Creating Labyrinth

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henson wanted you

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to know his work wasn't just for kids

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labyrinth is by far the biggest project

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i've seen from you true enough it's one

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of the biggest things we've tried to do

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bringing in george lucas and terry jones

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and david bowie

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um

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these very big heavy hitting

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talent

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was something he was excited about at

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that point which he hadn't really done

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before that the movie follows jennifer

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conley's character sarah through an

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enchanted labyrinth to rescue her

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brother from the goblin king played by

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david bowie

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and she finds friends along the way

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did you say hello no i said hello but

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that's close enough one of them is named

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hoggle i played haggle the plan was not

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for me to voice the character so

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you know it's one of the worst kind of

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british accents ever done

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i said where is it where is what the

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door

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jim's creature shop would innovate in

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big ways most muppets had one or two

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puppeteers behind them but in labyrinth

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some characters had eight or nine

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puppeteers working together to make one

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character's seamless performance it was

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so technically complicated that we all

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had to think as one hoggle was a complex

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character he had four puppeteers motors

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in his face