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‘Lilo and Stitch’ Director Dean Fleischer Camp on Dominating the Box Office and Why Shooting Stitch’s Death Blew Him Away
'Lilo and Stitch' director Dean Fleischer Camp discusses box office successes and why shooting Stitch's death was a stand out moment.
There’s so much recording of Hannah and the Grand Council mask slipping, and her saying stuff that is not appropriate for a Disney movie, but so effing funny to hear it in her voice. Even if you’re a really good kid actor, it takes a lot to get there emotionally in a convincing way, especially on a film set where there’s chaos swirling around you, and there’s 100 people watching. That’s just the Hawaii I know and grew up in.” That led him to create this character of Tutu, and she ultimately takes Lilo in as hanai, which is this culturally specific term and tradition that is a form of informal adoption.
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