Or is he from one of those indigenous Peruvian tribes that speaks the King’s English?
Edit: A friend of mine pointed out that he’s also not a South American spectacled bear.
What the fuck, Michael Bond?
Bear anatomy does not permit a bear to speak with a Peruvian accent.
I’ve done a lot of research into the Paddington Cinematic Universe and it is cannon that Paddington’s bear family was a ruling class in a Peruvian bear apartheid system. In a move to separate themselves from the lesser undesirable bears they spoke with an English accent. Paddington is told that his parents died in an “earthquake” when he was very young but they were actually publicly executed during the warring states period following the fall of apartheid Peruvian bear society. It’s the systematic advantages that still existed in the new Democratic Bears Republic of Peru that allowed Paddington to gain enough marmalade to grow up strong and move abroad.
His ESL teacher was a Brit and his study abroad changed him. He never got over his subtle bear speaking accent though which is his first language.
coz a british dude is the one who taught padingtons grandparents how to speak
He’s pretending otherwise he wouldn’t get a tv show in the uk.
Am I the only want who wanted a Paddington movie like the old show where he’s stop motion and everyone else is paper drawings? That’s what I think of when I think of Paddington.
They did one where they animated Paddington doing an almost move-for-move copy of Gene Kelly’s famous titular dance in Singin’ in the Rain, which was pretty damn impressive for the 1970s.
Loved the look of it and the voice. Didn’t get to watch much of it growing up. 😕
The voice was the late, great Michael Hordern. I can’t think of something he was in where he wasn’t delightful.
And if you ever want to hear an amazing take on Gandalf equal to Ian McKellen’s, he played him in the BBC radio version. (Incidentally, Peter Jackson must have been a fan of that adaptation because Ian Holm, who he cast as Bilbo, played Frodo in the radio version.)
