UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre will voice a character in the French-Canadian version of the upcoming Disney-Pixar animated movie Monsters University, Walt Disney Films Québec announced.
Monsters University, set for release on June 21, is the sequel to the popular Academy Award-winning 2001 film Monsters Inc., which starred the voices of Billy Crystal and John Goodman.
The character GSP will voice is named Art, a shaggy, purple frat boy monster, who is voiced by Charlie Day from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia in the English-speaking version.
Being involved in Hollywood blockbusters is becoming a common theme of late for St-Pierre, who landed a role in the upcoming sequel to Marvel’s 2011 hit superhero film Captain America: The First Avenger.
GSP will play Batroc the Leaper, a villain from the Marvel Comics universe, in Captain America: The Winter Soldier set for release in April 2014.
Batroc the Leaper is a mercenary with no superhuman powers and is a master of the French form of kickboxing known as savate.
Art on the other hand is described by Disney as a “mysterious monster with a questionable background and the strangest member of the Oozma Kappa fraternity at MU (Monsters University).”
