ベネディクト・カンバーバッチは狼の秘密諜報員“Classified”役：『Penguins of Madagascar』
ドリームワークスが手掛ける動物アニメ『マダガスカル』シリーズのスピンオフ『ザ・ペンギンズ from マダガスカル』シリーズに、ベネディクト・カンバーバッチがアニマルCIAエージェントの高官キャラクターとして出演することが昨年8月ニュースになっていましたが、詳細が出ました。
ベネディクト・カンバーバッチが声で出演するのは、狼のClassified(『Penguins of Madagascar』)。
USA Today：Sneak Peek: 'Penguins of Madagascar'
Benedict Cumberbatch's newest mission: playing a good-looking and debonair secret agent.
Who also happens to be a wolf.
The British actor voices Classified, head of a covert protective force of animals, in the animated espionage caper The Penguins of Madagascar (due Nov. 26). Directed by Simon J. Smith and Eric Darnell, the comedy stars the quartet of flightless birds from the Madagascar movies.
"I don't know what it's like to be a penguin, but I do know what it's like to be a super-duper-smooth classified agent," Cumberbatch says.
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Cumberbatch says "there's a bit of Benedict" in Classified's voice. He was like a lot of boys who grew up with James Bond and "have fantasies of secret agents and being a spy or just working in some kind of covert manner to save the human ? or in this case, animal ? race."
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Such outrageous acts by the small creatures "just tickle me,'' Cumberbatch says. "They have dreams of being warriors, and yet they're these cute little black-and-white fellows who belong in the Arctic or a zoo.''
Even more heartening is that, even though they get themselves into hapless trouble, ''they are actually very needed,'' he says. "My character has to swallow his pride and team up with them, so they have their hero moment. They really do come to the fore as the chief protagonists.''
全米公開は2014.11.26予定。