Talking Simpsons - The Lauren MacMullan Interview!
Talking Simpsons
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🗓️ 17 May 2020
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
It's a brand new interview with Lauren MacMullan, Designer and Supervising Director of Mission Hill! Available a week early for $5+ subscribers on Patreon.com/TalkingSimpsons, we chatted with the Oscar-nominated artist about her decades in animation! Lauren told us about how she defined Mission Hill's look and feel from its creation, and shares some fun behind-the-scenes stories. Plus, we chat about MacMullan's work on The Critic, The Simpsons Movie, Avatar: The Last Airbender, her Oscar-nominated Mickey Mouse short, and so much more! And if you enjoyed this, subscribe at the Patreon to hear over 20 hours worth of our previous interviews with Simpsons luminaries!
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| 0:00.0 | Ah, so this is Mission Hill. |
| 0:02.8 | Don't get excited. It doesn't have anything you would like. |
| 0:07.2 | Well, it looks very colorful. Ahojoi-hoi everybody and welcome to another Talking Simpsons interview. |
| 0:21.0 | I am one of your host Bob Blingblong Mackey and who is here with me today |
| 0:24.7 | Henry Gilbert living that bohemian lifestyle of bugles and today we are talking to one of the |
| 0:30.4 | I guess unofficial creators of Mission Hill Lauren McMullen the supervising director of Mission Hill, Hill, Lauren McMullen, the supervising director of Mission Hill, |
| 0:35.0 | and she has touched so many of the animated series |
| 0:38.0 | that we have loved and even covered on the Talking Simpsons Network. |
| 0:41.0 | Yeah, it was so cool to get in touch with Laura McMullen to |
| 0:44.8 | chat about her her work on all these series like if you guys listen to our first |
| 0:49.4 | episode of Mission Hill that we put on the free feed the rest of |
| 0:52.4 | mini-series is behind the the patron paywall of Mission Hill that we put on the free feed. The rest of the |
| 0:53.0 | Patreon paywall, but if you listen to that, you know that Laura McMullen is a, you know, |
| 0:58.8 | incredibly talented animator and artist. She was designer of the show. Bill Oakley said he |
| 1:05.2 | considers her a co-creator of the show along with him and Josh. After speaking |
| 1:09.7 | with her in this interview there's so much of her spirit in the show I definitely feel. |
| 1:14.4 | Yeah we talk about of course her work at Mission Hill and the Simpsons and The Simpsons and |
| 1:17.5 | King of the Hill and the critic and the Simpsons movie in her entire career |
| 1:20.7 | it's a career spanning interview. Yeah, even you know if you're an |
| 1:24.3 | avatar fan or a fan of her Disney Mickey Mouse short she did or her other Disney |
| 1:29.2 | work. We chat about that too and we we learned some fun secrets about the creating of Mission Hill as well so and you know this is |
| 1:36.7 | hardly our first interview on talking Simpsons. That is true we have only just started putting |
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