
Okay, so in the movie, Ryan Gosling’s character builds this cool device to talk to this alien, Rocky, and it works by playing musical sounds – basically, pre-recorded voices. The director, Chris Miller, said they actually had people on set do the voices just to get a laugh out of Ryan and give his character something to react to! Phil Lord, the other director, explained they were trying to figure out what voices would be loaded into a translator like a text-to-speech program. Then they had this crazy idea – what about Meryl Streep? Apparently, Amy Pascal, one of the producers, had worked with her before and asked if she’d do a secret cameo. Meryl was totally on board and had a blast recording a bunch of different variations – she really got into it! It was so fun to learn about how much she enjoyed the process.