‘A female Minion would be the beginning of the end’: Pierre Coffin on creepy memes, decoding Minionese and farting bananas

‘Minions don’t age – sometimes I draw them like that for fun, but it looks weird’ … Coffin, who has directed five films in the franchise. Photograph: Aurore Marechal/Getty Images for Illumination and Universal Pictures

Could we please have a Minions/Backrooms mashup movie? TaffRaffia
I don’t know if it would work because it would be yellow against yellow. All you’d see would be eyes and even they would be hard to see. It would just be voices coming out of yellow.

Will there be a gritty “old man Minion” type story to round the franchise off? BatteredRingpiece
Minions don’t age. I sometimes draw them like that for fun, but it just looks weird.