Interview with Bruce Johansen
On June 1, 2025, Rémi Caremel of the Dans l’ombre des studios blog and I had the great pleasure of sitting down with former Paris dubber Bruce Johansen for chat on Zoom. Rémi and I had a blast talking to Bruce, who regaled us with all sorts of funny and fascinating stories from his dubbing days in Paris and Rome, and here for your reading pleasure is a transcript of our conversation – lightly edited for clarity and context. Enjoy! Rémi Caremel: How did you end up living in Paris and working with dubbing? Bruce Johansen: I grew up in the San Francisco Bay area and I was an announcer on radio when I was in college. And when I graduated, a friend of mine said: “I’m gonna go to Paris. I want to learn French. You want to go for a year?” I thought about it for about three seconds, then I said: “That sounds like a good idea.” I didn’t speak any French at all , but I went to Paris and I didn’t know how to survive. I started doing radio voice overs at the ol...