{"id":38286,"date":"2024-11-12T14:47:34","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T19:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/coco-star-jaime-camil-opens-up-about-experiencing-his-first-authentic-dia-de-muertos-in-mexico-exclusive\/12\/11\/2024\/"},"modified":"2024-11-12T14:47:34","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T19:47:34","slug":"coco-star-jaime-camil-opens-up-about-experiencing-his-first-authentic-dia-de-muertos-in-mexico-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/coco-star-jaime-camil-opens-up-about-experiencing-his-first-authentic-dia-de-muertos-in-mexico-exclusive\/12\/11\/2024\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cCoco \u201dStar Jaime Camil Opens Up About Experiencing His First \u2018Authentic&#8217; D\u00eda de Muertos\u201c \u201din Mexico (Exclusive)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Mexican actor \u2014 who voiced Pap\u00e1 in &#8216;Coco&#8217; \u2014 spent this year&#8217;s D\u00eda de Muertos in Oaxaca, Mexico with Expedia<\/p>\n<figure class=\"caas-figure\">\n<div class=\"caas-figure-with-pb\" style=\"max-height: 640px\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"caas-img-container caas-img-lightbox caas-img-loader\" style=\"padding-bottom:67%\" data-lightbox-src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/KXt.coZ4_rJndwoYTXjmGQ--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTI0MDA7aD0xNjAw\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/people_218\/b9845a37f9266c2cb960e4ba35a1fcd7\"><span class=\"caas-img-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jaime Camil\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/v8UyT_wB066ugAOPQPJOBw--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTY0MA--\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/people_218\/b9845a37f9266c2cb960e4ba35a1fcd7\" class=\"caas-img\"\/><button class=\"link caas-lightbox\" aria-label=\"View larger image\" data-ylk=\"sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;elm:expand;itc:1\"><span class=\"openArrows icon\"><svg width=\"22\" height=\"22\" viewbox=\"0 0 22 22\"><path d=\"M12.372 0.92C12.372 0.414 12.782 0.004 13.287 0.004L21 0L20.996 7.712C20.996 8.217 20.586 8.628 20.08 8.628C19.574 8.628 19.164 8.217 19.164 7.712V3.183L12.337 10.011L10.988 8.663L17.816 1.835H13.287C12.782 1.835 12.372 1.425 12.372 0.92ZM1.835 17.816L8.663 10.988L10.012 12.337L3.183 19.164H7.712C8.218 19.164 8.627 19.574 8.627 20.08C8.627 20.586 8.218 20.995 7.712 20.995L0 21L0.004 13.287C0.004 12.782 0.414 12.372 0.92 12.372C1.425 12.372 1.835 12.782 1.835 13.287V17.816Z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><figcaption class=\"caption-collapse\"><i>Jaime Camil<\/i><\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Despite growing up in Mexico and starring in the beloved Disney Pixar film <em>Coco, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/celebrity\/jane-virgin-star-jaime-camil-immigrant-story\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Jaime Camil;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Jaime Camil<\/a> just got the full D\u00eda de Muertos experience this year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;D\u00eda de Muertos\u200b\u200b is like going to Carnival in Brazil&#8230; or going to Pamplona to the bull run in Spain&#8230; it&#8217;s a big one, it&#8217;s a big holiday,&#8221; Camil, 51, who voiced Pap\u00e1 in the 2017 animated hit, tells PEOPLE. &#8220;It&#8217;s a beautiful holiday for you to remember [the people you&#8217;ve lost] and celebrate their lives.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is my first authentic Dia de Muertos celebration,&#8221; the actor, who recently partnered with Expedia to create a &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.expedia.com\/shop\/jaimecamil\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Travel Shop;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Travel Shop<\/a>&#8221; curating his favorite stays in Mexico, continues. &#8220;In my family, we were very Americanized. So we did Halloween, the trick or treating, and we did have an <em>ofrenda<\/em> (Spanish for offering) in our house, but I didn&#8217;t quite understand what it was, the meaning. I was very, very young.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When the opportunity to be a part of<em> Coco<\/em> came along, he developed a deeper understanding of the significance behind the holiday.<\/p>\n<p>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/how-jamie-camil-is-inspiring-travelers-on-dia-de-muertos-celebrations-2024-8714359\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:How Jane the Virgin's Jaime Camil Is Inspiring Travelers Who Want to Experience D\u00eda de Muertos in Mexico;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">How <em>Jane the Virgin<\/em>&#8216;s Jaime Camil Is Inspiring Travelers Who Want to Experience D\u00eda de Muertos in Mexico<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When you see<em> Coco<\/em>, that&#8217;s how it is. It&#8217;s not an exaggeration. And it&#8217;s not like a caricature of when you go to the graveyards, they&#8217;re beautiful,&#8221; he explains. &#8220;They&#8217;re beautiful and super well decorated, and people dance and they remember their loved ones and they keep the memory alive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Camil says his two children love the movie, but they &#8220;couldn&#8217;t care less&#8221; that he plays Pap\u00e1 in the film.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to think that they get excited. But I&#8217;m a dad, so I&#8217;m the un-coolest person in the universe for them,&#8221; he says of his kids Elena, 13, and Jaime, 10, whom he shares with his wife, Mexican model Heidi Balvanera.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But my daughter, sometime she comes to my work and I can see a little glimmer of, &#8216;That&#8217;s my dad. I&#8217;m proud,'&#8221; he adds.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"caas-figure\">\n<div class=\"caas-figure-with-pb\" style=\"max-height: 480px\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"caas-img-container caas-img-loader portrait\" style=\"padding-bottom:130%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"caas-img caas-lazy has-preview\" alt=\"MICHAEL TRAN\/AFP via Getty Jaime Camil with wife Heidi Balvanera and kids Elena and Jaime\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/147E0cDM0s0kNt9aFui6PQ--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTcwNTtoPTkyMA--\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/people_218\/90a6b84194473a073d885840b7d749d3\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"MICHAEL TRAN\/AFP via Getty Jaime Camil with wife Heidi Balvanera and kids Elena and Jaime\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/147E0cDM0s0kNt9aFui6PQ--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTcwNTtoPTkyMA--\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/people_218\/90a6b84194473a073d885840b7d749d3\" class=\"caas-img\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"caption-wrapper caption-aligned-with-image\"><figcaption class=\"caption-collapse\">\n<p>MICHAEL TRAN\/AFP via Getty<\/p>\n<p> Jaime Camil with wife Heidi Balvanera and kids Elena and Jaime<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>For fans looking for a &#8220;live-action experience&#8221; of the film, Camil suggests they travel to Oaxaca or Morelia in Mexico: &#8220;You can&#8217;t go wrong,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p>Through his partnership with Expedia, Camil got the full experience in Oaxaca which offers Day of the Dead tours, parades and lively processions called\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/mexico-oaxaca-day-of-dead-7cdd0909095d4c2fb96a6ac17eb1744f\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:muerteadas;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">muerteadas<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/chica\/jaime-camil-family-life-jane-the-virgin\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:'Coco' 's Jaime Camil Talks About His &quot;Super Hot Wife&quot; and Family Life;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">&#8216;Coco&#8217; &#8216;s Jaime Camil Talks About His &#8220;Super Hot Wife&#8221; and Family Life<\/a><\/p>\n<p>His list of favorite stays, however, span the country and are worth visiting any time of year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When Expedia told me they wanted me to do curated experiences and hotels you recommend, I&#8217;m like, &#8216;Oh, that&#8217;s very good,&#8217; because when you travel, you usually ask friends: &#8216;Hey, have you been to this place?'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I travel a lot with my family, so I wanted to make my curated shops family oriented,&#8221; he continues. &#8220;That doesn&#8217;t mean that the hotels that I recommend are only for families, but they&#8217;re also very family friendly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Camil&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expedia.com\/shop\/jaimecamil\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Travel Shop is available to view now;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Travel Shop is available to view now<\/a> with his best recommendations in Mexico.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/coco-star-jaime-camil-opens-191350840.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mexican actor &mdash; who voiced Pap&aacute; in &lsquo;Coco&rsquo; &mdash; spent this year&rsquo;s D&iacute;a de Muertos in Oaxaca, Mexico with Expedia Jaime<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/coco-star-jaime-camil-opens-up-about-experiencing-his-first-authentic-dia-de-muertos-in-mexico-exclusive\/12\/11\/2024\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38286"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}