Meet the Cast of The Wild Robot! All About the Actors Voicing the Characters in the Hit Film
The Wild Robot series, a bestselling chapter book series for kids that includes The Wild Robot, The Wild Robot Protects, and The Wild Robot Escapes, has been adapted into a Dreamworks film that has earned rave reviews and won the box office in its first week.
Directed by Chris Sanders (known for How to Train Your Dragon and Lilo & Stitch), the film, based on the books by Peter Brown, The Wild Robot follows a robot whose transport ship crashes in a tsunami, causing the robot to wash up on an island populated only by animals. Her initial programming to be useful in the human world scares the animals, who think she’s a monster, but after a baby goose imprints on her, she learns what it truly means to be needed and part of a community.
Asked by NBC News if there would be more films, Sanders said, “I would very much like to. I think the entire crew really, really involved themselves in this film in a way that I’ve never seen before, myself included. This was a labor of love on the part of everybody at the studio, and yes, I think I’d love to go and stay here for a while.”
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Lupita Nyong’o: Roz
Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o said she was inspired by the voices of Alexa and Siri to help inform the “optimistic politeness” of the initial voice of her Rozzum 7134 robot — but she warms up over time as she takes on the role of mother to a gosling, Brightbill, and becomes useful to the animals on the island — just not in the way she was programmed.
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Pedro Pascal: Fink
A fox without many friends on the island, he volunteers to help Roz raise Brightbill, partly out of kindness and partly because he’s looking to belong.
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Kit Connor: Brightbill
Kit Connor plays the grown-up Brightbill, who loves Roz but realizes that he might not fit in with the other geese as they prepare for their first migration, despite all her efforts to teach him what he needs to now.
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Catherine O’Hara: Pinktail
Playing an exasperated but warm possum mom who helps Roz come to terms with her new role (“I do not have programming to be a mother,” Roz says. “No one does,” O’Hara’s character responds), O’Hara is warm and funny.
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Bill Nighy: Longneck
The Love, Actualy star lends his usual charm to the role of an elder gosling who takes Brightbill under his wing on his first migration.
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Ving Rhames: Thunderbolt
Thunderbolt is a commanding falcon who agrees to help Brightbill learn to fly when Roz can’t give him the training he needs to make it through the full migration with the other gees.e
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VONTRA: Stephanie Hsu
VONTRA is the cheerful but malevolent robot who finds Roz on the island through the transmitter of another shipwrecked robot and tries to take her back to reprogram her to factory settings.
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Thorn: Mark Hamill
Thorn, the apex predatory of the forest, ends up becoming a protector after Roz rescues him during a terrible snowstorm.
“As a father of three who took them to see so-called ‘children’s movies’ as a kid — and you’d suffer through some horrible moments … This one effortlessly appeals to every age,” he told Variety. “The parents will have as good a time as the kids. It’s rare to hit that sweet spot.”
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Matt Berry: Paddler
The other animals mock Matt Berry’s grumpy, dedicated beaver for his commitment to a project, but it ends up saving the whole forest after the robot headquarters comes for Roz.
Source: People
