TheCelebrityCafe.com:
Tell me about your role in Pixar’s new animated film, Brave.
John Ratzenberger:
Well, I play one of the castle guards in the movie.
TCC: Do you feel voice-over work
is easier than actual acting in a film or TV show?
JR: It’s the same skill set but
you’re just using it in a different way. On a TV show or film you have other
people you’re talking to. You have real furniture you’re sitting in or a real
car that you’re driving. In an animation you have to imagine all of that.
TCC: Do people ever recognize your
voice as any of the animated characters you’ve done before?
JR: No, not recently. Sometimes
my characters voices are slightly different from how I normally talk, because
you know ‘Hamm talks like this!’ (Hamm’s voice) and I don’t talk like that.
TCC: Since you have been in every
Pixar film, has it come to a point where you don’t even have to audition, but
rather you’re just given a character role?
JR: I’ve never been asked to
audition.
TCC: Really? Never?
JR: Correct.
TCC: Ok then, well, almost all the
Pixar movies you’ve been in have done exceptionally well in the box office,
what do you think about some calling you ‘Pixar’s Good Luck Charm’?
JR: The reason why the films have
done so well in the box office is because Pixar takes a lot of time and care in
writing and crafting the story. It’s nice to be considered a ‘good luck charm’,
but the real luck comes from Pixar’s hard work.
TCC: Any favorite Pixar film you
enjoyed working on?
JR: Yeah, it would have to be Toy
Story. But working on all the Pixar films have been fun.
TCC: Do you ever get tired of
people asking if there will ever be a Cheers reunion?
JR: No. As for myself and, I'm
sure, the rest of the cast would love to have a reunion. But the actors don’t
make that decision it’s the people who own Cheers.
TCC: Would you ever be in support
of a remaking of Cheers with an entire new cast?
JR: Sure. I don’t think it would
make a difference if whether or not I supported it. It’s not like I would stop
it or anything (laughs). But if it happens, the show’s success really depends
on how it’s written. It’s all in the writing. Cheers was written by
people that grew up reading books. They didn’t grow up watching television.
That’s why Cheers was a success because of good writers. Usually good
writers read a lot of books and the bad writers watch a lot of television.
TCC: Now I know you are an
advocate for more skilled workers in America. Do you think learning a trade is
more practical than getting a college degree?
JR: Everything we do depends on
an infrastructure. This is what makes the roads drivable, prevents the bridges
from collapsing, makes water come out of facets, and in a flip of a switch
causes lights to come on because of the electricity that’s there. All of those
things we take for granted everyday were designed, build, maintained and repaired
by people who know how to use tools. If we run out of people that don’t know
how to repair those things, including the turbines that generate electricity,
then that would be a problem for everyone that relies on such power for the
electronics we use every single day. That’s the importance.
Now if you want to get a college degree then you
should do that. If you want to be an electrician then you can do that too. You
can do both. One doesn’t necessarily innate the other.
TCC: You also make a guest appearance
on Lifetime’s drama series, Drop Dead Diva. Can you explain a little
about that?
JR: Yes, my character seeks legal
advice from his estranged daughter, Kim Kaswell, after getting into trouble for
retaliating against his boss because he was fired and didn’t receive his
pension that he feels the company owes him.
Check out John Ratzenberger’s appearance on Drop
Dead Diva on June 10th
Disney/Pixar’s 3D animated film, Brave, will be
in theaters June 22nd and stars Kelly Macdonald, Emma Thompson, Kevin McKidd,
and Craig Ferguson.
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