Kidsday talks to Hugh Grant
Actor Hugh Grant who stars as Pirate Captain in the movie "The Pirates: Band of Misfits," is at the Regency Hotel in Manhattan with Kidsday reporters John Venesina, 12, Hampton Bays, Laura Narando, 11, Hampton Bays, Emily Bennett, 11 Southampton, and Maximillian Bass, 12, Southampton. (April 20, 2012) Credit: Newsday/Pat Mullooly
The movie "The Pirates! Band of Misfits" is an adventurous comedy that includes the luscious bearded Pirate Captain, voiced by Hugh Grant. With his crew and lovely dodo bird, Polly, he goes off to Blood Island to sign up to win the Pirate of the Year honors. This leads to many crazy adventures that make this movie so great.
We rate this movie a 4 (out of 5). There are lots of sight gags and jokes even adults will love. They will love the adventure, too. There are some sad parts, but they make you feel for the characters. No matter if you are laughing or sad, you can't help but love this movie.
After seeing the movie, we came back to Manhattan last Friday to interview Hugh Grant. Here is part of our interview with him:
It was fun just doing silly voices. . . . I had to invent a whole silly voice. A lot of it is based on his googly eye. Big googly eyes, big barrel chest . . . he's an idiot.
No, I wanted that. I liked the part. I like a lot of attention. I'm a very insecure man.
I wish I could. I have a very strange beard. It doesn't grow much, and what does come out is a sort of green color, which is really unattractive. I do have a lot of growth on my cheeks and my eyebrows, and if I really tried I could grow a full beard on the upper half of my face.
I can't really tear my eyes off me because I'm marvelous. It might be right at the beginning of the film. All the pirates are fighting each other and I burst into the room and they all freeze and one of them is hitting another one over the head with a lobster. And even the lobster freezes when I walk in and looks terrified.
Well, I wanted to do it because I love these people, Aardman Animations. I love "Wallace & Gromit" and "Chicken Run," all those things. They're genius and also the script made me laugh and these days I'm so old and grumpy it's very difficult to make me laugh. . . . If lots of people go see this one, we'll make a sequel. Encourage your friends.
