Anyone who’s curious, the movie antagonist is a Spinel. She seems to be voiced by Sarah Stiles, who if you look her up certainly does have a voice to match that cackle. This information all came out of a series of random, disconnected blunders on Cartoon Network’s part today, all within the span of a couple of hours.
First they uploaded to social media a cropped, low-res, subtitled clip from that behind-the-scenes documentary that’s meant to accompany the movie’s DVD release. All was fine. Then later they tossed the full 16x9, high-res video on YouTube.
Posted against the back wall in one shot featuring Katie Mitroff (“Alone Together,” “We Need to Talk,” “The Test”) and someone I don’t immediately recognize are all sorts of character sheets for the main cast, including Cotton Candy Garnet (curiously, as she’s mixed in with all the updated character designs) and a Steven/Connie sheet I wish we could see more of.
And way to the left, visible only on YouTube, is the following:
In a later shot, the YouTube video is just barely high enough of a resolution that you can read a few lines of Estelle’s recording script, where that character name is repeated.
This in mind, someone on a whim started throwing crap at the official site, and found this:
So. Okay. While all that was happening, Cartoon Network’s ad team decided in its wisdom to upload a cast list for the movie to the description in its YouTube ads that it’s been running. That cast list includes Aimee Mann, basically confirming that yes, Opal has a speaking role in the movie (surprising few); a previously undisclosed actor-and-singer who has worked with Aimee Mann, named Ted Leo; and Sarah Stiles. It’s not even a full cast list, as there are some known actors (e.g., Grace Rolek) not listed. But you look up Stiles on YouTube, and it’s… clear enough who she’s voicing. There’s some speculation about Leo’s role, but I don’t want to go there right now. People project stuff. Not enough to really go on, that I can see.
So. That was a weird afternoon.
As soon as word began to circulate, CN yanked the video down from most platforms, including the ones where you can’t really see anything. The rest of the stuff, though, I guess there wasn’t much to do.
