Jean Reno Is a Robotic Cat Now
I know you all know French actor Jean Reno; starred in The Professional, was the only decent part of the American Godzilla movie, and was in many other things. You might not know Doraemon, the incredibly popular robot cat from the future and star of Japanese children’s cartoons for the last 50 years or so. Doraemon is often called Japan’s Mickey Mouse, a character so omnipresent in their culture that he doesn’t even need a cartoon series or a movie to be intensely, perennially popular.
Anyways, none of this explains why Jean Reno is playing Doraemon in some kind of live-action Toyota commercial series, but it’s all I got. (Via Anime News Network)
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