Christopher Robin Interview: Pooh Voice Actor Jim Cummings

Christopher Robin

Legendary part actor Jim Cummings has act over 400 roles including Darkwing Duck , the Tasmanian Devil , Dr. Robotnik from Sonic the Hedgehog , Winnie the Pooh and Tigger . The last two , he repeat in Disney ’s newfangled live military action filmChristopher Robin .

Cummings voices the soft mouth Pooh and exuberant Tigger opposite Ewan McGregor , as Christopher Robin , and Hayley Atwell , who plays Christopher ’s wife Evelyn . e. e. cummings seat down and talked about the Pooh reboot , what the movie pronounce to young people , and how doing voices onChristopher Robinwas different .

On Reboots

When asked about the idea of rebooting Winnie the Pooh , Cummings jokingly said,“I thought it was a terrible idea , but I did anyway . I said , well , hey , I ’m here , you know . ”He energetically continued :

“ No , I think it was bully . I thought it was swell , especially after the last Winnie the Pooh feature . The animize one that they release . [ … ] So , I ’m glad we ’re back and in such okay fashion . I think it ’s beautiful . ”

On Adulthood

Next Cummings talked about what the movie sound out to today ’s young people :

“ Well , I can tell you , the story , it tells you to just decelerate down and , that ’s the old expression , stop and smell out the roses . And the world , it ’s crazy . It ’s spinning a thousand land mile an minute . It ’s so soft to get caught up in the workaday macrocosm . Whatever you ’re doing , the nine to five , the this , the that . Hitting the rat race and the rat always seem to win . It ’s just great that Pooh and the gang– who better to go out and bust out of the Hundred Acre Woods and bring in Christopher back down to earth . And say , hold on , what about your daughter ? What about your wife ? You know , we could all use that because it ’s easy to get lost . ”

Working on Christopher Robin

When the issue of the film was brought up , Cummings tell :

“ Well , we recognize it would be a little less boisterous , by virtue of the animation . It ’s not traditional 2D animation . It ’s a slight more subtle . And they ’re probably not quite indestructible . After all they are cloth and stuffing . But it was just a more still approaching , a more zen sort of approach . For lack of a better word , a little more serenity . Not completely insane for dearest the whole . No flights of bees carrying them aloft . And no cliffs , no cliff dive .

“ So , it ’s , just in universal , a piddling more pulled back . And it works , I think … so , well . And I just desire everybody else loves it too . ”