The film is very much about that latter trait and about how good intentions are always the best intentions. The bear gets locked up in prison, where he, of course, teaches the inmates about kindness and marmalade. When he hopes to earn enough money to buy a vintage pop-up book for his Aunt Lucy (who still lives back in Peru), Paddington finds himself mixed up in a heist perpetrated by washed-up actor Phoenix Buchanan, gamely played by Hugh Grant (who also happens to star with Whishaw in the upcoming Stephen Frears-directed miniseries “A Very English Scandal” for BBC One).
In the new film, Paddington has created a life for himself in London with the Brown family. If you told me Ben had been raised in the jungle by a faun and a unicorn, I’d believe you - and it makes him the perfect Paddington.” But most wonderfully of all, he has an extraordinarily other-worldly quality. “Somehow his bear is young and naive without being childish, well-mannered and sincere without being an irritating goody-goody. “Ben has the most wonderful voice and uses it to astonishing effect in the film,” the director says. And perhaps you have to become obsessive.”įor King, who shared all those hours with the actor in the recording booth, Whishaw now seems like the only guy who could voice Paddington. You can keep fiddling and trying to perfect it. It sounds ridiculous, but when it’s not right it’s so obviously not right and so painfully not right that you keep going. “You just keep going and going and going. “I’ve said some of those lines so many times,” the actor says. The actor sometimes did more than 100 takes for one line, subtly revising to ensure each moment in the film feels as grounded and real as possible. The character only came alive later, during the lengthy animation process, which required Whishaw to lay down hours and hours of voiceover takes as the animation was created. Paddington doesn’t exist during the on-set filming: King used stand-in actors or a tennis ball on a stick as the bear, and Whishaw never visited the set. If you told me Ben had been raised in the jungle by a faun and a unicorn, I’d believe you - and it makes him the perfect Paddington.
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