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🗓️ 1 January 2021
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Abigail Disney’s father Roy was Walt's nephew. For her, being a Disney came with so much baggage that she almost ditched the name altogether. In part two of our interview, Abigail Disney explains why she feels it’s her duty to speak out when the company that bears her family’s name seems to have gone astray. And banter buddies Matt Belloni and Lucas Shaw look at the year to come in Hollywood.
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0:00.0 | From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business. |
0:05.1 | Abigail Disney's father was Walt's nephew, Roy. |
0:08.4 | For Abigail, growing up as a Disney came with a lot of perks, |
0:11.5 | but also so much baggage that she almost ditched the name altogether. |
0:15.6 | There's a lot of it I'm not proud of, |
0:17.0 | but there was enough of it to be proud of to listen when I heard it saying to me that |
0:23.1 | I have work to do related to it. And that's what's, you know, I'm sorry, I'm not really a religious |
0:29.7 | person, but it felt like there was a calling and I was going to have to try and figure out how |
0:34.4 | to do that, whatever it was called of me. In the second half of our two-part interview, Abigail Disney reflects on what it means to have |
0:41.2 | that famous last name and remembers how much things changed for her family when Michael Eisner |
0:46.5 | took over the Walt Disney Company in 1984. But first on the news banter, what does 2021 hold for |
0:53.5 | Hollywood? Stick around. It's the business from KCRW. |
1:00.8 | I am joined by my two banter buddies, Matt Bellany. Hello, Matt. Hi there. And Bloomberg reporter Lucas Shaw. |
1:12.7 | Hello, Lucas. Hey, Kim. So we're going to look to the year ahead. And I will start by saying, |
1:17.7 | give me that vaccine. As soon as they're ready, I'll roll up my sleeve. But will people be in theaters? |
1:23.3 | We have movies scheduled. And some of them may maybe essentially, I think, dumped in theaters. |
1:27.9 | I don't believe the Bond date. |
1:30.0 | For example, MGM has moved the Bond movie multiple times. |
1:33.2 | It's now in April. |
1:35.2 | I don't think so. |
1:36.5 | What do you guys think, Lucas? |
1:38.6 | I think that MGM would like to release at them, but MGM would also be more than happy to find some |
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