Nickelodeon's new live-action puppet series The Barbarian & The Troll follows the adventures of Evan, a bridge troll, and Brendar, a warrior princess, after the two cross paths. During an exclusive interview with CBR, Rick & Morty's Spencer Grammer discussed taking on the role of Brendar the Barbarian and the joys of portraying a puppet.

Voicing the titular Barbarian of the series, Grammer was quick to reveal that "I've always wanted to be a puppet. I've always wanted to. I grew up in a time when that was very popular. Not just Sesame Street, but Fraggle Rock and I think Eureka's Castle, a bunch of shows, and I think the first movie I ever saw was actually The Never Ending Story in theaters. I miss that. You don't have a lot of [puppet shows] on television unless it's been for really little kids. So to have a show that's for a little bit of an older audience is really, really nice... The Muppets were so great. And I always think about Kermit the Frog as well. There are aspects of him I feel like are in Evan as well, those cute faces that he can make. It's so much fun."

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For Grammer, the show's versatility and ability to skew to a slightly older audience is a real strength. "It'll be nice to recommend the show to my friends who have children. Where I don't have to give a disclaimer saying, 'Well, maybe you might want to wait until they're pre-teens or teenagers to watch it.' But I think it's also really entertaining for parents as well. It's got a lot of really great comedic timing and the old-school way of doing comedy."

Brendar is introduced to the series as a brash but confident warrior, skilled with a blade but exiled from her people due to her attitude. Reflecting on playing strong-willed characters, Grammer admitted, "That's just who I am. I think in general, I've always been really independent, and I think I had to play characters that weren't like that for so long because that wasn't necessarily how female characters were portrayed. So now that we have sort of this, I don't know, a renaissance of strong female characters, I'm being able to play closer to who I actually am."

"I have a lot of similarities with Brendar. She has a lot of issues with, like, feelings. She struggles with feelings and being close to people and making friendships -- and so there's a lot of that. I have that feeling too. I'm a bit of a hard worker, goal-oriented, love what I do, always have been career-oriented. Thank goodness I have my son because he really has made me a much more loving person. And so I identify with her a lot. It was very funny when some of the lines would come up, and the music goes up, where I was like, 'Oh, did you write this show for me?'"

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"Brendar and I have a lot in common, but I welcome it. I'm so excited to be able to play a character like this and not only to play with it but to actually have people be able to see a female character who is strong and independent and not necessarily emotionally distraught about what's going on. She just gets her job done, and she's generally keeping everybody in line, which is great. I can't wait to meet everybody. I haven't even got to meet everybody who works on all the other voices, but it's been really fun developing those relationships."

Teasing later episodes in the series, Grammer revealed that "there's also some, I would call them pocket episodes, where things happen in one location, which they had told me they had this inspiration. The writers were like, 'We want to write a Fraiser episode.' That was what I was told. And I was like, 'Oh my God, I totally see it.' So sometimes, I totally see what they're talking about. Sometimes there are aspects of all that comedy that we've built over the years."

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Noting her connection with her father, Fraiser star Kelsey Grammer, Grammer said, "In some ways, I definitely think of my Dad's way of speaking. Oh, I'm going to do a little bit of my dad at this little part here. Because he, I mean, he's so brilliant. He has one of the most amazing voices, but I really... I grew up watching all of his work as well. It's allowed me to have a lot of that just sort of naturally built into my cadence and the way that I approach work. I thought that was super funny, and I totally saw the influence. It was so brilliant, and it allowed me to be very performative in that episode as well and show a different side of Brenda. When you get to it, you'll know what I'm talking about. I think it's hilarious. There's some really good stuff honestly."

The Barbarian and the Troll stars Spencer Grammer, Drew Massey, Colleen Smith, Allan Trautman, Sarah Sarang Oh, Nicolette Santino, Peggy Etra, James Murray, Jeny Cassady and Gina Yashere. The series is co-created by Mike Mitchell, who also serves as director, and Drew Massey on Nickelodeon.

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