We read the lines and the scene didn't change too much after that, because they used that one recording in the film.Īfter the interview was over it was time to do a “quick” interview with Flash himself. So we recorded for like 30 minutes and they coached me. They said he talks normal but he has spaces in between the words. I thought, that I should talk slowly, but that's not what the directors wanted. How he voiced Flash the Sloth in Zootopia:įor Zootopia, Rich Moore and Jim Reardon brought me in to do a scratch for Flash. They're both snorty dogs anyway, so it worked out well. I brought them in and we recorded them eating things and we squeezed them to grunt and snort. I didn't do any voices on Feast, but I have two Boston Terriers, and they got to do voices on it. In Frozen, I was a guy who had just one line, but his wife said to him, “Hurry up, Persi.” That was cool because that's my name! they used archival audio of Walt Disney for that short, so I got get to laugh with Walt Disney, which is really cool. Later, in Get a Horse, I got to be another little jerk, the little jerky horn. The first voice I got to do was Gene from Wreck-It Ralph. It's a temporary voice used to tell the story.Įvery now and then we keep some of those scratch voices in. So lots of people come into the studio to do scratch voices. Sometimes we don't know who's going to be cast yet, or we don't even know if that character will stay past one screening of the film.
When you work here, we like to rough versions of our films first. I was a director on The Simpsons before Disney, and Rich Moore brought me in as a story artist when he started to develop Wreck-It Ralph.Īll the voices he's done in Disney films: I got to drive by and think, “Wouldn't it be cool to work here one day?” And I eventually got to! RI grew up in the hills right above Walt Disney Animation Studios. On starting his career with Walt Disney Animation Studios: Scroll down to get right to the video of my interview with Flash! Yes, that is definitely the body of Flash, the slow-moving DMV employee from Zootopia, and I was going to have the chance to interview and see what having a real conversation with Flash was like!īefore that, though, Raymond Persi, the voice of Flash, was in the room and had answers to questions we had! So we sat down with him and learned how the character of Flash came about and how he felt about it. I had the fantastic experience of interviewing the directors and producers of Zootopia then meeting and talking to animators from the movie.īut the real fun came when our group of 8 bloggers entered a conference room at DisneyToon Studios and to interview Raymond Persi – the voice of Flash in Zootopia – and saw this: Last month when I visited Los Angeles for the #ThroughTheLookingGlassEvent I also participated in a #ZootopiaBluray press day. There have amazing surprises, like visiting a Captain America set, or when Fergie unexpectedly started singing mid-interview, or meeting Jimmy Kimmel, but I'm pretty sure the most recent surprise was more fun than anything I've done in the past. Okay, we know you've probably seen Kristen Bell's appearance on Ellen as the sloth clip went viral, garnering almost 23 million views to date.I've experienced some pretty exciting things as a blogger on Disney press trips. So we all watched it and said, 'thats the funniest thing we've seen in our entire life.' What are we going to do? We're probably going to have someone internal do it and someone said "have you seen Kristen Bell on Ellen, because not all of us had seen that before. Not matter what we did, we said, maybe we should bring in another actor to play the role but he was so perfect - it only worked with his delivery, that was it.īut what about Kristen Bell as Priscilla? How did they get the Frozen star to do a two-word cameo in the movie? Here is the story about behind the Kristen Bell Zootopia sloth casting: We were sitting there thinking, we have two words. Raymond Persi, who is one of our story artists at Disney did the scratch voice of the Sloth and there was something about the tone of his voice that was hilarious.
They explained how they found the voices for the sloths: The voice was very important. First of all, if you haven't seen the trailer with the sloth scene, here it is:Īt the Zootopia junket, I talked with the film's writers Jared Bush and Phil Johnston and producer Clark Spencer about the sloth sequence during a roundtable interview.
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