![]() And beyond that, Tatum is just a big fan of the show. Tatum named getting to work with voice actors like Mercer, Josh Grelle (Armin), Bryce Papenbrook (Eren), Trina Nishimura (Mikasa) and more as one of the many highlights of working on Attack on Titan. “I think my favorite moment for the character of Levi - I adore that character, and I love Matt Mercer’s portrayal of him, it’s just flawless - but that moment when he’s kind of saying what he wants to say to, and they’re on the rooftop, and Hange says, ‘Yeah, he’s gone,’ and he realizes Erwin may or may not have heard anything he just said before dying, and he just goes, ‘Huh.’” “It was such a great, dramatic moment,” Tatum said. The show dangled his fate in front of us for a little longer, and Captain Levi had to choose which character on the brink of death he’d inject with the serum to turn them into the Colossal Titan, thereby saving their life: Armin or Erwin. ![]() And that needs to be kind of captured in the speech as well.”īut while Erwin’s speech may have been the most powerful part of his farewell to Attack on Titan, it wasn’t his last moment onscreen. But at the same time the audience has to know, because of the little scene we see beforehand, that maybe there’s a little more fear, and even a little more cynicism, behind what Erwin is doing and saying than we’ve been led to believe. The troops are not going to go, get on their horses and ride into certain death unless Erwin gets that speech pitch-perfect. “You have to sell it because the troops have to believe it. “It was really challenging because there’s such a delicate balance of tone there,” Tatum said. In order for the moment to work, Tatum had to convince both the troops and the audience, not to mention Erwin. So it made that great, rousing final speech - that swan song - more complicated, more ambiguous because you’re like, ‘How much of this is for him? How much of this is trying to get his own courage up because he doesn’t have it right now but he knows he’s got to do this thing?'” So, for him to give that little … it’s right before the speech, when we kind of see his double-think about his role in all of this, and that he considers himself something of a con-artist having to rouse the troops when he himself may or may not believe what he’s saying. ![]() “He doesn’t really show his emotions very often I mean, it’s his job not to. “Erwin is such a buttoned-up guy,” Tatum explained. Balancing Erwin’s complex mix of emotions was challenging for Tatum, particularly since Erwin isn’t one to put his feelings on display. I got really emotional myself.īefore leading his final charge, Commander Erwin rallies the troops with a speech that will easily give viewers chills, even on the second or third rewatch. I wanted him to have an ending that really just kind of tore your heart out. I knew it was coming, and I really wanted him to have a good ending. “I knew that Erwin was going to have that moment, and I was really happy for him because what a great … If you’re in a show where a lot of people die all the time, it says something about the impact of a character if their death can stand out, and I think his really did.” “I’d known for a good, long while what was coming for him,” Tatum said. Even having read the manga in advance, Tatum felt a great deal of emotion in voicing his character’s final moments - and, of course, in having to say goodbye. It’s probably not a stretch to say that Erwin’s last stand was one of the most emotionally impactful moments of the entire anime, something that seems to have been the case behind the scenes too. Tatum’s character died leading a valiant charge against the Beast Titan. We spoke with Michael Tatum, who played Commander Erwin in the English dub of the series - and also served as adaptive writer for the first two seasons - about the events of season 3 and his time working on the anime. But even the knowledge that Titans were once human beings didn’t hit quite as hard as the fates of Commander Erwin and Bertolt Hoover, two characters who have been around since the very beginning. The most recent season set the show up for a high-stakes ending, killing off some prominent characters and throwing a major reveal our way right before coming to a close.
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