One day, watching the ceremony Oscar Award, Eugenio Derbez He also addressed his mother as an actress Silvia Derbez, and they told him that one day he would be in that place, nominated.
It hasn’t happened yet, but it’s slowly going into this box on Thursday as well. “Coda ” it will be the one that opens Sundance, the most important international independent film festival in the world.
American gang approaches the story of a girl who enters her high school choir, where she is attracted to her duet partner as her passion for singing grows.
The role of Derbez, who six years ago decided to leave comfort Television and going to the United States, it’s the teacher who encourages her to move forward, hearing something special in her.
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“It was a risky decision, I always said; and every time such things happen to me, I realize that I was not wrong and that I have a good team that advises me in which film to be and in which not to be.
“I left Coda for three months: I initially met with the director and there were rehearsals, but because of the schedule I had to leave and it was painful, then for something that the filming stopped and when I thought it was already done he looked for me again, there was a window and finally it could be done “, he remembers.
“I left Coda for three months, because of the schedule I had to leave the filming and when I thought it was already done, they looked for me again”
Eugenio Derbez
Actor
The creator Crazy monk and P.Luche family refers to the young Englishwoman Emilia Jones, nominated for GOOD LUCK for his role in the series Locke and Key, both directed by Sian Heder, the director Orange is the new black, who, incidentally, did not know about his role as a comedian.
“Coda” will compete in the US Drama section, which gives voice to the new American independent narratives.
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“They made me learn piano songs, take classes on how to teach singing; He is a modern teacher, with a special haircut, it was an intense work and the director has a lot of sensitivity; suddenly the character has something of a comedy “, Derbez points out.
During his time in the US, he worked with Adam Sandler on Sandy Wesler and later joined projects such as 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 starts strong for Derbez. In addition to Sundance, Amazon Prime Video already wants to make 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 How to be a Latin lover box, to record it. in the first half of 2021.
“At first I really appreciated this huge quarantine, the truth is that I got used to being at home, and now I will suffer when I leave (laughs), but it will be time to face the world again,” he said.
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The Latin lover
In recent weeks, the actor from The Same Moon and No Returns Accepted was preparing Acapulco, a bilingual series that will be filmed on the beaches of Mexico and the American city of Los Angeles.
He vaguely relies, he points out, on How to be a Latin Lover, a film released in 2017 that attracted 10.2 million viewers in Mexican cinemas.
Let’s say that Máximo’s character (as in the movie), who is so called in the series so far, talks to his nephew about how he got where he got, with all the millionaire women he found, but it’s a series that 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 was to happen in Acapulco, it had to be a Mexican director; there are parts that are in Spanish, so I wanted someone to know the city, the Mexican idiosyncrasy and I did it with Gary ”.
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Those tests have already begun and the exact locations can be seen. It is a project that takes place throughout the semester of the year.