JADA PINKETT-SMITH - PINKETT SMITH RECONSIDERED JUMBO MOVIE ROLE

PINKETT SMITH RECONSIDERED JUMBO MOVIE ROLE

Actress JADA PINKETT SMITH only agreed to voice a hippo in the new MADAGASCAR movie when filmmakers promised her character wouldn't die.
The Matrix Reloaded star has become a champion for animal rights over the years, and insists animated films starring animals too often end grimly.
But Pinkett Smith leaped at the chance to play seductive hippo Gloria in Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa - when she found out she wouldn't be killed off before the credits rolled.
She says, "I don't watch animal movies because they end up being so sad. That's one of the things I love about Madagascar - it's an animal movie, (but) nobody dies. It's a good time. But Bambi, Dumbo, White Fang, ugh, they're depressing."