Keegan, how are you? I'm great, Scott.
How are you doing?
I'm good, I'm good. Thank you.
I've taken on your look.
Oh yeah, I like it. I like it very much.
You know, I've got to say, I've got to say since the lockdown,
I did this for the first time. I can't look back.
I honestly can't.
It's only that first time.
It's always a little
a little nerve wracking because you don't know
what the head is going to look like underneath.
But once you know you've got a good head
and you do my friend, you're in good shape.
You're in good shape.
Talking of of good shape, I feel like you've reached your apex as a performer
and as an actor by playing a 500 year old
Real-Life Mummy with saggy skin. Best
finish now, can't you not say you're done?
I'm I'm better.
I'm done. Yes.
Retirement plan is in place. Yes,
but I mean, for you as a performer, as a as a,
as a very funny person, what what does doing animated films give you?
The live action doesn't
cause I can imagine it's quite freeing being able to do
the things that you do with vocal work without having to do the performance,
without the performance.
But the physicality, if you like it is a that's that's
exactly correct, Scott, that that sense of
liberation and that that freeing feeling
is really actually quite wonderful because you don't you don't.
You're not restrained by anything.
There's no restrictions.
And there have been times when I've left a booth... a voice booth
where I've been more tired than when I've been in a live action film
because the thing is that the funnest for me, the most fun challenge
is trying to energetically match
the exaggeration of the drawings to match where the characters are.
And so
that is that is
that's part of the distinct difference between live action acting and and
and the fact that, you know, you can you can hang, you know,
all I have to do is provide the voice for characters, hang gliding
and then unhook some stuff from the hang gliding jumps
down onto a cannonball which goes into, you know, anything can happen,
and you would never be asked to do that in a live action film, you know.
So you've written
you've done it so many times now and you're doing it again,
I believe with Pinocchio, with with Mario.
And I believe the film you've done with Jordan [Peele] Stop-Motion. [Wendell and Wild]
So you must enjoy doing it.
You know, I love it.
Have you got
have you got enough voices in your lexicon to be able to keep keep going?
I do.
I think I'm discovering... discovering some more I've got.
I'm trying to.
I'm trying to to build that lexicon.
As a matter of fact,
I really, really enjoy this art form very, very much and expressing myself
and I, quite frankly, I wish we did more radio drama in the states.
I mean, I know it's it's still an art form that's that's alive
and breathing here in the UK,
but it's something I wish we did more in the states
because it's a it's a wonderful way to express oneself.
Yeah, I just finally, I have to ask you a very left field.
And us in the UK particularly were taken aback
by the fact that they're doing a Willy Wonka prequel
that was quite... because Charlie and Chocolate Factory
is such a huge, a huge thing.
Willy Wonka, the original was such a huge thing in Britain.
Obviously, Roald Dahl and everything else.
So stepping into that obviously is very secretive.
But then seeing Timothée Chalamet as Willy Wonka, I kind of it's
kind of a mad idea, but kind of seems like it might work.
Has that been....
When you read the script, it kind of is like, This is this is this could be fun.
Oh, it is.
It is been in my experience thus far.
It is working.
I think I think also the smartest idea was was that you just
what everybody does when *phreeeiippp* prequel.
I'm not even going here.
And so so yeah, I think I think I think we're I think we're in good shape.
That's good. That's good.
I must say that I just feel like
how much I love Schmigadoon! and I thought it was wonderful.
Oh, thank you so much for that.
Have you have you found out the recipe for the...
I can't remember the song now? What's it called? Corn pudding?
What is it?
We want Corn Pudding!
Yeah, I know it was a really what a magical thing to work on, Schmigadoon! was.
It was lovely.
Absolutely lovely.
Yeah, I wish you all the best with this
and maybe a season two of Schmigadoon! and I really hope we have one day.
Who knows? Keegan, thanks for your time.
Thank you, Scott. Take care. Bye bye.