{"id":491213,"date":"2026-01-04T06:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T06:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/491213\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T06:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T06:56:10","slug":"guillermo-del-toro-reveals-death-of-his-brother-at-palm-springs-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/491213\/","title":{"rendered":"Guillermo del Toro Reveals Death of His Brother at Palm Springs Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/guillermo-del-toro\/\" id=\"auto-tag_guillermo-del-toro_1\" data-tag=\"guillermo-del-toro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Guillermo del Toro<\/a> emotionally announced the passing of his brother while being honored at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/palm-springs-film-fest-top-event-oscar-contenders-1236462802\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Palm Springs Film Awards<\/a> on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe director, on hand to receive the Visionary Award at the annual star-studded event, was joined on stage by his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/frankenstein\/\" id=\"auto-tag_frankenstein_1\" data-tag=\"frankenstein\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Frankenstein<\/a> stars Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi and Mia Goth, as he spoke about how, at 61 years old, \u201cI\u2019ve come to believe that everybody\u2019s born with one or two songs to sing. That\u2019s it, and we keep repeating them and repeating them until we get them sort of right. And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/frankenstein-review-oscar-isaac-jacob-elordi-netflix-1236351926\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Frankenstein<\/a> was the song I was born to sing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tDel Toro told the crowd at the Palm Springs Convention Center how he approached the iconic tale by \u201cmaking it about fatherhood and forgiveness, because I believe that we want to be forgiven and forgive. And now, very recently, something has became very clear to me. Three days ago, I lost my older brother but I\u2019m here, and I\u2019m here because the film speaks about a condition that is purely human; that is proved by the final phase <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-features\/making-of-frankenstein-guillermo-del-toro-1236448616\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">in the film<\/a>, which says the heart may break and the broken live on. Even a broken heart pumps the blood and keeps you going.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cMy brother and I played Victor and the creature on many moments in our lives,\u201d he said in reference to Frankenstein\u2018s two main characters, and \u201cmany years ago, we granted each other love and granted each other peace. So I\u2019m here for family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe filmmaker \u2014 who skipped the event\u2019s red carpet \u2014 didn\u2019t reveal his brother\u2019s name or any details about his death, but announced \u201cI may be absent at a few functions this [awards] season, but not this one. I\u2019m here because this is family,\u201d as he gestured to his stars. \u201cLife gives you a family on the way.\u201d  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Guillermo del Toro emotionally announced the passing of his brother while being honored at the Palm Springs Film&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":491214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[185,171,65100,58203,221367,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-491213","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-frankenstein","11":"tag-guillermo-del-toro","12":"tag-palm-springs-film-festival","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115835527813734191","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}