The beloved stop-motion animation series, Wallace & Gromit, is back with a new movie, Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, now streaming on Netflix. But unfortunately, a core member of the family is missing: Wallace’s longtime voice actor, Peter Sallis, who died in 2017 at the age of 96.
But you wouldn’t know it from the movie. Ben Whitehead, the new voice of Wallace, does such a seamless impression of Sallis, that one doubts most viewers will even notice the change.
“When Peter Sallis passed away, it was of course incredibly sad,” said Wallace & Gromit creator Nick Park, in an interview for the new movie’s press notes. “What he brought to Wallace the character was irreplaceable really, so that gave us a big problem.”
As Merlin Crossingham—who co-directed the new movie with Park—explained in that same interview, it was a no-brainer for the team when it came to
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