Once Upon A Fan

Raphael Sbarge recently chatted to "Hero Complex". A sample of the interview can be found below.

HC: What’s it like filming in Vancouver?

RS: Aesthetically it makes a lot of sense because of all the forest and greenery. With the rainforest right outside of the city, the spectacular greenery and moss … you’d have to green screen all of that. But here, you can just sort of walk out into it.

HC: What drew you to the role?

RS: I came about it the old-fashioned way — I went in and auditioned. What happened was, not knowing much about the project, and having only read the script for the pilot, there was really just one scene in the pilot to read and interact with a young boy. Then they said that it was Jiminy Cricket. So I thought, ‘Oh. Do they want a voice match?’… No, no, no. They just want it real… ‘Keep it real’ is the moniker I’ve gone back to a lot. What they’ve done here is taken characters [we have all] grown up with, and sort of reinvigorated them and made them more dynamic.

HC: With the curse having been lifted and Jiminy Cricket’s memories returning, have you changed your approach to the character at all?

RS: Well, it’s sort of like … my parents are my parents, but it’s like if you found out one day that you’re adopted. I feel like it would completely flip your world in a way and make you look at every memory and experience and interaction through a new prism in a way. Yet, at the same time, you’re still the same person, just altered with new information. Obviously it creates new and interesting relationships, too… We’re also often in two worlds where we question which one is the real world. It’s a phantasmagoria of options that they’ve created. In lesser hands, this could’ve been done really badly.

Read the full interview at Hero Complex