Even though Oh looks down at humanity[人類] at first， “you don’t pull away[離開]...because Jim is capable of such great warmth，” Johnson says of the Big Bang Theory star. “You root for[支持] this character to really become a human.”
Home marks Rihanna’s first animated-movie role—and one of just a few acting jobs on her résumé[簡曆]. However， Johnson found she was pouring her soul out in a recording studio.
“The microphone[麥克風] has been her partner her whole career，” says the director， who notes that Rihanna easily found the voice of a girl so close to being a teenager.
“Tip’s had to be very scrappy[愛打架的] and live on her own， so she’s had to be a grown-up. But of course she desperately[拚命地] needs her mom， like every little kid.”
Martin’s Smek is inspired by some of the sillier James Bond villains[壞人]. Still， the alien leader is “a villain you’re rooting to be converted[使轉變] by the end.”
Parsons and Martin had their own unexpected visitor last fall when President Obama took a tour of the DreamWorks animation studio and watched them record a scene.
With Secret Service[特務機關] folk and others “running all over like really intelligent mice，” Parsons says he found it impossible to say anything with the president around. “All the entertainment business things I’ve done， that felt the most like I had entered a movie myself.”