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Episode 125: Encanto

Beyond the Screenplay

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Is This Just for Kids?

"This is like being classified in my mind as a lesser Disney type of movie. But no, like it was getting me as misty as the best Pixar movies," he says. "I started off in this kind of resistant, you're not Pixar mode all the way to like, I was definitely choking back tears like throughout like the last like third of the movie." 'It's going to be just a bunch of people singing about their feelings,' actor-producer John Cusack adds. "'The Lego Movie' won me over and I was skeptical that Disney without Pixar couldn't do it for me and they did it for me,'" writer/director Alex Castellanos responds.

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