Disney’s live action remake of “Lady and the Tramp” will be just that — a live action. In an interview with Collider, actor Thomas Mann, who plays Jim Dear in the film, revealed that the remake would feature actors working alongside real live dogs.
“The dogs were there. We shot with the dogs, every day,” Mann said. “They were on set and they weren’t even trained. They found these dogs and started training them about three months before. They just wanted to find the perfect dogs. The main dog’s name was Rose, who played Lady. It was crazy because they didn’t know they were working, so they would run off in the middle of a take, and then come back over. You have to be extra patient because you have to be good every time for when they are good once. It was a lot of fun. It was so cute, every day, to just have a bunch of dogs to play with. It made the job a lot less stressful.”
Some CGI work will of course be used to make the animals talk and interact with one another.
Mann also confirmed that the film’s period setting will stay true to the original animation and will feature the famous spaghetti scene.
“Who doesn’t want to see two real dogs kiss over a plate of spaghetti,” Mann said. “You have to be extra patient because you have to be good every time for when they are good once. It was a lot of fun. It was so cute, every day, to just have a bunch of dogs to play with. It made the job a lot less stressful.”
Are you excited to see Disney’s new take on the classic animation or are you wary of how everything will turn out?
