Robin Williams improvised in *Aladdin*

Robin Williams did have room to improvise while recording the Genie for Disney’s *Aladdin* (1992). Director Ron Clements said the studio allowed most of Williams’s improvised scenes to remain, and a Los Angeles Times report described him as a kind of co-author of the comic character. But the claim that most of his lines across his films were improvised is too broad: there is no reliable count covering all his roles, and writers prepared the story and material that Williams expanded in the studio.