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 So where does Alvin and the Chipmunks fall into all of this? Well, in the twelve years since his Mallrats days, his priorities may have shifted a little bit – he now has a son that just turned five. It’s no fluke that the movie he did prior to Alvin was also a kid’s movie; he was the voice of the title character in Underdog. “I know he likes The Incredibles, but the advantage of Chipmunks is that I'm on camera, you know? ... I took him to see Underdog, and he just kept asking questions. 'How did they get your voice to come out of the dog's mouth? How does the dog fly? Why does the dog wear a cape? Are you inside the dog? Is the dog a costume?'” Alvin has, so far, proved easier. “He came to the set a couple times,” Lee says. “He wondered where [the chipmunks] were when he didn't see them on the set. I told him, they're not working today, but they're very cool and you're going to love the movie. So we saw the preview and he got so excited.” One thing Lee’s son is not as impressed with, however, is his day job: “Yeah, he's a little bored with Earl now. At first when he saw me on TV he'd point at it and walk up to it and touch it. Dada! Now he's just like, whatever. You have a big ugly mustache seven months of the year.” Alvin meant Lee got to shave away Earl’s trademark facial hair, but it also meant acting with three computer-generated chipmunks that were inserted after the filming – in other words, his job consisted of having conversations with empty space. “The magic of CGI, right?” he says with a smile. “Most of the time it tested my patience,” he confesses. “Because there was nothing there. Other than...nothing. You know, if the space that they were occupying was on camera, I couldn't even have tape marks. The director would say, here's where they're standing or sitting or lying, so I'd just have to move my eye line around and know where they each were. And then there'd be actors off-camera reading the dialogue. It was kind of a nightmare. And I did that for five weeks.” The finished film, then, was more or less completely new to him. “Without even realizing it, I just forgot about my own experience of doing it and started watching the movie,” he says. “Because to me I think they did a fantastic job. I don't know how you guys feel, but to me it felt like [the chipmunks] were there and I was talking to them.” Currently, Lee doesn’t have any real plans – like most television actors, he and the rest of ... |
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