What's up, Oh My Disney fans?
I'm hanging out at the Tangled: The Series production offices,
in front of Chris Sonnenburg's office
and I am going to break in and give an exclusive look,
because I've heard it's one of the coolest at Disney.
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Hey, Alexys. How are you?
Long time no see.
Chris, fancy seeing you here.
Want to come and see some stuff in my office?
-Yes, I do. -Let's go and see some stuff.
Okay, Chris, everybody was right, your office is awesome.
Tell me a little about this desk because it's so cool.
Did-- Is this your desk?
This was actually my desk
back when I was at feature animation back in the '90s,
working on movies like Pocahontas and Hunchback, and Hercules, and Mulan.
No big deal.
Yeah, no big deal.
Just a few movies that we made back then.
It's really cool because it is one of the original desks
from when Walt Disney was still at the studio.
And that was why I loved it so much
and why I wanted it kind of back in my office, even today.
-That is so awesome. -But it's a little bit of history.
And it actually has my signature on it.
So this is my signature.
And this is my friend, Dave Pimentel’s signature, who had it for a few years.
And this is my friend, Jim, who had the exact same desk.
He was the first one to have it.
And we all worked at the studio and we passed it around
as we had it throughout the times at the studio.
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Okay, so we have some awesome drawings over here.
-Sure. -Tell me a little bit about these.
They're so awesome.
So these drawings here, these three,
were done by the man himself, Glen Keane.
Glen created Ariel, and Tarzan, and the Beast,
and he also created Rapunzel,
and these drawings were done back in like the year 2000,
17 years ago.
And I was working at the studio at the time
and I had gone upstairs in the animation building,
and Glen was in his office working,
and it was late at night,
and outside of his office were a bunch of these drawings
of what people, we had to assume, was Rapunzel.
We didn't know we were going to make a movie
or anything like that.
So I was so inspired by them, that I kind of carefully took them down
and I went and made photocopies of the them
and then I put them back up.
And I kept these photocopies because they were so inspiring to me
on some amazing level.
And they were just as inspiring,
and they are just as inspiring to me today
as they were back when I first saw them.
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And then, you have some sheet music, I see.
Yeah, these two pieces are from our show.
This one is, "The Wind in My Hair," written by Alan Menken
and lyrics by Glenn Slater.
So this is from Alan to me saying that the show's so great.
And I was so inspired by that
and I put that up as kind of our encouragement from Alan.
And then this piece is from Jeremy Jordan,
who sings a piece for Queen Rapunzel.
So I love this piece of art.
Is there a significance behind it?
Yeah, there is significance behind all of the artwork in this show,
but that one in particular is very significant
because it was created by Claire Keane.
So if you remember in the movie,
Rapunzel has all of her beautiful murals in her tower.
Yes.
That was done by an amazing artist named Claire Keane.
And it was one of the very first pieces that she created
and it really kind of shined the light
on how Rapunzel looked at the world.
It was very informative to how she created her murals,
but also it informs us how we approach,
not only the look of our show, but how Rapunzel paints in her journal.
-That's so awesome. -Yeah.
What about this one?
So that is a drawing by--
Glen Keane did this, kind of an autograph for me.
Or kind of this inspirational piece for me.
When we had first gotten the idea that we were going to do the show,
he gave me this piece.
I asked him to do a drawing of her.
And then he also wrote that little phrase
underneath there that says, "Plus est en vous."
That was the first time I had seen that or heard it
and he explained to me the significance of it
being that, even in the movie
when she thought all of her magic was gone
because her hair had been cut,
and she thought there was no way to save Flynn Rider or Eugene,
that there was still one last bit of magic in her.
And the idea that there's always more in you.
There's always more that you can give.
And we were looking for a phrase
that Rapunzel's mother would use to inspire her
throughout the series.
And then I looked up and I saw his kind of--
this message to me through this drawing
and I was like, that's it.
There is more in you.
This journal or notebook is really sticking out to me.
Can you tell me a little bit about that?
Sure.
So this-- you know in the Tangled: Before Ever After,
Rapunzel's mother gives her a journal to keep track of her adventures in it.
And so when we were developing the show
and coming up with the idea of the show,
we wanted to create an actual journal that represented that.
I teamed up with Claire Keane.
Claire and I created this journal
-that has her illustrations on the outside. -It's beautiful.
And inside you see the inscription from her mother,
"Plus est en vous."
And here she's keeping track of the people in her kingdom
that she's never seen before.
Her parents, huge influences on her and her adventures in the show.
That's so cool. Such a personal touch.
It kind of all came full circle.
-Yeah, for sure. -Look at that.
Chris, this has been so much fun.
Thank you for showing me your office.
-You are welcome. -It's wonderful.
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-Bye. -Bye, guys.