The Premiere of Lilo & Stitch at the El Capitan
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Hula dancers greet the celebrities as they enter the El Capitan dancing to various Hawaiian melodies including Pearly Shells (perhaps best known as the C&H Sugar song)
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Actor Fred Willard stops for an interview with Kids Flicks N Picks
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Fred Willard
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Danny Bonaduce jumps the planters and ventures into the crowd.
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Andreas Deja, Disney animator for many characters including Lilo, Jafar and Scar.
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We had the opportunity to briefly speak with Andreas Deja, Lilo's animator. The transcript is below or you can click here for the MPEG video (7.4 Megs, 44 seconds, 352 X 240).
LP: Tell me about working on Lilo & Stitch.
AD: It was fun to work on this movie because I've done a lot of villains for the Studio like Gaston and Scar and those kind of characters. This is like a complete switch, doing something else because she is so genuine and lovable but kind of complex at the same time which gives you something to work on as animator.
LP: Was it difficult to do a character that had to play against someone with as strong a persronality as Stitch?
AD: You know you just focus on your own. I think she holds her won. She's living in her own world and I think though they're very contrasting, in their own way they have things in common. They are both outsiders and they're and they look for a place where they belong and they find each other but it takes the whole movie to get there.
LP: How important is this film to the future of traditional animation?
AD: I think they're all important. This one is special because it turned out so darn well, you know. It's all I can say.