I would probably be a Pop Troll
because they are relentlessly optimistic,
and to get a movie done, you have to have a certain level of optimism.
So, the Trolls world just got a whole lot bigger
with many different kingdoms.
My personal favourite was the country kingdom.
Which was the best kingdom to design
and which one would you prefer to live in?
We liked designing all of them,
and even though I consider myself more of a Pop Troll,
I think, yeah, I really like the funk world.
It's inside this spaceship and it's so new, it's just so amazing,
and the community in there and the colours-, I mean, I love them all.
The funk one had a really good vibe,
I kind of found myself bouncing along.
- I like that.
So there was not a point where I really didn't enjoy,
so my cheeks were hurting because I was smiling.
(laughter) That's good to hear.
How did you make the movie so relentlessly happy?
I'm glad you picked up on that, because we tried.
I think, you know, a lot of films right now
and the world itself is very serious, and we really wanted
something that made you feel good, that made you feel joyful,
from the colours to the jokes to the music,
something that did make you feel good.
Sorry your face hurt from laughing so much. (laughter)
That's alright.
So the road trip that the Trolls went on
kind of reminded me of The Wizard of Oz,
so was that something that inspired you?
Yeah, that's a good analogy.
Wizard of Oz is one of the greatest movies ever made
and it's still relevant today,
and that was definitely a movie I grew up on.
That's really nice.
I enjoyed all the new trolls, like the funk and then the reggaeton,
which was really interesting to me.
So what troll would you be?
You know, I love them all.
Like I say, I love the funk, but I would probably be a Pop Troll
because they are relentlessly optimistic,
and to get a movie done, you have to have a certain level of optimism
to believe you can do it, so yeah, Pop Troll.
This is a film where, because of the music,
you know the finale's going to be really big, really epic.
So how did you manage to build up the anticipation?
Yeah, that was tough.
The act three, the end of a movie is always really hard to do.
You start thinking-, it takes three years to make the movie,
so right at that beginning, you start saying
how are we going to get to this ending
and make it as big and as important and as fun as it can be?
So we just start working on it from day one,
and three years later, we finally get to, okay,
that's it, that's the vision we had.
- Three years is a long time. - It is.
Wow.
Okay, so this film kind of gave me an earworm,
so certain songs would be in my head just stuck,
so I would just keep repeating it in my head.
Are there any songs in particular from this film
that just kind of gave you an earworm?
Yeah, for sure, in a good way,
and that was a good sign, that we never got sick of it.
From Trolls Just Wanna Have Fun, which we found early, early on,
I think that one stuck in my head a lot,
and there are some great new songs that Justin worked on.
You'll hear them, from Don't Slack to this song called Just Sing,
and I think those really got in my head.
I've heard them hundreds of times and I'm still not sick of them, I'm not.
Queen Barb came and argued about rock and how it's real music,
and I know people like to argue about what they think is the best music.
For example, me, I like R&B.
My friends have different music tastes
so I'm just trying to get them into R&B.
How competitive do you think people get over their own music taste?
Yeah, you really hit on something in making this movie
and trying to find what drives the antagonist of the movie, which is
we found a lot of people are very passionate
about the genres they like, and that is Queen Barb who's queen of rock.
She's not really a bad person, she's not really a villain.
She just really is passionate about her music,
so she thinks the world would be a better place if there was only rock.
I've met people who aren't really tolerant of other people's genres,
but that's the whole message of the movie.
It's like, everybody can like their music.