Benjamin Bratt as Super Villain 'El Macho' in "Despicable Me 2"
On July 3rd, get ready for more Minion madness in Despicable Me 2. In the new movie, Gru (Steve Carell) is recruited by the Anti-Villain League to help deal with a powerful new super criminal. He returns with the girls, the unpredictably hilarious minions... and a host of new and outrageously funny characters.
Universal Pictures has revealed this first look at super villain ‘El Macho’ who will be voiced by Benjamin Bratt. ‘El Macho’ is the most ruthless, dangerous, and as his name implies, macho villain there ever was. That is…until he died riding a shark into the mouth of an active volcano with 250 pounds of dynamite strapped to his chest. However, his body was never found, and all that was ever retrieved was a pile of singed chest hair. Gru is resolute in his belief that ‘El Macho’ has adopted the guise of Eduardo Perez, the owner of Salsa & Salsa restaurant in the Paradise Mall.
Eduardo (Benjamin Bratt) is the extremely warm, charming and flirty owner of the popular Salsa & Salsa restaurant whose passionate Latin dancing causes women to swoon. He has a larger-than-life personality that is dwarfed only by the size of his waistline. But is Eduardo secretly the No. 1 supervillain on the AVL’s most wanted list?
Despicable Me 2 opens in theaters on July 3rd.