{"id":76875,"date":"2015-06-18T09:18:19","date_gmt":"2015-06-18T08:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=76875"},"modified":"2015-06-18T09:18:19","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T08:18:19","slug":"minions-movie-meet-the-despicable-me-spinoff-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/minions-movie-meet-the-despicable-me-spinoff-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"Minions movie: meet the Despicable Me spinoff stars"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Minions\"<\/a>
Meet Kevin, Stuart and Bob – the stars of the new Minions movie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Since the Minions made their debut as, well, minions to supervillain Gru in Despicable Me<\/strong><\/em>, they have taken the world by storm. They are everywhere: on phone cases, birthday cakes, t-shirts, backpacks \u2013 you name it. This summer, they\u2019re back, this time with their own movie. Directors Kyle Balda and Pierre Coffin talk to us about Minions<\/strong><\/em> and life before Gru.<\/p>\n

\u201cBasically, we learn that their main purpose is to serve a villain master, and that without being fulfilled they are kind of lost,\u201d Kyle Balda tells us. \u201cThey go through a succession of failing their master and getting fired or, in some cases, killing them. Then eventually this
\none Minion steps up, Kevin, and he says that he\u2019s going to go out and find the perfect villain to serve, and he recruits Stuart and Bob. The three of them leave and branch out from the tribe, and they go out into the world.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey end up haphazardly working for Scarlet Overkill (played by Sandra Bullock), who is the greatest villain of her era, and then it\u2019s more about what ensues from that. The basic premise is about the Minions and their need for servitude, and also how they always fail up, as we like to put it. They are constantly screwing up, but somehow in a graceful way that puts them in a better position.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are all their own characters,\u201d says Pierre Coffin. \u201cKevin is the bossy conscience of the group, Stuart is the teenager who doesn\u2019t want to do this thing, who\u2019s bored, but who likes the attention \u2013 he\u2019s a great ukulele player, and then there\u2019s Bob, who is really innocent and na\u00efve and wants to go into that adventure, and doesn\u2019t really know what he\u2019s getting into.\u201d<\/p>\n

Minions<\/em> will be released in cinemas on 26 June. For more on the biggest movies, pick up the latest issue of SciFiNow<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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