Remember Face? Checking In With the Voice Behind Nick Jr.’s Mascot

E!: Heading into the audition for Face, what did you know about the role?

CP: Not very much. They showed me a test of Face and they had a British voice on there. He was very quiet and it was frightening, which was appealing to me. It was like, oh, that’s creepy and weird. But I wasn’t going to go that route…

E!: So, what route did you take?

CP: The voice I originally auditioned with was not the Face voice. It was a little goofier. After that audition, Nickelodeon brought me back and I would do a voice and people on one side of the table would like it, the other side would go, “Nah, what else you got?” I’d do something else. They’d go, “Oh, that’s good.” The other side would go, “Eh, what else?” They started to wrap up and I’m watching the gig go away. And I literally went, “Well, what about this voice?” Everybody went, “Hey!” And that was it. I couldn’t believe it. It was the skin of the teeth.