James McAvoy stars as Gnomeo and I have come to adore him after Atonement. It seems like he has a good personality to pair with his acting chops and delivers some chuckle worthy insights to the National Post:
"Noises like: “Ooof! Argh! Oooo! Ah!” All done to the accompaniment of panting sounds.
He’s demonstrating a typical morning in the recording studio, supplying the voice of a garden gnome named Gnomeo for Shrek 2 director Kelly Asbury for the new animated feature Gnomeo & Juliet. The film transports Shakespeare’s great tragedy into a world of feuding lawn ornaments and stages it against a background of Elton John tunes.
He spent exhausting hours one day making these sounds. “In animated movies, I get paid to hyperventilate and lose my voice,” he quips. “By the end of that, I can hardly speak and have psychedelic feelings!”OMG! Who says they have psychedelic feelings these days? I am totally stealing his quote.
James goes on to explain what the takeaway message is for kids:
“The story of Romeo and Juliet has a lot of nice morals. It’s got, ‘Don’t pay attention to preconception and prejudice,’ and, ‘Forgiveness is really important.’ All that’s really good stuff to tell kids.”
The trouble with Shakespeare’s original play, McAvoy suggests mischievously, is that you can’t deliver that message to youngsters without including everything else. “Everybody dies or commits suicide or takes a drug or kills someone or has sex with someone they shouldn’t be having sex with.
“So you use garden gnomes, and you can give them all these good little morals without the suicides, sex, death and drugs!”HA! to the last quote.
Gnomeo and Juliet MV-Elton John:
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Read more at: http://arts.nationalpost.com/2011/02/06/james-mcavoy-on-his-turn-as-a-star-crossed-garden-gnome/#ixzz1DEMC5Zio
Source: National Post
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