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In the summer of 1993...
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... audiences were charmed
by the story of Willy and Jesse.
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Two young souls brought
together by a special bond...
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... discovering the true meaning
of friendship.
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Now, this summer...
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... Warner Bros. is proud to present
the reunion of a lifetime.
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Come on in, it's great.
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It's powerful. It's like not seeing
a buddy from high school.
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And you were best friends
and did everything together.
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That's the way it is
with Willy and Jesse.
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The film reunites Michael Madsen,
Jayne Atkinson, August Schellenberg...
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... and of course, Jason James Richter
as Jesse...
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That's Willy!
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... in "Free Willy 2".
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Under the direction of Dwight Little,
the cast is together again...
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... for a sequel some
may not have expected.
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I used to joke
that we were gonna do a sequel.
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And everybody thought I was crazy.
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But I did feel that it was
possible to make a sequel...
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...if somebody could come up
with a good enough story.
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My husband and I have this place
in the Northwest.
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Quite often, there are tankers.
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My fear is that a tanker will spill
and contaminate our waters.
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We thought, "There's whales
in those waters...
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...and seals and dolphins,
and what if that happened?"
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"That would certainly hurt Willy."
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And that's how the idea
of the next sequel came.
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We created a scenario
that is very plausible.
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The oil tankers run up and down
the San Juan straits...
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...and they have accidents.