Exclusive Interview: Winnie The Pooh Directors Stephen J. Anderson And Don Hall

If there’s a person on this planet who doesn’t like Winnie The Pooh, I have no interest in ever meeting them. Whether you’re just a kid who sees the silly old bear and his friends running around the Hundred Acre Wood or an adult who sees each character as a physical psychological representation, the stories by A.A. Milne are classic in every sense of the word. But every time you try and bring classic characters to a new audience there is a risk of alienating those that loved them previously. Fortunately, directors Stephen J. Anderson and Don Hall perfectly avoided the problem with their new film, Winnie The Pooh .

A couple weeks back I had the incredible chance to sit down with the directors at Walt Disney Pictures Animation to discuss the incredible new film. In the chat below, we discuss finding both the voice actors and animators for each character, working with John Lasseter and visiting the real Hundred Acre Wood. Check it out!

I’m kind of one of those guys that when I was a teenager watched Twelve Angry Men and said, “Piglet is juror number 2!” So I’m curious, when it came to casting the voice for this, obviously you had Jim Cummings who has been doing the voice for decades, but were you actively trying to find someone who sounded like previous voice actors that played the parts?

Anderson: We asked ourselves early on, which of these characters is really married to the voice and which of the characters is really more about the personality but not necessarily a specific voice? And you get Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, Eeyore, those guys, those characters, there would be huge controversies if they didn’t sound like they’ve always sounded. But we felt like if Rabbit doesn’t sound exactly like he did back in Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree, probably not going to be as much of an uproar, or the same thing with Owl. If their personalities were different, if we changed that there would be issues. So that’s why it gave us license, we felt a free to shake things up a little bit with some of those characters and say, let’s rethink this. What if we still kept their personalities in tact, but just expanded them, pushed them a little farther into that insanity level with people like Tom and Craig.

I guess one voice you mentioned, Eeyore’s my favorite character, when I was reading last night, I noticed that Bud Luckey also did the voice for Chuckles the Clown. Was that something you saw?

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Exclusive Interview: Winnie The Pooh Directors Stephen J. Anderson And Don Hall
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