By: Vickie J. Rubinson
"I love carrying the banner for the old folks!" Ed Asner told the Daily News, about his starring role in the new Pixar toon "Up". "Thank God I'm here and I can lift it."
With more than 250 acting entries on the Internet Movie Database, Asner is a hearty example of senior vitality. He has been working steadily both in front of the camera and in the voice recording booth, since his signature series "Lou Grant" ended it's network run in 1982.
He also won two of his drama Emmys for playing the hard-nosed newspaper editor in that show and is the only person also to have won the award for portraying the same character in a comedy on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show."
How did Asner get the lead voice in "Up?"
"These two directors Pete Docter and Bob Petersen came over to see this one-man show, a staged reading I was doing in San Francisco," he recalls. "I was this old Holocaust survivor who was having dementia. Evidently, that didn't deter them from wanting me for the role."
Asner found his bimonthly recording sessions over at Pixar's corporate sister Disney's studios as demanding as anything he's ever done.
"They niggled me to death on different readings, but it was a wonderful experiment and I love being tested. And I like to think I measured up to any exactitudes that they tried to get away with."
Asner calls the film "marvelous and majestic."
"I love carrying the banner for the old folks!" Ed Asner told the Daily News, about his starring role in the new Pixar toon "Up". "Thank God I'm here and I can lift it."
With more than 250 acting entries on the Internet Movie Database, Asner is a hearty example of senior vitality. He has been working steadily both in front of the camera and in the voice recording booth, since his signature series "Lou Grant" ended it's network run in 1982.
He also won two of his drama Emmys for playing the hard-nosed newspaper editor in that show and is the only person also to have won the award for portraying the same character in a comedy on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show."
How did Asner get the lead voice in "Up?"
"These two directors Pete Docter and Bob Petersen came over to see this one-man show, a staged reading I was doing in San Francisco," he recalls. "I was this old Holocaust survivor who was having dementia. Evidently, that didn't deter them from wanting me for the role."
Asner found his bimonthly recording sessions over at Pixar's corporate sister Disney's studios as demanding as anything he's ever done.
"They niggled me to death on different readings, but it was a wonderful experiment and I love being tested. And I like to think I measured up to any exactitudes that they tried to get away with."
Asner calls the film "marvelous and majestic."
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