Peter and Nick had seen me playing the charming conman in Maverick and wanted me to do the same with Chicken Run's Rocky, a very cocky Rhode Island red rooster. The key here is the voice, not what the person looks like. Apparently they took a bit of my voice off Maverick's soundtrack and animated a bit of Rocky to go with it so see if it would work. It did, but I couldn't record my dialogue with the rest of the cast, except for Julia Sawalha, who is Ginger, Rocky's love interest, as I was filming The Patriot in Canada, so we used a studio in Vancouver. The voice was done first which is quite hard because there's no ambiance and you have to say the same line for up to 20 takes in different ways, taking direction down the phone. Albeit digital phone, you miss out on the human element of film-making.