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After his success with “CODA“, awarded With the Oscar for best film this year, Eugenio Derbez (Mexico City, 1961) returns to star in the romantic comedy “The Valet” and confirm the great professional moment he is currently going through.
& quot; at the best possible time” emphatically Derbez in an interview with Efe prior to the premiere of his new film. very happy for the “wonderful situation” What’s up? experimenting after being part of the cast of the great revelation of the season: “CODA”, directed by Sian Heder.
A kind content tape about a daughter of deaf parents who has a great talent for music, and for which Apple TV + paid out. 25 million dollars after its premiere two years ago at the largest independent film competition, the Sundance Festival.
“What happened? with ‘CODA’ It was a surprise, we knew it was a special film, but we didn’t think we could beat productions with multi-million dollar budgets and casts with so many Hollywood stars” Derbez, who in this film plays music teacher Eugenio Villalobos.
After “CODA” He won the golden statuette, his career has rebounded and tomorrow he premieres “The Valet” internationally, a production that will be on stage. available on ‘streaming’ Hulu or Disney+, and on Star+ for Mexico and the rest of Latin America.
“I am happy to once again function in a genre (comedy) in which I have grown up as an actor and that people know me for,” he explained.
The also film director and producer, accumulates a large number of roles in dramatic or romantic comedies, with titles such as “Instructions Not Included” (2013), “How to Be a Latin Lover” (2017) or “Overboard” (2018).
In “The Valet”, Derbez plays Antonio, a humble Latino valet who, by a twist of fate, appears in the same photograph that a paparazzi took. Olivia, a movie star portrayed with a married man.
To avoid the publicity disaster that the snapshot with her lover could cause Olivia (Samara Weaving ), it will be devised a crazy plan to make the tabloids believe that Antonio is his new boyfriend.
Derbez defini & gué; this production as a “perfect combination between comedy and drama”, but with “a very beautiful message” for the entire migrant community in the United States, especially the Latino community.
And in “The Valet” Two worlds, two cultures and two social strata face each other, while Olivia and Antonio begin to deepen their relationship.
“It is a great film, which talks about the invisibility of immigrants in the United States, even though they are the first to wake up every day so that everything is clear. ready when the rest of us get up,” he explained. the actor.
Particularly moved by the theme of this film, Derbez reoffended. on the idea that these workers are “invisible” in many cases and that there are those who “do not even look their valet in the face”.
However, according to the Mexican interpreter, “The Valet” criticizes this injustice and is configured as “a love letter for immigrants”.
In addition, the film provides a good dose of humor with a plot full of gags around this story of forced love that its own protagonist does not find it so strange.
“It is true that reality is stranger than fiction. I’ve seen weirder couples,” he joked. Derbez on the relationship between Antonio and Olivia in the film.
“The Valet”, an English adaptation of the successful French film by Francis Veber in 2006, is directed by Richard Wong and written by Rob Greenberg and Bob Fisher.
Its cast is completed, among others, by Max Greenfield (“New Girl”) and Betsy Brandt (“Breaking Bad”), and it is the last production in which he participated. Mexican actress Carmen Salinas, who died on December 9, 2021 due to a stroke.