begun, when the show was cancelled after its third series. What did you make of the fans’ reaction to the cancellation? Well, when the show was fi rst cancelled, there was less of a reaction. What happened was when the show became available on DVD, all of a sudden people started buying them up like water in an emergency. The sales of the DVDs went through the roof and that’s what turned us around.
I feel the show came out six months before its time; people weren’t consuming shows the way they would just yet. Six months later people started swallowing the DVDs and rewatching them and pausing because something’s happened.
Some of them are so dense it’s almost like it’s meant for DVD - you want the ability to stop and start and go back. The sale of those DVDs became our salvation - no-one could deny it: “Wait a minute we were wrong, people want this.”
How would you describe your main character, Lois Griffin? Lois Griffi n is the perfect woman - and I don’t say that lightly. She’s the voice of reason when she has to be, but she’s also got this incredible dark underbelly. She is a mother who likes having sex, who is still a really sexual creature, is playful, who can get
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