I'm a cartoon nut! I love cartoons," says Bob Hoskins. "All of them. I find the whole art of cartooning — toons — fascinating. I think they're wonderful."
This was a useful attribute when director Bob (Back to the Future) Zemeckis was casting the lead role of private eye Eddie Valiant in Who Framed Roger Rabbit? But Hoskins, the 45-year-old star of Mona Lisa, The Long Good Friday and The Cotton Club, was also chosen for other reasons. "At one point, they realized they had to have someone who was a bit cartoonish," he says, "who looked as if he could bounce off the walls the same as the cartoons. Little did I realize that that's actually what they intended — to bounce me off the walls. I think they came to the conclusion that I was the most cartoonish person they could think of." […]
