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‘A female Minion would be the beginning of the end’: Pierre Coffin on creepy memes, decoding Minionese and farting bananas

The Guardian Culture Thursday 02 July 2026, 11:05 UTC By As told to Catherine Shoard 1 min read
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The French animator, director and voice of those lurid yellow assistants to the despicable answers your questionsCould we please have a Minions/Backrooms mashup movie? TaffRaffiaI don’t know if it would work because it would be yellow against yellow. All you’d see would be eyes and even they would be hard to see.

The French animator, director and voice of those lurid yellow assistants to the despicable answers your questions

Could we please have a Minions/Backrooms mashup movie? TaffRaffia
I don’t know if it would work because it would be yellow against yellow. All you’d see would be eyes and even they would be hard to see. It would just be voices coming out of yellow.

Will there be a gritty “old man Minion” type story to round the franchise off? BatteredRingpiece
Minions don’t age. I sometimes draw them like that for fun, but it just looks weird.

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