Most of the time, of course, you’re not acting with the other actors.
You memorize the whole scene, show up, and let it evolve as you act it out. It’s not like when you’re in the theater. He’s a very smart and kind person, which is good because you’ll say a single line 50-75 times. POTTS: He’s such a lovely person and so deeply invested. But you’re always in the best hands, and the proof is in that pudding.ĭEADLINE: This was your first time working with Josh Cooley as director. The Pixar folks have been on it way longer than that. It takes hundreds of human hours to make a frame of those films. There’s always a room full of people there telling you how your hair and your hand is going to move in this scene. They always had the most wonderful people directing and involved. Look at that.” It’s such granular work in the beginning. You just dig, dig, dig until you uncover the temple. Then, as it goes along, they’re able to show you more increasingly defined pictograms, and then they start to animate. In the beginning, they’re just pencil drawings. You just go in and they give you the lines of the day and go through them one-by-one and tell you a little bit. POTTS: We never saw a script for any of them. Then there it is.ĭEADLINE: How did you approach the role? How did you get into the part?
Usually, I can get by unrecognized unless I open my mouth. POTTS: They really had firm ideas of the voices that they wanted to hear. I didn’t even know what the role was.ĭEADLINE: They obviously really wanted you for it. I want to be a part of this.” I didn’t care what it was. I was so blown away, I called my agent immediately and said, “Yes, yes. One afternoon, not too much later after that, I came home and my three-year-old took my hand and said, “Mommy, mommy, come watch.” He’d gotten in the boxes because he loves to open any kind of box, thinking it’s a present for him. Finally, my agent said, “Please look at it.” I said, “I’m going to.” I didn’t. They sent me three boxes trying to remind me to look at it. What would that be?” Anyway, he said, “Well, they sent along some of their shorts so you can look at the work and understand it.” I was like, “Okay, great.” But I was busy and had a lot of children and was working and I forgot to look. Tom Hanks Was Not A Fan Of Some Of His Own FilmsĪNNIE POTTS: I love to tell the story how my agent had called and said, “They’re interested in you for this project, and it’s the first fully computer-animated feature film.” I was like, “I don’t even know what you just said.
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