#smee

Brendon Tremblay- Max Hatter

Kiara Romero - Hazel Hook

Zavien Garrett - Felix Facilier

Ryan McEwen - Squirmy (left)

Love, love, LOVE them! They ARE Disney’s Hook and Smee, and I can’t imagine anyone else filling the roles. While Corey Burton & Jeff Bennett are great, they obviously have based their interpretations of the characters on Conried & Thompson’s original work. The characters wouldn’t be who they are without those two. Even their body language and facial expressions are based off of Conried and Thompson’s live-action reference model recordings. (You can see just how many traits Hans and Hook share in common here.) I really wish we still had access to those original recordings and not just the stills but even they are pretty awesome.

I don’t know how Hans and Bill felt about working with one another, but I suspect by the time they finished recording, they were good friends because only those who get along so well in real life can play off of one another on screen the way Hook and Smee do and make it sound believable. They later worked together again for Disney in the early production of Sleeping Beauty and you can still hear them as Kings Stefan (before Hans was replaced as the voice actor) and Hubert in this unused song and once again, it sounds like they’re having a blast. I don’t know why they ultimately recast Stefan but you don’t cast two actors as a dynamic duo like that twice (even if it was just in the early days) unless their chemistry is good.

Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston, who animated Hook and Smee respectively, were also good friends in real life. There’s a great documentary about their many contributions to Disney history called Frank and Ollie and you can absolutely tell how much they cared about each other not just as coworkers but as best friends. They occasionally joke around and poke fun at each other and I think some of that warmth definitely made it into the film as well.

It’s interesting to me that Hook and Smee have a different dynamic than most villains and henchmen. While most villains could honestly get along fine without their henchmen and the henchmen are only begrudgingly doing their job because they’re afraid of the consequences, Hook can’t function without Smee. He NEEDS him, whether or not he admits it. And Smee, although intimidated by Hook, also seems to genuinely care about him when no one else does. It’s one of the many things I love about these characters.

Ray, Nelson & Loic: Captain Hook, Smee & Sharky/Bones

Ray likes to claim he's the captain, but he's still serving under his father. Being a part of the Hook family has given Ray an extreme case of ego. He feels entitled to being the one to order his fellow crew members around and taking down Simon, the magical boy who'd been a pain in his family side since the two of them were little.

He treats Nelson like crap but isn't as slaphardy with Loic, because the guy can easily kick his ass. He just sticks to verbal jabs for him. He’s also incredibly arrogant and overconfident in his skills, often picking fights with people he can’t really beat on his own. Incredibly ungrateful for anyone who helps him out, always willing to stab people in the back.

Loathes the Neverland boy with a passion. Often talks down to him and will rant and rave about him for hours. While Nelson is enthralled by the story, Loic is damn sick of it. Thankfully, if he tries to get too rough with Simon, Denise is more than willing to send him flying.

Nelson is Ray's "first mate". He's the sorta henchman who's just doing this because he's desperate for friends. Heroes have found when he's not around the crew, he's actually quite nice to them.

He does really want to be bad, but doesn't exactly know how. It also doesn't help that none of the Lost Children are intimidated by him. He's trying his best to fix the stutter he was born with.

Loic is the hot blooded bruiser of the crew, always willing to get into scraps and cause trouble for the hell of it.

He's also a surprisingly talented musician, easily whooping Lila's butt in song competitions. Luka on the other hand, is a literal prodigy, so he's never won against him.

Phase 1: is the fairy phase. This is when he is still living in pixy hollow.

Phase 2: is him leaving pixy hollow after a severe injury. This injury causes him to be ostracized from the hollow.

Phase 3: this will be the Phase just before he meets hook (who would still be a lost boy with peter up till this point). Id like for the jolly Roger to be something he just built as a way to try and leave neverland. He would meet hook after a big fight peter and hook had. Hook would find him on the beach and at this point hook would be around 15 and smee would be apperance wise 34 and reluctantly growing attached to hook. He would veiw hook as a son.