Back in 1992, Disney’s flick Aladdin brought in $504 million dollars which, in today’s money comes to over a billion US Dollars. A huge part of the success of the film, of course, was Robin Williams’s incredible performance as Genie.
Speaking to Variety, longtime Disney animator and co-director of Aladdin, Ron Clements said: “On the first day of recording [Genie’s intro] we had script pages written in Robin’s improv style and storyboards illustrating some of the visual metamorphosing we were planning. He started out recording the script as written a few times, then took off in a multitude of directions…
“And he was consistently hilario...
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