Boom boom animation5/17/2023 “No one wants to spend the whole year just sitting at home going like, ‘There was a pandemic. “We don’t have to touch each other in order to make animation happen.” “It’s truly the one thing we can all do while we’re at home,” explains Jen Rudin, a former casting director for Disney, Amazon, and Nickelodeon, who joined the talent agency ICM in July as a representative specializing in animation. And as a complete upending of the status quo has started to settle into a status quo in itself, the pandemic has further transformed a part of entertainment that was already in flux. But TV’s animation wing is surprisingly well suited to our current moment and the particular restrictions it puts on how we spend our days. No one in Hollywood planned for a pandemic, and so nothing in Hollywood is designed for one. One corner of the business, however, has continued relatively unscathed-the one without brick-and-mortar sets to cram with droplet-spewing actors, where “remote work” is not a contradiction in terms. Things are happening again, but they’re nowhere close to being back to normal. For every triumphant story of a late-night talk show returning to its New York studio after months of recording from home, there’s a headline about an A-list celebrity testing positive and bringing a nine-figure production to a screeching halt for every joy-sparking photo set of Bradley Cooper and a Haim sister ringed by crew members in masks, a tentpole heavily touted as the first in-theater experience of the coronavirus era posts a seriously underwhelming box office haul. Six months into a once-in-a-century pandemic, the global entertainment industry is attempting to claw itself back to a new normal, with predictably mixed results.
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