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This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.
But by the time Netflix got onboard, I was a big fan of Scott FranksGodless[miniseries].
And that for me also clicked with movie history.
I grew up watching telenovelas and cartoons.
And the soap operas, holy cow, they kept getting more and more tragic.
So with this, I said, Each of these kids will be a novella.
So in commercials, they would fake the stuff by playing with the black bars.
What if we treat that as part of the narrative and use it to accentuate moments?
Why not use the actual physical frame?
I can be more tongue-in-cheek.
Then I started thinking ofBlack Pantherand how they made Wakanda as a place that isnt limited by reality.
What we did was make the world follow the characters.
Every character looks cartoony, so the world needed to be over-the-top and ridiculous.
So this was a chance to fulfill that idea that as a kid was hard to imagine.
For the gods, I had a whiteboard with a draft full of everything I found interesting.
But a problem with the pantheon is theyre mostly male, so we started doing some gender swaps.
My guiding principle was, what if the ring was alive and the main character?
What if the ring chose to take itself to Mordor?
Tell me about casting the series.
And you never do that, its bad luck.
But I didnt care.
And then I would write them on Twitter or Instagram or even Facebook sometimes.
You had some members of the cast reprise their roles in the Spanish dub, including yourself.
How involved were you in the translations?Super-involved.
One of the things we did was we decided to add accents from all over Latin America.
So we worked extra-hard to make it its own thing.
People keep asking me, and Id say if youre bilingual you should watch both because theyre very different.
We got away with some crazier stuff.
I wanted the cast to reflect that.
What does the combination of those two things mean for you?Its all about seeing yourself onscreen.
Especially when you know these mythologies and stories are right there and we just dont see them.
If we dont exist in fantasy, then theres no magic in us.
