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Kean Soo and His Jellaby
“I feel like I really got lucky with Jellaby, because I’m not 100% sure I really knew what I was doing or what I set out to do. I knew I wanted to hit on something about how kids can actually feel terribly lonely—that’s not a mainstream idea of what kid’s entertainment should be about. I feel really lucky that people still respond to it. I think I really could have fallen flat on my face with it, and it totally could have backfired for me. But again, like I say, now that I’m working on this new project, and now that I’ve had a chance to talk to a lot of kids and even work with them in workshops and things like that, I’m much more consciously directing the story at kids. I don’t know if that’s a good thing or a bad thing, but I do feel it was a bit of a crapshoot with Jellaby.”