Elemental: the first non-binary character in Disney’s history arrives in the new Pixar film

It’s no news that Disney has long embraced the rainbow colors, aiming for ever stronger and ever more robust inclusion for the future. And so, after the two mothers appeared in a cameo in Finding Dory, the queer policewoman of Onwards and a family with two women in Lightyearand with Elementalsthe new Pixar film that premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, which Disney goes one step further, presenting the first non-binary character in Burbank’s history. Is called Lake Rippleappears for only a few seconds and, to define itself, uses the pronouns «They/Them».

Let’s get to know him when Ember, which in the Italian version has the voice of Valentina Romanidecides to secretly leave the world of fire where he lives with his parents to dine at home dthe Wadesthe water man who has the voice of Stephen DeMartino and for which he begins to have feelings despite their elements seemingly having no future. ElementalsIndeed, it is a related story to the apparent impossibility of being together and the need to go beyond differences to recognize similarities.

Despite a lukewarm reception at the US box office, with Elementals Pixar regains some of its original charm, got a little lost in jobs like Soul, Red And Lightyear. Telling the story of two elements – Fire and Water – condemned to hate each other while experiencing a latent attraction between them is a very romantic epic that Pixar tells with extreme delicacylaying the foundations for a modern Romeo and Juliet which teaches us a fundamental lesson: go beyond prejudice to follow your heart.

Source: Vanity Fair

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