It seems that Hollywood’s old boys’ club extends to yellow pill-shaped henchmen for animated supervillains.
According to “Minions” creator Pierre Coffin, in fact, all the title characters in Universal’s prequel to two “Despicable Me” hits are male, voiced by male actors (including Coffin himself).
For the French animator, who co-directed the new film with Kyle Balda, the masculine-only nature of the Minions owes to their all-around cloddishness. “Seeing how dumb and stupid they often are, I just couldn’t imagine Minions being girls,” he told TheWrap.
The new film, which is on track to earn $100 million in its opening weekend, does feature a female villain named Scarlett Overkill voiced by Sandra Bullock.