Q&A WITH BRUCE WILLIS BRUCE WILLIS supplies the voice of Spike the Dog in Rugrats Go Wild!, which opens this week.
So what kind of a dude is Spike the Dog?
Well, you know, he's a happy-go-lucky dog. He gets a pretty big kick out of life. He's a heroic dog. Although he shuns fame.
So he's a modest dog.
That's a pretty apt way to describe him. Not a very good singer. But he gives it his best shot.
I think that's all we can ask of any dog.
That's all we can ask of anybody, really.
What breed of dog is Spike?
He's a Heinz.
A Heinz?
Heinz. Like 57 Varieties. Mutt, I think they call it.
Are you a dog person?
I am a dog person. I have about — let's see — three, four, five, six dogs right now.
That's like a pack of dogs.
I live in the country a big part of the time. So the dogs have a lot of room.
Was that good preparation for playing Spike?
Well, I did talk to the dogs, at length. But I didn't get any answers back. A lot of barking.
Was there any Rugrats-Thornberrys tension on the set?
Everybody got along really well. When the Nickelodeon people came up with the idea of having these two worlds collide, the Rugrats and the Wild Thornberrys, I don't really know if they knew what they were going to get.
Spike sings a duet with Chrissie Hynde on the sound track. What was that like?
Let's face it, Chrissie Hynde is a singer. I'm more of a howler.
— Lev Grossman
