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"Coraline author Neil Gailman has revealed that he got Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders their roles in Henry Selick&amp;#039;s animated film. Speaking to DS, Gaiman said that he convinced Selick to cast the Brit comedy duo as the voices of retired stage performers Spink and Forcible. &amp;quot;I got to be involved on some levels,&amp;quot; said Gaiman. &amp;quot;I got to cast French and Saunders, for example. Henry didn&amp;#039;t know who they were, but I said &amp;#039;you will be casting Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders as Miss Spink and Miss Forcible&amp;#039;. I seemed very sure about this so Henry went along with it.&amp;quot; Selick said of working with the pair: &amp;quot;The biggest surprise was in the first day of recording, when it was sounding really good but they weren&amp;#039;t at the level I&amp;#039;d seen them in their television shows. So I decided to switch their parts, which threw them because they hadn&amp;#039;t been able to rehearse or anything. They gave it a try and within five minutes they were on fire!&amp;quot; Coraline is in cinemas now. &amp;gt; Click here for our interview with Coraline&amp;#039;s Neil Gaiman and Henry Selick "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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