Despite growing up in Mexico and starring in a favorite Disney Pixar movie Coco, Jaime Camil just had the full Día de Muertos experience this year.
“Día de Muertos is like going to carnival in Brazil… or going to Pamplona for the running of the bulls in Spain… it’s a big one, it’s a big holiday,” Camil, 51, who voiced Papá in 2017. animated hit, says PEOPLE. “You have a nice holiday to remember [the people you’ve lost] and celebrate their lives.
“This is my first authentic Dia de Muertos celebration,” continues the actor, who recently partnered with Expedia to create a “Travel Shop” for his favorite stays in Mexico. “In my family, we were very Americanized. So we did Halloween, trick-or-treating, and we had ofrenda (Spanish for offer) in our house, but I didn’t really understand what it was, the meaning. I was very, very young.”
When the opportunity to be a part Coco came, he developed a deeper understanding of the significance behind the holiday.
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“When you see Cocothat’s right. It’s not an exaggeration. And it’s not like a caricature when you go to cemeteries, they’re beautiful,” he explains. “They’re beautiful and super decorated, people dance and remember their loved ones and keep the memory alive.”
Camil says his two children like the movie but “don’t care” that he plays the Pope in the movie.
“I want to think they’re excited. But I’m a dad, so to them I’m the uncool person in the universe,” he says of his children Elena, 13, and Jaime, 10, whom he shares with wife, Mexican model Heidi Balvanera.
“But my daughter sometimes comes to my work and I can see a glimmer of, ‘That’s my dad. I’m proud,'” he adds.
Jaime Camil with his wife Heidi Balvanera and children Elena and Jaime.
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For fans who want a “live action experience” in the film, Camil suggests traveling to Oaxaca or Morelia, Mexico: “You can’t go wrong,” he says.
Through his partnership with Expedia, Camil gained the full experience of Oaxaca, which offers tours, parades and lively processions for the so-called Day of the Dead. muerteadas.
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However, his list of favorite places to stay spans the entire country and is worth visiting at any time of the year.
“When Expedia told me they wanted me to work on selected experiences and hotels that you recommend, I said, ‘Oh, that’s really good,’ because when you travel, you usually ask your friends, ‘Hey, have you been to this place?'”
“I travel a lot with my family, so I wanted to make my chosen stores family-oriented,” he continues. “This does not mean that the hotels I recommend are only for families, but they are also very family-friendly.”
Camil’s Travel Shop is now available to view with his best recommendations in Mexico.
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