‘Mickey: The Story of a Mouse’ Director Jeff Malmberg Was Surprised Disney Let Him Keep These Controversial Moments
all of this, in a wide-ranging interview about the world’s most famous mouse.How much did you know about Mickey Mouse before you started this documentary?Certainly not as much as I know now. It was just always something that intrigued me, like there seemed to be two sides to this character and that felt very interesting to me, something I wanted to explore. And it seemed like he’d been around long enough that there were interesting things inside that very simple image or logo.Did the documentary come first, or was it the short? Did one inform the other?I’m not sure their thinking on that short, where that came from … I just was tuned into it when I was working on the documentary.