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Stevens said die never realized how
big the series was until she met a student
who wrote his dissertation based
around die show.
“The show was absolutely not a
metaphor for anything,” she said. “It
was just us kids riding around in a mys
tery van and doing our thing.
“At the time I never even paid atten
tion,” she added. “It was just another
job, one that I was thrilled to get because
it was so steady. The voice I have is the
voice I used.”
In fact, the major reason Stevens
landed the job was because her natural
voice bore such a resemblance to the
previous actress’s intentional inflection.
She immediately blended into the
ongoing series, at a time when it was
entering a rocky period in production.
In the latter half of the show’s run,
when Stevens was part of the cast, the
cartoon went through some changes
The creators added Scrappy-Doo,
the annoying miniature counterpart of
Scooby, and eventually got rid ofVelma,
Daphne and Fred altogether.
“For a while, they even tried
Scooby-Dumb. He was an uncle or
something,” she said. “I think they felt it
was getting tired, so they decided to kill
everyone off. I was out of work, so I
wasn’t happy.”
Stevens said many people ask her
what it was like to be the voice of the
“nerdier” of the two female characters
on the show, her competitor being the
sexy, redheaded ditz, Daphne.
I always tried to beat mem to it by
saying I was the smart one,” she said.
“I always valued brains.”
Stevens said that, appropriately
enough, the actress who voiced
Daphne, Heather North, was “blond
and very pretty” in real life.
Stevens said she came to Nebraska
when her husband got a job offer in
Lincoln. She added she was ready to
move somewhere that she could raise
her children, and also to a place where
“we didn’t have to have a Mercedes.”
After her stint on “Scooby-Doo,”
Stevens said she did some work on
commercials and other TV programs.
“As I got older, there was less work
and so I got into teaching. I’ve really
enjoyed it,” she said.
Stevens said, as far as she knows,
the rumors about a “Scooby Doo” fea
ture film are true, but she said all she
knew was that comedian Mike Myers is
involved with the project. In fact, the
mastermind behind “Austin Powers:
International Man of Mystery” is writ
ing a script for the film, which is
rumored to be live action instead of ani
mation.
“I’m way past being in it,” she said.
“But I think it would be a fun thing.”
Stevens said she usually doesn’t tell
her students about her interesting past,
but they often find out one way or
another.
“It was 20 years ago, but it still trails
around,” she said. “When they do hear
about it, they usually say ‘But you don’t
understand how important it is to us! ’
“It’s great to be a part of that”
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