At the 2025 Disney Upfronts, Ginnifer Goodwin talks to THR about getting a sequel to 'Zootopia' and how it feels to go back to it. Plus, she shares how different live action acting and voice acting are, as well as the possibility of 'Once Upon a Time' getting a reboot.
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00:00I want to talk about Zootopia 2. We're finally getting a sequel.
00:04Oh my gosh, we'll get a decade later.
00:05I know. What is it like to finally come back to this first sequel?
00:08I mean, I may have known it was coming for many years,
00:12so I've been chomping at the bit to get back in the sound booth,
00:16and now I'm devastated that that time is coming to an end.
00:19I just hope there will be more and more and more.
00:22What would you say is your favorite part of voice acting,
00:25and what do you think is kind of like the differences between that and then being live action?
00:29Oh my gosh, they're so different. I mean, I could do animation forever.
00:34Yeah, I feel like you've got a lot less that you can use to get, you know, your own,
00:42my, or I should say my own contribution to the story across.
00:45I have a lot less that I can use, and I find that challenge really exciting.
00:50Like, what all can I put into my voice to sell this,
00:53but also keeping in mind that, like, not only do we have incredible writing and directing,
00:58but, like, these animators are going to give her a life I can't even imagine.
01:02Yeah.
01:02Are there any challenges that you would say come with that?
01:06I mean, I would say I get, even though the days are a lot shorter,
01:10I'm super physically tired after one of my recording days
01:13because I realize, like, everything is much bigger,
01:16and I leave and I'm all sweaty,
01:18and physically I've been jumping around a sound booth all day.
01:20A lot more energy, I'm sure.
01:22Yeah, absolutely.
01:23I wanted to ask, I know that there's a lot of reboots happening these days.
01:28What are your thoughts on a possible Once Upon a Time reboot?
01:32Is that something that you'd be interested in?
01:34Absolutely.
01:35I mean, Once Upon a Time, my whole real life is, like, is because of Once Upon a Time,
01:40and that I, you know, it was one of the jobs of my life,
01:44and I met my husband and have my children because of that show,
01:46and Snow White's very close to my heart.
01:48I think I'm here because of that show,
01:51but I would kill to go back to revisit that, absolutely.
01:55Yeah, I'm sure.
01:56And I know, finally, Upfronts are all about the future.
01:59What do you think audiences are really looking for in terms of storytelling these days?
02:03Oh, my gosh.
02:04What are audiences?
02:05Well, I think the fact that the reboots are so popular
02:08and the fact that we're doing all of these live-action remakes of things
02:13shows that, like, nostalgia is a big part of, you know,
02:17what I think also our generation is looking for
02:20and sharing with our children and reliving these things,
02:22and, yeah, I'm going to go with nostalgia.
02:25Yeah.