Dora And The Lost City Of Gold Behind The Scenes [FHD]

To create Swiper’s signature blue-and-black mask, the effects team designed a practical suit covered in subtle blue LEDs. Del Toro would creep through the jungle set, completely silent, while the actors had to react in fear. “He’s this Oscar-winning actor, and he’s full-on sneaking behind a fake bush in a spandex suit, whispering ‘Swiper, no swiping!’” recalls Merced. “It was surreal and amazing.” In one of the film’s most memorable sequences, Dora teaches her city-slicker cousin Diego how to escape quicksand. On screen, it looks terrifying. Behind the scenes? It was a giant pool of oatmeal.

“We wanted Boots to feel like a real animal, not a cartoon sidekick,” says Bobin. “But for the dream sequences and a very special hallucination scene, we brought in a Jim Henson Company puppet. That puppet was so expressive, the actors started performing to it like a real co-star.” dora and the lost city of gold behind the scenes

“It was chaos,” laughs co-star Jeffrey Wahlberg (Diego). “Isabela would be giving this heroic speech, and then a mechanical flower would sneeze powder in her mouth. We had to do, like, forty takes because we kept breaking character.” One of the biggest behind-the-scenes questions was: How do you handle Boots? In the cartoon, Boots is a talking monkey. In a live-action film, a talking monkey felt... risky. The solution? Boots is a real, trained monkey for most of the film (a cheeky capuchin named Baby), but he doesn’t talk. Instead, Dora interprets his chattering. “It was surreal and amazing

As Merced puts it: “Dora doesn’t get sarcasm. She doesn’t get irony. And in a world full of cynical movies, that’s the most rebellious thing you can be.” It was a giant pool of oatmeal