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Teen Titans (The Prophecy)

Having wandered over to the dark side in her last comic book inspired voice over (Spider-Man), Virginia Madsen returned to the DC Universe to voice the character of Arella in the Teen Titans fourth season episode “The Prophecy”. The episode was aired in 2005 and is the 7th episode.

The episode is pretty deep onto a multi episode event so it’s pretty hard to try and give a brief summary without getting myself lost in details you won’t care about.

Virginia Madsens Arella is the mother of the one of the regular line ups of the cartoons Teen Titans, Raven.
Raven is suffering a crisis of conscience in the episode and seeks out her Mother for guidance.

Although I am a fan of the DC Universe, The Titans cartoon show isn’t something I’m overly familiar with, it’s a bit too much for the kids for me – I’ve seen the odd episode here and there and I believe it’s very good, but the art style and the tone puts me off just sitting down and watching it. Which , is a bit odd considering I’m a huge fan of the other animated series. Perhaps it’s all the bright colours or something, I don’t know.

Virginia’s role is short and sweet in this one, Arella has very little actual screen time and it’s the only episode to feature the character at all. As such, it kind of makes it hard to give any real commentary on it other than she brings her best to the role. Once again you probably wouldn’t know it has her just from watching, she brings the right amount of gravitas to it the situation and all in all fits right in.
Availability:

Not bad, you can find copies easy enough on DVD. I believe it’s a region free DVD, but you might want to check you can play it before you order.

Trailer:

Not for this one.

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Candyman (2021)

But wait! I hear you scream. “Virginia Madsen wasn’t in the new Candyman film!” you continue.

Yes, yes I know she wasn’t, but at the same time she technically is and all the other Virginia Madsen filmography pages include it so I am as well.

The 2021 version of Candyman is a sequel, reboot and or continuation of the original 1992 film. Once again the legend of the Candyman is investigated, this time by a young artist by the name of Anthony McCoy (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II). He eventually comes up with an art piece for his exhibition entitled “Say My Name”, a reference to the Candyman legend.

This causes two art critics at the exhibit to start messing around and being clever and they inadvertently summon the Candyman back into existence, but this isn’t Daniel Robitaille, this is Sherman Fields (Michael Hargrove), another young man accused of a crime and unduly punished for it.

As the killing and mystery surrounding them grow deeper, so does Anthony’s curiosity of Candyman, he begins to dig deeper and eventually ends up looking into the events of the original Candyman movie, specifically Helen Lyle.

And this is where Virginia Madsen does appear, well, her voice at least – Anthony takes a file from the local library which has all the details of Helen Lyle and her investigation years before. Part of that file includes her original audio tapes, and there it is. Virginia Madsen’s voice in the new Candyman film.

Tadah!

It’s a stretch, I know – But like I said, everyone else is doing it – So…

I obviously would not or could not recommend this film based on Virginia Madsen’s role, and her acting here is literally something we’ve seen her do before. So, yeah. It is what it is here.

If you do want to check it out for this alone then the scene takes place at about 39 minutes into the movie in the movie.
The film itself? – Well – Yeah, if you liked the original film then you should get along with this one just fine. It hammers it’s point home with the least subtle brick you can imagine, but it’s worth a watch all the same. It’s a good continuation of the Candyman mythos and I hope they’ll make more going forward.

Availability:

Good, it’s relatively new and can be picked up on DVD and Blu-Ray quite easily.

Trailer:

Spider-Man: The Animated Series

After lending her sultry, uh, sounds to the DC Animated Universe in the Justice League, in 2003 Virginia dipped over to the other side to spend some time with the Marvel gang over in Spiderman: The New Animated Series.

This time she takes on the role of Silver Sable in three episodes in the first season, “Spider-man Dis-Abled” and “Mind Games (Part 1 & 2)”.
I’m not the biggest Marvel fan, when it comes to comics at least – I’m a DC guy through and through and so I’ve never really gotten deep into the lore of any of the characters unless they’re named Wolverine.

Silver Sable was first introduced in 1985, she’s a mercenary character who sometimes works with Spider-Man, and sometimes against. In these cartoons, she’s against.

In “Spider-Man Dis-Abled”, Spider-Man accidentally videos Silver Sable doing her Mercenary thing, not wanting the tape to incriminate in her anyway she goes on the hunt for Spider-Man to retrieve the tape causing all the usual comic book type carnage as she does.Got to say, I was impressed with Virginia in this series, primarily because if I hadn’t known she was doing the voice work I probably wouldn’t have been able to guess from just casual watching. She adds a gruffness to her voice I’ve not heard before, it’s not that she’s unrecognisable once you know it’s her but I probably wouldn’t have put two and two together on it without a clue. She does as well as you’d expect, it’s not that easy to get into any detail about it given her limited screen time.

Availability:
Good, easily available on DVD for cheap. And, the Tube of Yous…

Trailer:
Not for the episode.

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