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Parasailing onto a speedboat off the beach, actor T.J. Miller
made a safe landing, only then to fall into the sea and perform
the rest of the media event soaked.
"I think it's perfect, it's so funny. It's exactly what I should
be doing here at Cannes," Miller told Reuters TV.
"You know, I'm not going to be in a Woody Allen film or
something, like, Iraqi drama, this is the reason I should be on
the French Riviera - it's The Emoji Movie!"
Most of the publicity so far for the Sony Pictures film has been
for casting Shakespearean actor Patrick Stewart as the voice of
a "poop" emoji.
Miller, who appeared in superhero film "Deadpool" and the HBO
sitcom "Silicon Valley", voices Gene, who, according to the
online movie guide IMDb, is "a multi-expressional emoji, (who)
sets out on a journey to become a normal emoji".
Enjoying the incongruity of promoting a film based on text
message characters at the world's foremost high-brow cinema
festival, Miller, clad in a dripping-wet yellow tuxedo, whooped
as he pressed a giant button that set off an explosion of
confetti.
“Confetti canon?" he shouted.
"I mean, Sony's gone all out – hashtag Emoji Movie!”
"The Emoji Movie" is not showing in Cannes, which runs from May
17 to May 28. It is set to be released in the United States on
July 28.
(Writing by Robin Pomeroy; Editing by Louise Ireland)
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