This week, we talk to Ariel Freeman about Netflix's continuing to turn animation projects into live action projects! As a production coordinator at Dreamworks, she has some awesome insight!

This is Film Center.

Your number one show for real entertainment industry news.

No fluff, all facts.

Here are your anchors, Derek Johnson II and Nicholas Killian.

Film Center news.

My name is Derek Johnson II.

I'm Nicholas Killian.

And what are we doing today, Nicholas?

We are introducing a very special guest today.

Could you please introduce yourself?

Oh, hi my name is Arielle Freeman Never really done this before.

You're all good!

So what do you do, Arielle?

I'm a production coordinator at DreamWorks.

What does that mean?

Oh so basically, a production coordinator helps with the logistics of an animated TV

show, and basically, we help the artists make sure they have everything they need,

and are able to get everything in on time, and also, we, give them we, we cheer them

on when they need it, that kind of thing.

The moral support.

Yeah, that too.

Moral support is important, especially for artists and other creatives.

Because you have such, a lot of artists have such imposter syndrome so it's

important to tell them like, yeah, no, hey, listen, it's all good, just, you

know you're already hired here, right?

We wouldn't have couldn't do it if you didn't get hired.

No it's more just I don't know, it's just it's, Just a way to explain, but

like really our art is just amazing.

Every artist I've ever met in this industry is just incredible.

And I'm just, man, I'm just so lucky to be able to like, just

be around their artwork and just.

work and see what they make.

It's just incredible.

As you guys know, Film Center News is on the road and we are at Westlake Yen.

Yeah, Westlake.

We're at Westlake once again.

Why don't you tell everyone a little bit about where you're from?

You're not from LA.

I'm not.

No, you can tell by the accent.

I'm from Highland Park, Illinois, which is a little bit outside Chicago.

Shout out to Illinois.

Shout out, Illinois.

Illinois, this is, you finally succeeded.

You got on the map.

Because someone's out here.

Great job, Illinois.

There's a few other ways to show they are on the map, if you've ever

seen Ferris Bueller's Day Off or Mean Girls that's also Chicago area.

Oh yeah.

Nice.

Oh yeah.

In Chi Town, you also have Kanye.

Yeah but all of them pale in comparison.

And Obama.

Actually, yeah.

But forget all that.

We have a different alien away in here.

I guess so.

Yeah You work in an animation You work in the animation industry.

Yes.

Yeah were you always interested in animation?

Yes, actually growing up, I, grew up watching Saturday morning cartoons

a big favorite in my family was Bugs Bunny cartoons I was a very stubborn

kid, and if it wasn't a Bugs Bunny cartoon, that TV was going off.

Really?

Yeah.

Really?

You were that picky about it?

I was very picky, because if you've ever watched Bugs Bunny cartoons he is,

he's the hero, he is a very fun, goofy character, but he At least when he's

directed by Chuck Jones, for example.

Chuck Jones is a master.

Incredible.

Such a master.

He would always have Bugs Bunny reacting to someone, starting

the fight, his famous saying of course you realize this means war.

Yeah.

It would always come from like a Chuck Jones episode, and I, he

always felt like a hero to me.

So I refused to watch episodes where he lost, and I refused to

watch episodes he wasn't there.

This kind Of course!

He's such an amazing character he's perfected over 80 years of

people working with the character to make him feel like the one that

we know and love and care about.

And it was such a big part of my family My family I grew up with a relatively

observant Jewish household, and we'd go to synagogue every week, and my

dad would wear a Bugs Bunny tie.

Nice!

Yeah.

That's what's up.

Yeah, that's cool.

What made you say oh, I'm interested in animation I think

I might go further in this.

Did you originally go to college for animation, or?

I did, actually.

I went to Columbia College, Chicago.

It's an art school in Chicago.

It's pretty Do your parents have support?

Have you gone to For animation.

That's actually an interesting story.

So actually I've always been interested in animation.

It's not just Bugs Bunny.

That was just like the first time I noticed.

I loved Disney movies.

Loved them.

Loved Little Mermaid.

Mulan were probably my favorites.

And I think one of the movies that really inspired me was Prince of Egypt.

It's just Oh my god, it's so one of the best.

And I love the story behind it where they say if you got in trouble on Prince

of Egypt, you had to go work on Shrek.

Yeah, I did hear about that.

But like Prince of Egypt, I think one of the things about it every time I see it,

there's something new I love about it the most recent time I watched it was last

year on the DreamWorks campus, which, oh my god, was magical, it was amazing,

because people worked with the people that worked on it, so every time their names

came up, you saw, you heard clapping, it was Just an incredible experience.

And that time when I was watching, I noticed how little dialogue

was actually in the movie.

And it was mostly just like acting and boarding just masterful.

I don't think I've ever seen another movie that has come out of America that has

really had an impact like Prince of Egypt.

It's such an interesting genre because it's Christian Christian,

Jewish, religious, as you say, they had consultants from religious

leadership of a Christian, Muslim, and Jewish organizations.

Yeah, but it's religious in general.

And so it's I don't, there's not a whole bunch of stories that are told, especially

nowadays, that are even anywhere close to.

The way it's done in that genre.

I feel like one of the things about watching it is I have a tough time

watching it with my parents because my mom likes to point out all the

inaccuracies to the actual story.

However, I feel like the thing about it that really just makes it

universal is that it takes bits and pieces from each of the tellings.

and makes it into a strong coherent story of its own.

So they really push like the brotherly relationships between Moses and Ramses

and they Push the arc so you can see beginning middle end for all the

characters and I think that just makes it even more incredible because you're

able to be inspired by the original story and create something new from it.

I definitely understand there's a lot of inaccuracies.

It's not completely exactly the same as the Exodus story.

But it's just, it's, you can tell the inspiration, you can tell the love

for the original source material.

Plus the cast!

Incredible, yes!

Incredible!

Val Kilmer took it very seriously.

I read that he did method acting for it, but I'm not completely sure.

So don't quote me on that.

So going back to your parents, what is the, you said that was an interesting

story about getting into animation.

Oh yeah.

I didn't really know that I actually wanted to pursue animation till watching

Avatar The Last Airbender, because that was the first show where I realized

that an animated TV show could be something other than comedic and can

really teach you Such a great show.

So good.

On so many different levels.

Man, Zuko's story just made me realize that when a bully was mean to you or

something going back to mundane human life when a bully was mean to you, they

probably had something going on with them.

With Zuko's story he learned his entire life that about how the

Fire Nation was trying to share his greatness, how he believed that

they were doing the right thing, and then he had to learn on his own.

No one could tell him, no one could force him that what he was doing was wrong.

One of the greatest redemption arcs.

Period.

Period.

Exactly.

Because it was genuine, because it was, it took 50 episodes, it wasn't

super fast and it was super fast.

Oh, excuse me.

So thought throw there, DJ . Something it teaches kids that you gotta give

people patience to maybe learn that something that they're doing is wrong

and give them the support like Uncle Iro did to Zuko, to give them the

opportunity to grow from something that they might've done in the past.

To be able to understand that it was wrong and be able to.

Become better on their own.

Before we get too deep into this conversation my family if you're

listening, this is obviously something she's very passionate about.

My, my parents are very aware of their kids, their likes and dislikes and stuff.

And one thing that I didn't know until I was ready to graduate was when we

had a trip to Disney World when I was around six, and that was right

before the animation studio over in Florida was finished, like they were

They lost funding and had to close.

And then they really moved more towards Pixar.

Exactly.

So that was closing down.

I believe it was like, they're working on like maybe legal and stitch.

Maybe.

I can't remember, but yeah, exactly.

But I bel we had a tour to, to the animator's work, and found out later

that my dad was talking to one of the animators, and they gave him a

pencil to give to me, because he knew that I wanted to get into animation.

I was six.

That's so cool!

So that's when he gave me the pencil, cause I was telling him I think it

was maybe my junior, senior year.

That I wanted to get into animation, that I wanted to start working my portfolio

and really getting serious about it.

And he gave me the pencil and told me the story and I still have it.

So very supportive.

Very supportive.

That's so great to hear.

We very rarely hear supportive stories.

That is great position.

Yes.

Yes.

Both Nicholas and I have already told our horror stories, so it's really

great to hear, that, someone's.

being supportive of what you wanted to do.

After, so when you went to college, how did you end up out here in Los Angeles?

Oh, that's another fun story.

I felt that when I was, getting ready to graduate college that my portfolio

wasn't exactly where it needed to be.

I actually had this amazing teacher, Julian Grant, who taught this class,

Business of Animated Content, and I, he also taught another one that

was like Portfolio Development for Animation, and in both those

classes, he really pushed networking.

He pushed to meet people in the industry, reach out to them with

emailing, with cold calling with cold emailing with basically just find a way

to talk to people in the industry and learn from them and gain mentorship.

And just like just me as many people as possible.

And when especially when you're first starting out, and we've

said this before, it's important that, you get those experiences.

And not everything is about money up front.

When you're first starting to learn.

Experience is more valuable than money up front.

With animation, they go by this, like I heard this I should probably continue.

So yeah, so when I graduated, my parents pushed me out of the house.

They're like, just get started already, just go out there

and start talking to people.

Out the bird's nest.

Exactly, because my parents they both have like MBAs, so they, they learn

networking basically like second nature.

What do you, what do your parents do?

So my mom she did marketing for global marketing for mostly dental companies

Marketing means networking expert.

Getting that job means networking expert but marketing means people expert.

At least that's how I see it.

And then my father he had many different jobs, but he did mostly

internet marketing in the beginning, and then he started his own dog

food business, which is incredible.

And you guys have a dog?

We do.

Actually.

He's a little Bijan poodle mix named jazz.

He's a grumpy little guy and I love him.

Then my dad, I recently got in he, he got into his new newest career, which is he's

a financial advisor at Goldman Sachs.

So it basically, yeah, that's quite the flex.

Oh yeah.

He started.

Yeah.

That, that one is just I'm just he's my hero.

So being able to like change direction in your career so many times and just

doing it with and being able to keep up with all the, the young'uns, he

just it really teaches you that, How did he get the job at Goldman Sachs?

Oh that one also with networking.

With some family friends that like were financial advisors as well.

And they I believe he I, you'd have to talk to him about the story, but he had

to but they like he did informational interviews with them, I believe.

I don't know.

You're, so He's gonna have to tell you.

What networking skills did you usually What usual skills did you

say that you really leaned on?

I, so when I first moved out here, it was around like late 2018, early 2019,

and I just hit the ground running.

I got You said late 2018, early 2019.

Yes.

That's when I got here.

Hey, they were practically neighbors.

Oh my goodness.

Oh my gosh.

When I got out here, I just like.

I started immediately trying to get some kind of income, so I started

teaching swimming at the local JCC, did that for a little while, and

then found something that was, like, a little bit easier to manage which

was private swim lessons in West L.

A.

for with a company called Head Above Water.

It's basically just With that, it gave me the freedom to take my

weeks and use them for networking.

So what I did was I would go to networking events, meet people, then schedule

coffee chats throughout the week, where it, I would basically go to one place

to meet one person, then go to another place to meet another person, and that

was my day for a couple months there.

Hollywood runs on coffee meets.

Yeah.

Lunches, dinners.

I, in the South, we, more people play golf to do a lot of their networking.

Yeah, back.

But over here in LA, it's oh.

The coffee.

The interesting thing is I actually not really much of a coffee

drinker, more of a tea person.

How did you survive?

I don't know.

It's like it was touch and go for a little while there.

Each new person I met gave me some new advice and some new understanding

of their experiences in the industry.

And everyone had a different story.

No one went into the industry in the same way.

And that was just incredible to be able to see that.

And they all said the same thing paid forward.

Like this industry runs on basically kindness from others and being able

to give that kindness to another person who's looking for it.

And I just I was in awe with how many people were just willing and excited

to just help out the next generation get to where they wanted to go.

And I just I found that incredible.

I ended up networking like this for a few months.

It was, getting it was getting tough.

I was I wasn't working as much as I needed to still keep rent and

everything, but it Right here is hiiii.

Of course it is, exactly.

But I was cold emailing and basically, for anyone who wants to know, cold emailing

is essentially, you find names of people who've worked on things you wanted to

work on, that you wanted to work on, that you like, that you respect, that you

want to like, understand their stories, and you reach out to them through email.

And to basically just try to find a way to just talk to them.

And keep in mind that networking is about making friends.

You're learning about new people.

You're asking for help.

You're learning about their experiences because learning is the most important

thing when getting into this industry.

It's very off putting when someone says, Oh, give me something.

From the job, you know what I'm saying?

Why don't you try to become their friend?

And keep in mind, these people are good people, and if they

could, they would give you a job.

They really would.

But it's, they also, the best thing they can do is just give you their story.

And that is always great for when you're just starting out, because

you can learn from their experiences.

So in this case, I cold emailed I sent maybe like 10 emails a day, give or take,

to different people in the industry.

And I rarely got a response because, Life is crazy, and people do the best they

can, and sometimes an email falls through the cracks and that's okay, and keep in

mind, if you guys, if anybody listening to this is getting started in the

industry and going out on their own and networking, if somebody doesn't respond

or somebody responds and takes a while to respond again, don't, it's never on you.

Life is just tough, and people, have important responsibilities that they

have in their own lives, so never blame yourself, just keep going, and keep

trying, and keep talking to new people.

And sometimes you need to send a reminder hey, I emailed you

two months ago, how are you?

Yeah also just yeah, checking on them.

If they give you their time, they're giving you a great treasure

because people can't get time back.

Please take it with you and be able to pay it forward when

someone asks for your help.

In this case, one of the people I cold emailed, it was Tobias Trost,

who worked on things like Gravity Falls and Shout out to Tobias!

Yeah, and Young Justice, and he gave me my first shot.

I was interviewing with other companies for a while, actually,

and I got an interview with him and they gave me an opportunity on the

show final space for season two.

Incredible show.

Please watch it if you can.

It's so good, so fun.

And I'm just so lucky to be able to, as an artist people have different art

styles that they're that they favor.

Is there any art styles that you can think of from some show or something like man?

I love the way that this is drawn.

Oh man, Avatar Lester Banner holds a special place in my heart I'm a sucker

for like anime style I'm a sucker for just the emotions that it gives and

like the storytelling that it allows.

I just I love it And it just but I learned to see Like different art styles and

see what went into them and just learn to love those as well But avatar will

always hold a special place in my heart.

Speaking of avatar.

We've had a previous guests Avatar that holds such a special place in your heart.

I think I got into a little bit with Zuko storyline It was the first time like where

as a kid I noticed that Animation can tell darker storylines and like life lessons

and it gets into some really interesting Ideas like it gets into government

corruption it gets into Embossing say exactly what that's not the line.

What is the line?

It's like there's nothing there is no more embossing Say that's what it is.

That's what it is.

Yeah and it just as a kid, like I think I was 10 when I started

watching after our last Airbender, I would watch with my brothers.

I have two brothers older and younger, and we rarely agreed on what to watch.

Watch you.

You're the middle child.

I am, yeah.

I give off that energy, , classic middle child classic middle child.

Me and Nicholas are both the oldest.

The oldest, yeah.

I Know how you feel, but I also know how the youngest feels.

So you usually were you like a mediator in the house or you were like.

No.

No?

Cause I was also the You were the instigator?

She's also you were also the only girl.

I was also the only girl it was a little bit different dynamic.

But, the point is, Avatar was one of the shows we would always watch together

and we'd always love to watch together.

So it also holds a special place in my heart because it was a way

for me to bond with my brothers and I will always like enjoy that.

Like even in college when Legend of Korra was out my brother would

reach out being like, did you see the new Avatar Legend of Korra episode?

And I would be like, oh yay, he's reaching out about something.

This is great.

So what is your, so you know Netflix is Live action it's gonna come out.

Yeah, pretty soon.

Yeah, and a lot of people are Wary of what it might look like some of the shots

They look okay, but it's hard to judge something from a picture, and Once again,

we cannot ignore the previous live action attempt of Avatar The Last Airbender

that's been banished to other live actions such as Dragon Ball Z Evolution.

I don't know what you're talking about, it doesn't exist.

There is no movie in Ba Sing Se.

There is no movie in Ba Sing Se, exactly.

From what I've heard and seen, they've done really well with One Piece.

And they've done really well with Yu Hakusho.

With those two successes, and those being animes as well.

Success meaning they were rated highly.

What do you, does that give you more hope that this time around, the

live action Avatar will do better?

Because, just cause it's Netflix, I mean they did mess

up that Death Note pretty bad.

And Death Note is mostly dialogue, so I don't even know how they failed that.

So I think they actually, I think Cowboy Bebop was, it needed to happen

so they can learn their lesson.

Oh my gosh, I totally forgot about Cowboy Bebop.

They messed up that one too.

Yeah, so for those who don't know, Cowboy Bebop was panned in its release and the

original creator was barely involved.

I think was mostly involved with music?

I can't remember, but it was not good.

And please don't time, like I said, you can't get back.

Just keep that in mind.

But with, one Piece, it I feel like that proved that they learned their

lesson because I'm a huge One Piece fan.

I love One Piece.

Didn't they say they worked a lot really close with the creator for it?

Yeah I, yeah, so I'm Imagine that!

Work closely with the person who created the show, and you'll get a good show!

Yeah yes, I'm a huge fan of One Piece.

I've seen every episode.

I'm caught up completely with the manga.

I know where the story's gonna go, and So good, it's really great.

There's over a thousand episodes.

Actually.

I've been up to date since I was in high school, so It's easier now.

You have to go back in time to keep up with her.

If there's another pandemic, you have something to do for a little while.

God forbid.

With the one people's live action, I watched it.

I was like, wow, it retains the like whimsy and wonder that the

original had the casting was perfect.

I don't think that could have gotten better people for each character.

Gotten.

Luffy was incredible.

He had the same energy.

He was warm.

He was welcoming.

And he just you can just see the passion ooze from this character

that Everyone fell in love with her in the original animated show.

So props, Netflix, great job on one.

So you, we can confirm that you do the live action one piece.

I do.

Yes.

So what do they have to do in the avatar, the anime avatar, a live

action for you to get someone like you to get the same reaction?

I think is they just need to love the original and just

want to do right by the fans.

Which is what they did with one piece.

They were very like from what I've heard from friends that.

I used to work at Netflix.

They worked very close.

Here in Los Angeles, we do sign NDAs, once again.

But people, our audience knows that, but we can't talk about everything.

Yeah, so from what I've heard the showrunner of the live action One

Piece was, is a huge fan of One Piece himself, and basically can name what

scene, what chapter, what happened in each one, and just is an encyclopedia.

The passion's there.

Exactly, and the cast is also a big fan Nami.

The woman playing Nami just loves the character and just

cares about the character.

So that's just an example.

So they also worked very closely with Oda.

Yutaro Oda, who is the creator of One Piece.

And just, and Amazing writer and just incredible writer.

So they were able to like, check in with him to make sure that the

storylines they were going with and things they cut for time, of course

were okay with him as they move forward.

Although I don't know all the details because I didn't work on it, but, um,

that's what I hope they were able to do with with Avatar because I think

that the closest thing you can get without the creators because it,

famously the creators left in I think 2019 as the show is being developed.

I don't know what went on with that.

There's always, that always gives me, uh, it always makes me nervous when

you hear that the creators have left.

Not that they were removed, but they themselves decided to

leave because of some reason.

For that reason, I don't really know.

But who do you think is gonna be?

Who, what I say is your favorite Avatar character?

Zuko.

For Zuko.

I'm a sucker for redemption arcs.

I just, like, I love the, the philosophical side and morality

side when it comes to that.

I, with him, with his character, he was just, you can tell how lost he was.

You can tell that he was a good person at his core.

He just grew up with such negative Ideas that it pushed him in an evil

direction, and he was just given the opportunity to show that his capacity for

good outweighed his capacity for evil.

And I think that's something that everyone can learn and everyone can grow from.

It's like people have the ability to change and have the ability

to adapt and become better.

And I want to think that growing up, seeing that character being able to learn

from his mistakes and become better and be accepted by the people that he wronged.

It.

It is really incredible for someone who's just like growing up and seeing

the negative sides of school, like grade school, middle school, high school.

People are bullies.

People are mean.

The scene that really resonates with me in Avatar, we're talking Zuko.

Oh yes.

I could talk about Zuko for hours.

It's the one with so where he finds the, where he finds their bison, right?

And Iroh's who do you want to be?

And he's I know my destiny, uncle.

Is it your destiny?

Or is it destiny that someone has put on you?

And that is, I remember watching that and being like, oh my

gosh, just straight up chills.

Cause it does strike a huge core, and one of the things that people really

like about the live action One Piece is that the writing is still there because

of, because It's core is there, right?

Yes, some quotes are directly from the manga itself, like Hawkeye's quote

I don't hunt rabbits with a cannon.

Yes.

Yeah, so then it's I think that if they try, if they don't have that core.

The core of the characters in the live action Avatar, it's

going to go down pretty The reaction's going to be really bad.

Oh gosh, if they mess it up it's going to be a horrible reaction.

I'm going in with some semblance of hope because I do believe

One Piece was is probably the thing that's given me that hope.

Because One Piece was like they did such a good job with One Piece.

They understand what's at stake and they understand who they need to make this for.

They need to make this for The fanbase of the original who want to watch with

their kids and want to watch it with a different medium and see if the story

is able to work well in that medium.

And, I have, I'm a little curious.

I'm curious to see how they do it and if there's a Technology is better.

It is, but I also think that They're gonna take it seriously and the

trailers have been pretty solid and it's really like showing like

bits and pieces of things that we remember from the original cartoon.

Although I do think the cartoon can't be beat.

The original is just incredible and they just Something I

worry about is the lighting.

Cause especially, we have fire.

It's just It's so easy to animate beautiful fi not easy, but it's

animated fire looks better a lot of times when it comes to lighting.

Than actual fire.

Because, when you're using cameras you have your white balance and you

have that ex light source, right?

So then the camera wants to, compensate for that.

And I honestly, some fire is usually something that's pretty hard to capture.

Is that is that a worry for you?

Or you think they're just gonna CGI all the fire?

There's obviously some of it, but I would like to see some real fire.

Honestly, if the story's there, and the characters are there, acted, and still

hitting as the original did, I think the effects will if it, if they're not that

bad, they could probably be like, add a certain kind of character to the show.

If I've been re watching a lot of older TV shows, and one of

them is Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

And with that show it's got really bad effects, but I feel like that kind of

gives it a little bit of that charm.

You think it g You think that but it's dated, though.

People watch it knowing that it's dated.

Oh, it's incredibly dated, but I think, but they talk about the effects alone,

or the it's just, I feel like Even though effects can be a detriment,

sometimes it can be very charming.

Even if it's not exactly perfect, so As long as you care about the characters,

yeah, I'm Yeah, what I'm saying is I'm not super worried about that because I think

if the writing's there and the characters are there it's gonna just be a fun watch.

You think it's gonna give it a piece of charm that we would

have never thought of before.

Yeah, so that's possible.

I, like I said, I've never I don't know what to expect but I'm

going in to expect it to be fun.

With the One Piece live action show The rubber powers that Luffy has is

not, it's, they do the best they can.

And it does give it a little bit of charm, especially how they

have to maneuver through their, the difficulty that it gives.

I think that was really smart choice.

And they are really pushing with practical effects in that show.

If you've noticed, like a lot of the ships, I loved that.

So great to me personally, that's what made that show worked for me

is that they were like, all right, if we're going to do it live action.

We're it's live action.

You know what I'm saying?

I, there's so many instances where I was watching the live action one piece.

And I was like, if this was CGI, I don't think I would have liked

it as much, at certain parts.

And the fact that you see them try to push for the practicals also shows

the amount of love they have for it.

Exactly.

And I think that also gives it a lot of charm.

Like it's the campy adventure story.

They should have genetically engineered a real flying bison.

No, I'm kidding.

It's the campy adventure story that we fell in love with when

we were kids growing up with some of this like non exact, great.

Special effects stuff.

Like it's I grew up watching the 1960s Batman live action show.

It's so campy with the dry eyebrows.

Oh, man, it's I love it so much because it's just it's so campy and just so

all over the place, but it's just fun.

And you don't have to like really think about it.

It's just like an enjoyable And it's an enjoyable show, but it's just

you also have Batman, like drinking orange juice and it's it's so And

having shark repellent, but that goes back to loving the character

and loving the execution of it.

But it's a different version of the character.

So Batman's actually my favorite superhero of all time.

And I think that probably the best version of him is Batman the Animated

Series, but I can gain some enjoyment from the 1960s one because it's got its

own style and it's like a unique take and it's still, you can still tell there's

some kind of it's just a different Take on the character but, Batman,

the animated series perfect iteration.

One thing that I would ask you is, do you think nowadays audiences are

more forgiving and understandable more so than they were in the past?

So I feel like with a fan base, I've seen a lot of forgiveness come out of them

in certain cases they just want their favorite characters that have given them

so much joy, they just want them to be portrayed just well, they just want to

see love for the characters, they want to see excitement for the characters from

the people who are working with them, and that's all they want, that's all

they want to see, and I feel like with One Piece, you can see that with live

action, you can see there's care, you can see there's love, you can see they're

trying their best to honor each other.

What gave so many people so much joy and and I feel like if we're given

that with characters that have given, have had a tough go about it as of

recently, I see that you're going to be surprised with how the fan base reacts

and how they can be very forgiving.

They just want to see the thing they love so much that has maybe connected them

to their spouse or their children and.

Ways that people don't understand I grew up watching Star Wars, for example,

with my dad, and it's just, I grew up watching the prequels with my brother,

and I love the prequels because of that, because it gave me such great memories

of spending time with your family.

Exactly.

When I see people insult the prequels, and most I can forgive that, of course,

with the fanbase, because they want so badly to see what they love, but

when it comes to the shows insulting the prequels, I'm just like, hey now.

Wait, what's going on with this?

Yeah this has given a lot of people a lot of joy.

Look at Star Wars Clone Wars.

Amazing show!

Wow.

Amazing show.

Great show.

Ariel, thank you so much for coming on to the show and speaking with us.

Absolutely, it was a lot of fun.

Is there anything that you want to is there any way people can follow you

or, some things you want to shout out?

Oh oh my follow me?

No.

I, man, social media is a scary place, but, um, I don't know, check out some of

the shows I've worked on, I don't know.

You, what shows like?

I worked on Final Space Season 2, but Season 3's great,

Season 1's great, please watch.

I worked on The Simpsons of course, watch it, it's great.

The Simpsons is also really great.

Oh, it's such a great show, please watch, it's so great.

I won an Emmy this year, yay, go Simpsons!

Yeah.

I, And I'm currently working on an animated preschool show

called Gabby's Dollhouse.

So incredible.

If you have little kids, or if you have family that's

little kids, they will love it.

It's so fun.

They'll learn something new.

You'll enjoy it.

Check it out.

Super fun.

Awesome.

Thank you so much.

Guys, this has been Film Center News.

My II.

I'm Nicholas Killian.

And we're here with Arielle Freeman.

And we'll see you next time.

See y'all.

This has been Film Center on Comic Con Radio.

Check out our previous episodes at FilmCenterNews.

com.

Sign up for our newsletter and get the Hollywood trade straight to you.

You can follow the show at Film Center News on all major platforms.

Tune in next week for a fresh update.

Until next time, this has been Film Center.

Hey, do you like anime and manga?

Nick and I are Big fans of the genre.

Yeah.

We recently discovered a manga named Thomas.

She, it's written and created by Ryan McCarthy, and it recently just

came out with its 10th volume now, Thomas, she is an is Kai about a

girl who gets transported to another world called the Ancient Lands.

She gains mysterious powers and must fight demons and monsters.

To find her way home.

Check it out on Amazon Blurp and get a physical copy@ryanmccarthyproductions.com.