If you were confused to learn recently that Pauly Shore is the voice of Pinocchio in an upcoming animated film about the wooden puppet, you’re not the only one. When Shore — the legendary actor and comedian who starred in a slew of Nineties hits from Biodome to Encino Man — was initially approached about the role, he thought the message might’ve been an error.
“I made my manager read the email two or three times,” he tells Rolling Stone. “Like, ‘Are you sure? Are you sure?’ And he was like, ‘No, no, they want you.’”
Thus began one of the stranger and more delightful collaborations in cinema history — one that resulted in a trailer that set TikTok on fire after its launch on Jan. 26. The trailer for Pinocchio: A True Story (which releases on DVD and VOD March 22) starts about the way you’d expect: with a shot of the elderly puppet-maker Geppetto lovingly…
