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Skylar Astin is an American actor and singer. He's the voice actor of Branch in Trolls: The Beat Goes On! and Trolls: TrollsTopia.

Biography
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Skylar Astin Lipstein was born on September 23, 1987 in New York City, though he was mostly raised in the New City hamlet of the New York state. He claimed in an interview to have owned a few Troll Dolls as a child.[1]

Before taking voice roles in the Trolls franchise, he was best known for starring alongside Anna Kendrick in the films Pitch Perfect and Pitch Perfect 2.

Roles
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He had auditioned for the role of Branch on Trolls: The Beat Goes On! before Trolls had ever been released and had a few clips of Justin Timberlake for reference. He was told that the clips are not important as he wasn't trying to match the role. Apparently, Astin tried to match the performance of Justin Timberlake with his role as Branch, until he was told by Matthew Beans that he doesn't necessarily have to do so. He was told to act as "Skylar would do" and the performance was based on performance and comedy. He later developed his own performance of Branch and admitted he does not know how Timberlake's Branch acts, though often worries about his performance whenever he hears clips of Branch from the movies with no idea if he sounds like Timberlake's Branch, knowing only his Branch and how his being written to. He noted they developed their own version of the character.[2]

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