Manuelito Wheeler
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Podcast Appearances
And we started to get rolling.
The people from Burbank, they came out and gave us a tutorial on how to get things rolling.
So we auditioned for Star Wars in two days.
And we had over 400 people come over those two days auditioning to
to be a part of this.
And we had five translators in a room and they translated the whole script in 36 hours.
And then we go into production and it was just one massive
But let me put it this way.
We started on April 12th, and we premiered the movie on July 3rd.
And one of the things I'm most proud of is it was mostly done by Navajo people.
We really got together and made this happen.
We are... Here we are.
We're premiering it and guess what?
A rodeo arena, classic Navajo style.
And it wasn't just a rodeo arena.
A rodeo had actually happened less than an hour prior to us doing this premiere.
So imagine if you will, and here comes a giant semi driving into the rodeo arena.
And my people, they had built a movie screen on the side of the semi-truck, and it pulls into the middle of the rodeo arena.