I always dress up every year as a cowboy. “My wife and daughters dress up and everything goes crazy. Nobody’s gonna get it.but it’s too perfect not to do it,” Russell adds.Ĭody Johnson ’s dressing up, too, but his family is likely to be a lot less thrilled about his costume choice. “ is going to be the raccoon, and I’m going to be the big black bear. In the show, the little boy and the trash truck go on adventures along with a variety of animals who eat trash - and that’s where the costumes come in. Like, he’s got the gap between his front teeth,” Russell details. It’s this little blond kid, looks exactly like Remington. “One of his favorite shows is called Trash Truck, on Netflix. In fact, only the under-five group - including his son Remington - are likely to recognize what he and his wife, Kailey, are dressing up as for the holiday. Russell Dickerson admits that his costume choice is a little obscure. Sometimes I wish I could be as good at it as Max is.Halloween is here, and for lots of country stars, that means one thing: elaborately-designed family costumes. I see that in him and I strive for that myself. One thing’s for sure, Glen Keane is one proud dad: “I always think Max has a Frank Capra bone in his body somewhere because of his warmth and heart and sincerity. “You find all the touchstones for your characters, and they’re very similar to the people that are in your life.” “I think it was just one of the things that happens when you start writing characters and fleshing out an idea,” he says. That lesson hasn’t been lost on Max, who had his family in mind from the start. There’s a good reason for keeping it all in the family, according to Glen Keane: “My dad would always say, ‘Glen, you should draw what you know.’ If it’s the people around you, you use them as inspiration, because you know them so well.” “I just felt that his was an obvious voice for Trash Truck, who doesn’t talk. “Growing up, my dad always told stories with these big sound effects,” Max Keane recalls. Max is Dad his wife, Megan Paul Keane, plays Mom Glen Keane voices Grandpa as well as Trash Truck. That family dynamic extends to the “Trash Truck” cast, which features many people with the name “Keane.” Henry voices Hank, and Max’s daughter, Olive, voices Hank’s little sister. My daughter does children’s books based on her children,” Glen Keane notes. “My dad created ‘The Family Circus’ comic, based on our family when we were kids. The name “Keane” is synonymous with animation and cartoons. That Max would carry on in the family business isn’t a surprise.

“I think it was a really unique experience, where Netflix was saying, ‘Yeah, we love that idea, and you should make that.’” “I don’t know if ‘Trash Truck’ could have been made anywhere else,” he says. Max Keane praises the creative freedom they’ve received from the streaming platform. They welcomed GKP into Netflix but let us maintain our own sense of identity as a company,” Max Keane recalls. That was thanks to Dominique Bazay and Melissa Cobb. So it worked out serendipitously to go to Netflix and make both of these projects. And ‘Trash Truck’ was also kind of orbiting around. “Glen and Gennie were in talks with Netflix about doing ‘Over the Moon’ with Pearl Studio.

developed the project for three years, according to the elder Keane, and when Glen signed on to direct “Over the Moon” for Netflix, the streamer picked up “Trash Truck” too. When Max presented the idea to him and Rim, “We both said, ‘You’ve got to do this. “Watching Max develop this from the purest beginning point was special,” Glen Keane says. You should just keep digging into that,’” he says. “I pitched the idea to my dad and Gennie, and they thought that ‘Yeah, there’s something there. This thing is amazing.’ Then Henry said, ‘Bye, Trash Truck,’ in this very innocent, sweet way.”Īfter that, Keane started telling Henry bedtime stories about a little boy and his best friend who was a garbage truck, and the idea began picking up speed. “I was holding Henry, looking at this giant beast of a truck, and I said to myself, ‘Wow, yeah. It pulled up in front of us, grabbed the trash, dumped it and slammed the back down,” he recalls. “ saw the trash truck coming down the street.

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