‘A female Minion would be the beginning of the end’: Pierre Coffin on creepy memes, decoding Minionese and farting bananas

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According to The Guardian’s linked source, ‘A female Minion would be the beginning of the end’: Pierre Coffin on creepy memes, decoding Minionese and farting bananas, The French animator, director and voice of those lurid yellow assistants to the despicable answers your questions Could we please have a Minions/Backrooms mashup movie? TaffRaffia I don’t know if it would work because it would be yellow against yellow. All you’d see would be eyes and even they would be hard to see. It would just be voices coming out of yellow. Will there be a gritty “old man Minion” type story to round the franchise off? BatteredRingpiece Minions don’t age. I sometimes draw them like that for fun, but it just looks weird. Continue reading…

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