How to pronounce “jiminy” in English

And Jiminy Cricket originally was a bit of a sort of question mark.

And Jiminy just sort of wasn't a worry until she turns up under the table.

Audrey plays Jiminy Cricket, does the voice, and is one half of the puppeteering team.

I didn't want Jiminy to look like she was from any of those.

Very often Jiminy is performed on a sort of dark canvas.

And because Jiminy is on the floor a lot of the time and you're looking up, you sort of need the freedom to go, oh, if her nose is

So shall we give Jiminy a bit of a demo and talk about some principles?

He was like Jiminy Cricket guiding Pinocchio down the right path.

Lots of the original concept drawings for Jiminy, different expressions, and just began immersed into what creative process led

Disney to end up with Jiminy the way he looks in the film.

how to puppeteer something as complicated as Jiminy Cricket.

So that Audrey can jump Jiminy by herself.

So it's worth saying as well that Jiminy is female in our version.

And there's a moment when the Fox attempts to kill Jiminy with an ax.

So in the Disney movie, Jiminy turns up at the beginning.

And I think that was a Saturday when we were told that Jiminy-- It was mad.

It was very, very much like Jiminy.

And we get an hour at the end of the day to play with Jiminy.

He's probably best known today because he lent his voice to the sound of Jiminy Cricket in "Pinocchio."

And so we did a majority of rehearsals with one of our two Jiminys in unfinished form.

You know, in the Disney branding, Jiminy is part of the theme park branding.

I felt like, in my head when I picture Jiminy, I thought like, oh, he's got a little green pea head, and he's got that sort of little pinched mouth.

And so throughout rehearsals, we had very nearly finished the finished Jiminy, which is great, because it means you can sort of road test things.

And then in her right hand, Audrey's got two rods that go from Jiminy's arms, which she's holding sort of like kind of crazy reverse chopsticks.

And in the second workshop, the big sort of question we'd all been avoiding was, how's Jiminy Cricket going to work?

And I being a massive puppet nerd since I was six, and making puppets things, I was like, if Jiminy Cricket isn't

And John and the rest of the creative team-- there was never a question, really, about gender being an issue with Jiminy.

So when Toby called me and said, would you like to be part of the research and development for Pinocchio, playing Jiminy--

So James and I-- well, maybe not you, because you also do-- but like I puppeteered Jiminy, but I would never be able to puppeteer Geppetto or the Blue Fairy,

So there would be a lot of, do the scene once and then, OK, put Jiminy aside, relax the muscles.

And John Tiffany, the director, asked me to lead the warm up with Jiminy.

And you are sort of by the end going, OK, can Jimmy jump up and do-- you end up sort of talking about Jiminy

But as soon as they look at the puppet, they're immediately telling you to look at Jiminy.

The simplest way of putting it-- muscles versus gravity, in that, without any weight or muscularity, if Jiminy jumps,