He’s just a phenomenal, powerful singer and a friend, but someone whose talent I admire immensely. And I’ve always said I’d give my left big toe to be able to be a balladeer like Mark Anthony, say. I don’t possess one when it comes to singing. I just admire singers so much and musicians in general because with singing, your voices your instrument.Īnd it translates across all language, all cultures because a beautiful voice is a beautiful voice. You know, I acknowledge that I’m a fairly decent actor but I’ve always wanted to be a singer. It is happening everywhere! Benjamin Bratt, turned out, was more connected to music than we had ever known! The party was at full swing, showcasing the colorful and rich Latino Culture that is threaded in the movie with details and connotations. I was deeply touched how seamlessly coordinated all elements in COCO and the party had been.Īt the COCO Premiere, November 8, 2017. Music, food, activities – all of them were connected to the theme and culture presented to us in the movie. That at the end of the day, for all the uniqueness that we have, and there’s a lot that’s vibrant and authentic and beautiful about Latino culture, we all at the end of the day are more alike than we are different and this need or sense of wanting to belong to something, to recognize where you come from, to stay connected to the people that paved a path for you before you got here.Īt the US COCO premiere that took place at The El Capitan Theatre on November 8, 2017, the pre-party festivities were all about recognizing and celebrating the Latino cultures around the world. 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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