Jane Lynch Talks Sgt. Calhoun And Her Own ?Wreck-It Ralph? Journey
To cast Sergeant Calhoun, the no-nonsense video game heroine with a heart in Wreck-It Ralph, director Rich Moore looked no further than Hollywood's favorite ball-busting dynamite gal: Jane Lynch. Alongside John C. Reilly, Sarah Silverman, Jack McBrayer and a cast of fellow character actors and comic veterans, Lynch brings Calhoun to life with pathos and dimension, not to mention a burning passion for blasting evil space bugs into pixelated oblivion.
Movieline sat down with Lynch to talk Wreck-It Ralph, the fun of bringing Calhoun to life, and how the film's deeper themes of self-determination and destiny resonated with the once-aspiring actress who left home to pursue her dreams. But first, the whip-smart Glee fave spitballed an impromptu back story for her space warrior alter ego, known in the film only as Sergeant Calhoun...
Only after watching the movie did I learn that your character?s full name is Sergeant Tamora Jean Calhoun. How much of a life before the game within the movie did you imagine for her?
Tamora Jean. Tammy Jean! Get out of town. I?m going to write a whole story about her right now: She grew up as Tammy Jean in Alabama, and when she joined the military right after high school she said, ?I?m no longer Tammy Jean ? I?m not even Tamora Jean. I?m just Calhoun!? You know, there was a back story for my character that is revealed in the film; she was in love, and her husband-to-be was killed by the Cy-Bugs.
Cy-Bugs!
Her mortal enemy!
I wasn?t sure if anyone involved had seen MacGruber, but MacGruber shared a similar fate.
With Will Forte? I love him. I wonder if we ripped it off from him?
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