
“ just loves kung fu and the action figures and the mythology around it, and all the great kung fu masters. “He’s eternally this nerdy kid,” says Black. It’s partly the epic kung fu, partly the fun comedic shenanigans, and partly the endearing characters - especially Po. I got to be kind of a superhero, but with all of my natural instincts.” Photo: Netflixįourteen years, three movies, and two television shows later (not to mention a handful of short films and video games), the Kung Fu Panda franchise still has staying power. So when I first started, it was a fun opportunity to just be myself, and let the animators do all the cool fighting sequences. And I was like, Oh, all right, now I get it.

“And he got some footage, I think it was audio from School of Rock, or High Fidelity, one of my earlier movies, and he had the animators do a short animation using that audio.

“Jeffrey Katzenberg told me, You don’t have to worry about creating some new character. But DreamWorks co-founder Jeffrey Katzenberg sold him with a specific pitch. In honor of his return to his excitable martial-arts-master panda character, Black reflected on how he got the role all those years ago.Īs he tells Polygon, back in the mid-2000s, he’d never done voice acting before. Even though Black voiced the character across all three Kung Fu Panda movies, beginning with 2008’s Kung Fu Panda, he hasn’t reprised the role for the two previous television shows.
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