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7. Jason Lee, who voiced the villainous Syndrome, did four voice-over sessions over the course of eight months—and apparently he got the role because Bird had much enjoyed Lee's performance as the loquacious demon Azrael in Kevin Smith's Dogma.
"I had gotten the offer from Pixar, which of course was very flattering," Lee told CNN in 2004. "When I saw the drawings of Syndrome, the big hair, and the fact that it was Pixar, I was in. But the director told me that a lot of it came from Dogma because I was very animated and evil in that movie. I was kind of all over the place with the inflections and the energy, and I guess that's what did it."
The Incredibles was also Lee's first foray into doing animation voices. "You really have to put trust in the director's hands..." he recalled. "I would just show up, read a bunch of dialogue into a microphone, while being directed by Brad Bird and then three months later I would go back and do it again. And then I see the movie last night and there's a real, whole character there."