Enrico Casarosa says his film is about friendship, not romantic relationships.
Whatever the reasoning behind this comparison, Casarosa insists the movie is not about that.
To be completely honest, I really wanted to talk about friendship."
Jacob Tremblay’s Luca and Jack Dylan Grazer’s Alberto in Pixar’s ‘Luca’.Disney/Pixar
Alberto breaks the shy Luca out of his shell by taking him to the surface.
Criticsand Pixar enthusiasts alike began making comparisons betweenLucaandCall Me by Your Name.
Maybe the Luca character reminded everyone ofCall Me by Your Namedirector Luca Guadagnino.
Jack Dylan Grazer’s Alberto and Jacob Tremblay’s Luca in Pixar’s ‘Luca’.Disney/Pixar
Maybe it was projection.
“That was really never in our plans,” Casarosa reiterates of the direction forLuca.
“This was really about their friendship in that kind of pre-puberty world.”
“I was timid and kinda shy, and he was following a passion every week.
I would just run around the old town in Genoa, which is kinda dicey.
We would just take some chances.”
Casarosa remembers a time when Alberto brought a pet python to school to show his classmates.
“His little sister was feeding it.
He didn’t want to,” he recalls.
“That was his way of trying to fight one of his fears.”
“How was our friendship?
Why was it so helpful for us?”
The Carta Marina, one of earliest cartographic renditions of the Scandinavian peninsula, was one of them.
It’s infested with a sea dragon,'" he says.
“You find out later it’d be tall tales to protect their favorite fishing spot.”
Lucawill premiere June 18 exclusively on Disney+.
