![]() ![]() I did what I was told - and I did it because I was 27 years old and I thought this was going to be it and I wanted the $200,000.” ![]() People always assume I wrote and directed “BASEketball” and I have to go, “That was not me. “BASEketball” is the only other thing I didn’t write and direct. Was it hard to relinquish that kind of total creative control? This is one of the only projects you’ve ever performed in that you didn’t also write and direct. At first, I was actually like, “Maybe I’ll do Kirk Cameron’s voice.” But then I saw that he’s such a blank slate, there’s nothing to do. You know, he got really religious, and he just seemed so pissed. I always had Kirk Cameron in my mind just because of all the stuff I’d seen of him. MORE: Gru finds his twin, but 'Despicable Me 3' neither doubles nor triples the fun » Your “Despicable Me 3” character is sort of like if Corey Feldman or Ricky Schroder had turned evil and become super-villains. It’s a ride and it’s just about what’s funny. These Illumination movies are the polar opposite of that. It is sad after sad after sad and you’re crying the whole time, and you’re like, “Who the. One horrible thing after another happens. We just saw “The Good Dinosaur.” Dude, that movie is like - what’s the movie about the guy who got raped by a bear? You mean “The Revenant”? It’s not what I lovingly call “Ameritrash,” where it’s all about: what was the point and what did the character learn? The Illumination stuff is so visual and so cartoony. Now that my daughter is almost 4, I’ve seen every kids’ movie there is three times. On a recent morning, Parker, 47, sat down with The Times in the production offices of “South Park,” which will kick off its 21st season in August, to talk about playing a cartoon baddie, maintaining his comedic edge as a middle-aged dad and doing topical satire in the age of Donald Trump. “But it’s not like we can sit down together and watch the ‘South Park’ movie.” “She’ll see a picture of Cartman and be like, ‘Oh, that’s Daddy’s work,’ ” he says. Parker says he took the role largely because, unlike nearly everything he’s ever done, it would be something his then 2-year-old daughter could actually watch. Mackey - Parker costars opposite “Despicable” veterans Steve Carell and Kristen Wiig as Balthazar Bratt, an embittered, mullet-wearing former 1980s child star who is bent on world domination. ![]() In his first animated voice-over role outside of “South Park” - on which he performs numerous characters, including Cartman, Stan and Mr. It only seems fitting, then, that Parker has now been cast as an evil mastermind, albeit an absurd one, in “Despicable Me 3,” the third installment in the hit animated franchise from Illumination Entertainment and Universal Pictures, which hits theaters Friday. To the easily offended, Trey Parker has long been a kind of comedic super-villain.įor decades, Parker and his longtime collaborator Matt Stone have been blowing up taboos left and right on their Comedy Central show “South Park,” in films like “South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut” and “Team America: World Police,” and in their Broadway smash “The Book of Mormon.” The two even showed up once in Hollywood’s holiest spot, the Academy Awards red carpet, dressed in drag and tripping on acid - either one of the most awesome or most appalling moments in Oscars history, depending on whom you ask. ![]()
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