Watch: Kevin McKidd discusses his 'Brave' voices and why animation is like being a spy
'Grey's Anatomy' star also discusses another killer Shonda Rhimes finale
EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND - Like his "Brave" co-star Kelly Macdonald, Kevin McKidd was first introduced to most viewers in Danny Boyle's "Trainspotting" and, also like Macdonald, McKidd makes his primary living covering up his native Scottish accent for a successful television show.
On ABC's "Grey's Anatomy," McKidd plays tightly wound, periodically traumatized, entirely American Owen Hunt. Emotional repression aside, it's a strong role for McKidd, but when we sat down at Edinburgh's Balmoral Hotel for the junket for "Brave," he admitted how fun it is to just let loose in the recording booth.
In "Brave," McKidd plays Scottish clan leader Lord MacGuffin, as well as his seemingly dim-witted son, one of three suitors to Macdonald's Merida. On the surface, Young MacGuffin seems to almost completely incoherent, but as McKidd explains, the character is actually speaking a specific dialect that runs in the actor's bloodlines.
Neither role is huge, but McKidd told me that he's been working on "Brave" for four years, a project that he compares to being a secret agent.
[We also discussed "Grey's Anatomy" just a wee bit and what that conversation isn't in the "Brave"-centric interview above, it's excerpted below!]
Hopefully you've already watched my interview with the charming Kelly MacDonald. And stay tuned over the next couple days for my conversations with Pixar chief John Lasseter and with "Brave" director Mark Andrews & producer Katherine Sarafian. And yes, I'm still planning on posting the embarrassing video of my archery attempts in Scotland.
"Brave" opens on Friday, June 22.
A long-time member of the TCA Board and a longer-time blogger of "American Idol," Dan Fienberg writes about TV, except for when he writes about movies or sometimes writes about the Red Sox. But never music. He would sound stupid talking about music.
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June 20, 2012 at 7:15AM EST Reply to Commentso is there a Grey's spoiler at 0:42 in on his discussion of Grey's when the sound goes out? What's up with that?
kelli
June 20, 2012 at 10:12AM EST Reply to CommentAnnoying that you muted out his answer. If you didn't want the answer in the interview you should have edited the video and removed both the question and the answer.
dan I didn't mute anything. Something happened in the transfer of the file from the original source -- which I didn't listen to -- to activation on the site. It's a tech glitch and I'll get our guys to look into it and I'll replace the file.
June 20, 2012 at 11:24AM EST-Daniel
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June 20, 2012 at 11:35AM EST Reply to CommentApologies for the glitch half-way through the "Grey's Anatomy" clip. Something went wonky in the upload and I'll fix ass soon as there's a clean version. FWIW, I think he just said "July" or something...
-Daniel
HWah Ha! What a perfectly timed glitch to frustrate Grey's Anatomy fans. Thanks for the fix.
June 22, 2012 at 4:38AM ESTCool junket and interviews. Have I missed your archery skills yet?
dan
June 20, 2012 at 1:56PM EST Reply to Comment"Grey's Anatomy" video is now fixed!
Sorry 'bout that...
-Daniel