“Paddington in Peru” is here.
The third part of the franchise based on the character Paddington Bear and created by Michael Bond is in theaters now. This time, the lovely bear (expressed by Ben Whishaw) and his family, led by Hugh Bonneville and Emily Mortimer (takes over for Sally Hawkins) deep into the jungles in Peru. This is where they reject duplicita nuns and a riverboat captain with secrets (played delicious by Antonio Banderas).
Thewrap talked to Bonneville and Mortimer about what it was like going into the latest adventure in the beloved franchise, whether Mortimer was a fan of the series before registering and if Bonneville thought, while making the first movie, he still Would be here all these years later.
When we asked about Mortimer who joined the franchise, Bonneville joked: “Well, there are some things you can and can’t do in front of the bear. I had to talk Emily through, you know, he doesn’t like to look at his eye before lunchtime. When he has had his second jar, things can be a little Wonky. “
In fact, Bonneville said: “It was a seamless transition and we have just moved on with it.”
For Mortimer it was as frictionless. “It was very simple. It was very strangely simple. It was ok from the beginning, just because this is a very nice group of people and very welcoming and cute, ”Mortimer said. “It just felt right. And I think it helped it had been a number of years since you had done the last. The children were actually kind of different people. “
“I think, yes, they both had a beard,” Bonneville joked. The actor said that when they started the films, Samuel Joslin, who plays Jonathan, 11. And when they worked with “Paddington in Peru”, “he took me to a pub.”
“We’ve been doing this for a long time, some of us, so it’s a very family atmosphere,” Bonneville said.
Mortimer said it was nice because on the previous films they were children, so they were always taken off by chaperones and parents and supervisors. Child actors are somewhat suspended from the adult artists because of this. “But this time they were really a part of it, and I think it felt very different to them. In a way it was really fun. We all became really, really good friends very fast, ”Mortimer said.
When asked if she had been a fan of the franchise before joining “Paddington in Peru”, Mortimer spit. “You can’t really be English and not love these movies and not have Paddington to be part of your DNA,” Mortimer said. “That’s what we all grew up and read and read when we were little. It feels very part of the national identity. “For Queen and Land (and Paddington) then.
Three films in, and Bonneville said he is still proud to be part of the franchise. “It’s a lovely little world to live every now and then and I think every movie has embraced the breath in Paddington so amazing,” Bonneville said. Paul King directed the first two films, and now Dougal Wilson is taking the reins.
Bonneville still never thought the first movie would play a complete franchise.
“I can remember that I was thinking, This looks right. Love the script. And I thought Paul was affected by genius. But when you do a project, you do not know what it will be like, especially since the main character does not show up for the most part, ”remembers Bonneville. The cast had seen reproduction of what Paddington would look like, “but they were only two -dimensional images.”
Bonneville said that when the first Paddington pictures were released, they immediately became memes, “because he looked quite unhappy, because he was literally lifeless.” People put him in horror movie posters – “He was behind the shower curtain in ‘Psycho’ and during a street lamp for ‘The Exorcist’. He was everywhere.”
At that time, there was even concern that it would be “a junk parody or a biss service to Michael Bond’s books.” You can say that the worry also got Bonneville – until King showed him something.
“When Paul King showed me some pictures of the animated bear that knit on the head down on Loo, I remember I was completely blown away by the structure and quality and the animation of all and three -dimensionality of all. And I actually thought, We are on a much richer foot than I ever realizedSaid Bonneville. The animation, especially, has gotten better and better, “and you can read so much emotion in what the bear feels and thinks.
“I am extremely proud that we are here at number three, which I think is visually the richest of the party,” Bonneville said.
You can see “Paddington in Peru” only in theaters right now.
