“I remember there was this magnetic fish game where the fish are opening their mouths,” she said on a May episode of the Daddies podcast. “I have a vivid memory of playing that in the studio.”
However, Gibbs emphasized that all the voice actors avoided a 2319 and were “in our own recording studio at different timeslots” before Pixar pieced the movie together. So, she said, “The first time I actually met everyone was the premiere.”
“There’s a bunch of cameras and everyone’s there and I remember I got really scared and Billy Crystal recognized that,” she shared. “[He] pulled me to the side and talked to me and got on my level a little bit made me know it was OK. And then he picked me up and carried me down the red carpet.”
Though her memories from filming Monsters, Inc. may not fill up a scream canister, Gibbs has immense gratitude for the impact the movie has had on her life.
“Growing up being a part of that movie, it’s been really awesome,” she told Newsweek in 2021. “I’m not one to just introduce myself as Boo but when people do find out, especially after they know me for a little bit, it definitely blows people’s minds.”
And now, she added, “My favorite part is doing Comic Cons, and just meeting people in my day-to-day life.”
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