00:00Hi Bobby 7, nice to meet you. It's so great to finally be able to speak to you on this carpet.
00:05Congratulations on this film. I had to ask, what did you first think when you first read this script and when you talked about it with John?
00:13I thought, oh my gosh, they're going to make a movie that needs to be made. There hasn't been anything like this ever.
00:19And after seeing it now, I can't believe it. It's like, I feel like it's a movie like E.T., like a movie that people will be talking about for a long time.
00:26It's beautiful. What was it like working with John as a director? And is this the first time that you two collabed?
00:33First time we worked together, yeah. We had been friendly before that. We were friends before, but this was our first time working together.
00:42And he's absolutely wonderful. It stinks how good he is at this. Because he's so fantastic at the office.
00:49He's so funny and such a good actor. And then it turns out he's also like Steven Spielberg.
00:54Like, it's crazy.
00:56No, it's actually really wild. And I love the whole concept of, of course, imaginary friends.
01:00Did you have an imaginary friend growing up?
01:02I can't believe that I've gotten this far down the line and you're the first person to ask me.
01:08No way.
01:08Isn't that crazy? That if I had imaginary friends, I thought that's all I would be doing.
01:12But yes, I did. I had two imaginary friends.
01:15Do you remember names, what they looked like?
01:18Their names were Fagabeefee and Ishgabeeble.
01:21Oh, okay.
01:22I don't think they looked like anything.
01:24Like, I think I just had names and talked to people.
01:27Okay.
01:28But I also remember me and my friend Maureen found a piece of string with a balloon on it.
01:35Like, bakery string, that red and white string.
01:38Sure.
01:38With a broken balloon on it.
01:40And we carried around for two years and we called it Charlie.
01:42Should we call it Charlie?
01:43Okay, so if I had to give a voice to your imaginary friend in your life, who in Hollywood would you pick to voice them?
01:52Wow.
01:52That's a good Patrick Warburton and Charlotte Rae.
02:00You think they're like a dynamic duo to voice your childhood?
02:04The dynamic duo to voice my childhood.
02:07Yeah.
02:08One final question.
02:09I know I did have to bring out the tissues at some point.
02:11It's a tearjerker, right?
02:14What do you hope that audiences take away from watching this film, and kids especially?
02:17I hope that audiences go home and talk about how much they love this and how happy it made them.
02:23And I hope that it makes them want to do stuff together.
02:27Because that's what it made me want to do with my family.
02:30Thank you so much for stopping by.
02:32Thank you so much.
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