
And Spanish is longer than English, and Eddie Murphy speaks so fast, so it was a nightmare for me. It’s really hard, and in this one you just get to read and perform in your own rhythm with your own pace, so it’s a completely different technique. Aggressive birds from an island covered in ice are planning to use an elaborate weapon to destroy the fowl and swine. In contrast to dubbing, being part of the original cast was “a piece of cake. In Spanish, you have to match the lips and you have to match every single movement of the mouth the same speed of the performance of the original actor.

“I’m Donkey’s voice for Shrek, I’m Snowball in Secret Life of Pets - I’m Kevin Hart, basically, in Spanish, I’m Eddie Murphy in Spanish all of his movies, I’m Jim Carrey,” Derbez said. Brown, Rachel Bloom, Awkwafina and Eugenio Derbez, who takes on his first American animated film with Angry Birds 2 after years of dubbing English versions in Spanish. The Angry Birds Movie 2 is a 2019 computer-animated comedy film based on Rovio Entertainments Angry Birds video game series, produced by Columbia Pictures, Rovio Animation and Sony Pictures Animation, and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing. “So when we were looking at who to cast as a villain we were like, ‘Oh yeah, shit, she would be amazing.'”Īside from Jones, new additions include Sterling K. “She was on a talk show a few years ago, I don’t even remember which talk show, and she was like, ‘I’ve always wanted to be a villain, if anybody is listening I want to be a villain!'” he remembered.

The sequel also brought in a number of A-listers to the cast, most notably Saturday Night Live star Leslie Jones as the villainous purple bird Zeta, who, Gad says, was “such inspired casting and brings such an unwieldy new energy to the film that disrupts everything in such a great way.” Jones may not have been the logical choice to play an evil character, but director Van Orman said she unknowingly cast herself in the role. “The movie has some amazing messaging in it, not the least of which is overcoming differences with people you disagree with in order to find a common ground, which I think speaks to a lot of issues we’re dealing with right now,” he said. The Angry Birds Movie 2 sees the constantly at-odds angry birds and the green pigs teaming up to take on a common enemy that has put all of their homes in danger, which Gad says seems especially timely in this political climate.
