Michael Schumacher will be making a new kind of debut during the Monaco Grand prix weekend after 15 years of his Formula one debut. Schumi’s voice will be heard in a new animation movie CARS from Pixar, where he plays a cameo role as himself. The legends of the silver screen and world of motorsport like Paul Newman, Richard Petty, Mario Andretti, Darrell Waltrip and Dale Earnhardt Jr join Schumacher in the cast of CARS.
Schumacher’s first acting experience behind a microphone in his own words.
“When I first heard about this project, I was obviously hesitating as I am not at all good in acting or pretending I am somebody else, and as I have never done anything like this before. But on the other side, the story was so nice and the whole setting seemed so appealing.”
“So we thought: okay, why not try, let’s just go and try it. It was quite difficult doing this, but at the same time it was a lot of fun as it was a totally new experience. And trying new things is always worth it.”
“We had to stop several times, especially when I did the languages other than German and English, but in the end I hope it will come across well and the people will like it. For sure, it was a very interesting and funny thing to do.”.
Disney is on track to unwrap Pixar’s CARS on may 26th at Lowe’s Motor Speedway in Charlotte, North Carolina with first ever multi-screen digital cinema premiere.#
Hi,
Michael Schumacher too ~ I didn’t know that! There’s a video online of a voice actor recording session at Pixar that features the Hollywood voice actors and also NASCAR voice actors linked to at the InteractiveVoices blog:
http://www.interactivevoices.com/blog/2006/05/disney-pixars-cars-watch-voice-actor.html
Richard Petty, Mario Andretti, Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Darrell Waltrip are all mentioned in the producers cut and appear in the video.
Cheers,
Stephanie
Stephanie • •
Stephanie, yes its confirmed. Check out these questions by some press and schumachers answers to it.
Q: (Fritz-Dieter Rencken – The Citizen) Michael, it’s nothing to do with the session, but can you confirm reports that you’ll be co-operating in some sort of Hollywood movie or cartoon?
MS: Yeah, it’s true that I give my voice for a sort of cartoon movie, yeah.
Q: (Fritz-Dieter Rencken – The Citizen) What character?
MS: A Ferrari car, what else?
Thats offical news now.
Bharath Kumar • •
They said on the GP program that Alonso is doing the voice in Spanish.
Paul Roberts • •
Paul : For wat character, Alonso is doing the voice in Spanish?. I havent heard abt it yet. Any links?
Bharath Kumar • •
Same as the Michael Schumacher part in the spanish version, it was on the grid walk on UK ITV coverage, in an interview with one of the Pixar people.
Paul Roberts • •
Hey i saw this movie, and i loved the part that schumacher played, but i have yet to find a picture of the ferrari he cameos as. its bugging me because i really like the animation that pixar did. if anyone comes across a pic, either send it to me at edelric14@yahoo.com or plz give me a link, thank you. any help would be much appreciated
Mike Moore • •
He is playing a Ferrari F430. Does anyone know what he is saying in german?
Cooper Naitove • •
I havent seen the movie yet, will let u know once i see that.
Bharath Kumar • •
I believe Alex Zanardi’s voice is heard at least in Italian too!
Nat Lockwood • •
[quote comment="739"]Same as the Michael Schumacher part in the spanish version, it was on the grid walk on UK ITV coverage, in an interview with one of the Pixar people.[/quote]
Well, it seems that in the end Alonso’s character in the Spanish version is Mario Andretti’s in the US version. Schumi dubs the same character in both versions since the line has been kept in Italian.
ramone • •