One day watch the ceremony of Oscar award, Eugenio Derbez He turned to his mother, the also actress Silvia Derbez, and told him he would be in that place someday, nominated.
It hasn’t happened yet, but it’s going little by little and next Thursday his tape “Coda ” will be the one who opens Sundance, the most important international independent film festival in the world.
The American tape tells the story of a girl entering her high school choir, where she is attracted to her duet partner as her passion for singing grows.
The role of Derbez, who took the decision to leave the comfort of a term six years ago Televisa and going to the United States, the teacher who encourages her to move on is to hear something special in her.
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“It was a risky decision, I’ve always said it; and every time things like this happen to me, I realize that I was not wrong and that I have a good team advising me on which movie I should and shouldn’t be in.
“I left Coda for three months: I initially met with the director and there were rehearsals, but because of the calendar I had to leave and it was painful, then the filming stopped for something and when I thought it was already done, I searched me again, there was a window and it was finally possible ”, he recalls.
“I left Coda for three months, because of the calendar I had to leave the shoot and when I thought it was already done, they looked for me again”
Eugenio Derbez
Actor
The maker of Mad monk and The P. Luche family he relates to the young English woman Emilia Jones, nominated for BAFTA for his role in the series Locke and Key, both directed by Sian Heder, director of Orange is the new black, who was unaware of his role as a comedian.
“Coda” will compete in the US Drama section, giving voice to new American independent stories.
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“They let me learn songs on the piano, take lessons to teach singing; He is a modern teacher with a peculiar haircut, it was an intensive job and the director has a lot of sensitivity; suddenly the character has something of a comedy ”, Derbez says.
During his stay in the US he worked with Adam Sandler on Sandy Wesler and later he joined projects like The Nutcracker and the Four Kingdoms, Dora and the Lost City and Geostorm. With American capital he produced How to be a Latin Lover and Man Overboard.
2021 is off to a strong start for Derbez. In addition to Sundance, Amazon Prime Video wants to make all the new seasons of Los Derbez and LOL and, together with Gary Alazraki (Nosotros lo nobles and Club de Cuervos), is preparing a series based on the tape How to be a Latin lover, to fix it. in the first half of 2021.
“At first it was this huge quarantine that I really appreciated, the truth is that I was used to being home, and now I will suffer when I leave (laughs), but it’s time to face the world again see, ”he considers.
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The latin lover
The actor of The Same Moon and No Returns Accepted has spent the past few weeks preparing Acapulco, a bilingual series that will be shot on the beaches of Mexico and in the American city of Los Angeles.
It’s loosely based, he explains, on How to be a Latin Lover, a film released in 2017 that drew 10.2 million viewers in Mexican theaters.
Let’s say Máximo’s character (as in the movie), who is so called in the series so far, talks to his cousin about how he got where he got, with all the millionaire women he found, but it’s a series he has a lot of heart, ”says Derbez.
“I fought for a while because they wanted to bring in an American director and I said no because if it happened in Acapulco, it had to be a Mexican director; there are parts that are in Spanish, so I wanted someone who knew the city, the Mexican oddity and we did it with Gary ”.
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The respective tests have already begun and the exact locations are being viewed. It is a project that runs throughout the first semester of the year.