The secret to TV’s most terrifying villain – Wallace and Gromit’s Feathers McGraw
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This Christmas, one of TV’s most feared villains returns to the small screen. For a generation, an innocent looking penguin is the embodiment of pure evil, and Feathers McGraw is back in Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl. The sinister bird – who first appeared in 1993’s The Wrong Trousers – plays a big role in the feature film airing on Christmas Day, and creator Nick Park is delighted to have him back for the new feature length film.
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‘You’ve got to love your villain as much as the other characters, definitely,’ he exclusively told Metro. Plenty of people up and down the country know just how scary Feathers can be – including new Wallace and Gromit star Lauren Patel, who grew up loving all things Aardman.
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Everybody’s Talking About Jamie actress Lauren, who voices PC Mukherjee in the new film, admitted: ‘This silent, non-blinking penguin, man. I’m terrified of him!. ‘Genuinely – I met him, and that’s helped, because he was only about this big when I met him, but he still sent a little shiver down my spine. It was very scary.’.
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There is a real method to the madness, as Nick and his co-director Merlin Crossingham opened up about how they make such a silent, still character so unnerving. ‘He’s kind of expressionless, and the way he moves – which is really established by Steve Fox on The Wrong Trousers, Steve Box animated Feathers and established that inner strength,’ Merlin explained.
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