They also are videotaped so facial expressions and gestures can be incorporated into the presentation of their characters, which are animated afterward to fit the voices. “It does at times feel like you’re either a goal judge in hockey or in the witness protection program,” Myers said of the process, in which actors all record their dialogue separately. The film opens nationally on Friday with some critics calling it a tiresome rerun of the first two “Shrek” outings and box-office analysts raising doubts that the third movie will live up to its immediate predecessor, which grossed nearly $1 billion worldwide.īut Myers calls the new “Shrek” the best movie of the three even though the hours he and co-stars spent sequestered alone in a studio, performing multiple takes of their voice tracks, often grew tedious. The comic actor revealed the coping mechanism in a rare meeting with reporters to promote “Shrek the Third,” the latest in a trilogy of computer-animated storybook satires featuring Myers as the voice of the ogreish green lead character. So the comic actor makes up imaginary friends in the sound booth to keep him company. Myers says making one of the world's most popular animated films can be a lonely business.
Cast member Mike Myers, who gives the voice to "Shrek", poses at the premiere of "Shrek the Third" at the Mann's Village theater in Los Angeles May 6, 2007.
0 kommentar(er)
