- Maybe Paddington can introduce Pooh to bread.
They can have honey and bread sandwich.
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I never kind of pititd Paddington
and Pooh Bear against each other.
But I do remember someone pointed out
quite brilliantly that the poster for Agent Carter
I was in a red hat and a blue jacket.
I looked like Paddington Bear.
(laughs)
So I feel like I have an affinity
with Paddington in that respect.
But you know, I've worked with Pooh,
I get on with Pooh, I respect his process.
I know what he's like, you know.
Paddington for all I know could be a diva.
I don't have any experience there
so I think I'm just gonna have to go with my guy Pooh.
- [Pooh] Who-who, I do like a party.
- Come on, Pooh.
- We can all relate to the innocent, naive time
as children where we just liked to hang out
with our friends and not do anything special.
And Pooh says doing nothing is my favorite thing to do.
It's like well, that's what childhood in a way was like.
We used our imaginations and playing with each other
to create these exciting worlds for ourselves.
And on set we were all just kind of charmed by it.
Like you can't have a moody day
when you're making a Christopher Robin film.
It's so much about play and people looking out
for each other that it's very much kind of the atmosphere
that was on set.
And also because it's about kindness and gentleness
without beating you over the head with it.
It's a gentle movie but emotions of loss and rejection
or losing a friend or abandoning a friend
or feeling abandoned by a friend when they move on
or they grow up.
And that's really painful to see that
and to see Pooh Bear sad is the saddest thing in the world.
'Cause he's so lovely and kind.
Yeah, but he's also a bit like kind of a zen master.
He's kind of a philosopher without realizing it.
He says profound things without intending to be profound.
- I always get to where I'm going
by walking away from where I have been.
- Which endears us to him even more.
And voiced by Jim Cummings who we've had
as Pooh's voice since the 80's.
- People say nothing is impossible
but I do nothing every day.
- Once you suddenly go into the real world
and then learning what responsibilities are
and you have certain obligations.
And you have to look after yourself
and if you have children or a family,
loved ones to care for then sometimes there's sense
of kind of burden that comes with that.
And it can make us more cantankerous or moody I think.
That's what the premise of the film is
and why people relate to it is
that sometimes it takes the innocence of a child
or the innocence of a memory from childhood
to remind us that we're missing out
and that there's an opportunity to live in a different way.
We can take time out from what feels like
sometimes the rat race or the hamster wheel
of paying the bills and doing what needs to be done
and taking things off the list.
Which has its place as well.
The ideal is the balance between the two.
We can't act like Pooh and
that Pooh can hardly walk down the street
without getting into lots of trouble
because he's so distracted by cute things.
And that's not a way to live but it's nice to be able
to have Pooh-like qualities and Pooh-like people.
(laughs)
- Now, Miss Carter.
- Now, I go to work.
(grunts and fighting noises)
- Peggy the character kind of follows me around a little bit
and I think if there was any character that I've played
where I want to followed around or reminded of
then she's definitely it or one of them.
Because for many people she's been used
as an embodiment of female empowerment or equality at least.
She's good at her job and she also knows her self worth.
I think they're lovely messages
so I'm always, I just kind of think of
that time in my life fondly
but there's always so much more that I'm up to
that fills my mind.
That it's always like I don't live with her.
I was a custodian of that character for the time
and I put as much commitment into the other roles
that I've played that people might
not have necessarily seen.
I just kind of like doing the job.
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