I’d bet a lot of money that doing voice work is a lot easier than being in a live action production. Not saying it’s trivial, just potentially way more flexible, especially with how easy it is to splice different audio tracks together, which probably means fewer takes are required. And on top of that, there’s fewer people that need to coordinate to record those takes (especially considering live action takes likely requires more audio engineering support because it isn’t done in an audio recording studio).
It might be like a pilot deciding they are done flying commercial jets but don’t mind flying a smaller jet from time to time.
He’s live action in those films. Only Sonic is CG.
But I mean regardless, in his defense, they were good kids movies and he was great in them (in the genre of kids movie villain). But more importantly in his defense: he probably took a break, and got recharged. He’s been pretty open about his mental health struggles, so he probably thought he would never come back unless it was amazing, took a break, got recharged, starting getting itchy to work/bored, and then he either liked the script, saw it as particularly low stress/fun, or just wanted some money.
I’d bet a lot of money that doing voice work is a lot easier than being in a live action production. Not saying it’s trivial, just potentially way more flexible, especially with how easy it is to splice different audio tracks together, which probably means fewer takes are required. And on top of that, there’s fewer people that need to coordinate to record those takes (especially considering live action takes likely requires more audio engineering support because it isn’t done in an audio recording studio).
It might be like a pilot deciding they are done flying commercial jets but don’t mind flying a smaller jet from time to time.
He’s live action in those films. Only Sonic is CG.
But I mean regardless, in his defense, they were good kids movies and he was great in them (in the genre of kids movie villain). But more importantly in his defense: he probably took a break, and got recharged. He’s been pretty open about his mental health struggles, so he probably thought he would never come back unless it was amazing, took a break, got recharged, starting getting itchy to work/bored, and then he either liked the script, saw it as particularly low stress/fun, or just wanted some money.
He also might have been contracted for the role already. His contract for the first or second movie likely had something about sequels in it.