April 20, 2021

EP. 210 — How Much Do We ♥ Arlo? an Arlo The Alligator Boy Roundtable

This week on Getting Curious, Jonathan sits down with the creators and cast of Netflix’s new animated musical movie Arlo The Alligator Boy. Joining the discussion is director and writer Ryan Crego; supervising producer Blake Lemons; Mary Lambert, who plays Bertie; Michael J. Woodard, who plays Arlo—and Jonathan, who plays Furlecia! Listen in to learn all about the writing, casting, voiceover, and animation process.

 

You can follow Ryan on Instagram @creegsmamation; Blake @blahlemons; Michael @MichaelJWoodard; and Mary @MaryLambertSing. For more on Arlo The Alligator Boy, and the upcoming Netflix series I ♥ Arlo, follow @NetflixFamily on Instagram.

 

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Transcript

Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness & Arlo The Alligator Boy: Ryan Crego, Mary Lambert, Blake Lemons, Michael J. Woodard JVN [00:00:00] Welcome to Getting Curious. I’m Jonathan Van Ness and every week I sit down for a 40 minute conversation with a brilliant expert–or in this case, experts!–to learn all about something that makes me curious. On today’s episode, I’m joined by the team behind the new Netflix film Arlo the Alligator Boy, where I ask them: How much do we <3 Arlo? Ah! Welcome to Getting Curious, this is Jonathan Van Ness. I am so excited. This is a literal Getting Curious historical first. We have before had two guests at once, I think only one time. But never ever have we had four at once. Welcome to the show the writer and director of ‘Arlo the Alligator Boy,’ Ryan Crego. We have Blake Lemons, who is the co-executive producer. We have Michael J. Woodard, who plays literal Arlo Beauregard himself and Mary Lambert who plays Bertie. And there

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