<Li> James Woods as Hades . Producer Alice Dewey mentioned that Hades `` was supposed to talk in a slow and be menacing in a quiet , spooky way '' , but thought that James Woods ' manner of speaking `` a mile a minute '' would be a `` great take '' for a villain . Woods did a lot of ad - libbing in his recordings , especially in Hades ' dialogues with Megara . Nik Ranieri , the supervising animator for Hades , mentioned that the character was `` based on a Hollywood agent , a car salesman type '' , and that a lot came from James Woods ' ad - libbed dialogue . He went on to say that the hardest part in animating Hades was that he talks too much and too fast , so much so that `` it took ( him ) two weeks to animate a one - second scene '' . Ranieri watched James Woods ' other films and used what he saw as the basis for Hades ' sneer . </Li>
<Li> James Woods as Hades . Producer Alice Dewey mentioned that Hades `` was supposed to talk in a slow and be menacing in a quiet , spooky way '' , but thought that James Woods ' manner of speaking `` a mile a minute '' would be a `` great take '' for a villain . Woods did a lot of ad - libbing in his recordings , especially in Hades ' dialogues with Megara . Nik Ranieri , the supervising animator for Hades , mentioned that the character was `` based on a Hollywood agent , a car salesman type '' , and that a lot came from James Woods ' ad - libbed dialogue . He went on to say that the hardest part in animating Hades was that he talks too much and too fast , so much so that `` it took ( him ) two weeks to animate a one - second scene '' . Ranieri watched James Woods ' other films and used what he saw as the basis for Hades ' sneer . </Li>
who was the voice of hades in hercules
who was the voice of hades in hercules
James Woods
James Woods