Paddington star Sally Hawkins left that franchise to make room for a very different project, the horror movie Bring Her Back, and its directors say she never mentioned Paddington even once for a very good reason. Seacrest has the story...
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Speaker 2 (00:03):
Sally Hawkins is best known for her roles in Paddington
and Paddington Two, where she plays a loving foster mother
to a talking Peruvian bear, and Sally actually turned down
the opportunity to reprise her role in Paddington in Peru
to play another foster mother, a very different and far
less kind one, in the horror movie Bring Her Back.
You might think that at the very least jokes would
be made on set because of those parallels, but the
(00:25):
Felupu brothers who directed Bring Her Back tell the Hollywood
reported that Sally never ever mentioned Paddington once, saying, Sally
does this whole process of getting into a character so
that there's no strings attached to anything else. She wants
to become only this character. If she was bringing any
of Paddington, it would throw her off in some way.
She focuses on this person and this world and fully
embodies it. The brothers ad that Sally would even stay
(00:48):
in character for days while they weren't shooting, so Paddington
was clearly the last thing on her mind. Bring Her
Back out Today
Speaker 1 (00:55):
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