Brittany Murphy

It blows my mind the way Frank Miller can write.

“It blows my mind the way Frank Miller can write.” … Read More

I ask a lot because I’m very curious – especially about ex-girlfriends. I’m pretty good at getting the answers, too.

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One day I got to meet him because he was teaching Broadway dance. It was a little after Tap came out and he was very young. He wouldn’t remember me, but it was quite amazing. And now I’ve met him as an adult!

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I’ve been trained in dancing and I used to be quite good, though I am a bit rusty right now. But I could probably brush up in a couple of months. The funny thing is that I actually took classes from Savion Glover, who worked in Happy Feet, when I was a kid. Isn’t that wild? I was part of a selected group that was brought into New York from New Jersey (which is where I’m from) to study, every Saturday: ballet, jazz and tap. It was a musical comedy group.

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I’ve been singing my whole life, since I was a kid; but never formally as a career. I did it in plays when I was younger, and I sang all styles of music: everything from Italian opera to blues.

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I got a phone call from George Miller [the director] asking me to play this role. We sat down and he showed me on his computer a documentary-type montage sequence of real penguins swimming, in an Esther Williams synchronized sort of way, and doing things I have never seen them do. Then he explained his vision of the film, asked me to read the script and to voice the character. I was cast a little bit later, and he let me do the singing as well!

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My dreams and aspirations when I was a child for as long as I can remember was to be an entertainer.

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I would hope with all my heart that people understand this and see it in the film. And there are also other messages in Happy Feet, like racial and environmental ones, but none of them are so overt. George has made a great story about penguins with a lot of humanity in it and audiences can follow a species we don’t know that well.

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I’ve grown environmentally. I’m far more cautious, although I always have been; but more now. And I have grown a lot professionally by working with George Miller.

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I come from a military family.

“I come from a military family.” Brittany Murphy

I do sarcasm really poorly.

“I do sarcasm really poorly.” Brittany Murphy

It was really fun and intimate in a way. Working with George Miller is exquisite. Gloria is different from anything I’ve ever played before. The first time I saw the characters in the studio I remember thinking that Mumble looked just like Elijah, with such a cute and endearing face. I don’t think Gloria looks that much like me.

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I think they should take everyone who works for The National Enquirer and the Star, and everyone who works for Us Weekly, and put them all to work looking for terrorists. I think they would find the terrorists. All of them. It would be genius!

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I don’t really take myself very seriously.

“I don’t really take myself very seriously.” Brittany Murphy

With all the technology we’re inventing and what they’re coming up with scientifically, people are having longer lifetimes. It’s scary, but in the same sense it’s also very exciting.

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To give Tinker Bell a voice for the first time in history is such an honor.

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I’ve been trained in dancing and I used to be quite good, though I am a bit rusty right now. But I could probably brush up in a couple of months.