Brad Pitt is lending his pipes and his likeness to Fox’s “Lego Masters” for Wednesday night’s season premiere of the show.
The actor, who is also an executive producer on the show through his Plan B Entertainment, makes a cameo as Lego Brad Pitt in the show’s cold open — and TheWrap has your exclusive peek.
“Plan B has been our partner since Season 1. He was pitching the show with us. So we wanted him to be involved in some fun, clever way from the start,” executive producer Michael Heyerman told TheWrap. “It just so happened that our season 3 was also Lego’s 90th anniversary as a company. So we thought maybe it would be fun to create and script this whole animated opening sequence. ,
Once Pitt was inside, Heyerman said he got the team to work on creating a custom braided minifigure. Pitt then came and recorded his audio for the inauguration.
“I think he had fun here. He enjoyed it,” Heyerman said.
The Season 3 premiere of “Lego Masters” will be followed by “The Masked Singer” on Wednesday at 9 p.m. ET/PT and there are plenty of surprises in store for this installment of the competition series beyond the Pitt cameo.
“Our theme going on was, ‘Expecting the unexpected.’ So we wanted to have too many twists and turns, we wanted to keep the audience guessing. We wanted to keep the builders guessing.
“Chris Pratt came and was part of an episode; we have Jeff Gordon, who came [for] part of an episode; We go out and go to NASCAR races, so it felt like we were able to push ourselves and have some really unique challenges, and some unexpected twists and turns that I think the audience would really enjoy, “They said.
Hosted by Will Arnett, who also has an EP on the show, Season 3 will once again see teams of two teams competing against each other in challenges, including a NASA-themed episode in the premiere, Where the contestants have to build a personal spaceship. Actual NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Tom Marshburn (via the Space Station) will be featured in the episode and share their expertise during the challenge. Pratt turns up for “Jurassic World Dominion” – second episode. The season will also include a treehouse challenge and the Best in Lego Dog Show, contestants who will all work toward the goal of a $100,000 cash prize.
And, later this year, they’ll be launching a holiday special edition — “LEGO Masters: Celebrity Holiday Bricktacular.”
“It’s three episodes. The finale is a two-hour episode. It’s four celebrities, four returning builders — fan favorite builders,” Heyerman said. “Not that ‘Lego Masters’ is a show that’s very much of itself anyway. takes seriously, but it was really something that was just for fun; It is for charity; It’s been taking celebrities who have built Lego with their kids or their families, but now they see what it’s like to be a real professional builder, and it was a really fun dynamic to see it unfold on screen. Where he was paired with one of these fantastic LEGO builders, and he really got a chance to learn. ,
“Lego Masters” Season 3 premieres Tuesday at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Fox.