SAN DIEGO (AP) – Sir Ben Kingsley was lying down on the job while making his latest film, the stop-motion animated feature “The Boxtrolls.”
“I did most of my recordings lying down, reclining on a kind of sofa bed,” the 70-year-old Oscar winner told an audience Saturday at Comic-Con. “I wanted his voice to come from his belly, not from where my voice normally comes from. It was a very relaxed recording session, and I did nod off occasionally.”
Kingsley added that he found it “very liberating just to depend upon my voice to bring this extraordinary creature to life.”
Made by the studio behind “Coraline” and “ParaNorman,” ”The Boxtrolls” follows a family of underground creatures who come out after dark to collect above-ground garbage to construct their ever-evolving world. A human boy, voiced by Isaac Hempstead Wright of “Game of Thrones,” lives among them and believes he, too, is a Boxtroll.
Kingsley’s character, Snatcher, is convinced the creatures are evil and aims to put an end to them.