NEW YORK, May 8 (UPI) -- Emmy-winning Veep and Seinfeld comic actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus seems to have taken her voice role as the unlikely sleuth Lily in The Sheep Detectives very seriously.
"I got to play a sheep and I've never played a sheep and I've always wanted to BE a sheep, so I'm sure everybody can relate to that, and I liked playing her because she adores her shepherd. She is an intellectual sheep," Louis-Dreyfus said at a recent virtual press conference with her co-stars.
"She uses her education, given to her by her shepherd, to solve the crime in the film and I think she comes to certain realities based on her exploration of the crime and consideration of the people around her and she has a real arc," Louis-Dreyfus added. "Her character really grows throughout the film in a way that's very meaningful."
Featuring Hugh Jackman, Nicholas Braun, Nicholas Galitzine, Molly Gordon, Hong Chau, Emma Thompson, Bryan Cranston, Chris O'Dowd, Regina Hall, Patrick Stewart, Bella Ramsey and Rhys Darby, the screen adaptation of Leonie Swann's best-selling novel, Three Bags Full, opens in theaters on Friday.
With a blend of live-action and animation, the British family film follows a group of resourceful sheep who try to find out who murdered George (Jackman), the kindly shepherd who took care of them and read them detective yarns before bedtime.
