- [Vanessa] Hello guys!
- Hey! - Hey.
- I'm Vanessa, it's a pleasure to meet you.
- Nice to meet you.
- Hi, I'm Lee, nice to meet you too.
- Welcome back amigos.
Anything to declare?
- As a matter of fact, yes.
- Hola.
- How does it feel that characters you created
become alive on a screen and then like this in real life?
- It's always a little weird. (everyone laughs)
I still remember when we made the first Toy Story movie,
the very first time that someone
from one of the toy companies came in
and handed us a Buzz Lightyear toy.
It was very strange because up until that point,
he only existed in the computer, and in our movie,
and it was really weird to see him as a toy.
But that's never gotten old.
Every movie that we make, especially when we do something
original like Coco, it's really exciting to see
the characters become actual objects that you can hold.
It's very exciting.
(dog panting)
(dog whimpering)
He's a real breed of dog that's in Mexico.
It's the national dog of Mexico, it's called a Xolo dog,
which is short for Xoloitzcuintli.
It's a weird name that's a dog that's been around
for thousands of years in Mexico going back
to ancient Aztec times, and--
- Frida Kahlo had a lot of them.
- Yeah, and they still, they still exist,
they're really cool dogs, they have almost no hair,
so they're very odd looking,
and we thought it would be fun to embrace them
as part of the story about Mexico.
It was also believed that these dogs helped you
in your journey to the afterlife
and so that seemed kind of fitting for him
to accompany Miguel on his journey
through the land of the dead.
- And I love his tongue,
his tongue is almost like a own character in the movie,
isn't it, how was it to animate that?
- Uh, it was really hard (everyone laughs)
to animate Dante's tongue.
We actually leveraged some of the technology
that had been developed for a previous film,
for Finding Dory, there's a character called Hank
who's an octopus. - Yeah.
- And we had to figure out how to do his tentacles
and we ended up using that technology
to do Dante's tongue, 'cause his tongue is kind of,
it's basically-- - It is its own character.
- A tentacle, yeah. - And a tentacle.
(musical notes echoing from a bottle)
- No music! (Miguel gasps)
(flutes playing) - No music!
(men singing) - No music!
(men screaming)
- [Miguel] I think we're the only family
in Mexico who hates music!
- I know you experienced Dia de los Muertos in Mexico.
What is your favorite memory from that day?
- Mmmm, my favorite memory was all the time that we spent
with a lot of really lovely families.
You know, we went down and did a lot of touristy things.
We visited a lot of cities and took a lot of pictures
but we also tried to spend time with families,
just quiet time, we would spend whole days with families.
They would feed us, they would tell us stories,
they welcomed us warmly into their homes,
and shared their traditions with us,
and a lot of those things that we experienced
ended up directly being a part of Coco.
- And of course, I agree with Lee, the families were just
unbelievably generous and kind,
and told us their family stories and fed us amazing food,
but I'll never forget walking into one of the cemeteries
for the first time and seeing all the candles everywhere
and the entire small town is there, and music is playing
and kids are running around and there's this incense
called copal that is always burning
and the smell of the copal and so,
it's just really really unbelievably gorgeous experience.
- And we really tried to capture that in the movie.
- [Vanessa] Hm-mmm. - Yeah.
- You're all really out there.
- You thought we weren't?
- Well I don't know.
I thought it might have been one of those made-up things
that adults tell kids, like vitamins.
- Miguel, vitamins are a real thing.
- Well now I'm thinking maybe they could be.
- I bet this day started really well for you,
because this morning we got exciting news
that Coco is already the most successful movie
in Mexico-- - Ever, yeah.
- That is insane! - It's insane.
- So ever, yeah, congratulations to that!
- Thank you, thank you. - Thank you.
- Did you do a little happy dance this morning?
- Yeah we did. - It's really amazing,
and the thing that's most amazing is that it's managed
to achieve that milestone only being in theaters
less than three weeks, that's what's really crazy.
It's really been very popular in Mexico.
I've had people write me telling me they're seeing it
eight, nine times, so it's really affected people
and obviously in Mexico in particular.
- And it's surreal, I mean honestly,
it's been such a short period of time
and people are reacting so emotionally
about the movie, and so many are so happy
and so excited about it,
it's honestly hard to take it all in,
but it's very very wonderful.
- Very wonderful, and we can't wait to share the movie
with the rest of the world. - Yeah.
♪ Where this music is my language ♪
♪ And the world es mi familia ♪