Watch Emily Blunt Sing With Animated Birds in ‘Mary Poppins Returns’

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The Banks children go on adventure that takes them inside of a ceramic bowl and into an animated countryside, in this fanciful scene from the new Disney sequel “Mary Poppins Returns.” The film’s director Rob Marshall narrates a closer look at the sequence, which features Emily Blunt as the titular nanny and Lin-Manuel Miranda as the lamplighter friend of the family, Jack. Here, Marshall discusses how animators were brought out of retirement to work on the 2-D animation.

Read more about the animation process for the film.

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Read an interview with Lin-Manuel Miranda.

Read an interview with Dick Van Dyke about his work in the film.

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