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I'd started by saying 'I'll try and do a Sergio Mendes-type song', and they said, 'Oh, we'll get him to play on it.' It was really exciting, but I was nervous as well. Mendes is one of the world's most influential and revered bossa nova exponents and actually played piano in Clement's song. I'm also a big Sergio Mendes fan, so I listened to a lot of that as well." But when I realised he wanted me to write it, I re-listened to Jungle Book songs and stuff like that. "I had a laptop and I didn't know where the microphone was on it and I didn't have any of the gear.
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' I can't remember any moment when he'd asked me to write it - I just found myself having to do it!"Ĭlement admits he was stumped at how to record the song. "I thought that was cool, but I didn't realise he wanted me to write it! Then I was getting these emails - 'How's the song going?' Then I realised and said, 'Yeah, going good.
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It was Saldanha who first suggested that Nigel sing in Rio - The Movie. He had a love for this thing and it would have been terrible to say 'I'm not doing it.' In fact, I didn't want to see Ice Age in case I didn't like it!" I didn't even need to see them - he was nice enough that I just couldn't say no. I did that for four hours."Ĭlement confesses that before he was approached by Saldanha, he hadn't seen any of the Ice Age movies. Not only did they not have the lines, but they told me what to say and I had no idea what it was.
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That was even weirder because my part wasn't even in English. "I was in Despicable Me, but I'm hardly in it at all. You've got nowhere else to look, you know? In a way this reminded me of those days. The worst show that I ever did was to one person - it's very difficult. I don't mind an audience of 1000 people, but an audience of a small group is really hard. I'm quite shy and it's hard to perform in that way just in a room. "I only met Anne 10 minutes ago, but I've been threatening her on screen for a year and a half! Other than that. Rarely do actors who voice characters in animated films actually perform at the same time as other actors in the film. I only do overacting and under-acting, I can't do anything in the middle." Whereas most of the characters were quite naturalistic, I'm over-acting. "I just went theatrical with it and over-acted. He was in a show but he was fired and a better looking bird took over, so now he's out to get revenge on all good looking birds - he's quite shallow, but it was really fun to do."Ĭlement drew inspiration for the voice he gave Nigel from the bird being an 'actor'. Mostly the humans talk to humans and the birds talk to birds, but he's supposedly a former soap opera actor, like a star bird. "There are kind of two worlds, the humans and the birds and they don't speak the same language, in a way. "I'm not playing a human - I'm playing a bird," he says. "You don't know what's going to happen as they're still developing it, and you go back all the time and re-record your stuff later down the line, and you're working on the story with them."īut Clement - who two weeks ago hadn't seen a final cut of the film - was given the chance to improvise and wrote a song that he sings - as Nigel - in the movie. "They had animated my character to a speech I had in Flight of the Conchords - it was really quite weird to see this bird talking like me."Īt that stage there was no script. He says he got involved after Rio's director Carlos Saldanha showed him short test excerpts from the movie.