{"id":12621,"date":"2011-08-04T08:48:25","date_gmt":"2011-08-04T15:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=12621"},"modified":"2011-08-04T08:48:25","modified_gmt":"2011-08-04T15:48:25","slug":"yelchin-as-clumsy-smurf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2011\/08\/yelchin-as-clumsy-smurf\/","title":{"rendered":"Yelchin As Clumsy Smurf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Anton Yelchin<\/strong>, <em>Star Trek XI<\/em>&#8216;s Chekov, recently voiced a character in the hybrid live-action and animated 3-D family comedy <em>The Smurfs<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Yelchin voiced the character of Smurf Clumsy, an unlucky Smurf. Where Clumsy goes, bad luck is sure to follow.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/YelchinSmurf080411.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12622\" title=\"YelchinSmurf080411\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/YelchinSmurf080411.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"134\" \/><\/a>&#8220;Clumsy is the heart and soul of the movie,&#8221; said Director <strong>Raja Gosnell<\/strong>. &#8220;His journey is the most emotional. He&#8217;s kind of the put-upon younger brother \u2013 in a way, the cause of all their problems \u2013 trying to find his place in the big Smurf family. Anton has an incredibly youthful, soulful voice, perfect for our little Clumsy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yelchin&#8217;s interpretation of Clumsy was a little different than the TV version of the blue character. &#8220;I was familiar with Clumsy from the TV series, where he had that Southern twang,&#8221; said Yelchin. &#8220;I went back and watched that, and then director Raja Gosnell and I talked about it. We decided to make Clumsy a little simpler, a little sweeter. His voice is pitched higher than my normal speaking voice \u2013 it&#8217;s full of joy, optimism, and enthusiasm for life. Clumsy isn&#8217;t trying to mess anything up for anybody \u2013 he&#8217;s just clumsy, and actually, he&#8217;s tired of being clumsy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>The Smurfs <\/em>released in the US last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anton Yelchin, Star Trek XI&#8216;s Chekov, recently voiced a character in the hybrid live-action and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2401],"tags":[3727,3139,2619],"class_list":["post-12621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-xi","tag-clumsy","tag-the-smurfs","tag-yelchin"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/star-trek-xi\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek: XI<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek: XI","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12621"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12624,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12621\/revisions\/12624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}