Lilly Singh agrees that The Bad Guys’ Mr. Wolf is kinda hot

With The Bad GuysWe can now confirm what so many people on the internet think: Mr. Wolf is very hot. The charismatic thief leads a band of criminals made up of dangerous animals, and there’s something about his swagger that falls in line with other animated canine crushes like Zootopia’s Nick Wilde and Disney’s foxy outlaw leader Robin Hood. This is what comedian Lilly Singh, a YouTuber agrees to.

“Mr. “Mr. It is kind of a Daddy, I see that now,” Singh told Polygon. “I’ve never thought about that. What if I were to slip in the DMs. Would I? Yes, I believe so. Also, I think Mr. Wolf looks pretty hot. Yes, animals do have the charm of someone like me. Yes, that’s what I see. I’m not mad at the internet for this one.”

And as someone intimately familiar with the inner workings of internet fandom, Singh’s feelings about ever-shifting online tastes have years of experience to back them up. Singh is the voice of Tiffany Fluffit, a reporter. The Bad GuysShe is one of few human actors in the group of mostly animal characters. In 2010, she started YouTube, creating comedy sketches and parodies. In 2016, she was third on Forbes’ list of the highest-paid YouTubers. From there her career took off and she was the host of a NBC Talk Show from 2019-2021.

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The Bad Guys isn’t Singh’s first film or voice-over role — previously, she voiced some tiny unicorns in Ice Age: Collision Course and a deer in Sky Cinema’s Riverdance: The Animated Adventure. But she’s still getting used to the stark contrast between making content for the internet and doing voice-over work for a movie. For one thing, she says it’s fun to see all the separate pieces she does for a project come together in someone else’s finished work, especially when she’s so used to recording on her own. But she’s still grappling with the wait to see that finished product.

“I shot a massive project that took three days to shoot and now my editors are editing it, and it will be released in the next two days,” she explains. “I can do something in one day or one week, and then I get instant, instant feedback. I’ve been doing the voice-over for this movie [The Bad Guys] for the past three years, and it’s coming out now. So I think the patience of having to learn this new process has been really tough for me, but it’s a good skill to have.”

In the twelve years since Singh’s first YouTube video, things have changed drastically. Today, influencers and creators can be found all over social media. It’s easy to forget that once upon a time, just over a decade ago, making a living with YouTube was a completely new idea. Singh was thrilled to witness how YouTube has changed.

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“I think now it’s a lot more undeniable,” she says. “When I started in 2010, a lot of people, including my friends and family, were like,What are you doing? What do you do to earn money? Is it possible? You want to earn a living.It was all something I was asking myself.

“I think now the digital space is something you can’t deny the power of, you can’t deny the longevity of it, you can’t deny the influence of it. It is now something that people take seriously. When I started, of course, it was someone creating and expressing themselves, but people didn’t really consider it a business. You can now say without a doubt that online creators are entrepreneurs and have businesses. So that makes me very happy.”

Singh says she is happy to do voice-over work for The Bad Guys, which she says is unlike anything she’s seen in animation before: an action-packed heist that might disrupt the talking-animal canon. Singh is open to the possibility of voicing an animal of her choice, but she has other thoughts.

“I feel like an animal that’s in line with [being] misinterpreted would be a lion,” she laughs. “I also just think I would make a pretty cool lion. It is a completely selfish answer. I just want to be a lion.”

The Bad GuysIt is now in theatres