‘WandaVision’ wife-husband songwriters identify with main characters
Musicals songwriter Robert Lopez has said he and wife, musicals songwriter Kristen Anderson-Lopez, possibly identify with the characters of Wanda and Vision in streaming service Disney+’s miniseries, “WandaVision.”
Lopez, along with Anderson-Lopez, was speaking for the Generic Junket Interviews series that Walt Disney Pictures is distributing for entertainment news publishers.
“I think it’s possible that the two of us identify with them as a couple as well because i always approach things a little bit more from the logic side, and I’m always interested in what this thing called emotion might be,” said Lopez, according to the video of the interview US and Global News also accessed.
Lopez is one of only 16 people who have won a Grammy, an Emmy, a Tony and an Oscar. He is also the youngest (39 years and 8 days) and quickest (10 years) to win all the four prestigious awards. Moreover, he is also the only individual who has won all four awards more than once, as of 2018.
He is best known for co-creating “The Book of Mormon” and “Avenue Q” and for co-writing the songs featured in Disney movies “Frozen,” “Frozen II” and “Coco” with his wife, Anderson-Lopez.
Responding to the question “Why do you think people have such an affinity for Wanda and Vision?,” Anderson-Lopez had said, “I think people really connect to Wanda and Vision because… there are two ways you could go as a human being. You can either have your trauma like Wanda’s had… have your trauma turned you into a person who just hides or a person who is just very powerful?”
She added, “And I think Wanda, in particular, is someone who is taking her trauma and it has just made her that much more powerful and she’s survived. And then she has found this unique love and a synthezoid, someone who is, in spite of the fact that he is mechanical, has found this wonderful humanity, so I actually think it is love, between Wanda and Vision, and that’s why they like them.”
Anderson-Lopez won two Grammy Awards at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards. She also won the Academy Award for Best Original Song for “Let It Go” from “Frozen” at the 86th Oscars and “Remember Me” from “Coco” (2017) at the 90th.
She is best known for co-writing the songs for “Frozen” with Lopez.
The miniseries “WandaVision” premiered with the first two episodes on January 15th. It will run for nine episodes. Critics praised “WandaVision” — the first series in Phase Four of the Marvel Cinematic Universe — for its tributes to sitcoms from the past and the performances of the two lead actors, Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany.
Photo - Oscar Winners Kristen & Bobby Lopez teach us how they created Disney's Frozen "Let it Go" by Dulce Osuna | Licensed under Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)
