#1SteeleFan

An absolute honor to be able to speak with you, here's my question:

 

Can you tell me more of the backstory of Steele's charcter in the first film? like how he was thought up and maybe some information that we the fans may not have heard like if he had a differnt name or something along those lines? 

Karlamon

Here is Simon's reply:

"We originally envisaged Steele as the most popular kid in school; the king of the jocks. He has always been the best, and never had to really work to maintain his position. In a word: cover-confident. Never having had to try very hard, he is not ready for adversity when it confronts him, and his grip on right and wrong goes away as soon as he is rattled.

I had wanted to cast Brendan Fraser (at the time almost unknown; he'd been in 'Encino Man' and was shooting 'Airheads') but Steven Spielberg felt a more directly villainous take would be better, and pushed us to cast Jim Cummings (a well-known animation voice even then). Jim did a tremendous job, and we were very happy with the resulting characterization."

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Karlamon	December 29, 2015
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Here is Simon's reply: "We originally envisaged Steele as the most popular kid in school; the king of the jocks. He has always been the best, and never had to really work to maintain his position. In a word: cover-confident. Never having had to try very hard, he is not ready for adversity when it confronts him, and his grip on right and wrong goes away as soon as he is rattled. I had wanted to cast Brendan Fraser (at the time almost unknown; he'd been in 'Encino Man' and was shooting 'Airheads') but Steven Spielberg felt a more directly villainous take would be better, and pushed us to cast Jim Cummings (a well-known animation voice even then). Jim did a tremendous job, and we were very happy with the resulting characterization."

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