The answer, he continued, lay in the bond between the leads. \u201cThat lock-in between Alice and Billie, to me, was our North Star,\u201d Bush said. \u201cOnce we really dug in on why they had their issues and where their communication lines were not as clear as they could be, that became fun for us as we were trying to figure out their dynamic.\u201d<\/p>\n
While Hexed is comedic and fantastical, it\u2019s grounded in genuine emotion \u2014 a delicate combination that Ledoux Miller said was central to the writing process.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re here to create Disney magic, where people are going to laugh and they\u2019re going to feel something,\u201d she said. \u201cAs long as we\u2019re tracking that, then that\u2019s our North Star. We\u2019re having fun together, and that\u2019s where the great writing comes in.\u201d<\/p>\n
Billie, by design, is a character who refuses to stay inside the lines.<\/p>\n
\u201cBillie is the type of character that keeps pushing against the limitation,\u201d said Veerasunthorn. \u201cWe want to present that as aspirational. We wish we could be her.\u201d<\/p>\n
Yet, in the early days, the filmmakers found themselves rooting for Alice.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause we\u2019re both parents, we found ourselves siding with Alice quite a bit,\u201d Veerasunthorn said. \u201c\u2019Maybe this is her story instead of Billie\u2019s.\u2019\u201d Ultimately, they decided to tell the story from Billie\u2019s perspective, which meant remembering how they felt as teenagers so that audiences would be able to \u201cunderstand Billie deeply.\u201d<\/p>\n
Still, Hand said the filmmakers drew on their own experiences as parents to tell Billie\u2019s story. \u201cAs you grow up, the experiences you have in your own life influence the way that you teach your children,\u201d he said. \u201cThere are reasons. For Billie to discover what those reasons are, why Alice chose the things she chose, is really fascinating. It\u2019s something we can all relate to in our own lives \u2014 finding out something about your parents you maybe didn\u2019t know, like what they wanted to do but never chase. And that makes this a very human story in a very fantastical world.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The answer, he continued, lay in the bond between the leads. \u201cThat lock-in between Alice and Billie, to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,409,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-628923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}