i'm gonna be there soon
over the moon is netflix's latest
animated film and it's based on the
chinese legend of the moon goddess
it follows a 12 year old girl named
fei-fei whose mother tells her about
chango
a goddess who lives on the moon waiting
for her true love
so when fei-fei's mother passes away
she's determined to go to the moon
to meet chango you and me bunji we're
gonna
prove she's real
what in the world the star-studded cast
includes john cho
sandra oh margaret cho and ken jung as
this dancing light up otter thing
the story is set in one of china's
famous water towns
to make sure their portrayal was
accurate the team went to wu chen
a water town in eastern china we tried
to go to places that were
more unexpected and so beautiful
but lesser known and kind of showcased
china that way
we actually went like door to door and
just knocked on doors and asked people
if we come in and see their house
and people were so warm and welcoming
and they're like yeah come in one of the
um
houses we went to uh you know had like a
very enthusiastic chinese grandmother
that wanted to like really
share about her experiences growing
up in the town and it was really quite
an amazing experience
we made sure that everything that we
were portraying
was as authentic as we could but we
wanted it also to feel like
anybody from the world could relate to
the humanity in this
i can understand and appreciate how
unique
this culture is and the way that they
live and
you know how they sit and eat together
and the foods that they eat
our production designer she i think took
a
million photos in one family dinner
scene you can see the family eating
hairy crabs
a seasonal fall dish lions had meatballs
a local specialty and deep fried spring
rolls
a classic festive dish in eastern china
moon cakes
check bungee cords check we have bungie
i think a lot of people around the world
are experiencing grief right now
i think the greatest part about this
film is that it's about healing
we get to watch this young girl who's
lost her mom at a young age
understand that she can let her mom go
while still celebrating the person that
her mom was before
to be able to share the
story of changa with audiences who've
never heard it
felt like such an honor and such um a
privilege to do that and
and we always would just like look at
each other and be like wouldn't that be
crazy if just like
kids in the us would just know the word
changa and know that it's about the moon
goddess
i remember picking up my son from
preschool i think he was only like
three and he was like uh mommy i was
telling my friends at school about
changa and i was like floored
to him it's it's just like another story
that we've told him you know and i just
thought
this is what this is what we we're
trying to do
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