In an early press day interview with Blavity’s Shadow and Act, Hoppers director Daniel Chong and producer Nicole Grindle discussed the making of the Disney’s Pixar film, the late Isiah Whitlock Jr.

EMERYVILLE, CA -- Disney and Pixar's "Elio" is about a lonely kid whose dreams of adventures in outer space come true when he's beamed up to the "communiverse," a sort of United Nations for aliens.