.Jabbatron catches up with the one and only Matthew McConaughey to find out more about voicing a cuddly Australian icon in Sing2. UniversalPicsAU
One of the biggest films of 2016 featured an irrepressible koala who led a ragtag gang of animals to pursue their dream of putting on a concert.Hollywood superstar and renowned Texan Matthew McConaughey voices the main character, Buster the koala - it shouldn’t work, so why does it?“I’ve always loved the fact that there’s this enormous personality in the smallest character in the film.
“They’re first and foremost personality types in animal form and I wasn’t worried that the pig might be German or the gorilla might be a cockney British gorilla … no one was too worried about that.”One of the key themes in the film is the difference between self-doubt and self-belief - for some characters it’s a yawning chasm while for others, it’s just a crack.
“I believe that when I understand that I’m really not afraid of dying, a lot of belief can come,” he explains. There’s just one hitch: they first have to persuade the world’s most reclusive rock star, played by U2 frontman Bono in his animated film debut, to join them.
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