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June 24,2007-July 1,2007 |
Mario Cantone is high-strung bird in Surf’s Up
Italian-American actor famous as wedding planner in Sex and the City
By Angela Baldassarre
Originally Published: 2007-06-10
Fans of Sex and the City will recognize Italian-American actor Mario Cantone as wedding planner/fashion consultant Anthony Marantino. Though he’s not a household name, the flamboyant Boston-born actor has earned a Tony Award nomination for his one-man variety show Laugh Whore, which showcases his witty and obviously gay brand of humour.
Cantone, 48, is currently lending his voice to the CGI animated movie, Surf’s Up, as Mikey Abromowitz, a high-strung sandpiper. Directed by Chris Buck and Ash Brannon, the film follows a documentary crew that goes behind the scenes and onto the waves during the most competitive, heartbreaking and dangerous display of surfing known to man, the Penguin World Surfing Championship. Other famous voices include Jeff Bridges, Zooey Deschanel and Shia LaBeouf.
Tandem talked to Mario Cantone about Surf’s Up.
You’ve worked on kids’ shows in the past. How do you feel about children?
“I don’t have kids. I don’t want kids, not that I don’t care about kids, but I really could care less. I haven’t seen [the movie] with children because I’m afraid of them. After having a children’s show for five years called Steampipe Alley out of New York, I had enough. I don’t really like children that much. It’s really very odd. I just always loved animation. I just live for it.”
What’s Mikey Abromowitz about?
“He’s a talent scout. He’s a sand piper, which is a very nervous bird. He’s stressed out and he works for this kind of Don King-like promoter, who is played by James Woods. It wasn’t a stretch, believe me.”
What do you think about animation?
“I’m a huge [fan of animation]. The classics like Bambi and Pinocchio and Lady and the Tramp. I love that stuff. It took me a long time to get used to the CGI stuff. It’s too cold. When I saw Toy Story, I was like, well, the kids look like toys too. This is all plastic but then finally I think it softened up. Every animated movie has a style. If you look at Pinocchio, it’s got a watercolour kind of wash to it. If you look at Sleeping Beauty, it’s very angular. If you look at Bambi, it’s very pastel. That’s the beauty of an animated film. In some of these CGI movies the backgrounds of the suburban neighbourhood look like a suburban neighbourhood. It’s too real. The grass looks like grass. There’s no style to it and I think that’s shit and it has to stop. I like it to have a look. [Surf’s Up] has a look to it and it just has a lot of heart, you know.”
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