With Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile now playing in theaters, I recently got so speak with directors Will Speck and Josh Gordon about helming the adaptation of the popular children's books of the same name by author Bernard Waber.
“He rehearsed for almost five months and demanded when he showed up on set to do the numbers from start to finish because he was so proud that he had worked as hard as he had. He really did not want us to ever bring on a double or to have any other part of his work not be him. So, I think you would look at it and go, oh, that's Javier Bardem, there's no way he did all of that. He really did all of it. It was incredible.
SPECK: It's a small piece, and it's an odd one to choose because it doesn't really stand up in terms of length, time, or scope to any of the movies we've done. But it definitely speaks directly to our sensibility, which is what Josh said, which is the darkness and a little bit of the cynicism and the humor with a twist of heart at the end, because ultimately we're softies.
With Lyle, obviously, you need the lead voice. How did it actually land on Shawn doing the voice, and did anyone else come close to actually landing the role? I was just surprised Chris Pratt didn't get the voice role. I'm obviously joking. No matter how much money you had, there's always going to be an obstacle with time, budget. What ended up being the biggest hurdles that you were nervous about while making the film?
GORDON: We had such a strange way in which we found out, which is that we had talked to him over almost four long Zooms.GORDON: Ultimately, he told us, "I need the weekend to decide if I'm absolutely going to do this or not." But he was nervous about, am I funny enough? Can I do the singing? He had a lot of personal [reasons]. He's very hard on himself as an actor, and he really wanted to make sure he could deliver. He was on vacation with his family.
GORDON: Right. What we mean by that is we started in commercials before we did our features, and there were always these commercials that you needed to get an actor who could just make it work. There were five or six of them that they would come in, and they would just crush it. Believe it or not, Scoot was one of those guys.GORDON: Yeah, he was very, very funny. We knew him before he became this big dramatic actor as a very funny actor.
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