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“A lot of people are coming from traditional theater. There’s people from escape rooms. We’re coming from live-action role-playing and a type of role-play where it’s not scripted.”

“But we weren’t satisfied with just making it purely animated or purely live-action — or purely anything.”

Even though he’s never disappeared from the public eye, appearing in high-profile live-action and animated movie projects for decades, the last time Jack Black hosted “Saturday Night Live” was in December 2005.

The festival will include live-action shorts, a new program of animated shorts and artist talks including novelist-filmmaker Dennis Cooper in conversation with author Tony Tulathimutte, and another with costume designer Shirley Kurata and comedian John Early.

And 2025's live-action “Snow White” doesn’t even attempt to have star Rachel Zegler take on Caselotti’s particular voice print — seemingly staying on message that it’s a new story for a new generation.