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Irene Bedard (Voice of Pocahontas) & Margaret Kerry (Tinker Bell Model) on Disney Legacy
Oct 14, 2025
Irene Bedard (speaking voice of Pocahontas) and Margaret Kerry (the original live-action reference model for Tinker Bell) sit down with Tales From The Collection for an in-depth conversation about life at Disney—then and now.
Highlights you’ll hear:
How Irene went from her first Disney feature to voicing Pocahontas, plus the unforgettable Central Park world premiere
Margaret’s first meeting with legendary animator Mark Davis, and what “reference model” work actually looked like on the soundstage
Disney TV history: how Tinker Bell introduced Sunday night programs and helped build excitement for Disneyland
The nuts-and-bolts of making Pocahontas: multi-year voice sessions, secrecy, scratch tracks, and filming Irene’s performances for facial/gesture reference
Margaret’s Hollywood career across radio, TV, and animation—and why Disney’s studio culture felt uniquely supportive
Fan stories, memorabilia, and why these characters keep connecting with new generations
Practical advice for aspiring performers in voice acting and performance capture
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Put your hands together and welcome Irene Bard and Margaret Carrie.
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[Applause] Come on out.
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Make yourselves cozy. Luckily, they're not the chairs that are hard to get into. Go on. Well, you can be the center
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guy. You can be center stage. Well, our queen is definitely center
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stage. Center stage just for you. We needed it.
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Hello everyone. Testing. 1 2 3 4. Can you hear us? Test it. We got the good from the bad.
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Now, per usual, I always love to start the same. There's someone out there that
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has no idea what's going on. So, who are you and what do you do?
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My name is Irene Gdard and I'm the speaking voice of Disney's Pocahontas.
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Yay. My name is Margaret Kerry, K E R R Y.
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And I'm the original reference model for Tinker Bell for Walt Disney.
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[Applause] We love So I always like to start the same before we talk about where we are
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now. We got to go all the way back. So when you joined on to your respective
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projects, did you have any idea how big the Disney company was, how big of a
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deal this was going to be, or were you just an actor signing up for an audition?
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What do you think? Well, you know,
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Margaret, I have to say that every Sunday growing up in Alaska, it was my
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family getting together and the first thing that we saw in that get together on Sunday evenings was Tinkerbell.
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Yes. Know what we're talking about? From the vault.
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From the vault. Yes. Every Sunday. Yes. Every Sunday we got to We got to
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watch Disney specials of Yeah. And and the first thing you saw was Tinker Bell.
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So, she is our queen. So, I was going to be big
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cuz you were the thing that let us know like something amazing was about to happen. Like, we were all going to be excited.
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What we're talking about was that Walt Disney wanted to build Disneyland. He had it all in his head what he wanted
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to do. So, first of all, he had to raise money. So he made a deal with a network
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and second of all he wanted to get people excited about Disney. So they came up with the idea of every Sunday
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afternoon they would go to all Disney's vault and take out a certain um show
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whatever it was that people remembered and Tinkerbell would almost sit on his shoulder while he was announcing it and
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then she would take them on the exciting time to see the show. still to this day
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holds the record for the most watched TV show ever made. I love it.
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That's what you were watching. They're too young to know all of that. Oh, Disney fans are serious. I'm sure
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they're like, I know exactly what you're talking about. But so for me growing up, I mean it was that um uh understanding
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of legacy was already built in, you know, that understanding that that Disney was something that your you know
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that that your mother watched and that your children will watch, right? And so when I went in my very first film was a
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Disney film, but it was oncreen. It was Squanto Warrior and so I was already in the Disney
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family. So when I met went and met with them, we had so much fun. I mean I my
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cheek my cheeks hurt from laughing so much and we gave each other hugs and I walked out and thought I think I got
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that job. Um but yeah, I don't think that there's still anything that could
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have prepared a person for the world's largest premiere ever in the history of
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film making. 110,000 people in Central Park. World's Guinness is book of
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world's record again. Yeah, that's Disney for you. So, yes. Yeah,
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absolutely. And what about you, Mar? How did how did you get attached to all this crazy stuff? Well, I have my posters here someplace.
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They're all down on the phone here. Well, you'll see the poster of the little child. I was four years old when
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I started in show business. That was years ago.
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It was uh and then I started to do like the little goes and I started to know
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and I got myself an agent and I was working at at Fox at the time as an
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assistant dance director and a big movie and I had an agent said can you uh get
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the day off and get over to a studio they are looking for uh somebody to play
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a 4 and a half inch uh child who doesn't talk and I said I can't you know I just
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I can't I've got to do the at Disney. At Disney, I'll be there at 6 a.m. in the
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morning. I will be there. And you know, I drove over there and there somebody had my name on the schedule. They told
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me where to park. I because I was at Seventh Heaven. So when I went up and I
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interviewed with Mark Davis, the man who designed Tinkerbell, who did all the
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work with Tinkerbell, she was one he was one of the great nyl men of Disney. And
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he was the ladies man. ladies. So, I had no idea. I'm looking up. I said, "Well,
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this would be exciting to do." I mean, what fun. And so, I He's asked me, he
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said, "All right, I think Jerry Jon came over. He was one of the Uber directors
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to see what I could do." And would you like to see what I did? Okay. Would you come?
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Of course. Woohoo.
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[Laughter]
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[Music] [Applause]
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So they said, "Would you be convenient for you to come next Tuesday?" No one had ever asked me in my years of working
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in the studio from the time I was four whether it would be convenient to come over. So I said, "Well, I can't Tuesday.
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I can't get off this other movie." But he said, "The following week." I said, "Yes." So I said, "What time?"
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Nobody had ever asked me that before either. I said, "Very casually, 10:00."
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and he said, "Fine, you go." And I had a job which has led to this fabulous life.
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I had no idea it was going to be that. I know we were going to have a great fun doing it like you were talking about.
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And then it got better and better and better and better. So, no, that's the
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way the good Lord works. He gives you an opportunity and you look back and you say, "My goodness, I never knew it was
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going to do that. Yes. And so still exciting when I get a call and said,
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"Can you come to one of these?" I'm still excited. Absolutely. And I love You both
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mentioned this and of course like as a longtime Disney fan, I worked at the parks for a really long time. I used to
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live in Orlando, so I worked at Disney World for a long time. And uh I have such love for that company. And I love
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that you said when you went into the audition, you were all laughing and smiling and happy to see each other and how considerate they were of your time
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and how excited they were to have you join the project. I know as like Disney fans, it's like that's the company that I was hoping they would be and I really
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feel like they are. So I love hearing that family. It's an amazing group of
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people who come together and then people come together to talk to us and then
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sort of become part of the family. It's lovely. It's lovely. And these stories, we always talk about how
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they're multigenerational and how they will always be loved and it's the stories that we continue to like pass
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down. True testament to the power of storytelling. But what are your favorite
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things about the stories that you got to help tell? What are you most proud of?
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Oh, for me um so my name Irene means pe
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well she was the goddess of peace right so and growing up um Pocahontas was one
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of the indigenous people that made it into the history books right you know
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and and she made it into the history books because of the peace of Pocahontas
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and for me taking on the role was had all to do with the fact that there there
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was this 11, 12, 13 year old girl who stopped a war from happening.
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Yeah. And um I I think just getting that um
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that that story out in that powerful way for young girls to see also to know that
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that um that we all have within us to be heroes and heroins, you know, we all
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have that. Absolutely. And I'm so thankful to those movies too for those kind of grab our attentions especially
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as young kids and then that curiosity thanks to that movie and that story existing makes you curious to go look up
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her and and discover her story and everything that she did. So I'm thankful that the movie was made and for all that
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you did with it because there's a chance like would I have ever known the story of Pocahontas if not for that. So it's
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amazing. What about you Margaret? Oh dear, there's so many uh stories with
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seeing people, being with people, but one of the nicest ones was I got a call
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from Disney cruises. Oh. And we said, "We would like for you to come on the cruise and represent Disney
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and and Ticker Bell." I said, "Well, I think I could probably do that.
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I am available." So, I wandered on and I did not get seasick,
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but um And then they said, "Oh, well, you know, it's the 10th anniversary of
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Peter Pan. Would you like to go to London and and be by the places that we
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talk about in the movies?" And well, I don't know if I could get away. Yes, I
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do. I will be there. And it built and it built and then all of these things of
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people that were that loved the movie that loved Disney that loved all things.
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It grew and grew. So we had shows. Now there was a time when we didn't have
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shows that it wasn't thought of. And then little by little um dis Disney club
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what was originally known as the um I've forgotten the name of because they were
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afraid to use the word Disney. Yes they were. So I little by little
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they put on shows. People came to meet us to greet us to talk to us. We became friends with all of these people and
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then uh little by little Disney said sure have this. Then we had all these
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celebrity shows where we get to meet everybody and it's been going on. Well,
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the movie came out in 1953
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and it is now tell me what date it is. Your guess is
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2025, 2025. I take your word for it.
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And then we have all the things where they're showing the movies over. You know that there are houses that are
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showing the u the little rascals in their homes every morning to the kids.
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They have DVDs and I go and talk for Tinker Bell. Then they invite me to come
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someplace else and I mentioned to the school kids I'm in the little rascals.
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Little rascals. I mean I'm in the little rascals that keep us too much. I'm in the the U
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Mayberry days. There's people still watch, but I'm in Tinkerbell. So, she
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goes ahead of me. I don't have to walk in and say, "Look how great I am."
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You know, she's great and I follow that and that means a lot.
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I would love Yeah. and the legacy of both of like these characters, how it lives on. But I'd love to know about the
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process of actually doing the thing. How long were you recording? How long did
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they have you in there? Were your days just striking poses while they sketched? What did all of that look like?
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Um, I took two and a half years of recording. Okay. Um, my first recording session I
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was filming in South Dakota on a film called Lakota Woman, Siege of Wounded
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Knee. And um, we did the first scratch track recording session in someone's
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basement recording studio over the phone with them in New York or and California.
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Um and and I did we go back about once every six weeks um to eight weeks or so
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do a whole another we might do whole scene changes just or line changes or we
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a whole story line might have gone away and we might start a whole new story line. So it was um it was it was a lot
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longer even than I expected all the way up until my last recording session was
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probably a month before June 10th, 1995.
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And they thought that she said the word path one too many times.
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So I changed the word path in one sentence to way in that one sentence. So
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yes, it was a it was a long process, but they also filmed all the recording sessions. So they used that
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references like she does this a lot. I do that a lot. So, um, that was
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interesting because my brothers, um, they flew my brothers from Alaska for
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the premiere in Central Park and as a surprise to me and they were sitting next to me and they kept like going like
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this like I've seen that face the ones where I'm like, you know, I'm like, I'm
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sorry. [Applause]
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And what did your days in that studio look like? About nine months. And because I didn't have dialogue for
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Tinkerbell, uh I did all the action work and what they would do would be to come
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up with a new um floor plan of what they were doing in the scene and what props they needed and
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I would get stuck in props. There was one prop that they did through a keyhole
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and they had to wind me through the keyhole and I couldn't get in or out by
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myself and they laughing. He said, "We're off to lunch. We'll see you later." And there there I was. I have a
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picture of it. I'm standing on my tippy toes. So, that's the kind of thing. Well, I was in Hollywood, so we did not
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know in Hollywood that time whether television was going to be better, whether the movies were ever going to
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last. There was big question. And radio, who knew about radio? Well, that would
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always be there. So, I was working on radio. I do about 21 different dialects
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and I have about 48 different voices. So I'm in about 300 cartoons including the
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three stooges and all these. So I was working radio in between and they would
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always call me up and say are you free on such and such a day because that's what they were used to then. And then uh
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I did did those and then u radio and then u regular TV I did 127 network
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shows during the time. So I was very busy with with everything else going on.
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But I loved that call. Would you be convened for you to come next Tuesday? And I
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would go, I don't know. I'll have to look at my calendar. Yes, I'll be there.
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So it was that time. It just kept going and then changes here and there, but but
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basically Mark Davis, as I told you, he's the one who really set Tinker Bell
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and everything. Uh, he's the one who helped decide. She does not speak in the
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in the show. And if you know, I want to say that the name of my website, and I
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hope that you go there, is called Tinkerbell Talks because
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she does it in the movie. And the name of my book, which is 400 pages and 121
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different photographs, uh, is called Ticker Bell Talks: Tales of a Pixie Dusted Life.
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Yes. So all of this was going on at the same time and of course a little romance
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was going on here and there and I met a young man who was uh had come out of the
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war and he had finished college at USC and we were dating. I did I knew nothing
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about dating. I watched Mickey Rooney movies and so I that's how you date
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that's how you do because when you work in the movies you don't see anybody. You
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don't really become friends when you're a kid. Your mother is right there with you and that was it. I remember when I
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was 18, my mother walked into the bedroom and said, "You will now date. You are 18." And I said, "But I don't
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know any boys." And she said, "Oh, you'll find them."
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So that was it was it's a lonely life if you do like I was I lived in
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Hollywood 91 years. So that's where I knew everything which was different from
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where everybody else how everyone else was looking. So looking forward to
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working at Disney was and they were so charming. They were so char you know are
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you doing all right? you need this that again at the end. I never been treated like that before. It was you get over
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there and do so and so, right? So, it was a lovely atmosphere and wonderful
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people. And it's so magical, too, just go like going to Buista Studios and, you know,
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you're going in, it's like, okay, well, you're in the Mickey Mouse studio and
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you need to take a left at Goofy Lane and a right It's just it's just you it's it's so
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magical. It's everything that you would think of if you wor there. I mean, they had the squirrels counted
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and if they had too many squirrels, they would take a squirrel away and take it to another place because they didn't
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want No, I'm serious. It was It was the best best um studio to work at in all of
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Hollywood. There's no question about it. And they would come up and help you and talk to you. You'd go to Warner Brothers
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and you you were lost and you'd say to somebody, "Do you know where the sound department?" "Oh, I don't know." Good
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luck. It was all the difference in the world. It was I'll take you. Yeah.
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I love that. Yeah. The care and consideration sets you up for the best performance that you
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could possibly give them. You know, you pour that into your actors and then they give that back to you in return. So, I
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love that. We are going to go to our fan ask questions. Okay, the ones that you
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submit. This first one is going to be for you, Irene. It is from Daria from Dallas, Texas. She asks, "What was your
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initial reaction when you were cast as Pocahontas and how did you prepare for the groundbreaking role?" Wow. Um well,
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my initial reaction was um elation and I
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was ecstatic and I just remember um that
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I um when I went so I was I was on my
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wedding. I got married to my husband on the set of the very first film that I did.
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Um we were um we were it was a ship called the Half Moon. It was one of the
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ships in in our film and we were g I was led down the dock on a white stallion
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given away by one of our Mohawk stunt men. Um but he led me down
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the dock on the stallion and um we walked the plank and the captain of the ship gave us coins of the ship and and
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the whole cast and crew was there and it was really beautiful. But we were on our honeymoon and um we got a call. We're up
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in Niger Falls and we got a call um saying Disney really wants to meet you.
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Would you uh or they really want to meet with you? Could you come down?
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See, it was my husband.
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Well, we decided we would take because we lived in New York City at the time anyway. We would just take the train
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down back back home and and like make that sort of our tail end of our honeymoon. And we we went and I had that
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first um that first meeting and it was it was just amazing. It was so much fun.
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And um and then but for every role, you
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know, I have a tendency as an indigenous woman to uh run into fair my fair my
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fair share of historical u show shows. So um my uh general um it's it's always
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been to do the research of looking into the history, looking into the tribe, looking into um uh the the time even,
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you know, you have to look at all of those things to understand where your person
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is coming from and who they are and what they're about. So that that authenticity to shine through. Absolutely.
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May I interrupt this question? I want to tell you something quickly. See that man
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sitting in the front row over here? We were married six years ago come St.
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Valentine's Day and because of Tinkerbell uh we dated well just about the time
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that I started to work on the project of Tinkerbell. But he and he's a World War
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II veteran. He just turned 100 years of age last month.
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Wow. Yes. Yes. He's a better World War II besides being a businessman, etc., etc.
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And we dated briefly, I would say about 12 times, that was all. And he had to
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leave because he was going to work for Mobile Oil and I was going to do all these things in Hollywood.
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And we lost contact with each other. So, u about, uh, let's see,
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he is being honored. as a veteran in about what uh eight years ago
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about 10 eight years ago because he's a veteran and they were they were saluting
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the 75th anniversary of D-Day. That's when the troops landed and then start to
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fight their way back and wipe out Germany Nazis and so on. So they they
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flew him over to Amsterdam to pick up a ship that he was going to go to
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different ports. So he's gets an Uber
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and he says, "Let's see what Amsterdam is like to his friends and before we get on the ship." So he got on and they're
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driving along and he says, "Stop." and he looks over and there on a board on a
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big building which was a store with a big sign that says Tinkerbell's toys.
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What Tinkerbell was doing in Amsterdam, I have no idea.
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But anyway, there she was. So he said he turned to his friends and he said, "Did I tell you that I dated Tickl?"
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And it was 70 years ago that we dated. And they said, "No, tell us." So he told
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him the story and they said, "Well, let's get in touch with her." So he knew my name was Margaret Carey. Remember
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that, I guess? And he said, "You can get her on the internet." And they found my
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website, the Ticker Bell toy talks that I told you about. And they sent off an
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email. And I get this email. I'm now 20 year old, right? and I'm doing all the
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work and figuring that's it. We're having a grand time. But I get this email. Do you remember Robert Bokei?
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And you know what? Although I'm face blind, I remembered him so well.
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Yes, I did. So, he called me from Paris or from I should say from France after I
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said an email. I'd be delighted. And uh let's see uh about nine months later we
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were married [Applause]
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as uh Disney to it and because when we went he came out to the west coast. He's
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I'm a west coaster. He's lived on the east coast. When it came out Disney opened up its doors to us. We had a
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party at Disney. We went to um Walt Disney's bar. We had 400 people there.
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We went to another dinner. Everything that opened up and they wanted to check on him,
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you know, is he okay? They decided he was wonderful and he is. He's absolutely. And then we flew off the
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next day to Sarasota and I have been an East Coaster, but I'm still doing all
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the Disney stuff and he's gotten finally used to it. You're right. That's a lot to get used
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to. But anyway, I just wanted this is Bob Oki. He says the Bob stands for
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beast of burden, but it doesn't. He's a wonderful fellow.
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Shake hands with him. He's being honored across the nation as a veteran of World War II and he was in both theaters of
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war and he is the nicest fellow you have ever met. So there you go. I'm sorry for
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interrupting. Not at all. Congrats. Thank you for being here.
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I will tell you both honest movies. Like both of those stories could also be
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movies. Like literally both of those could also be movies and I would watch the heck out of both. They're amazing.
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I'm so glad to I love You both have those such full lives and that's so cool. I love it. Um, our next one is for
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everybody and it's it's more about that Disney animation legacy. Of course, both
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of these these jobs are incredible that you found your way to them. So, what advice would you give to young
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performers interested in voice acting or motion capture work?
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I the number one thing that I say to anyone who is thinking about doing this,
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you have to love it. And you know because if it's it is a lot of long
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arduous days uh doing tedious sometimes very tedious
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and and physical work. Um but I just love it so much. I love it so much. I
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love telling stories. I just want to heal through the power and art of storytelling for the rest of my life.
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And um and find ways to tell stories that uplift us as as um and connects us
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um and and builds bridges to one another and and I really just um I don't know. I
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I I just I think that is the number one thing you said. Yeah.
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What about you, Margaret? I know. I just hear the question. You're all right. The question was,
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"What advice would you give to any young performer that wants to do that wants to
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act, do this motion work, voice work, whatever it may be?"
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I I don't know how to answer that. It's part of my life. Yeah, it is. Uh well, Robert says when we
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first started to do the shows and I he came with me, you know, what is this?
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He had never seen Peter He had never seen the Andy Griffith show. He had never seen the Charlie
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Rugles show that I did. He saw me when we first met. I was on channel 13 in Los
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Angeles. And that was one of the reasons that he met me. He thought he'd like me on that little tiny 7 in screen that we
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started out with. He walked around with the antenna together, you know, kind of thing. So this was not his world at all.
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But little by little he has started to understand that this is a whole world in
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itself and this is so exciting. He said but he says Margaret you're tired. You
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just did two shows the last two weekend. I said yes but I'm not that tired.
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It's wonderful people like you and you and you that we can talk about things
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that we adore. Yes. I mean, the one thing I must say that I want to
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pass on, they called me over to Disney um a few a couple of years after I
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finished that and I was doing other stuff and they called me and I said, "You know what we want to do with
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Tinkerbell and we want to ask you what do you think?" And I said, "What's that?" Well, we're going to change her a
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wee bit. Excuse me. and she is going to have problems in the
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world with other pixies. Do you remember those seven films
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that they made? But the basic idea for it was that she is going to learn something new with
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each picture. That means the kids who are watching it learn a new lesson. And I thought that
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was fabulous. And I told them that and I did some work on that one. But that was
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And I thought it was wonderful that they thought about that. And that those
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pictures, those seven pictures are on a DVD that is still selling like crazy and
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people play them in their own home so that the kids can watch. I mean, that's
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me. Take a something new. I mean, Disney films in
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general are such a great introduction and an easy way to introduce kids to
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some topics that might be more difficult to talk about or or how how a parent is
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just a person. You know what I mean? It's hard to know everything. And I think through Disney movies that's I I I
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think I learned about empathy through Disney films before I knew what empathy was and like the importance of
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friendship and being brains out like it was long before Inside Out like
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it's just uh I I don't know that's why we love these stories but the timelessness that's why we still we
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still need those lessons. We still need them. This one is going to come from Erica
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from Houston, Texas. And Erica asks, "Do you have a favorite piece of fan art or
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tribute that you've received?" Wow. I um at one point, and and this is
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I still to it's a hard one for me, but at one point I had been keeping all of
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my um fan letters, fan art, fan, you know, just just and I wanted to compile
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them all into a book and and just title it letters to Pocahontas. We had a fire
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at our house and we lost I know. I know. So, I I still collect my fan art, you
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know. I still collect I still collect all of these things and I you know, I'm just rebuilding again. So, yeah. Well,
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we know what we need to do. Get the send some fan. I have so much stuff that we moved into a wonderful old
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folks resort where I'm spoiled rotten. We still haven't moved into it. We still
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moving things into it and I don't want to let this go and I don't want to let that go. So each one means something to
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me. And darling Robert keeps saying, "You don't need to keep all that." And I keep saying, "Yes, I do." And so I think
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we're going to get another one with another bedroom to take because It's all
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dear. It is all dear to me. And I I look at it and I think that's that's all because of
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Tinker Bell. And that's what's so wonderful because I can say it's not because of me. It is someone, but it's
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all because of Tinkerbell and Disney. And so it's very very precious to me.
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The um I was going to say something that was very deep and I can't remember it
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now. Oh well, I'll come back to it later. Okay. Oh, yes. Uh,
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this is an aside, but one lady whom I have known who does interviews with all
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the top um artists at Disney and she has a book out and she is just absolutely
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superb woman. Uh, she told me a secret when the movie came out of Pocahontas. She said, "I am
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a direct descendant of Pocahontas." And I said, "What?" She said, "Yes,
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because um the son that Pocahontas boreh only had one child, so they could go
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down and the lineage is there." So over in Great Britain, it was 400 years of
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Pocahontas birthday and a huge church and place all over there. Had a a big I
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guess party. So they flew her over there to uh to be
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a part of it because she they knew that she was a direct ascendant. You think
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that she's proud of that? My dear, she is just thrilled to be able to see and
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people like you see. And then when they did the movie, she was thrilled. She was thrilled.
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Can you imagine the direct descendant for Pocahontas?
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You got to keep up with these things. Folks, that's why the continuation of
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storytelling will always be important and humans will always find a way. It's so cool that we have animation and how
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animation has evolved and we're so lucky because we're getting it at a faster pace than it's ever happened. But that
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also just means we can get the information. We can enjoy these stories. What is it? You you Google it.
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You got to Google it. Yeah, absolutely. Well, my friends, we are almost out of time. We've got one
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more question from everybody. Let me get back to my notes. This one is going to a beautiful one to end on. This one is
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from Alexa from Dallas. And Alexa asks, "How do you feel about the new
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generations discovering your characters? Have you had any instances through cons
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where people have maybe just recently seen the movies? For you, you're saying, "Oh, this was so long ago." But for
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them, it's it's brand new. This is so it is the 30th anniversary of
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Pocahontas this year and um so you right
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now I'm having young uh m parents that are coming up that
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grew up with it that say that you were my childhood and that is it's you know that they're now then introducing it to
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their children. And so it it is really amazing and and uh and and again that
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that idea that that uh Disney is a legacy is is proving itself to be true.
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Absolutely. Yeah. Absolutely. What about you, Margaret? How's it feel to have all these new generations still
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coming up to your tables? Trash Tinkerbell never
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fighting night and day. And Tingle Bell is going to say Tingle Bell to everybody's love and delight.
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Yes, absolutely. My friends, can we give it up one more time for our two 800 guests and
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thank you both so much for being here. Thank you for coming all the way out to Dallas. And
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all right, we did it. We did it. We love you all. We really, really do.
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You are so wonderful when you walk up to our tables and talk to We're just pray
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for happiness and that's what you do and we like that too so we give you kudos.
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Yes. Love it. Thank you all so much for being so wonderful this weekend. It has been a delight. We will see you at the next
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one. [Applause]