In "Despicable Me 3," Trey Parker does a great job of giving a voice to the '80s-loving Balthazar Bratt. Of course, this isn't all too surprising, seeing as Parker has a wealth of voice-acting experience under his belt. Surely he used that experience to work as hard on Bratt's voice as the rest of the "Despicable Me 3" team did on putting together his era-specific look. In reality, the "South Park" co-creator and voice actor has admitted that when it came time to record his Bratt lines, he didn't have to put in much effort.
"I didn't have to do much, and I didn't really want to do a character. Just because Illumination stuff is so, you know, it's so visual and everything that I thought I didn't want to get too character-y with it," he told Access Hollywood, sharing that Bratt's voice is more or less just a heightened version of his own. Parker notes that the big reason he took the project in the first place was so that he could take part in something that his young daughter, Betty, could actually watch. After all, "South Park" isn't the most suitable for younger viewers — even though Betty actually has her own character on the show.
Balthazar Bratt isn't the most memorable "Despicable Me" villain in the franchise's history, but he's undoubtedly one of the most meticulously created. At least, when it comes to his '80s aesthetic.
