How we made The BFG by director Brian Cosgrove and animator Ben Turner

A piece on the delicious animated BFG film from the Guardian today:

David Jason voiced the giant. I first found him when I was doing voice tests for Danger Mouse. With a lot of voice actors, all you get is them; David has the ability to stop being David Jason. He doesn’t dodge the emotional stuff, either: at the end, there is a scene where he says he has to go back to giant land. Sophie says she wants to go with him. The BFG says: “Do you really?” And she says: “Yes.” It’s very touching, despite being essentially a couple of drawings talking to each other.

If you’ve not watched it, you need to.