Trivia / Despicable Me 2

• Acting for Two:
  • Pierre Coffin as Kevin, Stuart, Bob, other minions and Evil minions.
  • Chris Renaud as other minions and Evil minions.
• All-Star Cast: In addition to Steve Carell, Kristen Wiig, Russell Brand and Miranda Cosgrove returning from the first movie (though Wiig plays a different character here), the sequel adds Benjamin Bratt, Kristen Schaal, Nasim Pedrad and Steve Coogan.
• Breakaway Pop Hit: "Happy" hit #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 nearly nine months after the movie's release, and it is also a track on Pharrell Williams' 2014 album G I R L, a legitimate, non-soundtrack album. In fact, many people who like the song now don't realize that it was created for a Despicable Me film until someone tells them (or until they see the music video, which has dancing Minion costumes from Universal Studios in it).
• Career Resurrection: Pharrell Williams, who had name for himself in the early 2000s as a member of rap group N.E.R.D and production team The Neptunes, had faded from the limelight by the same he did the song for the first Despicable Me movie. The year this movie came out, he was a featured vocalist on two #1 hit songs (Daft Punk's "Get Lucky" and Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines"), eventually having his own with "Happy" a year later, catapulting him back into the mainstream.
• Celebrity Voice Actor:
  • Alongside comedian Leandro Hassum coming back as Gru, the Brazilian dub also has actress and comedian Maria Clara Gueiros as Lucy; singer and actor Sidney Magal as El Macho; and singer and actor Arthur Aguiar as Antonio.
  • In the Japanese dub, Lucy Wilde is voiced by Idol Singer Mika Nakashima, better known for some Anime fans for singing the the final ending theme of Mobile Suit Gundam SEED, Find The Way.
• Children Voicing Children: Elsie Fisher as Agnes.
• Dawson Casting:
  • Word of God is that Margo is 12, Edith is 9, and Agnes is 6. All three are voiced by older actresses (several years older, in the case of Miranda Cosgrove).
  • Steve Carell as young Gru.
• DVD Commentary: With directors Chris Renaurd and Pierre Coffin. This would be the last audio commentary Illumination made for their home video releases.
• Life Imitates Art: There is a real story on FMyLife.com about a guy having to entertain children at a party in a pink dress.
• The Other Marty: Al Pacino was cast as El Macho in the second film, but was replaced late in post-production with Benjamin Bratt^note who had to dub over completed scenes in order to avoid the cost of reanimating significant portions of the movie. Pacino's name could still be seen on most of the trailers leading up to the movie's release.
• What Could Have Been: Shares the Dispicable page.
• Word of God: Writer Cinco Paul revealed that Lucy's parents were killed by a villain when she was very young. That's the reason she became an AVL agent.
• You Sound Familiar: Kristen Wiig played Miss Hattie in the original movie, and then played Lucy in the two sequels.

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