Hello everyone, welcome aboard the Meteor Trends Channel, it's the P-22, the P-C-O-D-D-V-O-S-E's presentation. Today's our event, and she's here to help you with your journey. That's, that's, that's so good. Can we, um, can we try something maybe a little more rape to it? Oh, okay. Psst. Psst. Welcome to the National Museum of Art. This is my favorite part of the museum. Here are the most important things. Step all the way to the beginning and make room for everyone. This is the first step. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, live from California, welcome to the Disney Character Voices 30th Anniversary Celebration, with special appearances by some of our favorite Disney voice talents. And now, please welcome Senior Vice President of Character Voices, Rick Dempsey! Thank you. Hello, good morning, friends. Hey, thanks for joining us for our 30th anniversary celebration of Disney Character Voices. We are thrilled to have you. I think we're going to have a blast as we take you behind the magic curtain a little bit of how character voice work is created. In fact, we have so much lined up today that I'm afraid we might go a little long. So I hope that's okay. But before we go too far, I'd like to wax a bit nostalgic and talk briefly about the history of Disney character voices. There are obviously hundreds and hundreds of incredibly talented actors who have created our characters over Disney's 90 year history. The fact of the matter is, and I know we say it often, but it all started with just one. That's right, Nick Knauss. The American character of voice in the late 1920s was an achievement so remarkable that it's what paved the way for the future of the world. Thank you. When Walt created Mickey and stepped up to the microphone to give him a voice, he essentially became the first character voice actor ever. That's why today we value our character voices so much, because it was essentially what helped start the company, making cartoon characters talk. Now let's cut back a little over 30 years ago to the mid-1980s. The company was experiencing incredible growth and success. Roy Disney was chairman of animation and vice chairman of the company. I mean, it's just... The integrity of our characters and personalities was absolutely key to ensuring that they maintained their ongoing appeal. But at the time, the company didn't have an official voice department. So, here to talk about how he started one, the founder and first employee of this newly created division, Les Perkins. 12,000. The seed for Disney character voices was planted in a project for Disneyland. While working in Imagineering, Tony Baxter asked me to produce all the audio for the new Fantasyland renovations of 1983-84. This ended up leading me down a path of exploring the entire company's use of established characters. It soon became apparent that there were no standards for voice work throughout Disney. Each department was allowed to do as they pleased. No coordination among the parts, records, consumer products, and so on. In fact, there were ten different people voicing Mickey Mouse, all with a different sound. And with almost no regard for appropriate dialogue, which is core to personality. Now, of course, Walt's Nicky was the standard. There's almost no footage of Walt Disney performing Nicky. He was actually a little bit embarrassed. As you might notice in this rare clip of Walt in the recording studio. Alongside is Billy Bletcher, who provided the voice of Pete for the 1940 cartoon, Mr. Mouse Takes a Trip. Enjoy this. I only hope we never lose sight of one thing. You don't want to get turned off, do you? Shh, Pluto. You don't want to get turned off, do you? Be quiet, now. Watch out. Hurry up, Pluto. Hang on, pal. Here we go. Shh, Pluto. I don't want to get turned off, do you? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's you! Yeah! It's me, I guess. Oh, hello. We're now just a- Yeah! Oh! You know, I used to have a little cat once. But when it was left all alone, it did cry. In the time of 1947's Fun and Fancy Free, Walt realized he was too busy to always provide Mickey's voice. So he asked the studio sound effects wizard, Jimmy McDonald, to take over the voice duties. And both of them are on that soundtrack. By the 1970s, it was time to pass the torch once again. As it happened, Jimmy had a sound effects apprentice who had additional talents. Brain audit. Being trained by Jimmy, Wayne voiced Mickey for the New Mickey Mouse Club in 1977, and Mickey's Christmas Carol in 1983, as well as a few other projects. But not all of them. When it came to Donald Duck, Tony Anselmo had actually studied under Donald Duck's voice creator, Clarence Nash. Tony learned that unique sound perfectly, recording several projects. But there were still at least four other people performing Donald in other parts of the company, who did not sound like our cherished character. Again, proving the very obvious need for voice consistency. Now... While working on an unrelated project, I heard a demo tape from a talented lady with a charming, naturally high-pitched voice. I noted her name for future reference, and her name was... ...Rusie Taylor. Of course... Our beloved Rucy became the perfect choice for our beloved Penny. And then, while still at Imaginary, I found the amazing Bill Farmer through a blanket audition. This is my final call to all of the industry voiceover agencies. Now, Bill had just moved here from Texas only four months earlier. Timing is everything, right? Yeah. When I later met with Roy Disney, he concurred. Bill is goofy. Yeah. Thus, Roy made this the official casting of the game. I have my cheeks so that the characters can always look the same. But there was no audio equivalent. So... In October 1986, I wrote a memo to Roy Vizner proposing a central operation to oversee and protect the consistency of these important personalities through good casting and scripting and direction across all parts of the company. Roy wrote back the same day, saying, I appreciate your memo more than I can tell you. It's a subject that's worried me a great deal, too. So, there were lots of discussions, analyses, administrative issues to work out, etc. But finally, a year later, with Roy championing the cause, he got CFO Frank Wells to authorize this new operation. Now, even I didn't realize the extent to which the various main and minor characters were being used throughout Disney. In the first year alone, as a one-person department, I ended up casting 119 sound-alikes when the original voice actors aren't available, which is always the first choice. I quickly began campaigning for an assistant to help meet the demands of all the character-driven projects in which the company was involved. That position was finally approved after 10 months. I needed a person who could hit the ground running. So I called in someone I had worked well with on a previous project. Guess who? And here he is because it's his 30th anniversary too. Come on up Rick. I haven't changed my bed. Okay, so let's explain. The company now had our official characters cast. I'm sorry, I always like to tell, and some of you already know this, but once Wayne was cast as Mickey, and then Roosie was cast as Minnie, the two were constantly working in the studio together. They had a great chemistry between them as they performed the voices, but they also had a little bit of chemistry of a personal nature, if you know what I mean. And as they ultimately fell in love, they got married. So dinner at their house was very, very interesting. And to show you the kind of fun the two had together, I have a clip here that no one has really seen. It took place in our offices back in 1989 at a small holiday gathering. So this is 30 years ago. This is Wayne Allwine and Rucy singing together at our office Christmas party from 1989. Now this was supposed to be a condensed clip, and somehow we got our technical thing mixed up and we got the full length version. So it's three minutes long. I think we're going to cut it somewhere in the middle. 400,000 species of the shortness. See how the order of the clarity is just. My name is My name is My name is My name is My name is My name is My name is My name is My name is My name is My name is My name is My name is My name is My name is My name is My name is My name is My name is My name is My name is My name is My name is My name is My name is My name is My name is My name is My name is My name is My name is My name is My name is My name is My name is My name is My name is My name is My name is My name is There's no Christmas numbers. Probably two old-time numbers. Five foot two and six feet eight. That's what they were saying. You know what I'm talking about. Sorry. Thank you. Thank you. I certainly missed and they both leave a legacy to build on for the future. So in 2009 we were lucky enough to find a wonderful guy who sounded incredibly close to Wayne's Nikki. He was working as an illustrator at Hallmark in Kansas City of all places. Kansas City? Oh, fellas, you've got some cute boys. You know, we're supposed to be on stage tonight. Oh, so close. It's Mickey, Donna, Ruthie, Brett, Ivan, Bill Farmer, and Tony Anselmo. Great! How are you? that will be here you check this stuff backstage and i bet now how are we going to be on you yeah i really did so so tony um let's mention that you've studied correctly from um you want to tell us about that experience how'd you meet him well i was already on the lot of an animator in traditional animation uh that time we were working on nikki's christmas carol wayne was nikki we were pals he was in sound effects and clarence nash was always on the lot and I struck up a friendship with him, and he kind of, it's a corny phrase, took me under his wing. And I thought we were just having fun. He would come in my room and say, well, if Donald were in this situation, what would he say? He said that, what would Donald say? Say this word, say that word. And I thought, let's be bored. But I think he had a, what we didn't know at the time was he had leukemia. He didn't tell anybody. And so looking back on it, I think it was just that he was making sure. I'm sure that I could do it and that I would be respectful of his legacy. And when he passed away, then... I carry the torch. So I'm very protective of it as a scholar. That's not an easy voice to do. How long did it take to really come to master it? It was really about three years. It comes in stages, the sound, and then what you say and what you don't say, the personality is as much of importance as how it sounds. And you kind of help write the scripts because it is so hard to understand Donald, right? Yeah, and it's like learning another language. And you can't teach everybody. The company that language it's like learning a very exotic language so to go over the script and just take the same word that they want to use and get out the thesaurus and find a word with heart and seeds instead of something students to make it as a tell-all as possible. Yeah awesome. So Bill Les also mentioned that you were new to town when you got the role of Beefy. What brought you to this whole voice audition and how did you end up auditioning for the voice? Gosh, well I was a stand-up comic in Dallas, Texas at the time. My agent there said you ought to give it a shot in Hollywood with all the voices. Because I'd always bored my parents and family with impressions throughout my career. and I got out here, and about four months later, my agent said, do you do any of the Disney characters? They wanted to consolidate the voices, so there was always one voice, so there was consistency. And I said, of course I can do a goofy voice. They seemed to like that a lot. All morning, I started January 23rd, 1987 was my first goofy job and it's been uphill ever since. You always just tell us that you used to sit in front of the TV and just imitate things like Captain Crunch. Oh, I would. I would, you know. Oh, ladies, it's Captain Crunch. Today's crunchy. Now, hey, looky, watch me pull a rabbit over my head. Hi, I'm Guy Vaux, clinical broad here on the Mississippi Park. Okay. I'm going to say that just be any kind of voice I could. Oh, yes, Page Lab. Yeah. Absolutely. Pluto, I can bark actually in all languages. English is. German is. French is. Speaking of Pluto and all languages, during when we had a project early on, I had just started, and we couldn't find, I think some of you saw the clip reels that we played earlier on, and that's also another aspect of Disney character voices where we try to Thank you. get all the characters to sound the same around the world. We could not find a German Goofy. We just couldn't. So we said we had some cartoons that we had to put into German. And so we had Bill come into the studio to do the German version of Fanatic. So I don't speak German. They got me this professor of German from, I believe, USC, who I don't think had ever seen a cartoon in her life. He was looking at the cartoons and said, buy this Goofy for them. How does the airplane, it's not killed. It's not killed. It's not killed. It's not killed. It's not killed. It's not killed. It's not killed. It's not killed. It's not killed. It's not killed. It's not killed. It's not killed. It's not killed. It's not killed. It's not killed. It's not killed. It's not killed. It's not killed. It's not killed. It's not killed. It's not killed. It's not killed. It's not killed. It's not killed. It's not killed. It's not killed. It's not killed. It's not killed. So, and I will say one thing about Bill. If you know, some of you may know Bill. Bill truly is goofy in real life. He really is. We have had experiences. I think one of my favorites is when he went to set a Coke down on the soundboard and it started to jet. Yeah, and I think there's a goofy curse that goes along with this voice. And one day I was in the studio and I had a Coca-Cola and I sat it down on the edge of the mixing board. But I didn't put it down solid. half on half off it started to fall i grabbed it i hit the neck the bottle started spinning skewing it's all over about a hundred thousand dollar audio board He follows me around all the time. You had a little briefing moment just here at G23? Oh, I did. The other day I was at the Legends Luncheon, and I was saying hi to Catherine Beaumont, the original voice of Wendy and Peter Pan and Alice in Alice in Wonderland. We were talking, and I ran into someone, and he said, What, what's up? And I looked up, and it was Bob Iger. Sorry, sir. I'm so sorry. sense that you don't learn much about the class. Even here, so. These are a bit of a tone now, right? So Brett, this is 30th anniversary for Disney Hairdress, but you're a 10 year anniversary, right? Yeah. This is a place where people leave now. What have you seen in your life? Getting a gig of Mickey Mouse. Come on. I don't know how to answer that. In some ways, it's flown by. In other ways, it's hard to believe that it's been 10 years. I feel like I've had a lot of amazing experiences. I've learned a ton. I'm still learning a ton. But overall, it's incredible. I'm still kind of... It's just a real experience, for sure. What's the hardest thing about being a voice actor? The hardest thing is that it's a trick voice. and I'm highly susceptible to allergies and hair quality and smog and where do we work? Here in LA. So, you know, I moved from Kansas City where apparently the air was a little cleaner then and I was slightly younger. So over the years I've learned that, yeah, I have to be really vigilant with the weather and, you know, different things I'm being affected with. So it takes its toll. Tell me you just visited the doctor a couple weeks ago. I thought that was a pretty funny story when they were looking at her. Yeah, first of all, they did one of those scope things where you can look at your vocal cords, which was just fascinating to me to see those things work and vibrate. And she had me do the, you know, talk in a falsetto and even had me do the Mickey lap. She wanted to see how it was affected. And she was done. She said, hey, everything looks healthy. You just got a little inflammation, you know, probably from some allergies and stuff. She goes, man, you know, most women can't hit those notes. She's in pretty good shape. I'm not sure that was the diagnosis I was looking for, but it was. So for all three of you, share a moment with being such a famous character. Was there ever a very special moment or personal experience, maybe with a fan, from the years that you've been doing the voice? I should start right before we start. I think this counts. It was an experience with my brother, but he's a fan. I really learned to do the Mickey voice by listening to Wayne Allwine's performance of Fantasmic. It was one of my favorite shows growing up. I was 10 years old when it came out. I listened to the soundtrack all the time. You know, Bill talks about singing from the TV and imitating voices. I imitated all the characters of Fantasmic. I would play Fantasmic in my bedroom. And later on, my brother joined me. We would play Fantasmic out in the yard. I would sit up with the sprinklers going. It was quintessential Disney to me. It's like it represented everything I love about Disney magic, and especially with the performance of Mickey. So I just kind of imitated that over the years. Fast forward to a couple years ago, I think a lot of you probably got together. We updated Fantasmic, and I was asked to come into the studio to do Fantasmic, and I assumed it was for Toki or something. I'd done stuff before like that. They told me, no, it's Disneyland. And I was actually hesitant. I didn't want to do it, you know. But they explained that there was enough changes that it was necessary. And they'd even said that there was a possibility that we were going to leave Wayne's finale line some imagination. As Wayne, as a true, I was all for the apothecary pacing. They had me recorded anyway. And then they did special preview nights for the D23 photos here at the Lost Expo. My invitation was lost in the mail. I was not invited. My brother and I probably went to the parks and we flew Washington to the sidelines, and then we went to the Watching the show, it was pretty cool. I was like, wow, that's crazy. I get to be a part of this thing that was so important to me when I was a kid. And the finagling line came and I ended up using my imagination. My brother put his hand on my shoulder and said, did you ever think that we were kids playing Pentastic? That someday we'd be a part of all this? And that's probably one of the most impactful moments, total full circle, and really... humbling for me. It's one of those moments where you go, this is incredible. You're not going to believe this. That's awesome. Over the years, I've discovered how important these characters are to people in their lives. And that's meeting the fans. Because so many people would come up, say, from a Goofy movie, and people would say, I couldn't talk to my dad. And they would say, I couldn't talk to my dad until we saw that movie, and it opened up a whole new relationship. I was in Florida once and occasionally you get to meet celebrities who are enamored of these characters. I got to meet Muhammad Ali once at a party and he asked me, I said, oh, I do the voice for the company and everything. And he says, well, do you talk to like kids in the hospitals? I say, yeah, I'll make Wish Foundation, you know, famous phone friends, organizations like that. And he goes, man, then you're my hero. And I just painted it right there. But the most. Probably meaningful event was a Wayne and Roussig moment. There was a child that I believe had leukemia, had called, wanted to talk to Minky and Minnie, and I was doing Pluto at that time on that particular call. And... you know, the girl was, you heard from her mom, she was resisting treatment. Had a bad outlook. Was kind of failing. And Wayne said, gosh, you know, when Pluto takes his medicine, he feels a lot better. And I, you know. And just that, about a month or two later, we got a letter from the woman who said that because of that, talking to Mickey. The child's whole attitude changed. She went into remission and was willingly taking the therapy and got better. That alone just showed me how important these characters are and I never try and forget that when I'm doing this voice. I want to take it back to, because I'm all about legacy. I'm all about the history of these characters, and that we're really only carrying on what came before us as best we can. And you just reminded me of how we were at it. Wayne was so, he was never about himself. It was always about his audience and the kids and the performance. And there was a little boy who hadn't bought what he was supposed to buy to sign. And the person that was running the event said, you can't have that sign. And the kids started to cry and run away. Wayne got up and went after him and sang this thing. I just thought that was sweet. And Clarence, speaking about legacy, I went with Clarence Nash across the street from Disney to St. Joseph's Hospital. And there was a little girl who was crying. She had her tonsils out. And the nurse said, she's going to hurt herself. But she doesn't stop. And Clarence had his duck puppet, and he went to the little girl and said, Shut up! Shut up! I don't know if you can hear me. I don't know if you can hear me. I don't know if you can hear me. I don't know if you can hear me. I don't know if you can hear me. I don't know if you can hear me. I don't know if you can hear me. I don't know if you can hear me. I don't know if you can hear me. And we've got a special script written specifically for D23 with these guys. But every good script needs a villain. So in our script today, we've written in the game's constant nemesis. So please welcome to the stage the voice of Pete. He's got really great sexy legs. Check this out. The one and only Jim Cunningham. Hey, it's hard to see. No, I don't know. You're looking at that. Okay. He loves everything. See? Okay. Are we ready to do this? All right. There we go. So, really, my job in the studio as director, this is what I get to do. I really do. So, for the life's sake, take one. Go. Can you hear me, fellas? You're at the D23 Expo. Gorsh. I said folks are going to want to take pictures with us and get our autographs. Oh, what do you think we should sell? Oh, yeah. I don't know. Well, you know, we might. The universe is a gathering of people, all included with us by fence, the very distinct image of the world we are used to. The universe is a gathering of people, all included with us by fence, the very distinct image of the world we are used to. All included with us by fence, the very distinct image of the world we are used to. The people are not the people, not the others, but you. I'm not sure if I'm popular enough, or is everybody just going to see me? Ah, don't listen to him, guys. I'm sure we'll get lots of fans. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Whoa, we see the water in the works, Boston. Hello, I'm a robot. I'm a robot. I'm a robot. You'll all get your photos and autographs. And don't forget to purchase up a bobblehead or ten. No need to look the knuckleheads over in the corner. Nothing to see there. Blah! What? I'm gonna go give Pete a piece of my mind! Hey, baby, it's... I'm okay! I just tripped over my feet again! Well, Jimmy, you and I met. I was working on a show before Disney called The Real Ghostbusters. And you came in to do The Police of a Haunted Mailbox. And I remember thinking, this guy is really, really good. And I said, hey, Jim, what else do you have going on? And you told me that you had just been cast, this is 1985-ish, for the new TV animation series, The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. Isn't that right? Yes it is Mr. Dempsey. I was so grateful that you made sure that there was plenty of honey written into my card. Rachel, I was speaking with Sterling Holloway, and Jim told us a story about how you had a chance running with Sterling. You want to tell us that? Yes, it was kind of fun. It was years before I was even in the business, down in Laguna Beach with my wife. And we were having lunch, and we talked with the only people in the double, and we see the waitress go over. And she says, well, have we decided what we're going to have for lunch? And you hear this little voice, I believe I shall have lunch. Thank you. I'm not sure if it was still in Galloway. No, I didn't go up and say hello to him like a dork. I had no idea I'd be up here, so forgive me. That's fine. That's awesome. And you've also been performing the voice of Tigger for us as well, right? I think I might be on a chunk in there. But I can't do any bones in here on account of because the ceilings are so low. We have the sound-alike voices, as Les mentioned, we have the original voice and of course the sound-alikes. But Jim has created so many original characters for us. In fact, one of the most recent originals, and I just found this out myself a couple days ago, is that in the new attraction Smuggler's Run, Hondo... Jim, any Star Wars fans? Well, in that case, you all get to go to the front line. Anyone want a costume on? I'll let you know. Well, you ain't for nothing. How dare you knock on my body? Thank you. Well, I bet you we got a few fans here. Another one of the original characters, Darkly Duck. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Well, of all these characters, hundreds of characters you've done, do you have a favorite? Well, I do. One that's very, very close. But I gotta tell you one thing. You know, give me another minute. Thank you, Tommy. Like Kim, we have a number of actors who perform multiple voices for us, so I'd like to bring back to the stage the multi-talented, multi-voiced, and incredibly versatile, the one and only Corey Burton! I've got Renee Johnson to see if she could put together a script featuring some of the many voices of both Jim and Corey. So are you guys ready for that? Yeah! So, Corey, you're going to start us off with the voice that we all know is sound alike from the very first animated feature ever. So here we go. Ready? Let's do it. What wouldst thou know? What is it that you seek? Ask not about the future, of that I cannot speak. Oh, fine. Well, then, I'll say something about the man-cub. Where is that delicious man-cub? Over the seven jeweled hills, beyond the seventh fall, in the jungle of the fragrant flowers, loathes the man-cub, small and small, them all. Oh, you can't be serious. Fragrant flowers always irritate my sinus and... ...sus. I'm sorry, sir. I just love it when you say cheese. Stop this. Here to tell you all about the latest scientific breakthrough for the miserable case of the who is you are suffering with the schnoody under snaky sinuses, with the sniffle-sneezy reaction to common pollinating flower allergy symptoms you're getting over there. Well, it's not a problem anymore. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Thanks. The new and the old, special snakes, saunas, desensitizing, super spy, patent pending. It'll blast out those impacted saunas like a great big fire hose. Money back guaranteed. Order yours today from me. Hey, hey, hey, now. Maybe I need some of that for my grandma more. You know she got a sneezing agilese like ain't nobody been this. Anyway, if she let out one, let me out. You know how big you are, don't you? Yeah, for sure. Oh, I'm giving you cookies and boxes. When in the world did you get here, O'Reilly? Oh, you know me, I'm just passing through on my way to meet my belle, Evangeline. The sweetest firefly in all of Crete. I'm terrified of you. I'm terrified of you. Give me a little jar and I'll use it for a hurricane lamp. Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, you talking about capturing my girl? That's it. I'm gonna make Duke very proud, you. Hi! Oh, my goodness me, that must mean it's time for tea. Clan cop, clan cop, move down, move down, move down! Well, you could move down, but I rather my life floating up here. Of course, I can always disappear as well. Disappear? Don't let's be silly now. How can we celebrate your long birthday if you're only going to disappear, you know? Oh, my God, good. I know this is in the script. We've got a little bit with Alice and the Queen of Hearts. Unfortunately. The actresses who do those characters couldn't make it today, so I thought it would be fun if we found some audience members who could play the Queen of Hearts in Alice for us. So, is there anyone in our audience that wants to give a shot at the Queen of Hearts? Okay. Well, I've got Brian Monroe and Rich Van Felt from our group. Wanna start over here? Okay. Alright, we've got a really loud person over here, so she's like, we're gonna play the Queen of Hearts. Alright, so what's your name? What's your name? I'm Shay. Shay? Yeah. Okay, Shay. Alright, so what we're gonna do is So if we can play the reference here, Shay, it sounds like this. Who's been painting my roses? Who's been painting my roses? I'm going to try something else on this side over here. Brian, what do you have? I've got golden here. What's this? Golden. Golden. Love it. Okay, so let's play the reference again for you. Who's been painting my roses red? Who's been painting my roses red? Up with the hints! Good. Not bad. Thumbs up, thumbs down. I like them both, but I think we can go with Shay here. Woo! Stay right there, Shay. I'm here in college, so I need something to say. Okay. So, if you want to talk to the person, Brian Richman. All right, we can do that here. Come on out. Stay there, Shay. Yeah, Julia. Okay, it's Julia. All right, Julia, here's the reference of Alice. Oh, God. All right. The rabbit on the waistcoat. Why are you so un-fueled? It's just a rabbit on the waistcoat. Yes. All right. Alyssa! Hey, great, let's hear it, Alyssa. Wanna play the, wanna get the reference? Yeah, she wants the reference, she's a pro. Alyssa! The guy with the waistcoat, curious and furious. Alyssa! The guy with the waistcoat, curious and furious. Alyssa! The guy with the waistcoat, curious and furious. Alyssa! The guy with the waistcoat, curious and furious. Alyssa! The guy with the waistcoat, curious and furious. Alyssa! The guy with the waistcoat, curious and furious. Alyssa! 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So now, little lady, if you and your incommensurable boss boys would be so kind, it is time to walk our boy! So, hold on. In our script it calls for Wendy, and as we all know, Catherine Beaumont voice both Wendy and Alice. Since we've already casted as Alice, why don't you continue, Alyssa? You can take out Wendy's line there. We do not want to take any of this. Peter Pan will save us. Why, Peter Pan is about to be gone. I'm going to go ahead and let it hear it. All right. All right. All right. All All All All right. All All right So many fine-fetid folks gathered together already. It is my scientific humble opinion that we should forget about all this galling and terrible pirate movie going on and get ourselves back to the fun-having, would you? Now you're talking my language, John! Word has grabbed my loyal ear that you folks might know the secret to man's red fire. Oh, great. I'm sorry, but I'm not sure if I can do it. I'm sorry, but I'm not sure if I can do it. I'm sorry, but I'm not sure if I can do it. I'm sorry, but I'm not sure if I can do it. I'm sorry, but I'm not sure if I can do it. I'm sorry, but I'm not sure if I can do it. I'm sorry, but I'm not sure if I can do it. I'm sorry, but I'm not sure if I can do it. I'm sorry, but I'm not sure if I can do it. I'm sorry, but I'm not sure if I can do it. I'm sorry, but I'm not sure if I can do it. I'm sorry, but I'm not sure if I can do it. I'm sorry, but I'm not sure if I can do As you know, some of our best characters in the series are very young. They won't have done something very good. Characters like Tango Pio, Bambi, Thumper, Disper Robin, Rune, Nemo, and Chip from Beauty and the Beast all have specific voices that brought those characters to life. The problem is, those kids grow up, and we have to recast them every few years. So DCB was asked by the filmmakers of Tarzan to try and come up with a... voice for this little guy. So, we were super fortunate to find a little warrior to give him a super unique voice. So, let's take a look at this. You know, let's get the car. Can't you see mommy's talking? What? That's a good thing. It's very important. It's going to sound like that. So one of our most recent lead roles by a young actor is Miguel from Pixar's... The voice of Miguel from Pixar is going to go... That's how you do it. She has some things, um, doesn't quite sound like Miguel anymore. It's kind of sad, isn't it? Yeah, it's a bit sad, but, you know, I found out that they were going to be casting for Miguel because my voice changed, but I actually found out that they casted my little brother Alex. Yeah, right. I was so thrilled. You've been in the family, right? Yes. Isn't that fun? So, um, I tell you what, you guys look pretty special. You look like you're dressed up. Do you have something kind of like, do you sing or something? Yes, yes. Do you have a Yeah, I thought it would be super fun for me to sing. You remember me? For the first time ever, with my little brother, Alex. Let's see what science is doing to affect VR in the heart. First we can explore why it's so exciting to watch. We can see the world from the outside. We can see the world from the inside. We can see the world from the outside. We can see the world from the inside. We can see the world from the outside. All right, that was awesome. So, for this next segment, we have some members. It's probably best to ask Corey Burton to announce our next guest. Let's start over. Are we on? Are we on? Are we on? First, she inspired us as the enterprising young woman who dreamed of bringing folks together by opening her own restaurant. When she was almost there, she made a wish, and it gave me stuff to say. The woman who taught us that dreams do come true when you make them happen. Please welcome, the voice of Tiana, the brilliant artiste who wrote the dreams of the Inca. Thank you. Now, she dreamed of seeing life beyond the palace walls and stood up to a snake of a villain, soaring high in the sky to a whole new world. It's the voice of Jasmine, the fabulous Disney legend, Linda Larkin! Next, she stole our hearts as the provincial girl who wanted more than Bell. Every day she likes a day before. She wanted an adventure in the great wide somewhere. Let's bring her out. The incredibly gifted voice of Bell and one of the sweetest people on the planet, the amazing Disney legend, Paige O'Hara! Thank you. She was the star who considered what is known as the second golden age of animation. The only star forcing a teenage mermaid who wanted to help people with her. She's part of our world and also the Disney legend, and now, the phenomenal, Chubby Benson! I still pinch myself every day. That's right. Not like legend, Linda. Excuse me, legend Linda. We'll start with Richard at the end, like PhD. Legend, legend, legend. I'm going to like that legend. Awesome. So Jodi, you've had a really, really busy couple of days, right? Tons of fun. We had tons of fun. We had our 30th anniversary celebration. Thanks for all of that. We had a lot of fun. It was emotional. It was exciting. I cried probably six times at least. But just getting to share the memories with the fans, and it's all because of them, you know, that we're still kicking. We're still going. Did you have a sense when you made Little Mermaid originally that this was really going to be something special? I mean, as you're, you've got to understand at the time, it's 19, you're probably working on the film in 87, 88. And animation was just kind of for kids at the time. Like, it had kind of taken a dip down. Did you realize that you were really working on something truly special? We knew that things were different because we were going to the animators on Flower Street off the lot. And they were off the lot. And we knew that things were really going to be different. changing and there was a lot of pressure that was going on we didn't feel it personally but we could tell from everybody um so my higher date is when we started so rick and i we've known each other for 30 plus years and uh it just kind of took us all by storm we just kind of put this out there and we were completely blown away had absolutely no idea that i'd be talking to you 32 years later about the same subject really honestly we were gonna disappear just do the voice and disappear and roll the credits at the end and Look where we're at today, getting to celebrate all together. So it's exciting. It's no wonder I'm beating the beast to get back to look more interesting than that. And it did really, really well. So did you have that same sense? You had Howard and Alan working on the same film, Digital Mermaid. So now they're working on beating the beast. Did you have a sense something really cool was happening? I knew something really special was happening. And I was like, oh, my God, I'm going to be a Disney princess. You know, it's like, I'm going to miss this. Wow. But I didn't really comprehend the magnitude of Beauty and the Beast and Little Mermaid until the New York Film Festival unfinished version that they showed. Because we all know as theater people and Broadway people how tough the New York critics are. And I think Jeffrey Katzenberg and Don Arnold were about to have heart attacks that night when they saw it. But that night, the entire New York critic audience stood up for 10 minutes after the Beauty and the Beast that night. I think that's when we realized this is going to be a classic. We knew that. And what was it like between the two of you working with Alan and Howard? Well, we both know what geniuses Alan Menken and Howard Ashman are. I think, I'm assuming, you can tell that we're a little more made up. For Beauty and the Beast, truthfully, the whole film was in the mind of Howard Ashman. He had a vision. And if we ever strayed off that vision, we always quickly came back to it because he was always right. And I think that in heaven he saw it, and he saw his vision come to fruition. And he's greatly missed, as we all know. And Alan is still going strong and writing great songs still. Howard brought so much vision to the company and what he came with to Disney just kind of blew everybody away. Everybody kind of stood back because he was a powerful and gentle force all at the same time. Sometimes intimidating. Yeah, very intimidating. And I had just worked with him as my director in Smile on Broadway, so we got a great relationship working together in the studio. But I think everybody else around was like, what is going on? But when you're in the presence of pure, unadulterated, real genius. It stops your breath. That's what it's like working with Howard. It was an unbelievable gift and so grateful. And I think it was great for you because you did have the Broadway show again, so you knew him. before that. It was a great relationship and we knew how to work and Ron and John, our directors, were kind enough to let Howard come into the studio. And I told you guys this this morning, in the booth with me, with the guys behind the glass, they just said, Howard, do your thing. Because they knew, and it really is Howard Ashburn who brought Alan Menken in. That's what changed the face of Animation Forever. That's what brought our animals off of the alert system. So we had the first session with Little Mermaid. Now we're working on this new film with Ron and John coming off of Little Mermaid. Their next movie is Aladdin. And you get the call. You were with voice of Jasmine. You were aware you were? I do. I was in my apartment in North Hollywood. I was shocked that I actually was getting this opportunity to play a Disney princess. It's something that I. As a child, I'd have my read-along storybooks with all the princesses, Snow White, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty. These were my princesses when I was a little girl. And I would read along with their voices, not knowing that I was practicing for something that I was going to do when I was a grown-up. You have the most quintessential Jasmine voice. I mean, you should have this. Oh, hi, really. I thought of this. And so, Anika, you know, this has so much significance because I'm working on a project and we just happened to see each other on Friday this last Friday she made it she came back early their management didn't think she would be back and so I said you know I'm really mad at you she said why it's good well because one would be part of the show you know legend you gotta do this and she says yeah do that and so here she is You've got a lot of Tiana projects. So kind of like, like Jodi said, you know, for 30 years you've been in the South. That's in the projects you've applied as a host. Ten. Ten, yeah, for ten years. So do you think that you would continue to be living this Tiana life after the film? You know, so many things have happened that I wasn't really ready for. And I had no idea that Tiana would be everything that she is. touch people the way that she does and did i was not a princessy kid i wasn't a girly girl i was in a tree um and so if i was playing voices i was literally like i was there for a song i'm each other he's eating his cereal and he was still against over master like so i was doing a fall So I didn't realize that it would go as far as it has and it's been it's been moment upon moment of surprise and gift for me. I didn't imagine that I would be a Disney legend that and so much so that I when they asked me about it, I said, OK, because I thought Tiana was being inducted. But I didn't realize that I was going to be a Disney legend. I think I have to admit, I'm sorry. I think it begins with the ball, and then you end up being the youngest Disney legend to be brought in. I've been getting a couple of good types of gifts. And, you know, all I want to do is keep doing voices. That's the thing that I love to do. That's the thing that Disney was the joy for me when I was a child. It was dancing mushrooms and talking animals and trees and things and making things part of our living world. And that's such a gift, and it still is. So I'm really grateful to be part of it. Awesome. It's kind of sad. I'm supposed to be here today. I'm supposed to go out. But just this morning, he had a little bit of a family emergency. And I hope everything's okay. But he couldn't be here. But Scott's got a reason to humor about this whole legend thing. Because Scott is an elder. And he is a legend. I have to get him into the park. What's that? I have to get him into the park. Thank you. or clerk or something like that and they recognize you by your voice this happened to me on thursday i don't know if he's here today but i saw somebody at the airport at jfk in new york and he was coming here to d23 and from across the way he said i was like do i know you it's like you're jasmine i was like i didn't know each other he said how can i recognize your voice because oh you are good I've been in stores, I've been in the most random places and had people go, Mine was with Delta Airlines pretty early on when I would call the, you know, the number and make the reservation. And I'd be like, hi, you know, I'm just checking on the client. And she'd be like, does anybody ever tell you you're in a bot-like area? People say that to me a lot. They're old. For me, it was a little boy in the grocery store. I was just yakking with my friend, and he just kind of kept getting closer. closer to me and closer to me and then he just kind of pulled my shirt and said are you Belle? You're so smart. I'm going to adopt you. You're so cute. It was adorable. And I thought it would be a girl, but a little boy. It's kind of cool. And Paige, you've been here near D23, not only as Belle, but you're doing something really special with Disney Fine Art, right? Do you want to tell us about that? Yes, it's been so incredible. I've been an artist my whole life. And when I moved to New York at 17, I would paint watercolors and sell them on the street to pay my rent and everything. And I kind of went away from it for a while. And when Michael was starting to do it, I was like, My husband's starring in Phantom of the Opera in L.A. He said, you need to start painting again. And so I started doing it. And then 10 years ago, I was asked to be the voice of Belle at Rodel's event, a famous Disney artist, Rodel. And he said, bring one of your paintings. And I brought my Belle painting because I would paint them for fun, you know, for my friends and stuff like that. And the painting sold that night. And the president of Disney Fine Arts said, hey, this is really good. You want to sign you? And I'm like, oh, my God. Another career. So it's a I'm loving being back. um i actually um i've been painting viewing the beast for several years now but i recently started um a princess series and my gallery if you guys want to look it up it's in las vegas it's called magical memories but i was inspired by the legend princesses that are my friends that are sitting right here and so i'd like to give them a surprise my friend of 35 years This is my aerial preview of my Beardson Girl family. This is my first time doing this. This is my first time doing this. This is my first time doing this. This is my first time doing this. We've been getting really close to the last few years doing homilies together. We hang out a lot, eat pizza, and have a great time. This is for you, Linda. I think it's very, these are just. And I think I had a great privilege to finally meet you when we became legends together. But I've been a long time fan and I hope that I get to work with you at some point. I do. I would love it. And this is for you, sweetheart. We are together, spider and other body. Thank you. What you don't know is that I saw a picture of my mom on the night-and-night shift until you pulled my bag. I saw her on the drive-thru. She didn't think I would. Since the first time we met, she has been one of the warmest, most welcoming people. And you know what? This is a pretty exclusive club, so it's really important when somebody reaches for you with open arms, I want you to know that this is who she is. This is not foot stage. This is this woman. That's what they do. And she has fun. We are going to share this information with you. We are going to share this information with you. We are going to share this information with you. We are going to share this information with you. Awesome. Awesome. Well, all four of you are such strong heroes. What personality traits do you think you put into your character? You could also ask, maybe answer the question, is there anything that your character did that you would never do? Jodi? Oh, okay. So the character quality, I would have to say Ariel's tenacious spirit. That's something that I have to try to strive for. I have four and I feel like I brought some of that to Ariel, but I really feel like Ariel has taught that to me over the last 30 years. How to break barriers, how to live outside of the box, how to dream big, how to think outside of anything, going towards the impossible and to reach for that. So I would say her tenacious spirit. And the thing that I probably wouldn't do is pluck the flower to say he loves me and he loves me not. I never really quite connected with that. He loves me. He loves me, that kind of a thing. So, yeah, that was the only thing. Other than that, I think Miriam and I are, you know, right on the same path. Did you always just say? Yes, I do say that. Oh, gosh, you're fantastic. I do say that. I'm just involved with my family. I'm the folk, too. I was a strange one in school when I was a kid, and I was in the George. First when all my friends are into Led Zeppelin. So I totally identify with that. And I guess something I would never do that Belle did was fight off the wolves with a stick. I think I'd be doing that. I think I'd be using my running ability and running as fast as I can. And then that. I think what I identify with Jasmine the most is that she stands up for who and what she believes in. And that's something that I do in my life. And Jasmine's very loyal and courageous. And those are things that I feel important to me too and that I strive for always. And the thing that Jasmine does that I wouldn't do ever is... Okay, so there are a couple of traits that Tiana and I share that can be seen as really good or the other side. I'm very stubborn. And I'm not to be deterred. So can I jump in there? Because when we're in the studio with Anika, she is very opinionated about what Tiana says and what she doesn't do. And I... You know, one thing that is amazing about her, and same with me, I came from a very small town. Nobody in my town was telling me that I could do the things that I'm doing. Nobody was telling me, yes, you're going to be sitting on stage as a Disney legend. And if it had not been for being really stubborn and being really bent and determined and straight with the path, I wouldn't be. So I'm very grateful for those traits. People who live with me may not be as grateful. And there are a couple of things I would not have done. We can start with the obvious, no frog. And secondly, I don't know, and I love Naveen. He's fabulous. He's funny. He's handsome. He's a prince. I don't know if I could marry a man that talks that much. All right, now Jody, you have to do something special in your movie that no other princess can do, and that is to play a villain within the movie. So, yeah, I'll get the scene. Vanessa. So, what was that like? Well, basically, you know, Howard was like, you need to play Vanessa. This is what she does. Just imitate Pat. Just do what Pat does. And I was like, okay. What a lovely little bride I'll make my dear electify. Things are working out according to my ultimate design. And the ocean will move. Most people don't know we do Vanessa. Most people don't know that. But any time you get to do a villain laugh, it's a good day. What? Any time you get to do a villain laugh, like a villain? Yeah, one. Yeah. You know, it's so fun. It was so fun. We had a great time with Peg. She was such a trooper to teach me how to kind of do her cap all. So it was fun. It was a really fun day. Awesome. All right. speed round, or we may not be able to speed round on this, but as a Disney legend, what's the one thing that you'd like for your fans to take away from yours and make this a legacy? that it is important, necessary to dream, and that there is no dream that is too big. And whether you are in a family with two parents, one parent, no parents, maybe you don't know where they are, that does not mean that your dreams are not worthy and that you cannot make your way out of whatever circumstance you are in on the legs and ways of that dream. I think that who you are is much more important than what you are and that you need to be yourself and believe in yourself. That's what I would take away from the Disneyland Museum. I think the most important message comes from the entire message of Beauty and the Beast, which is to follow your heart and always remember, don't judge anything by the way it looks. Beauty truly comes from within. And that's what I've asked for. And I think for me, for all these years, these last three decades, I just hear Howard Ashman in my head every time I'm in the studio, every time I sing Part of Your World. And what rings true for me is to be authentic, to be real, to be true, to be a storyteller. That every single person has a story to tell. And it really matters. And that you're enough. You know, who you are is enough. You just need to be genuine and authentic from you and tell that story. Because each... Each and every one of us has a story and they matter and I can just constantly hear it in my heart and in my mind. every time when it comes to being part of the Disney family. So, yeah, it's a blessing. Thank you. I'm a really big fan backstage. She is, I'm really excited to get her out here. She also happens to be one of our characters, as well as the actress who played the princess known as the fairest of them all. She gave me she's once upon a time. That's right. That won't take it over. which has a big fan now i'm disney yeah yes so say these years ago when i was doing a documentary for the cinderella blu-ray and i had not yet been inducted into this uh tall voices and uh so i i met you guys as a geeky fan then and i am still a geeky fan and cannot believe i'm sitting on the stage and growing with you too trust me i want to have pizza with y'all Pizza party. Me. Chef. Chef. Good answer. Good answer. So then your big film, Judy Hopps, can go on. Yes. It's pretty exciting, right? She's such a character. I know that we talked about the international side of things, and Zootopia went on to do, I think, like $150 million in China alone, which is just unheard of in that country because she's so aspirational, right? So many people grabbed onto her. So what did you know coming into the film? I know the film had different iterations, so I'm sure you brought a lot of who Judy was to that character. Want to talk about that a little bit? Like, what did I know about the film when I was brought in? You should know. How did she evolve? Well, Judy was actually, the story wasn't about Judy when I was brought in. And by the way, I knew nothing. When I got this phone call, by the way, I was wearing Mickey Mouse pajamas, and I was in an apartment in Canada shooting Once Upon a Time, and I had a lot. We had done a lot to change my voice and try different things, and I didn't know how well I was doing it. I had a phone message this morning in the Mickey Mouse PJs, and Prince Charming was making my ex, and that's true. one of the best things including my first speech and when they're all on the phone it's either that you've got a job or that you are being released from a job and i was sure because we had been working so hard on secret bill and i and i was feeling insecure and we had tried all these different things i was sure that i was being fired and i turned to prince charming who was making the and i said they're all on the phone they're they're gonna let me go and he said or Disney's calling, and they're going to offer you, like, the lead in the next movie. I said, that's me. So I placed myself, and I called my reps back, and they said, so Disney called. They would like to offer you the sidekick in Zootopia. And I said, I don't care what it is. I will pick my nose silently in the sound booth. I am it. And I said, can I see a script? And they said, it doesn't really work that way. It's going to evolve and change as you collaborate with this group of incredible people. And I said, just sign me up. I don't care what it is. So I went, I endeavored to play Judy as the faithful and sometimes combative sidekick to Nick Wilde, who was the narrator of our story originally. And I thought things were going very well. But two years into recording, I went into a session and there was an, honestly, there was, I said, oh, nobody told you? I was like, nobody told me what? And he said, you're going to be working a lot more. And they presented me with this idea that now we were going to see the world as utopia through Judy's eyes. And I had to play it cool and be like, yeah, whatever. But, you know, what else? I freaked out again. But anyway, so I didn't know anything going in. And I didn't even understand really what it was going to be. I don't know what your processes were, but I didn't understand at all really what it was going to be until I saw the finished product. Because the scenes. change. Every couple of months I would go in and we would try something new and slightly different and try to arc the story in a different direction. And it was only really like at the screening that I understood what Zootopia was. a little game called what's her line everyone start here so we're very specific about our dialogue it gives me character voice it has to be character appropriate but what if we mixed it up a little bit why not so i am going to ask anika to take this bell line and give us her best tiana or a bell line let's see what that sounds like Gaston, may I have my book please? Well, some people use their imaginations. Gaston, you are positively priming. Alright, and Linda, why don't you give us Jasmine doing your best Judy Hopps line. 100 tickets? I'm not gonna write 100 tickets. I'm gonna write 200 tickets. Before noon. I never realized how incredibly handsome you are. You're tall, well-dressed, and your beard is so twisted. And Jodi, you are going to give us your best Tiana. Okay. As your best. Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh! Oh no! No, no, no! There is no way I am kissing a frog and eating a bug on the same day! Oh! Thank you. How would Judy Hopps give us that Ariel line? If only I could make him understand. I just don't see things the way he does. I don't see how a world that makes such wonderful things could be bad. That doesn't sound right. I don't know. One of the exciting things every day at the Fair Poison is to work with all these actors and actresses. And with each animated film we add to our roster of characters new dreamers who have amazing journeys and stories to tell. And our most recent animated full length musical was the film Moana. Good to see you. See? Great. Well, Alita, you have a pretty amazing story as to how you landed this role. Why don't you tell us about that? Sure. Okay. Hello. So, I was a freshman in high school, and I was in school. And my friends and I put together an audition for a nonprofit organization. We were hoping to become the entertainment of the event. So, I'm like... We sponsored the event and performed at the event and had like a little star moment and we didn't get it. But the casting director, Rachel Sutton in Hawaii, I saw my audition tape with my friends and she said, who's that girl in the back row, second to the left? And I was like, oh, hi. And she asked if I wanted to audition for Moana, which I was like... I'm pretty sure I found someone already, right? It was really serendipitous, but I said yes, and I got flown up, and I got to meet Ron Clements and John Musker, and Osat Shur, and I auditioned. And they liked me, and yeah, the rest is history. 14 at the time. And then you had this extensive acting career in high school. I think we were talking about what you did in high school in your drama class. What were the lead roles that you played? I didn't have any. So production is very important. I would like to say that because I was a person in like where you are. And I'd be like, I can't hear you. That's not your line. And like, that was who I was. I was not really on stage. It's true. I think she said she played the tree with no lines or something like that. Yeah. I was laughing. Sorry. At age 17, he was a film tonight and performed at the Oscars. Pardon me? But? Yes, sorry. We were all clapping so loud. It was really nerve-wracking and exciting. And I, of course, had sung the song in the booth and had recorded it and had producers on the other side going, like, good job. But now it's in front of a live audience. And I was, like, Meryl Streep was, like, there. I remember being so nervous and feeling like I had to puke and everything. But it worked out okay. amazing watching the broadcast and uh you got black in the head you are incredible before in rehearsal so i don't want to say that i wasn't rehearsed in that we had talked about it and you're like oh make sure it doesn't happen on live television you I remember like thinking in the back of my head, I was like, it's the same comic! I'll never figure out who it was. He held his peace. That's so awesome. And then last question, we'll go back and do one more with all of you, but you and I have to do something really special about a year ago for Hawaii. Yes, I did. I am so grateful to have voiced Moana again, but this time redoing Moana in Wauna Loa Hawaii, which is the Hawaiian language. We worked with the University of Hawaii. Yes, Hawaii is beautiful. Say, English is my first language. I learned Hawaiian through school. I am somewhat proficient in it. And I worked with so many incredible people with that university, along with relearning the music itself. And it's so difficult. And you can speak to it a little better than I can. But we had Linda and on our music, on the syncopation. It does not always work with different languages. It was crazy to learn it, but also it just made my heart feel so warm because I knew that my cousins who go to a Hawaiian immersion school were going to learn that and put that in their curriculum. And it just, what more could I ask for? I get to teach and perpetuate my culture and my language. I don't want us to be redundant to the legacy question, but there are dreamers out there, people who want to do something. If you have any additional advice, it's kind of the last word. I'm going to stick with what I said before, but I'm also going to say, never be afraid to ask for help. We don't know how to do everything. Even the things that we are good at, we can get better at if we are free enough to ask the people around us to assist us. And sometimes people say no, and that's fine. Because in that no, you will find your yes, and you will keep moving until you find somebody who is inspired by you and wants to assist you to move on to what you want to do. To work to keep an open heart because you never know where this journey is going to take you. I also say it's also good to rely on history. History of the art that you're pursuing. Whether it's art, whether it's acting, whether it's music. Know those great artists before you and way before you. From the turn of the century, I still learned, these people. You need to know your history, but also don't be afraid to take chances. I was taught that by my acting teacher in New York, Joanna Merlin, and she said, don't be afraid to take chances. If you fail, you just get up and you're better the next time and you learn from it. So don't be afraid, guys. Just go for it. take chances. But for me right now, I think in my life, live with no regrets. Savor every single moment. 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