Jack Black talks Kung Fu Panda

The folks over at DailyCamera have posted an enjoyable article featuring Jack Black, voice of the lead character in DreamWorks Animation’s upcoming Kung Fu Panda.

Here’s an excerpt:

For “Kung Fu Panda,” DreamWorks Animation boss Jeffrey Katzenberg wanted the real Black — his own voice, his own personality. Pitching the story to Black, Katzenberg even had some raw animation of the character prepared with dialogue borrowed from “High Fidelity,” Black said.

“It was a fun experience not hiding behind a character voice this time. When you do the character voice, that can be fun and it can inform the character, but you also get distracted by that, and this way, I could just focus on what was funny in the scene,” Black said.

Read the entire article.