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Actor Nicholas Braun shares the hilarious story of how his agent pitched him a movie about sheep solving a murder mystery. Find out how a star-studded creative team including Craig Mazin, Phil Lord, Chris Miller, and Hugh Jackman turned a strange concept into a project he had to be a part of.
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00:00My agent sent it to me, and he was like, hear me out.
00:04You know, it's a sheep solving a murder mystery, and you work with the sheep.
00:12Read it.
00:13But also Craig Mazin wrote it, and Lord Miller are producing it,
00:18and Hugh Jackman is signed on to play the shepherd,
00:21and, you know, Kyle Balda is directing it,
00:23who's made these really massive franchise, you know, family films,
00:28animated family films, but he knows how to do all this.
00:32So I just kind of set up to love it, and then I really did.
00:37And I think the heavier themes, the grief and loss and all of that,
00:44they're amazing themes to explore in a family film.
00:47I mean, Up, right? Up deals with—
00:50Say less.
00:51I mean, Up crushes you within five minutes.
00:54Devastating.
00:55And, you know, so does this when they lose Hugh's character.
01:00The levels it's playing with are really great.
01:02It surrounds these heavier things with comedy and character and great actors,
01:07and, you know, it's a colorful movie.
01:09It's fun to look at.
01:11Like, the setting is great.
01:12But the fact that it goes there, like, really makes the movie,
01:15I think, as special as it could be.
01:19You won't see.
01:19Okay.
01:19Okay.
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