00:00Well, Kermit the Frog sounds a little bit like this, and Kermit might be talking to Stitch.
00:06And Stitch sounds a little bit like this, and Stitch is a little bit like this, and Stitch is a little bit like this.
00:13Chris, let's start with you.
00:16You have worked on so many animated movies, and I'm wondering if you could explain Ten Lives
00:22in, like, the context of other movies we might know.
00:27So, like, is it a little bit Aristocats, a little bit, you know what I mean?
00:31Like, what's the formula that we might recognize for people who haven't, obviously, seen Ten Lives?
00:38Well, obviously, there's no formula whatsoever.
00:41Yeah.
00:42And while people have likened it to Cats by Andrew Lloyd Webber, it's not that either.
00:47No, it really just pays homage to a lot of the older Disney movies.
00:53I mean, much older Disney movies, like the ones I loved, Bambi, Pinocchio, Snow White, Peter Pan.
01:01It has a gentleness about it that is hopefully creating this bubble that we put around the audience
01:09and let them really sit and get immersed by the images and the storytelling.
01:16And then beyond that, setting out to do that, then the way that the movie evolved with this very emotional story
01:24was somewhat of a surprise to me, although I did cry when I finished the script.
01:29Simone and Mo, what are some of your most formative animated films from your childhood?
01:34What, like, when you think about, like, what Chris was just explaining, what comes to mind?
01:38Well, Chris's resume.
01:41Yeah.
01:42Like, all, every single Disney movie, Bambi, Bambi really taught me about life and death, really.
01:50Yeah.
01:51Like, the forest being burnt down and then what happens after life, what happens after death
01:58and, like, all rises from the ashes.
01:59Bambi's, like, very profound, I think, for children in that sense.
02:02But all of the Disney princess movies, Thumbelina, do you remember Thumbelina?
02:10I did.
02:11With the French bird that sings the songs.
02:16I think that was a Don Bluth movie, if I remember it.
02:18Yeah.
02:19Yeah.
02:21Literally every animation.
02:22The Sword in the Stone.
02:23I loved the owl.
02:24All these birds.
02:25The owl from the Sword in the Stone.
02:26That's interesting.
02:27Yeah.
02:28Archimedes.
02:29And he was hilarious with British accent.
02:31And I went to every single Disneyland.
02:34I was very, very lucky.
02:35My parents could see how much, you know, animation was instilled in me and how much I loved it
02:41growing up.
02:42And I think it's really, it's still in me when I'm doing live action work.
02:47It could be an adult drama or a comedy or something completely the opposite to a children's animation.
02:52But I think they're so intertwined.
02:55I think you have to have your imagination alive, whatever you're doing.
02:58So I think kids' animations, I guess that was my door into acting.
03:05That's really cool.
03:06For me, it's probably Lion King.
03:07Yeah.
03:07I know, I'm not even trying to name the things you work on, but that was one of the first animated
03:14films I got to see in the cinema as a kid.
03:16And seeing Lion King, because every animal has their personality that matches.
03:22So, you know, the hyenas are quite crafty.
03:24You know, Tamod and Pumbaa are like a double act to probably at the most, like, they're
03:29like prey, if many think, in the safari.
03:33So, yeah, for me, it would be Lion King.
03:34Probably Toy Story as well, because I think the difference is a lot, like, Lion King was
03:38animals, but I'd never seen toys have a personality.
03:42I think as a kid, like, every kid, you kind of shut the door.
03:44You're like, nothing moved.
03:46Nothing moved.
03:47So, yeah.
03:48Yeah.
03:48Did doing voice work come naturally to you guys, or did, yeah, like, I've been practicing
03:55for this my entire life.
03:56Well, actually, playing Rose, I felt more vulnerable, because Chris, you know, was just so amazing
04:04at just letting us be ourselves, and that was your main direction, just be you, and believe
04:10it, like, live what that character's going through.
04:13I would love to do a character one day, you know, like, with all these different kind
04:18of tonalities, and they're always, like, Stitch, I can do, like, a Stitch or Chipmunk
04:23impression, or, like, a Kermit the Frog, and something really silly.
04:27I'm going to put you on the spot, and ask if you can do one of those impressions right
04:30now.
04:31Well, Kermit the Frog, see, I was a little bit like this, and, uh, Kermit might be talking
04:36to Stitch, and Stitch sounds a little bit like this, and Stitch sounds a little bit like this,
04:39and Stitch sounds a little bit like this, and Stitch sounds a little bit like this, or Hannah
04:40and Spamaloo.
04:41That is a very good Stitch.
04:42You are going to get a job, another job to do this, I think.
04:45Wow.
04:46But I can, do you have to go back to Bridgerton?
04:48Can you just do that?
04:49Well, yeah, um, I, I would, well, I think you should do that voice in Bridgerton.
04:53Yeah, I think, I can see it, I can see it work.
04:56Stitch in Victoria.
04:58Yeah, right?
04:59That was very good.
05:00It's like you've been waiting your whole life for someone to ask you to do that voice.
05:03Yes!
05:03That was pretty good.
05:04Apparently.
05:05Waiting when it was so sorry.
05:06My dog, we all personify our animals.
05:08Yes.
05:09And my dog is Cartman from South Park.
05:12So, she's like, ma'am, oh my God, like, it's like 7am and you haven't fed me yet?
05:17And like, she'll talk to me like this, she's like, ma'am, oh my God, like, I need to work.
05:21You haven't taken me for work yet?
05:22After three years, this is the best time.
05:26Brilliant.
05:27Wow, okay, I'm going to stop talking, but you say something.
05:30What do you really want to do this year?
05:33What's, what's a goal of yours?
05:35I think for me, I'm really excited for my friends and family to see, to see this because I've been telling them for about two years.
05:43I'm like, I'm playing this cat.
05:44And everyone's like, a cat?
05:45I'm playing a cat.
05:46And I'm like, no, but it's this pampered, crafty cat.
05:49So, I can't wait to see everyone's reaction to the film, the really loving parts, the sad parts.
05:56You know, there's, when I first watched it and that opening sequence where the cat is being cute and it does that, you're like that, and the cat goes like that.
06:02It's one of those moments, you know, when you watch a TV program and you smile thinking that you're involved?
06:07And I sat there and I was like, and I was like, that's me.
06:12That's me.
06:13So, yeah, I'm looking forward for everyone to see and to see in 10 lives.
06:16I'm really looking forward to that this year.
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