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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: The Minions Almost Didn’t Speak According to the Guy Who Voices Them! · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest, the new movie Minions
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  Speaker 1: and Monsters is finally here.
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  Speaker 2: When you think of Minions, the first thing that comes
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  Speaker 2: to mind are those goggles, that banana yellow skin in
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  Speaker 2: their trademark high pitched gibberish, which wasn't supposed to exist.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Pierre Coffin, who's voiced the Minions since their first
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  Speaker 3: appearance Indespicable Me, which he also directed, tells Variety he
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  Speaker 3: wasn't meant to provide any permanent vocals in that original script.
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  Speaker 3: They didn't even have dialogue.
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  Speaker 4: It was only a script line that said grew arrives
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  Speaker 4: on stage and the minions clamor his name. So he
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  Speaker 4: hired a team to make something on a computer only
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  Speaker 4: for that scene, but the voices sounded way too digital.
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  Speaker 2: So he did a temp track himself just to temporarily
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  Speaker 2: stand in. He babbled in slow motion, then sped it up,
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  Speaker 2: raising his voice six semitones and set it off. The
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  Speaker 2: studio was like, that's incredible. Can you maybe voice the
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  Speaker 2: minions like a lot? And that started the journey.
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  Speaker 3: Then for the sequel, a European distributor tried to translate
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  Speaker 3: the Minions into Italian and he was like, don't do that.
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  Speaker 3: I have an idea. He started sprinkling in more and
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  Speaker 3: more real languages into Minyonese.
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  Speaker 2: So if you listen closely, there are about a dozen
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  Speaker 2: languages blended in those minions are seriously multilingual minions. And
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  Speaker 2: Monsters is out now.
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  Speaker 3: That's direct from Hollywood.