CraveOnline: Does “Archer Vice” feel like doing a completely new show?
Amber Nash: Not really, because all the relationships are the same. Everybody is the same kind of *sshole they were before.
Lucky Yates: The core of the show is really just the relationships.
Amber Nash: It is a lot more exciting to get a script though because you’re like, “What’s going to happen?”
Lucky Yates: We have no clue and we don’t know where anything is going. We really don’t. All I can figure is that at some point they must run out of cocaine and then what.
It is literally a ton of cocaine.
Amber Nash: But Pam is packing it away.
Lucky Yates: Yeah, Pam’s shoveling it down her gullet and we’re also trying to sell a bunch of it. I know it is dwindling so once it runs out, I can’t wait to see then what.
Pam hit on her interrogator. Is there anyone else she’s after later this season?
Amber Nash: Not really. Pam’s love life has kind of dried up a little bit. I think it’s because of her addiction.
Lucky Yates: She’s in love with coke now and nothing else. Much of the season is us trying to keep Pam away from the supply and it never works. She finds out wherever it is. It’s so great.
When did voice work become prolific and lucrative for you?
Amber Nash: Mine was with “Archer.” I did “Frisky Dingo” with Matt and Adam on Cartoon Network, Adult Swim. That was like under the table they’d slide me a check after I did recordings in a closet. Once we got “Archer” and it aired, it was like, “Oh sh**, this show’s going to be awesome.” Then it’s just become more and more of a thing.
Lucky Yates: For me, back in the late ‘90s, I was a part of a radio show in Atlanta called The Regular Guys and got some stuff out of that. So I’ve been doing radio commercials since then, but as far as it being a career thing, it hasn’t been until “Archer.” I played one of the Xtacles in “Frisky Dingo” but it was few and far between when I got to record that show. “Archer’s”really the thing that exploded.
What else is coming up for Pam and Krieger?
Amber Nash: Well, Pam’s got to get off the coke at some point I’m assuming. She definitely slims down when she’s not eating anything but cocaine. So she’s got to get fat again too.
Lucky Yates: Yeah, she will.
Amber Nash: Yeah, she will. You’ll see.
Lucky Yates: Krieger toward the end of this season runs into a group of other Kriegers, because you know he’s a clone. Krieger’s a clone, so he happens upon a group of people who look and sound exactly like him and he’s a little freaked out by it.
How much extra recording did you do for that episode?
Lucky Yates: Not that much yet. It just sort of happened and we recorded nine or 10. I can’t wait. Apparently the next script was just turned in so I can’t wait to read what happens. I don’t know if I’m going to record more voices or not.
When did you get to see skinny Pam?
Amber Nash: I still haven’t really seen it. I went into the office and Matt was like, “Oh, here’s part of it.” So I’ve kind of seen a little bit of it but I haven’t really seen her in all of her glory yet.
Did you change her voice at all for when she’s thin?
Amber Nash: No, no, she’s still the same. Same old Pam. She’s still got huge boobs too.
Thank God.
Amber Nash: I know, right? We can’t get rid of those boobs.
Lucky Yates: You get really skinny, but you keep your boobs which is really not how girls lose weight. It’s usually boobs first.
I’ve had female friends go through that, and I say, “So what is the point of losing weight?”
Amber Nash: That’s such a man way to look at it. [Laughs]
No, but I’m supporting a healthy body image saying don’t try to get so skinny.
Amber Nash: If they’re not going to keep those tittays.
Do you work on movies on the side also?
Amber Nash: No, we actually haven’t really gotten into doing that much. I know for me I do “Archer” and then I do theater in Atlanta.
Lucky Yates: Yeah, we live in Atlanta so they do shoot a lot of films there, but the parts that they generally cast out of Atlanta are just tiny little bit roles. We work in an improv comedy theater so a lot of our buddies end up in Anchorman 2, but neither of us have really landed anything like that either.
Which improv group?
Lucky Yates: Dad’s Garage Theatre.
Do you have any favorite Kreiger or Pam lines from past episodes?
Amber Nash: Oh boy. One of my favorites is when she’s walking by Cheryl’s desk. I think it’s in season two or maybe three, and she just goes, “What’s up, bird bones?” It’s one of the least offensive lines too. Pam’s got so many horribly offensive ones. I also like “Chupacabra for d*cks.”
Lucky Yates: You have an amazing array like “c**k holster” and all that kind of stuff. Krieger, I loved “smoke bomb.” I love that he’ll yell “smoke bomb” and run away from things. That has become amazing. His beautiful use of “me too” when something weird is happening, you’ll just hear Krieger from the background scream, “me too.” But my real dream come true because once again I’m a nerd is getting to do the final rant from the original Planet of the Apes with “You blew it up!” It’s when they smashed his original hologram bride, Lana smashes it with a baseball bat so he does that whole rant. Planet of the Apes is one of my top three favorite films of all time.
Judy Greer is in one now.
Lucky Yates: I know, playing the head female ape.
Amber Nash: Cornelia.
Lucky Yates: Love it, I love it.
What did you think of Tom Felton getting the Charlton Heston line in Rise of the Planet of the Apes?
Lucky Yates: I am always glad that that line just shows up, man. I think it’s great. In the Tim Burton one it was Charlton Heston as an old ape and they flipped it. It was “Get your hands off me you damn, dirty human.” I love swinging that thing in there because it’s such a beautiful, iconic line that I’m glad it’s still in use.
Do you have any nerd obsessions, Amber?
Amber Nash: No. No, I’m not a nerd. The only thing I nerd out about is psychology magazines.
