• Zootopia 2 is the long-awaited sequel to Disney's Oscar-winning 2016 animated hit.
• Returning solid members embrace Jason Bateman, Ginnifer Goodwin, and Idris Elba.
• Becoming a member of the voice solid are Ke Huy Quan, Fortune Feimster, Macaulay Culkin, and Brenda Tune.

There's a snake within the grass of Zootopia.

It's been practically a decade since we final visited Zootopia, the anthropomorphic metropolis on the coronary heart of 2016's Disney hit. The unique animated movie follows Judy Hopps (Ginnifer Goodwin) and Nick Wilde (Jason Bateman) — a bunny cop and a fox con artist — as they uncover corruption of their various metropolis.

Zootopia 2 picks up not lengthy after the primary, with Nick having turn into Judy's associate on the Zootopia Police Division. Because the pair learn to work in concord, they're tasked with monitoring down a pit viper. The snake's arrival teases the query of why there haven't been any snakes in Zootopia over the previous century, resulting in a good larger thriller.

The sequel pushes the boundaries of its Oscar-winning predecessor, exploring new corners of its namesake metropolis whereas increasing its solid. Along with Goodwin and Bateman returning, the movie additionally options new additions in Ke Huy Quan, Fortune Feimster, and extra.

All instructed, Zootopia 2 highlights 178 completely different characters spanning 67 species. On the forefront of the brand new characters you'll discover a mayoral stallion, a podcasting beaver, and a household of well-to-do lynxes. Who's voicing who? Beneath, see the actors behind Zootopia 2's new critters.

01 of 09

Ke Huy Quan as Gary De'Snake

Ke Huy Quan started his unusual, winding profession as a baby actor in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) and The Goonies (1985), then pivoted to stunt choreography and behind-the-scenes work for practically twenty years.

He reemerged onscreen within the early 2020s. Certainly one of his first roles again was the important and business smash Every part In every single place All at As soon as (2022), for which he gained an Academy Award for Finest Supporting Actor.

Since then, he's taken on numerous high-profile roles, main the action-comedy Love Hurts (2025) and showing on the Disney+ sequence American Born Chinese language and Loki, each launched in 2023. He additionally lent his voice to Kung-Fu Panda 4 (2024).

In Zootopia 2, he voices Gary De'Snake, the pit viper on the crux of the movie's story. "[Judy and Nick] uncover a pores and skin from Gary, and they should go on this journey to seek out out why, for 100 years, no reptile has ever stepped foot in Zootopia," Quan defined to Entertainment Weekly. "And there’s a thriller that they should uncover. And that's the place Gary is available in; he exhibits up and freaks all people out as a result of he's a venomous pit viper. All people's afraid of him."

However one ought to by no means decide a guide by its over. "He's really very enjoyable and pleasant, in reality, type of goofy, and he has a giant coronary heart," Quan elaborated. "He's your everlasting optimist. And he exhibits up as a result of he desires to inform all people, and attempt to remedy a case in order that his household can come again to Zootopia."

02 of 09

Fortune Feimster as Nibbles Maplestick

Fortune Feimster initially discovered fame in 2010 as a contestant on NBC's Final Comedian Standing, and has since been a comedy stalwart. Her final stand-up particular, Fortune Feimster: Good Fortune, aired on Netflix in 2022.

Over the previous decade, she's embraced increasingly more appearing roles, serving to lead the later seasons of The Mindy Undertaking (2015–2017) and Netflix's action-comedy FUBAR (2023–2025). A prolific voice performer, you possibly can hear her on sequence Summer season Camp Island (2018–2023), Bless the Harts (2019–2021), and Velma (2023–2024).

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She performs Nibbles Maplestick, a podcasting, buck-toothed beaver with a ardour for conspiracies — particularly ones about her house within the wetlands of Marsh Market.

Feimster, who was born in North Carolina, spoke about growing Nibbles' particular voice throughout the movie's promo tour. "I knew that Nibbles was excessive and comes from this Marsh Market bayou state of affairs so I simply needed to be louder, a little bit bit extra brash, and a little bit bit extra Southern," she mentioned. "So that you simply add a little bit one thing additional to what's already right here."

03 of 09

David Strathairn as Milton Lynxley

Gravitas radiates off David Strathairn, whose 45 years in Hollywood have earned him nice status.

He's greatest recognized for his Oscar-nominated flip in George Clooney's Good Evening and Good Luck (2005). His lengthy listing of credit additionally consists of work with acclaimed administrators like John Sayles (Matewan, Eight Males Out), Penny Marshall (A League of Their Personal), Curtis Hanson (L.A. Confidential), Wong Kar-wai (My Blueberry Nights), and Joachim Trier (Louder Than Bombs), amongst many others.

Lately, he costarred in Chloé Zhao's Nomadland (2020) and Guillermo Del Toro Nightmare Alley (2021), in addition to the 2022 adaptation of Delia Owens' The place the Crawdads Sing.

In Zootopia 2, Strathairn lends his commanding voice to Milton Lynxley, a savvy lynx and the patriarch of one in every of Zootopia's most prestigious households. His character lords over Lynxley Manor, one of many movie's latest (and most luxurious) areas.

04 of 09

Macaulay Culkin as Cattrick Lynxley

As a baby, Macaulay Culkin was among the many most well-known faces on the planet. After his breakout position in John Hughes' Uncle Buck (1989), the puckish younger actor raised hell as Kevin McAllister in Dwelling Alone (1990) and its 1992 sequel.

The early '90s noticed the pre-teen host SNL, get nominated for a Golden Globe, and seem within the music video for Michael Jackson's "Black or White." In a transfer we will't assist however respect, he capitalized on his ubiquity by enjoying a sociopathic, dog-killing moppet in The Good Son (1993).

Culkin retreated from the highlight within the again half of the last decade, popping up sporadically over the following few many years with roles in intriguing, off-beat fare like Celebration Monster (2003) and Saved! (2004). He penned a memoir, Junior, in 2006, and toured with a band that lined Velvet Underground songs (however made them about pizza).

He's turn into extra energetic onscreen in recent times, with roles on American Horror Story: Double Characteristic (2021), The Righteous Gems (2022), and the upcoming second season of Amazon Prime's Fallout.

Right here, he performs Cattrick Lynxley, the enterprising eldest son of Milton.

05 of 09

Brenda Tune as Kitty Lynxley

Brenda Tune minimize her enamel as a baby actress on exhibits like Nickelodeon's 100 Deeds for Eddie McDowd (2000–2002) and the Disney Channel's The Suite Lifetime of Zack and Cody (2005–2008).

The actress transitioned from child's fare to extra mature work with roles on Scandal (2012–2013), Station 19 (2018–2020), and Dollface (2019–2022). You might also know her from movies like The Social Community (2010), Love By chance (2022), and The Final Showgirl (2024).

Presently, she stars with Kate Hudson on Netflix's sports activities comedy Operating Time, which was just lately picked up for a second season.

Tune performs Kitty Lynxley, Milton's daughter and Cattrick's sister. At the Zootopia 2 premiere, chatted about sharing a recording sales space her Culkin, her real-life associate. "This was the primary time that, not solely did we really get to work collectively, however Jared [Bush], the director of the movie, actually simply put us in a sales space collectively, which is kinda harmful, and allow us to improv, which was a lot enjoyable."

06 of 09

Andy Samberg as Pawbert Lynxley

After breaking out together with his Emmy-winning digital shorts on Saturday Evening Reside (2005–2012), Andy Samberg collaborated together with his Lonely Island cohorts on the cult basic movies Scorching Rod (2007) and Popstar: By no means Cease By no means Stopping (2016).

He additionally gained a Golden Globe for his main activate the police sitcom Brooklyn 9-9 (2013–2021), on which he was additionally a producer.

As an government producer, Samberg is liable for two of the strangest and most modern TV comedies to emerge within the final decade: Hulu's PEN15 (2019–2021) and Netflix's I Assume You Ought to Depart with Tim Robinson (2019–2023).

Right here, Samberg voices Pawbert Lynxley, described because the "easy-going runt of the highly effective Lynxley household."

07 of 09

Patrick Warburton as Mayor Winddancer

After a sequence of TV visitor spots all through the '90s, Patrick Warburton struck gold because the blank-faced, high-fiving David Puddy on Seinfeld (1995–1998).

His sonorous voice naturally lent itself to animation, so the actor has spent a lot of the final twenty years voicing characters on Household Man (1999–current), The Enterprise Bros. (2003–2018), and A Sequence of Unlucky Occasions (2017–2019). He's additionally lent his voice to animated movies like Bee Film (2007) and The Emperor's New Groove (2000).

Warburton's Mayor Winddancer is a horse, sure, but additionally a former TV motion hero.

“There’s a duty inside it,” the actor mentioned of the film in a chat with Metro Philadelphia. “You don't need to go 'Oh God, this can be a message film.' However, the message helps you discover the guts and soul. We wish it to be leisure from starting to finish, however on the similar time, there’s substance to it, and it really enhances the movie. Versus it simply being a job, it helps encourage the movie and the story.”

08 of 09

Quinta Brunson as Dr. Fuzzby

Quinta Brunson is the Emmy-winning star and creator of ABC's Abbott Elementary (2021–current), although you could have additionally seen her in episodes of Single Dad and mom (2018–2020) and Miracle Employees (2021–2023).

She voices Dr. Fuzzby, a teensy, bespectacled quokka who serves as a "remedy animal" for Judy and Nick, as seen within the film's first trailer.

"She is a type of individuals who's simply making an attempt to get to the basis of the issue as greatest as she will," Brunson mentioned throughout a pink carpet interview with Good Morning America. "I feel she's actually humorous actually cute, actually candy, actually small — like me. I feel she's simply downright lovable."

09 of 09

Danny Trejo as Jesús

The legendary Danny Trejo spent most of his youth out and in of jail, however discovered his approach into Hollywood by way of one other ex-convict in screenwriter and Reservoir Canine actor Eddie Bunker, whom Trejo had met in San Quentin.

His lived-in grit and pure charisma caught the attention of acclaimed filmmakers like Michael Mann, Quentin Tarantino, Rob Zombie, and Robert Rodriguez, who provided him larger and larger roles in movies like Desperado (1995), Warmth (1995), From Nightfall until Daybreak (1996), and The Satan's Rejects (2005).

In 2010, he starred in Rodriguez's Machete, his most high-profile position so far. And he hasn't stopped since, showing in dozens of movies, penning a 2021 memoir, and opening Trejo's Tacos, a restaurant with a number of areas.

Trejo performs Jesús in Zootopia 2, a personality named as such as a result of, within the actor's phrases, "he's a lizard who can run on water."

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