Today is a super exciting day! It is the day that Big Hero 6 is available on Blu-ray, Digital HD, and Disney Movies Anywhere! Woo hoo! To celebrate, I’m sharing my interview with Ryan Potter, the voice of Hiro, and Daniel Henney, the voice of Tadashi.
Let me just say that Daniel and Ryan are sweethearts. You can just tell they have this brotherly love and respect and admire each other. I absolutely love it. They have this great chemistry, but I was super surprised to find out that they hadn’t met before the first screening of the movie! Read on to find out other fun stuff we got to learn in our interview!
We wondered how excited Ryan was to work on the film & how excited he was over the science stuff:
Ryan Potter: It wasn’t necessarily a love for robotics and science. It was more of just a love of creating and you know, within robotics. There’s so much you can create and I had the Lego robot kit. That thing is awesome! I had a lot of models and robot builds and all these different things that I just loved piecing together. So it wasn’t necessarily a love for robotics and science but more just wanting to be able to kind of put the things that were almost trapped in my mind to just bring them out and create. It’s very meditative for me to use my hands and to build things. It was awesome being able to voice Hiro because that’s literally who I was four years ago – I was that kid. I think I still am.
Since Daniel was in Wolverine, we wondered if he was a big comic book fan growing up:
I mean, not huge, but I was definitely into them. I was into Spiderman, Incredible Hulk, stuff like that. It’s still very surreal though. It doesn’t get like, oh, this is my normal Tuesday, you know – fighting Wolverine and dying in a helicopter. That’s not normal for me. It’s still very surreal. This movie was very, very special. You could feel the Marvel influence, but it just a whole other beautiful experience. It was just bigger than anything I’ve done before.
It was fun to hear how Tadashi and Daniel are actually alike in real life:
Daniel Henney: I dress just like Tadashi. I always have. I don’t usually wear suits, so there’ll be days when I walk out of the house and I’ll take a look in the mirror and I look just like Tadashi. I wear a cardigan and a baseball hat. But to answer the question, he’s made me a better person. He really has. We are all living in this world, we get caught up in things and sometimes it’s hard to appreciate every moment like everyone preaches, you know? It’s hard. It was a beautiful opportunity for me to go and play this guy who is such a role model for what a man should be at such a young age – so smart, beautiful, intelligent, caring, genuine, the ultimate big brother, and he’s very selfless. Every day lending your voice to that, I would walk out of that room feeling like I just sat through a therapy session. I wanted to tackle the world. I’d be at the grocery store afterwards, just smiling and ran into people – probably creeping them out, “How are you doing today?” Like, I’m all right. It was great, you know, so he’s really helped me a lot.
Can you believe that Ryan and Daniel actually didn’t meet before the first screening of the movie?!
Daniel: We met the first screening day. It was weird, you know? I’m not lying at all when I say I feel a brotherly bond with this guy. We have similar experiences, similar backgrounds, and so the day of the screening, I hadn’t met any of the cast, but I was most excited about meeting Ryan. The minute he walked in the room, I had to gravitate towards him. I felt we needed to connect, and we did. It was a big hug and it just felt very organic.
Big Hero 6 is available on Blu-ray, Digital HD and Disney Movies Anywhere TODAY! Make sure to get your copy ASAP!
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My kids and I loved this movie. What a cool interview.
How fun was this?! Big Hero 6 is one of the best family movies I’ve ever seen, and it was so wonderful to meet the voices behind the characters.
That is really interesting that Daniel and Ryan didn’t meet until the screening! Such a cute movie, and a great cast!
Oh my goodness, this is an awesome movie. We have seen it at least ten times and I still laugh and cry. Thanks for sharing your interview with us.
Thanks for sharing this great interview. Big Hero 6 is hands down one of the best movies I’ve ever seen. Ever.
We absolutely loved this movie, what a fun opportunity!!!
What a great interview! I love the similarities between Ryan Potter and Hiro. No wonder he did such an awesome job!
Looks like you guys had a great time. I can’t wait to watch it tonight. We are going to rent it.
Our whole family went to see it and loved it! So cool you got to chat with them!
My son LOVED this movie! What a cool interview opportunity!
I seriously LOVED this movie! Made me laugh and cry, can’t wait to buy it today!
I cannot wait to watch this movie with my boys! It looks SO good!
This looks like a great movie for my kids! Neat interview you got 😉
Wonderful interview. I’m surprised how much he looked like his character on screen since they don’t always do that. He seems like a very down to earth individual and very humble.
How exciting! My son loves this movie!
I loved this movie so much!
This looks like a really cute movie. What fun to get to go behind the scenes.
It would be fun to be the voice of a character in a movie. Great interview.
I have been hearing a lot about this movie lately. It looks fun!
I think that me and my daughter will be seeing this movie soon. It looks like something that we both would enjoy.
We just recently received this blu-ray/dvd combo for review and I have to say it’s quite cute. Disney always comes up with the best movies.
great interview. my kids can’t wait to see it!!! it really does look like a great movie.
This movie is so cool. I was super impressed. I can’t believe Ryan and Daniel had never met!
This movie looks so cute! Can’t wait to see it 🙂
We are HUGE fans of Big Hero 6! my daughter loves it and wants to watch it 24/7 now. Such a great movie.
My family loves this movie! It is awesome that you got to be part of this interview!
We have a copy of this at our home. We have not watched it yet, but it sounds like a good movie!
How fun! I’ve heard great things about this movie.
What a great opportunity for you to sit through this interview! My son saw the film and loved it! I can’t wait to see it for myself :))
Great interview! My whole family loves this movie!
So fun! My son would have freaked out fan girl style if this would have been me there lol
I haven’t seen this movie yet but I will. The kid wants to see it.