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Elio's creative team, including director Domee Shi and producer Mary Alice Drumm, discuss the incredible experience of working with Zoe Saldaña. They reveal how her own Dominican heritage and personal experiences as a mother were woven into her character, Olga, bringing authenticity and heart to the Pixar film.
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00:00Yeah it was really awesome getting to work with her. She brought her own kind of background and kind of
00:07infused it into the character of Olga. She's Dominican and so is Olga in the movie and like we would
00:13workshop like ways that she would say a line or like express frustration or just a song that Olga would
00:20listen to on the radio that you know a Dominican might listen to.
00:24So we leaned on her a lot creatively for those kinds of things.
00:30And her sense of humor. I think a lot of the movies she's in and shows she's in showcase her
00:35like amazing serious acting chops but she's also just a really funny warm person.
00:42And I'm really glad that we got to see both sides of her in this film and laugh with her
00:47and kind of laugh at Olga so she's not you watch this buttoned up woman become a little less buttoned
00:52up as time goes by.
00:53I think you just love her all the more for it.
00:56Yeah and that like in her performance she infuses yeah like so much of her own experience being a mother
01:02like you know when there's scenes where like Olga and Elio are butting heads.
01:06Yeah.
01:06And they're arguing and like maybe Olga kind of like flies off the handle or like gets worked up like
01:13Zoe's performing it from like a place of love and concern and you always feel that when you're watching these
01:21characters on screen.
01:22Yeah and Zoe we would when you know you think of Zoe she's the queen of sci-fi right she's
01:26done all this so she brings that aspect of the film.
01:29She's also played these military roles so she has great respect for the military and is really you know great
01:34about playing that aspect of Olga.
01:36So she just added so much to the film she has it all she has it all.
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