Is 'The Boss Baby' Based on Donald Trump?
by EG
Telling the story of a suit-wearing infant (Alec Baldwin) and his sibling rivalry with his new brother, an imaginative 7-year-old named Tim, DreamWorks Animation's The Boss Baby topped the domestic box office over the weekend with $49 million.
Inspired by Marla Frazee's picture book, the animated feature was helmed by Tom McGrath, who is perhaps best known as director (and voice of the penguin Skipper) on all three Madagascar films. The Hollywood Reporter recently caught up with McGrath.
On casting Alec Baldwin and the Donald Trump comparisons:
There was no other choice but Alec. I had worked with him on Madagascar 2. He played the lion Makunga. I always wanted to work with him again. I made a pitch using an animated baby from Megamind and a line from Alec’s Jack Donaghy from 30 Rock. Jeffrey Katzenberg cracked up and it sold the idea.
We wanted to give him mannerisms like politicians have, those business training gestures. Early in the election we studied Bernie Sanders' gestures, [Hillary] Clinton gestures. … Nobody thought Trump would be president. This was all done before the election.
Read the rest of the article at The Hollywood Reporter.