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‘The Simpsons Movie’: Catching up with the Cast and Crew

[IMG:L]The Simpsons may have started as a sketch on The Tracy Ullman Show, but Springfield’s favorite dysfunctional family didn’t stay there for long. The family quickly moved to primetime with their own half hour slot on Fox, then made history as the longest running show of its kind. Now, Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie, make an even bolder move – to the big screen. 

The Simpsons Movie follows the family in an epic adventure from Springfield to Alaska and back. The trials and tribulations tear them apart more than any of Homer’s hair-brained schemes from television. It fills the widescreen movie frame and still pokes fun at itself and its parent company, Fox. Hollywood.com joined creator and writer Matt Groening, producer and writer James L. Brooks and voice talent Nancy Cartwright to find out more.

[IMG:L]Q&A with Matt Groening
“Well, this is beyond most cartoonists’ dreams. People go into cartooning because they’re shy and they’re angry. That’s when you’re sitting in the back of a classroom drawing the teacher. I was just talking the other day with these guys. I went through a phase where people would introduce me at parties as a cartoonist and everybody felt sorry for me. ‘Oh, Matt’s a cartoonist”… (Read story)

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[IMG:L]Q&A with James L. Brooks
“One day I just looked up, exhausted because we were just working like crazy. I see Homer trudging across the snow and it’s Dan Castellaneta improvising it and I saw what an iconic comic figure he was. I mean, I saw it because suddenly he was walking across this big screen. I think that was the most emotional sort of coming of age Simpson feeling I’ve had doing the movie.” (Read story)

[IMG:L]Q&A with Nancy Cartwright
“I kind of love that [we did the movie] now because you know what it does? It catapults it into a whole new life. It puts another life underneath it. It just makes me feel, gives me more certainty that the TV show will continue and we can do them both simultaneously. They’re not in competition with one another so why not? Just let the whole thing ride.” (Read story)

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