It felt so important to us that Mr. Peanut be the character that we intended for him to be.
And then to have Woody Harrelson come along and voice him was just the cherry on top.
Russo-Otstot: I mean, it was a fun trip down memory lane, that’s for sure.
So, you know, I’ll give you one which was Mr. Kool-Aid.
Angela Russo-Otstot: The inspiration certainly comes from the illustrative novel by Simon Stalenhag.
The visual exploration informed the writing, and vice versa, with the writing and the visuals.
Russo-Otstot: They’re all entirely VFX.
It’s an incredible feat.
When you look at it.
And then those performance actors also did some motion capture for us as well.
And then we layered in the incredible voice talents of our voice actors on top of it.
And it was a great process to witness.
It was a long process because you’re virtually animating half the movie after it’s been shot.
Angela Russo-Otstot: It was a fun conversation, that’s for sure.
We had a great vision board.
But Chris honestly had a lot to do with it as well.
So that’s a lot of fun.
I think he once joked that he genuinely thought his neighbor was, was it Eddie Van Halen?
Russo-Otstot: It’s interesting.
We were partnered up with both Chris and Millie very early on.
And so that was always part of the core vision for the film.
The characters were really written with them as inspiration.
And so it was great to have that compass from the start.
So, those would be the first two that I would cite.
There were a lot of delightful surprises that came along.
So that was a really fun process.
But I would say having Stanley [Tucci] come on as our villain was quite an exciting moment.
We had just worked with him on ‘Citadel,’ and we had such a fantastic experience with him.
And we’re so happy.
So it was really great to team up with him again, after ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once.’
Angela Russo-Otstot: That’s a great question.
I think that we’ve really focused since our inception as a company on original IP.
That is important to us.
To find original ideas and exciting, emerging voices or visionaries that will deliver them out into the world.
And we did it, you know, through ‘Extraction’ with Sam Hargrave.
We did it on ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once,’ with the Daniels.
So, that makes it unique and special.
In that regard, I also think that it’s innovative.
It is a brand new world that I don’t think audiences have ever seen something like this before.
And it brings that sense of nostalgia from a cinematic perspective.
We’ve put different genres together in interesting ways.
Russo-Otstot: I think that it focuses on the human aspects of technology.
But, usually robots mean doomsday or dark, dangerous things.
And so the themes explored in this movie are quite universal, and they’re quite broad reaching.
The full interview can be watched here:
The Electric Statestarts streaming onNetflixon 3/14.
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