Brigham Taylor: The Magic of Disney for Latter-day Saints

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Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 13 March 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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When the box office numbers from opening weekend roll in following a big Disney release, Brigham Taylor says the top few movie theaters tend to have something in common: they’re located in Utah. Of course, Latter-day Saints live all over the world but if the state with the highest concentration of Latter-day Saints is any indication, Disney is a hit among members of the Church.

"Looking back on it now, I think one of the reasons I was kept around and was able to succeed to whatever degree was that I really leaned into it. I loved it and I never had to feel like I was stooping to make a family film because I loved family films. I was raising a family and I felt a kinship and responsibility there."

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0:00.0	Walt Disney has been quoted as saying,
0:03.0	when you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way,
0:06.4	implicitly and unquestionable.
0:09.2	I don't know about you, but that sounds a lot like being all in to me.
0:14.8	Brigham Taylor has worked for the company Walt Disney
0:17.9	created for 20 years. He has been involved with the production of some of Disney's
0:23.1	biggest films in the last two decades, including Remember the Titans, Miracle,
0:28.4	and Pirates of the Caribbean. Most recently, he produced several live action
0:33.4	retellings of classics like The Jungle Book, Christopher Robin, and Lady in the Tramp.
0:40.0	This is All-In, an LDS Living podcast where we ask the question,
0:44.0	what does it really mean to be All-In the Gospel of Jesus Christ?
0:48.5	I'm Morgan Jones and I am so honored to have Brigham Taylor here with me today. Brigham welcome.
0:54.2	Thank you. It's good to be here.
0:55.3	I appreciate Brigham is here for a family wedding and is giving of his time in the middle of
1:02.2	that trip to be here with us. So thank you so, so much. You're welcome.
1:06.2	Well, I am so excited to talk with you. I feel like, and I may be off base in this,
1:12.8	but I feel like Latter-day Saints love Disney, maybe more than any other group ever.
1:19.0	It's a sound theory. I don't have any science to back it up, but a lot of anecdotal evidence,
1:24.2	I think that might bear that out. Yeah. Yeah. I feel like people are going to be very excited
1:29.3	to hear from you. So you are a producer for Disney. I would say most people, regardless of religion,
1:37.0	would say that that is a dream job. Can you tell us kind of how you ended up in that position?
1:42.4	Yeah, absolutely. I was always interested in film and I was a student at Brigham Young
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