Susan downey5/26/2023 ![]() SIMON: When you say animal actors, you mean animals who are actors?ĭOWNEY: Guys and gals in green suits. We would either have green props - we had animal actors, who are an astonishing bunch and were just fresh off one of the "Star Wars" movies and do - you know, they're very busy. SIMON: What's it like to play with so many co-stars who are CGI? I mean, Emma Thompson's voice, but I'm assuming there's not a trained parrot sitting on your arm.ĭOWNEY: Correct. SIMON: Did it ever occur to you to say, hey, why don't you guys just switch?ĭOWNEY: You know what? Is it too late? Because I really would love to see what Michael would do with this role. I mean, there you had on set Michael Sheen, a great actor who. SIMON: That brought a - that brings up a question I had for Susan Downey. I hear Michael Sheen said his Welsh friends heard it and said that they were not embarrassed at all.ĭOWNEY. What kind of challenge is a Welsh accent? SIMON: Robert Downey Jr., you're - supremely accomplished actor. So she set off on her own - well, actually with Poly, who's voiced by Emma Thompson. And then they would bring them back to this incredible manor that the queen had gifted Dolittle.īut unfortunately, one day, there was this adventure that Lily had always wanted to kind of figure out and solve and go on. And they were finding and saving animals together. But what happened was earlier in his life, he had met one human who actually got into his heart. Dolittle such a wreck when we first meet him?ĭOWNEY: Well, he was always an odd guy. He has no desire to interact with people ever again because of this interesting backstory that was written up to make ours just a little bit different from the others. And also, you know, Susan had said it's the opposite of Tony Stark. At least at the top of our story, he has zero interest in. The difference being is that I also interact with humans, which.ĭOWNEY. Dolittle would find very companionable.ĭOWNEY: Right. I mean, I've read you're surrounded by, I guess, a spot Dr. And I was like, oh, you know what? Maybe there's something there. And all of the sudden, the alpacas are looking at me and the Kunekune pigs and the goats and the chickens. Dolittle back?ĭOWNEY: Well, interestingly enough, we live on what was an old dog and horse rescue in Malibu. Why did both of you think it was time to bring Dr. He's been played previously by Rex Harrison, Eddie Murphy. Dolittle's a character drawn from the stories that Hugh Lofting sent home to his children from the trenches of the Great War. joins us from Malibu, along with Susan Downey, to whom he is married and is one of the film's producers. In the film "Dolittle," he presides over an all-star cast of characters and voices that include Michael Sheen, Tom Holland, Antonio Banderas, Jessie Buckley, Craig Robinson, Emma Thompson, Rami Malek, Octavia Spencer, Ralph Fiennes, Selena Gomez, Marion Cotillard and more. is the latest actor to portray the medical man who can talk to animals and understand what they say in response. John Dolittle in the latest film to bear his name, he's disheveled, unshaven and depressed. ![]()
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