Congratulations on the film, gentlemen.
Thank you. I saw some footage this morning.
It is wonderful, and that's only a sneak peek.
So my anticipation is. Is even bigger.
I want to ask you both first about singing.
Now there's an art to singing.
And you both are very, very good at the singing in the film.
Tell me about the discipline of that.
Is it is it different?
The voice acting, singing, the stuff that is the discipline
different for you guys or you tell because you're the future?
I've always loved singing from a very young age.
I've always sung since I was in nursery, three years old, two years old. But
obviously, you have to get the right technique to
to achieve high notes, hold long notes.
So I remember I had to I had to train my voice.
I went to two times a week.
So there was a lot of discipline because I had to get on the tube at 7 a.m.
every morning.
But I think the final result worked out in the end.
Yeah. So I got on the tube at seven in the morning.
Is, is not, is not fun for you. Yeah.
I mean, it wasn't as bad as a ten year old because I would normally wake up at 5:30am
anyway. But.
Christoph, you've played some amazing characters.
What is the discipline different for you when you're doing voice acting?
Is it a little bit more freeing?
Do you enjoy it? Well,
there's never anything free about it because you have a script, you know,
and you need to.
But it's not about freedom anyway, you know?
Or you find that maybe you find some freedom.
But I don't know.
I you know, it's
yeah, of course it's different.
But then again, every role you play is different anyway.
And it and the technical restrictions are
varied from part to part.
So this is just another another element of variation.
Yeah.
Did you enjoy the the drawings of your character?
Because he's got some pretty outrageous hair.
Yeah.
They, they made models of, of course, you know, and then that is fascinating
because you meet the person
you're supposed to play in materially.
So to say, and so always fascinate with Guillermo del Toro.
He's such an extraordinary film maker and storyteller.
What what's it like being directed by him?
Because I can imagine as a person, he's got such a personality.
But what's it like being directed by him?
Is he as nice as a director, as he is as a as a person?
He actually is.
I found it very simple to work with him because I found
sort of obviously quite nerve wracking for me
because it's my first my first big movie where I have so much to say.
So Guillermo really helped me look at things in a different picture
and say things and pronounce them
the perfect way that Pinocchio would say something.
How was it for you working with Guillermo?
Because you work with some extraordinary filmmakers.
You're a filmmaker yourself, so you hear the same thing.
He told me how to say things perfectly so that I think
that's a good Oh, if you could do that as a director,
it's I mean, is this the first time you guys have met?
Because obviously doing the voice stuff you have
we met in the studio here and Abbey Road once briefly.
Yeah, we just passed by because he finished the session.
I started.
Yeah. The other way round.
Is that is that
is that a strange for you obviously, because this is kind of new for you.
Did you have to do a lot of this by yourself with Guillermo?
And obviously, I presume you've done a lot of it
during the restrictions of the pandemic and everything as well?
Well, yeah, in the height of COVID,
I actually got sent recording equipment to my house
and we had a technician on set and we had we had everything in my house.
I had a little helmet around me with the microphone.
And I think part of the movie was filmed in my house in London.
I think a lot people I've done that in the pandemic.
Yeah, a lot of animate people in their, in their, in their cupboards.
But like, yeah, we had to put duvets on all of the walls.
It was a great experience. It was very fun.
And there's a fantastic cast in this as well.
I mean, you and everybody else,
have you have you got to meet any of those guys
because you obviously got the honor of meeting Christoph today.
One of the other guys I've met almost, almost everyone I remember.
I worked with him.
I worked with Finn Wolfhard for some of the some of the scenes.
I worked with David Bradley up who plays Geppetto quite a lot.
And obviously I've met people
passing through there, recording after mine or before mine.
So briefly, that must be good for a young actor to have to rub shoulders
with all those guys and get a bit of experience.
Are you doing it right now with Christopher, a two time Oscar winner?
Guys, thank you so, so much for your time.
Thanks for talking to you. Thank you so much.