When fans stop the actor-comedian to snap a photo with him on their cell phones, Williams says he usually always obliges but often finds people complain that something seems wrong with him, even when he is smiling.
“I think people always want zany, goofy (expletive) from me,” said Williams, who recently returned from a honeymoon to France with new wife, graphic designer Susan Schneider. “It takes a lot of energy to do that. If you do that all the time, you’ll burn out.”
Williams, who underwent surgery to replace an aortic valve in 2009, is far from retirement, but he acknowledges that he is taking it easier even though he is playing two separate parts in “Happy Feet Two,” out Friday.
The funnyman reprises his roles as chivalrous Adelie penguin Ramon and bombastic rockhopper Lovelace in the follow-up to the 2006 Oscar-winning animated film about singing-and-dancing penguins. The 3-D sequel finds Ramon attempting to woo a sultry bird named Carmen (voiced by Sofia Vergara), while Lovelace is hyping a “flying penguin” named Sven (Hank Azaria).
During a recent interview to promote the animated film, Williams discussed, with the help of some Irish, Australian and robotic accents, what his life is like at age 60 and why he almost passed out in the sound booth while recording his part in Australia.
