Pamela Adlon says she wants to voice Bobby Hill until the day she dies. The actress, who spent more than a decade portraying the loveable 13-year-old on King of the Hill, says that, despite portraying Bobby for 15 seasons across the original run and Hulu revival, she has no desire to leave the character behind.
“Casey Kasem did Shaggy until the day he died,” Adlon says. “That’s all I have to say.”
Ahead of King of the Hill’s season premiere, I spoke with Adlon, who won an Emmy for her work on the show in 2002 and is nominated again for the role this year, about the creation of Bobby’s grown-up voice, her all-time favorite King of the Hill storylines, and whether she knew from the jump that the revival would be successful.
Pamela Adlon Says She Knew the Exact Moment That the King of the Hill Revival Would Work
“This could have been an exquisite corpse that didn’t work,” Adlon says. “It would have been really, really gross if we were just trying to make some cash or whatever. But it was born from being at Sketch Fest in San Francisco and doing a reunion and table read in this massive theater [where] people went crazy. And that’s when [Co-creators and Executive Producers] Mike [Judge] and Greg [Daniels] were like, ‘I think we could do this.’ But they were never going to do it unless it hit the right note.”
Adlon says that when the show was rebooted at Hulu last year her central challenge in revisiting Bobby was figuring out exactly what his now-21-year-old-voice would sound like.
“I feel like nobody really knew what was going to happen,” Adlon says. “I was like, ‘Are they going to pitch him down in the studio or something like that?’ And then I realized, ‘Oh, this isn’t good for me unless I make a choice.’ So I had to make a choice that felt comfortable [and] sustainable, that would satisfy the vanguard fans of the show but also feel authentic to who he is now. So it’s a subtle difference.
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