Veteran character actor and voice actor Patrick Warburton returns to the Disney stable for his new role in the studio’s animated feature Zootopia 2. He voices Mayor Winddancer, the latest civil servant to hold the top office in the land where wildly divergent animals live in harmony (or are supposed to, anyway).

He’s also a horse—and perhaps a horse’s ass if he’s as corrupt as Zootopia’s former mayor, a question that hovers over a movie in which Ginnifer Goodwin’s bunny cop and her partner, Jason Batemen’s fox, stumble on a major conspiracy that threatens the peace and harmony of the fauna-packed metropolis. Winndancer is a handsome stud, a former movie star with a gorgeous blond mane that marks him as the equine answer to Fabio—the opposite of Warburton’s close-cropped ‘do.

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