1 00:00:11,845 --> 00:00:15,425 Welcome to the set of Diary of a Future President. 2 00:00:15,516 --> 00:00:18,016 We're excited to have you. Welcome to our little world. 3 00:00:18,101 --> 00:00:19,101 CREW MEMBER: Action! 4 00:00:20,395 --> 00:00:23,935 You need a very special individual to play Mulan 5 00:00:24,024 --> 00:00:26,574 and Yifei was brilliant. 6 00:00:30,280 --> 00:00:33,990 We're gonna get to talk to Burny and Andreas, two Disney legends. 7 00:00:34,076 --> 00:00:35,786 BURNY MATTINSON: I haven't seen these in ages. 8 00:00:45,212 --> 00:00:48,092 We are on set of Diary of a Future President 9 00:00:48,173 --> 00:00:52,473 and today, we're gonna have shooting, some prepping of 107, 10 00:00:52,553 --> 00:00:57,023 and a table read, do some editing, talk to some crew, 11 00:00:57,099 --> 00:01:01,939 um, and hopefully, you know, I will eat lunch. 12 00:01:02,896 --> 00:01:06,396 My name is Ilana Peña, the creator of Diary of a Future President. 13 00:01:06,483 --> 00:01:07,943 We're doing ten episodes. 14 00:01:08,026 --> 00:01:09,986 This is just the beginning. 15 00:01:10,070 --> 00:01:12,820 It's fast, crazy and fun. We're in the middle of it. 16 00:01:12,906 --> 00:01:14,276 I'm excited for you to see it. 17 00:01:18,203 --> 00:01:20,753 Uh, this show is about a 12-year-old girl, 18 00:01:20,831 --> 00:01:24,421 Elena Cañero-Reed. She's just trying to make it through middle school, 19 00:01:24,501 --> 00:01:26,711 just trying to sort of get through sixth grade. 20 00:01:26,795 --> 00:01:30,125 Ultimately, she becomes President of the United States of America. 21 00:01:30,215 --> 00:01:33,635 This is her house. Let's go to the Cañero-Reed family house. 22 00:01:33,719 --> 00:01:35,719 This isn't just Elena's story, 23 00:01:35,804 --> 00:01:38,434 it's also her brother Bobby's, and her mom Gabi's. 24 00:01:38,515 --> 00:01:41,935 This is a family that reads a lot, so there are books everywhere. 25 00:01:42,019 --> 00:01:43,849 Um, this is the living room. 26 00:01:43,937 --> 00:01:47,517 We've got family photos around and some of them are the actors now, 27 00:01:47,608 --> 00:01:50,318 and some are baby pictures of our actors, which is fun. 28 00:01:50,402 --> 00:01:55,492 You know, we're crafting this world to make it as special as it can be. 29 00:01:57,367 --> 00:02:01,657 WRITER: I went through all of your page notes. 30 00:02:01,747 --> 00:02:03,077 PEÑA: Oh, did you understand them? 31 00:02:03,165 --> 00:02:05,495 WRITER: Almost all of them. PEÑA: Oh, great, okay. Let's do it. 32 00:02:06,043 --> 00:02:08,093 Remember when I entered the mall poetry contest? 33 00:02:08,170 --> 00:02:09,340 Of course. 34 00:02:09,421 --> 00:02:11,421 -I'm a finalist! -Oh, my God! 35 00:02:11,507 --> 00:02:15,757 PEÑA: If you win, don't you get a billion dollars? (CHUCKLES) 36 00:02:15,844 --> 00:02:18,184 Don't winners get a billion dollars in glades gold? 37 00:02:18,263 --> 00:02:21,063 WRITER: Actually, it's only $50, but the check is really big. 38 00:02:21,141 --> 00:02:22,561 (LAUGHTER) 39 00:02:28,649 --> 00:02:30,529 PEÑA: I used to go to this arts camp 40 00:02:30,609 --> 00:02:33,899 and I would run around with the camera and make little short films 41 00:02:33,987 --> 00:02:35,697 in the woods with my friends. 42 00:02:35,781 --> 00:02:40,371 It was like guerilla filmmaking and it was the happiest I ever was. 43 00:02:40,452 --> 00:02:43,212 And what's crazy is this feels like that. 44 00:02:44,039 --> 00:02:48,249 For people to trust my own point of view has been so empowering. 45 00:02:48,335 --> 00:02:51,665 I think the experience of girlhood inspired me to write this show. 46 00:02:51,755 --> 00:02:55,215 We've seen a lot of boyhood stories, but not as much girlhood, 47 00:02:55,300 --> 00:02:58,100 and not as much girlhood with permission to be flawed 48 00:02:58,178 --> 00:03:00,178 and permission to be imperfect, 49 00:03:00,264 --> 00:03:03,394 and still that piece of clay that isn't totally molded. 50 00:03:03,475 --> 00:03:06,395 I wanted to tell a story about the molding of that clay. 51 00:03:06,478 --> 00:03:08,308 I do have my diary. 52 00:03:08,397 --> 00:03:12,317 The very first paragraph is, "This is it. I'm going to do it. 53 00:03:12,401 --> 00:03:15,281 "I'm really going to start a diary, for real. 54 00:03:15,362 --> 00:03:19,122 "Not a one-page piece of junk. A real diary." 55 00:03:19,199 --> 00:03:22,449 And then I go to a new paragraph and I say, "And you know what? 56 00:03:22,536 --> 00:03:25,286 "I think I'm going to have fun." (CHUCKLES) 57 00:03:27,583 --> 00:03:30,593 So my dad passed away when I was younger, like Elena's dad. 58 00:03:32,087 --> 00:03:34,167 That was another thing important to me. 59 00:03:34,256 --> 00:03:37,176 I wanted to tell the story of a family that had lost somebody, 60 00:03:37,259 --> 00:03:39,549 um, but that wasn't a tragedy. 61 00:03:40,179 --> 00:03:42,139 My childhood was joy, full stop. 62 00:03:42,222 --> 00:03:44,932 And that is something I credit entirely to my mother. 63 00:03:45,017 --> 00:03:48,597 And my mom always taught me, you know, to be in touch with my grief 64 00:03:48,687 --> 00:03:50,767 and to feel it and to not bury it, 65 00:03:50,856 --> 00:03:52,816 but to allow it to let me live. 66 00:03:55,235 --> 00:03:57,525 PEÑA: Hi, post! MAN: Hi! 67 00:03:57,613 --> 00:03:59,413 PEÑA:Yeah, usually, I'm eating on the go. 68 00:03:59,489 --> 00:04:02,199 We have a table read in ten minutes, 69 00:04:02,284 --> 00:04:06,004 so this might go in the fridge and I will eat it after the table read. 70 00:04:07,164 --> 00:04:08,174 (DRUMROLL) 71 00:04:08,290 --> 00:04:12,460 Welcome to the table read for episode 107! 72 00:04:12,544 --> 00:04:13,554 (CHEERING) 73 00:04:14,963 --> 00:04:16,973 It is called "Foreign Relations." 74 00:04:17,049 --> 00:04:19,639 Let us start in at Orange Bay Middle, 75 00:04:19,718 --> 00:04:22,348 it's homeroom, Elena sits in her seat next to Sasha, 76 00:04:22,429 --> 00:04:24,929 she sees Joey Feldstein walking with 77 00:04:25,015 --> 00:04:27,595 cute-boy swagger, bathed in an angelic light, 78 00:04:27,684 --> 00:04:31,364 before taking out his spitty retainer and sticking it in his pocket. 79 00:04:31,438 --> 00:04:32,858 She heaves a deep sigh. 80 00:04:32,940 --> 00:04:33,940 (LAUGHTER) 81 00:04:36,068 --> 00:04:38,568 GINA RODRIGUEZ: That'd be great if there was multiple things. 82 00:04:38,654 --> 00:04:40,744 -Two or three more. -You got it. 83 00:04:40,822 --> 00:04:42,742 -WOMAN: Watch this girl. -RODRIGUEZ: Assiduously. 84 00:04:42,824 --> 00:04:44,244 -Assiduously. -WOMAN: Got it. 85 00:04:44,826 --> 00:04:45,826 Assiduously. 86 00:04:45,911 --> 00:04:47,701 When I received the script from Ilana Peña, 87 00:04:47,788 --> 00:04:50,368 who's a Cuban-American from Miami 88 00:04:50,457 --> 00:04:51,827 and was writing her story, 89 00:04:51,917 --> 00:04:54,497 and the reflection of hope that she would love to see... 90 00:04:54,586 --> 00:04:56,626 I love you all so much. 91 00:04:56,713 --> 00:04:57,803 All right, here we go. 92 00:04:57,881 --> 00:05:01,511 RODRIGUEZ: ...it filled my heart with joy to think that this young girl 93 00:05:01,593 --> 00:05:08,023 imagined that space for a Latinx woman to become the leader of the free world. 94 00:05:08,100 --> 00:05:10,600 Here are my updated remarks on the first day address. 95 00:05:10,686 --> 00:05:12,646 So, after the strategy session... 96 00:05:12,729 --> 00:05:14,479 You have the meeting. 97 00:05:14,565 --> 00:05:16,435 -Saw the prep materials? -Assiduously. 98 00:05:16,525 --> 00:05:21,065 It ignites so much power and strength in what you can do with art. 99 00:05:21,196 --> 00:05:23,196 Yes, yes, yes. 100 00:05:24,032 --> 00:05:26,992 PEÑA: Sorry, I have to take this call. MAN: Okay. 101 00:05:27,077 --> 00:05:29,537 Wait, who's it? Wait, who wants to meet me? 102 00:05:29,788 --> 00:05:31,038 (PEÑA SIGHS) 103 00:05:31,582 --> 00:05:33,752 -So this is Mia. -(PEÑA CHUCKLES) Hi. 104 00:05:33,834 --> 00:05:36,134 -And this is Zoe. These are both... -This is the writer! 105 00:05:36,211 --> 00:05:38,091 -PEÑA: Hi! -She read it and loved it. 106 00:05:38,172 --> 00:05:40,132 PEÑA: You read it? Oh, my God. 107 00:05:40,215 --> 00:05:41,675 -Hi. -And loved it. 108 00:05:41,758 --> 00:05:43,338 We're super excited about this show. 109 00:05:43,427 --> 00:05:45,177 Feels like it's so timely. 110 00:05:45,262 --> 00:05:47,892 It's exactly what little girls need to see. 111 00:05:47,973 --> 00:05:48,973 Exactly. 112 00:05:49,057 --> 00:05:50,427 Oh, that means the world. 113 00:05:50,517 --> 00:05:52,017 We're really proud of you. 114 00:05:52,102 --> 00:05:54,442 PEÑA: Truly, I would have been nowhere without Gina. 115 00:05:54,521 --> 00:05:55,981 So, thank you. 116 00:05:56,064 --> 00:05:59,694 Wait till you guys see her in this. I mean, she's so good. 117 00:05:59,776 --> 00:06:01,776 And you're gonna want her to run for President. 118 00:06:01,862 --> 00:06:02,862 Yes. 119 00:06:04,531 --> 00:06:05,951 PEÑA: Hey, Kyla. 120 00:06:06,033 --> 00:06:08,453 KYLA PLEWES: Hey, how's it going? PEÑA: It's good. 121 00:06:09,244 --> 00:06:11,374 PLEWES: It's been a dream working with Ilana. 122 00:06:11,455 --> 00:06:14,825 She's been super nurturing of experimentation 123 00:06:14,917 --> 00:06:17,747 and trying things to make the story the best it could be. 124 00:06:17,836 --> 00:06:19,416 Gina does a great face there. 125 00:06:19,505 --> 00:06:22,585 -This? Like this? -That little lip when her... 126 00:06:22,674 --> 00:06:24,844 Something with her lip. It's just a great face. 127 00:06:24,927 --> 00:06:28,387 PLEWES: Working on a show with so many female producers, 128 00:06:28,472 --> 00:06:29,812 a female DP, 129 00:06:29,890 --> 00:06:32,350 it's been really, um, empowering. 130 00:06:32,434 --> 00:06:35,024 You could feel that in the energy of the crew, 131 00:06:35,103 --> 00:06:37,403 in the energy of the footage that I get. 132 00:06:37,481 --> 00:06:41,691 It's just that everyone's really here to tell an empowering female story. 133 00:06:41,818 --> 00:06:43,198 MAN: Background. WOMAN: And action. 134 00:06:43,278 --> 00:06:45,818 About a female President of the United States, 135 00:06:45,948 --> 00:06:48,948 which, you know, let's do it. (CHUCKLES) 136 00:06:50,661 --> 00:06:52,751 ELENA CAÑERO-REED: Hello, world. Or should I say... 137 00:06:53,622 --> 00:06:54,922 dear diary. 138 00:06:54,998 --> 00:06:58,168 There is not a moment that goes by that I don't feel grateful 139 00:06:58,252 --> 00:06:59,882 for this opportunity and experience. 140 00:06:59,962 --> 00:07:02,762 You know, so many hardworking people worked together 141 00:07:02,840 --> 00:07:06,180 to make the tiniest things happen. And it's such a gift. 142 00:07:06,260 --> 00:07:10,100 That feeling of gratitude and the weight of that responsibility, 143 00:07:10,180 --> 00:07:11,310 I do not take lightly. 144 00:07:11,390 --> 00:07:15,560 And I hope that kids, adults, parents, teenagers 145 00:07:15,644 --> 00:07:17,864 can watch the show, see themselves in it, 146 00:07:17,938 --> 00:07:22,028 and see a little bit of hope for our future and for themselves. 147 00:07:24,152 --> 00:07:26,612 NIKI CARO: Three, two, one. Action. 148 00:07:33,036 --> 00:07:34,366 We're doing a rehearsal with her, 149 00:07:34,454 --> 00:07:36,544 -so I can understand the timing. -LI GONG: Okay. 150 00:07:36,623 --> 00:07:40,633 And if that's easier for you, we can do that with Liz. 151 00:07:40,711 --> 00:07:41,711 GONG: Okay. 152 00:07:41,795 --> 00:07:44,125 CARO: I've always had a really big vision. 153 00:07:44,214 --> 00:07:48,474 And until this movie, the budgets didn't meet the scale of it. 154 00:07:48,802 --> 00:07:49,852 MAN: Sound speed! 155 00:07:51,388 --> 00:07:52,388 CARO: Action! 156 00:07:58,729 --> 00:08:00,689 Movies of this genre and this scale 157 00:08:00,772 --> 00:08:05,442 are most often quite reliant on green screen and CGI, 158 00:08:05,527 --> 00:08:07,567 and right from the beginning 159 00:08:07,654 --> 00:08:10,914 our intention was to shoot in real landscapes as much as possible, 160 00:08:10,991 --> 00:08:13,791 which is why we had units all over China. 161 00:08:13,869 --> 00:08:14,869 (GRUNTS) 162 00:08:16,121 --> 00:08:20,211 It's kind of an old-fashioned approach to take your camera and your crew 163 00:08:20,292 --> 00:08:23,132 and your 1,000 extras and all your horses 164 00:08:23,212 --> 00:08:27,342 into an actual location to shoot an actual battle. 165 00:08:27,424 --> 00:08:32,394 And yet, when I watch it, it seems so kind of fresh and modern. (CHUCKLES) 166 00:08:32,471 --> 00:08:34,521 (ALL GRUNTING) 167 00:08:37,017 --> 00:08:38,977 The biggest challenge is casting. 168 00:08:39,061 --> 00:08:42,981 You need a very special individual to play Mulan. 169 00:08:43,065 --> 00:08:45,275 She needs to be a brilliant actress. 170 00:08:45,359 --> 00:08:51,109 She needed to be able to pass as a boy but be equally compelling as a girl. 171 00:08:51,698 --> 00:08:54,948 So, after a year, we had not found her. (CHUCKLES) 172 00:08:55,619 --> 00:08:58,749 And, um, it was devastating, 173 00:08:58,830 --> 00:09:01,380 but we rolled our sleeves up and started again. 174 00:09:01,458 --> 00:09:03,458 We went back to all the actresses 175 00:09:03,544 --> 00:09:06,174 that weren't available to us the first time around. 176 00:09:06,922 --> 00:09:08,262 And Yifei was one of them. 177 00:09:10,008 --> 00:09:13,718 So, here we have an actress that's flown across the world, 178 00:09:13,804 --> 00:09:16,724 hasn't slept, in a high stakes audition 179 00:09:16,807 --> 00:09:20,307 where I had her for two hours and I really pushed her. 180 00:09:20,394 --> 00:09:21,734 She was brilliant. 181 00:09:21,812 --> 00:09:25,652 But if that wasn't enough, we sent her to a physical assessment 182 00:09:25,732 --> 00:09:28,942 of really hardcore physical training. 183 00:09:33,156 --> 00:09:36,486 I could see she was getting right to her limit. 184 00:09:36,577 --> 00:09:41,537 But never once did she back down, never ever did she say, "I can't do this." 185 00:09:42,749 --> 00:09:45,839 And at the end of that day I was convinced that, 186 00:09:46,461 --> 00:09:47,961 not only had I found Mulan 187 00:09:48,046 --> 00:09:53,636 but I had found a warrior and a brilliant partner for me. 188 00:09:53,719 --> 00:09:59,469 'Cause this is a hardcore collaboration between director and actress. 189 00:09:59,558 --> 00:10:00,598 CARO: Action. 190 00:10:01,894 --> 00:10:02,944 (ALL GRUNTING) 191 00:10:04,980 --> 00:10:06,520 (SWORDS CLASHING) 192 00:10:09,985 --> 00:10:13,655 CARO: I think it's the only time in a movie of this scale and genre 193 00:10:13,739 --> 00:10:17,579 where the movie has been run completely by women. 194 00:10:19,369 --> 00:10:23,459 Movie sets can be kind of aggressive, macho environments. 195 00:10:23,540 --> 00:10:28,460 Our set was kind of the opposite of that. (CHUCKLES) 196 00:10:28,545 --> 00:10:33,335 And yet, we do this strong, really robust work. 197 00:10:40,432 --> 00:10:41,482 (MEN YELLING) 198 00:10:49,942 --> 00:10:56,912 CARO: Mulan is that very rare creature, which is an enduring heroine 199 00:10:57,491 --> 00:10:59,871 who has lasted for centuries. 200 00:10:59,952 --> 00:11:04,412 And, here we are in 2020, waiting for this movie to come out 201 00:11:04,498 --> 00:11:08,538 to see the story being told again in yet another way. 202 00:11:09,294 --> 00:11:13,674 So, I hope we can all be inspired by her. 203 00:11:13,757 --> 00:11:16,177 WOMAN: Picture wrap on esteemed guest number one. 204 00:11:26,311 --> 00:11:27,771 BURNY MATTINSON: All right. 205 00:11:27,855 --> 00:11:30,265 Welcome to the Fort Knox of animation. 206 00:11:32,025 --> 00:11:34,395 MARY WALSH: This building is the animation research library. 207 00:11:34,486 --> 00:11:38,116 Today, two Disney legends, Burny and Andreas, are gonna be here. 208 00:11:38,198 --> 00:11:41,578 All the artwork that they created is housed in this collection. 209 00:11:41,660 --> 00:11:45,250 ANDREAS DEJA: It's going to be interesting to go down memory lane with Burny 210 00:11:45,330 --> 00:11:47,710 and check out those films we worked together on. 211 00:11:47,791 --> 00:11:50,961 It's so amazing that all this work was kept. 212 00:11:57,926 --> 00:11:59,636 This is going to be a great day 213 00:11:59,720 --> 00:12:03,140 'cause I'm going to see my friend Burny Mattinson. 214 00:12:03,223 --> 00:12:04,223 DEJA: There's Burny, hey. 215 00:12:04,308 --> 00:12:05,308 -Hey. -WALSH: Hi, Burny! 216 00:12:05,392 --> 00:12:07,562 -Andreas. -How are you doing? 217 00:12:07,644 --> 00:12:09,904 -How have you been? -Pretty good. Wonderful. 218 00:12:09,980 --> 00:12:13,480 I think, at this point, Burny is the longest employee 219 00:12:13,567 --> 00:12:14,817 at Disney Animation ever. 220 00:12:14,902 --> 00:12:16,742 He's going on 67 years, 221 00:12:16,820 --> 00:12:18,860 uh, and I spent 30 years here. 222 00:12:18,947 --> 00:12:20,487 This is gonna be about us. 223 00:12:20,574 --> 00:12:21,874 -Just the two of us. (CHUCKLES) -Yes. 224 00:12:24,077 --> 00:12:25,497 When you think about it, 225 00:12:25,621 --> 00:12:28,871 Walt Disney and all of his artists were actually developing 226 00:12:28,957 --> 00:12:30,037 the art of animation. 227 00:12:30,125 --> 00:12:32,585 They were expanding the art of animation. 228 00:12:32,669 --> 00:12:36,089 And the Disney Legends have been an ongoing part of that process. 229 00:12:36,173 --> 00:12:39,473 They're really key people who have added to that legacy. 230 00:12:39,551 --> 00:12:41,141 -Let's look at some art. -Oh, fantastic. 231 00:12:41,220 --> 00:12:43,680 WALSH: Burny and Andreas are Disney Legends. 232 00:12:43,764 --> 00:12:45,564 When they stepped on the studio lot, 233 00:12:45,641 --> 00:12:49,191 all they ever wanted to do was be a part of Disney Animation. 234 00:12:49,269 --> 00:12:52,189 -WALSH: Right this way, gentlemen. -Into the vault, and after you. 235 00:12:52,272 --> 00:12:54,612 Burny and I worked on a lot of movies together, 236 00:12:54,691 --> 00:12:57,191 like The Black Cauldron, The Great Mouse Detective, 237 00:12:57,277 --> 00:13:00,277 Oliver & Company, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin. 238 00:13:00,364 --> 00:13:02,704 I have never looked back on my own work, 239 00:13:02,783 --> 00:13:06,043 so this'll be cool to see those old sketches and drawings again. 240 00:13:06,119 --> 00:13:07,869 -Look who I found. -Hey! 241 00:13:07,955 --> 00:13:09,865 CARNEY: How're you? MATTINSON: How's it going, Fox? 242 00:13:09,957 --> 00:13:12,537 -My goodness. -A little birdie told us that you'd be by, 243 00:13:12,626 --> 00:13:15,496 so we pulled some artwork that both of you have done. 244 00:13:15,587 --> 00:13:16,957 In case we've forgotten what we did. 245 00:13:17,047 --> 00:13:18,047 -(CHUCKLES) -You never know. 246 00:13:20,926 --> 00:13:23,846 DEJA: This was one of the first drawings of Gaston that I did. 247 00:13:23,929 --> 00:13:25,759 It was immediately an issue 248 00:13:25,848 --> 00:13:28,598 because, Burny, I drew the jaw very large. 249 00:13:28,684 --> 00:13:29,814 That's right. 250 00:13:29,893 --> 00:13:33,153 DEJA: And I said, "But, he's the villain. He has to have broad features." 251 00:13:33,230 --> 00:13:35,480 But they explained to me the Beast is ugly, 252 00:13:35,566 --> 00:13:36,896 Gaston has to be handsome. 253 00:13:36,984 --> 00:13:38,864 Had to change the size of the jaw, 254 00:13:38,944 --> 00:13:40,494 get rid of the mustache. 255 00:13:40,571 --> 00:13:43,451 But he was tough to animate. He really wasn't easy. 256 00:13:43,532 --> 00:13:46,412 CARNEY: We have some of your story sketches from Aladdin as well. 257 00:13:46,493 --> 00:13:48,253 I haven't seen these in ages. 258 00:13:48,328 --> 00:13:51,458 DEJA: You know how you can recognize Burny's drawing style? 259 00:13:51,540 --> 00:13:53,290 You have a very light touch, Burny. 260 00:13:53,375 --> 00:13:57,125 And a lot of your lines end up with a little curly thing. 261 00:13:57,212 --> 00:13:58,302 (LAUGHTER) 262 00:13:58,380 --> 00:14:00,050 And we're like, "That's Burny." 263 00:14:00,132 --> 00:14:01,592 MATTINSON: I have never thought of that. 264 00:14:01,675 --> 00:14:04,045 DEJA: It's... It's the truth. MATTINSON: Oh, my God. 265 00:14:04,136 --> 00:14:05,716 I was really pretty good then. 266 00:14:05,804 --> 00:14:07,314 (CHUCKLES) 267 00:14:07,389 --> 00:14:08,599 Burny, you're good now. 268 00:14:08,891 --> 00:14:10,391 You're great now, actually. 269 00:14:10,475 --> 00:14:13,145 And then, we actually have some of your sketches 270 00:14:13,228 --> 00:14:14,348 from Winnie the Pooh. 271 00:14:14,438 --> 00:14:17,318 MATTINSON: Oh, wow! Look at how pretty... CARNEY: Look at that. 272 00:14:17,399 --> 00:14:18,819 Oh, for heaven's sakes, yeah. 273 00:14:18,901 --> 00:14:20,741 Had such a charm to it. 274 00:14:20,819 --> 00:14:22,569 You worked on the old ones, the early ones? 275 00:14:22,654 --> 00:14:23,664 The old ones, yeah. 276 00:14:23,739 --> 00:14:25,319 -The one in... -Starting in the '60s? 277 00:14:25,407 --> 00:14:26,657 The Many Adventures of... 278 00:14:26,742 --> 00:14:28,542 CARNEY: I imagine that's Burny walking. 279 00:14:28,619 --> 00:14:31,909 -That's me. I have an affinity with Pooh. -(CHUCKLES) 280 00:14:36,919 --> 00:14:38,959 CARNEY: You would remember this from back in the days 281 00:14:39,046 --> 00:14:40,916 when they were making The Little Mermaid. 282 00:14:41,006 --> 00:14:42,376 In this building, right? 283 00:14:42,466 --> 00:14:45,046 My office was over there against that wall. 284 00:14:45,135 --> 00:14:46,135 -Yeah. -WALSH: Yeah. 285 00:14:46,220 --> 00:14:48,430 MATTINSON: The theater was somewhere... WALSH: Right in here. 286 00:14:48,514 --> 00:14:50,724 -This area was the theater. -Yeah. 287 00:14:50,807 --> 00:14:53,187 WALSH: Have you seen this pencil test, Andreas? 288 00:14:53,268 --> 00:14:55,808 No! Oh, my gosh. 289 00:14:55,896 --> 00:14:59,476 This is the picture that made me wanna come to the studio. 290 00:14:59,566 --> 00:15:00,566 -Really? -DEJA: Was it? 291 00:15:00,651 --> 00:15:05,161 Yeah. My mother took me over to The Orpheum Theatre in San Francisco 292 00:15:05,239 --> 00:15:09,079 and I saw this picture and I thought, "I gotta be a part of that." 293 00:15:09,159 --> 00:15:11,119 I didn't know Pinocchio was that movie for you. 294 00:15:11,203 --> 00:15:12,503 That was my movie. Yeah. 295 00:15:12,579 --> 00:15:15,119 CARNEY: How do you make lines on paper just... 296 00:15:15,207 --> 00:15:16,287 -DEJA: Do that. -...do that? 297 00:15:16,375 --> 00:15:17,375 MATTINSON: Bring it to life. 298 00:15:19,253 --> 00:15:22,763 Over here is our design team area where we work on displays 299 00:15:22,840 --> 00:15:25,430 of all the artwork that we have in our collection. 300 00:15:25,509 --> 00:15:29,639 We have some reproductions of artwork from the collection of yours, 301 00:15:29,721 --> 00:15:31,971 and so, I'll leave it to you. 302 00:15:32,724 --> 00:15:34,394 MATTINSON: I loved always working in charcoal. 303 00:15:34,476 --> 00:15:36,476 It's nice and dramatic and dark. 304 00:15:36,562 --> 00:15:38,192 But I like these, too. 305 00:15:38,272 --> 00:15:41,652 My heart rate still goes up after 40 years of doing this. 306 00:15:41,733 --> 00:15:44,193 Once a scene is done and you see it for the first time 307 00:15:44,278 --> 00:15:45,698 in motion, it's... (EXHALES) 308 00:15:46,363 --> 00:15:48,163 It's big. It's a big deal. 309 00:15:51,743 --> 00:15:54,043 MATTINSON: Being a Disney Legend is quite an honor. 310 00:15:54,788 --> 00:15:56,498 These people were giants. 311 00:15:57,165 --> 00:16:00,585 And you never expected you'd ever be in that position. 312 00:16:01,044 --> 00:16:03,764 When I actually said to my friends I wanna do this, 313 00:16:03,839 --> 00:16:05,339 work at Disney, 314 00:16:05,424 --> 00:16:08,224 and they rolled their eyes, "Sure, you will." 315 00:16:08,302 --> 00:16:10,392 And my family was the same way 316 00:16:10,470 --> 00:16:12,390 'cause it just seemed impossible. 317 00:16:13,640 --> 00:16:16,230 There was this girl who says, 318 00:16:16,310 --> 00:16:19,560 "Mr. Deja, I don't really wanna say very much 319 00:16:19,646 --> 00:16:22,066 "but I wanna thank you for drawing my childhood." 320 00:16:23,192 --> 00:16:25,862 -I lost it. -What a nice thing. 321 00:16:25,944 --> 00:16:26,954 (LAUGHS) 322 00:16:27,946 --> 00:16:30,526 -I mean, it's a simple phrase. -Yeah. 323 00:16:31,491 --> 00:16:33,081 That was too much. 324 00:16:34,995 --> 00:16:35,995 So there.