When Christopher Robin, Ewan McGregor finds himself a long way off from the Hundred Acre Wood.
The beloved story book icons Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore and Tigger are
venturing out of the forest in order to help an old friend, we discover the childlike wonder lost inside of him.
Hello I'm Marc Forster. You''re watching Made in Hollywood
and now I'm showing you a scene of my movie Christopher Robin.
Hoohoo, I do like a party. Come on Bear. What should happen if you forget about me. Silly old bear, I won't ever forget about you Pooh, I promise.
What is going on in Christopher Robin's life?
The film starts when he's 7 years old
and he's saying goodbye to his friends in Hundred Acre Wood and he's going away
somewhere. They don't know where but they're throwing a farewell party for him.
And then we see a very quick montage of his life until our story starts.
We should be working this weekend Robin. But I promised my wife and
daughter I'd take them away this weekend. All hands on deck.
You won't be coming to the cottage? It can't be helped. Your life is happening now right in front of you.
I loved how you brought to life these iconic, the iconic
Hundred Acre Wood. What went into your visual style and creating this world?
Very early on I wanted to make an original story and to go back to these early
Shepherd drawings and, and we had, you know, our character designer. Michael
Kutcher and I worked very hard on bringing these characters alive and in,
in a new direction, and in a new way.
Shooting, and action. What to do. What to do. What to do. What to do indeed. Pooh? Christopher Robin. Well.
So what was it like seeing Christopher Robin again?
Well as I recall, he's much taller than I remember. And um, I've probably grown too. I wonder if he'll even recognize me?
Why are you here? Oh yes, I need your help. I've lost all of my friends. Let's get to the bottom of this.
Well I think everybody grew up loving Winnie the Pooh and Christopher Robin. What was it about the script that you loved.
I felt like you could really hear those authentic
voices of each of those characters that I remember from the books.The wisdom, the
unconscious innocent wisdom of Pooh that also seemed to be so funny and full of
witticisms that was peppered throughout the whole thing.
This is such an all star cast.
What was your deciding factor to make you want to do this film?
Well the cast is quite wonderful. Ewan let me have a bigger trailer you see, and
I thought that was ever so nice. Oh his was bigger? Bummer.
So Eeyore was your shooting schedule really challenging?
Well, um, It's not like I'm that busy anyway.
So what was your first reaction when you read this script?
Well it's like the roll was written for me. I mean stripes and all, which is why I
never read the script. Why mess with perfection?
First order in today's day and age, you know, about finding what makes you happy and what's important
and finding that balance is, is, it's kind of an incredible story too.
It would appear that I am stuck. Have you just eaten honey? I have not just eaten honey. I wonder which way.
I always get to where I'm going by walking away from where I've been. Do you? That's the way I do it.
So what was it like for you acting across non-people?
I've done it in the past. I did it in the Star Wars films
many times. I had to act with things that weren't there. So it's, it's not
unfamiliar to me. And I didn't, I didn't get to act with nothing there because I
had an amazing little Pooh Bear and Eeyore, and Piglet and all of the characters
were there in teddy bear form if you like, but they were beautifully made and
they were made, they look like the characters in our movie.
Ewan is, basically what we do is that we take the stuffed animals and block the scene.
And then ultimately he sees that he can interactively rehearse it and do this
incredible and so, in how he, you know, he is so endearing you want that
he really connects with nothing that's then later being animated, there is
really extraordinary if you believe in that.
It's always a sunny day
when Christopher Robin comes to play. Silly old bear.