I think it was one of the greatest blessings of the whole ordeal was that I had no clue what I was getting involved in until I had the part. Scott Weinger: No, I had no idea and I was very lucky that I didn’t because I would’ve screwed up the audition pretty badly if I had felt that immense pressure. Did you have any idea just how big it was going to become at the time? Josh Weiss: This has become such a huge, huge movie. It makes me very happy that that’s on video for posterity to show my kids. There was one moment where I literally covered my mouth and dropped, so I wouldn’t spoil the take. You would look and see the sound engineer and all the people who came to watch, the directors, literally with tears streaming down their faces, laughing so hard and I had to keep it together because I was in the scene with him but also because it would ruin the gold, ruin the take. They were behind six inches of glass, so they could laugh. It’s funny I didn’t actually fall down, collapse in hysterics, but I dropped to the floor because if I laughed, it would have spoiled the take because he and I were in the same room and everybody else was in the booth. I’ve told the story many, many times over the years that he was so funny, that I fell down in the recording studio. You would be left thinking, ‘Did he plan all of this in advance or is it really just extemporaneous?’ It was hard to tell because it was so brilliant and rapid fire, it was amazing to see. His mind worked faster it was such an amazing thing to witness, his improv. It was an amazing transformation, literally like the flick of a switch. He was very quiet and thoughtful and when the red light would go on, he was playing the character of the Genie.Īs soon as the light would turn on, he would become that character the Good Morning Vietnam standup comedy Robin. When we weren’t recording, he wasn’t that crazy, manic persona that everybody thinks about. What was interesting was the contrast between the subdued Robin that would be very thoughtful. I’m so glad that they were video taping it because it was one of the things I never wanna forget, not that I would. I think when the original DVD was released however many years ago, there’s this special feature of the voices behind Aladdin and they have footage of me recording with Robin. I worked with Jonathan a bunch and I worked with Robin. Douglas Seale, who had played the Sultan, who I think passed away not long after, but I don’t remember working with him. I don’t remember meeting Gilbert Gottfried I don’t think we met until the movie was finished. Josh Weiss: Did you ever record your lines alongside any of the other voices? They were very hands on.Īnd the animator, Glen Keane, who’s maybe the real, legendary Disney animator-he was in charge of Ariel on The Little Mermaid . In any case, he used to come and sketch me during the recording sessions it was a really cool experience. Even towards the very end, we were redoing tiny little sounds or even in fight scenes, the sound of a struggle or the sound of a ‘Huh?’ I remember toward the end of the movie they had a list of things that we needed to fix and one of them had been ‘non verbal expression of disbelief.’ And I was like, ‘Huh?’ And they said, ‘Yeah, that’s it exactly!’ It was really funny. There’s no accident in an animated movie generally. Especially on an animated, every line, every detail is so considered. Scott Weinger: They were always very present. Overall, the theme of being true to yourself should resonate with families and inspire discussion between parents and younger kids about not changing who you are simply to please others.Josh Weiss: What tips did you get from the directors? Also expect a bit of mild name-calling and some revealing outfits on Princess Jasmine and curvy dancers. Buckley and providing some laughs for the adults in the room, too. But Genie provides plenty of comic relief to the more dangerous moments the late Robin Williams is in full-force free association as Genie's voice, channeling everyone from Rodney Dangerfield to William F. Potty humor includes burping and bad guys getting the seat of their garish underwear torn off by an angry tiger. There's also some cultural stereotyping: scheming Arab and Jewish merchants with large noses, for instance. The bad guy, Jafar, can be pretty scary for younger kids with his sorcery and mind control - as can scenes in which Aladdin is chased by henchmen with giant swords and mythological monsters. Parents need to know that Aladdin is the 1992 Disney animated retelling of the classic Middle Eastern folktale Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp (a live-action remake came out in 2019).
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