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“When I took this job, the idea was ‘What does Barry Jenkins know about visual effects?

Why the hell would he do this movie?'”

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“I think part of that I found very invigorating.

People make these things, you know, with computers.

So anybody should be able to do this.

Barry Jenkins

There’s nothing physically that says I am incapable of doing this.”

“It is not my thing,” he reflected on the filmmaking process candidly.

“I want to work the other way again, where I want to physically get everythingthere.

Mufasa: The Lion King

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