Braving The Elements: An In-Depth Interview with Dante Bosco & Janet Varney

Black Nerd Problems members Aisha and Frantz caught up with Janet Varney and Dante Bosco at New York Comic Con for a spirited interview about their podcast and the great(er) Avatar: The Last Airbender Universe. BNP: What’s it been like, being connected to these characters for so many years? Janet Varney: I mean, we love it. I mean, Dante says it best. So, I’ll just steal his words and go ahead and just pretend like I came up with it. We have never taken for granted how lucky we are to be a part of something with this kind of longevity that feels timeless, that inspires people. A lot of people that we know who are massively, massively talented, have not had this kind of experience. And so it starts to feel like just luck, you know, like we’re just really, really lucky. And so I want to say that kind of comes through whenever we talk about stuff. And what we’re doing, the podcast [Braving The Elements], like there’s no sense of taking anything for granted, and we still have wonder and awe about what Mike [DiMartino] and Bryan [Konietzko] have created and continue to create? Dante Basco: We’ve both known the industry a long time, so it’s great. Everyone that comes to Hollywood that wants to do something, wants to do some kind of project that people really care about. Like, the characters that capture people’s imaginations and capture their heart and they become real fans of. We’ve been very fortunate to kind of be in the Avatar-verse. So yeah, we feel, we feel very lucky and dou…