UNITED KINGDOM: Cast of "Flushed Away" slide down a giant toilet in London's Leicester Square to promote their animated comedy film

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  • Title: UNITED KINGDOM: Cast of "Flushed Away" slide down a giant toilet in London's Leicester Square to promote their animated comedy film
  • Date: 30th November 2006
  • Summary: (SOUNDBITE) (English) HUGH JACKSON, GIVES VOICE FOR "RODDY" IN FLUSHED AWAY, SAYING: "I'm a big bouncy castle fan, when I get married I want a big bouncy castle for the wedding. So this for me is just an idea of having good time. Not every day you slide down inflatable loo is it?"
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  • Story Text: The cast from the animated movie "Flushed Away" slid down a giant toilet in London's Leicester Square gardens on Thursday (November 23, 2006), promoting the comedy.
    Flushed Away is a story of an uptown rat that gets flushed down the toilet from his penthouse apartment, ending in the sewers of London, where he has to learn a whole new way of life.
    Tony award winner, Hugh Jackson who voiced "Roddy" and Shane Richie from the British television series Eastenders who voiced "Sid" enjoyed a bit of fun:
    "I'm a big bouncy castle fan, when I get married I want a big bouncy castle for the wedding. So this for me is just an idea of having good time. Not every day you slide down inflatable loo is it," said Hugh Jackson.
    The actors later amused the crowd, performing a somersault before sliding down the toilet.
    "At the top he said. Mate listen, let us do the somersault. I said what do you mean a somersault. He goes, you can hurt yourself. So we both did a flip. And I dug him in the ribs as well as we were going down. Dig him in the ribs," said Shane Ritchie.
    "Flushed Away" is set set on and beneath the streets of London. Roddy St. James (Hugh Jackman) is a pampered pet mouse living in posh Kensington, who thinks he's got it made. But when a sewer rat named Sid (Shane Richie) - the definition of "low life" -- comes spewing out of the sink and decides it's his turn to enjoy the lap of luxury, Roddy schemes to rid himself of the pest by luring him into the loo for a dip in the "whirlpool." Roddy's plan backfires when he inadvertently winds up being the one flushed away into the bustling world down below.
    The directors of Flushed Away Sam Fell and David Bowers said it was a quick idea, but it took them years to get it to what they wanted.
    "It's very easy to say lets flush rat down the toilet but is very tricky to turned it around to a great film," said sam Fell.
    Flushed Away stars the voices of Hugh Jackman, four-time Oscars nominee Kate Winslet, two-time Oscar nominee Ian McKellen, Andy Serkis, Bill Nighy, Shane Richie and Jean Reno.
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