Watch an early screen test of Roger Rabbit with Paul Reubens voicing Roger

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I agree. I do like Paul Reubens voice better. I think comedic voice-overs work better if the actor isn’t trying to hard to be amusing.

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That’s the thing though, Fleischer’s Roger Rabbit is always trying hard to be amusing, it’s his raison d’être.

One interesting thing I noticed, the actor playing Eddie Valiant in the scene with proto-Jessica Rabbit looks a lot more like author Gary Wolf as Valiant from the cover of his book, than Bob Hoskins eventually would:
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A more childlike Roger would work fine for a stand-alone character but it would also make the Roger/Jessica relationship pretty creepy.

Granted, Baby Herman’s love life was creepy too but he was supposed to be a creep.

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I can’t help but notice that the only person not credited in the “Starring” card at the end is the woman who played Jessica.

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