Lee bursts out laughing, plopping her spoon back in a bowl of split pea soup. “I just think she’s gotten a really horrifying email,” jokes Robert, who is also her husband. “I’m writing down what I would say, and I’m pretending and I’m feeling it and I’m writing it down,” she says breathlessly of her work ritual. Kristen makes a series of exaggerated emotional faces as she mimes typing furiously on a keyboard, pretending she’s the show’s lead characters. Turning a bona-fide Disney franchise into a more nuanced Broadway musical proved a fresh challenge that the writers embraced with gusto. The project became a colossal blockbuster of unexpected proportions for Disney, winning an Oscar for animated feature, selling nearly $1.3 billion in tickets worldwide and becoming the domestic market’s highest-grossing movie with a female director at the helm - a distinction Lee held until Patty Jenkins’ “Wonder Woman” eclipsed her record. But that word has shaped their lives since 2012, when they first joined forces on the animated film, which Lee wrote and co-directed and for which Robert and Kristen penned the music.
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