Gad Elmaleh will lend his voice to Gru "as long as he's bad"

• Gad Elmaleh doubles Gru for the fifth time since 2010.

• The actor created the French voice of the child hero for "Les Minions 2: Once upon a time Gru".

• He confides to "20 Minutes" has become deeply attached to the character over the years.

This is the fifth time that Gad Elmaleh has lent his voice to the hero of

.

In

by Kyle Balda, Brad Ableson and Jonathan Del Val, the actor had fun imagining the voice of a Gru in short pants facing ever more cute Minions.

“The public had to recognize Gru in my voice and immediately realize that it was Gru as a child,” the actor told

.

He explains that he relied on the vocal performance of Steve Carell, who doubles the character in English, to develop his own.

A villain for life

Gad Elmaleh knew how to affix his stamp and an accent “coming from who knows where” to Gru, a character to whom he has become attached over the years, for his evil spirit.

“I would like to pop a child's balloon with a needle,” he laughs.

And the actor to insist: “As long as Gru is mean, I will continue to do Gru.

It doesn't have to change.

If he gets nice, it's not okay.

It's true that we can't imagine the fourth part of the Despicable

saga , which has just been announced, being called Despicable

!

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