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" James McAvoy has expressed his admiration for Gnomeo And Juliet&amp;#039;s executive producer Elton John. McAvoy, who provides the voice of Gnomeo in the animated movie, told Parade that he has never been able to meet the acclaimed &amp;#039;Candle In The Wind&amp;#039; singer. &amp;quot;Do you know what? I have yet to meet the fantastic Elton John,&amp;quot; he said. The actor added that he often hoped that John would turn up to offer him vocal advice during the film&amp;#039;s recording sessions. He explained: &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m a total fan of his music and I&amp;#039;ve been working on this film for I think three years. So every day I would come to work and I would kind of be hoping that that would be the day Elton would be there but he was never there when I was there. I was absolutely gutted. I thought, &amp;#039;Am I performing badly? Does he not like the film?&amp;#039;&amp;quot; Director Kelly Asbury&amp;#039;s comedy is based on William Shakespeare&amp;#039;s play Romeo And Juliet, which tells the story of two star-crossed young lovers from rival families. Gnomeo And Juliet opens on February 11 in the US and the UK. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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