At the 'Sonic the Hedgehog 3' premiere, Lee Majdoub expressed his disbelief in getting to work so closely with Jim Carrey after being a long-time fan of his work. Plus, he takes a moment to appreciate the opportunity he has had acting in the 'Sonic' franchise.
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00:00You get to do the honors of shaving Jim Carrey's hair.
00:02I do.
00:03How?
00:04Tell me about that.
00:05Uh, it was, it was insane to find out.
00:07It was Jim's idea.
00:08Oh really?
00:09Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:10So basically, the way it went down was, he had long hair.
00:13He was like, well why don't we add that to this montage sequence, and I want, I want
00:17Lee to cut my hair.
00:19And then it was like, well should we have Lee cut your hair or should we have a barber
00:22do it?
00:23And he's like, no, Lee should cut my hair.
00:24It needs to be Agent Stone and Robotnik, it needs to be that moment, and he's like, and
00:28I trust Lee.
00:29I've got faith in him.
00:30Let's do it.
00:31You're like, I can, I got one shot at this.
00:33Yeah, that's the thing, right, is like, is like, you know, everybody's like, how did
00:36you feel?
00:37And I'm like, uh, very nervous, and also, like, super confident.
00:43You know, I was like, I know I'm not gonna mess this up.
00:45He's shown me faith.
00:46Trust in Jim trusting me.
00:48Yeah.
00:49How would you describe Agent Stone's, uh, mindset in this movie?
00:54So he goes through quite a journey.
00:55I think we start off with him really working hard on trying to get Robotnik out of his
01:01funk.
01:02Robotnik's a little bit depressed since he's lost to the Hedgehog twice now.
01:06In my opinion, had he gotten Agent Stone's help a little bit sooner, maybe we wouldn't
01:09be dealing with this.
01:11Just saying.
01:12Just saying.
01:13Just a little note.
01:14No, but Stone is pretty much taking care of Robotnik and also out in search of whatever
01:17this Project Shadow thing might be.
01:21And then gets to meet Grandpa Robotnik and has to deal with all that internal dilemma
01:25of someone else getting Ivo's attention.
01:28You've got lots of Jim Carrey in your life.
01:31Yeah, yeah.
01:32Like, it's so wild.
01:33You tell-
01:34Can't complain.
01:35Yeah, you tell me when I was watching Ace Ventura back in the day and, like, super obsessed
01:39with Ace and the mask and all that and doing impersonations of him in school that, you
01:45know, down the line, it was like three movies with Jim.
01:50I wouldn't believe it.
01:51Yeah.
01:52I mean, he keeps talking about, maybe I'm retiring, maybe I'm- I think he's spitballing,
01:54I don't know.
01:55Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:56But if he is done with Robotnik, who do you think would be a worthy foe for Sonic in the
02:00future?
02:01Oh.
02:02Oh, that's- I have not thought about that.
02:06I mean-
02:07Do you think, like, Agent Stone could-
02:09Look, I've seen fans talking about Agent Stone potentially, like, coming in as a bigger bad.
02:15I think there's definitely something there, because of the- basically the character arc,
02:21I think we could go with, like, okay, if Robotnik was gone, Stone would really deal with, like,
02:27probably the dilemma of, like, losing him again, snapping a little bit.
02:31I think there's a lot of room to grow with Stone being there.
02:35Not that I would ever, you know, think I could take the mantle, but I think there's definitely
02:40an element to Stone, like, we haven't seen- there's a lot we haven't seen to him.
02:43Yeah.
02:44Yeah.
02:46Yeah.
02:47I remember you talking about, you know, Jim's football, and he's like, I might retire, I
02:48don't know, the money's right.
02:49I'm retired.
02:50But what has it meant to you to just work alongside of him like this?
02:53And, like, I remember the first movie, and you were like, oh my gosh, I'm pinching myself,
02:55but now it's like, you guys have really had a bond at this point.
02:59Yeah, it's still a pinch me.
03:02Like, to be totally honest with you, there are moments where I'm like, oh, I just hope
03:07this isn't a dream, and I wake up, and none of the Sonics happened.
03:10You know?
03:11And it's, I think it's like, it's forcing me to practice taking a step back and really
03:17looking at life, and taking it in, and really appreciating what we've been able to do, and
03:23that dreams come true, and just accepting that it's like, hey, we're here, we're doing
03:27it, this is life, this is what we're doing now.
03:30Yeah, the derealization needs to go away.
03:32Yeah, yeah, but, you know, I don't want it to fully go away, because I think it's like
03:36part of who I am, but, yeah, you know, at some point it's got to be like, Lee, this
03:41is really happening, buddy.
03:43Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're here now.