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Originally Posted by FireGilbert
If Will Smith's ego was too big to be mostly CGI then you find another actor.
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Doubt it had to do with his ego as he's done voice overs for Animation before. Probably a poor Disney marketing decision IMO.
Instead of thinking "It's Aladdin, doesn't matter if we don't have any recognizable actors it will be fine" they went "Jeez Aladdin and Jasmin aren't recognizable actors for marketing purposes, we better make Will Smith recognizable as Genie".
Surprised it wasn't caught in any of the screening though. IMO Genie was always going to be the character that had the most scrutiny over it due to the universal love of Robin Williams in the role.