And so, in a way, it reintroduces who we are as a people in our uniqueness, but also in our sameness to everyone else in the world whether you’re from China or Africa or Europe or anywhere else in the world. And it underscored the fact that that portrayal hasn’t been done yet on this kind of scale. They looked like people I know, the people I come from. Way back when, when I was first given a tour of the Pixar Studios up in Emeryville, Lee and Darla and Adrian led me into this room that, from floor to ceiling on every wall, was covered in Mexican iconography, Day of the Dead colors and images and some of the characters that were drawn, illustrated that they were going to portray in the film.Īnd it affected me in a way that actually kind of surprised me, because it was in that moment that I recognized these beautiful brown faces albeit they’re animated figures. He remembered the day when he stepped into the Pixar Studios to take a glimpse at the COCO project and what could transpire out of it. He applauded the talented Pixar group of artisans, as he lovingly called them, to explore the cultural connections and how they reverberate on the individual level. During a soulful and very sincere conversation, Benjamin Bratt opened up about his connection to the movie, and how it had changed him during the entire process of making his character, Ernesto de la Cruz to come alive, though from the Land of the Dead.
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