00:00 What did you just say?
00:01 Chai Dee?
00:02 Chai means D, bro.
00:04 You're saying Dee Dee.
00:06 When we first boarded out the first Mombatan sequence,
00:09 we got a collective email from a lot of our animators
00:13 of Indian descent.
00:14 They were like, we think it should be cooler.
00:16 We want to recognize more of the Indian-ness in it.
00:19 It made us re-examine it.
00:21 We were able to put a lot of authenticity
00:24 and an attitude that felt very fun and aspirational
00:28 and made that character so much better.
00:31 We invited in Karan Soni, Indian actors,
00:34 Indian writers, Hasan Minhaj.
00:36 We basically assembled an Indian writer's room.
00:39 I just got an email being like, will you come meet with them?
00:41 And I was like, am I getting fired?
00:43 Oh, it looks like he did not know.
00:45 But they instead wanted me to be more involved
00:48 in the shaping of the character.
00:49 And kudos to Phil and Chris, because they were just
00:51 so open, because we just kind of blew up what they had written
00:54 and just kind of started a lot of it from scratch.
00:58 It was a real testament to the Indian animators who spoke up.
01:01 And thank goodness they did, because it ended up great.
01:04 You guys make a heck of a team.
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