Would you be open to revisiting The Boss Baby world and/or Madagascar and the penguins? Everyone could be seen, everyone could be heard and that’s the best environment. In holding the meetings, what I really liked about it is I could see everyone’s faces and you always want to create an environment where it’s collaborative to let people have an opinion or let people have an idea. So because take us so long, when Amy Sedaris ad-libs, I could go back with Alec and he would do an ad-lib based on her ad-lib. A year and a half of production was done from home. As we got into the rhythm of it, it became easier to do. I think it works with our actors in the process because we allow them to ad lib, it’s encouraged.
It was challenging to do a film, half of it, from home. What is your takeaway on remote working during the pandemic? It’s not so much of a message, but a wink to say “hey, put down your phones every once in a while. And so our villain parents that are are glued to their phones. At kids’ events or school plays, all the parents would watch it through their phones-everyone watches the world through their phones. We just thought we could shine a spotlight on that idea that maybe we’re so dependent on this technology, that it could be an Achilles heel, particularly for parents. Since we were 25 years later in this film, embraced the technology. Sometimes in a film, phones can make it too convenient for characters. The Boss Baby was based on the time before all the technology, which is more or less kind of this amalgam of the ‘70s and ‘80s, intentionally. Would you discuss the role of cell phone technology in the story. Sometimes you can drift apart and our underlying theme was, it’s never too late to have a second chance with family. Ted grew up hard wired for business, ran his own company. So we kind of applied that to the brother’s story a little bit.
It makes you think, what is success? To me, I always think what my brother did–raising his family–was much more successful. I was always jealous of him because he was able to have a wonderful family. … I think he was always slightly envious of me because I got to pursue the filmmaking career.
For me, I started making movies with my brother when I was 10, and then at a very early age he had a family. Some gravitate to the father-daughter story, some the brothers or the sister story. You always want to have a personal angle on it. Would you talk about the family dynamics in this movie? He wanted boss baby to be boss baby, and not a caricature of anybody we know in the real world. Alec was really particular about that too. In Russia, they thought we had based boss baby on Putin. I think people try to find connective elements. And a lot of people thought it was a comparison.
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What’s interesting about that is we were done with the first movie before he did Trump on SNL. Was this on your mind when you make this sequel? When The Boss Baby opened (in March of 2017), Alec Baldwin’s baby was getting comparisons to Donald Trump.
Amy Sedaris really brought the character to life. I thought we could give her a unique voice that more embraces teamwork, more of the glass half full. could be the voice of a millennial generation that’s a little bit more in tune with their feelings and probably have a better work-life balance. the old mad men school of business like boss baby represents. And this felt like an opportunity to have a strong female character. The first movie was kind of a two hander between two brothers. Working with Alec is always great and the premise of a baby running the household was such a fun idea. How 'Luca,' 'Vivo' and 'Raya and the Last Dragon' Sound Designers Created Sonic Landscapes of Animated Worlds
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