David Bowie guests on SpongeBob
Thin White Duke plays Lord Royal Highness on animated show
Oct 12, 2006
(Source: www.bcdb.com)
The Man Who Fell to Earth is going under the sea. David Bowie will make a guest appearance on SpongeBob SquarePants.
"I've hit the Holy Grail of animation gigs," The Thin White Duke announced on his website www.davidbowie.com. "Yesterday I got to be a character on....tan-tara...SpongeBob SquarePants. Oh Yeah!! We, the family, are thrilled. Nothing else need happen this year, well, this week anyway."
The 59-year-old rocker continues, saying, "My character in this special longform (I think a half hour special) show is called 'Lord Royal Highness.'"
There's some irony in his character's name, since Bowie's backing band and road crew for the singer's Serious Moonlight tour had dubbed the former gender-bending rocker 'Her Royal Highness.'
"It won't air unfortunately for another eight or nine months," Bowie says, "but then, watch out. Or at least watch . . ."
He and his six-year-old daughter Alexandria Zahra (with current wife Iman) are fans of SpongeBob SquarePants, regularly watching the hit Nickelodeon cartoon together.
Bowie is no stranger to acting. His many film and TV roles include a vampire in 1983's The Hunger, Andy Warhol in Basquiat and Jareth the Goblin King in Labyrinth. Bowie makes appearances in two upcoming movies: he portrays enigmatic inventor Nikola Tesla in The Prestige (coming out October 20th), and voices the villainous Maltazard in Luc Besson's Arthur and the Minimoys (Arthur and the Invisibles in the U.S.). This film is still in post-production.
