Raquel Laguna/ SUCOPRESS. Teo Vergara talks in this interview about working in the animation movie A Sloth Story, directed by Tania Vincent and Ricard Cussó. In the film, after a terrifying storm destroys their home, a speedy sloth named Laura and her kooky family move to the big city in their rusted old food truck hoping to make their business a success. Leslie Jones, Remy Hill, Olivia Vásquez, Ben Gorroño, Dan Brumm, Facundo Hache Herrera, Matteo Romaniuk, Thalia Colettis and Andrew Cook complete the voice cast of A Sloth Story, in theaters nationwide on February 28th.
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00:00all of it was just such a dream. This is my very first animation film, so it's always been a huge
00:07dream of mine to get into animation and get into voice acting. So that in itself was just such a
00:14milestone for me. Obviously working with all the very, very talented people on the project
00:22and our directors, Tanya and Ricard, was like an absolute dream. The script was hilarious and fun
00:30and yeah, I think we've created a really unique special project together. Yeah, it was all good.
00:40Laura is a very fast-moving sloth and she's super driven, she's very funny,
00:47she just wants to get out into the world. She has a big sense of adventure and she's ready to go
00:55and face the world and chase her dream and I think that's super beautiful about her. Yeah,
01:02I think heaps of kids could relate to Laura. I mean, she's got the duality of kind of being tied
01:07to her family, the responsibility of staying with them and making sure the food truck is all okay,
01:14but then also wanting to be out with her friends and be free and be a teenager and just experience
01:21life as it's presented to her. I think that, I mean, I could definitely relate to that and I'm
01:28sure many, many children and kids and people of all ages could relate to that. Yeah, I definitely
01:34did some improv in the booth. It was a really, really fun time. That whole week that we had
01:41together, it was just us having a laugh basically in the booth. It was really, really collaborative.
01:47They were so open to suggestions and fun little tidbits and adding this in or adding this sound in
01:57and yeah, like we stuck by the script, but there was always like second options, third options of
02:02what we could do. Yeah, so it really felt like we created the story and the character together,
02:08which is very special. The message of the film for me when I watched it and when I read it for
02:15the first time as well was you are more capable than you know, you're more loved than you know
02:26and it's important to chase your dreams, but also have gratitude for how far you've come and
02:32where you come from. Yeah, I think there's a lot of really beautiful messages within the film and
02:39I think that anyone who sees it will take away something really special. I grew up Latin in
02:47Australia, which is, I knew one other Latin person in my high school growing up, like there
02:54really wasn't a lot of us and have, you know, having the experience of being Latin Australian
03:01is rare. I don't meet a lot of other Latin Australians and it's really special to be able
03:11to represent that on screen and in this story and for other young kids who are, you know,
03:16growing up Latin in Australia, they're going to be able to have this family of sloths, you know,
03:22all having accents surrounded by Australian accents, which is incredible to me, truly,
03:29truly incredible. I'm very, very lucky, very lucky. The most challenging part for me was
03:38the relationship between Gabby and Laura. The mother-daughter dynamic is
03:48really particular in this film and it's, a lot of the scenes are really heightened,
03:54they're really emotional and they weren't difficult, but definitely a challenge.
04:01But I was really lucky to have Olivia supporting me and she is such a talented and beautiful
04:08person. So I was lucky enough to also get her in the booth for a lot of those scenes,
04:13which is very rare. And I was also really supported by the directors and
04:19um, yeah, it made me feel very capable of doing it. And, and I, and I'm, I heart that
04:26it's, it's, it reads cause, cause it was really emotional in the booth when we were doing them.