my voice which is naturally right around
here is where I'd normally speakers this
is my normal voice I mean I'm an actor
I'm Nick Kroll I'm doing a video for
Vanity Fair hey I'm Nick Kroll I do a
lot of different voices in various
animated programs and films putting my
animated show big mouth and my current
film The Addams Family where I play
Uncle Fester
we're gonna be talking about a lot of my
roles because I am a narcissist
you know Greco love was my idea Andrew
and Mark and Jen my other partners on
big mouths came to me they thought what
if Andrew had a hormone monster and my
immediate reaction was to Sylvania and
that was sort of the immediate instinct
there was something that this quality to
the voice he's getting fun and loose and
he's gonna chew
I think everybody's got different
hormone monsters but there's something
about he he's pushing Andrew or Matthew
to be sexual and hormonal but also he's
kind of a he's kind of been around the
block a little bit so there's a there's
a sort of a slightly older quality to
him like early on we established that he
was friends with like Joe Walsh who was
like like people in the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame singer from Jeana the voice
of Nick is basically my voice it's maybe
pitched up a little tiny bit because uh
he's you know he's a kid so it's sort of
easy he's a little more up here you lose
a little more up here than my voice the
show is based on me and and my best
friend from childhood Andrew Goldberg
and often times they're crazy in
themselves but also they kind of drive
story and I felt like you I wanted Nick
to be as natural to me as possible and
in a lot of ways Nicky is really is me
and so it felt natural to not do much
The Voice at all just maybe sometimes
he's pitched up just a tiny bit I
couldn't figure out why these duties
reserved delicious
coach Steve partly based on a character
I did on kroschel name ref Jeff just
kind of a guy you know looking to hang
out looking for friends of anybody wants
to hang out they can come and visit me
on the diaper barge because he lives on
a diaper barge where I guess cities
throw all the diapers and that's where
he lives you know they say the pigeons
are the rats of the sky but I think
they're the Einsteins in the diaper
board's because he's been outsmarted by
the pigeons who live on the diaper barge
with him I mean I think Steve is such a
friendly guy he's just constantly
looking for friends there's a
cheerfulness like when I first started
doing him he was a little more like this
you know but now he's he's got a little
more you know he's because we realized
he's so dumb that he's that there's
actually quite a bit of joy in in how
stupid he is he doesn't know he's stupid
he's so stupid that he's happy Oh mom
how laurels beer also there's also a
coach hormone monster Rick from big
mouth that's his catchphrase what are
you gonna do which i think is actually
the more that we get to know Rick you
realize that there's actually he was
such a disgusting character he became or
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there was kind of a grooviness to him
you sunk my battleship
when they contacted me about doing the
Addams family to be Uncle Fester I was
very excited I have watched the show and
then the movie the movies in the 90s the
Addams Family Values Christopher Lloyd
had his very specific take on it I
didn't feel like I could or would want
to sort of do a similar thing to that I
went back and watched the original and
he's got a really sort of high-pitched
quality to it but there's something sort
of Three Stooges about Uncle Fester
especially in this design reminded me a
bit of curly from Three Stooges so I
gave it a little of that kind of like hi
that I stuff but then they're all
outcasts and so I thought maybe
something with his speech would make him
a little more off and so I gave him kind
of a back of the mouth the speech
impediment oh hey you're on a sounds
like day you know he kind of lost any
kind of day gone come in the coin he's
not that guy some of the time he's
always Uncle Fester
you jump my battleship so I'm gonna go I
mean I always like seeing like round
guys with high voices I find there to be
something very pleasing about that with
the Addams Family they're a family of
outcasts wherever they go they don't
feel included and so a guy who looks
like Uncle Fester and sounds like Uncle
Fester feels like someone who would be
kind of misunderstood but also there's a
joyful like rascal quality to him that I
think Uncle Fester really embodies and I
was sort of excited to bring a little of
that because he's actually it's a very
buoyant voice because he's a pretty
buoyant and active and fun kind of
character
Gunther and Singh is a dancing European
pig Garth Jennings who directed Singh
brought me that he had seen Kroll show
and liked my European character who
turned out to be a cannibal
we shied away from that for the kids
movie reading the script I knew that he
was sort of vaguely European I knew that
that's kind of what garthe wanted but
then just doing sort of a European voice
didn't feel quite right for Gunther so I
more like a kid's movie that Gunter
would be sort of up here and filled with
piggy power yeah that's a fun it's a
good time he loves to wear yellow
jumpsuit and red unitards and he wants
to go dancing Gunther has a lot of
positivity in the movie he is played if
the other pig is uh is Rosita voiced by
Reese Witherspoon Rosita is a mom of 20
and so she felt like she's just got a
lot on her plate and so felt like
Gunther could be this sort of fun
lighter buoyant energy well you got it
the gym douche sausage party was
actually kind of an interesting process
I did the table read for it many years
before the movie got made and I was
clearly kind of filling in for like when
they got the real actor they were gonna
get to do it and then they kind of I
don't know like Seth got too stoned and
just decided to not cast someone else
but originally my voice in that was
supposed to have sort of an English
village sort of someone like this you
know but as they watched the movie they
realized that they were doing more of a
Pixar movie and my villain was more of a
like a Disney villain like a Jafar kind
of you know sort of a scary English kind
of scary villain like that and so in the
final session we redid the character and
they realized they're like well we have
you playing a douche a literal do shape
feminine hygiene product but if you're
going to be a douche why don't we make
you what a douche bag is and it sort of
became
you know became kind of oh okay cool
very you know very cool bro what's up
come at me bro good problem out there
watching me in the head in that bro
dare you watch me me internet right now
come at me bro
so it became I had done a character
named Bobby bottleservice on Kroll show
was sort of a bit of a Jersey Shore kind
of character so then it was like the
douche became kind of a douchebag you
know love stuff like yoked brawl termed
I'm sure I'm Gil faizon I've been doing
oh hello with John Mulaney for many
years there - Upper West Side
septuagenarians who are obsessed with
Alan Alda used mouthwash that smells
like coffee breath he's kind of like up
here and he's like major word there he
kind of talks like that I you know my
director we had a word their birth and
I'm an unlicensed doula so if you're
looking for an unlicensed doula it go
for a j-turn named Julie you know Gil
faizon is and george and keaghlan are
they're sort of based on Upper West Side
guys that we like had fallen in love
with and that voice comes true you know
he's a Gil is a is a power beta you know
all the voices them the longer I do them
the more I keep finding little nooks and
crannies to them you know it's it's fun
to keep finding its I like to find those
specific words that keep key me in so
like each character I'll often say one
sentence to like if I'm because on big
mouth for example Lola is a girl in
Andrew Nick's class and I'll do
something like I spent all of my yet a
pretty little wires meet-and-greet and
that'll help me get into her and not
only the voice but also like what kind
of person she is and she's the kind of
person who spends all of her money at a
Pretty Little Liars meet-and-greet Gil
faizon is uh yeah can they be faizon
he's always introducing himself and he's
always saying it was charmed I'm sure
I think he thinks that that
it's you know charming I'm Nick Kroll
these are some of my voices thanks for
watching The Addams Family thanks for
watching big mouth thanks for watching
this video and this is me this is me
giving a little message to my kidnappers
who let me out for the day so that I
could shoot this video for Vanity Fair
dare you watch me in the internet right
now come at me bro