Interview: Tom Ellis & Sasheer Zamata Talk Voicing Cat Deities in Netflix’s Exploding Kittens
ComingSoon Senior Movie News Editor Brandon Schreur spoke to Exploding Kittens’ and about the new Netflix series. Based on the tabletop card game of the same name, the series was created by Matthew Inman and Shane Kosakowski. The voice cast of Exploding Kittens also includes Ally Maki, Mark Proksch, Suzy Nakamura, and Kenny Yates.
“Earth sucks, so God (Tom Ellis) gets fired and sent to Earth to reconnect with humanity. The catch? He’s trapped in the body of a chubby house cat. As part of Godcat’s rehabilitation, he moves in with a dysfunctional family and tries to solve their problems, but ends up spending a lot of time chasing laser pointers,” the synopsis reads. “And to top it off, Godcat’s next-door neighbor, who is also a cat, turns out to be none other than his nemesis, the Antichrist. The result is the ultimate fight between good versus evil…except, Godcat is distracted by a pigeon he saw in the yard and Devilcat (Zamata) is busy napping on someone’s laptop.”
Exploding Kittens is now streaming on Netflix.
: The irony wasn’t lost that they wanted me to play God after playing the Devil. It’s a completely different project. Whilst it had those celestial similarities, there were a lot of different elements to it. Honestly, I got the scripts in, and I was like, ‘This is bonkers, but it’s also incredibly funny. I think I know what I’d like to do with this.’ It was a natural progression, in a weird sort of way.
It’s fun to play. I’m the daughter of Satan, and I’m not doing a great job of taking the reigns. It’s fun to play a less assured type of Devil. She’s trying to be tough, but it’s really hard for her. That’s why she kind of gets this punishment to be a cat on Earth and learn how to actually be evil.
There’s a thin line between good and evil.
And love and hate.
It was a pleasant surprise, actually, when I watched it. There’s punchline after punchline after punchline in it. It very much tonally lives in that world, so you’re not expecting it to have other feels,
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