“[They would ask,] ‘Are you the fat panda?
You must be the fat panda, right?’
‘No, I’m the guy who started the Beanie Babies.’
Zach Galifianakis as Ty Warner in ‘The Beanie Bubble’.COURTESY OF APPLE
‘Aww, bulls—!'”
No bull here well,unless you count Snort.
Alongside his performance as Ty, Galifianakis also serves as an executive producer on the film.
Zach Galifianakis and Sarah Snook in ‘The Beanie Bubble’.COURTESY OF APPLE
“There’s very little information on [Warner].
He was not one to be interviewed.
So, I didn’t really have that to rely on.”
Zach Galifianakis and Elizabeth Banks in ‘The Beanie Bubble’.COURTESY OF APPLE
“The plastic surgery to me is a real personality detector,” he says.
That’s how you stay number one.
I think that was his mentality."
“His number one driving force why he was successful is he was so obsessive,” he notes.
“I don’t think he was ever tender with them.
I think it was just to get rich.”
“I don’t think he was ever interested in helping them,” Galifianakis says of the women.
“He’s not just a hero.
He’s not just a toymaker.
He has a lot of problems and people suffer from them suffer greatly.
I think now we’re starting to question that stuff.”
(The dance was choreographed by Galifianakis’ wife, Quinn Lundberg.)
“I think a lot of him was just performative.
I think when you saw him walk into a room, that was performative.
I don’t think there was rarely even a real moment sometimes,” Galifianakis says.
The Beanie Bubbleis in select theaters now and will be available to stream on Apple TV+ starting July 28.
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