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Jared Bush at D23: The Ultimate Disney Fan Event Media Preview 4K
Aug 14, 2026
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>> Hello, hello. Welcome to D23. How are
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you all?
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Is this the beginning of the media
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preview?
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>> Second.
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>> It's the second. You saved the second
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for last. That's very impressive. Um, I
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am just honored to introduce to you our
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Chief Creative Officer of Walt Disney
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Animation Studios, here to welcome you
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to our pavilion, Jared Bush.
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>> What's up, everybody?
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I got to tell you, this is honestly my
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my most favorite time. Every 2 years we
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get to do this, and it is
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I I it's hard to describe. For, you
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know, any of our movies it takes about 4
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to 6 years to make.
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Um, so to be able to share that with
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everybody uh is honestly for us a dream
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come true. It's like this it's this
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incredible shot of adrenaline um for
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everyone working so hard. You guys are
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about to see Hext. Oh yeah, you're about
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to see Hext, which is right here. This
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is our movie coming out this year, this
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November. Um, and the teams have been
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hard at work creating something I am so
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so deeply proud of. Tomorrow
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you're going to be seeing a few sneak
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peeks of something in that film, some
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big announcements coming out uh at the
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showcase tomorrow night. Uh and I can't
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wait for you to see more.
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On top of all of this, obviously you
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guys hopefully have had a little bit of
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time to to look around the booth to see
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everything that we're working on. Uh
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between Hext, obviously you probably
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already got around and seeing a little
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bit of the Frozen 3 side. Um, you guys
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are going to be seeing some more outfits
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and tidbits over the course of the next
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few days um that I'm really excited
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about. Obviously, we have Lilou and
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Scratch, which is our new theatrical
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short. We actually have not released a
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theatrical short in quite a while. That
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will go along with Hext that I'm so
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excited about. Um, and then there's a
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lot coming from Disney Animation this
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weekend. So, of course there's the
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showcase tomorrow night,
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but there's experiences on Saturday
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night. There's quite a lot of things
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from Disney Animation you're going to
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see there. We have Legends on Sunday. So
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many amazing folks from Disney Animation
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are coming through that. Uh Susan Egan,
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Eric Goldberg, uh of course Lin-Manuel
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Miranda, um Alan Tudyk, Dwayne "The
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Rock" Johnson. I mean, we have a a
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pretty stacked group from Disney
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Animation, which is so so exciting. Um
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and but then on top of that, I just say
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uh and I I really wanted to to
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underscore this. Everyone that's going
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to be working this booth, we have
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signings and and giveaways and photo
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ops, but everyone here are people from
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Disney Animation. It's volunteers who
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wanted to spend time with all of the
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fans, cuz it really means so much to us
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to be able to share this with everybody.
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It's a very very special time for us.
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Uh with that in mind, I actually
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wondered if anyone has any questions,
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I'd love to take some.
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Any thoughts out there? Anything you
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guys are wondering about?
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Deep questions. Yes.
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Uh for Frozen 3, no not not Norway.
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There's actually without giving away too
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much,
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it's um
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I can't answer that question without
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spoilers. So, I'll say the answer to
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that is no, um but there's a reasons for
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that. Um I will say that research is
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such an important part of what we do. I
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think most of you know, um you know, for
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for Zootopia, we spent time on safari
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with a lot of animals out there uh in
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Kenya. Um I was lucky enough uh with
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Encanto to spend a bunch of time in
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Colombia. This is something that really
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matters to us a lot. Going through the
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Pacific Islands for Moana. Uh and so,
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part of being out there and and really
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getting that
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those experiences you can only ex- you
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know, be there with the people there uh
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to experience what it sounds like, what
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it smells like. It really changes our
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movies. So, I'd say research is always
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critical to us, but I will not answer
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your question, cuz I will get in
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trouble.
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Yeah.
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Oh my gosh, my favorite D23 memory was
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what I was just asked. I got to say, um
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so, 15 years ago, uh I was hired uh to
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work on Zootopia. That's where I first
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came to the studio.
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Uh and I think the first D23 that was
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uh after I joined, like a year later,
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and I got to be there with my directing
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partner, Byron Howard, to announce
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Zootopia for the first time at D23. And
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it was one of the most amazing
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experiences of my life. I think part of
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that is at that time you're you're
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saying to everyone, "Hey, we're going to
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have animals in clothes, and they're
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going to have cell phones." And you're
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describing characters um that you really
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fall in love with. For me, thinking back
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on that, thinking the journey that
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they've gone on,
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um certainly last year with Zootopia 2
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is is um again just this unbelievable
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experience.
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Being able to go to Shanghai to see that
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park come to life, see Zootopia land
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come to life is is just bonkers. So, I
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think that's the one. Yeah, go ahead.
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Uh good question. Uh Hex is not inspired
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by The Owl House. I think that um
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we love witches, uh and I think this
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movie I think you guys are going to see
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we have a unique take on witches. Um
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I think tomorrow night there's some some
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little um
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little tidbits you're going to get that
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will help you with that. I'd say it is a
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world that we are creating for this
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movie that's unlike anything that Disney
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Animation has done before. Our main
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character, Billie, is
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um
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yeah, she's a very different type of
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I'll say heroine for now. Um and I think
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people are going to fall in love with
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her. And you guys have seen some of the
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other characters. The weirdo that lives
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in this trailer is part of that. Um I'm
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excited for you to see it.
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Yeah. Oh, please, George.
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Yeah.
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Uh they teach me a lot. I mean, I think
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one of the the most important things
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that we do when we make our films and
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when we tell stories, we want to be able
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to connect with people. That that's why
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we're doing this. And so when you get to
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meet people that
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show up in in full cosplay
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for movies that haven't even been
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released yet, it shows you that you're
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on the right path. And I And I really
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mean it when I say the passion of the
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fans really fuels us.
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Like I said, it's 4 to 6 years to make
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one of our films. That means for four of
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those years, we are in the darkness,
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have no idea how people are going to
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perceive our stories. And so when you
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come here and someone says,
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"The storyline meant so much to me. My
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My older sister is like Luisa and that
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really mattered to me. The relationship
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between Judy and Nick really feels like
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my relationship." So to hear people
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tell us that these stories are
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resonating,
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one makes all that hard work really
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matter to us, but also because it's 700
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people that work on these films, it's
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great to be here and then to go back to
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the studio and share it with everyone
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there.
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Yeah.
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It's a great question. The question is,
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okay, so there's going to be a short on
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the front of Hex which we're really
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excited about. Theatrical shorts is
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something I really believe in. I love
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them. Where Where have they gone? It's
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It's a great question. I'll just say I'm
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excited that they're back. I'd say that
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as we move into the future, there's a
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lot of interesting projects happening
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right now, some passion projects that I
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think as we're looking to see what other
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shorts might be possible. There's a lot
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There's a lot of things out there.
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There's a lot of beloved characters that
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I think
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deserve to be seen. So I My My bet would
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be that you're going to see more of that
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in the future.
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>> Are you planning something special
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>> Oh, one last question. Sorry, say one
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time.
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>> Are you planning something special for
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Disney Animation for the 100th
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anniversary of Mickey Mouse?
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>> The 100th birthday Mickey Mouse is
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coming up.
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I will not answer your question, sir.
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But I will just say
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we love Mickey. He's amazing. It seems
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like we should do something that sort of
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marks that moment.
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I will that's as far as I will go in
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terms of answering that question. Uh
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thank you guys so so much for being
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here. I'm so excited for you to see
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more. Tomorrow night's going to be
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crazy. A lot to to share with you guys.
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And I think now I'm going to help you
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guys come on over to our friends at
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Pixar. So if you come right through
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here, I'll lead you up there. Thanks a
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lot.
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