Shirley Henderson

I guess this one, when they're touching each other, they had to, but there were a lot of different passes that were done with motion control cameras.

And, uh, The Legacy did the puppeteering, but Shirley Henderson did all the voices, and Shirley Henderson was the original performer that J.J. Abrams hired to do Babu Frik, who was such a great character in the sequels.

And, and so, uh, J.J. actually w- c- came to set to, uh, when we were filming the Anzellans.

I, I invited him to take a look and make sure we're doing it right, and make sure we had his blessing, 'cause, uh, you know, when you come up with a character like that that's so memorable, you wanna make sure that, you know, uh...

And so he sends him off- Go ... and reassures him, he's gonna be behind him.

We'll be right behind you.

And then an important little bit of, you know, uh, sound work is the getting the ADR lines of, of Shirley Henderson saying- I'll be right behind you ... "Don't worry, we'll be back." And, you know, uh, just kinda throwing that away- Go now ...

in the voice of the Anzellans, but in fact they do come back later, so it's important to thread that in.

And you play Elizabeth, which is an extraordinary character and brilliantly played.

How does your Elizabeth differ to the previous Elizabeths who would have been played in America by, you know, Shirley Henderson or Maine Winningham? Is that the other one you

played? Yeah.

Katie Braben actually played it as well.

Katie Braben is a great actor, singer.

She did it in the West End.

Look, I only saw Shirley Henderson do it.

I went to see it at the Old Vic when it was on first and it was brilliant.

But the film's already demonstrated that the actor herself doesn't necessarily need to be anywhere near that age.

Shirley Henderson was in her 30s when she played Myrtle in Chamber of Secrets, and because of the costume, performance, and special effects, most people probably never thought twice about it.

Hewitt Richards appears much closer to the general look described in the books anyway, where Myrtle is portrayed as a short, somewhat heavyset girl with lank hair, thick glasses, and pimples.

Myrtle's death is of course one of the central pieces of the mystery surrounding the chamber itself, and she unknowingly provides Harry and Ron with information that eventually points them toward the entrance.

I run this theater company, Lochery Festival Theatre.

I'm in a two-hander musical with Shirley Henderson, and it's...

I did a matinee of that on Saturday.

I flew to London.

you know, Martin Scorsese voices a character from Solo.

Shirley Henderson voices characters from The Rise of Skywalker, which is the film everyone seems to dump on.

You know, there's things from all over the Star Wars world, all just wedged in together.

And no one's, you know, hanging a sign over going, look at this, look at this, look at this.

Oh, you know what? I adore the work of Shirley Henderson, who I think people, you know, know most from playing Moaning Merlin in Harry Potter.

But I would love to sit down for a cup of tea with her and talk about kind of approaching character.

I'm so excited to be FaceTiming you.

And then in terms of, oh, anyone in the industry

alive, oh, who would I...

Oh, you know what? I adore the work of Shirley Henderson, who I think people, you know, know most from playing Moaning Myrtle in Harry Potter.

But I would love to sit down for a cup of tea with her and talk about kind of approaching character.

And I think she, yeah, how she builds her characters, because I think she just has the most incredible perspective on the world.

Dude.

Shirley Henderson, the British actress, not only voiced Babu, but then is not a puppeteer, but asked a puppet so she could control the mouth.

Wow.

And th- they were so pu- he was so popular.

Yeah, Anzellans are, I'm very happy they exist, and I'm glad that there are many of them.

Yeah.

I hopefully there's more, and hopefully all sound like Shirley Henderson.

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