Lilly Singh and Zazie Beetz talked about their experience with The Bad Guys; Credits: Mama's Geeky

The Bad Guys by Dreamworks is all ready to drop in the theaters this weekend and expected to do great at the Box Office. 

The film stars Sam Rockwell in the role of Mr. Wolf. Rockwell has already shown extreme talent in his other famous voice roles like Trolls World Tour and The One and Only Ivan. The story features the life of Mr. Wolf as he and his followers decide to take the path not usually taken. 

The film is adapted from The Bad Guys, the book by Aaron Blabey and stars many other famous faces, namely Awkwafina from Shang-Chi, who will play Tarantula, and  Craig Robinson from Killing It, who stars as  Shark. 

Other actors of note are Lilly Singh from Dollface, who will play the part of Tiffany Fluffit, and Zazie Beetz from Atlanta who stars as Diane Foxington. 

The two actresses recently spoke with Screen Rant about how they felt starring as animated characters, how it was to see their characters coming to life, and everything else about the film. 

Lilly Singh admitted that she was extremely happy when she saw her animated character for the first time. She shared that she wanted her character to look a little like her and take after her facial expressions and also her very famous and very long hair. 

Singh told Screen Rant that she got to see her character only later in the animation process when she was around for her second last session of voice acting. Fortunately, she loved the way her character looked and thinks that Fluffut is a perfect fit for her adorable and comic personality. All in all, Lilly Singh got to play a character just like her in The Bad Guys. 

Contrary to Lilly Singh, Zazie Beetz was lucky enough to see her character even before the shooting had officially started. The sketches of her character were already available and she knew that her character would bear resemblance to her. She shared her happiness on getting to play Foxington, who is an adorable fox and wears an eyebrow ring. 

The actress also shared that it was nice to the body language that was animated in these characters. The characters are actually based on the voice actors themselves as the studio tapes the actors when they are recording. Hence, they look into all the mannerisms and then animate the subtle motions onto the characters. 

Beetz shared that she really liked that one part where her character has to dance and the movements are 100% her in real life. Explaining the story behind it, Beetz said that the dance of Foxington was choreographed by Susie, who is actually the movement person for Sam Rockwell. 

Rockwell and Beetz were supposed to be together for the dance but could not collaborate as their schedules never matched. Hence, Beetz just sent a video of her dancing to Susie, who then animated it to dot her character. 

Beetz shared that the character is 100% her during that dance scene. 

With all the actors having such busy schedules, it was difficult for them to come together and work on the film. While the film creators tried to get them all together onboard, mostly the actors were alone when they voice acted for their parts. 

Lilly Singh shared that she mostly recorded at her own home and had some times when she could collaborate with Pierre. At other times she used her own sound booth and didn't need to leave her house for the recording. 

Beetz shared that she had some virtual reading sessions with Sam and sometimes a friend would fill in for him. She also got to work with Pierre and was alone with her readings at other times. Sam Rockwell and Marc were probably the only two actors who got time to play their roles together in the studio.

The actors also joked that they had literally no commute time when they had to work on the film. While Marc had to leave his house and commute for eight minutes to the studio, Lilly Singh did not need to travel at all and recorded in her own studio in her PJs

Zazie Beetz and Lilly Singh also shared that despite the various other benefits of working on The Bad Guys, they had a lot to learn from the film too. Beetz shared that she understood that other people do not have the authority to narrate your story. 

As a person, you have supreme control over how you want your story to be and how you want to present yourself to the world. While people could judge you, expect different things from you and see you in a certain way, they don't get the choice to determine how you live and behave. That totally falls to you only. 

Beetz also shared that she really liked this particular takeaway from the film and has been trying to resonate with it for some time now. 

Lilly Singh also agreed with Beetz's point and shared that this message comes at a really great time when people need to learn and think with their own inherent logic. It is necessary to identify whom we think of as the villain in our story and why even we have that perception. It is also important to realize if we are simply soaking up information instead of forming our own independent opinions.