“Enormous pressure!” he tells the BBC.
“Because it’s a very popular character. I got to work with Peter [Sallis] a couple of times for [2005’s] The Curse of the Were-Rabbit film.
“So yeah, there’s a great deal of pressure with that. And I feel very grateful to Aardman for giving me so much time to build the character.
“You kind of have to do the ‘hmm’ and the ‘hee-hee’,” he continues – demonstrating some Wallace-isms that sound indistinguishable from Peter Sallies’s Yorkshire tones.
“Definitely the elongation of the vowels like ‘cheeeeese’!”
