{"id":686,"date":"2015-06-26T10:57:26","date_gmt":"2015-06-26T14:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willoughbyavenue.com\/letsbelifted\/?p=686"},"modified":"2015-06-30T11:05:09","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T15:05:09","slug":"pixar-vows-more-films-with-ethnic-minority-characters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willoughbyavenue.com\/letsbelifted\/pixar-vows-more-films-with-ethnic-minority-characters\/","title":{"rendered":"Pixar Vows&#8230; More Films With Ethnic Minority Characters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Lasseter, the chief creative officer of Pixar, when speaking at a press conference for Pixar\u2019s latest film, Inside Out, said that it was important to have ethnic minorities in main character positions to reflect their experiences, reports The Telegraph.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s very important for us to have, both at Pixar and at Disney, female, ethnic characters,\u201d Lasseter said. \u201cAnd it\u2019s grown in importance over time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnimation when we got started was mostly guys, but we have been seeing more and more women and more and more people from all over the world starting to work with it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lasseter continued, adding, \u201cIt\u2019s very exciting to see that come up. And I think it will get reflected in the characters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Pixar vows to make more films with ethnic minority characters\" href=\"http:\/\/thegrio.com\/2015\/05\/19\/pixar-disney-ethnic-minority-characters\/\"><strong>Read complete article at The Grio<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Lasseter, the chief creative officer of Pixar, when speaking at a press conference for Pixar\u2019s latest film, Inside Out, said that it was important to have ethnic minorities in main character positions to reflect their experiences, reports The Telegraph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[34],"tags":[37],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/willoughbyavenue.com\/letsbelifted\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Pixar-v2.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6pLGr-b4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willoughbyavenue.com\/letsbelifted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willoughbyavenue.com\/letsbelifted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willoughbyavenue.com\/letsbelifted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willoughbyavenue.com\/letsbelifted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willoughbyavenue.com\/letsbelifted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/willoughbyavenue.com\/letsbelifted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":688,"href":"https:\/\/willoughbyavenue.com\/letsbelifted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions\/688"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willoughbyavenue.com\/letsbelifted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willoughbyavenue.com\/letsbelifted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willoughbyavenue.com\/letsbelifted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willoughbyavenue.com\/letsbelifted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}