Robert Pattinson sounds totally unrecognizable in ‘Boy and the Heron’ trailer
nypost.com“My Neighbor Totoro” — with a throaty, gravely American accent.The freaky heron takes a little boy named Mahito into a magical world where his thought-to-be-dead mother could be hiding.“Your mother, she’s awaiting your rescue.
I’ll be your guide,” Pattinson croaks like a chain-smoking frog in his first-ever animated role. “You and I aren’t friends or allies, kid.”Pattinson, who’s skillfully altered his natural voice before in films such as “Twilight” and “The Batman,” is joined in “Heron” by a cast of heavy hitters including Christian Bale, Florence Pugh, Gemma Chan, Dave Bautista, Mark Hamill, Willem Dafoe, Mamoudou Athie, Dan Stevens, Karen Fukuhara and Tony Revolori.
After the North American premiere of “The Boy and the Heron” at the Toronto International Film Festival in September, where it screened in Japanese, The Post declared in a three-and-a-half-star review, “The Japanese director’s visual majesty and uncontrollable imagination are as fully present as ever.
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