Hayao Miyazaki’s ‘The Boy and the Heron’ Announces English Voice Cast: Christian Bale, Florence Pugh and Robert Pattinson to Star
variety.comValerie Wu Intern Miyazaki’s first animated feature in 10 years, “The Boy and the Heron” has come out with its official English voice cast.
GKIDS, which serves as animation group Studio Ghibli’s North American distributor, announced that the full cast will consist of Christian Bale as Shoichi Maki; Dave Bautista as The Parakeet King; Gemma Chan as Natsuko; Willem Dafoe as Noble Pelican; Karen Fukuhara as Lady Himi; Mark Hamill as Granduncle; Robert Pattinson as The Gray Heron and Florence Pugh as Kiriko.
They’re joined by Luca Padovan as protagonist Mahito Maki and Mamoudou Athie, Tony Revolri and Dan Stevens as the Parakeets.
The English-language dub was made in alignment with the SAG-AFTRA Foreign Dubbing Agreement. Written and directed by Miyazaki, this semi-autobiographical story follows a 12-year-old boy named Mahito Maki.
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