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the Netflix stamp is a big deal,
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Jenny. Today we have director Miguel Puga and writer Lalo Alcaraz
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of their new animated movie,
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The Casa Grandes. Hey,
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what's up guys, Miguel,
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what inspired you to become a cartoonist?
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And how, how has being a Latino influenced your work?
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Like was there a particular cartoon that influenced you?
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I, I always drew as a kid and I think the
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show that really inspired me was the Charlie Brown specials and seen
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Bill Melendez's name on there.
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And that's the first time I ever see a Latino name on
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a cartoon. And I used to love watching cartoons.
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So when I saw that and see my family gather around for
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Thanksgiving or Christmas or Las Posadas and just watching all those Christmas
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specials or, or holiday specials was so I wanted to do
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like I wanted, I wanted to entertain and I knew I
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wanted to make cartoons and that's what inspired me and also with
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the Casa Grandes, my family inspired me so much to
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kind of evolve these characters more into like my tia,
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my cousins, my primos.
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It's funny how we all kind of like,
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grew up similar, you know,
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like all those Latinos and Lalo,
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how do you balance representing Latino culture while appealing to a diverse
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audience? And how real can you get well with our,
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our when, when we had the series of the Casa
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Grande, I think we pushed the limits of you know
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how real we can get.
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kids programming has its limits,
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you know, it has lots of rules and you can't show
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a kid sticking a fork and a you know,
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in the plug in the wall,
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you know, and but we could kind of got
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away with a few things that were pretty funny.
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Like Miguel's family,
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you know, stories and my stories and everyone,
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we all have crazy families and we all have funny stories
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I don't see how a showing a Mexican American family,
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a Chicano family, a Latino family.
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I is problematic unlike some people in Hollywood,
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what changes have you seen in?
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How the industry includes Latino voices and stories also.
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How's it going in Hollywood for you guys?
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Hey, Miguel should talk about the crew.
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Yeah, we, we wanted to represent the family by representing
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who we hired. And I am proud to announce that we
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use a Mexican animation studio,
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something that you don't really hear about in this industry,
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especially in the animation industry.
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We went and I fought to get a Mexican animation studio in
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Guadalajara mighty animation. And we also use a composer who is
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Mexican and we flew out to Rome Leon and Monterrey and
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recorded the orchestra there along with some pica musicians and choir and
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it, it was everything I ever wanted to do and especially
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with the writers. everyone that poured their heart into this
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I think other than this movie,
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there's maybe like 33 or four other Latino projects out there.
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So we need more content because,
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we're the Latinos are a powerhouse in Hollywood.
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They, they watch movies,
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they, they buy the content.
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So if we need more representation and it,
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and it does matter to have it.
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We know, we know we all read that story every year
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about, oh a new study came out about how Latinos are
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underrepresented. That story is 30 years old and running it because
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nobody does anything about it,
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right? We're so underrepresented that yesterday,
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we got included in the article about the Gordita chronicles.
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Like right at the end it said,
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and there's about four other shows going on right now and,
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and this movie and that's how,
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you know, the situation is and we need we have
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the talent instead of just over indexing and buying 24% of the
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movie tickets. And you know,
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and while we're 19% of the population,
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we should be getting,
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a little more representation.
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Right. And, you know,
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we're like, brand loyal.
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we buy the same brand for our whole lifetime.
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I don't know why people aren't capitalizing on this.
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They are, but they're not giving back to us.
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almost as if we're like an afterthought where it's like the priorities
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are so, just not there.
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right. We'll show up.
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Yeah. Yeah, we pull up for sure.
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And we got big families too.
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thank you guys so much.
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We really appreciate you talking more about the Casa Grande movie.
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So where can people follow you and where can people watch the
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movie? Well, people go watch it on Netflix.
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It's only on Netflix and it's fun for the entire Familia.
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It's not just a kids movie because there,
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there's mother daughter themes in the movie that are,
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are made. All my Theia cry when they watched it,
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all my cousins. I was like,
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that reminds me of my,
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my, my daughter and stuff.
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So it, it's always great and you can follow me on
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Instagram under Puga Vida and I just keep waiting,
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I'm posting more art and more behind the scenes stuff from the
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movie. just to share the amazing art from all the
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artists that we got to work with and we're still burning up
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the top 10 on Netflix.
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And we're, I heard we're number one in Mexico or
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Latin America. I don't,
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reports are coming in and we're number seven in movies and Netflix
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and the number two in kids' movie and like Puga pointed
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we only have 1/10 of the budget of the number one movie
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which rhymes with Super Mario Brothers.
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And and we're right there next,
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next to them, but you can follow me on
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I'm everywhere, man.
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You can't, you can't throw a rock in the internet and
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I'm not on that site,
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you know, so I can't wait to,
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Yes, because the trailer got it on the loop.
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Thank you guys so much.
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