‘Encanto’ cast members to perform ‘We Don’t Talk About Bruno’ at the Oscars

LOS ANGELES — A number of solid members of Disney’s animated movie “Encanto” can be performing the film’s hit tune “We Do not Speak About Bruno” throughout the 94th Academy Awards, present producers Will Packer and Shayla Cowan introduced Thursday.

“Encanto” solid members Adassa, Stephanie Beatriz, Mauro Castillo, Carolina Gaitan and Diane Guerrero, together with singers Becky G and Luis Fonsi will carry out on the ceremony, which returns to the Dolby Theater in Hollywood on Sunday, March 27.

This would be the first reside efficiency of the tune written by Lin-Manuel Miranda, who’s nominated for Greatest Unique Track for the movie’s observe “Dos Oruguitas.”

Final month, “We Do not Speak About Bruno” grew to become the highest-charting tune from a Disney animated movie in additional than 26 years, beating “Let It Go” from the hit movie “Frozen.”

Miranda’s catchy tune has been streamed on Spotify greater than 200 million instances. The final Disney tune to succeed in the highest of the Billboard Sizzling 100 chart was “A Entire New World” from “Aladdin” in 1993.

With such accolades, why is not hit observe nominated for an Oscar? Miranda stated he by no means noticed the huge recognition of “We Do not Speak About Bruno” coming.

The Academy solely accepts two songs from anyone movie by the identical author on its shortlist. Additionally, submission deadlines had been in fall 2021, weeks earlier than “Encanto’s” meteoric rise in recognition.

“I used to be saying to a pal: I believe that is my ‘Ship within the Clowns,’” Miranda stated throughout a current interview with the Related Press. “‘Ship within the Clowns’ was Stephen Sondheim’s solely chart-topper. Who would have guessed out of the thousands and thousands of songs he wrote that it might be ‘Ship within the Clowns’? It feels random in a single sense.”

“However however, we have all been locked up for 2 years,” he continued. “The notion of a bunch of voices occurring inside one residence feels very resonant, with hindsight. There’s type of a component for everybody to play in singing together with the tune. When you’re not bopping to this melody, one other melody is coming alongside in two seconds as a result of virtually each character will get a little bit function in it.”

Disney as an alternative submitted “Dos Oruguitas,” sung by Colombian singer-songwriter Sebastián Yatra, for consideration. The tune’s identify interprets as “Two Caterpillars” and performed within the background throughout a flashback displaying the traumatic origins of the Madrigal household’s powers.

Miranda composed it striving for the simplicity and metaphor of an outdated folks tune.

“It is one of many solely songs the place a personality will not be singing it. You are not seeing a personality sing it, and I believe it is all of the extra highly effective due to it,” he stated.

If Miranda scores a win for “Dos Oruguitas,” it might give him his first Oscar, and since he is already gained Tonys, Grammys and Emmys, it’s going to land him the coveted EGOT standing.

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The 94th Oscars can be broadcast reside on ABC on March 27 beginning at 8 p.m. ET/7 p.m. CT/5 p.m. PT. Regina Corridor, Amy Schumer and Wanda Sykes are internet hosting.

Try the total listing of nominations for the 2022 Oscars right here.

The Related Press contributed to this report.