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Breaking Baz: DreamWorks’ ‘The Wild Robot’ Set To Wow Audiences At Annecy Animation Festival & How Lupita Nyong’o Discovered The Movie’s Voice Of Kindness
Lupita Nyong’o stars as Roz in The Wild Robot, which DreamWorks Animation is unveiling at Annecy ahead of an awards-season release.
Also in the movie are Pedro Pascal as Fink the fox; Catherine O’Hara as possum Pinktail; Bill Nighy as Longneck the wise goose; and Stephanie Hsu as Vontra, a robot that will intersect with Roz’s life on the island. Hermann tells me that when he and Sanders first met with Brown, the author “told us that kindness is a survival skill and that was something that resonated very deeply with us because it’s obviously very relevant in lots of ways to what the modern world is experiencing right now. Sanders, who also directed Lilo & Stitch, How to Train Your Dragon and was a writer and story artist on Beauty and the Beast, says that Roz has no malice, and she never strikes out at anything, and does have growing emotions, and observes that “any movie about a machine living a life inevitably it’s going to be a more dimensional thing.
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