Don Francisco is changing to meet his new professional challenge

Miami. Mario Kreuztberger, better known as Don Francisco, will start a new professional project on February 15, which, according to him in an interview with Efe, completes a great personal transformation that included a change of “look” and even psychiatric sessions. .

“I turned 80 during the closure and I felt that a new stage had begun. I decided to start a new book about the last stage of my life and in those reflections I realized that the pandemic had made me think a lot, to review things. I know that many other people have experienced this process and it occurred to me to create a space for us to talk about it “, said the Chilean driver.

The result is “Don Francisco: Reflexiones 2021”, a 10-episode miniseries in which he will talk on CNN in the Spanish screen with personalities from entertainment, arts, medicine, sports and other professions in which he will explore the personal issues that most hit him during closing.

“Who are we more with, mother or father? She looks like my mother in my love for the show, because she was the one who inspired me. My mother was trained in Germany to be an opera singer and had to give up everything when she got rid of the Nazis, ”she said.

These are the kind of stories he intends to extract from the interviewees and which he himself will tell during the meetings, which begin to be broadcast on February 15.

It seems that it is more about the inner world of Mario Kreuztberger and less about the very audience of Don Francisco, the character who made him the most famous host in the Hispanic world due to his decades leading the “Sábado Gigante” program on Univision. network.

One of the signs of your desire to be more authentic to your audience is your new look. Now she has natural hair, completely white and as abundant as ever.

“During the closing, I grew my hair and it already looked like (Albert) Einstein. When I finally got into the barber’s hands, he asked me if I would paint and I decided not to. I am starting a new stage like me, an 80-year-old man with all gray hair “, he explained.

However, the biggest change launched by Kreutzberger seems to have taken place inside. The driver has been receiving psychiatric therapy for weeks, “to continue to improve as a person.”

“We can all be better and that’s what I’m working on, to be a better husband, a better father, a better grandfather,” he admitted.

After thousands of interviews, it’s hard to believe that Don Francisco needs to improve in this regard, but he said his new program will be, if not even better, very different.

“This experience with the covid changed us all, left us more open and vulnerable. It is an opportunity for all of us to learn from each other. That’s what I want to offer, “he said.