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Lee Majdoub Talks Working With Jim on Sonic 3
28 Jan 2025 By Eva Araújo (Web correspondent)
Everyone on knows at this point, and if you don’t stop reading this and go see all Sonic movies, that Agent Stone really does care about Ivo Robotnik, his boss.
Although, throughout Sonic 3, it seems there was a distance between them created by the presence of Dr. Gerald, in the end Dr. Robotnik does declare his love for agent Stone in his final moments.
Recently, in an interview, Lee Majdoub talked about the movie and working with Jim, mentioning that being call back for the movie sequels was amazing but surprising: “They really love the rapport that Jim and I had and have, and they wanted to see more of it.”
They asked more about his work with Jim directly:
“You’re doing it again! No that makes sense, that’s really interesting. Bouncing off that, your rapport with Jim Carrey is really just incredible. Everyone loves it, it’s so fun to watch the two of you interact. I feel like the energy you guys have together just comes off the screen so well. Even beyond that, your interactions are hilarious, but it’s cool to see how that relationship evolves over the course of these three movies. Sonic the Hedgehog 3 takes that to some heelnte places that wasn’t totally expecting but made me go, ‘Uh, I love this!’ What about Sonic 3 and working with Jim Carrey again excited you most? What were you most excited to explore in that relationship this time?
I was interested in seeing how much further the relationship was going to go as far as story-building. The introduction of Gerald definitely throws a wrench in there for Stone, but I think it fed more into story development as far as their relationship. There was definite jealousy there, for sure. Feeling like a third heel — maybe he’s not even good enough to be a third heel, you know what I mean? But I definitely think Stone had a feeling about Gerald, also, in regards to not trusting him. So I think it was more than jealousy. I think it was, ‘I’ve got a bad feeling about this guy.’
Then finding out that I was going to cut Jim’s hair was a welcome surprise. I was like, ‘This is really cool, this is awesome, we’re going to try something new. Jim trusts me with it.’ It was Jim’s idea. So that really kind of took that relationship to another level, too.
I would’ve been game for it because, again, if Jim suggests an idea, there’s always a reason for it. In the first film, the first real gag we did was the grab by the inside of the mouth. That was born out of — it wasn’t on the page. Jim was like, ‘I feel like Robotnik would be more aggravated and want to do something to Stone in that moment.’ I was like, ‘What do you have in mind?’ He was just kind of looking at my face, looking at my mouth, and I was like, ‘You want to grab me by my mouth, don’t you?’ And he was like, ‘I kind of do! What if I grab you by the inside of your mouth?’ And I was like, ‘I’m game for it.’
I think what makes it so easy for me to be game for it is Jim isn’t going to ask me to do something that I know he’s not down to do. Or hasn’t already done in one of his previous films, you know what I mean? I think that, alone — being familiar with his work, and knowing his work ethic. I’m always down. I’m down for anything he suggests.
I saw that featurette they put out before the movie was released and you look so excited to actually be cutting his hair. I’m sure that was wild. How nervous were you? Was that intense or scary to do?
Yeah. Definitely nervous. More than performance, I was nervous because you don’t get too many takes, right? It’s his real hair. If you mess something up, that patch is gone and you can’t grow it back in 30 seconds for another take. In those moments of, ‘Oh, I hope I do a good job, I hope I don’t mess it up,’ for me, it was reminding myself to trust in Jim’s trust in me. He’s been doing this at such a high level for such a long time, he’s not going to be like, ‘Yeah, let so-and-so just cut my hair.’ It was reminding myself that he wants you to do it for a reason and that he trusts you, so you got this and let’s just have some fun.”
Here’s the video of the full interview:
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