“I had never drawn that before in my entire career at Pixar.
I’d never drawn two guys in love.”
Pixar’s latest short film ran just over nine minutes.
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It resonated far longer.
From this emergedthe studio’s first work with an openly gay main character.
“It’s the first of its kind in many ways,” Sachar adds of the short.
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“They were always beautifully done watercolors or [had] a wash look to them.”
Hunter grew up in a small town in southwest Ontario, Canada, where nothing in media encouraged self-acceptance.
“Everything about it was just, ‘wrong, wrong, wrong.’
Part of me just buried it,” he says.
referring to the number from Broadway’sBook of Mormon.)
It keeps getting louder and shouting at you to pay attention."
“I had never drawn that before in my entire career at Pixar.
I’d never drawn two guys in love.”
“I wanted that for a queer audience.”
“There was no adversity towards the content,” Hunter remembers.
“They saw that we were staying true to what Pixar storytelling is.
It’s just telling emotional stories that make people laugh, make ‘em cry.”
Others suggested a spin-off with Mags and Gigi.
“It just tells me that it’s striking a chord with people,” he says.
But is that chord loud enough?
There was the suggestion that they might be a same-sex couple.
Hunter never thought she was, since the story came from a very personal place for co-director Brenda Chapman.
The same way withFrozen."
“I’m tired of inferring ourselves,” Hunter says.
“I want to see that [visibility] for real.
I want to see us in film for real.”
“The film industry is continuing to evolve, as it always has,” Sachar says.
“I have a couple ideas I’d like to get off the ground,” he says.
“Just wait for it.
It’s gonna happen,” he adds.
“We’re not going anywhere.
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