♪ >> as i live and breathe. >> mary poppins, you came back. >> audacious is the only word for it. >> really? >> you never think there will be another mary poppins. >> here we are launching into a sequel after 54 years. >> someone said to me the other day, i didn't realize how much i needed her to come back until you came out of the clouds. >> today we're tripping a little light fantastic. ♪ >> with the all new "mary poppins returns.." >> i'm chris conley at the disney studios, stage 2, where the first mary poppins was filmed. >> ♪ supercalifragilistic- expialidocius ♪ >> no visitors. yeah, about that. today we're going in. and celebrating the enduring

magic of mary. >> we're ready. >> she is completely eccentric and batty and funny and so rude, you know, deliciously rude. >> you could grill garden with that much soil. >> i can't believe i'm hear with mary poppins. >> behind the scenes with sequel stars emily blunt and lin-manuel miranda. >> i remember doing the arrival scene sort of 50 feet in the air dangling from a crane. oh, my god, i'm mary poppins. >> the pressure of continuing a classic. >> we are the inheritors of this incredible legacy. >> don't screw it up. >> animating old school. >> and go! >> yeah. >> and, oh yeah, working with one of the original stars. >> you can leap on this desk and tap dance. surprise all of us. >> including me. >> today from the house that walt built. >> don't you think it's sort of unfair to talk about mary poppins like this and not let the folks see some of what we're talking about?

>> all the way to the new cherry tree lane. >> it's a good thing you came along when you did, mary poppins. >> you're gonna make me cry. >> "mary poppins returns" behind the magic. >> testing, one, two, three, four. testing. this is the premier of "mary poppins," walt disney's "mary poppins." >> looking around hollywood boulevard, ladies and gentlemen, i have never seen so many stars. >> august 1964, the chinese theater in hollywood. >> you have never seen such a crowd. here comes walt disney. >> the world premier of a one of a kooind pull out all the stops motion picture. >> they say this could be one of your biggest pictures. >> walt disney's "mary poppins." >> julie andrews, "mary poppins." dick van dyke. >> to me, this is the greatest family classic of all time. supercalifragilistic- expialidocius. >> for the first time, the curtain was raised on the music. >> ♪ supercalifragilistic-

expialidocius ♪ >> the magic. the legendary movie with a now iconic character that touched the world. >> mary poppins practically perfect in every day. >> mary poppins, long considered to be walt disney's crowning motion picture masterpiece. >> oh, how nice. >> it's just across the board wonderful. >> he brought together everything that he knew how to do and how to do well. art, music, story, technological invasion. >> this is the plan for a supercar tune camera. >> it's now the stuff of legend. walt's daughter dianne loved the weeks and he made mary poppins his mg passion prajics, persistent in his quest to get the film rights from p.l. travers. >> she shied away from offers for film adaptations for decades. >> two decades, to be exact. walt disney finally earned the

prize while still butting heads with p.l. travers throughout the development process. >> they did not share the same creative vision at all. traver travers was difficult. >> it was not so difficult to choose who should play the title role. walt disney wanted 26-year-old julie andrews. after seeing her perform this song from "camelot" on "the ed sullivan show." ♪ oh what do simple folk do >> when she was offered the part, julie andrews had never been in a movie, and as she told the american academy of achievement, she was expecting. >> i was just a teen any bit pregnant, like two, three months pregnant, and i said, but i'm going to have a baby, mr. disney. he said, it's okay. we'll wait. >> cast as the cockney accented buddy bert, jack-of-all-trades and master of fun was funny man dick van dyke, on hiatus from

his hit sitcom when filming began. ♪ it's a jolly day with mary >> they would be together on those unforgettable fantastic adventures with the banks children, michael and jane. >> is that your name? it's lovely. >> being in the original "mary poppins" was just a kick in the pants. it was so fun. >> all the while singing those irresistible songs. ♪ a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down ♪ >> "mary poppins" earned 13 oscar nominations and one five, including best actress announced by sidney poitier. >> the winner is julie andrews. >> the behemoth box office returns helped expand walt's burgeoning entertainment dreams, including the development of disney world in florida. >> "mary poppins" was nothing short of a blockbuster.

it opened in late 1964. it went on to run for years in theaters all around the country. >> and in one of those theaters in pittsburgh was a little boy completely mesmerized by what he was seeing on screen. >> i mean, it was the first film i saw as a child. >> first? >> first. i was 4 years old. i remember experiencing something joyous, magical. i think ignited my sense of music and film, dance in film. it was sort of a miracle in a way. >> good-bye, mary poppins. don't stay away too long. >> rob marshall started his i will lustious career as a dancer. weighs in cats on broadway and became a choreographer and then a filmmaker drerktsing the us r blockbusrirates of the caribbean. oscar's best picture for 2002,

the musical chicago. ♪ >> with that kind of skip in his step, no wonder disney studios tapped him to finally bring "mary poppins" back to the big screen. >> what gave you the idea that you could do a new film with "mary poppins"? >> p.l. travers wrote eight books. there is all this beautiful material, all these wonderful adventures. >> so going back to those books, marshall and his team came up with the idea for a sequel. >> you did what? >> an original story. original music. ♪ >> and a combination of brand new and old familiar characters. "mary poppins returns" takes place 25 years after the first film during the depression. >> we came up with this idea that michael and jane would be grown up. >> emily mortimer is jane and ben whishaw plays michael banks

who has three young children send is mourning the death of his wife. >> everything is falling to pieces. >> money is tight and he is about to lose the family home. >> the bank is now demanding that you pay back the entire loan in full. >> the entire loan? >> to have sort of that central problem for mary poppins to come and help, you know, after 54 years, it needed to be a big deal. >> it was a big deal to have lin-manuel miranda, the award-winning creating and star of the broadway phenomenon "hamilton" seen here performing at the 2016 tony awards. ♪ this is the end of me ♪ i have a friend with me >> i loved that walt disney went to the theater and found julie andrews to play "mary poppins," dick van dyke came from the theater. that's where musical theater is really shaped. >> in his first major film role, lin-manuel plays jack, a lamplighter in london. >> i like to picture he

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now we continue with "mary poppins returns" behind the magic. ♪ >> you have one of the great entrances in recent cinema and you are a part of it, as well. >> as i live and breathe. >> i had the best part because i got to stay on the ground. i got to just reel her in. >> yeah. >> and just watch me pretend not to be terrified while i was 50 feet in the air, dangling from a crane. >> did you ever have one of those moments where you say, how did i get here? >> oh, yeah, that was a huge moment. i was like, oh my god, i'm mary poppins. >> close your mouth, michael. we are still not a codfish. >> as we mentioned, "mary poppins returns" is a sequel, set some two and a half decades after the first film.

it's 1935. so everyone's gotten older. >> good heavens. it really is you. >> except mary. >> you seem to have hardly aged at all. >> really, how incredibly rude. one never discusses a woman's age. >> i could only think of one person who could do all the things that i felt we needed mary poppins to be. >> i suppose we have no choice. >> and that was emily blunt. she has an incredible range as an actress. >> it's true. emily blunt burst on to the scene as a no nonsense fashion mag assistant in "the devil wears prada." later she played a lonely alcoholic in "the girl on the train." >> her name was anna boyd and he was in love with her. >> and marshall already knew she was a stroongstress, having directed her in the musical fantasy into the woods. >> the fact that she sings and dances, you know, it sort of completed this full circle of everything she needed to be. you need to be a great actor who has warmth underneath.

♪ nothing's gone forever only out of place ♪ >> and have a magical quality. >> how did you do that? >> do what? >> what happens when you are sitting at your home and you get a call saying, i want you to play mary poppins? >> which happens daily. rob marshall was beautifully ceremonious about it. it felt like he was sort of proposing to me. >> it was a little bit of a drum roll. i said i'd love you to play the role of mary poppins. >> he said, you know, disney's most prized possession is mary poppins. >> there was sort of silence for a moment. i heard like a big sort of intake. >> i felt my hair sort of blow back with probably a combination of panic and joy and thrill really. >> and we started talking about the character. she goes, oh, by the way, it's a yes. >> despite her enthusiasm, blunt had to deal with the intimidation factor. >> it is an iconic character plays by julie andrews. how do i do my version of her,

you know. >> still rather inclined to giggle, i see? >> did you go back and look at the first film when you went cast? >> i did the opposite. instead i dove into the book. she is quite different in the books. she is completely eccentric and so rude. >> my goodness, annabelle, what have you done to your oaths clothes? you could grow a garden in that soil. >> deliciously rude and vain. >> it is wonderful to see you. >> yes, it is, isn't it? >> and i remember rob, when we did the first scene, he goes, and there she is. i was like, thank god, you know. >> the one, the only mary poppins! >> thank you. thank you very much. yes, thank you. >> who is she there to save? >> michael really. >> what brings you here after all this time? >> same thing that brought me the first time. i come to look after the banks

children. >> us? >> yes, you, too. >> i think that she comes to look afternoon the ban-- after bank children. ultimately, it's about him. he is a banks child, as well, you see. >> but while she might be there to save grown-up michael, it's the children that get to go on those magical and fantastical adventures. ♪ some people like to imagine that ♪ >> she very much wants people to rediscover the joy and the hope that children have. >> there is a moment right before she goes into this big underwater adventure and she says, off we go! >> she is more excited than the kids. >> one of my favorite lines is anything is possible. >> you can be impossible. >> both blunt and co-star lin-manuel miranda give rob marshall credit for being a calming, creative presence on their studio set outside london.

>> he would give you incredible complements very publicly, which for british people is like the depths of hell. we are like, honey, you look incredible. you're incredible. i was like, please, rob, don't do that. >> the light in your eyes. you're a movie star. let's do it again. >> and cut! beautiful. >> but that helps, right? it helps? >> hey, you need it. >> need to look the part, too. costume designer sandy powell, a three-time academy award winner, charged with updating mary's wardrobe. >> i think the thing that you remember most is the silhouette and that's what i aimed to repeat in a sort of updated version. i added a double cape because it gives it a little bit of movement in the wind. >> you have a double cape. >> i do. it's all the rage. >> and that hat. >> i love the chicness of the hat. imcame out with the idea of the robin really as a little homage to the robin in spoonful of

sugar. ♪ it's not that >> someone said i didn't realize how much i needed her to come back until you came out of the clouds. it's so hopeful and so joyful. >> next, making new music for mary. you get the job, and what happens next? >> i feel like that's a cue. ♪ as you "trip a little light fantastic" ♪ >> an exclusive look at filming the fantastic new numbers. is time you make for yourself.

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shall we begin? ♪ a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down ♪ >> from "a spoonful of sugar" and "supercalifragilistic- expialidocius" ♪ supercalifragilistic- expialidocius ♪ ♪ even though the sound of it is ♪ >> to the minor key of "chim chim cheree," a best song oscar winner. ♪ ♪ a sweep is as lucky can be >> the only thing more memorable than mary poppins magic is that music. a soundtrack seared into all of our memories since childhood. >> what do you think it is about the music that has endured for so long? >> well, you just know those songs. >> those songs are immortal. >> these songs. the product of two legendary

disney song writers. richard m. sherman and the late robert b. sherman, brothers. walt disney referred to them as the boys. >> well, sounds pretty good. in fact, that's just the right spirit. >> with tunes that catchy and well crafted in our heads, it's only fitting that the two song writers hand picked by director rob marshall for "mary poppins returns" are two of the biggest poppins fans in town and up for the challenge. >> i honestly didn't know whey was going to do if we didn't get it. am i going to move to a hut on a desert island. >>? what is that like when they tell you you're the person? >> fantastic. then you have to write it. >> they are tony and grammy award-winning song writers marc shaiman and scott wittman. their songs powering "hairspray." ♪ >> so you get the job, and what

happens next? ♪ >> once you are past the panic and the fear -- >> we are? >> imagine for us sitting down to write a new "mary poppins" movie and thinking, like, how do we possibly compare to those guys? eventually, you have to stop thinking about that, or the fear will incapacitate you. >> they spent months working out musical ideas with the performers, custom fitting their songs to the actors' strengths. >> it was like getting the best musical tailored suit possible. >> we go to the music room every day and start going through the songs together. >> she was still filming girl on the train train. she would come to us with ragged hair, having played a depressed alcoholic every day. then she is like, all right, i be mary poppins. >> it's lin-manuel miranda who

gets the honor of singing the opening number. >> woo! >> lin's character welcomes us into the movie. he sings a very, you know, sweet gentle melody. we welcome you into london underneath the lovely london sky. ♪ have a pot of tea ♪ in your broken cup ♪ there is a different point of view awaiting you if you would just look up ♪ >> i think we had maybe ten different numbers that we tried because here we are launching into a sequel after 54 years. so we really wanted to make sure we started on the right foot. ♪ hold on tight to the one you love ♪ ♪ and maybe soon from up above ♪ you'll be blessed ♪ so keep on looking high ♪ for you're underneath the lovely london sky ♪

>> and then mary comes back in. >> mary's much anticipated first number is a very splashy one. entitled can you imagine that. >> she is right in there, right? she is having a great time. that's an exhilarating kind of number, right? >> i feel like that's a cue. ♪ some people like to splash and play ♪ ♪ can you imagine that ♪ and take a seaside holiday ♪ can you imagine that ♪ paddling 20 leagues below ♪ might seem real but we know it's not so ♪ >> yeah, ♪ now there is no reason to complain ♪ >> mary poppins wouldn't be mary poppins without an all-out song

and dance spectacular. "mary poppins returns" offers us "trip a little light fantastic." ♪ if you trip a little light fantastic with me ♪ >> it required a set that took 26 weeks to build. that sequence is a metaphor for the whole movie in a way, isn't it? its exhilaration,t's leading you out of the darkness. >> the kids are lost in a fog. they feel like they ruined everything. they need to be inspired and find their way home. ♪ so if life is getting dreary ♪ just pretend that you're a leary ♪ ♪ as you trip a little light fantastic with me ♪ >> it goes on and on. >> how long did you have to rehearse those numbers numbers before you are comfortable with them? >> just after we wrapped. >> i would say, yeah.

>> as the movie gears up for the premier, there is one review in. for these two men, it's the most important one of all. >> richard sherman, after he saw the movie, wrote us a beautiful message about how proud he was of it. >> and how he felt like they started a relay race and he picked up the baton and kept going. >> that to me is the best review you could ever possibly get. >> next, the penguins are back. >> what's kind of cool about our penguins is they actually have a little more personality. >> and combat pay. >> plus, later, lin-manuel miranda with dick van dyke. >> i said, do you know you are make up a 91-year-old look like a 91-year-old man? >> when we return.

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animation. the foundation on which the walt disney company was built. marrying it with live-action, flesh and blood characters, is a technique that goes back to the 1920s. here is walt disney himself working on alice in cartoon land. by 1945 mgm had gene kelly dance a blue streak across a stage with jerry the mouse in "anchors aweigh." >> one, two. >> but the first mary poppins took it to a whole new level. for that now famous jolly holiday. ♪ it's a jolly holiday with mary ♪ ♪ mary makes your heart so light ♪ >> they stopped for tea. ♪ it's complementary >> you are very kind. >> ride a merry-go-round and a horserace while accompanied by a cavalcade of characters. >> watch out. >> in this dazzling dance

sequence it's the penguins that arguably steal the show. it was the late frank thomas, one of the legendary disney animators, who painstakingly drew the penguins frame by frame. the 50th anniversary blu-ray edition contains an documentary in which thomas dauks about how dick van dyke's incomparable physical comedy wreaked havoc with the seabirds. >> i have the film of dick doing the dance. here is his feet flying around stepping on my penguins. i had them duck and jump and get out of the way any way they could. >> so for "mary poppins returns" director rob marshall felt it was important to continue that very rich tradition. >> it's in the dna of mary poppins. the one thing i really wanted to do was to do the 2-d animation, which is all hand drawn. >> it's a throwback thursday kind of concept. most animated movies today are done cg, or computer generated.

so the decision to go old school sn alums, like james baxter,ome who was the lead "beauty and th beast." ♪ isn't this amazing >> coming into "mary poppins" it was like, oh, yeah, i love doing this. this is my thing. you know, i started out doing this. >> baxter knows his way around these parts where, as a young artist, i would meander through the catacombs at disney like an archeologist, looking for animation antiquities. >> we are in the paint building right now. it's been here since the 1930s. in the basement, used to be the disney archives, which we called the morgue because it was just these big shelves that you would pull out. >> storage room. >> it was every drawing israel ever did. all the movies, fantasia, snow white, "101 dalmations." you could look through every animated shot that had ever been

done and look at the original artwork and take it out and look at it and study how they did it. so that was my school down there. >> i love how you have victorian bicycle designs. >> for his disney reunion on "mary poppins returns," baxter joined forces with up and coming lead character designer james woods. 24 years his junior. >> getting to this guy, he has been my hero since i was a student. >> together with a small army of animators they created a glorious animated sequence for the scenes seasons in which mar jack and the children on an adventure across a china bowl. >> they wanted to honor the legacy of the first film and to keep it super entertaining. >> i gather that meant penguins? >> right. >> isn't that the first question people ask you? when i say, hey -- >> are there penguins? >> yes. >> please, mary poppins.

>> but these penguins kick it up a notch. >> what's kind of cool about our penguins is they actually have a little more personality. >> he's got this nice suave killer expression on his face. he is a smoothie. >> and in the spirit of the first film there is plenty of song and dance in this sequence with real red-blooded living, breathing actors as foils. mousse. >> ♪ >> how did it get explained to you at first? >> he gives you, this is what it looks like, these are the colors. it was completely meticulously laid out when you interact with the penguins. >> you get great notes. i think the penguin is heavier on the cane when you are bringing him here. it brings your skills to bear because you have invisible co-stars. >> and the carriage extra na-- extraordinary.

>> yes. >> when did you get to see what the econsequence looked like? >> you still haven't seen it. >> oh, wow. >> they cut it from the film. >> you are not in that scene anymore. >> she is kidding, of course. >> i saw it and sit is staggerig when you watch it all put together. >> next, the newest banks children. how they learn from the best. >> mary was teaching us how to fall over. >> i'm talking like whack! like she fell flat and hard. i thought that's how meryl streep dies. >> and the first jane, how she learned from julie andrews. >> i mean, that girl who was working her buns off set aside time for some little 8-year-old who doesn't know what the heck she is doing. huge.

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when mary poppins first slid up the banister at cherry tree lane, the children in the home, jane and michael banks, melted hearts just by being their astonished and adorable selves. >> adorable. well, that's debatable. >> 8-year-old karen detrees played jane.

7-year-old michael garber. they believed in the magic of "mary poppins." >> matthew brought the fun of childhood. karen brought the gravitas. >> michael, don't exaggerate. >> 54 years later that enchanting little girl is all grown up. >> why do you think this movie more than 50 years later continues to move and delight and thrill everybody who watches it? >> because walt disney made it. whatever he touches is gold. and the piano, oh my god, we spent so much time there. >> karen is sitting in walt disney's storied office at the burbank studio that bears his name. in this environment young karen would have lunch with the man she called uncle walt. >> i really enjoyed uncle walt. he just treated me and matthew like his own kids. >> karen was the daughter of two

shakespearian actors, and from day one on that "mary poppins" set she knew this was not your typical acting gig. >> the very first day a props guy said, okay, can you come with me because i have to take a plastic cast of your bottom. that, of course, was going to be the seat that i sit on to go on the banister. ♪ the most delightful way >> it was a strange introduction. it was not exactly the shakespearian approach i had been used to. >> karen remembers julie andrews as her savior, coming to the rescue in typical mary poppins fashion. just as she was set to record her big number in the film. >> it was julia's day off. she popped in to say if i was okay, bless her. she said, let's just run through t"the perfect nanny" song. this is how i sang the song. ♪ if you want this joyous position ♪ julia said, let's have a little break now. so she took me aside and said,

this is a song about a little girl. just be a little girl rather than a miniature opera singer. then we nailed it. ♪ if you want this choice position ♪ ♪ have a cheery disposition >> jane, i don't -- >> everything you feel when you see the film, that euphoria that people get, that's how we felt. we are all still friends to this day. >> this is every dream we want for this movie. the people who made it are still friends. >> i know. >> sadly, not in this photograph is karen's closest cohort in the movie. matthew garber. >> better keep an eye on this one. >> she is tricky. >> he died in 1977 at the age of 21 after contracting an illness on a trip to india. karen says she is grateful she was able to make one more picture with matthew after "mary poppins." 1967's the no mobile before they

lost touch. >> of course, that is a huge sorrow. i expected him to be there for 60, 70 years. everybody related to him and his mischievousness and honesty. >> during the filming of "mary poppins returns" karen got to visit the set outside london. >> cherry tree lane coming by one of the houses. can we move in? i want to live here. >> she also met emily mortimer, who plays a grown up jane banks. >> a gosh darn good actress. >> we used to love flying that with mother and father. >> i mean, i really feel touched that karen said that. i felt nervous that i wasn't necessarily, how can you be the right person to fill those shoes? >> she'll bring a depth and veracity to see how they grew up. >> there is a newenatnf banks children to meet. michael's three young kids. >> something happened? >> i was flying the kite.

>> i found it absolutely amazing. i mean, i definitely find it better than stage work because i kind of get a lot of stage frights when i do stage work. >> who do we think is going to fix that? >> there is the riddle. what broke it, fixes it. that's what i say. they didn't know me from adam at the beginning. then midway i would hear like my shot. >> one of the iconic songs from his show "hamilton." >> she made up for each one of us with our individual names. i am not goithrowing away my sh i think. >> it was that. >> that was a classic. >> really cool. lin was lovely. i got very close to emily. she is just such a lovely, lovely lady. >> and meryl streep who plays mary's utterly eccentric cousin gave them a dramatic lesson. >> hee was teaching us how to fall over but not hurt

ourselves. >> she went from this and fell on her face like that. >> and she showed us how to make it actually look really real, and it did. >> i mean, the whole crew was like! like whack. i thought that's it. i thought that's how meryl streep dies. >> season seeing "mary poppins returns" on the big screen is an experience filled with wonder. >> how could they do that? like when you are physically there, you didn't see it. when you watch it on a screen, you see something completely different. >> and i think we couldn't be more lucky that mary poppins is returning. i think this new film is going to rock people's socks. they are going to love it. >> it is, isn't it? >> when we return, the one and only lin-manuel miranda interviews the one and only dick van dyke. >> then you can leap on to this desk and you tap dance. i mean, surprise and delighted all of us. you know -- >> including me.

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moment. >> seeing dick van dyke see cherry tree lane was one of those pinch everyone moments. >> when they showed me the set of cherry tree lane, it was perfect! i mean, every detail was exactly the same. >> it was a ceremonious pos the torch moment. disney legend dick van dyke giving the new movie his blessing with his mere presence on set. >> we are on the shoulders of giants. we are the inheritors of this incredible legacy. you spend five minutes with dick van dyke you are more alive than you were before. >> you feel like you are not doing enough with your life when you meet him. the energy and spirit behind the eyes is extraordinary. there was this really beautiful moment where i was talking to him. he took my hands, and he goes -- ♪ it's a jolly holiday with mary ♪ >> i was like, you're gonna make me cry! you can't do that to me. >> he wasn't there just for sentiment. he makes a secret appearance in

the movie. okay. not so secret. it's in the trailer. he told lin-manuel miranda how he got there. >> what was your reaction when they told you there would be a sequel to "mary poppins"? >> i got excited, of course. of course, my first question was, can i be in it? >> the answer an unequivocal yes, as they swap stories. it turned out each had had his first musical experience in a production of "bye-bye birdie." dick's was on broadway. ♪ put on a happy face >> lin-manuel's the sixth grade at new york city's hunter college elementary school. ♪ oh, oh, oh >> you want to do more theater? >> yeah, that's my bread and butter. >> oh, boy. >> next for me, literally after this movie comes out, i go back and i'm going to play "hamilton" in puerto rico. >> i haven't seen the show yet. nobody got me any tickets. >> wait a minute!

i know a guy involved. i think i have a hook-up for you. >> about that cameo, dick van dyke does not return as bert the chimney sweep. in the first film he also played mr. dawes senior, the elder statesman chairman of the bank where george banks worked. ♪ fidelity fiduciary bank >> when you are a kid you don't realize that. >> you know what? maybe it was the old man in the old one. i had to go and walt and ask him for the part. >> really? >> i didn't know that. >> yeah. i said i'll do it for nothing. actually, i paid him. >> you paid him to play the banker? >> and i'd do it again. >> wow. >> and sure enough, he does. in "mary poppins returns" he plays the son of the banker from the first film. >> they made me a gorgeous head of hair and a beard and everything. >> you look good. >> i said, do you know you're making up a 91-year-old man to look like a 91-year-old man? >> in the film, dick has the

piece de resistance, sure to send chills up and down every "mary poppins" fans' spine. >> i remember there was sort of like is he going to jump in? you can leap on to this desk. and you tap dance. surprise and delighted all of us. >> including me! >> it was so beautiful. i honest to god could not say cut because i was in tears. >> the beauty of it. i could tell everybody's heart was in the right place. they were into it. it just felt, you know, what walt would have wanted it to feel like. >> having dick van dyke say to us, i feel the same spirit i felt on the first film, that was the greatest compliment of all. >> everything is possible, even the impossible. >> i can't wait for people to see it. i am going to be there. i am going to be there with my tux on. >> aisle i'll be next to you. >> when is it? >> christmas. >> god, i hope i live that long. >> you are going to live that

and many more. >> technically, it opens december 19th. what do you think people w leave the theater feeling? >> kids will be wowed and amazed by the spectacle of it all, and i think adults are going to go, man, our childhoods went like that. hopefully, for 2 1/2 hours you are back in your childhood. >> i have forgotten what it's like to be a child. >> so 'tis the season for "mary poppins returns." a sweet remembrance meets up-to-the-minute movie magic and timeless music lifts all of us above the day-to-day and back into the wonder of childhood as only mary poppins can. ♪ >> off we go!

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