Today's Guest: Paula Garces, actress, Red Princess Blues, Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, Alex Ferrari, director, Red Princess Blues Red Princess Blues by Alex Ferrari Paula Garces’ lovely features may be familiar to you if you saw such movies as Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, Clockstoppers, or Man of the House with Tommy Lee Jones. She also flirted with Meadow’s boyfriend on “The Sopranos” and has guest-starred on “CSI:Miami.” She was also promoted to series regular for the upcoming fifth and final season of “The Shield.” In April, she’ll be in a Harold and Kumar sequel, Escape from Guantanamo Bay. I’m laughing just thinking about that. Today I’ve invited Paula on the show to talk about her current project in which she voices the lead character in Red Princess Blues: Animated. We’ll also be joined momentarily by the film’s producer, Alex Ferrari of Numb Robot Studios. Paula Garces Website • Facebook • Twitter • Instagram • Google+ • YouTube • IMDB Paula Garces, actress, Red Princess Blues Alex Ferrari Red Princess Blues Website • Facebook • MySpace • Twitter • YouTube  • Numb Robot BOB ANDELMAN/Mr. MEDIA: Paula, what is a beautiful young woman like yourself doing out of sight in an animated film? I can already hear a thousand fan boys crying. PAULA GARCES: I appreciate that “lovely” comment. I was just really drawn in and really attracted to the character of “Red Princess,” and I just wanted an opportunity to sort of work on the voice-over side of production. ANDELMAN: Have you done any of that before? GARCES: I’ve never done any voiceover and always talked to other friends, actors and actresses, that have done it before, and they’ve always had great experiences and have always told me about it and how relieving it is not to think about the way you look or any of those things that you have to think about when you’re doing a live-action piece. When you’re doing voiceovers, it’s all just creativity, and it all has to do with your voice, so it’s great. It’s a relief, actually. It’s really nice. ANDELMAN: I think I read recently where Mike Myers was talking about doing all these Shrek movies, and someone said to him, “Do you really show up in pajamas without a shave and having not showered?” GARCES: I could totally see him doing that although I didn’t show up in my pajamas for Red Princess. I didn’t think about it. That would’ve been more comfortable. ANDELMAN: How did you get involved with my friend Alex? GARCES: Alex and I met at a workshop called NALIP. It’s a workshop that’s held in Tucson, Arizona, for writers, directors, and producers who sort of want to work out their coming projects and have an opportunity to work with working actors and sort of actually film one or two scenes of their script. And we worked together about a year and a half ago. He invited me to be his lead actress in one of his other projects, and we loved working together. I guess he got enough nerve to show me Red Princess Blues, the short story. I read it, I loved it, got back to him, and then he presented me with some lovely artwork done by Dan that was just really inspiring and creative artwork that had to do with the live-action film that we’re planning to do. And I just loved it. Then I guess they got together and wanted to do an animated prequel to the live-action film, and I just thought “How creative! And what a great tool to sort of try and market and get this film up and going.” The animated short film just came out so beautiful that I’m really inspired and have a lot to work with as a producer as well. ANDELMAN: I want to tell folks who are listening. You can check out the prequel. It’s just a short bit of animation at redprincessblues.com. Were you much of an anime fan or even an animation fan before you got into this? GARCES: I love animation. I love cartoons and animated films. I’ve always liked them, films like Shrek and Finding N