More from NextShark: ‘Don’t take advantage of us’: Malawians protest Chinese national’s racist exploitation of kidsĪthie, who starred in the 2020 film “Black Box” and the 2022 mystery drama “Archive 81,” shared similar sentiments as the child of a diplomat father who received political asylum in the U.S. Lewis was adopted from Shanghai as a baby and grew up in a predominantly white town in Florida. The 26-year-old actor says she relates to Ember’s struggles of accepting her differences and of finding the courage to authentically be herself. His story is a special one and a very important one, too,” Lewis tells NextShark. “Knowing that real life experiences were basically just kind of infused into this film, that's something that always speaks very deeply to my heart when people could be that honest and vulnerable. Lewis, who had always been a fan of Pixar films, shared that being a part of the film’s audition process had already been “a privilege beyond anything else.” More from NextShark: Thai Rescue Worker Revives Baby Elephant Hit by Motorbike Using CPR
Sohn’s personal story was eventually what drew voice actors Lewis and Athie to the opportunity to voice characters Ember and Wade. The Korean American director ultimately saw the film as a tribute to his parents, who had emigrated from Korea to New York City in the early 1970s.
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Sohn eventually learned how to take it piece-by-piece with the help of his family and the tight-knit community at Pixar. “There was no clear-cut way to really understand how to put yourself into a movie. “It was messy, meaning there was no clear-cut way to deal with the death,” Sohn says. More from NextShark: Virginia woman allegedly stabbed to death in her hotel room by man who was recently released from jail She forms an unexpected friendship with a water-elemental man named Wade (voiced by Mamoudou Athie) and eventually ventures out of her comfort zone and explores her spectacular city.īesides the difficulty of creating an entirely new animated world, Sohn’s parents both passed away during the film’s development, making the path to completion a journey of personal healing. “Elemental” follows Ember Lumen (voiced by Leah Lewis ), a fire-elemental woman whose parents emigrated from Fireland to Element City. More from NextShark: Asia’s richest man to enter genetic testing market with $145 kits Drawing inspiration from both of their personal lives and the experiences of first- and second-generation immigrants who work at Pixar, they created a multicultural fictional world where residents made of fire, water, earth and air live together. “It's like we’re getting the child ready to go out into the world and it’s no longer ours,” Ream tells NextShark.Īlong with animators, Sohn and Ream noted “Elemental” to be the most challenging Pixar film they have ever tackled. The filmmakers first saw the finished product at the Stag Theater at Skywalker Ranch in California, where they experienced an overwhelming wave of memories of their time spent developing the movie. When “Elemental” director Peter Sohn and producer Denise Ream first saw their seven years of hard work on the big screen, they experienced what they describe as being similar to parents feeling the prideful moment of watching their child graduate.
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