Mario Kreuztberger, better known as Don Francisco, will embark on a new professional project on February 15 that, according to what he said in an interview with the Efe news agency, will complete a major personal transformation that will involve a change in ‘appearance’ and even psychiatric sessions.
“I turned 80 in labor and I felt that a new phase had begun. I decided to start a new book on the last phase of my life and in those reflections I realized that the pandemic had made me think a lot, revise things “I know many other people have been through the process and it occurred to me to create a space where we could talk about it,” said the Chilean driver.
The result is “Don Francisco: Reflexiones 2021”, a 10-episode miniseries in which he will interview personalities on CNN in Spanish with personalities from the entertainment, arts, medicine, sports and other professions exploring personal issues. . who hit him most during the incarceration.
“Who are we more, mother or father? I resemble my mother in my love for the show because she was the one who inspired me. My mother trained in Germany to be an opera singer and had to leave everything behind when he escaped the Nazis, ‘he said.
These are the kinds of stories he wants to get out of his interviewees and which he will tell himself during the meetings, which will start airing on February 15.
It seems to be more about the inner world of Mario Kreuztberger and less about the very public Don Francisco, the character who made him the most famous host in the Spanish world thanks to his decades of directing the “Sábado Gigante” program at Univision. network.
One of the signs of your desire to be more authentic to your audience is your new look. Now she takes her hair natural, all white and as lavish as ever.
“During delivery I let my hair grow and it already looked like (Albert) Einstein. When I finally put myself in the hands of the hairdresser, he asked me if I was going to dye and I decided not to. a new phase like myself, an 80-year-old man with all his gray hair, ”he explained.
However, the biggest change Kreutzberger has made seems to have happened inside. The driver has been receiving psychiatric therapy for weeks, “to keep improving as a person”.
“We can all get better and that’s what I’m working on, becoming a better husband, a better father, a better grandfather,” he acknowledged.
After thousands of interviews, it’s hard to think that Don Francisco needs improvement in that area, but he said his new program, if not better, will be very different.
“This experience with the covid has changed us all, it has made us more open and vulnerable. It is an opportunity for all of us to learn from each other. It is what I want to provide,” he said.