Were you at all familiar with Astro Boy, the TV show or the Manga?
Kristen: No. I had known the name in the back of my head for a while but I didn’t know why he was significant or what the story really was but, after I read the script, I became familiar with how iconic he was overseas and how he was like the Mickey Mouse of Japan. There are so many incarnations of “Astro Boy” in Manga and there was a TV show in the ’80’s here. I just really liked the script in general. I thought it had a lot of great themes and was excited to be a part of it. TeenHollywood: It does have great messages of friendship and more. Kristen: It does but it’s not shoved down your throat. It’s semi-subliminal. The themes are definitely universal. For instance, Metro City, where everyone lives, floats above the earth because the earth is destroyed. The surface of the earth is very polluted and it’s a junkyard, and that’s just a fact. They don’t really go into it. But, it’s an interesting thing to take into consideration. Robots are our servants and they’re second class citizens
