Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
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We recorded Catherine in Majorca,
off the coast of Spain.

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She and her family enjoy a home there...
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and she was nice enough to actually
interrupt her vacation...

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and the studio was nice enough
to send us to her.

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So you have to imagine
this very emotional scene done...

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in one of the most
beautiful places on earth...

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with the ocean rolling out the window
and dappled sunlight...

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a very Mediterranean setting
and Catherine was moved to...

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genuine tears by the scene
and delivered a marvelous performance.

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This sequence was boarded
by Lorna Cook...

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who was a director on Spirit.
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She was good enough
to do some beautiful acting...

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in the storyboards to help sell this scene...
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and to sell the emotion involved
'cause it's a pivotal moment for Sinbad.

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It's the moment of his change
and so it had to be really, really sold.

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Jakob and William did the animation.
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The clean-up did a great job to follow up...
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especially on these kind of animations.
It's really subtle.

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The acting is subtle.
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To do a great job with the clean up.
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A lot of discussion went into
whether Sinbad should actually say.

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"Could you love a man who'd run away?"
Because at that point the audience knows...

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that he is going to remain true to his friend.
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The important thing was that Sinbad's
emotional change...

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play on-screen not off-screen.
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If he was to come back and save Proteus...
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without us seeing that change,
we'd have been deprived...

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of seeing his deepest realization
of who he really was.

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As a result,
we cut heavily into this sequence.

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We used to have
Proteus make a very long walk...

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but because we signaled to our audience
that he's going to make the right choice...

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we cut it down to this moment
where there's some tension...

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but we didn't go as far as milking it...
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since the decision to come back
has been made.

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One of my favorite performances of Brad's
is this whole set of lines...

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in which he's both triumphant,
but then ultimately so sad and vulnerable.

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Very tough scene.
In a short number of lines...


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