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Don't Tell Justin Timberlake and Anna Kendrick They Resemble Their 'Trolls' Characters

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Justin Timberlake and Anna Kendrick at San Diego Comic-Con (Getty Images)

DreamWorks Animation has begun to unspool early footage of its upcoming film Trolls — at CinemaCon, Cannes, at a recent screening in New York, and this week at Comic-Con. And voice stars Justin Timberlake and Anna Kendrick haven’t loved some of the reactions they’ve gotten.

Not about the Trolls footage per se — that’s been generally well-received. But rather, they haven’t appreciated hearing how much they resemble the iconic plastic dolls-turned-cartoon characters they voice in the animated musical adventure.

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“We got to Germany, and there was this woman who saw some of the footage and she was like, ‘Your character looks like you.’ And I was like, 'Oh yeah, they have cameras on us, and we make the same expressions,’” Timberlake told Yahoo Movies at Comic-Con in reference to some motion-capture techniques used on the film. “And she was like, 'No, it looks like you, when it’s expression-less.'”

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Poppy (Kendrick) and Branch (Timberlake) in ‘Trolls’ (Fox)

When we said that must just mean he’s convincing in the role of the cranky bluish-green troll Branch, Timberlake (who also executive produced the soundtrack and provided the hit single, "Can’t Stop The Feeling”) fired back: “Thank you, but I think she was saying I have a green tone to my skin and large ears. I think that’s what she was trying to say.”

Kendrick, who voices the cheery pink troll Poppy, had a similar experience. “A friend of mine who had seen some of the footage — we were talking the other day, and he was like, 'You did a Poppy face just then. I was like, 'What the hell?’ I don’t even know what to say to that.”

Trolls opens Nov. 4. Watch a newly released clip: