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Bruce was eight when he auditioned for his first Disney character. “I did Christopher Robin for Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree. Then when I was ten, Jungle Book came along and they had actually cast a different actor. But it takes four years to finish these films, and of course his voice changed, so they ended up casting me to do Mowgli.”
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Young Reitherman didn’t record with the other actors, but spent a great deal of time in the large recording studio with writer Larry Clemmons and the story men. “It was always important for the story to drive the piece forward, and the corollary to that is that part of any actor’s performance is an understanding of what his actor is going through and what path he’s on. So they took quite a bit of time going over storyboards when we first got started, and the guys would act out the lines to give a sense of what sort of energy the scene demanded and where it was all heading.”
Bruce also modeled some scenes of Mowgli for animation reference, “not really to get the mechanics of the motion so much,” he says, “but to see what little nuances that made this particular twelve-year-old kid kick a rock or throw a stick. That way they could inject their animation with a sense of unique personality.”
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