James Marsden describes why Keanu Reeves was the perfect actor to voice the character of Shadow in 'Sonic the Hedgehog 3.' Plus, he gives THR an update on his 'Jury Duty' co-star Ronald Gladden.
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00:00I'm liking your poster back there. It's kind of giving, like, you gave me a present, you're waiting to see if I like it.
00:05Yeah, I think you're about right. I don't know why I signed off on that photo, but hey, we'll take it.
00:12How does it feel to be here? I mean, I'm thinking, the first Sonic feels like yesterday.
00:16Yeah, it really does. I can't believe we're here on the third movie. Yeah, it's nuts.
00:20It's amazing. And now we have, I think, we're almost having more alien life forms than we are people at this point. A lot of tennis balls on set, I imagine.
00:27Yeah, well, we had these really elaborate puppets this time around, but these brilliant puppeteers doing the voices and everything,
00:33so now we can actually look at something that resembles what we're looking at.
00:37We have Keanu coming this time around. What does he bring to the film? I mean, what an amazing surprise.
00:42Yeah, he's the best. He's so perfect for this character because he does this sort of brooding, mysterious thing so well,
00:48but it can't totally cover up the warmth and goodness in his heart, so it's perfect for the character.
00:54When I was driving on my way here, I was telling somebody about Jury Duty and how amazing it was,
00:57and I was like, I wonder if him and Ronald are still in touch. Hello, Bold, I believe he's here or supposed to be.
01:02Wait, who again? Sorry? Ronald. Oh, Ronald, yeah, yeah. I haven't seen him yet.
01:06I know he's supposed to be here, but I don't know where he's hiding out.
01:11I think for the rest of my life I will look for an update on Ronald and what he's doing just because, yes.
01:15Checking on the guy. He's doing great, by the way. He's loving life and having the best time.
01:21If you could give me three words to describe Shadow entering Team Sonic, shaking things up for Team Sonic, I would say.
01:29How would you describe it?
01:31Conflicted, enigmatic, and mysterious. I guess that's two of the same, but yeah, I would say conflicted, mysterious, powerful.
01:46If they are mysterious, it's like you can't think of other words.
01:49Yeah, it's true.