He played all the Oompa-Loompas (165 of them) in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. He has worked for Burton in three other films, Big Fish (2003), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) and Corpse Bride (also 2005) where he supplied General Bonesapart"s voice. He has played apes in two movies: Greystoke - The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes and again in the Tim Burton remake of Planet of the Apes (2001) in two roles: one as a young gorilla boy and as Thade"s niece. In 1979, Roy also played a genetically engineered life form "Decima" in the first season Blake"s 7 episode "The Web" as well as the diminutive chess genius, "The Klute", in the second season Blake"s 7 episode "Gambit". Sin, the "pig-brained Peking Homonculus", a villain with a distinct appetite for homicide, in the Doctor Who serial The Talons of Weng-Chiang. He would later make his film debut that same year, in The Pink Panther Strikes Again, as the Italian Assassin. Roy made his professional screen acting debut in a 1976 episode of The New Avengers entitled "Target!" as a character named Klokoe. Gurdeep "Deep" Roy, sometimes credited as Roy Deep or Deep Roy, the Chocolate Boy, is a Kenyan-born Indian actor, stuntman, puppeteer, comedian.ĭue to his diminutive size, he has appeared in a number of similar-sized roles, such as the Oompa-Loompas in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Keenser in Star Trek, and in television series such as The X-Files and Eastbound & Down. In one of his more prominent speaking roles, Roy played Aaron, a violent Mumbai-born Mexican criminal, in second season of the Home Box Office comedy, Eastbound & Down.ĭeep starred as Sandeep Majumdar in the 2012 short film The Ballad of Sandeep. Roy played a green man while doing a commercial shoot for Ozocleanse. He appeared in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) as an Egyptian border guard and in the film Star Trek (also 2009) as Keenser, Montgomery Scott"s assistant on the ice planet Delta Vega. Life can surprise me.Due to his diminutive size, he has appeared in a number of similar-sized roles, such as the Oompa-Loompas in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Keenser in Star Trek, and in television series such as The X-Files and Eastbound & Down. In the minutes since I heard the Brian Cox ASMR a Mickey D’s commercial, I’ve found a new lease on life. From now on, you can find me at the corner table, the wobbly red one near the toy display, at the McDonald’s closest to you. Tomatoes, I hate tomatoes but not anymore never again, sesame seeds, more than I can even imagine, frozen meat. Fries, yes, in the burger just like Brian says you have to do in the commercial. Patty’s Day Shamrock Shake, but something changed in me tonight. I haven’t had McDonald’s since my annual St. The commercial returned with some variations throughout the course of this seemingly endless ceremony.īefore tonight, was I much of a Mickey D's kid? Nah. Dubbed over slo-mo sex shots of a Quarter Pounder, he talks about the grand American creation, describing every millimeter, right down to the sesame seeds. There might not be another voice in the world I expected less to have heard on this night. Grumbling the McDonald’s jingle through what I imagine is a very small opening in the corner of his unamused mouth. Yeah, that was Brian Cox in that McDonald's commercial.
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