INCREDIBLES 2 PC

<MODERATOR INTRODUCES PANEL>

HOLLY HUNTER, CRAIG T. NELSON, SARAH VOWELL, BRAD BIRD, SOPHIA

BUSH, SAMUEL L. JACKSON, PRODUCER NICOLE GRINDLE, HUCK MILLER
(DASH), CATHERINE KEENER, BOB ODENKIRK, PRODUCER JOHN WALKER.

I RE-WATCHED THE FIRST MOVIE… WHEN I SAW THE MOVIE TUESDAY, NOT A
SECOND GOES BY BETWEEN THE TWO FILMS. WHAT WAS BEHIND THE DECISION
TO PICK IT UP RIGHT AWAY RATHER THAN AN OLDER VIOLET, AN OLDER DASH,
AN OLDER JACK-JACK?
BB: I just thought it was kind of bold and weird. Because I think people take the time that passes
very literally. And they think that linearly, the characters should have aged. But if they age, their
superpowers don’t reflect the part of life that they’re in and their role in the family. So, you know
I worked on the first 8 seasons of the Simpsons. And The Simpsons, they haven’t aged a day and
they’re still on the air. So, it worked for them, and why not us?

WHY NOT? YOU DON’T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT MAKEUP OR ANYTHING LIKE
THAT. BUT NICOLE AND JOHN, THERE’S OBVIOUSLY BEEN A BIG LEAP IN
TECHNOLOGY SINCE THE FIRST MOVIE. HOW DID YOU TAKE ADVANTAGE OF
THOSE ADVANCEMENTS TO MAKE INCREDIBLES 2 REALLY POP ON THE SCREEN?
Nicole: Honestly, the technology has allowed us to make the film look more like what Brad
intended it to look like the first time. The characters are much more finely nuanced and
developed. We were able to build a lot more sets, more quickly. We populated the world with a
lot more characters that have hair and clothing. And that’s stuff that most of you all don’t notice.
But actually that makes the world feel richer and more alive. Not to mention all the other visual
effects stuff. And we’ve also got a lot of artists who have had 14 years to get better at their craft,
and a lot of artists who, some of them were kids, when the first film came out. And it’s a dream
come true for them to work on this film.

WELL ONE MOVIE HERE WHO WASN’T EVEN A KID WHEN THE FIRST MOVIE
CAME OUT.
Huck: Oh man…

SO HUCK, WHEN DID YOU SEE THE FIRST MOVIE FOR THE FIRST TIME AND HOW
DID IT COME ABOUT THAT YOU’RE GOING TO BE PART OF INCREDIBLES 2?
Huck: Well, I saw the first movie when I was like 5 or something.

HE WAS BECOMING A MAN.

H: My dad showed me it. Because he really loved the first one. And I really loved it too. And my
favorite character was Dash. Probably. So… And…
THAT’S UNEXPECTED.
H: And when I got the audition, I just… I was watching the movie over and over again. And
when my mom got sick of watching it, I used the audition as an excuse to watch it again.

<LAUGHTER>

WHAT WAS IT LIKE BEING AT THE PREMIERE THE OTHER DAY WITH EVERYONE
THAT YOU HAD MADE THE MOVIE WITH, ESPECIALLY BECAUSE YOU WERE SUCH
A BIG FAN OF THE FIRST ONE?
H: It was amazing and overwhelming. Because, like in the beginning when I got out of the car,
everyone was like, ‘Sign this! Sign this!’ And I’m not used to that. And… then when I got inside
I felt more welcome. And I felt… And it was just really amazing to be there.

CONGRATULATIONS.
H: Thank you.

<APPLAUSE>

A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE NOTICED THE ROLE REVERSAL WITH THIS MOVIE
BETWEEN ELASTA-GIRL AND MR. INCREDIBLE. I MEAN VIOLET REALLY STEPS
UP. THERE ARE OTHER THINGS THAT HAPPEN IN THE FILM TOO. WE WANT TO BE
CAREFUL OF SPOILERS. BUT HOLLY, WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST TAKE WHEN YOU
FIRST READ THE SCREENPLAY, HOWEVER LONG AGO THAT WAS, AND SAW THAT
ROLE REVERSAL?
HH: Well, I didn’t read a screenplay. Because there wasn’t really one.

SJ: They didn’t send you the whole script?

Hh: He’s the screenplay. He was my walking encyclopedia. He has… Yeah, he was my
instruction manual. That’s it right there. So, Brad… I mean we were like… Yeah, it was a while
before I truly realized what I was really going to get to do in the movie. And I was, you know,
really thrilled. But it was like a retroactive thrill. Because over a period of months before I
started gleefully singing, during our recording sessions about how great my part was.

But to me it was just really fun. I mean I don’t think that this is a message movie in any way. I
think it’s purely luck of the draw that this happens to be dovetailing with #Metoo and #Times
Up. But obviously, time is up, okay (laughs)… And I feel that way, personally. And it happens to
be serendipitously reflected in this particular movie. But at the same time, you know, it’s
character revelation, period. Everybody is having revelations, including Jack-Jack.

I mean all the characters are revelations to th audience, and to themselves. And so, I’m no
exception as Elasta-Girl.

Female: Even there’s a racoon that goes on a Heroes Journey.

<LAUGHER>
HH: In fact, I feel like in some ways, Violet’s adolescent thing, her jag I this movie, the rage,
there’s adolescence that I feel from Mr. Incredible and also from Elasta-Girl, too. Like when I
get on that… Oh, sorry (laughs)… You guys haven’t seen the movie?

WE HAVE.

THEY SAW THE MOVIE.

HH: But we can’t-

DON’T SPOIL IT.

HH: Okay.

FRANK, WHAT’S YOUR TAKE ON THAT TOO?

Frank: So anyway, the part you don’t want to hear about, the spoiler? Here it is-

<LAUGHTER>

HH: I was on guys.

<LAUGHTER>

Frank: She has to go there.

Female: So dark.

?: You are so weird. It’s just amazing. And in the movie too. I’m bored with Huck. You know I
did… I auditioned and my mom got angry… No, wait a minute. That’s a whole other…

Frank?: I was resentful when I was told where Mr. Incredible was going to be in this film. Not
saving lives. Not exhibiting any kind of strength at all.

BB? : YOU EXHIBIT THE BIGGEST KIND OF STRENGTH-

F: Oh, be quiet. Yeah, we argued about it. And then I found out that I’m going to be helping save
the family. And Bob is going to learn how to be a dad and he’s going to learn how to be a dad.
And he’s going to learn about these kids. And then the process started when we were recording.
It was just so much fun. I mean the stuff I did with Violet and the two of us together. And then
you know Jack-Jack and that whole discovery. And then Dash and just… And then having to
deal with Elasta-Girl out there doing what I want to do, but being able to give her the
encouragement. Let her know that everything is okay at home. You know it was just a lot of fun.
And I am so honored to be a part of it. To be doing this film.

WELL, SOPHIA, I KNOW YOU’RE NOT ONLY A BIG FAN OF THE FIRST MOVIE,
YOU’RE A BIG PIXAR FAN TOO. SO WHAT BLEW YOU AWAY IN TERMS OF
WORKING WITH THE PIXAR TEAM? WORKING WITH BRAD. WORKING WITH THE
OTHER FILMMAKERS?
Sophia: One of the things that I just think is so cool about the whole thing is the layering of all
the technology that makes these films look to all of us the way they look in Brad’s head. It’s wild
to see the early stages of animation and to watch some of the scenes and then see what they
become in the final edit. And it’s also totally nuts to go into the studio… And, I know that
technically I’m talking to Holly, but she’s not there. It’s like me and Brad and I’m just yelling
into a void, going, “Am I doing this right?”

BB: Yelling into a what?

S: Oh god, I didn’t even mean to do that actually. That’s embarrassing. I’m sweating.

<LAUGHTER>

S: That’s like a… That’s a subconscious trick that we play on ourselves. I’ve said Incredibles so
many times today while describing the film. And I’m like that’s terrible. But it’s really just so
much fun. And he knows what she’s done in the room. And he knows how our voices are going
to sound together. So, you just… You know, you trust your captain. And when he tells you,
you’ve gotten it right. That the tone is right or the volume or the size of your yelling, it’s very
cool.

?: Not only do we not see a screenplay. Like, we don’t know where we are in any scene. So it
feels like… Is this in a car? Like… How loud am I? Like, you’re trying to get a sense of the
literal architecture of where the character is, because everything has to be, you know…
Everything has to be drawn from scratch. And so like a live actor… They’re actually in the car or
a facsimile thereof. So like trying to gauge… But like where it is… That is what the scene is
about sometimes. It’s not just that they’re at a kitchen table. It’s everything that being a family at
a kitchen table implies, you know.

Female?: That’s so true. It’s like are you talking to a person that’s sitting as far away from each
other as we are? Or somebody who is the in back of the room? Because it does change what
you’re doing vocally.

SAMUEL L. JACKSON… YOU ARE FROZONE. YOU ARE NICK FURY…

SJ: The Jedi.

PART OF TWO SUPERHERO FAMILIES HERE. WHEN THE FIRST INCREDIBLES CAME
OUT IN 2004, AND WON THE OSCAR FOR BEST ANIMATED FEATURE, I FEEL LIKE
SOME OF THE ELEMENTS FROM THAT MOVIE WENT INTO THE MARVEL
CINEMATIC UNIVERSE. AND NOW AFTER 19 FILMS IN THE MARVEL CINEMATIC
UNIVERSE, I FEEL LIKE SOME OF THOSE ELEMENTS WENT INTO INCREDIBLES 2.
DO YOU SEE THE INFLUENCE OF INCREDIBLES ON THE MARVEL FILMS? AND
NOW MARVEL ON INCREDIBLES?
SJ: Can you tell us why you feel that way.

FAMILY.
SJ: What family? Oh, family… Family… Well, as I remember that family kind of fell out in
Infinity War, didn’t it? Or was that Civil War…

IT HAPPENS.
Sj: And nobody called me to make them be good. I noticed that also. Why am I not there
quelling this fight? I did bring all these people into SHIELD and now all of a sudden, I’m not
there! So, I don’t know what you’re talking about. I can’t relate.

SJ: The genre has grown and has grown inside this kind of one place. Sure there’s that other
company that makes movies that are like this. A couple of them are good. But there’s a real
interesting kind of playbook sometimes that I look at when I watch all the movies. And it’s like
they have this secret sauce that… Sometimes I wonder cause I’m there and I’m looking at the
directors and I go, “So these guys did a TV show. Why are they doing this?” Or… “This person
does these serious dramas. Why is he doing this?”

But there’s something that they know or they find that makes it work. And the relationships
among the people on the inside of those films always becomes very intimate and intricate. And
sometimes, like the people who are really related, like Loki and Thor, they don’t like each other.
There’s family discord. And the people that don’t know each other that are looking for that
connection become tied together in a very interesting sort of way. And you’ve got your bratty
brother, in Iron Man. And you’ve got your kind of lug, kind of special needs kid in Hulk. You
know but… And you got your sister who turns out to be Black Widow who’s a real killer. But
heart of gold.

So all these things come together and these people find a common goal. Or they’re all working
toward the common good, which brings them together in a very unique and interesting way. And
Nick Fury seems to be the kind of-

HOW DID THIS TURN INTO AN AVENGERS PRESS CONFERENCE?

SJ: It didn’t. I’m just saying that they don’t let me work on all those movies for a reason.
Because I really don’t know what’s going on. But I can pretend I do.

<LAUGHTER>

SJ: Kind of like this one. I really don’t know what’s going on, but I know they need me and I
make the icy stuff. And I make things happen in another kind of way. But thank you for allowing
me to do that Brad. I appreciate it.

BB: Sure, of course.

?: We really need a bow and arrow though. We need a bow and arrow guy.

SJ: You need a bow and arrow guy. We don’t all need him.

CATHERINE KEENER. HOW ARE YOU?

CK: Good thanks.

SO YOU KNOW, WORKING ON THE FILM AND YOU KNOW OVER THE YEARS OR
THE EXTENDED PERIOD OF TIME THAT YOU WERE VOICING THE CHARACTER
AND THEN SEEING THE MOVIE WITH THE CAST CREW AND FILMMAKERS ON THE
BIG SCFEEN, WHAT WAS THAT LIKE FOR YOU TO SEE THE FINISHED PRODUCT
FOR THE FIRST TIME? BECAUSE IT’S SO DIFFERENT FROM LIVE ACTION?
CK: It was very thrilling and fun.

Sj: I like it. I like it.

CK: I just wanted to go back to a couple of things. First, I’m just getting to know all these
people. Sarah and I have been friends for a long time. 15, 14 years. Whatever. I’ve known
Holly.. I’ve known you… You guys. But I’m realizing that Brad kind of mined a lot of the inside
of these people in the characters. A’nd like Craig was talking about… I was just talking to him
about his kids. And he’s a big mush dad, grandad. And you can see that. All of these people are
awesome. I’d see any movie where Holly is a badass, regardless of gender. And I don’t know.
I’ve done press with this man. I know he’s done roles where he’s played, maybe not so likeable a
guy. Is that right? But he actually is very, very sweet. And his character has that too.

So, I just appreciate how insightful you are, even though you are incredibly weird in a way. In
the best way.

BB: It’s a compliment.

Ck: Yeah, no, I love it. But anyway. What it was like for me.

HUCK: You can’t fire her now.

CK: Anyway what it was like for me to see that was… What it was like for me to see the movie
the other night was to kind of get to know the people I’m getting to know more now, from doing
this. In a kind of… IN their uniqueness as people here. So that’s all.

HOW ABOUT YOU BOB?

BO: It was super fun to see it. I loved it. I’ve been knocked out by the visuals in this film. And
I’ve only seen little moments from it in the course of recording this. So to see it in the big
beautiful color on the giant screen… I knew it was going to be amazing. And it’s beyond all
expectations. I feel like somehow there’s new technology that you’re not telling us about. But
because it just looks… It’s got such richness and depth that, that was a great… But… again, like
everyone else, I didn’t read the whole script. There’s never a whole script that you can read. So,
it’s the first time I get to see the whole story and I’m once again amazed at Brad Bird’s talent as
a writer and director and orchestrator of story. There’s like 5 movies in this movie and they all
work together to throw each other into relief and make each other better. And it was a hell of an
experience. And everyone in my family, including niece and newphew, young… My son and
daughter, older, teenagers. Everyone related to… They enjoyed the whole story. And everyone
related to different characters and themes. Because there are so many and they’re delivered on so
well.

FEMALE (Nicole??) : I just wanted to mention that when we first started working with Bob, his
character wasn’t so nice. And it changed over the course of working on the film. And you
responded so well.

BOB: I loved it. I loved that he became more genuine. I mean, we don’t know… I’m not going to
give away where he ends up. But when he starts, he’s exhuberant and excited. And almost…
And as he goes, you start to see an innocence to him that is I think a real twist and surprising.
But where it ends up I won’t say.

QUESTIONS FROM THE AUDIENCE…

DEBBIE: INCREDIBLES IS BEYOND INCREDIBLE. THIS IS AN AMAZING, AMAZING

FILM…. FOR ME PERSONALLY, IT’S BETTER THAN THE FIRST ONE. SO KUDOS
BRAD… [GOES ON - VISUALS ARE OUTSTANDING. BUT WHAT WAS IT LIKE
WORKING WITH RALPH EGGELSTON YOUR PRODUCTION DESIGNER?] WHAT DID
YOU COME UP WITH YOUR VISUAL PALATE IN TERMS OF CELEBRATING THAT
50S AND 60S ARCHITECTURE THAT WE’RE SO USED TO SEEING IN A TAB HUNTER,
ROCK HUDSON OR EVEN HITCHCOCK’S NORTH BY NORTHWEST FILM. AND THE
COLOR PALATE OF THE MUTED COLORS AND LETTING THE VIBRANT NEONS POP
FOR THE SUPERHEROES?

BB: Well, I agree with you that Ralph Eggelston is an amazing talent. He came onto the first flim
when we were just having trouble with the size of it. And he kind of came in and helped Lou
Romano out. Just getting it done. Because it was sort of beyond us at that point. We were a
smaller studio and the film was larger than we were.

But Ralph loves movies, like most people at Pixar. He really loves films. And he’s always
reading a new book. And he has a thing to show you. And he’s kind of always… Kind of
disgorging art and books and things that he found and sketches he’s made. And he’s just kind of
spewing them out in every direction all the time. And… the film really benefited from this fuel.

But, he… thinks about color, psychologically. He thinks about it in terms of what’s going to
surprise people, what’s going to… And he’s not afraid to make bold choices.

The house that they wound up in… We were kind of working on it and suddenly he came in one
day and we’d already put a lot of effort in another house. And we were under a lot of pressure
beciuase they took a year off of our schedule. He said, Okay, so I have this idea for the house.
It’s really going to screw things up for everyone, including me. But I just… Ihave to say it and
here’s the idea. The house should not work for them. It should be initially impressive. But then
you get in there and everything is wrong for a family. There are things that are beautiful
originally, the water things… They become like this problem. It’s the wrong house for them and
there’s no real place for the baby’s room. And there’s a fireplace in the baby’s room for no
reason. And you know…
Everything he’s saying is… I’m going… Oh that’s going to ruin this. And that’s going to ruin
that. But he’s totally right. And dam why is he right!

And so, I agreed to it. And it totally screwed up everything I had in the script, in terms of, ‘we
need to see this in the foreground so we can see that in the background.’ Suddenly everything
was a giant problem. And yet it was right, because the house needed to be impressive, but wrong
for the family. Because they’re not in a comfortable place yet. They have to find their way their.

And that was a way of making the surroundings, storytelling. Which is really what good
production design is.

FEMALE: DIDN’T RALPH SHOW THAT PART OF THE MOVIE AT SOME MID-
CENTURY MODERN ARCHITECTURE AND FURNITURE SHOW? AND WHEN THE
PART WHERE THE NICE MID CENTURY COUCH FALLS INTO THE WATER, ALL THE
FURNITURE COLLECTORS GASPED.

<laughter>

BB: Yeah. That was made just for them. Yeah.

?: I WAS VERY IMPRESSED BY THE DETAILING OF THE TERAZO FLOOR. AS A

PERSON WHO LOVES MID-CENTURY ARCHITECTURE, I NOTICED THAT.

WELL THERE YOU GO, RIGHT ON… FRED.

FRED: I ALSO HAVE A QUESTION FOR BRAD. I KNOW WHENEVER WE’VE TALKED
TO YOU FOR ANOTHER MOVIE YOU’VE MADE, WE KEEP ASKING YOU, IS THERE
GOING TO BE AN INCREDILBES 2? YOU ALWAYS SAID YOU HAD AN IDEA YOU
WERE DEVELOPING. SO, NOW THAT YOU FINALLY DID IT, HAS THE IDEA
ALWAYS BEEN THIS? OR HOW HAS IT EVOLVED?

BB: It’s been half this. 2/3 this. The idea of the roles switch, that the assignment would go to
Helen rather than Bob, I had when we were promoting the first film. And I also knew that I had
the unexploded bomb of Jack-Jack’s powers that the audience knew that he had them but the
Parrs did not. And I had other notions that I just wanted to see in an Incredibles movie. And
some things like the Racoon fight that were originally done for the first movie and there was no
place for it. And I loved the idea.

But the superhero part, the villain part, always seemed to change. And when I came to Pixar and
said I think I have the other part of the story figured out… The version that got greenlit.. About 4
months that we got greenlit… It got, you know, John and Nicole came on. And we got a crew.
And we started spending money. And got a release date. And then the release date got moved up
a year. And suddenly the pressure is huge. And that plot doesn’t work.
And now, I’m screwed because I have a release date and everybody is going, ‘Incredibles 2
never got… You’re working on Incredibles 2, you know what you’re doing right?’ Right, right?

And I’m like, ‘Yeah, I know what I’m doing!’

YOU GOT TWO YEARS LEFT. JUST TWO MORE YEARS…

BB: Yeah, “I hope you feel comfortable? You feel comfortable? Because everybody has high
expectaitons, okay!”

<LAUGHTER>

BB: and I just realized it didn’t serve the story. And so the villain plot kept changing. And it kept
changing. And Ralph had to adjust to it. Everyone else had to adjust to it, constantly. Which only
made it more anxiety. But I think that we wound up with the right version of this movie. And it
wasn’t until about a week ago, when I was talking in one of these things. And I realized that was
also true of the first movie. That…

Incredibles was the only project that came outside of Pixar and was pitched to Pixar. And I had
drawings. I had designs. I had outline of the whole thing. How it looked and all kinds of artwork
that I’d paid for myself. And if they didn’t want to make it, I was going to take it somewhere
else.

But I came with a villain that was a different villain than we wound up with. And in exploring an
alternate opening, when I came to Pixar, I introduced a villain that we killed off in the opening
sequence. And that was a better villain than the one that we had. And suddenly… ‘Oh yeah, this
guy is better than the one that we had. And that was Sindrone. [?].

So, the villain kind of, for some reason, I don’t know why, but kind of comes last.

?: I WANTED TO TALK ABOUT HOW… WHEN YOU SEE AN ANIMATED MOVIE OR

DOING PR FOR AN ANIMATED FILM, IT’S YEAH, YEAH, I’LL TAKE THE KIDS. BUT I
FEEL LIKE THE FIRST MOVIE AND ESPECIALLY THE SECOND ONE, IT’S JUST A
GREAT MOVIE. LIKE, YOU DON’T NEED TO TAKE THE KIDS. IT’S JUST GREAT FOR
GROWN UPS?

BB: Yeah, kids are strangely treated like beards [*note: idiomatic expression – used to describe
gay men with a fake wife or girlfriend]. You know for an animated film. I’m a single guy but I
want to see this. I found a kid. Can I come in now? Here’s this kid. He was roaming the streets. I
told him I’d pay for his ticket. Will you let me in? And it’s like, “No man it’s an art form.” It’s
like it’s for anyone that likes movies. And you don’t need to have a kid. And you don’t… People
are constantly coming up to me. “My kid really enjoyed!” And I go, ‘Did you like it?’ And they
go, ‘Oh yeah, sure. But Billy really liked it.’ And I’m like, “I made it for you and Billy can
come.’ But I’m not a kid and I made it something that I would want to see. And we’re not kids.
And we worked on it.
HUCK: I’m a kid.

<LAIUGHTER>

BB: And you’re welcome. You can come any time! You’re welcome.

WHAT’S YOUR TAKE ON THAT HOLLY? THIS MOVIE… YOU JUST GO LIKE FLY
SOLO ONE DAY AND SEE THE MOVIE. BY THE WAY IT’S ANIMATED BUT IT
WORKS ON SO MANY LEVELS.
HH: yeah, I mean I think that we probably all felt that way about the first one as well. Which was
that it was a movie that stood on its own. You know, it’s not a kids movie. In a way this one is
particularly more not a kids movie, although kids totally dig it. There were a lot of kids in the
audience and on premiere night who loved it. And even small kids love Jack Jack and love Dash.
So… but I think it works on… It’s like Bob said. In a way, the movie has complexity that is
really astonishing in that it’s got like five different movies and they all work in concert with each
other. You know, they all need each other, all five. But it’s an incredible fabric that’s been
woven together. It’s very sophisticated.

?: That one scene with you two early on in the film. And you know you go outside to talk
because you’re both out of a job. And you know like it happens to everyone – your house just got
blown up by a super villain. And you’re like where are we going to live? What are we going to
do for money? And there’s shared love there, but also just that shared worry. That’s a really
grown up affecting, beautiful scene between the two of you.

HH: Yeah, yeah.

BRAD… IT’S BEEN 14 YEARS SINCE THE TWO MOVIES AND THERE’S A TIMELESS
QUALITY TO BOTH MOVIES. BUT THERE’S BEEN A SEA CHANGE IN POP CULTURE.
SUPERHEROES WERE NOT THE DOMINANT FORCE THAT THEY ARE NOW. HOW
MUCH DID THAT EFFECT THE PROCESS OF DEVELOPING THIS MOVIE? DID YOU
FEEL A NEED TO CHANGE ANYTHING OR ADJUST ANYTHING OWING TO THE RISE
OF THE MCU AND EVERYTHING ELSE THAT’S COME ALONG WITH THIS
EXPLOSION OF SUPERHEROES?

HH: Was there anything that you went, ‘Oh let’s not do that?’

BB: yeah, I immediately banned 3 point landings. You know that thing…

<LAUGHTER>

SJ: Hero landing! Yeah.

BB: I just said, no, we’re not doing it on this film. Helen did it once in the first film. It’s cool
anymore. We’re not doing it!
Hh: (laughs)…

BB: but really… The thing was… I’m such a blur now, what was the question? Marvel. Okay…
And all the superhero films. Okay… There was a dark moment when all the machinery was
kicked into gear: “Okay, you got the release date… bum-bum-bum-bum…’ And I realized, two
years from now the film is going to come out. There are too many superhero movies now. Are
people going to be just sick of this in two years? And I went, you know, just what I want to
happen. You know I arrive on the scene… “Anybody ready for some fresh superheroes?” And
everybody is like, “Blah…”

So, I had a dark moment. And then I realized that what excited me about the idea in the first
place was not the superheroes. That it was about the family dynamic. And people’s roles in
different parts of their life. And how superheroes, that genre is like a twist of lemon that you
squeeze on top of this. It’s not what the movie is about.

And then I got excited again. Because to me families are kind of a continent of fresh
opportunities. Because it’s so universal. And so I got excited again when I thought about it that
way. And that’s really what excited me about the first movie.

MALE?: And also, you know, I rehearsed the three point landing. And after a while it doesn’t
work.

I WASN’T SURE WHAT TO EXPECT FROM JACK-JACK COMING INTO THIS MOVIE.
WE HAD SUCH AN EXPLOSION WITH HIM AT THE END OF THE FIRST FILM. HE
TURNED OUT TO BE ONE OF MY FAVORITE CHARACTERS. BUT PROBABLY
BECAUSE OF HIS PARTNERSHIP WITH THE RACOON. AND I JUST WANTED TO
KNOW WHERE DID THAT COME FROM? HOW DID YOU GUYS YOU KNOW DECIDE
TO GIVE JACK-JACK AN ANIMAL VILLAIN?

BB?: Well that was one of our key artists on the first film who helped to design the charaters and
came up with a lot of great ideas is… Teddy Newton. He had this idea back on the original film.
And he had a gang of racoons that Jack-Jack kind of confronts. And the Racoons just kind of
come up and shove Jack-Jack. And his original drawings… It went a lot darker, believe it or not.
But they fought and went to the bottom of the pool and all this stuff. But the idea always just
killed me because racoons look vaguely like robbers. And Teddy did a drawing where he’s
watching an old movie, like it’s in the film. And he sees a classic robber with a mask. And then
he looks out in the yard and something is stealing from him. A robber is stealing from his family.
It doesn’t matter htat it’s garbage. Jack-Jack doesn’t know that. He just knows that he’s being
robbed and he must do something about it.

So, I loved that. It was so visual and clear. And it was such an off the wall idea, that that was one
of the things I couldn’t wait to do if we got another Incredibles going.

TIME FOR TWO MORE QUESTIONS…

FOR HOLLY, CRAIG, SAM… EVER SINCE THE FIRST MOVIE CAME OUT, DO YOU
HAVE KIDS COME UP TO YOU, RECOGNIZE YOUR VOICE, ASSOCIATE YOU WITH
THIS MOVIE PARTICULARLY?
SJ: Kids don’t do that. Their parents do. And then they try to make the kid know who you are.
That’s Frozone honey! And they looking at you like, ‘you don’t have blue suit on. And you’re
not making ice stuff. So, nah…’ Where’s my super suit honey? And they have to give them a
catch phrase. But they don’t know who we are from Adam. Now, as they get older. Like the kids
that were 4 and saw the movie and now are 18… So, they’ve been waiting. They’re knocking the
little kids over to get in line. My daughter is 35. She’s knocking big kids over to get in there. So
they understand that part. But no, we don’t get a new audience because we did a movie that kids
really like. They have no idea who we are in our real selves. Or do they Craig?

Craig: No, I mean it’s embarrassing really. You know the moms or dads are saying, ‘Look Billy
that’s Mr. Incredible. That’s Mr. Incredible there.’ And the kid is just staring at you. You don’t
look anything like…

SJ: He’s got his thumb in his mouth. And they’re going, “Take a picture with Mr. Incredible!”
You know this kid doesn’t know who I am!

Craig: Okay well say something like Mr. Incredible. Go ahead. And then he’ll… It’s been 14
years. I don’t remember what I said in the first one. Okay, how about this, “It’s showtime!” And
the kid is like.

SJ: Lift my car up. Hold the kid.

Craig: It’s just embarrassing.

<LAUGHTER>

Sophia?: One of my best friends told her little daughter, Anderson, that I was going to be in this
movie. And she took a video when she told her, thinking she’d be like ‘that’s so cool.’ And she
goes, ‘Mommy, that’s not true.’ ‘No, Andie, really, Sophia is going to be a superhero in the
movie.’ And she goes, ‘Mommy, she doesn’t have all the things a superhero needs. She just was
not having it. And I was like, well, okay, ego checked got it. Cool. Thanks.

BRAD IN THE FILM WHEN JACK-JACK IS WATCHING THE TV, THAT’S A CARTOON
YOU GUYS CREATED. BUT LATER IN THE FILM YOU USED FOOTAGE FROM OUTER
LIMITS AND JOHNNY QUEST. WHAT WAS THE THOUGHT BEHIND THAT?
Well… One of my personal rules in an animated film is that if they’re watching something on
TV, it should be animated. So, the soundtrack of the old movie is an actual soundtrack from an
old movie that we found that was perfect, and we animated to it. Johnny Quest is an animated
show, so it fit into the universe. And it’s the style of the film. It’s that kind of action adventure
style from the early 60s. So it fits with our film. Outer Limits, we only use the beginning of it,
because it’s still abstract. It’s still lines and things. It’s not a visual photographs. And that part fit
really well with the screen slaver thing. You know because they are talking about taking control
of your TV. And I just remember when I was a kid, that scared the crap out of me. You know,
that the TV once a week was being controlled by who??! Aliens? But I couldn’t leave the room.
But I would just be hiding from the TV, because it was being taken over. You know, “We
control the vertical. We control the horizontal.” And I’m like, “they control the horizontal!”

<LAUGHTER>

BB: So, I just had to put it in there you know. And also I have to say, I LOVE Johnny Quest. So..
yeah… A lot of people don’t remember htat it wasn’t made for Saturday morning. It was made
for prime time. It came on at night. And adults watched it. People died in it. It had everything an
8 year old wants in entertainment. It has mummies. It has pterodactyls and guns and a kid from
another country who can levitate things. And a bodyguard who has a fling with a girl that might
be dangerous… You know, lasers and hydrofoils and jetpacks and reptiles and robot spies and I
just about exploded when I saw the opening titles to it. So, we just had to give Johnny Quest a
shout out. Had to. There’s your next movie.

INCREDIBLES 2 OPENS ON JUNE 15. THANK YOU SO MUCH. THANK YOU

EVERYONE FOR BEING HERE. AND BE INCREDIBLE.

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