1. Basil in ‘The Great Mouse Detective’
‘Somehow Disney and Victorian London went together in our minds. This was a way to do an animated version of Sherlock Holmes. The character in the books was more eccentric than we’d seen on the screen, he was not necessarily the most likeable guy. Our Basil was a little bit antisocial and in his own world. He lacked graces. But we pushed him too far, and Disney pushed back. They thought it was too dark, so Basil got a little softer. If it’d gone the way we wanted, it might’ve shocked people. He was mean to Watson.’
