congratulations on the film guys
thank you oh it's wonderful it's
wonderful i'll be honest i'm a bit
annoyed that i haven't been able to
listen to the soundtrack yet there's
only like a minute of uh the familia
madrigal song that's it so i've had it
on repeat for about a week i don't know
what that says about a 39 year old man
listening to this
but it's all good it's all good but
congrats again it's all it's all good i
have my disney panel with me as well yes
um my first
she belongs to the adult disney uh
i am an adult i'm a full of dessert like
right on
hard i go hard or i go home and i don't
go home often i stay over at the parks
what's the first rule of the disney
adult club
you talk about it
you talk about it all the time
membership going
um my first question was going to be i
listened to an interview with lin-manuel
miranda and he said that he coached you
guys over zoom which sounds like a very
very strange scenario anyway doing stuff
over zoom as we've been doing but to
teach someone about the songs and how
they he kind of wants them to sing it
all that kind of stuff must have been a
strange experience uh so i wanted to ask
you guys about that maybe stephanie i'll
start with you on that one
you know i didn't find it that strange
because often animation is a little
isolated in the in
in that you are in a booth by yourself
performing with your script and a
microphone and often there's an engineer
in a different room and sometimes
there's a director in a different room
but you're often isolated
during animation so i actually found it
really great and useful that we were on
a zoom because
they were all right here on this monitor
that i had right here and i could hear
them at all times as opposed to
sometimes in the past with animation
everyone's in a booth on the other side
of the room and they like turn off the
sound so you can't hear anything at all
and
i found it really helpful and i i also
found that
you know he was with you every step of
the way lin manuel is your biggest
cheerleader when you're working with him
and when you're singing his songs he is
truly like guiding you through them
almost as if he's got you know a helmet
with a big flashlight on it and is
holding your hand and like going this
way and then we're gonna take this road
and then we're gonna dive down here and
it's really
joyful and fun to work with him and he's
so
so patient which is really helpful for
those of us that are
you know nervous about what we're doing
or nervous about hitting notes or
nervous about trying to make it through
the song without breathing he's
extremely kind and patient
diane how about how's this experience
for for you doing the doing the voices
working with lynn looking with all these
amazing disney people that have such an
amazing track record of bringing so many
amazing stories to life
i can't even believe it i really can't
i'm just like you know this is such a
like big lesson on like it was a big
lesson on self-acceptance for me right
because i mean as someone who has
struggled with with self-esteem and
you know having to like remind myself
hey it's okay you do belong here um you
know films like this will remind people
that you are enough and also that you're
more than just your gift and that you
could have a gift and explore
new ones and not be super great at them
at the beginning you know and singing
for me was this sort of thing that i've
always loved to do i you know i grew up
with disney i went to performance arts
high school i i was in the vocal
department and so
to do a disney movie and to do lin
manuel and um and actually get to sing
in it um it was incredible for me um i
was very very nervous in the booth
and um and the the running joke with me
and lynn was that you know the music
would start and i would go
and like i missed i missed the bus you
know and he'd be like
he'd chime in he'd go
you missed the bus again and i'm like
no and then he started like saying it in
spanish
you know what i mean and so that was
sort of like the running joke and it
made me feel really comfortable but this
time it just became about dude just get
on the bus and then go you know
and you obviously you two were quite
nervous but john you've done this a
couple of times before was it nice to go
to work doing vocal stuff and not having
to do the lisp that you had to do and i
say just use your normal voice yeah you
know i i like to do a voice actually i
do like it i like that voice and i try
to do a voice here
the incredible directors are like no
john
we want you to come to the party and i
was like i don't know if i want to be in
the party
i like to do like something you know
like a you know invent a voice or do you
know do i do something otherwise i don't
feel like i'm doing anything
they guided me i mean jared and and
byron are incredible and sharisa's
script and and lin like like stephanie
was saying he was so patient because i'm
not a singer or a rapper i mean i i i
rap in the shower but you don't want to
hear that
you don't want to be in my shower at all
anyway but
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but he really was patient until i got
because i like like diane i kept missing
like
you know the bus was coming on like damn
it i should have been here five minutes
early
bus is gone i'll get the next one
and this i mean this story is i mean
there's so much going on in it and
what's amazing about it is that there's
no kind of even though stephanie your
character is kind of the lead character
you're all kind of lead characters it's
about a family and it's about the
dynamic of all of you was it refreshing
for you guys to read a script where all
the characters
weren't just kind of bit parts that they
were all kind of all fleshed out and
they all had their part to play in this
incredible ensemble to bring this this
family story to life maybe diane i'll
chuck that at you first
i think it's just so telling of the
story itself you know about how
all
are special and all have a part to play
and like
that's what really a family is once when
a family member starts
feeling bad or their gifts are being
used or or turned or
someone's not being given the love that
they need or deserve
that family is not going to be balanced
and i think that that movie the movie
did so wonderfully in like letting
everyone know that they had a part and
that's just what what it is in a real
family and like everyone just needs to
exercise their beauty and their gifts to
the best of their ability and if you
don't have a gift yet you'll find it and
we're all here to support you you know
yeah and they have a crazy uncle which
you know most families we all have a
crazy one you have we all have a crazy
uncle this time he's all right then you
figure he's not crazy
he's not crazy at all if we if we would
have just listened to him we would have
been fine it wasn't crazy the crazy ones
maybe aren't so crazy
exactly
that's a lesson right there
yeah absolutely well john for you i mean
what was it like playing this this
character because he he comes onto the
screen in such a way with his with his
brilliant magnificent hair that he has
which needs cutting but i think he
should keep it but what was it like
playing playing him because he's the
kind of the eccentric one out of
everybody although is it the extensive
one is the question i guess
right i mean you know i kind of relate
to bruno unfortunately i kind of do
because i i have the same problem as as
he doesn't without the without a power
i'm always the i was i was a black sheep
of the family back in the day when i was
young and
and uh i always also also i have a
drinker too and i will start telling the
truth
or say the stuff that nobody wants to
hear and then i get pushed aside
uh so i i understand his power you know
like he's got the power he tells
everybody the truth he's it's kind of
like it's the future but it's more more
like he's telling the truth and nobody
wants to hear it the family wants to
black like all families all families
that want to hear the truth but part of
the glue of of a of a family is not
hearing the truth it's what keeps it
together and then hearing the truth is
is a strong pill to swallow yeah
and stephanie for you what was it uh
playing playing mirabelle because she's
such a such a vibrant character as soon
as we we meet her and she goes on this
incredible incredible journey and she's
finding out about you know the family
and everything else what was it like for
you player not just a character but this
character in particular that wasn't just
a strong female character but also
representative of you know colombia and
all that kind of stuff that was that was
in between
you know i think the thing that i
identify the most with with mirabelle
was her use of comedy and
like
and i don't i don't know that you always
see that in um
oftentimes in in the structure of many
disney animation stories the comedy is
given to sort of these sidekick
characters and in a weird way
mirabelle's always had to be her own
sidekick because she's often alone
she's often left out because she doesn't
have these gifts she's often sort of
like trying to be involved and
and because of that there's a lot of
like
almost talking to herself that you see
in the film and like using comedy to
sort of
release the pressure of
whatever these discussion these family
discussions are right and like i think
everybody knows someone in their family
that does that that's able to sort of
like
sort of make an aside and everyone
laughs and everything that was so tense
kind of deflates a little bit um
i love that about her and like i and i
also appreciate that as as it's written
on the page
there's this new thing that
that charisse and jared and and byron
brought to
this heroine which is her use of comedy
in these situations which i don't think
you always see
um you know there's like oftentimes
there's these like weird
discussions that are still happening i
quote quote you know finger quotes in
the air discussions that are happening
about whether or not women can be funny
which is a ridiculous notion in and of
itself
and i think that bringing that comedy to
mirabelle is so cool because it allows
kids to see like that is also an okay
expression of yourself as a person your
humor
yeah it's uh there's so much girl in
this film but i have to say the way that
they've captured you doing this and you
doing that it's
it's almost like you motion captured
mirabelle there are some times where
it's very
because like i come from a theater
background so like i'm very
expressive just as a person and
sometimes i'm watching the film and
going like oh no is that what my face
does when i'm
but i think it might be which is like
that's okay that that's fine yeah
there's not a compliment that disney
putting you yourself into a film and
guys thank you so so much for your time
today absolutely thank you thank you
guys fantastic thank you thank you so
much bye ladies and gentlemen you're
watching
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