was it Gaston, Jafar, or Scar – not Roger Rabbit obviously?
The most difficult was probably Gaston, because of the realism involved. It was a character who’s a villain, but looks like a hero, like a good guy, and that’s an odd thing in itself, of course that was the theme of the movie, don’t judge the book by the cover. But it made it very difficult because he had to be portrayed realistically and yet there are things that he did, whether in a thought process or physical action that seemed to be cartoony in the story boards – but how far could I go with something like this? How much can I distort him – well not very much. So I tried to find the fine line about keeping him sort of handsome looking and not making a cartoon character out of him, so to speak, but also being able to give him some expressions that were required for the material – it was hard to walk that fine line – in some scenes it worked out and in some scenes I have done I really didn’t pull it through, it was just very difficult. I hope I can do better with Hercules. The concept
