Rose Byrne Channeled Her Inner Eric Bana for ‘Ninja Turtles’ Voice Role by Going ‘Fully Aussie’

Rose Byrne jumped at the chance to voice Leatherhead in “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem” when producer-star Seth Rogen asked her to join the film.

“It was ridiculous,” the “Physical” actor tells me.

“Seth was like, ‘I want you to do just fully Aussie — just go for it!’“I was like, ‘I’m going to do my best Eric Bana.’ This is an homage to Eric,” Byrne continues.

“It was a group recording, and I’d never done that before for a voice job.

Seth was there, and he had such high energy from beginning to end.

There’s ‘Mayhem’ in the title, and it was like mayhem.

Not in a bad way.

It was fun mayhem.”Byrne joked that her many collaborations with Rogen, which include the 2014 comedy “Neighbors” and Apple TV+’s “Platonic,” don’t have her husband, Bobby Cannavale, worried.

“He’s our biggest cheerleader,” she says.

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