“They told me they wanted me to play a beaver,” Fortune recalled, “and I was like, ‘Are you guys messing with me? I was born to play this part.’ I can’t believe I’m a part of a Disney franchise that’s as big as this, and the movie crushed almost $2 billion.”
As for how the conspiracy theorist turned podcasting beaver came to be, the comedian said Nibbles evolved as the movie was underway.
“My character’s job kind of evolved as we recorded,” she explained. “They were like, ‘Actually let’s do what’s happening in today’s time. Podcasting is all the rage—you’re a podcaster.’ So this fit nicely.”
She continued, “But then my character becomes very sweet, so you kind of forget that she was a crazy conspiracy theorist.”
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