Helen Mirren has always wanted Pixar role

By Tribute News on July 22, 2013 | 1 Comment

Dame Helen Mirren's "major ambition" was to star in a Pixar film. The 67-year-old actress - who voices the intimidating Dean Hardscrabble in Monsters University - has always wanted to star in a Disney-Pixar production because she thinks they are timeless classics. She told Empire magazine: "One of my major ambitions was to be in a Pixar movie, just to a part of that library of incredible, classic, amazing films that will hopefully be watched for centuries to come. I think they have such a universality about them, about human nature." The actress is known for her incredible presence on the stage and screen and so she found it a difficult challenge to express herself through just her speech in the animated film - in which her character is a cross between a dragon and centipede. She previously said: "I'm actually hopeless at voice acting. I'd loved to have been in the room with [co-stars] Billy [Crystal] and John [Goodman] and watched the masters at work and learned from them. Americans are brilliant at voiceovers. I don't think Brits are as good at it, weirdly."

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1. Zuh • July 23, 2013 @ 8:22 AM

   So she got what she wanted. Why is she blabbing away.

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