We also had the opportunity to create a diverse cast of characters. So his best friend, Cassidy, who is his co-star is biracial. There’s another star of a show, a kid named Ulysses Park who’s Korean. Now to him, he’s cobalt blue, so he is essentially colorblind and culture blind, everybody is weird, so it gives us an opportunity to you know weave this cast of characters together that come from very traditional and nontraditional character types.
So we have Ulysses Park who is a multitalented impressionist and there’s a girl on the set named Martha Cornfoot who is like a little Bette Midler who sings everything you know…
In a musical comedy.
Ulysses is a great mimic and is doing, in one of the shows that they’re filming, is Joan of Arc until he realizes that they burn her at the stake, at which time he wants to change character, he’s not really good with flames or smoke, you know.
So, and there’s the handsome co-star who is very jealous of our character Buddy. There’s Cassidy’s mother who is a kind of overbearing manager who is mostly concerned about her body image and her weight. So we’re deal, there’s a chance to weave in very sort of contemporary issues but in the guise of these comic tropes, comic characters.