Paddington Bear statue is unveiled in Bury St Edmunds

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Bury St Edmunds is part of the Paddington Visits tour, which is a trail of Paddington Bear statues across the UK and Ireland to celebrate the forthcoming release of Paddington in Peru.

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00:00We worked very closely with David Heyman and Studio Canal, turning what was a beautiful

00:16illustration into a three-dimensional character, and we're so excited to be working on the

00:21Paddingtons, helping him launch and promote the new Paddington Empire film.

00:38The colour and the shape and the expression are all really important, but it comes out

00:42from the sculpt, so we just try to bring it all out, really.

01:08So he's great, and the stories are great, and they're for everyone who doesn't like

01:13Paddington.

01:14I feel attached, very attached.

02:08Michael Bond first wrote Paddington for his daughter, Karen, who, funnily enough, is the

02:30same age as I am, so I too grew up with Paddington as a child, and he's such an enigmatic little

02:37bear.

02:49We've created a bronze statue for Leicester Square, and we are absolutely delighted to

02:54be taking this beautiful bear around the country now.

02:58So he's going to be seated on benches around the country, giving people the opportunity

03:02to sit and have their lunch with him whilst he has his marmalade sandwich.

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