MIGRATION PODCAST.
Quack up with laughter as our latest Cinema Judge episode unfolds the vibrant world of "Migration," an animated gem that promises to tickle your funny bone while warming your heart. As we chat with the voice maestros Kumail Nanjiani, Elizabeth Banks, and Danny DeVito, you'll get an insider's look at the challenges and chuckles behind bringing their feathery characters to life. From a duck family's whimsical adventure to the meticulous craft of animation inspired by classic art, this episode is your ticket to understanding how Illumination Films continues to enchant audiences with stories that resonate across all ages.
Prepare for a flight through the creative skies with anecdotes from the star-studded cast and a director who turned remote voice recording sessions into a playground of imagination. Witness how Elizabeth Banks channeled a New York pigeon with sass, while Awkwafina and Carol Kane reflect on the relatable moments that make "Migration" not just a movie, but an experience. It's a captivating discussion that dives into the essence of character development, from a timid bird to one brimming with the rock and roll spirit of Freddie Mercury, and reveals the seamless chemistry that amplifies this animated tale to new heights.
Finally, gather your flock and settle in as we explore the touching themes of family and adventure that "Migration" brings to the forefront. Hear from the cast about the joys of voice acting from afar, the unexpected dynamics it created, and the universal messages that make this family movie an unforgettable journey. Every quirk, every flap, and every laugh in this episode is a testament to the magic of storytelling, and we can't wait for you to join us on this flight of fancy that is sure to leave you soaring with delight.
MIGRATION PODCAST.
Quack up with laughter as our latest Cinema Judge episode unfolds the vibrant world of "Migration," an animated gem that promises to tickle your funny bone while warming your heart. As we chat with the voice maestros Kumail Nanjiani, Elizabeth Banks, and Danny DeVito, you'll get an insider's look at the challenges and chuckles behind bringing their feathery characters to life. From a duck family's whimsical adventure to the meticulous craft of animation inspired by classic art, this episode is your ticket to understanding how Illumination Films continues to enchant audiences with stories that resonate across all ages.
Prepare for a flight through the creative skies with anecdotes from the star-studded cast and a director who turned remote voice recording sessions into a playground of imagination. Witness how Elizabeth Banks channeled a New York pigeon with sass, while Awkwafina and Carol Kane reflect on the relatable moments that make "Migration" not just a movie, but an experience. It's a captivating discussion that dives into the essence of character development, from a timid bird to one brimming with the rock and roll spirit of Freddie Mercury, and reveals the seamless chemistry that amplifies this animated tale to new heights.
Finally, gather your flock and settle in as we explore the touching themes of family and adventure that "Migration" brings to the forefront. Hear from the cast about the joys of voice acting from afar, the unexpected dynamics it created, and the universal messages that make this family movie an unforgettable journey. Every quirk, every flap, and every laugh in this episode is a testament to the magic of storytelling, and we can't wait for you to join us on this flight of fancy that is sure to leave you soaring with delight.
Because we now have the Cinema Judge.
Speaker 1:Hello, hello, hello and welcome to the Cinema, Judge. I hope my voice finds you well. To all my normal listeners, welcome back and if you're new to the show, welcome aboard. Now approaching the bench, today we have an animated action adventure movie called Migration. Now here's a storyline A family of ducks try to convince their overprotective father to go on a vacation of a lifetime. But listen to this cast Kumail Nanjani, Elizabeth Banks, Danny DeVito, Keegan-Michael Key, Aquafina, Carol Kane what an amazing voice cast. Just that alone is pretty impressive. Here's a trailer for Migration Migration.
Speaker 3:Isn't it beautiful, this is awesome. Maybe we should go say hi, hey, there, ducks talked to a girl.
Speaker 2:A girl he wants to marry her.
Speaker 4:What I didn't say, that you said it with your eyes. What Is anything in there? Hey, hey, hey.
Speaker 3:They must be migrating.
Speaker 2:Migration. What a stupid idea. Okay, you're impossible, because I found a safe place for us to live.
Speaker 3:I want us to get out and see the world.
Speaker 2:What sort of father would I be if I put my young father in harm's way for no reason except a chance at a Caribbean vacation?
Speaker 3:I don't want to miss out on life because you're afraid to leave this pond here we go Tail for the torsion Check, wing deployment Check.
Speaker 2:Let's fly.
Speaker 5:The sun is shining through, with just a cloud of rain. Oh, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:Hey, why are we the only birds heading this way? What is this?
Speaker 2:place.
Speaker 3:I promise adventure, and this is exactly what I promised. What?
Speaker 5:is that Doko La Roche? What's Doko La?
Speaker 4:Roche, it's you, with La Roche on top.
Speaker 3:Mom, can we land? You're old enough to do it in the sky. Now we have a number two situation, but it's gross. Every bird does it in the sky.
Speaker 5:What if?
Speaker 3:someone is looking down there. No one is looking down there. I told you we are not landing. There is no way we're landing. Are you sure no one's watching? Do it now or we leave without you. Okay, okay, we are completely lost. We're trying to get to Jamaica.
Speaker 2:Come on, lovebirds, it's this way, whoa, we are not flying through this crazy death trap of a city. Just stay close to me and everything will be alright.
Speaker 5:I'm okay. Yeah, no, I'm okay.
Speaker 4:We can do this. Whoa ha ha. You missed bud. Maybe you don't stick too close.
Speaker 1:Coming up. Next we have a featurette. In this featurette the director talks a little bit about the characters and the story and the incredible cast involved in this film. And here's the deal about these featurettes. They have clips. They show on the set stuff they show in the studio At the end of the show. I'm going to give you a website in case you want to watch this episode. You can go there and watch it on demand whenever you want. At the current moment it's not there yet because it's Christmas Eve Eve. I'm sitting here 10 to 9 on the 23rd, so obviously nobody's in the studio and it won't be out there probably until next week or maybe a little bit after. But I assure you this will be out there in case you're one of those people who really enjoy watching these, because it's kind of fun when you get to put the image with the sound. Here's that featurette.
Speaker 3:I don't want to miss out on life because you're afraid to leave this pond.
Speaker 6:They need to discover the world. Let's fly, hey.
Speaker 2:Woo yeah. What did he do? Rip you apart, then eat you. Stan, I don't know how they do it. What's the method? I was so lucky on the casting.
Speaker 3:Hi there, I'm Pam. I'm sharing my life with him, so I'm painfully aware of all the stupid things that come out of his mouth. Oh yeah, that's true, she is.
Speaker 4:Just get close to me and everything will be alright.
Speaker 6:It's also great and it's a session where you're just tired of laughing because you laugh so much.
Speaker 4:We're trying to get to Jamaica. Ah yeah, that's Queens, right Um more south.
Speaker 6:The whole thing is about this journey to discover the world and embracing life.
Speaker 3:This isn't about my great shoes. It's about adventure.
Speaker 5:Whatever you're expecting over there, it's going to be even better Water. Now get out there and have some fun.
Speaker 1:It just totally amazes me sometimes, when I really sit down to think about it, how long it takes to make these animated films Several, several years, the commitment that everybody puts into it, and then you throw it out there and then sometimes movies are maybe a big hit or they're in and out of the theater lickety-split and I often think about the creators thinking to them I sacrificed all this time and now it's gone. It's just funny how the film world works that if you don't maybe hit it off right away, it starts getting pulled out of theaters. A lot of times these days they don't allow a movie to get word of mouth cooking or just build its legs. And I get that it's a huge business and it's not that way. Things alter, things change. I get it. But that's what I sometimes think about with any movie that comes out, but especially when it's animated movies, the time and commitment. It simply blows me away. Now coming up next we're going to hear from the director, Benjamin Renner. He's intonate to put the story and the relationships that they put in these birds that make it relatable to us, the normal discussions, arguments, and also then after that also talking about that. In the same vein we're going to hear from Elizabeth Banks, Cool Mile and Non-Johnny, and then we have a clip for you and in this clip Mac, played by Cool Mile and Non-Johnny, finally tells the family we are going to Jamaica and they're just like, are you kidding me? This is? They're all so thrilled. It's just kind of one of those fun moments Maybe you think of when you were a young kid and your parents or your guardian says, hey, we're going so-and-so, and that joy that you feel and that's what. That. The scene's kind of a boat. But I just want to briefly talk about what these people have been involved in, just real quickly.
Speaker 1:Like Elizabeth Banks, she plays Pam, the mother from Pitch Perfect, Scrubs, Cocaine Bear, Hunger Games, and I can go on and on with her. And she directs, produces you name it, she does it. And that's what I like about a true entertainer, an artist, an actor. She does it all. She acts and she'll do a voiceover. She directs. That's what keeps a performer, I think, well-honed and focused and doesn't lose touch of where they are in the world or from the fan base. Because sometimes if you focus strictly on maybe one thing and one thing only, you start losing touch. And she is so focused and I admire her so much in the diversity of her shows, in her movies, in her directing projects. That's what's truly amazing.
Speaker 1:So I have this nothing but the utmost respect for Elizabeth Banks. Look what she's done with her career and she has a long way to go. So I just like sitting back and seeing what she's going to do next. It's just mind-blowing the talent and I just it's just what a great person. And same thing with Kumail Nanjani, the big sick Stuber, the boys, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and again, that's just a tip of the iceberg. The guy could do drama, he could do comedy. We are truly blessed with the talent that we have out there in the acting world these days. People could do all kinds of films and they will do a comedy, they will do an animated film, because that's what sometimes we want. It's entertaining, it's light and it's just. Again, this cast is just incredible. That all said. Here's those interviews and the clip.
Speaker 6:Well, funny enough, it's just like when Chris Maydendry offered me to work on this project, he told me he wanted to make a movie about ducks. I thought that was a very silly idea. But I love silly ideas and I love to just go in this kind of weird bet and I just love the idea of this little family and this relation of family within the, but just with mallards going through this huge trip around the world and I just loved it, just the idea of doing an epic journey but keeping this sort of like very familiar kind of you know, like relationship between the characters and seeing them arguing and having fun and the way anyone can have with their own family or their friends or things like that. And I think we succeeded like feeling this very human relationship feelings within mallards. Which was like a weird bet but I just loved, you know, like this kind of weird bet.
Speaker 3:Well, it's funny you say that because I started making this film, gosh, probably a year before I even read the script for cocaine bear. Actually, we've been working on it, for animation takes a long time and made a big pandemic in the middle of creating this movie for people. I just loved the beginning of the idea of this. We're just like this family with an overprotective dad and a mom who wants more out of life. And just how do we? What do we pass on to our kids? You know, what are we telling our kids about the world around them? That they should be afraid of it or that they should embrace it, and I just love the messaging in it. And then a super fun, exciting cast.
Speaker 2:I thought it was a very relatable story, you know, like a dad trying to decide whether it's time to let the kids go off and have their own adventure or is it better to keep them definitely safe and perhaps a little bit you know limited. So I thought that that was a very, very relatable thing. But I also felt like it was such a fun adventure movie as well. Come on, we gotta get ready, mac ready for what? Nothing, just you know, for our big super fun family migration. What Ha? But you didn't see that coming, are you serious? Yep, an adventure into the totally unknown, and I'm gonna love it.
Speaker 3:Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Is this real? What do you mean?
Speaker 2:is this real?
Speaker 3:We're really going yes on a migration to Jamaica. Yeah, together. Yes like everyone, yes including you.
Speaker 2:Yes, we are all going on a migration to Jamaica. And which language should I tell you? Thanks, dad.
Speaker 3:You're welcome. Huh, I knew there was some adventure left in you.
Speaker 1:Wait, wait, wait. Now, like I previously stated, this movie is loaded with incredible actors Coming up. Next we're gonna hear from a woman that's been everywhere, but that's for a reason, because of her extreme talent. Aquafina and the character she plays is Chump, and we're gonna have an interview with her. She talks about her character and the story, but let's just briefly just I mean, she's been so much I can't list it all here, but just briefly what she's been in the last several years Crazy rich Asians Quiz, lady Ocean 8, the TV show. Aquafina is Nora from Queens. It's been amazing to watch her career just soar. When you look at her list of what she's in, you're like, oh my goodness, how does she have time to sleep? But again, that's for a reason, because of her talent. And then we're gonna shift gears in our interviews with Smidgen.
Speaker 1:Every movie has a look and every film company has a style. This is from Illumination Films. The people who brought you the minions Now get that feel in your head. That's just. You know that look. These are the people that made this and it's very fun to talk about that and see what a film looks like, the texture. It's just so fun to see that. You can look at it, go, yep, this is that movie company, that's that movie company. So we're gonna hear from the director, and I love when he talks about.
Speaker 1:Holly used old paintings as inspiration to try to set up some of the shots that they have here, and that's what I find incredibly fascinating. It's not just trying to say, okay, let's slap together a scene, no one will care. They went to the extreme or to the detail of real paintings, real pictures, and Holly could utilize that in an animated film. I really respect that because that means they care about us. It's not just trying to, but getting slapped together just to try to make a buck. And then we're here for Elizabeth Banks talks about the look of the film, and again back to aquafina.
Speaker 1:And then we have a clip for you, and in this clip this one just cracked me up the family, they're flying high in the sky, they're doing your thing and one of the young kids suddenly has to go to the bathroom and they have to do a number two and the child, the young bird, is like I'm terrified. It's just so adorable because you always picture that in your mind when you're flying up there. What are they thinking? Are they trying to aim at us, like we always say that. Oh man, you know they're aiming at my car In this. You get a behind-the-scenes image of a young kid. Try not to, because it grosses them out. So then, basically, they land and then they have the family standing right close to the camera in the background. Then you see the kid poke his head around the bushes. Are you sure nobody's watching? It's just one of those cute scenes where you just know what kind of stuff would happen if birds could talk.
Speaker 4:You know it's, it's really an honor. I'm a new yorker, so I think it's just an honor to play a pigeon One with attitude. I think so, and it's been so fun and I don't really love playing the role of trump. I loved working with with the whole cast and I'm really excited for it. Yeah, I think chump is probably like, uh, the most different bird I plays.
Speaker 4:I think my fourth or fifth bird, which is I don't know if that's a compliment or an insult but um, I, I really like get getting into the character and and um, and yeah, I like voice work because you literally don't have to wear, you just come in with like one croc on and you're good, you know, so it's, it's nice in that way. Oh, yeah, definitely, you know, figuratively, and and in the movie, um, I mean, when I heard about this story, I thought it was really beautiful and this kind of like really cool, um, kind of like metaphor for like what we all do, you know, and I love that there's a the family aspect. I love that they have different stops along the way. I think it's a really beautiful story, yeah.
Speaker 6:The look of a film. We really wanted to share this feeling that anyone can have. You know, when you get out of your comfort zone, like thinking, okay, I'm going to step out and and try to maybe do a huge hike or just discover the world, you know like just not staying in your home and doing the same things over again and we don't want to to reward the audience with, like this beautiful scenery that you can have when you do this kind of effort of going out and and and so we really would. You know, like watch all those beautiful paintings from the 19th century, like trying to understand how they managed to capture those beautiful. You know like Just those moments that last for five seconds of a sunset or a sunrise or a moment with just clouds there and everything, and try to Share that with the audience.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it is it's really like and to finally be able to share it with the world. And the animation is beautiful. I mean there's a reason it takes a long time. This is incredibly detailed work.
Speaker 4:Oh, wow, yeah, so good. I mean, the animation is insane and, uh, like the pigeon Like has my eyelashes I don't know how to describe it, but like the way that they kind of work in you and the character is always really cool.
Speaker 5:Oh.
Speaker 3:It's okay, gwen, you can do it while we fly here, but anyone could see me. No one's watching, gwen, you know what. I'll go up front. What's happening. We have a number two situation.
Speaker 2:Oh, everything okay back. Sorry, my bad, my bad.
Speaker 5:Mom, I can't do it here, can we land?
Speaker 3:No, we won't land, gwen. You're old enough to do it in the sky now.
Speaker 5:But it's too much pressure and it's gross.
Speaker 3:It's not gross, we're birds. Every bird does it in the sky. What if someone is looking down? There no one is looking down there. I told you we are not landing. There is no way we're landing. Are you sure no one's watching when mallard, do it now or we leave without you. Okay, okay, oh, she's perfectly capable of doing her business in the sky.
Speaker 5:And yet here we are.
Speaker 3:Let her be, anybody have a soft moss, just use a leaf.
Speaker 1:I think we could all relate to that scene in some kind of way. Now we're not done talking about the incredible cast, yet Coming up next we're here from the incredible Keegan Michael Key. He plays the character del roye, but let's briefly cover again. This is another guy. His list of shows, movies, just extensive. It would take me hours just to talk about all the stuff. But he's in the recent movie wonka, super mario brothers movie, rick and morty, tv show the lion king, and again, that's just a tip of the iceberg. You know his work. And up next he talks about his character.
Speaker 1:But also I love his interview because he talks about Doing a jamaican accent and how sometimes that could easily be bled into an irish accent, and I just love the honesty talking about doing these things. That isn't as easy as we think it is, but trying to get that dialogue down in the accent down, I just find that incredibly funny. And that's just one more thing I want to talk about these interviews. These are interviews done from the world premiere. They these aren't done in a Controlled environment. So all the stuff you hear, all the noise, that's from the world premiere. I just want to throw that out to you just so you know what's going on.
Speaker 1:Then we have a clip for you and in this clip the family meets up with del roye, but del roye's in a cage and they're trying to talk to him about how can we get you out of here? And he's just like well, the key is way down there and is guarded by this Bad person, so he has little hope. But I enjoy the final line in this scene and I'll just I'll just let that play out.
Speaker 7:I was, uh, I was very excited I was. I was like this will be a fun challenge. I've never played jamaican before and I love doing Dialect work, so it was really. It was really Exciting, yeah, yeah it. It is tricky because what happens with Jamaican is sometimes it can turn a little irish and so sometimes you find yourself going to lucky charms instead of being and that jamaica, when you're trying to stay in In a, in a stena type of dialect. You know I'm saying there man, okay, but it was a lot of, it was so much fun, yeah dad, I'm not really gonna leave him here, are we?
Speaker 4:He looks so cramped in that cage. Come on, blow it out.
Speaker 2:What. There's nothing we could do here, dax.
Speaker 3:We could get the key.
Speaker 5:No, kid Impossible. Why, where is it?
Speaker 7:Down there the chef keeps that key on him at all times and, trust me, you don't want to go anywhere near that lunatic In kya cha Him, turn you into ducca l'arrange.
Speaker 4:What's ducca l'arrange? It's you with l'arrange on top.
Speaker 1:Go ahead, give it a try. I bet you, if you really think about it, it's easy to slip into irish from Jamaican. I talked to somebody else about this recently and they're like no way, but give it a second, try it, you'll see. You'll see what he's talking about. And coming up next we're going to hear more from Keegan Michael Key and he talks about how his character is a metaphor for this entire family and it's really cool to hear him delve into that. And then we're going to hear from the director talking about working with such an incredible cast but also working about him in the studio. That's kind of stuff I really like to sink my teeth into hearing about that stuff, hearing about On the Set, creating these characters and that whole process, because, like we said earlier, these kind of movies take years to do, from the animation doing the voiceovers and they change it over and over again.
Speaker 1:It's just it just blows me away. It's so fun to hear a director talk about this kind of stuff. And then we're going to hear a little bit more from Kumail Nanjani and he talks about in real life. He doesn't have kids, but he has a cat and he's so protective of it and that's just so adorable. That's just a fun story. I didn't expect, when I was listening to these interviews, like, oh, that came out of nowhere. That's so cool. It's just a little slice of his life.
Speaker 1:But he talks about his character not being brave and then boom, it suddenly becomes brave and it's just. It's just a really fun interview. Give it a, give it a shot. And then we're going to hear him have a clip for you and in the next clip they free Delroy and Delroy is just thrilled. He's just hugging everybody and he looks at Mac and he says you, you, sir, are the bravest one. Mac is taking a back. He's like what? And you hear his voice changes. Really fun, it's quite funny. He's like oh, I'm not brave. It's just that whole scenario of he's finally finding his place in the family and finding some courage.
Speaker 7:I felt that it was interesting. My, my character is kind of a literal metaphor him being in a cage for, I think, the family's issues, which is that there it's like we need to bust out, we need to go on an adventure, we need to live our lives as opposed to stay here in the pond, and he was a person who was forced to stay in that cage until he, until he, gets broken out. He's kind of like a symbol for the rest of the that we should travel, we should go out into the world.
Speaker 6:Oh, wow, yeah, that was like. For me, it was really fantastic. I mean the chance of working with all those people. There was Camille Nanjani, who is being Mac, the father that doesn't want to go out of his pond, and everything. Elizabeth Banks, of course, was the mother, much more like, you know, open minded, and everything. And Danny DeVito was the old uncle, like grumpy little guy. And this little family, you know, like the.
Speaker 6:When I met them for the first time, they really wear the characters I really wanted. I told them like just be natural, like just be yourself and have fun with that. And that was really great because I could really also get their experience, as you know, like people like Elizabeth Banks as a mother and uncle Dan as an uncle as well you know, like how he acts with his nephews and everything and share with their experience. So it was great like just having the chance of sharing those things with them and make them, at least you know, like find ideas on the way, and they could find like so much wonderful ideas and relatable little things as well.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm definitely like Mac, but I haven't yet discovered the joy of the world outside. I don't have cats, but I have a cat and I am so, so protective of her. So I totally, totally related with Mac until he had his character shift and became adventurous and then I had to act.
Speaker 5:You did it. I can't believe it. I was in a cage and now I am not in, and now not. And you did it, all of you. But you, you will dock you. You must be the bravest dock me ever meet. Oh, I'm not that.
Speaker 2:I'm not that brave.
Speaker 5:What you knew, that, deandra, you did it anyway. What do you call that?
Speaker 2:Yeah, you're right. I guess that is the only word that describes who I am. Did you hear that?
Speaker 5:You call me brave, so you want to go to my island? Eh, I will be honored to take it in myself. You do that For you, me for editing, because I can do editing. I can go ear, or I can go ear Free as a bird, cause I'm a bird.
Speaker 1:Now in that clip you hear his joy. He's just really trying to sell it. In his next interview we're going to hear from him talking what he used to find that inspiration In a talk about. The director told him Channel Freddy Mercury. And if you guys out there who are unfamiliar with Freddy Mercury, he's the lead singer or was a lead singer for the phenomenal band Queen and remember they were a subject of a movie Bohemian Rhapsody a couple years back. So just for those of you who are unfamiliar with Freddy Mercury by the name, that's what he's talking about.
Speaker 1:If you never listen to their music, do it, do it. Do it. Do it now or maybe after the show. Do yourself a strong and incredible favor Queen, throw it down, you'll love it. The talking about that, talking about how the director goes, channel that energy of being free, and I love how he talks about that. But he also talks about when he's in the studio, how he really does go the extra mile. He uses facial expressions. He goes further, because you have to sometimes overact, because it's only your voice. These are those kind of interviews I just love.
Speaker 7:I think Freddy Mercury yes, he did say that to me. He did say that to me, didn't he? Yeah, I feel like, really, what it was, is that joyfulness that you were talking about? You saw in the scene where I come out of the cage? Is that he wanted there to be this almost rock and roll squeal of joy and freedom? And that was the Freddy Mercury of it. Yeah, yes, well, the funny thing is I do use my facial expressions in body language in the booth, in the booth, and I think that I actually find animation to be less difficult because I'm sure I think you're allowed to overact a little bit, because you're trying to match the look of the characters, which are always bigger than life or exaggerated, and so that you get to put more of yourself into it, and that, to me, is really fun.
Speaker 1:Now coming up. Next we have another clip for you Now. In this clip the family they're on in a pond and they come across the character Erin, voiced by Carol Kane, and the character she plays is a much bigger bird and theoretically she could use the children as lunch if she wanted to. But the kids don't know that. They're very naive, so they're like, hey, how are you doing? And the parents are like Uh huh, yep, great, yeah. And she picks up the kids and hugs them oh, they're so adorable. And the kids don't understand the potential for danger. Obviously there's not going to be danger, but the parents, being parents, are very cautious of like they just did the whole scene. It's kind of both them trying to get the kids away without causing a major commotion. This is another example of trials, of being on a road trip with your parents and being an adult and fearing everything that your kids might get in trouble doing. And after the clip we're going to hear from the director and he talks about what kind of movie he wanted to make. And during the interview this is just very fun he's given an interview to the person who's interviewing him and then right behind him, keegan is walking by him and Keegan kind of kind of comes over to him and he interrupts the whole interview hey, you're real Good to meet you and they hug each other. It's just a fun moment because they weren't in the studio together, they were doing it on Zoom. So that just that brief, spontaneous moment really captures. Oh, it's really nice to finally meet you and not just see you on the Zoom For whatever reason. That little scene coming up here in the interview, this is very real.
Speaker 1:And then we're going to hear from cast members. We're going to hear from Elizabeth Banks just talking about working with the director and doing it over Zoom and how different that is compared to in the studio. And a lot of these movies for you know, coming out now that are animated sort, they had been done through Zoom, maybe at their own homes or wherever they do them, but it wasn't the same thing. So that's another thing to kind of take to effect here. A lot of these things were done just randomly, away from everything, not even working with anybody in the studio.
Speaker 1:Then we're going to hear from Keegan talking about meeting these people for the first time and the director and then also Aquafina talks about that. And then we're going to hear from Elizabeth Banks and she talks about this movie capturing those simple family moments. And then we're going to hear from Aquafina talking about just almost everybody can relate to this movie. And then, finally, we're going to hear from the director and he also talks about everybody in this family. Everybody in your family will understand this film. Everybody will be able to quote the lines. It's just fun hearing him talk about basically how this relates to everybody.
Speaker 2:Oh, it's a cube. So funny. Great Time to go. Thanks for everything. Goodbye, I have a guitar in my butt. No, no, no, no, no, no. Blow on my kiss. You don't have to walk closer, you're good there.
Speaker 6:Well, I couldn't really tell. For me it's just like I just wanted to make this movie that everyone can relate to, because I just love myself watching children movies or, you know, like every kind of audience family movies. So I just wanted to do something where anyone could have fun. And then again the idea was to hey how are you?
Speaker 5:Sorry, I just never met him in person.
Speaker 7:I've never, ever seen you.
Speaker 6:You're real, you're not just an image on a screen, because we did all the acting, the whole thing was done. Yeah, it was great. So nice to see you. That's crazy. He's real. Yeah, yeah, just like the parents.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, exactly yeah yeah, you know what's wild is. I got to meet him in the beginning and then the pandemic happened, so it was only over Zoom and he's French and I have, and he loves to do a lot of the voices, so he would put things into the, into the film and we would get to listen to him. So I actually weirdly also feel like I know him as an actor, not just as a director. I think he'd be horrified by that, but I found his vocal performance really fun to listen to as we were making the movie.
Speaker 7:I know for the first time. I was just. This is exciting, I know it's. We were shooting some of this during COVID and so this is the first time I got to meet Benjamin the director, and it's nice. He's very handsome in real life, very, very French and handsome, and I was. I was really thrilled to be able to do that. Finally, after all this time. That's the interesting thing about animated films is that you get that a bit. It's like a reunion with people you've never met before.
Speaker 4:It is. It's always weird to like see everybody after after hearing their performances and acting, like you know, in the in the booth with them. So, yeah, it's really nice to be here.
Speaker 3:I'm so grateful to hear him say that. I will say the sessions were quick. I really was connected to this character. I mean, I'm a mom, I have two kids. You know they drive me as crazy as anybody. I thought a lot of this was very relatable. I thought they really captured a lot of those simple family moments about you know, whether it's the going to the bathroom moment or trying to sleep, or you know all the things that you deal with with your young children as that frustrate you as a parent. Interacting with other people not talking to strangers, you know but then also letting them learn those lessons for themselves is also a big part of parenting.
Speaker 4:Well, I think we all know what it's like to go on a family vacation, you know, especially one that you don't really know what to predict and, yeah, I think there's something about family and like those memories that you get on those, on those travels, that everyone, I think, can really relate to.
Speaker 7:Fantastic movie for Christmas and everybody in the family is being represented by somebody. So everybody in your family is being represented by somebody in the Mallard family, so it's gonna be great.
Speaker 6:Yeah, christmas movie, yeah, I think it's for me this kind of really family reuniting kind of movies. You know like where you just have everyone together and when you're out, you know like the kids can do the lines of the kids that you see in the movie. The parents can act the same because, oh, you're like this dad, you're like this mom, or like this kind of relationship, and that's what I loved about this. Yeah, I wanted to share oh you're welcome have fun today. Yeah, well, thanks, thanks a lot.
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