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TITUSS BURGESS: Him.
NATHAN LANE: Oh, well, I don’t know.
Spellbound, directed by Vicky Jenson, follows Princess Ellian on her adventurous quest to rescue her family and kingdom. As a mysterious spell transforms her parents into monsters, Ellian must navigate this perilous journey to restore the King and Queen of Lumbria.
[Laughs] It’s now it’s so far back, I don’t even remember.
I do remember we were showing up in masks, so that’s how far back.
It just seemed like a fun project.
Spellbound, directed by Vicky Jenson, follows Princess Ellian on her adventurous quest to rescue her family and kingdom. As a mysterious spell transforms her parents into monsters, Ellian must navigate this perilous journey to restore the King and Queen of Lumbria.
If you see his name on the score, you should do it.
LANE: What you’re seeing here is the first time we’ve met.
Today is the first day that we met.
We did not record together.
BURGESS: Not even virtually.
LANE: Yeah, not even virtually.
They kept threatening to put us together, but I guess it was just so explosive.
It was too frightening the thought of having us in the same booth.
[Laughs] It would be too much.
Just too, too much.
Just comedic chaos, and they were like, We need to put a lid on that, beforehand.
There’s a quote comedic chaos.
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I certainly had great respect for Nathan for a very, very, very long time.
But because we do it separately, you have very little to rely on.
LANE: I’m gonna be honest with you, okay?
I want people to go, Oh, that was really funny when those two guys came on!
That’s all I cared about.
So, I improvised a great deal.
And especially when you’re playing a three-foot tall, 350-pound blue person who lives in a forest.
BURGESS: Who travels on a frog.
LANE: I’m not delving into his childhood.
This is about, How do we make this as funny as possible while serving what they’ve written?
So, that’s what interests me.
If you’re going to be the comic relief,relieve.
BURGESS: Well, I had worked with Alan 16 years ago inThe Little Mermaid.
He doesn’t lead with ego, which he could, and he’s very generous.
LANE: I had never worked with Alan, so he literally was there.
BURGESS: He was?
LANE: He was there when I recorded my stuff the first, the song.
So, that was my only time that I might have worked with Alan until I did this film.
It was lovely because he’s a legend now.
BURGESS: So are you.
Yes, it’s true!
I’m speaking to two legends right now.
LANE: Oh, thank you.
Spellboundis streaming now on Netflix.
