![]() ![]() “‘And let’s let Ernesto de la Cruz be the support in this duet, and let him give voice to this passion for music and see if this communion across the void can work.” By inventing clips of de la Cruz’s movies and interviews, the creators were able to let him to “speak” to Miguel without actually talking to him. ![]() Let’s let the guitar be the voice of Miguel’s passion for music and his longing for connection,’” related Molina. “We thought ‘let’s not have Miguel say what he wants. Instead, they let his music do the talking. More importantly, the creative team decided that Miguel didn’t need to say what he felt. While the family creates an ofrenda for the relatives that have passed on, Miguel creates an ofrenda dedicated to de la Cruz’s career in his own secret space where he could play music without his family catching him. ![]() And in order to buy that it was worth doing, we needed to buy that music was the air that he breathes.” The solution that the team arrived at came in the form of an ofrenda. “He needed to run away from his family, he needed to break into a tomb, he needed to risk his life to pursue this dream. But it’s a different thing to feel it than to create a scene that makes someone else feel it.” “We knew that Miguel needed to do some pretty crazy stuff over the course of this film,” continued Molina. So it was something that we all agreed on, that we wanted to convey. “As artists here at Pixar, we all kind of intuitively get how to be passionate about art or music. “With Miguel, we always knew that he would be moved by a deep passion to play music,” said Molina. Pixar screened a rough cut of the film’s first act, which set up Miguel’s conflict with his family, as well as the legend of the late Ernesto de la Cruz, a musician whom Miguel idolizes. Family is at the very heart of the story, as Miguel struggles to relate to his relatives while they stifle his ambitions and attempt to bring him into the family shoemaking business against his will. ![]()
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