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You already love Anna & Elsa, now see them in a new animated short Frozen Fever that will show in front of Disney’s new live-action CINDERELLA.
In Frozen Fever, it’s Anna’s birthday and Elsa and Kristoff are determined to give her the best celebration ever, but when Elsa catches a cold, her powers may put more than just the party at risk.
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My boys are obsessed with Baymax from Big Hero 6. My youngest gets so excited anytime he sees him and even sleeps with the stuffed Baymax I got while on my trip to LA. But what kids don’t really realize is there is a real person behind that lovable character…Scott Adsit is that voice.
We were able to sit down with Scott on our trip and learn all about what it takes to bring such a character to life.
It was a little bit of a challenge to bring Baymax to life, they decided pretty early on that he would not have emotion..it’s all programming, but yet it still had to let the emotions creep in, in the appropriate places.
I get to lean on either side of him just a little bit, to invite the emotions to flood in from the audience.
During the audition was the first sign that Baymax wouldn’t have that traditional “robot” voice…then he saw the soft, huggable character design and knew that he needed a “benign bedside manner voice”. So he mixed that with pretty much a state of the art of robotic interaction voice, kind of like an automated phone system.
You might be surprised to know that he didn’t look at past robot characters for what to do/not do, he looked more to the soft, huggable, benign people in his family.
The biggest challenge came in the middle where they wanted to add another facet to Baymax, which is where he looses power and becomes more like a drunk, or a child that has gone past their bedtime.
And, ah, I said so do you want it to sound like, like a robot who’s drunk? And they said no, just be drunk. So, I just played over the top drunk…then they put a process, a little filter on that.
An interesting thing about the, the processing filter on Baymax…John Lassiter, who is the man in charge of the studio, wanted there to be a processing on Scott’s voice, but he also wanted Scott’s voice to come through. They would bring him examples of a filter that they wanted to use in the sound department, and he would say no, dial it back a bit, dial it back a little bit.They kept dialing it back, dialing it back, until eventually, it was just Scott’s voice, no filter. But John liked what Scott was doing naturally. So, what they ended up doing was a combination. They have all that filter on at the beginning when you meet Baymax, and then during the course of the film, they dial it back, dial it back, dial it back, so that by the end, in the last scene in, in the void, there is no filter at all. So he finds his humanity with, a subtle kind of subtextual, subliminal, thing that you may not notice.
Scott would go home from voicing and find himself still talking in the voice, he had to keep reminding himself to not start talking like that all the time because it would “annoy people”.
We even asked him for a little bit of the voice…
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He even leaves messages for his kids friends…
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Hes such a fun guy, I can see why he was cast for the voice of Baymax. We were even lucky enough to get to ask Baymax a few questions…
His background in improv gave him the creative he needed to make Baymax who he is, like the fist bump, which has now replaced the exploding fist bump in my house.
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Big Hero 6 releases on Blu-ray today, & with that I have a special treat to share with you..my exclusive interview with the voices of Hiro & Tadashi…Ryan Potter & Daniel Henney. Watching them at the interview table together, it was sorta like they had known each other their whole lives, even though they had just met at the premier…they had a fun back and forth that made us all giggle. It’s fun hearing how much they are like their animated counterparts.
Q : Ryan, how excited were you to work on this film and did you geek out over all the science.
Yeah, it wasn’t necessarily a love for robotics and science. It was more for just a love of creating and, you know, within robotics, there’s so much you can create, and I had the Lego robot kit,
I had a lot of models and robot builds and all these different things that I just loved piecing it together. So, it wasn’t necessarily a love for, like, robotics and science, but more just wanting to be able to kind of put the things that were almost trapped in my mind.
– Ryan Potter (Hiro)
Q : You’ve been in a Wolverine movie already, and now you’re in the Marvel Big Hero 6. Were you a big comic book fan as a kid?
I mean, not huge, but I was definitely into them. I was into, like, Spiderman, Incredible Hulk, stuff like that. It’s still very surreal, though. It doesn’t get, like, oh, this is my normal Tuesday, you know, fighting Wolverine and dying in a helicopter. That’s not normal for me. I mean, it’s still very surreal. This movie was very, very special. It didn’t, I mean, it felt like it- you could feel the, the Marvel influence, but it was just a whole, just a whole other beautiful experience. It was just bigger than anything I’d done before. – Daniel Henney (Tadashi)
When asked about how they are like their animated counterparts, they had some interesting answers.
I dress just like Tadashi. I always have. I don’t usually wear suits, so like there’ll be days when I, like, I walk out of my house and I’ll take a look in the mirror, and I, I look just like Tadashi. I wear a cardigan and a baseball hat. – Daniel Henney (Tadashi)
I didn’t go into that room acting at all. I went into that room simply being myself and living in those circumstances, I mean, a lot of the emotional stuff, it was just like, the creators of the film made a really comfortable environment, so I just revisited a lot of things that I felt before. – Ryan Potter (Hiro)
Being Disney’s first multi-racial, multi-ethnic character was a huge honor for them to be chosen to play the roles..
Like, we would’ve, we would’ve paid them to, you know, cast us – Ryan
You didn’t pay? – Daniel
Daniel talks about how it’s a more personal experience for him…
I grew up in Michigan. When I was growing up, there was no one on TV that looked like me. If there was, they were a martial artist, and they had very heavy accents and I couldn’t understand what they were saying. My father’s Caucasian so I had that connection, but yet, I was very much Asian. So it’s very satisfying to know that we can do projects like this now, that can give children that little moment, where they say, ‘Oh, I can do that because they can do that.’ – Daniel
And while Big Hero 6 celebrates family, it’s also about so much more..
The characters are all geniuses. The film does celebrate science and robotics, and just being a smart person, but what it really celebrates is being yourself, and these kids just happen to be very smart. Every single one of these kids are all brutally honest in who they are, and they’re proud of it. They don’t shy away from who they are,. So yes, it does celebrate robotics and science, but it also celebrates just being a nerd. It celebrates being an outstanding young man and having high morals, and being a strong independent woman, and it celebrates simply being yourself. – Ryan
So what’s next for these guys?
A TV show here in the states for Daniel, & & college for Ryan. I see big things for the both of them and can’t wait to see what they do in the future!
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