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Being Elmo: trailer

Here is a trailer for a documentary about Kevin Clash, the man behind Elmo.

I don’t often post trailers for movies, but here is one that is certainly television related -a documentary about Kevin Clash, the man behind Sesame Street‘s Elmo.

I was lucky enough to interview Elmo, or perhaps he interviewed me, a year ago.

Kevin was very generous and treated Elmo with such respect, as a character with his own volition. Elmo ranks as one of my favourite TV interviews.

By the looks of this documentary it will show how the puppet we have all come to love is really an extension of the man behind him.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlNZo10pCts[/youtube]

13 Responses

  1. I was interested in this until I realised it doesn’t say “Being Emo”… that would be far too interesting, and wud answer a whole lot of questions, like “why did you get a teardrop tattoo?” etc..

  2. Thank you for posting this David. I’ve loved Elmo for a long time, but fell in love with Kevin when I saw him being interviewed on Rove several years ago.
    This film looks fascinating, I hope we get to see it here.

  3. Not sure what it is, but I haven’t ever really been grabbed by Elmo. Have always preferred those like Big Bird, Snuffy, and Oscar.

    Although I did like Kevin Clash’s work in Labyrinth (with David Bowie) where he played a number of characters and also as Splinter in the first two Ninja Turtle movies.

  4. A wonderful trailer, Elmo is one of my favourite Sesame Street muppets, the others are Grover and cookie monster and also count von count. Its great to see the man behind the muppet and the voice of the muppet.

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