Otto picks up: “It felt true to me. If you take a snapshot of who lives [in the UK], it varies from region to region of course, but it’s such a diverse, interesting, eclectic mix of people.
“It feels to me like that’s the world we live in, and certainly we didn’t want to create a world we lived in 10 years ago. If anything, we wanted to create a world we might live in 10 years from now, so more forward looking.”
The film is being released in a healthy year for animation, with The Wild Robot, Inside Out 2 and Flow among those competing in this year’s awards race.
But there is still a certain snobbery towards animated films, and only three have ever scored a best picture nomination – Beauty and the Beast, Toy Story 3 and Up.
Director Guillermo del Toro has previously championed it, external as its own craft, commenting: “Animation is not a genre for kids. It’s a medium for art.”
Curtis agrees: “I feel quite strongly about that at this moment, because for me, the two Spider-Verse movies are the most remarkable movies of the last 10 years.
“I watch them and I think, ‘they must have taken 300 years to make, they’re so extraordinary’. In the same way it’s turned out that much pop music, which used to be looked down on, is really great, I think every genre can be great, and there are some amazing works of art in the world of animation.”
