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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00:00This movie, as you all mentioned, does have a lot of heartwarming themes.
00:03When you were making the movie, and maybe even watching it for the first time,
00:06were there any life lessons that you took away that have stuck with you?
00:16Well, I think what I love about this story is I myself find, I don't know, technology to be
00:23really scary and overwhelming and sometimes overly nostalgic of a time that we are no longer in.
00:30And I feel like the themes of this movie and just following the character of Roz
00:35in the wildness is a really important togetherness and symbiosis of where we are,
00:43how we are currently evolving as a society. And that in itself brings me so much peace and comfort
00:51to where we are currently at. That it's not like a one or the other, but maybe it's a together.
00:59I think the journey that Roz goes on as this robot that finds herself with the task of being
01:06a mother kind of illuminates the fact that every parent is doing it for the first time.
01:13And there's a learning curve that every parent is going through. They're living their lives for
01:17the first time. And we see that projected on Roz, who has that sort of like naivete of a child,
01:28but in the role of a parent that we expect to know everything. So I just think it's a
01:34lovely story that gives grace to what it means to become a parent.
01:39It's funny that you relate to the robot because there's no one else to relate to. You imagine,
01:47what if I was dropped into the wilderness? It's curious that all the characters, she's the one
01:58that's most relatable to me anyway. Because how would I survive? But what do I know?