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March 17, 2006 —

Irish actor Brendan Gleeson (Kingdom of Heaven, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire) will add his talents to the animated magical story of Beowulf, produced by Forrest Gump director Robert Zemeckis. Gleeson describes his experience in the studio shoot, using an improved form of motion capture animation, the same method used in Polar Express. "That means you dress up in a Babygro, a skin-tight blackleotard - I looked particularly silly in it," said Gleeson. " whereas people like Angelina Jolie and Robin Wright Penn can get away with it!" read more about Gleeson in Beowulf, as well as his many other projects, in this in-depth interview from Irish Times Weekly: