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CITAZIONE Katy Perry Interview For ‘The Smurfs’
The Smurfs make their first 3D trip to the big screen in Columbia Pictures/Sony Pictures Animation’s hybrid live-action and animated family comedy, ‘The Smurfs.’ When the evil wizard Gargamel (Hank Azaria) chases the Smurfs out of their village, through a magical portal, and into our world, they land in the middle of New York’s Central Park. Just three apples high and stuck in the Big Apple, the Smurfs must find a way to get back to their village before Gargamel tracks them down. ‘The Smurfs’ comes to theaters July 29th and stars Sofía Vergara, Neil Patrick Harris, Jayma Mays, Anton Yelchin, Alan Cumming, Paul Reubens, Katy Perry and Hank Azaria. In the film Katy Perry voices Smurfette, check out what she had to say about the film in a quick interview below.
What was it like voicing and creating Smurfette?
Katy Perry: When I was doing the voice for Smurfette it was really interesting because I got to be a part of creating her character, adding little nuances to who she is on the big screen, that’s really fun. I liked taking little liberties here and there. It’s basically my voice, but throwing some rocks into it, just a little bit rockier, I guess you would say, it’s like I had too many cups of coffee in one day.
It was really fun though because I got to see the evolution of the cartoons from sketches, to kind of fake moving cartoons to “oh my gosh, they’re in 3D!” It was really nice to be there from the beginning, feeling like I was apart of moulding who Smurfette is in this film.
How was the process of seeing the animation and recording your voice?
Katy Perry: When you are in the booth recording, half of the time you get to see a picture, so you get to see a rough cut, you get to see a story board, some rough animation. Towards the end of recordings I saw almost quite there animation, it was blowing my mind because you get so used to these sketches and working off of that (laughs). You’re like, “ooohhhhhh, I really really hope this is going to be awesome.” Then when you see the final animation I thought, “oh my gosh, these people must have worked so hard, this must have been so time consuming, it looks incredible.” It’s a really beautiful representation of the characters, especially in a live action setting.
What do you feel is the appeal to audiences with this film?
Katy Perry: It’s a great film that all ages can enjoy. I really feel like this film caters to the young person inside of you, because the Smurfs show existed at a different time, a lot of those kids have grown up, you get those grownups now who want to reminisce, have that familiar feeling of when they were a kid watching Smurfs. And now we get to introduce it to a whole new audience as well. There’s no sneaky innuendo’s or sort of taboo things, it’s a positive story, it has a sweet side, there’s a great message. It’s just one of those ‘you can’t go wrong’ type of films, it’s very family orientated.
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CITAZIONE 'The Smurfs' director says he always wanted Katy's voice
George Lopez, Katy Perry and Jonathan Winters collaborated on the film as the voices of “Grouchy,” “Smurfette” and “Papa Smurf,” respectively. And while it seems like the movie’s producers purposely hired A-list actors to bring more attention to it, they never intended to do so. director, Raja Gosnell, revealed Katy Perry, for example, had been chosen for the part almost 2 years ago when she had just started making a name for herself in the industry.
“Our casting people put 20 different voices from major actors, minor actors…and all we had was a picture of ‘Smurfette’ up on the wall and we listened to these voices with numbers and we just watched the ‘Smurfette’ and listened to the voice…and there’s something about Katy that was sort of giggly and girlish, but sophisticated at the same time, that just appealed to us and we just felt that she was ‘Smurfette,’” said Gosnell.
Producer Jordan Kerner added: “And Katy has that wonderful combination of sort of child and sex kitten. So…you know, ‘Smurfette’ always has had that underlying provocativeness and so does Katy. So when Raja and I heard her as voice number whatever, she was the one we wanted.”
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