By Jae-Ha Kim
Chicago Sun-Times
March 26, 2003
After 15 years of silence, Roger Rabbit–the world’s second most famous bunny–has come out of seclusion to talk about this week’s DVD release of his film, “Who Framed Roger Rabbit.” Still married to voluptuous Jessica Rabbit–whose excuse, “I’m not bad, I’m just drawn that way,” became a mantra for wayward beauties worldwide–Roger talks candidly with GLARE about his Toontown past.
Oh, and one thing. Don’t accuse him of being a cartoon. Them’s fighting words.
Q. Does Bugs Bunny monopolize all the good rabbit roles in Hollywood?
A. I’ll just answer that by pointing out that Bugs Bunny wears no pants. Roger Rabbit has to wear pants. Draw your own conclusions, but if you do,
use a No. 2 pencil.
Q. Which Toons do you hang out with?
A. I played poker with Mickey Mouse last night. He’s not as good as Minnie. I had dinner with Donald Duck and he stuck me with the bill.
Q. How’s Jessica?
A. Great. She is, of course, my Toon wife. We’re on a constant honeymoon. No, it’s more of a honey planet.
Q. Who’s your biggest comedic role model?
A. Charles Fleischer. He writes all my material for me.
Q. What was the biggest prank on the set?
A. It was on me, I guess, ’cause Bob Zemeckis told me it was going to be a short. It ended up being four months of filming.
