There’s a reason Eugenio Derbez has become Mexico’s top comedy star. His films including Breakout Smash Instructions not included, The Valet, Overboard, How To Be A Latin Lover, Not to mention, his extensive television work made him popular not only in his native country, but all over the world. In 2022, he took his career a step further when the Sundance Film Festival began CODA, the little movie that took home all of the festival’s top awards and ended up becoming the first ever Sundance debut to win Best Picture at the Oscars. Derbez was part of the ensemble cast that also won the SAG Award for Outstanding Cast. In this film he played a music teacher who plays a key role in inspiring a young woman who is torn between her loyalty to her family, the only hearing member among deaf parents and her brother, and her ambition to pursue a music career to become to follow her heart. .
Well, Derbez plays a teacher again and stars in another film that received critical acclaim at Sundance. However, this time he is the lead, and this is the first time he has taken the lead role in a drama, playing Sergio, a man with unconventional ideas about education who changes the lives of his students in a way they never will not do. forget. . You can call it a Mexican With love for the Lord, and in a way it is, but radical comes from real life, a true story that not only touches hearts and minds, but also the box office. Despite being a Mexican film with subtitles, it became a box office hit and was in the top five in the first weekend of its release in the United States.
Derbez is with me today for this week’s edition of my Deadline video series. The actor’s side to talk about the film and why it represents a major turning point in his career, his role as producer of this and various other projects he stars in, why he will always enjoy doing comedy and the surprising roles he plays in it have are some of the most iconic films of recent years, even if you don’t even realize he’s in them. Note: He and Eddie Murphy share a very famous ass.
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