1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,914 Zootopia 2 Explained. 2 00:00:05,914 --> 00:00:09,374 Zootopia is celebrating its centennial, 3 00:00:09,374 --> 00:00:15,694 one hundred years since the Lynxley family built the weather walls that created the city's climate zones. 4 00:00:15,694 --> 00:00:19,434 Judy Hopps, Zootopia's first rabbit cop turned detective, 5 00:00:19,434 --> 00:00:23,714 and Nick Wilde, a reformed fox hustler now carrying a badge, 6 00:00:23,714 --> 00:00:26,454 are exactly one week into their ZPD partnership. 7 00:00:26,454 --> 00:00:29,894 They just put a corrupt deputy mayor behind bars, 8 00:00:29,894 --> 00:00:31,454 the city loves them, 9 00:00:31,454 --> 00:00:35,074 and they are already on the verge of being split up by Chief Bogo, 10 00:00:35,074 --> 00:00:37,034 their demanding water buffalo commander. 11 00:00:37,034 --> 00:00:40,774 Into this centennial celebration arrives Gary De'Snake, 12 00:00:40,774 --> 00:00:43,814 a pit viper with a hundred-year-old family grievance, 13 00:00:43,814 --> 00:00:52,554 and the only biological ability to read a secret hidden in Zootopia's founding document that no mammal has ever been able to see. 14 00:00:52,554 --> 00:00:55,434 The Lynxley family, the city's most powerful dynasty, 15 00:00:55,434 --> 00:00:58,294 will do everything to keep that secret buried. 16 00:01:00,054 --> 00:01:04,714 Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde have been ZPD detective partners for EXACTLY one week. 17 00:01:05,374 --> 00:01:07,494 They just exposed and imprisoned a corrupt mayor, 18 00:01:08,074 --> 00:01:12,214 Zootopia LOVES them, and they are ALREADY on the verge of being split up. 19 00:01:12,834 --> 00:01:18,454 A botched shipyard raid ends with a catering van destroying the new Ebenezer Lynxley centennial statue, 20 00:01:18,994 --> 00:01:21,914 and Bogo sends them to MANDATORY partner therapy. 21 00:01:22,414 --> 00:01:24,614 Which turns out to be IMMEDIATELY revealing. 22 00:01:25,234 --> 00:01:28,094 Dr. Fuzzby diagnoses their dysfunction in one session: 23 00:01:28,694 --> 00:01:30,574 Judy controls EVERYTHING Nick says; 24 00:01:30,574 --> 00:01:34,174 Nick deflects with humor to avoid any real emotional exposure. 25 00:01:34,734 --> 00:01:37,394 What makes them charming is EXACTLY what's pulling them apart. 26 00:01:37,914 --> 00:01:41,134 Right, and the film uses that diagnosis as a structural promise, 27 00:01:41,894 --> 00:01:44,194 something MUST break before they can fix it. 28 00:01:44,874 --> 00:01:47,754 Meanwhile, Judy spots snakeskin in the smuggler's van, 29 00:01:48,174 --> 00:01:49,914 connects it to the Zootennial Gala, 30 00:01:50,334 --> 00:01:51,934 and talks Nick into going undercover. 31 00:01:52,814 --> 00:01:56,314 The Lynxley Journal is on public display for the FIRST time, 32 00:01:56,534 --> 00:01:58,634 and she thinks a snake is heading for it. 33 00:01:58,634 --> 00:02:00,874 No backup, no PLAN B. 34 00:02:01,354 --> 00:02:03,114 Gary De'Snake, a pit viper, 35 00:02:03,474 --> 00:02:06,454 crashes from the chandelier, grabs Milton Lynxley, 36 00:02:06,454 --> 00:02:07,614 and steals the journal. 37 00:02:08,414 --> 00:02:11,474 Judy chases him through the manor and corners him in Milton's private study, 38 00:02:11,914 --> 00:02:14,214 where he tells her something Nick DOESN'T get to hear: 39 00:02:14,814 --> 00:02:17,894 the Lynxleys MANUFACTURED the founding theft story; 40 00:02:18,594 --> 00:02:20,694 snakes didn't steal ANYTHING a century ago. 41 00:02:21,134 --> 00:02:22,894 The journal can clear his family. 42 00:02:23,334 --> 00:02:28,234 Exactly, Nick catches up just after the confession ends and knocks Gary out with a frying pan, 43 00:02:28,774 --> 00:02:29,974 genuinely proud of himself, 44 00:02:29,974 --> 00:02:31,314 having heard NONE of it. 45 00:02:31,854 --> 00:02:35,494 That information gap is the ENGINE the entire first half runs on: 46 00:02:35,894 --> 00:02:37,274 every wrong move they make, 47 00:02:37,614 --> 00:02:39,774 every moment they're pulling in different directions, 48 00:02:40,134 --> 00:02:43,254 traces back to that ONE accidental missed conversation. 49 00:02:43,694 --> 00:02:46,574 Gary accidentally bites Chief Bogo during the window escape, 50 00:02:47,194 --> 00:02:49,934 cold paws, startled reflexes, 51 00:02:50,114 --> 00:02:51,634 NOT an intentional attack. 52 00:02:51,634 --> 00:02:54,194 Cattrick Lynxley frames them on the spot. 53 00:02:54,534 --> 00:02:58,334 By morning, Judy and Nick are ROGUE officers who attacked their own chief. 54 00:02:58,894 --> 00:03:00,214 And the city BELIEVES it. 55 00:03:00,434 --> 00:03:02,814 Mr. Big intercepts them and offers a way out, 56 00:03:03,274 --> 00:03:05,834 Nick wants to take it, Judy REFUSES. 57 00:03:05,834 --> 00:03:08,254 Fru Fru, Mr. Big's daughter, 58 00:03:08,554 --> 00:03:11,014 sends them to Nibbles Maplestick, 59 00:03:11,014 --> 00:03:14,334 a beaver podcaster who turns out to know exactly what Judy needs, 60 00:03:14,934 --> 00:03:16,774 and Nibbles leads them to Marsh Market, 61 00:03:17,374 --> 00:03:21,694 a hidden reptile community SEALED OFF from Zootopia at the city's founding. 62 00:03:21,694 --> 00:03:24,914 A basilisk named Jesús provides the key piece: 63 00:03:25,454 --> 00:03:28,754 the journal's metal cover holds a secret ONLY snakes can see, 64 00:03:29,354 --> 00:03:31,854 important enough that a tortoise DIED over it, 65 00:03:32,054 --> 00:03:34,754 and afterward ALL reptiles were expelled from the city. 66 00:03:35,354 --> 00:03:38,914 The Lynxleys now plan to bury Marsh Market under Tundratown's expansion, 67 00:03:39,434 --> 00:03:41,894 the SAME erasure, a SECOND time. 68 00:03:42,234 --> 00:03:44,134 The ZPD raids before they can act. 69 00:03:44,794 --> 00:03:47,614 Gary reappears, SWALLOWS the journal whole, 70 00:03:48,174 --> 00:03:51,834 and flees into a water tube that can DROWN non-aquatic animals. 71 00:03:52,734 --> 00:03:53,754 Judy follows him in. 72 00:03:53,974 --> 00:03:57,254 Does she EVER calculate the odds before doing something like that? 73 00:03:57,594 --> 00:04:03,874 Evidence says NO. A matchbox from Gary's fanny pack points them up a cliff to an abandoned lodge, 74 00:04:04,474 --> 00:04:06,494 where Judy finds proof that Reptile Ravine, 75 00:04:06,874 --> 00:04:08,494 an ENTIRE reptile district, 76 00:04:09,014 --> 00:04:11,974 was buried in snow to make room for Tundratown. 77 00:04:11,974 --> 00:04:12,574 On the way up, 78 00:04:12,594 --> 00:04:15,274 they have the argument that SHATTERS the carrot pen. 79 00:04:15,814 --> 00:04:18,914 That pen carries REAL weight before this film even starts. 80 00:04:19,514 --> 00:04:23,234 It's the recording device Judy used to expose Bellwether in their previous case, 81 00:04:23,794 --> 00:04:26,274 the PHYSICAL symbol of how the partnership began. 82 00:04:26,814 --> 00:04:30,694 When it breaks, the film is being LITERAL about the state of things between them. 83 00:04:31,154 --> 00:04:33,654 ZPD officers breach the lodge and it splits; 84 00:04:34,414 --> 00:04:38,074 Pawbert, who'd seemed like a warm Lynxley outlier at the gala, 85 00:04:38,374 --> 00:04:41,814 shows up with Gary and takes Judy while Nick is arrested ALONE. 86 00:04:42,714 --> 00:04:44,094 Then Judy wakes up in the desert, 87 00:04:44,094 --> 00:04:47,594 and the film DELIVERS the revelation it has been building toward. 88 00:04:48,134 --> 00:04:51,294 Gary reads the journal's hidden images with pit viper heat vision, 89 00:04:51,874 --> 00:04:53,954 infrared, INVISIBLE to any mammal. 90 00:04:54,894 --> 00:04:57,294 Agnes De'Snake, his great-grandmother, 91 00:04:57,294 --> 00:04:58,154 designed the weather walls; 92 00:04:58,534 --> 00:05:00,274 the journal was ALWAYS hers. 93 00:05:00,954 --> 00:05:03,214 She is the TRUE founder of Zootopia. 94 00:05:03,674 --> 00:05:05,634 Ebenezer was Agnes's business partner. 95 00:05:06,114 --> 00:05:07,334 He STOLE the journal, 96 00:05:07,774 --> 00:05:09,074 threw her patent into the fire, 97 00:05:09,534 --> 00:05:11,694 KILLED his tortoise maid after she pulled it out, 98 00:05:11,694 --> 00:05:13,854 framed Agnes for MURDER, 99 00:05:14,474 --> 00:05:16,914 and buried the entire reptile district in snow. 100 00:05:17,854 --> 00:05:20,894 Before she died, the tortoise gave Agnes the surviving patent, 101 00:05:21,274 --> 00:05:22,854 which Agnes hid in her house. 102 00:05:23,174 --> 00:05:24,394 In a buried house. 103 00:05:24,954 --> 00:05:27,254 STILL down there, under a century of snow. 104 00:05:27,694 --> 00:05:29,194 Nick is in Prederal Prison, 105 00:05:29,594 --> 00:05:34,134 where he admits to Nibbles for the FIRST TIME that Judy is his first real friend, 106 00:05:34,934 --> 00:05:39,634 that he told her the case wasn't worth dying for because he was TERRIFIED of losing her. 107 00:05:40,434 --> 00:05:42,714 Nibbles had already gnawed a key from a mop handle; 108 00:05:43,254 --> 00:05:46,254 Nick accidentally opens EVERY cell in the building on the way out. 109 00:05:46,254 --> 00:05:48,994 TWO HUNDRED inmates. Including Bellwether, 110 00:05:49,094 --> 00:05:51,394 who was REDECORATING her cell in her own wool. 111 00:05:51,774 --> 00:05:53,314 That problem goes on a list for later. 112 00:05:54,194 --> 00:05:56,164 Flash Slothmore drives them cross-town; 113 00:05:56,164 --> 00:05:59,394 Clawhauser traces Hoggbottom to the Burning Mammal festival, 114 00:05:59,954 --> 00:06:04,874 where Judy destroys Pawbert's tracking phone and Gazelle's dancers fight off the ZPD. 115 00:06:05,814 --> 00:06:08,494 The trio reaches the weather wall, restores power, 116 00:06:08,634 --> 00:06:10,314 and the buried clock tower lights up, 117 00:06:10,874 --> 00:06:13,234 they know EXACTLY where the patent is. 118 00:06:13,234 --> 00:06:15,754 Hoggbottom had a dart aimed at Judy and froze, 119 00:06:16,254 --> 00:06:17,494 she COULDN'T do it, 120 00:06:17,654 --> 00:06:19,734 and when an accidental bump fired it, 121 00:06:20,034 --> 00:06:21,154 Flash's car rolled in front. 122 00:06:21,794 --> 00:06:24,174 Is that cowardice or the start of something different? 123 00:06:24,594 --> 00:06:26,774 I'd say it's the FIRST crack in the coercion. 124 00:06:27,134 --> 00:06:31,354 And then Pawbert, who the film had been positioning as the sympathetic Lynxley rebel, 125 00:06:32,174 --> 00:06:34,054 STABS Judy with a venom injector. 126 00:06:34,054 --> 00:06:37,114 But his motivation is more HEARTBREAKING than villainous, 127 00:06:37,374 --> 00:06:39,294 and the film is careful about that distinction. 128 00:06:40,094 --> 00:06:42,114 He and Judy share the same core drive, 129 00:06:42,494 --> 00:06:44,594 both underdogs who have to prove their worth, 130 00:06:45,114 --> 00:06:48,614 but his answer is destroying the evidence so his father accepts him, 131 00:06:48,814 --> 00:06:50,174 while Judy's is the opposite. 132 00:06:50,654 --> 00:06:52,374 That's the film's MORAL center. 133 00:06:52,674 --> 00:06:54,354 He throws Gary out into the snow, 134 00:06:54,354 --> 00:06:57,974 cold-blooded and FREEZING, takes the antivenom, 135 00:06:57,974 --> 00:06:58,874 and goes after Nick. 136 00:06:59,534 --> 00:07:00,494 Gary is losing heat, 137 00:07:00,534 --> 00:07:02,554 but he remembers Judy is warm-blooded, 138 00:07:02,554 --> 00:07:05,434 holds onto her, and absorbs enough to recover. 139 00:07:06,214 --> 00:07:08,354 Two species keeping each other ALIVE, 140 00:07:08,874 --> 00:07:11,454 the film showing its central argument before it says it. 141 00:07:11,654 --> 00:07:14,494 I'd say the rooftop is where the argument ACTUALLY gets said, 142 00:07:14,854 --> 00:07:15,774 this is the preview. 143 00:07:16,334 --> 00:07:18,914 Does the warmth exchange feel like the climax to you, 144 00:07:19,234 --> 00:07:20,674 or more like the setup for one? 145 00:07:20,994 --> 00:07:21,894 More like the setup. 146 00:07:22,594 --> 00:07:25,774 Nick and Pawbert fight for the antivenom on a CRUMBLING ice ledge, 147 00:07:26,534 --> 00:07:28,694 Nick throws it to Gary instead of keeping it, 148 00:07:28,954 --> 00:07:31,254 choosing Judy's survival over HIS OWN. 149 00:07:31,834 --> 00:07:37,734 Gary saves Judy; she sprints to the roof and pulls Nick from the edge as the ice BREAKS. 150 00:07:38,094 --> 00:07:40,774 And on that roof, both of them FINALLY say it. 151 00:07:41,134 --> 00:07:43,854 Nick tells her she is the MOST IMPORTANT animal to him, 152 00:07:44,274 --> 00:07:47,594 that he joined the ZPD not to be a cop but to find a pack, 153 00:07:47,954 --> 00:07:48,794 and she is it. 154 00:07:49,014 --> 00:07:52,474 Judy tells him her relentlessness isn't pure idealism, 155 00:07:53,134 --> 00:07:57,574 it comes from needing to be SEEN as capable by animals who dismissed her, 156 00:07:57,944 --> 00:08:00,554 and Nick was the FIRST who ever believed she was. 157 00:08:01,454 --> 00:08:03,474 Two films of deflection and control, 158 00:08:04,174 --> 00:08:09,634 and neither of them could get there until they were standing on a rooftop with nothing left to HIDE behind. 159 00:08:09,974 --> 00:08:11,814 Nibbles calls it an OVERSHARE. 160 00:08:12,094 --> 00:08:14,874 Then the four of them go TAKE DOWN the Lynxleys. 161 00:08:15,254 --> 00:08:18,954 Exactly, and that sequence matters MORE than it might seem. 162 00:08:19,874 --> 00:08:21,654 Gary subdues Pawbert in the hedge maze; 163 00:08:22,134 --> 00:08:26,634 Nibbles convinces Winddancer to stop performing heroism and ACTUALLY do it; 164 00:08:26,634 --> 00:08:29,694 Winddancer takes down Cattrick, Kitty, and Milton. 165 00:08:30,534 --> 00:08:34,954 The institutional power that protected the lie for a century collapses FROM WITHIN, 166 00:08:34,954 --> 00:08:37,494 at the moment it most needed to hold. 167 00:08:38,234 --> 00:08:41,554 Agnes's patent is in a music box inside her buried house. 168 00:08:42,174 --> 00:08:44,914 Pawbert tries to burn the place down as a LAST move, 169 00:08:44,914 --> 00:08:47,234 Hoggbottom ends it with a frying pan. 170 00:08:48,014 --> 00:08:50,734 She COULDN'T bring herself to shoot Judy at the weather wall, 171 00:08:50,734 --> 00:08:53,474 and she was DONE covering for Lynxleys. 172 00:08:54,174 --> 00:08:55,474 The Lynxleys are arrested; 173 00:08:55,474 --> 00:08:59,074 Agnes De'Snake is credited as Zootopia's TRUE founder. 174 00:08:59,774 --> 00:09:03,674 Reptile Ravine reopens, and a century of enforced exile ENDS. 175 00:09:04,294 --> 00:09:08,294 Nick gives Judy the REPAIRED carrot pen and tells her he loves her. 176 00:09:09,014 --> 00:09:10,314 She records it without realizing, 177 00:09:10,754 --> 00:09:14,774 replays it OBSESSIVELY. Then they catch Bellwether at the airport, 178 00:09:15,334 --> 00:09:17,354 first of those two hundred escaped criminals, 179 00:09:17,974 --> 00:09:22,474 watching in disguise as she waits for what she THINKS is her getaway flight. 180 00:09:22,474 --> 00:09:25,734 ONE down, a hundred and ninety-nine to go. 181 00:09:26,314 --> 00:09:30,434 And the last image is a feather on Judy's windowsill after something flies past. 182 00:09:31,174 --> 00:09:33,314 No identity given, NO explanation. 183 00:09:34,174 --> 00:09:36,714 Just the next thing ALREADY on its way. 184 00:09:37,174 --> 00:09:39,014 Which is the RIGHT note to end on. 185 00:09:39,474 --> 00:09:40,814 The city gets its history back, 186 00:09:40,994 --> 00:09:42,694 the partnership gets its honesty back, 187 00:09:42,914 --> 00:09:45,354 but the film DOESN'T pretend that fixes everything. 188 00:09:45,934 --> 00:09:48,634 It just means they're facing whatever comes next TOGETHER. 1 00:10:02,162 --> 00:10:03,942 Zootopia 2 Explained. 2 00:10:04,562 --> 00:10:07,262 The first time Hollywood came looking for Ke Huy Quan, 3 00:10:07,262 --> 00:10:09,562 they were actually looking for his younger brother. 4 00:10:10,242 --> 00:10:14,222 A casting director came to Castelar Elementary School in Los Angeles to audition kids. 5 00:10:14,222 --> 00:10:16,562 Quan's brother was the one they wanted. 6 00:10:16,562 --> 00:10:18,982 Quan tagged along, ended up in the room, 7 00:10:19,322 --> 00:10:23,762 and walked out with the role of Short Round in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. 8 00:10:24,342 --> 00:10:25,722 He was thirteen years old. 9 00:10:26,302 --> 00:10:28,142 The Goonies followed the very next year, 10 00:10:28,142 --> 00:10:31,542 he played Richard Wang, known as Data, in 1985. 11 00:10:32,382 --> 00:10:35,642 Spielberg produced both, but Indiana Jones had Spielberg directing; 12 00:10:36,162 --> 00:10:37,502 Goonies was Richard Donner. 13 00:10:37,502 --> 00:10:40,722 Quan kept working into the early nineties, 14 00:10:40,722 --> 00:10:42,562 Head of the Class ran through 1991, 15 00:10:43,322 --> 00:10:45,342 and then the roles dried up and he stepped away. 16 00:10:46,122 --> 00:10:49,502 He spent years after that as a stunt coordinator and fight choreographer. 17 00:10:50,122 --> 00:10:53,762 What pulled him back was Crazy Rich Asians in 2018. 18 00:10:54,382 --> 00:10:56,022 He got an agent in early 2020. 19 00:10:56,542 --> 00:10:59,182 Two weeks later, Daniel Kwan reached out, 20 00:10:59,322 --> 00:11:00,482 Kwan had found him on Twitter, 21 00:11:00,482 --> 00:11:04,442 and sent him the script for Everything Everywhere All at Once. 22 00:11:04,442 --> 00:11:06,702 Quan was in his early fifties, 23 00:11:06,702 --> 00:11:10,582 returning to this level of work for the first time in three decades. 24 00:11:11,302 --> 00:11:14,582 Nick Wilde has been Jason Bateman's character for close to a decade now. 25 00:11:15,202 --> 00:11:19,302 What's unusual is that his directing credit predates the acting career most people know. 26 00:11:19,962 --> 00:11:23,262 He was eighteen when he directed three episodes of The Hogan Family, 27 00:11:23,262 --> 00:11:26,142 the youngest director in the Directors Guild's history. 28 00:11:26,722 --> 00:11:28,622 The same show that made him a teen idol. 29 00:11:29,322 --> 00:11:31,002 He was on Silver Spoons before that, 30 00:11:31,342 --> 00:11:33,762 early eighties, playing Ricky Schroder's best friend. 31 00:11:34,442 --> 00:11:37,202 Then the profile faded through most of the nineties, 32 00:11:37,202 --> 00:11:39,502 which is familiar territory for child actors. 33 00:11:40,262 --> 00:11:42,522 Arrested Development rebuilt it in 2003, 34 00:11:42,522 --> 00:11:45,842 and that opened film work, Juno, Hancock, 35 00:11:46,262 --> 00:11:51,242 Horrible Bosses. In 2013 he directed and starred in Bad Words. 36 00:11:51,782 --> 00:11:53,762 Then Ozark launched in 2017. 37 00:11:54,362 --> 00:11:59,062 He directed multiple episodes across that run and executive produced the entire series. 38 00:11:59,742 --> 00:12:01,182 Two careers running in parallel. 39 00:12:01,902 --> 00:12:04,102 The directing track goes back to his teenage years, 40 00:12:04,102 --> 00:12:06,302 before most people knew his name as an actor. 41 00:12:07,122 --> 00:12:09,602 By the time Ozark launched, it wasn't a new skill. 42 00:12:09,602 --> 00:12:16,502 Ginnifer Goodwin came into the first Zootopia after twelve consecutive years anchoring long-running television. 43 00:12:17,142 --> 00:12:19,182 Big Love on HBO ran five seasons, 44 00:12:19,182 --> 00:12:21,322 from 2006 through 2011, 45 00:12:21,322 --> 00:12:24,022 with Goodwin playing Margene Heffman. 46 00:12:24,202 --> 00:12:26,582 Then straight into Once Upon a Time on ABC, 47 00:12:26,582 --> 00:12:29,922 where she played Snow White for seven seasons through 2018. 48 00:12:30,822 --> 00:12:32,422 On that set she met Josh Dallas, 49 00:12:32,422 --> 00:12:33,702 who played her Prince Charming, 50 00:12:34,142 --> 00:12:38,682 they started dating in late 2011 and married in California in April 2014. 51 00:12:39,342 --> 00:12:46,322 She spent seven seasons playing Snow White falling in love with her actual Prince Charming and then married him in real life after meeting on that set. 52 00:12:46,982 --> 00:12:49,022 The symmetry is genuinely hard to beat. 53 00:12:49,802 --> 00:12:55,482 She said before the sequel was written that she had very specific ideas about where the characters should be in a second film. 54 00:12:56,182 --> 00:12:58,322 Nine years between movies to hold that thought. 55 00:12:58,922 --> 00:13:00,402 Fortune Feimster plays Nibbles. 56 00:13:00,962 --> 00:13:02,082 She came up through stand-up, 57 00:13:02,462 --> 00:13:06,902 Last Comic Standing on NBC in 2010 was the early television exposure. 58 00:13:07,702 --> 00:13:12,642 Three seasons on The Mindy Project from 2015 through 2017 playing Colette, 59 00:13:13,102 --> 00:13:14,702 a proper recurring role. 60 00:13:15,482 --> 00:13:17,042 Then recurring work on The L Word: 61 00:13:17,042 --> 00:13:25,522 Generation Q. She's been co-hosting What a Joke with Papa and Fortune alongside Tom Papa on Sirius XM since 2019. 62 00:13:26,582 --> 00:13:31,242 Stand-up, recurring television, and long-form audio running simultaneously. 63 00:13:31,902 --> 00:13:33,982 The Mindy Project was three full seasons, 64 00:13:34,522 --> 00:13:36,442 that's a real commitment, not a guest spot. 65 00:13:37,062 --> 00:13:39,662 And there's something specific about how Feimster performs: 66 00:13:40,102 --> 00:13:42,302 she plays sincerity completely straight, 67 00:13:42,702 --> 00:13:43,982 no hedge into irony. 68 00:13:44,782 --> 00:13:50,322 Stand-up trains you for a particular transaction with an audience where you have to fully commit to whatever register you're in, 69 00:13:50,742 --> 00:13:55,102 and she's been working both stand-up and television simultaneously for fifteen years. 70 00:13:55,802 --> 00:13:59,662 Jared Bush wrote and co-directed the original Zootopia with Byron Howard, 71 00:14:00,202 --> 00:14:03,822 then wrote Moana, then wrote and directed Encanto, 72 00:14:03,822 --> 00:14:05,002 then wrote Moana 2, 73 00:14:05,702 --> 00:14:07,122 and during production of this film, 74 00:14:07,122 --> 00:14:11,002 he became Chief Creative Officer of Walt Disney Animation Studios. 75 00:14:12,002 --> 00:14:13,962 That appointment was September 2024, 76 00:14:13,962 --> 00:14:16,002 while the film was still being made. 77 00:14:16,662 --> 00:14:19,542 Howard has been directing at Disney since Bolt in 2008, 78 00:14:20,022 --> 00:14:23,842 then Tangled, then Zootopia, then Encanto. 79 00:14:23,842 --> 00:14:28,462 The two of them have now co-directed three Disney animated features together. 80 00:14:29,062 --> 00:14:31,262 And Wilmer Valderrama, who voices Higgins, 81 00:14:31,602 --> 00:14:33,582 played Agustín Madrigal in Encanto, 82 00:14:33,582 --> 00:14:34,622 which Bush also wrote. 83 00:14:35,062 --> 00:14:36,882 He's now on two Bush films. 84 00:14:37,322 --> 00:14:39,942 Valderrama has been running two long parallel careers: 85 00:14:40,422 --> 00:14:44,662 eight seasons as Fez on That '70s Show from 1998 through 2006, 86 00:14:45,102 --> 00:14:49,022 and then Special Agent Torres on NCIS starting in 2016, 87 00:14:49,422 --> 00:14:52,482 still going. That's a lot of institutional television. 88 00:14:53,662 --> 00:14:56,262 David Strathairn voices Milton Lynxley, 89 00:14:56,262 --> 00:14:59,402 and his whole career has been built around serious historical figures, 90 00:14:59,882 --> 00:15:02,562 Edward R. Murrow in George Clooney's Good Night, 91 00:15:02,562 --> 00:15:05,862 and Good Luck, William Seward in Spielberg's Lincoln, 92 00:15:06,542 --> 00:15:08,502 J. Robert Oppenheimer in other productions. 93 00:15:09,202 --> 00:15:10,602 That's his default register. 94 00:15:11,382 --> 00:15:13,982 Andy Samberg plays Pawbert Lynxley. 95 00:15:13,982 --> 00:15:19,522 He formed the Lonely Island comedy group with childhood friends Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone in Berkeley, 96 00:15:19,842 --> 00:15:22,882 and the three of them joined SNL together in 2005. 97 00:15:23,562 --> 00:15:28,662 After SNL he led Brooklyn Nine-Nine for eight seasons and 153 episodes, 98 00:15:29,042 --> 00:15:35,422 a cop comedy, which makes this animated franchise built around police a natural fit with a slight inversion. 99 00:15:36,182 --> 00:15:38,742 Macaulay Culkin voices Cattrick Lynxley. 100 00:15:38,742 --> 00:15:41,662 He got his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on December 1, 101 00:15:41,662 --> 00:15:44,542 2023, and Catherine O'Hara came to the ceremony, 102 00:15:45,122 --> 00:15:47,422 Home Alone back together thirty-three years on. 103 00:15:48,082 --> 00:15:50,322 The work leading up to this has repositioned him: 104 00:15:50,862 --> 00:15:53,362 American Horror Story: Double Feature in 2021, 105 00:15:53,862 --> 00:15:55,862 The Righteous Gemstones in 2022. 106 00:15:56,562 --> 00:15:58,682 The framing around him has genuinely shifted. 107 00:15:59,402 --> 00:16:02,302 Patrick Warburton plays Mayor Winddancer, 108 00:16:02,302 --> 00:16:03,502 David Puddy on Seinfeld, 109 00:16:03,802 --> 00:16:05,122 the title character in The Tick, 110 00:16:05,482 --> 00:16:09,042 and then Lemony Snicket in A Series of Unfortunate Events on Netflix. 111 00:16:09,942 --> 00:16:12,662 One of the most recognizable voices in American television, 112 00:16:13,162 --> 00:16:16,582 and he has always run an animated career alongside live-action work. 113 00:16:17,502 --> 00:16:20,802 Michelle Gomez plays Captain Hoggbottom, Scottish, 114 00:16:21,242 --> 00:16:25,402 worked in British comedy through the early 2000s on The Book Group and Green Wing, 115 00:16:25,862 --> 00:16:29,882 then played Missy in Doctor Who from 2014 to 2017. 116 00:16:30,682 --> 00:16:32,382 Idris Elba is back as Chief Bogo, 117 00:16:32,822 --> 00:16:34,902 and he has a specific Disney predator history, 118 00:16:35,362 --> 00:16:39,342 he voiced Shere Khan in Jon Favreau's live-action Jungle Book in 2016. 119 00:16:40,102 --> 00:16:41,762 His American breakthrough was The Wire, 120 00:16:42,062 --> 00:16:44,862 playing Stringer Bell from 2002 through 2004. 121 00:16:45,342 --> 00:16:46,602 Then Luther on the BBC. 122 00:16:47,262 --> 00:16:49,622 Then Heimdall in the Thor and Avengers films. 123 00:16:50,402 --> 00:16:52,542 Jenny Slate returns as Dawn Bellwether, 124 00:16:52,892 --> 00:16:56,002 she was on SNL for exactly one season in 2009, 125 00:16:56,562 --> 00:16:59,142 then co-created Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, 126 00:16:59,682 --> 00:17:03,082 which started as short films and eventually became a feature film. 127 00:17:03,082 --> 00:17:06,302 Long-running voice work on Bob's Burgers. 128 00:17:06,502 --> 00:17:08,882 Quinta Brunson plays Dr. Fuzzby, 129 00:17:08,882 --> 00:17:15,042 she went from a viral Instagram series in 2014 to creating Abbott Elementary at ABC in 2021. 130 00:17:15,762 --> 00:17:19,362 She built it from scratch: created, co-writes, 131 00:17:19,362 --> 00:17:21,402 executive produces, and stars in it. 132 00:17:21,962 --> 00:17:24,102 Danny Trejo voices Jesús, 133 00:17:24,102 --> 00:17:26,022 he's been in close to four hundred films. 134 00:17:26,822 --> 00:17:29,122 Raymond Persi, who voices Flash the sloth, 135 00:17:29,442 --> 00:17:31,982 is actually a Disney in-house animator and director; 136 00:17:32,542 --> 00:17:36,002 he worked on The Simpsons and The Simpsons Movie before the first Zootopia. 137 00:17:36,742 --> 00:17:38,582 And Maurice LaMarche voices Mr. Big, 138 00:17:38,982 --> 00:17:41,082 his career is almost entirely voice work: 139 00:17:41,422 --> 00:17:44,362 The Brain in Animaniacs, Kif Kroker in Futurama, 140 00:17:44,822 --> 00:17:46,682 Egon Spengler in The Real Ghostbusters. 141 00:17:47,222 --> 00:17:48,702 Four decades of that craft. 142 00:17:49,382 --> 00:17:51,202 Shakira is back as Gazelle, 143 00:17:51,622 --> 00:17:54,382 which was always one of the stranger casting ideas in the original: 144 00:17:55,022 --> 00:17:58,802 an internationally famous pop star voicing an in-world pop star. 145 00:17:59,482 --> 00:18:02,162 The concept worked, so the sequel brought her back. 146 00:18:03,162 --> 00:18:06,882 The Zebro officers are voiced by Phil Brooks and Joe Anoa'i, 147 00:18:07,462 --> 00:18:09,042 CM Punk and Roman Reigns, 148 00:18:09,522 --> 00:18:11,562 both active WWE performers. 149 00:18:12,222 --> 00:18:18,662 Two wrestlers playing Zootopia police officers is not a combination most people predicted when the franchise launched. 150 00:18:19,262 --> 00:18:22,722 What this cast ended up being is a specific kind of unusual room. 151 00:18:22,722 --> 00:18:26,822 Ke Huy Quan came back in his early fifties after someone found him on Twitter. 152 00:18:27,582 --> 00:18:30,722 Strathairn went from Edward R. Murrow to an animated oligarch. 153 00:18:31,462 --> 00:18:34,342 Two WWE champions are ZPD officers. 154 00:18:35,062 --> 00:18:38,862 Bush was still making story adjustments a year before November 2025. 155 00:18:39,782 --> 00:18:42,582 The distance between where these people started and where they landed, 156 00:18:43,242 --> 00:18:44,402 genuinely something to map.