Silver Tongue

crymonger:

i-was-today-years-old-when:

i found out that Robin Williams was paid $75,000 for voicing the Genie in Aladdin, which went on to gross over $504 million worldwide.

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Disney later sent him a late Picasso painting (estimated at the time to be worth $1 million) as a way of thanking him for his work.

Yeah and he was so furious about the way that disney treated him that he refused to accept the painting. Disney completely fucked him over because disney doesn’t care about anything other than making money.

Before he was scouted for aladdin he was working on a passion project (ferngully) when disney caught wind of the fact that a smaller animation studio had got comedian smash hit robbin williams. They tried at first to get him to only work on aladdin but robin refused to stop working on ferngully. Disney didn’t like that so they actively sabotaged the production of ferngully by doing things like renting out locations which the ferngully team had already paid to use, but nobody can turn down disney money.

There’s a good reason why robin refused to voice the genie in aladdin 2 or any of the videogames he appeared in. Fuck disney

he also specifically asked for them to not use his name in advertising but his role as the genie was the main advertising point

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    And nowadays Disney sells their movies on who’s in them…. they learned nothing huh
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