TIFF 2023: Guillermo del Toro Surprises On Opening Night Of ‘The Boy And The Heron’
deadline.comHayao Miyazaki wasn’t here in Toronto tonight to fire up TIFF at the international premiere of his movie, The Boy and the Heron, but 3x Oscar winner Guillermo del Toro was.
del Toro surprised the crowd to a rapturous applause at Roy Thompson Hall at the pic’s 8PM screening. CEO Cameron Bailey introduced del Toro as “Miyazaki’s most passionate fans.” “He knows what makes my fat butt move!” quipped del Toro about when Bailey asked him to introduce the film. “Animation is film, and tonight’s film goes beyond that.
Animation is hard,” said del Toro. “We are privileged enough to be living in a time where Mozart is composing symphonies,” said del Toro, “Miyazaki san is a master of that stature, and we are so lucky to be here.” “He has changed the medium that he started in, revolutionized it, proved over and over again that is a tremendous work of art,” del Toro continued.
It’s the first time that a Japanese title or an animated movie has opened TIFF. del Toro is no stranger to animation, having directed the stop-motion Netflix feature, Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, directed, executive produced and written on the streamer’s Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia series and served as EP on DreamWorks Animation features, Puss in Boots and Rise of the Guardians.
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