Thomson and Thompson have a very slapstick brand of humor in The Adventures of Tintin. What was it like filming their scenes on a motion-capture set?
Simon [Pegg, who plays Thompson] and I spent three weeks just training. We had a guy there, Terry Notary [who played the aliens from Attack The Block], who's probably one of the finest movement coaches in the world, he's worked with Cirque du Soleil.
They hired a studio out down in Culver City and every day we went for six hours and we took our jackets and bowler hats and canes and we walked in unison! Everything we did was exactly in time.
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