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How Flow’s Filmmakers Decided a Tiger Could Voice a Whale
Oscar nominee Gints Zilbalodis on the allure of capybaras, casting his sound editor’s cat, and including human voice actors in his next movie.
Flow is a dialogue-less animated feature that follows a previously solitary cat who learns to coexist with others — specifically a golden retriever, a lemur, a secretary bird, and a capybara — in the wake of a massive flood. “Wasn’t there a moment when you used a lemur’s breath for the cat?” Zilbalodis asked Coïc-Gallas when I called them up, just days before Flow was set to hit the streaming platform Max. It seems that almost every animal besides the dog had a friend or two helping out with their lines, particularly when the performers proved less than co-operative (like Coïc-Gallas’s cat, who voices Flow ’s feline lead), or unavailable due to scheduling or location issues (like humpback whales).
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