Jordan Nagai (born February 5, 2000) is an American
voice actor.
Life and career
Jordan Nagai is a
Japanese American actor best known for his voice role as Russell in the
2009 Pixar film Up. Originally, his older brother Hunter auditioned for Russell, but Jordan, who is 18 months younger, tagged along.
Director
Pete Docter has said, "
[2]s soon as Jordan's voice came on we started smiling because he is appealing and innocent and cute and different from what I was initially thinking."
[ About 400 children had showed up for the auditions, but Nagai stood out because he would not stop talking the whole time.][ Nevertheless, he was sometimes very shy and Docter had a tough time getting him to say all of his lines.]
