JE: You were working within an
animation, so what was a typical day
filming like?
got a call that said they’d like to call me
in for a meeting. So, we went down for
the meeting and out of all of the focus
groups and all of the schools across the
UK, they chose me, which I thought was
amazing. I thought it was a really good
way of testing the water.
KD: They showed me footage of the kids
watching my show reel and all of the kids
were replying to me on screen. Blue’s
Clues is very interactive… and all these
kids were screaming at the TV going,
“Kevin, it’s there.” So, they said: “We’d
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like to offer you the role in Blue’s Clues.
We want to fly you out to Universal
Studios to do the pilot for a week.”
Obviously, it was a very successful show
in America. The whole idea of Blue’s
Clues was to have a Kevin or a Steve
or whoever’s doing it in each country.
Because it was animated, you just take
the original host out and put your host in.
That’s the whole concept of it. And so it
was already successful in America. So,
I did the pilot in America, came back
and when we tried it, it just went through
the roof.
KD: Well, it was difficult actually because
it was already a show that was up
and running, Steve the American host
could just do what he wanted and they
would draw the animation to his eye
line but, obviously, when we bought
the animation, all the animation was
done. So, my job was just really difficult
because I had to match Steve step by
step. I had to get the eye line right. So,
when you watch an episode of Blue’s
Clue and I’m standing and, to the viewer
there are loads of things around us, but
in the studio there’s nothing there. It’s
just a green screen, which has got little
markers. “There goes your butterfly. You
do your juggling there. Dance there. Now,
Kevin, Blue’s just moved over there.
Well, Kevin, you’re not looking…” It was
really, really tense. They would send me
the script the week before and a video
of Steve and I would just study it. I’d go
to the studio I would have monitors all
around me. So, when I’m looking out,
I’d have monitors so at the corner of