‘Coco’ Co-Director Adrian Molina For a Queer-Inclusive Pixar Movie

Coco‘s co-director, Adrian Molina, says that he is interested in working on a Pixar animated feature that focuses on a queer story.

Molina shared his thoughts in an interview with  The Huffington Post, “It would have to be a compelling story that had universal appeal [and] there are so many beautiful stories to be told and so many characters to explore. I’m all for it.”

Molina says it really stems from storytelling. Storytelling is meant to share a variety of experiences, including stories with the LGBTQ community. Molina adds, “What I’d love to see is the diversity of stories that can exist about queer people. Many people have this experience in many different ways. I want to see many interpretations of that. I think that’s possible. There are plenty of brilliant artists who are up to that challenge. Even having to define it as queer storytelling ― it’s all just storytelling. I’d love to see so much of it you can’t quantify it.”

The co-director is also a gay man and is of Mexican heritage and feels that Miguel’s story in Coco can speak the queer journey, as well. “I think the struggle Miguel goes through ― between having this personal passion, this intuitive sense of the person he is, but being unable to show that, and the way he works through his conflict ― [can speak] to the journey of a queer person.”