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Jason Bateman and Ginnifer Goodwin voice Nick Wilde and Judy Hopps respectively in Zootopia 2.
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Esther Zuckerman
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NEW YORK – In 2021, content creator Aisha Rae posted a YouTube video titled Why It’s OK To Be Attracted To Nick Wilde. Over roughly 12 minutes, she cheekily explained just why Nick, the animated fox from the 2016 Disney hit Zootopia, was so attractive.
“He was one of my first fictional crushes in 2016, and I was making TikToks like, ‘He’s hot,’” she said in a video interview. “And people were like, ‘That’s an animal.’ I’m like, ‘Okay, but there are things behind it that build up to why he is attractive.’”
