Julieta Madrigal is a major character in Disney's 2021 animated feature film Encanto. The eldest daughter of Alma and Pedro Madrigal, she is the mother of Isabela, Luisa, and Mirabel Madrigal, whom she parented alongside her husband Agustín. A nurturing caretaker, Julieta was gifted with the power to cook healing foods.
Background[]
Julieta is one of the three triplet children Alma and Pedro had, alongside her brother Bruno and her sister Pepa. Sometime later, she married Agustín and they had three daughters: Isabela, Luisa, and Mirabel. Her gift allows her to heal people via cooking, which is how she met and fell in love with her accident-prone husband Agustín.
Personality[]
Julieta enjoying helping people.
Due to her magical gift of healing others with her cooking, Julieta is very nurturing to those she treats for their injuries or illnesses. Julieta is a very supportive person and like her sister Pepa and her brother-in-law Félix, she is very affectionate with the youngest members of the family. She enjoys helping the townspeople with her gift and making people smile with her food. Julieta also is very patient and does not get annoyed when her husband, Agustín keeps getting stung by bees due to his clumsiness where she is willing to heal her husband quickly. Julieta possesses a great amount of love for her family and does her best to take care of them. Because she was the oldest of her siblings and her father had died since she was a baby, Julieta helped her mother take care of her family from a very young age.[2]
When her younger brother, Bruno, left one day, Julieta was saddened and while the townsfolk and a majority of the family spoke poorly about him, due to his gift causing problems, Julieta remembers him fondly. When Bruno returns home, Julieta is overjoyed and quickly embraces him, showing how happy she was to have Bruno back. In addition to being affectionate with her daughters and siblings, she is also seen to be affectionate with her nephews and niece. Julieta seems to have a soft spot for family prankster, Camilo. During Antonio's gift ceremony, Julieta holds her nephew's hand and has her other arm lovingly around him like a mother would. She shows joy that Camilo enjoys her food and is visibly proud of Antonio when he gets his gift.
Julieta being affectionate with her youngest daughter, Mirabel.
Julieta always supported her youngest daughter, Mirabel, because she understood how hard it is for her to be the only ordinary member of a magical family because she doesn't have a gift. She also apparently still saw Mirabel as her baby girl, like most mothers. Despite her mother's authority, Julieta is even willing to stand up to and reprimand Alma for her hard attitude towards Mirabel as she knew Mirabel didn't deserve it. After a heartbroken Mirabel runs away after the house was destroyed, Julieta immediately becomes concerned and starts searching for her, showing she cares more about Mirabel than her family home being destroyed. When Mirabel returns home, Julieta is relieved to see Mirabel safe and sound, and expresses how proud she is of her as she watches Mirabel help their family rebuild their home.
Physical appearance[]
Julieta is a 50-year-old[3] woman with tan skin, curly, graying black hair which she wears in a bun, and brown eyes. She wears a long-sleeved baby blue shirt with a tiffany blue long skirt and a cooking apron the same color, light brown flat shoes and golden earrings. Her apron is tied to a ribbon and its pockets have various herbs and plants inside them. The apron also has stitched some plants and, in the pockets, hands holding plants, representing her healing powers through her recipes.
Powers and abilities[]
Julieta healing an injury with her food.
Julieta can heal people with her cooking; when a hurt or sick person eats something cooked by her, they are healed instantly. She was able to heal Mirabel's wounded hand with an arepa con queso. Other injuries that she has healed are a black eye, a fractured forearm, and her husband's bee stings. However, it is unknown to what extent her cooking can heal if the injury is too non-fatal, or if her cooking is specifically required to heal.
Julieta is knowledgeable about medicinal herbs and oils, and regularly uses them in her cooking.[4]
Appearances[]
Encanto[]
Julieta first appears as a baby being held by her mother after being born. After her parents are forced to leave their home, with her father, Pedro Madrigal being killed by soldiers, Julieta and her surviving family members, her mother and her younger sister and brother watch their candle being blessed with magic which creates a new home for them. When Julieta and her siblings turn five, they are given magical gifts, where Julieta is given the ability to heal others through her cooking.
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- Early in production, the character was to be named Juana.[5]
- According to Jared Bush, Julieta's gift can tackle some serious ailments, even healing Mirabel's vision (but simply choose not to since she doesn't see it as something that she needs to "cure"), but he acknowledged that there would be some illnesses she can't treat.[6][7]
References[]
- ↑ "Triplets' Birth Order". Twitter (December 8, 2021).
- ↑ Bush, Josh (January 12, 2022). "Julieta The Caretaker". Tumblr.
- ↑ Bush, Jared (December 26, 2021). "Triplets' Ages". Twitter.
- ↑ Bush, Jared (January 2, 2022). "Julieta's Herbs". Twitter.
- ↑ Sharpe, Josh (December 9, 2020). "Exclusive: New Details for Walt Disney Animation Studios’ ‘Encanto’". The Disinsider.
- ↑ Bush, Jared (January 2, 2022). "Julieta's Powers Part 1". Twitter.
- ↑ Bush, Jared (January 2, 2022). "Julieta's Powers Part 2". Twitter.
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