Now and Ben: Chris Sanders on The Wild Robot, hand drawn animation vs. CG, and Lilo & Stitch

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Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Tv Reviews, Film Interviews

4.4 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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In today’s Now & Ben drop, Ben sits down with Chris Sanders—director of the Oscar-nominated animation ‘The Wild Robot’. With a stellar career behind the drawing board that’s taken him from Disney to DreamWorks, he’s the man behind ‘How To Train Your Dragon’, ‘The Croods’ and ‘Lilo and Stich’—so Ben had plenty to quiz him on. ‘The Wild Robot’ takes us on an unexpected adventure through nature with Roz, a human assistance robot who finds herself shipwrecked on an uninhabited island. Uninhabited, that is, by humans—but she soon discovers a host of animal companions, including an orphaned gosling who needs her help. Becoming the adopted mother of this strange creature is a challenge that her programming hasn’t prepared her for. Ben & Chris chat about the film’s beautiful blend of hand-drawn and CG animation, why movie robots can teach us so much about being human, and what it’s like to be beloved to a generation of Disney kids as the voice of Stitch. Listen out for more of Ben’s conversations with cinema’s most exciting creative talents dropping into the feed every ‘Now and Ben’… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Don't miss The Brutalist.
0:03.0	What do you think?
0:04.0	An electrifying cinematic experience.
0:07.0	Starring Adrian Brody, Felicity Jones and Guy Pearce.
0:12.0	Fate brought us together.
0:14.0	Winner of three Golden Globes and now nominated for 10 Oscars and nine BAFTAs, including Best Film.
0:22.6	Welcome to America.
0:24.8	The Brutalist in Cinemas Now, rated 18.
0:30.1	Hello and welcome to another episode of Now and Ben.
0:33.5	In these occasional nuggets of film buff goodness,
0:36.0	our Superstar Ben Bailey Smith catches up with the creative figures of the film world, who we think you'd like to hear more from.
0:41.6	This episode, it's the director of the Wild Robot, Chris Sanders. He chats to Ben about picking up an Oscar nomination for the wholesome animation, his career at the drawing board and in the director's chair from Lilo and Stitch to How to Train Your Dragon
0:54.2	and what it's like to be the voice of an iconic Disney character. Look out for more of Ben's
0:58.4	conversations with film and TV's creative talent dropping into the take feed every now and Ben.
1:04.4	A bunch of these so far today. Where are we? In the middle. Not too many, not too many. I mean, it's
1:09.6	been really good. It's been really good.
1:11.2	Yeah.
1:12.2	Yeah.
1:12.4	There's nothing better than, you know, talking about a movie you're super excited about
1:17.7	or a project that you're excited about working on.
1:20.8	I have never been, honestly, it sounds like I'm making it up,
1:23.7	but I really and truly have not ever been this excited to show a movie that we've
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