Shawn Mendes was the perfect fit for Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile due to his "stage fright" and "anxieties"
Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile's producers say Shawn Mendes is the singing reptile "at his core"

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It’s pretty standard for an actor to find ways to connect to a character throughout the preparation process. For singer Shawn Mendes, an acting newbie who stars in the forthcoming project Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile, he and the massive reptile he voices share two key things in common: Stage fright and anxiety.
“I think Shawn is this character at his core,” producer Kevin Vafi says of Mendes. “It’s funny, we learned more of it the more we talked to him. He has stage fright and his own anxieties just like the character.”
Mendes recently went into the deep ways he connects with the CGI crocodile, who exclusively expresses himself through song.