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Warning: This interview spoils the mid-credits surprise inPaddington in Peru.
Thankfully, he benefited from a change in scenery.
What am I like?
Guards … lock me up.
Oh wait, you have!
), Buchanan is entertaining a visit from Paddington and his new band of fellow El Dorado bears.
Buchanan smells a new plan for fame and adoration.
Do any of your friends care for the theater?
he asks the assembled clan, all named after London train stations.
Now, who wants to be Daddy bear?
Heres how Wilson pulled it off.
Congrats for managing to keep it all under wraps.
We managed to keep our mouths shut, but with difficulty.
Hes kind of done that.
He did appreciate the joke.
In fact, he appreciated it so much he ended up helping with the dialogue for that scene.
He was really into it.
Then, they return to London, and he takes the bears to visit Mr. Buchanan.
It would have been a bit narratively tricky to have him affect another story on another continent.
Paddington is nice and very forgiving.
Hes not gone there to goad him!
This time, he introduces all his bear friends.
Its a nice button for the end of it.
When you were filming it, was the scene ever longer?
Hugh had to use his imagination and act like he was looking up at various bears and different heights.
We had to give him different eyelines, so it was tricky to get it all working completely together.
Did he snap back into Phoenix?Hugh was fantastic.
He works very hard, and hes very hard on himself.
He likes to do another take if he feels like that one isnt right.
That was Hugh too.
Paddington has turned the prison into a much happier place.
What do you reckon Phoenix has been up to in prison?Hes put on a few am-dram productions.
Hes been there for ten years, and hes put on an annual production a Christmas production.
Hes thoroughly thespian-ized the whole prison and theyre looking forward to him being released by now.
Thats what I reckon.
So, was he dipping his toe in for a bigger comeback forPaddington 4?I dont know.
I really have no idea about that.
And how about you?
Are there any conversations forPaddington 4happening yet?There are no plans at the moment.
Two years after filming, has Olivia Colman singing Lets Prepare for Paddington left your brain?
It had finally gone out of my head, but now youve put it back in.