Jemaine Clement (Rio) - Interview

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Jemaine Clement - Rio Interview

Jemaine Clement is best known as the spectacle-wearing half of New Zealand comedy/music duo Flight of the Conchords. Since finding success in North America with their HBO special, he's gone on to appear in Despicable Me and Dinner for Schmucks. You can now catch him—or rather, his voice—in the new animated family film Rio, in which he plays the movie's villain, Nigel, a grumpy cockatoo still holding a grudge about losing his role as a soap star to a prettier bird.

Tribute's Bonnie Laufer spoke with Jemaine via satellite about the joys of doing voiceover work, finding his inner evil cockatoo, his scene-stealing musical number and his upcoming appearance as an alien in the much anticipated Men in Black 3.