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10. Nobody Knows Where Gru Is From
The filmmakers described Gru's accent as a mix of Ricardo Montalban and Bela Lugosi, which would make it a mix of Mexican and Hungarian. But when pressed on the matter, Carell got comically prickly. "He's from... not here. And that's really all you need to know. And I just... frankly, I don't like your attitude."
Although we've seen plenty of scenes of Gru as a young man trying to get his mother's attention, it's only Occam's razor and a little bit of ethnocentrism that makes us assume those scenes take place in America. Even if they did, he and his mother could've immigrated from somewhere else earlier. His name might provide a clue to where...