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“Trolls” stars Anna Kendrick and Justin Timberlake<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cPitch Perfect\u201d actress Anna Kendrick sings to life one of the most beloved toy figures in the latest musical animation \u201cTrolls,\u201d starring alongside an ensemble of equally talented artists such as Justin Timberlake, James Corden, Gwen Stefani, Zooey Deschanel, Russell Brand, Christine Baranski, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Swedish pop music duo of Caroline Hjelt and Aino Jawo, Kunal Nayyar and Ron Funches.<\/p>\n Kendrick is the voice of Poppy, the feisty and fearless leader of the Trolls, who are naturally cheerful and optimistic. They love to sing and dance, and they have rainbow-colored hair.\u00a0 Justin Timberlake voices Branch, a gray and fearful troll. He is convinced that the Trolls\u2019 mortal enemies, the Bergens, will track them down in their forest Utopia and capture them. The Bergens are miserable monsters and they are only happy when they eat Trolls.<\/p>\n Poppy, voiced by Anna Kendrick<\/em><\/p>\n The film was inspired by the quirky cute\/ugly looking dolls with brightly colored hair that were invented by a Danish woodcutter in 1959. Created by woodcutter Thomas Damm, who then couldn\u2019t afford a Christmas gift for his daughter, was inspired to make a doll based from his imagination.\u00a0 The unique look of the doll caught the attention of the other children and from then on, Damm\u2019s dolls became popular and has become one of the biggest toy fads among children and adults too.<\/p>\n In the latest toy-to-movie adaptation of \u201cTrolls\u201d where Kendrick\u2019s character Poppy lives, the audience will be introduced to a stunning and original world, with a distinct hand-made look, which mirrors Poppy\u2019s passion for scrapbooking.<\/p>\n But when we meet Poppy, she is an eternal optimist who finds the inspiration for optimism from within.\u00a0 She is the ultimate purveyor of positivity.\u00a0\u00a0 Moreover, she is an empowered female who is capable and confident, strong and resolute, collaborative and inclusive.\u00a0\u00a0 Kendrick appreciates Poppy\u2019s toughness, sassiness, can-do attitude, loyalty and, most of all, her leadership skills.\u00a0 But when she first met with directors Mitchell and Dohrn to discuss the role, the actress notes she had some concerns.\u00a0 \u201cI hardly felt like the person to play the happiest Troll; sugary sweet isn\u2019t really my forte.\u00a0 I warned Mike, Walt and Gina that I might lead Poppy down a feistier path.\u00a0 I think I used the term \u2018sparkplug.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n When the filmmakers assured Kendrick that her vision for Poppy was in sync with theirs, she embraced her inner Troll with a vengeance.\u00a0 \u201cEach time I stepped into the recording booth and was greeted with a picture of Poppy\u2019s smiling face, I couldn\u2019t wait to add some fire, sarcasm, sass and determination to her,\u201d Kendrick recalls.\u00a0 \u201cThat\u2019s what makes the difference between a relentlessly happy character that\u2019s a little irritating and one that really comes to life.<\/p>\n \u201cThat said, I usually ruined the first five minutes of each recording session by talking in my \u2018adorable voice.\u2019\u00a0\u00a0 I couldn\u2019t help it; Poppy is so cute!\u00a0 But Mike and Walt encouraged me to make this tiny pink creature feel real and complicated.\u00a0 Poppy might not look like Shrek, but she\u2019s complex, like him.\u201d<\/p>\n After viewing some early footage, Kendrick discovered even more unexpected aspects to the character, thanks, she says, to the \u201canimation dream team at DreamWorks, which had captured the little firecracker inside Poppy with every minute expression.<\/p>\n \u201cEvery time they asked me to do another recording session, it made my week.\u00a0 I experienced that moment of recognition when I wondered, how does a six-inch-tall pink Troll kind of remind me of myself?\u00a0 Watching Poppy and the other Trolls fills me with joy.\u201d<\/p>\n A DreamWorks Animation feature, \u201cTrolls\u201d opens in cinemas on November 2 in cinemas nationwide (also in 3D) from 20th Century Fox to be distributed by Warner Bros.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This is a press release<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cPitch Perfect\u201d actress Anna Kendrick sings to life one of the most beloved toy figures in the latest musical animation \u201cTrolls,\u201d starring alongside an ensemble of equally talented artists such as Justin Timberlake, James Corden, Gwen Stefani, Zooey Deschanel, Russell Brand, Christine Baranski, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Swedish pop music duo of Caroline Hjelt and Aino Jawo, Kunal Nayyar and Ron Funches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[139],"class_list":["post-8602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-release","tag-trolls"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/10\/justin-timberlake-and-anna-kendrick-TROLLS-e1476430138267.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8602"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8629,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8602\/revisions\/8629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Trolls\"](\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/10\/Poppy-voiced-by-Anna-Kendrick-TROLLS.jpg\")
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