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- Woo hoo! You know what that's gonna say,

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Joe Gardner (laughing).

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I did it, I got the gig!

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(gasping)

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- However fans get to
see this in November.

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Have you guys thought about how,

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the film's messages may have changed,

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in light of everything
going on in the world

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from the pandemic,

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to the fight for social justice?

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And did you have to adapt
anything in the film,

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because of when it's gonna be coming out?

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- So the pandemic

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and George Floyd

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and I mean a lot of things have happened,

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since then that lean into the themes

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and make you even more powerful now.

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- Yeah, I think it kinda
gave us a head start

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on the big cultural awakening

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that has happened in this past year.

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Like I said, it gave me a head start

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and a deeper understanding.

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I mean, obviously I still don't know

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what that's really like to
grow up black in America,

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but it was very eyeopening.

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And I think we were able to
get some of that into the film,

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even though the film is
not explicitly about that.

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It's more universal,

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but as camp says,

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"There's a great universality

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"In the specificity of one person."

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And at every turn such a gift to be able

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to sit and talk to Herbie
Hancock, Oh my gosh!

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Or Quincy Jones,

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we're sitting in Quincy Jones' living room.

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This is real, I can't believe it.

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So just some of the cultural icons

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that I love, that we got to talk with.

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- When you're making a film about

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the soul and essence in life,

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obviously you guys are making the movie,

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so you have an impact on it,

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but does the movie have an impact on you?

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- Yeah, I mean, yes,
that is a short answer,

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but if I get it

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it forces you to reflect a lot,

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it was a common exercise.

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I know Pete does it, but a
lot of other people do it too.

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Like when you hit a wall,

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to kind of go out and go
on like a hike or a walk,

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a lot of this process is a reflection.

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I'd say the entire experience

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for me was transformational,

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but I'm also the new guy.

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So this is the first time I've done this.

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I've never worked on a Pixar Film before.

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So for me, the entire process

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from the moment I walked in the door

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was a transformational experience.

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(gentle music)