![]() ![]() Shortly after shooting finished on The Artist, Uggie was cast in an advert for Valentine's Day cards. Moreover he's a 2011 winner of the Cannes Palm Dog award. ![]() "They were not in the script." Hire Uggie and you get a performer who not only works for cheese-flavoured popcorn but who can sharpen a screenplay too. "Most of the tricks in the movie, like falling backwards, or hiding his face – they were used because the director saw Uggie do them," he says. He nailed his breakthrough film audition, performing for a casting team on Von Muller's front lawn. By the time The Artist came calling, in 2010, Uggie was an experienced thesp, a veteran of adverts and a travelling act called The Incredible Dog Show. He adopted Uggie in 2002, adding him to a stable of performing animals. "He knows how to work a room," agrees Von Muller, a tanned 49-year-old Colombian who lives in Panorama City, Los Angeles. Then he rolls on to his side, limp, making everybody watching sigh and coo. He flaps a forepaw feebly, like an ailing patient. Uggie descends from the mattress, stretching on to a pouffe at the foot of the bed. ![]()
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