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The Next Best Picture Podcast

Interviews With "Encanto" Star Stephanie Beatriz, Director Byron Howard & Co-Directors/Co-Writers Jared Bush & Charise Castro Smith

The Next Best Picture Podcast

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2542 Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2021

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Disney's "Encanto" is the 60th animated feature film from the studio and see's Byron Howard and Jared Bush reunite after their successful collaboration on the Academy Award-winning "Zootopia." With Charise Castro Smith added as a Co-Director and Co-Writer, the team has created a cultural joy that celebrates family, magic, and love. Along with actress Stephanie Beatriz (who voices the film's lead character, Mirabel), the four of them were kind enough to spend a few minutes chatting with me about their work behind the Disney animated film. Take a listen down below and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... SoundCloud - https://soundcloud.com/nextbestpicturepodcast iTunes Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You are listening to the Next Best Picture podcast, and these are my interviews with the star from Disney, Enkanto, Stephanie Beatrice, Beatrice, Beatrice, and the director, Byron Howard, and the co-directors and co-writers, Jared Bush, and Teresa Castro Smith. What? Oh! Oh! Oh, hey,

0:21.6

Oh, hey,

0:23.6

oh, Looko Me Gaveh, Oh, Oh,

0:40.3

GENCOL

0:41.3

Oh,

0:43.3

Delivery!

0:44.3

I gave you the special

0:48.3

since you're the only Madrigal kid with no gift.

0:51.3

I call it the not special, special since, uh, you have no gift. I call it the not special special since you have no gift.

0:57.2

Thanks.

0:59.1

I am Matt Neklia with Next Best Picture and I'm here today with Stephanie Beatrice.

1:05.3

Stephanie, how are you today?

1:06.7

Hi, I'm great. How are you?

1:08.4

Doing really, really well. Thank you so much for taking the time to chat with me today about your newest role in Disney's Encanto.

1:16.4

Thank you. I'm so excited to talk about it. I'm very excited for you in general this year, having both this and in the Heights come out in the same year.

1:25.8

Can you first talk to me a little bit about this surge that

1:29.8

we're seeing right now in representation in Hollywood and different stories being finally told

1:35.3

from these unique perspectives that are celebrating culture, family, life? It feels that those two

1:42.3

projects in particular are really highlighting that in a way that

1:46.4

is just so wholesome this year. That's a really great word to describe it, wholesome, right? I think

1:51.7

we've had a very globally, we've had a hard time for a little while. It's very difficult for very

1:57.5

many people for lots of reasons. And so I think one of the things that I'm so

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