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Filipino animator Ronnie del Carmen stars in Pixar film 'Elemental'

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Yong Chavez | TFC News Hollywood

<figure class="op-interactive"><iframe height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ByQFE5mmtis?enablejsapi=1" width="560"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more News on <a href="https://www.iwanttfc.com/#!/browse/Genres/News/tag_id_genres/id_news" target="_blank">iWantTFC</a></div><p>In the Disney/Pixar movie &quot;Elemental,&quot; Ronnie del Carmen voices Bernie Lumen, the strict but loving father of Ember.</p><p>Born in the Philippines, Del Carmen went to college at the University of Santo Tomas, where he honed his artistic skills and studied fine arts in advertising.</p><p>Known as an animator and writer-director, he spent 20 years at Pixar before moving to Netflix in 2021 to be able to do his dream Filipino project that&#x27;s currently in development.</p><div><a href="http://Oscar-nominated Filipino director at Pixar is moving to Netflix to tell Filipino stories">Oscar-nominated Filipino director at Pixar is moving to Netflix to tell Filipino stories</a></div><p>In 2016, Del Carmen received an Oscar nomination for the movie &quot;Inside Out&quot; as its co-writer and director.</p><div><a data-ved="2ahUKEwicqaTSy8X_AhUaVd4KHeIDDFoQFnoECCYQAQ" href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/global-filipino/03/04/16/what-oscars-mean-to-ronnie-del-carmen" jsaction="rcuQ6b:npT2md" jscontroller="M9mgyc" jsname="qOiK6e" ping="/url?sa=t&amp;source=web&amp;rct=j&amp;url=https://news.abs-cbn.com/global-filipino/03/04/16/what-oscars-mean-to-ronnie-del-carmen&amp;ved=2ahUKEwicqaTSy8X_AhUaVd4KHeIDDFoQFnoECCYQAQ&amp;cshid=1686842948633721">What Oscars mean to Ronnie del Carmen</a></div><p>Animated films typically take several years to finish, and animators and artists voice the characters in the early phase of the process.</p><p>But in &quot;Elemental,&quot; its writer-director Peter Sohn loved Del Carmen&#x27;s performance so much that he and the producers decided to give him the part.</p><div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="ronniedelcarmen" src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2023/entertainment/06/15/ronniedelcarmen.png"/><figcaption><address style="text-align:left">Filipino animator Ronnie del Carmen who voices Bernie in &quot;Elemental&quot; poses for a photo with the movie&#x27;s director, Peter Sohn. (Courtesy: Yong Chavez)</address></figcaption></figure></div><p>&quot;I recorded a lot of it at Pixar before the pandemic,&quot; he said. &quot;Then there were times that it was in the spare bedroom upstairs of my house. The final ones, it&#x27;s doing a lot of the lines over and over again at the recording booth.&quot;</p><p>Asked if he will pursue more voice-acting jobs, Del Carmen quipped: &quot;If you&#x27;ll hire me, I&#x27;ll do it.&quot;</p><p>Being a Filipino immigrant, Del Carmen said he relates to the story of the &quot;Elemental&quot; which tells how a family moved to a faraway place after their original home was destroyed.</p><p>&quot;It&#x27;s almost as if it was tailor made for me,&quot; he said. &quot;Being an immigrant, being a father, being a son myself, living in another country from where I was born, and struggling to try and make it and having all these very, these family issues that come up.&quot;</p><p>Del Carmen added: &quot;These are the things that Bernie goes through. So I felt very close to what Bernie was going through in the story and it was almost a default that I can rely on.&quot;</p>

Ronnie del Carmen voices Bernie Lumen, the strict but loving father of Ember in Disney/Pixar's latest release 'Elemental.'