As the voice of a badger in the new animated film The Fantastic Mr. Fox, Bill Murray returns to the genre -- he was a hit as the voice of the comic-strip cat in Garfield.
Murray tells parade.com, "Channelling a badger just reminds you that we have all got a little critter in us. When cornered we can fight furiously and sometimes we burrow deep, deep, deep to get away from other people and be safe. I know none of this makes any sense to you right now, but if you ever play a badger, you'll understand."
Murray says he had a tough audience growing up, when he was learning to be funny.
"Our father went to work and when he came home he was with us for the evening ... He was really a tough laugh. So getting him to break-up was like a class in how to be funny. If you weren't funny he was like, 'OK, you can go do the dishes.'"
And later on in his career, Murray says there was a lot of improvising.
"On those early movies, like Meatballs and Caddyshack, we used to improvise every scene. We'd go to work and say, 'We can't do this crap. What are we gonna do?' And we'd just sit there in the trailer and drink coffee and come up with funny stuff. I loved it."
