Lupita Nyong'o Describes Relying on Instinct as She Prepared for 'The Wild Robot'

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Voice actors Lupita Nyong'o, Mark Hamill, Catherine O'Hara, Stephanie Hsu & Kit Connor, along with director Chris Sanders discuss 'The Wild Robot' at the Variety Studio at TIFF.

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00:00How does your preparation differ for animation as opposed to live action and is there anything

00:05specific you do to get into character? Lupita, if you want to start.

00:10Well, I think animation is a much longer process, a much more sporadic process. So,

00:21I think for me, the preparation was ongoing kind of with every iteration of the script

00:29and I found myself really relying on instinct and intuition in order to know

00:37what to do every time. There's a sort of like, hold on tightly, let go lightly,

00:42things are going to change and you just have to go with the flow, right?

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