The larger-than-life, phantasmagorical wish granter then bursts right off of the page in all his hand-drawn animated glory.
“It all came home that way.”
“I grew up with that movie,” Correy says ofAladdin.
Josh Gad’s Olaf and Robin Williams' Genie mingle in Disney’s ‘Once Upon a Studio’.Disney
“It is one of my earliest memories.
Abraham sifted through 16 hours of archived recordings to pick the perfect soundbite.
“We got the approval of the Robin Williams estate very, very early on,” he says.
Robin Williams at the premiere of ‘Happy Feet’.Frazer Harrison/Getty Images
Using original dialogue of his was very important to us.”
Goldberg was the other piece of the puzzle.
So, Goldberg and his wife, Susan, packed their things and moved to California.
“And what a way to start a career at Walt Disney Animation.”
It didn’t go quite as planned.
Still, the animator says he wanted to make the Genie “as broad-ranging as his vocal cords.”
Once Upon a Studiois now available to stream on Disney+.
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