Name: The Balancing Act | Disney+: Bridging the Gap | Disney+
Uploaded: 2022-04-06T16:52:07.000Z
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BREA BAKER: Welcome to "Bridging the Gap,"

Past simple

where we gathered the creative powerhouses behind

your favorite Disney+ movies and series together for a real,

no-holds-barred conversation about identity,

community, and driving social change through storytelling.

I'm so excited to be joined by some of the brilliant talent

from Walt Disney Animation Studios, who recently worked

Today, we're going to be talking about what it means to be first-

When you do have people behind the camera

telling the stories that are authentic to them,

I'm so excited to get into this conversation, because today,

we're going to talk about what it means to be first-

or second-generation American, how that's impacted each of you

personally, and also how it's shaped and inspired

I'm so grateful that I was a part of the film.

And it was incredible to send a message of hope and unity

in order to build something bigger than oneself.

I had the privilege of growing up in many different places

So that aspect of "Raya," of all these cultures

coming together as one, was something that I feel like was

I mean, and as the writer, this has to be a dream come true.

It's a thing that I always wanted to give my kids,

an opportunity to look up at the screen and see a hero that

looks like them, that they could put on a cape and a hat

and a sword and feel like they could save the world.

'Cause it makes "Raya" such an incredible

but to be part of it is a dream beyond something

to be an animator, first thing they responded with was,

they really didn't understand all the careers

to really work in films and tell stories,

They just didn't understand how you got there.

Now that I've brought my parents into the studio,

and I've been able to show them the process of animation

and how we create performances that then you

can see in the movies, they have a better understanding

It's been really incredible and rewarding,

to be able to share with them the success behind the films

that I've made and seeing them be so proud of me.

These words mean so many different things

to different people, based on where we come from.

So I think it's best to start with the basics of,

how do you each identify, as either first-

or second-generation American, and what has

I guess, in technical terms, I would consider myself

first-generation American because I was born in Egypt,

But in some ways, I consider myself second-generation

just because I've spent most of my life in the West,

whereas my parents spent most of their life in Egypt.

And the cultural divide that we have between each other

is so vast that I kind of differentiate the

That's interesting because I actually consider myself

first-generation, even though my parents were born in Cuba,

I would consider myself a second-generation and my parents

I was like, I always thought I was first-generation, 'cause

they were refugees, and I was the first-generation American

The thing that I think defines it the most for me is being,

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