Welcome to the mall family.
(GASPS)
(WHISPERING) El Macho.
CHRIS RENAUD: El Macho started with the writers, Cinco and Ken,
and we were talking about different archetypes of villains
and we started talking about this character.
We should be ruling the world!
Our villain is El Macho.
El Macho. El Macho.
El Macho?
"El Macho." We wanted someone to be able to say that.
And so it's great because he's built-in who he is, he's macho.
That's what he is.
The world believed that El Macho had died
in the most macho way possible.
Riding on the back of a shark with dynamite strapped to his chest
into the mouth of an active volcano.
I had to find the soul of a character who is larger than life.
Now it is time to macho it up just a little bit. We gotta...
We got to find it. We got to find it. We got to find it. All right, here we go.
So it was that confidence really that I locked on to
that was kind of my guide throughout all of it.
I have admired your work for years, amigo.
Stealing the Moon! Are you kidding?
From a design point of view,
we started with El Macho sort of in his prime.
You know, muscular, dressed with the mask and the cape.
We looked at a lot of American Southwest design,
Aztec designs, and then we mixed that with
modern-day Lucha Libre wrestling design sensibility.
So, he's a combination of all of this
in the most manly, macho way possible.
But now, it's time for me to make a spectacular return to evil.
RENAUD: As the story evolved, we realized that we were better served if,
maybe the guy wasn't in top shape anymore,
and is maybe a little heavier, he lost a little hair,
so Gru only thought he recognized him.
El Macho was this strong, muscular guy.
But the guy that walked into that cupcake store that day
is just a short one. So, "Could it be him? I don't know."
Buenos dias, my friends!
lam Eduardo Perez.
DAU RIO: Eduardo is El Macho's alter-ego
and he's the nicest, sweetest guy.
He owns the restaurant in the mall.
We love Eduardo. Everybody loves Eduardo.
Kids eat free on Tuesdays.
If you took the world's most interesting man and you mashed him together with
Ricardo Montalban's Mr. Roarke from Fantasy Island,
and then you stuffed that personality into the body
of Bluto from the Popeye cartoons,
thatessenfiaﬂy gives you an idea of who Eduardo Perez is.
Somebody's going to die tonight.
In the case of Eduardo a.k.a El Macho,
his pet is, in fact, a chicken,
whose name is Pollito, which means "little chicken".
And Pollito is a security chicken.
He's like a watch-chicken.
(GASPS) (CREAKING)
(CLUCKS)
There's a chicken.
Ha! Some guard dog.
(SCREAMS)
STEVE CARELL: Gru is not a fan of this chicken.
Why would a chicken cause any sort of damage to a man like Gru?
But this chicken wreaks havoc over Gru's life.
And he's not very appreciative.
DAU RIO: One of my favorite things about Pollito
is that Gru and Lucy break into the restaurant
and they get away, and El Macho has no idea that they've done it
but Pollito knows.
And I lovejust the idea that this chicken
knows something is up with Gru and Lucy
and you can see it in his eyes, "I'm on to you."
But he's a chicken, he can't really do much. (LAUGHS)
Or can he? Or can he?
(BOTH GASP) Spin-off.
I really hate that chicken.
This is truly one of the most rewarding gigs I've ever had.
It's like the ultimate playground really. You know?
It's the biggest sandbox in the world
where you're actually encouraged to be
as large and as grand as you possibly can be.
Bigger. Bigger is better. That's what they're saying, "Bigger is better."
That's right!