The Wholesome Way Robert Zemeckis Coached Joseph Gordon-Levitt To Find His Jiminy Cricket Voice For Pinocchio

Joseph Gordon-Levitt took a moment to explain what excites him most about voicing characters like Luxcraft in "Wolfboy and the Everything Factory," Slowen Lo in "The Last Jedi," Detective Hardrock from "Knives Out," and Jiminy Cricket from "Pinocchio." "Getting to do Jiminy Cricket or getting to do ... I got to do the protagonist of 'The Wind Rises' in the English version of Miyazaki's last movie," he said. "Voice acting is liberating because you're not limited by your appearance."

Getting to voice act in so many wondrous worlds is a draw for Gordon-Levitt, who gets to embrace his inner child while doing so. He added, "Acting's a lot like playing pretend when you're a kid, and when you're a kid, you don't worry about what you look like. When you're acting on camera, you have to. But when you're getting to do a voice, you get to be a little closer to that kid whose limits are only of your imagination. You can be a cricket, or you can be a rotund wizard with a violet beard down to your belly, and I love that."