Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made is a fun family film. It’s heart-warming, funny, and sentimental. It reminds us of how important using our imagination is. Even though Timmy’s is way over the top. It’s a film perfect for the 4-year-old who’s starting to develop their imaginative thoughts and the adults who need a reminder of how it used to be, an imaginative kid.
Wallace Shawn and Angela Ortíz
Photo: Kyle Bornheimer
We had the great pleasure of sitting down with three of the adults in the film, actors Wallace Shawn (Mr. Crocus), Ophelia Lovibond (Patty Failure) and Kyle Bornheimer (Crispin), who reminisced about some of their favorite schoolteachers and working together on this new Disney flick.
Timmy Failure – Adults
Timmy Failure – Kids
We also got the kids! The four young actors we spoke to sounded like old souls and I could see why they were perfect in their roles. Kei (Rollo Tookus), Winslow Fegley (Timmy Failure), Chloe Coleman (Molly Moskin), and Ai-Chan Carrier (Corrina Corrina) loved their experience working on this project and are hoping strongly that they will be more Timmy Failure movies made from the other books.
You can listen in on the conversation by clicking on the audio boxes. They also jokingly told us to be nice to Wallace Shaun, because it was his first roundtable.
L-r Wallace Shawn, Ophelia Lovibond and Kyle Bornheimer.
L-r Kei, Winslow Fegley, Chloe Coleman and Ai-Chan Carrier.
Disney’s Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made, is an original movie based on the best-selling book of the same name, debuts today, streaming only on Disney+. The film, follows the hilarious exploits of the quirky, deadpan hero, Timmy Failure, who, along with his 1,500-pound polar bear partner Total, operates Total Failure Inc., a Portland detective agency.
Directed by Tom McCarthy, who won an Oscar® for his Spotlight screenplay, Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made is written by McCarthy and Stephan Pastis based on the book by Pastis. The film also stars Craig Robinson. — A.O.
Photos: ©2020 Angela María Ortíz S.
