“Zootopia,” the new animated box office smash from Disney, is about "inclusion" and “letting people cohabitate without worrying that they're going to infringe on your freedoms.”

That’s according to “Zootopia” star Jason Bateman, who was recently interviewed on “Good Morning America.”

In the film Bateman plays Nick Wilde, a fox who helps a rabbit police officer, Judy Hopps, solve a crime. In Zootopia all animals, predator and prey, usually live in harmony; however, several predators have recently “gone savage,” attacking others. Hopps and Wilde set out to discover if it is DNA or an outside force that is making the animals attack.

Bateman’s character is an outsider and a con man. He pinpoints his problems to an episode from when he was small and wanted to join the Junior Ranger Scouts - whose uniforms resemble the Boys Scouts of America - only to be rejected because “you’re a fox.”

When Wilde and Hopps met, Wilde is in an ice cream store trying to buy a popsicle. The store owners, two elephants, refuse to serve him because he is a fox. Wilde and Hopps then join forces to solve the crime and fall in love.

“This film ends up being extremely timely with these messages of inclusion and not being a fear monger and letting people cohabitate without worrying that they are going to infringe on your freedoms,” Bateman told GMA.

“Zootopia” has made more than $142 million.