From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is The Business.

This week we talked to Wallace and Grummet.

I mean, we talked to Nick Park, the creator of the beloved Claymation characters,

and his colleague Merlin Crossingham.

Their latest film on Netflix Now is Vengeance Most Fowl.

Park, a four-time Oscar winner and nominated again,

recalls his first Academy Award ceremony where he was in competition with himself.

I was so nervous. It was 1990, and I'd never been to L.A., never mind the Oscars. I had two

speeches ready with two lists of credits, one for each film. My biggest worry was that if I did win,

I'd then thank the wrong set of people. Park and Crossingham share how they balanced

Claymation, a notoriously time-consuming medium with modern filmmaking tools in the latest

Wallace and Gromit adventure. Park also recalls dealing with the many notes he got when working on two films with DreamWorks co-founder Jeffrey Kastonberg.

Plus, the pair explains why animating even a mostly motionless character like the menacing criminal mastermind Feathers McGraw is surprisingly difficult.

But first we banter, stick around. It's the business from KCRW. I'm joined by my buddy

in banter. Matt, Bellany. Hello, Matt. Hi there. So the Trump administration has rattled its

saber enough about DEI efforts. You know, they have a sort of across-the-board hostility to what they call DEI, and they

have shaken Disney to the point where they have backed off, and they have announced that they

will go after Comcast for their DEI efforts. And I'm just going to read Comcast's corporate

website and what they say about the

DEI initiatives. We believe that a diverse, equitable, and inclusive company is a more

innovative and successful one. Across our workforce, products, and content, we embrace diversity

of background, perspective, culture, and experience together, and together with our partners,

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