Jarvis Cocker

Jarvis Cocker

Pulp star Jarvis Cocker is to provide the voice for a puppet in Wes Anderson’s new movie adaptation of beloved Roald Dahl tale, The Fantastic Mr Fox.

The Common People singer joins a cast that includes George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Owen Wilson, Bill Murray and Willem Dafoe.

Cocker tells The Times newspaper he'll perform "little hoedown number" as Petey, a mandolin-playing marionette.

He adds, "I did a narration bit at the start, too, but they showed that to test audiences in the U.S. and they were very bamboozled. So I've ended up on the cutting-room floor."

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