Meet the voice of Porky Pig, Daffy Duck — and more

Eric Bauza voiced these characters for animated series Looney Tunes Cartoons and Bugs Bunny Builders as well as The Day The Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie

- Carlos Aguilar

LOS ANGELES - "We all want to be like Bugs, but we're all really Daffy," voice actor Eric Bauza said with a hearty laugh during a recent interview in Los Angeles.

For the past five years, the 45-year-old Canadian of Filipino descent has played both the clever rabbit and the hyperactive duck. He has won two Children's & Family Emmy Awards for voicing this pair, as well as other characters, in the animated series Looney Tunes Cartoons (2020 to 2024) and Bugs Bunny Builders (2022 to present).

Over the years, the performer has also summoned Sylvester, Tweety, Foghorn Leghorn and Elmer Fudd.

In American director Peter Browngardt's The Day The Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie, Bauza voices both Daffy Duck and Porky Pig. The first fully animated original feature starring these characters to get a theatrical release is a zany, hand-drawn sci-fi romp in which buddies Daffy and Porky must defeat a malicious alien invader.

Bauza recalled first watching Looney Tunes on Saturday mornings growing up in Scarborough, Ontario. The wacky violence and daring humor of those cartoons enticed a young Bauza.

"They really shaped my sense of humor as well as my love for drawing," he said about the Looney Tunes franchise (1930 to present) while quickly sketching the face of Bugs Bunny, his favorite from the gang, on a notepad.