![]() ![]() I thought it’d be great if we could also have more diversity.” “To be totally honest with you, it wasn’t like, ‘Let’s find a Latino actor ’ it was more like, ‘Let’s find the right guy,’ but when I saw who it was with Josh Cooley and Mark Nielsen, that was a bonus for me. He is the dad that’s always a little behind everything, and Jay was able to bring that in a truthful way,” Rivera told Remezcla. “As a parent of three, the character is easy to relate to. Maybe not quite, but Rivera explained that Jay just embodied what they were searching for in Bonnie’s dad perfectly. The question then remains, was the casting of Jay Hernandez to voice the character of Bonnie’s dad therefore intentional? “When we made Toy Story 3, all my family thought she was based on my sister Raquel because she looked liked her when she was really little, and now in, Bonnie sort of looks like my niece Carly.” I know a lot of families that way in California,” he explained. “We thought Bonnie’s dad would be closer to that model of a family. He noted that growing up in a home with a Mexican father and mother of English Canadian descent also inspired the design of Bonnie’s parents. Albert’s dad is Mexican American like my dad is. But in my mind, and since I know him well I feel I can speak for Albert, the character is a reflection of our families. “We never named him he’s just Bonnie’s Dad. “So I thought it was sort of an homage to me, it was cool.” In a recent interview with Remezcla, Pixar producer Jonas Rivera, who also happens to be Mexican-American, noted that our assumptions about Bonnie’s dad possibly being Latino could indeed be right. “I went to the session wearing Converse Chuck Taylors… certain kinds of shoes, and they added that to my character, which wasn’t originally there,” the Magnum P.I. While on the red carpet of the Toy Story 4 world premiere, Hernandez revealed that the film’s creative team even began adding touches to Bonnie’s dad that were true to him. But at that time, we had only seen her mom.īonnie’s dad is actually voiced by Mexican-American actor Jay Hernandez - who revealed in several interviews discussing Toy Story 4 that he has always been a fan of the franchise and dreamed of one day voicing a character for a Disney-Pixar movie - so if we needed any clues this one is certainly it. She also had ambiguous features and didn’t quite look like the standard white character we were so used to seeing in Toy Story‘s past - or many cartoon films for that matter. Even when we first saw Bonnie Anderson in Toy Story 3, we knew there was something different about her. We wondered what he could be and thus it raised the question, could Bonnie’s dad be Latino? He reminded us of some of our dads, tios, primos, and friends. Read on for more about the voice cast of Toy Story 4.With his dark hair and caramel-like complexion, Bonnie’s dad clearly looked ethnically ambiguous. The movie opened at the top of the North American box office chart over the weekend with $118 million, which marked one of the biggest openings of all time for an animated movie. More than that, how many other film series can legitimately claim to have hit four home runs in a row?" If it wasn't clear before, it's now certain what one of the summer's blockbusters will be. ![]() The Hollywood Reporter critic Todd McCarthy praised of the movie in his review: "It's been nearly a decade since Toy Story 3 put a satisfying capper on what seemed likely to remain a trilogy, but the same level of wit, imagination and, yes, magic has been summoned to create yet another fully worthy sibling. Trying to find their way back to Bonnie, Woody and Forky cross paths with an old friend and are shown a different way of being a toy. After Forky leaps out of an RV rented by Bonnie's family, Woody jumps out to save him, knowing how much he means to the young girl. Now in Toy Story 4, Bonnie's new favorite toy is spork named Forky, who is coming to terms with being re-classified as a toy by the kindergartener. The Toy Story films have seven Oscar nominations across the board, receiving a special achievement Academy Award in 1995 and the best animated feature statuette in 2011 for Toy Story 3. When the third movie came out in 2010, it seemed like it would be the last - grossing $480.5 million at the domestic box office. Two decades later, a few elements have changed for the films, new toys have come into the story and some have left, while Andy went to college and gifted young family friend Bonnie his toys. When Toy Story came out in 1995, it introduced moviegoers to a toy cowboy sheriff and his friends, who adored their owner, Andy, with the introduction of a space trooper toy marking a big shake-up in their lives. ![]()
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