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When an orphaned gosling named Brightbill (Kit Connor) imprints on her, the robot softens and learns the meaning of community and empathy.
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Sharareh Drury, People.com, 3 Mar. 2025
Eventually known as Brightbill (and voiced by Kit Connor), the gosling grows into an oddball who can’t fly and instead walks and talks like a robot and sees this robot — which in the eyes of the other animals is still some sort of strange monster — as his mom.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 26 Sep. 2024
Gradually Roz starts building relationships with the animals on the island, including a clever fox voiced by Pedro Pascal, and becomes the adoptive parent of an orphaned gosling named Brightbill voiced by Kit Connor.
—Denise Petski, Deadline, 3 Jan. 2025
The fact that a gosling can imprint on anyone could have served the opposite point: not that anyone a child latches on to becomes a mom but that caregiving can exist in any number of different capacities, independent of gender.
—Elvia Wilk, The Atlantic, 18 Dec. 2024
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Sharareh Drury, People.com, 3 Mar. 2025
Eventually known as Brightbill (and voiced by Kit Connor), the gosling grows into an oddball who can’t fly and instead walks and talks like a robot and sees this robot — which in the eyes of the other animals is still some sort of strange monster — as his mom.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 26 Sep. 2024
Gradually Roz starts building relationships with the animals on the island, including a clever fox voiced by Pedro Pascal, and becomes the adoptive parent of an orphaned gosling named Brightbill voiced by Kit Connor.
—Denise Petski, Deadline, 3 Jan. 2025
The fact that a gosling can imprint on anyone could have served the opposite point: not that anyone a child latches on to becomes a mom but that caregiving can exist in any number of different capacities, independent of gender.
—Elvia Wilk, The Atlantic, 18 Dec. 2024
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“Gosling.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gosling. Accessed 9 Apr. 2025.
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gosling
noun
gos·ling
ˈgäz-liŋ 
ˈgȯz-,
-lən
: a young goose
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