Scream and Scooby-Doo actor Matthew Lillard has taken aim at Hollywood’s tendency to populate animated movies with certain big-name actors who are “not able to carry a part” instead of voice actors.<\/p>\n
“I think Hollywood has made a huge mistake by hiring actors that are not able to carry a part with [their] voice. As an actor, you have full function, your face, your body, you have all these things that you can play on when you’re on the screen, but a voice actor has only their voice to work,” Lillard said at Fan Expo Denver (via Screen Rant<\/a>).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n “The ability to carry a film, as the lead of a film with only a voice, is a power very few people have. And the idea that they keep hiring crappy celebrities to carry huge films is killing us.”<\/p>\n The casting of celebrities and household names in animation is nothing new, right back to the likes of Tom Hanks in Toy Story and Billy Joel in Oliver & Company.<\/p>\n That, perhaps, isn’t what is drawing Lillard’s ire. Without naming names, the Five Nights at Freddy’s actor alludes to the recent trend of star-filled stunt casts that don’t quite capture the right tone needed for the performance \u2013 something that a day-to-day voice actor would accomplish with ease.<\/p>\n Away from his gripes over animation casting, Lillard has a busy few years in the pipeline. He’s set to appear in Mike Flanagan’s Carrie, Superman sequel Man of Tomorrow<\/a>, and Five Nights at Freddy’s 2. We wouldn’t be surprised if his Mr. Charles character rocks up in Daredevil: Born Again season 3<\/a>, too.<\/p>\n For more, check out the new TV shows<\/a> and upcoming movie release dates<\/a> on the horizon.<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/flexiimages\/l3fqzehadb1768907286.svg\")
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