Anyone who has watched the fascinating second season of Star Wars: Visions will be well aware of the breadth of styles and stories in the 2nd volume, but perhaps the most surprising is the inclusion of I Am Your Mother, a classic Aardman adventure not set in Lancashire featuring a cheese-obsessed inventor and a savy talking dog but instead set in the galaxy far, far away. Writer-director Magdalena Osinska discusses I Am Your Mother, the influences that helped bring it to life and her journey from Poland to Chandrila.
The characters of Anni and Kalina are classic Aardman characters, who are habitually portrayed as underdogs in the studio’s previous animated classics like Wallace & Gromit and Chicken Run. Osinska also drew from the world around her. “I really wanted these characters to be inspired by real people. The mother is inspired by both my mother and me, because I think that my son is going to eventually be embarrassed his mom, with her Polish accent and quirks. Z-1 [their droid] was based off my old sausage dog, and a lot of the background characters were inspired by moms from my son’s school.”
Her experience immigrating from Poland also came into play. “I wanted the characters to be aliens, Twi’leks, because that’s how I felt when I moved to the UK from Poland,” Osinska says. “There was a whole backstory: they have come from a faraway fishing planet and have moved to Chandrila so that Anni can study to become a pilot.”
We reviewed season 2 of Visions, which you can read here, and watch our roundtable with Rodrigo Blaas, the director of the opening episode, Sith.
- Hardcover Book
- Blake, Olivie (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 592 Pages - 08/29/2023 (Publication Date) - Random House Worlds (Publisher)
