Hannah Waddingham voices Jinx the cat in The Garfield Movie, and admits to Melissa Nathoo she relishes playing a villain on-screen. Report by Nathoom. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 How are you? It's always a joy to see you again.
00:03 You're just like a little sunshine in my life.
00:06 Ah, well hello, likewise.
00:08 And I come again always with serious questions.
00:10 Come on then.
00:11 Are you more of a cat person or are you more of a dog person?
00:13 Because I feel I may have heard you at one point say
00:16 that you like dogs more than you like humans, so.
00:18 I am a dog person, but I have a Maine Coon myself.
00:22 You know those massive cats?
00:24 Oh.
00:25 That are basically like small tigers.
00:27 You have one?
00:28 Yeah, and he's a revolting pig vomit, a big cat.
00:32 But I love him for it. He is vile.
00:35 He's vile.
00:36 I don't think he cares whether we're there or not.
00:38 Okay.
00:38 And when you pick him up, you can stretch him out to like this long
00:42 and he just goes, "Oh God, humans."
00:45 Well, they got the right person in the end to play jinx.
00:48 I said I wanted a cat that looked the size of a dog.
00:51 Because I travel so much, we needed to have a cat.
00:53 Perfect.
00:54 I honestly, if I hadn't known it was you playing jinx,
00:56 I don't think I-- I was listening.
00:58 I was like, "This doesn't sound like you."
01:00 Good. Oh, I'm so glad.
01:01 You used like the whole range, I feel, of your voice.
01:04 Yeah, it was completely natural.
01:05 So how was your voice afterwards?
01:07 Mangled. Thank you for asking.
01:09 Was mangled.
01:10 Was it?
01:10 Yeah, because I do this. I used to do it in theatre.
01:12 I look at a character. I look at how they're going to look.
01:15 I look at their kind of-- the series of events, good and bad, in their lives.
01:19 And my brain goes, "Oh, it has to sound like this."
01:21 And then I have to work my way around to doing it.
01:23 Right.
01:24 I had the same thing with the Wicked Witch of the West in Wizard of Oz.
01:28 Mangled.
01:29 All the time.
01:30 You must reddish playing these villains, though,
01:32 because you do it very well, and then you get cast in a lot.
01:35 I love it.
01:37 I love being vile.
01:39 I really do.
01:41 I love being vile, but with a twinkle that makes the audience go,
01:45 "Oh, I kind of love her."
01:47 I was going to say, because it's so opposite to you.
01:49 I love it, but that's why I love it, because you can just--
01:51 It's like catharsis.
01:53 Oh, my God.
01:54 And listen, I don't think there's ever going to be a time
01:57 when I'm not going to be happy to see you reunited with someone from Ted Lasso.
02:01 I know.
02:02 And you've got Brett in here, which I'm guessing you obviously didn't record with him.
02:06 No, I mean, I haven't seen him at all in the making of this,
02:08 but we did see each other last week for dinner.
02:10 Oh, okay. Then that's fine.
02:12 But I love him in this.
02:13 I love the fact that his character has a kind of duplicitous nature as well.
02:18 It's really clever how they work that in.
02:20 With how much Ted Lasso has done, even for your career,
02:23 it must be nice when you do get to work in a way, I would say.
02:26 Oh, it's gorgeous.
02:27 Because it has happened a fair bit now.
02:29 Yeah, it's gorgeous.
02:30 And even myself and Nick Muhammad are constantly looking,
02:33 and he's constantly writing ideas and sending me bits and pieces, treatments,
02:38 for us to find something to do together.
02:39 We all love each other's molecules so much.
02:43 I can't touch.
02:44 What I would give to do anything with any of them,
02:46 I would go into it blindly, because they are good eggs.
02:49 And we would all watch it blindly.
02:50 Well, we would pay attention, but you know what I mean?
02:52 We would.
02:53 And listen, I'm really happy for you in terms of everything that's going on right now.
02:58 Thank you.
02:59 How is it for you?
03:01 Does it feel like you've kind of worked all your life to now--
03:04 You're doing the hosting, and you're still getting to act,
03:07 and you're doing the voice acting.
03:08 Is this kind of where you've always wanted to be?
03:11 Where I was before with theatre was my dream.
03:14 So this doesn't feel like it's more important than that.
03:17 It just feels like I've kind of moved into a different stage,
03:22 so I would never kind of put one above the other,
03:26 because the muscularity and the live nature of theatre--
03:31 Theatre performers, there's no one better than them.
03:34 There really isn't.
03:35 This is just a different muscle that I'm using.
03:39 The thing I do feel is the great privilege of being able to flick-flack
03:44 from one thing to another with such great people
03:48 and then go back into my theatre world, hosting the Oliviers,
03:53 and be brought in for a big theatrical hug from them.
03:58 So being able to do all of that has really kind of finished me off.
04:04 The fact that I can go back to them, then I can move to TV,
04:08 then do movies, then do voiceovers, then do--
04:11 So, yeah, it's not lost on me at all,
04:15 the fact that doing TED has kind of opened the door for everything else as well.
04:21 I thought you were just going to say you feel jet-lagged,
04:23 which I wasn't surprised.
04:24 Honest. I'm so jet-lagged today.
04:27 I'm thrilled that I'm static.
04:29 You wouldn't know.
04:30 You are always a joy, Hannah.
04:32 Thank you, lovely. Likewise.
04:33 Always lovely to see you.
04:34 Likewise. Thank you, Daniela.