WEBVTT - Eugenio Derbez: From “Overboard” to “Acapulco” Making it in America 0:00:02.160 --> 0:00:06.400 Hey, there are folks quick, can you name the highest 0:00:06.440 --> 0:00:12.080 grossing Spanish language movie of all time? It's okay, I 0:00:12.119 --> 0:00:16.840 couldn't either, But then I found out who wrote, directed, 0:00:17.480 --> 0:00:21.520 and starred in it, and I said, oh, that guy. 0:00:22.000 --> 0:00:25.880 We love that guy, and that guy just happens to 0:00:25.920 --> 0:00:29.040 be our guest right here today on this episode of 0:00:29.120 --> 0:00:29.760 Amy and TJ. 0:00:29.960 --> 0:00:31.479 Welcome everybody to the show. 0:00:31.600 --> 0:00:31.840 Rose. 0:00:31.920 --> 0:00:35.680 This is like, you're giddy. You know him, you know 0:00:35.800 --> 0:00:38.000 him so well, you love him and everything you've seen, 0:00:38.080 --> 0:00:39.400 and now we got him in here with us. 0:00:39.560 --> 0:00:45.000 A you Henneo Derbez and that smiles, even his face, 0:00:45.120 --> 0:00:47.360 like as soon as you see it, it makes what 0:00:47.400 --> 0:00:49.720 doesn't matter what kind of day you're having, all of 0:00:49.760 --> 0:00:52.519 a sudden you feel lighter, brighter, better. He is that 0:00:52.760 --> 0:00:56.680 light and certainly everything he's been touching as a blade 0:00:56.680 --> 0:00:59.480 has been turning to gold. I mean, it's an incredible story. 0:00:59.360 --> 0:01:02.800 A Hano, thank you for being with us, and congratulations 0:01:02.880 --> 0:01:06.240 on all of your remarkable success. 0:01:06.400 --> 0:01:08.440 Oh, thank you guys. First of all, thanks for so 0:01:08.920 --> 0:01:16.280 beautiful introduction. I had chills. Thank you very much, thank you, 0:01:16.319 --> 0:01:19.800 thank you, thank you. Well. Yeah, I am, I'm a 0:01:19.959 --> 0:01:25.840 very familiar face to all Latinos. Let's say they've been 0:01:25.880 --> 0:01:30.720 watching my shows for decades, but I'm a kind of 0:01:30.760 --> 0:01:35.000 a new phase for the for the Americans. It's it's 0:01:35.040 --> 0:01:38.320 a great story because I had a career my entire life. 0:01:38.360 --> 0:01:43.280 I worked in Mexico, from Mexico for all Latin America, 0:01:44.240 --> 0:01:48.840 and and eleven years ago after my I did a 0:01:48.880 --> 0:01:53.120 movie called Instructions Not Included. That was the one who 0:01:53.360 --> 0:01:56.800 had the title of the highest crossing Spanish language film 0:01:56.880 --> 0:02:01.680 ever worldwide. And that movie changed my and so eleven 0:02:02.120 --> 0:02:06.320 years ago I moved to the US and I started 0:02:06.600 --> 0:02:10.960 from scratch in my career here in the US. So 0:02:11.040 --> 0:02:12.760 it's been it's been a trip. 0:02:14.639 --> 0:02:16.640 You started from scratch. You have a you know, a 0:02:16.680 --> 0:02:19.000 star on the Hollywood Walk of FG, which is always 0:02:19.000 --> 0:02:21.800 like that big You've made it moment, and that is 0:02:22.080 --> 0:02:24.639 that was nine years ago. Even so all you've done 0:02:24.680 --> 0:02:26.240 since then. When I see you, I think of how 0:02:26.240 --> 0:02:29.120 to be a Latin lover. I think about the Overboard 0:02:29.160 --> 0:02:32.359 remake because that is literally my favorite movie, the original 0:02:32.400 --> 0:02:35.800 of all time. And you all just did Anna Faris. 0:02:35.800 --> 0:02:38.680 It was such a cute flip on a script that 0:02:38.760 --> 0:02:41.600 I loved. But Dora, the Lost City of gold. I mean, 0:02:41.639 --> 0:02:43.840 you just name it. And so all of you have 0:02:44.000 --> 0:02:45.800 been on the big screen for some many of us. 0:02:45.800 --> 0:02:51.720 But now you're wrapping up a highly successful four seasons 0:02:51.760 --> 0:02:56.320 on Apple plus Acapulco and we've been watching it all 0:02:56.360 --> 0:02:58.120 morning long. It just puts you on a good mood. 0:02:58.160 --> 0:03:02.880 It's such a great fun just like it's It's something 0:03:02.960 --> 0:03:04.520 that you don't have out there and a lot of 0:03:04.520 --> 0:03:08.040 the streaming services, something that's wholesome even and fun. 0:03:07.840 --> 0:03:12.400 To watch absolutely well. I always wanted to. I remember 0:03:12.400 --> 0:03:16.720 that I grew up watching a series with my parents, 0:03:18.240 --> 0:03:23.480 The Beverly Hill Billies, the Monsters, the Adams Family, the 0:03:23.560 --> 0:03:27.400 Love Boats, you name it, many many many, and I 0:03:27.520 --> 0:03:32.359 was like, why they don't do family stuff right now? 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:40.960 Everything is about kidnapping, murders, blood, sex, violence, And I 0:03:41.040 --> 0:03:43.320 wanted to do something that could you could watch with 0:03:43.400 --> 0:03:50.360 your family. And also I wanted to portray Mexico in 0:03:50.400 --> 0:03:53.200 a different way because every time you would turn on 0:03:53.240 --> 0:03:56.560 the news and you hear about Mexico, it's always about 0:03:56.640 --> 0:04:01.400 narcos killing all the bad stuff that I know it's there, 0:04:01.480 --> 0:04:04.760 but Mexico is more, much more than that, and I 0:04:05.400 --> 0:04:09.720 really wanted to show Mexico the others side of Mexico 0:04:09.800 --> 0:04:13.480 that sometimes the news doesn't show. So that's why we 0:04:13.560 --> 0:04:16.560 came up with this idea of a Capulco that it's 0:04:16.800 --> 0:04:20.120 it's based slightly based in in How to Be a 0:04:20.200 --> 0:04:23.279 Latin Lover. It's like the prequel of How to Be 0:04:23.320 --> 0:04:27.520 a Latin Lover that if you if you haven't watched 0:04:27.880 --> 0:04:30.039 the movie, it's a very very very funny movie with 0:04:30.400 --> 0:04:34.840 Sana Hayek, Robbulo, Kristen Bell, Michael Sarah. It's a great 0:04:34.880 --> 0:04:40.360 cast and it was hilarious and Raquel Welch also it 0:04:40.440 --> 0:04:45.120 was her last movie. So anyway, we decided to do 0:04:45.160 --> 0:04:49.680 this prequel called Akapulco, and thank god we've been on 0:04:49.760 --> 0:04:51.960 the air for the last four seasons. 0:04:53.440 --> 0:04:55.880 You talked about how successful a lot fat might I 0:04:55.920 --> 0:05:00.200 know you were wildly successful in Mexico. Everybody knows you, 0:05:00.760 --> 0:05:03.440 of course in Latin America. But to compare for me, 0:05:03.480 --> 0:05:05.800 if you will, compare might be the wrong word, but 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:11.320 success in Mexico as a television or movie star and 0:05:11.400 --> 0:05:14.800 success in Hollywood as a television or movie star, and 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:17.400 some of that. You could talk about the practical rewards 0:05:17.400 --> 0:05:20.159 and what life looks like. But for you personally, How 0:05:20.200 --> 0:05:23.719 did those two accomplishments even compare or feel different to 0:05:24.360 --> 0:05:29.920 conquering Mexico or and then conquering a certain degree Hollywood. 0:05:30.520 --> 0:05:36.440 It's completely different. I remember that I tried to do 0:05:36.520 --> 0:05:40.840 the crossover for many many years. I remember that I was, 0:05:41.120 --> 0:05:43.400 let me tell you really quickly story I was in. 0:05:44.040 --> 0:05:46.680 I fell in love with Hollywood. Since I was a kid. 0:05:47.320 --> 0:05:49.400 I used to go to the movie theaters to watch 0:05:49.440 --> 0:05:54.080 Hollywood movies with my mom and we watched like three 0:05:54.120 --> 0:05:57.680 movies on Friday, four movies on Saturday, three movies. It 0:05:57.760 --> 0:06:01.880 was insane. I really loved with movies. And every year 0:06:01.880 --> 0:06:04.640 I was watching the Oscars, and one day I told 0:06:04.680 --> 0:06:08.000 my mom while we were watching the Oscars, that's what 0:06:08.040 --> 0:06:10.800 I want to do when I grow up. I want 0:06:10.800 --> 0:06:14.400 to tell stories. I want to be a storyteller. And 0:06:14.560 --> 0:06:16.480 since then I fell in love with Hollywood. But then 0:06:16.520 --> 0:06:20.400 I started working in Mexico. Thank god, I had a 0:06:20.480 --> 0:06:25.120 very successful career. And it was until my mom died 0:06:26.160 --> 0:06:31.960 when I was forty two. And when I somebody called me, 0:06:32.800 --> 0:06:35.600 I always think that it was my mom from heaven 0:06:36.440 --> 0:06:41.039 reminding me that I had a dream. But anyway, she 0:06:41.200 --> 0:06:45.800 passed after she passed. Like two weeks later, I received 0:06:45.800 --> 0:06:49.599 the call from an agent from Hollywood, and that's when 0:06:49.600 --> 0:06:53.520 I remember, of course I had a dream. So first 0:06:53.560 --> 0:06:55.840 thing I did, I said, yeah, let's have a meeting 0:06:55.839 --> 0:07:00.480 in la And I immediately called Berlitz and I started 0:07:00.480 --> 0:07:03.680 taking English lessons because my English was really, really really 0:07:04.520 --> 0:07:07.960 it is still I'm still a working progress, but it 0:07:08.040 --> 0:07:12.480 was really bad back then. And I started learning English, 0:07:12.680 --> 0:07:20.400 real English at forty two, and well, yeah, and here 0:07:20.440 --> 0:07:22.640 I am. I started. I had a meeting then I 0:07:23.600 --> 0:07:26.920 long story, I'm not gonna bore you, but I ended 0:07:27.000 --> 0:07:30.800 up three years after that meeting. I ended up doing 0:07:30.960 --> 0:07:35.119 a play in Broadway on Broadway at the Helen Hayes 0:07:35.160 --> 0:07:40.239 Theater called Latino Loagues. And then I did a movie 0:07:40.240 --> 0:07:43.200 with Adam Sandler Blah blah blah blah blah, Jack and Jill. 0:07:44.400 --> 0:07:47.200 And then I did a TV series with Rob Schnyder 0:07:47.240 --> 0:07:52.960 called Rob and I was ten years later, after trying 0:07:53.000 --> 0:07:56.920 to do the crossover, finally I did Broadway. I did 0:07:57.640 --> 0:08:00.280 my movie with Adam Sandler, I did a series and 0:08:00.320 --> 0:08:04.040 many other things in the middle and then I said, Okay, 0:08:04.080 --> 0:08:06.320 I I had it. I'm going to go back to 0:08:06.360 --> 0:08:09.000 my country because this it was taking a lot of 0:08:09.120 --> 0:08:12.520 energy from me. Because I had my career in Mexico. 0:08:12.520 --> 0:08:16.360 I was like shooting all the week long my my 0:08:16.400 --> 0:08:19.960 TV shows, and then during the weekends I was coming 0:08:19.960 --> 0:08:22.960 to the US to do my stuff. It was insane. 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:26.440 So I said, not anymore, and I went back to 0:08:26.480 --> 0:08:29.960 Mexico and to do my movie called Instruction Not Included. 0:08:31.240 --> 0:08:35.720 And when I quit the American Dream and I came back, 0:08:36.559 --> 0:08:42.000 it came back when it is the theaters. So it's 0:08:42.040 --> 0:08:45.520 a it's a it's a great story. You know. 0:08:45.600 --> 0:08:48.000 I'm curious about the We were just talking about this 0:08:48.040 --> 0:08:50.760 with Bad Money the other night. Well, he did Saturday 0:08:50.840 --> 0:08:53.280 Night Live. He did, He hosted Saturday Night Live. English 0:08:53.320 --> 0:08:55.520 is not his first language either, and I was thinking 0:08:55.520 --> 0:08:58.240 about how terrifying that is if I had to go 0:08:58.320 --> 0:09:01.000 to fans and get in front of a live television audience, 0:09:01.040 --> 0:09:03.800 no matter how good my French might be. When you 0:09:03.880 --> 0:09:07.720 started learning English at forty two, how long before you 0:09:07.800 --> 0:09:11.640 got the first gig in which you had to perform 0:09:12.120 --> 0:09:14.960 in English? And what did that feel like? Having to 0:09:15.679 --> 0:09:17.240 like this is it? You got to try out the 0:09:17.240 --> 0:09:18.839 English you've been learning and do it on camera. 0:09:20.200 --> 0:09:26.320 That's a great question. I this is a story I 0:09:26.559 --> 0:09:30.760 went to I came to La as a tourist one 0:09:30.840 --> 0:09:34.040 not a tourists. I had to learn English after that meeting. 0:09:34.520 --> 0:09:36.240 I remember that I took my meeting and I said, 0:09:36.280 --> 0:09:39.719 I need urgently to take English lessnse. So I went 0:09:39.760 --> 0:09:45.440 to Berlin's. I took like a week intense week course 0:09:45.720 --> 0:09:49.600 and then the teacher sent me to see a play 0:09:49.679 --> 0:09:53.120 called Latino Loogux that was in a at the current theater, 0:09:53.240 --> 0:09:57.679 this small theater in La and I saw this monologues 0:09:58.520 --> 0:10:01.760 and I said I I cannot do this. I have 0:10:01.800 --> 0:10:06.400 to be honest with me. I can't do this. But 0:10:06.400 --> 0:10:07.200 but the director. 0:10:08.160 --> 0:10:08.280 Uh. 0:10:08.640 --> 0:10:12.080 There was a Latin actor who knew me. He saw 0:10:12.120 --> 0:10:14.400 me in the in the audience and he presented me 0:10:14.440 --> 0:10:17.360 with the director. The director invited me, if you ever 0:10:17.400 --> 0:10:20.360 want to do a monologue, just call me and come 0:10:20.400 --> 0:10:23.520 to La and do it. And I was like, I 0:10:24.200 --> 0:10:27.199 didn't tell him, but I was like, I cannot do this. 0:10:27.800 --> 0:10:31.920 I know my ligit. I cannot do this. Well. It 0:10:32.160 --> 0:10:34.720 was in my head for three months and after three 0:10:34.720 --> 0:10:38.720 months I said I'm gonna do it. So I called 0:10:38.720 --> 0:10:42.920 the director. They sent me three monologues. I learned the 0:10:42.960 --> 0:10:47.800 monologues by I mean literally by the book. I didn't 0:10:47.840 --> 0:10:49.760 know what I was saying. I was trying to do 0:10:49.840 --> 0:10:52.319 some research, but it was a lot of slang and 0:10:53.000 --> 0:10:56.360 things that were related with the culture, and I was 0:10:56.559 --> 0:10:59.680 afraid of asking because I didn't want to lose the opportunity. 0:10:59.760 --> 0:11:06.440 So I just learned everything just by the book memory memorized. 0:11:06.440 --> 0:11:09.160 I didn't I saw I was not understanding what I 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:16.760 was saying. And I finally showed up like six months later. 0:11:16.840 --> 0:11:20.080 So I was still learning English when I stood up 0:11:20.280 --> 0:11:24.120 in front of this audience in La and I delivered 0:11:24.160 --> 0:11:27.800 my first monologue like nine months after I started studying 0:11:27.800 --> 0:11:33.920 and studying English. And that night, after that monologue, I 0:11:33.960 --> 0:11:38.880 went to a hotel, to my hotel to sleep, and 0:11:38.920 --> 0:11:43.720 I had an internal bleeding because of the stress I had, 0:11:44.280 --> 0:11:47.520 and I ended up. I ended up in the hospital. 0:11:47.760 --> 0:11:51.360 I had to call nine one one because I was fainting. 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:54.200 I called the reception. I was like, I feel really bad. 0:11:54.320 --> 0:11:59.199 So anyway, story short story, I went to the hospital 0:11:59.320 --> 0:12:02.160 because I was because the amount of stress that I 0:12:02.200 --> 0:12:03.440 had that night, it was insane. 0:12:04.559 --> 0:12:05.199 Jesus. 0:12:05.320 --> 0:12:08.479 I mean that just speaks to what you put yourself 0:12:08.520 --> 0:12:12.200 through there was a physical manifestation of the stress and 0:12:12.240 --> 0:12:14.960 the worry, all the hard work. I'm for the pressure 0:12:15.040 --> 0:12:19.319 you put on yourself to be the best, but my goodness, yeah, 0:12:19.360 --> 0:12:22.040 and then what did you change? 0:12:22.080 --> 0:12:22.400 Did you? 0:12:22.920 --> 0:12:25.839 How did you evolve from that where Okay, I can 0:12:25.880 --> 0:12:29.360 now get up and perform and not feel this terrible 0:12:29.760 --> 0:12:31.920 and this scared. How long did it take? 0:12:32.400 --> 0:12:37.640 Well? I after that night, I continued every every single 0:12:37.640 --> 0:12:42.120 weekend without any payment. They just let me perform. I 0:12:42.160 --> 0:12:47.920 had to pay my own hotels, flights, everything. So every 0:12:47.960 --> 0:12:51.880 weekend I was like going back to LA to perform 0:12:52.280 --> 0:12:56.520 until three years later. Three years later, every single weekend 0:12:57.320 --> 0:13:01.760 performing we ended up on Broadway with that play. That 0:13:01.920 --> 0:13:05.240 was a play that we presented on Broadway. So but 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:09.200 before that, it was insane, I know, and I was 0:13:09.320 --> 0:13:12.800 I wasn't Broadway and I was telling my my, my, 0:13:14.200 --> 0:13:17.000 my friends. The actors that were performing with me. I 0:13:17.280 --> 0:13:19.040 was like, why you never told me that I was 0:13:19.080 --> 0:13:21.920 mispronouncing a lot of words And they were like, well, 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:25.600 we thought you were like playing with the with the language, 0:13:26.080 --> 0:13:28.199 making fun of the language. I was like, no, no, no, 0:13:28.240 --> 0:13:32.800 it was me mispronouncing. But let me tell you story, 0:13:33.760 --> 0:13:38.960 uh I? I mean after I decided to do this. 0:13:40.679 --> 0:13:43.440 I mean I I went to the hospital that day. 0:13:43.640 --> 0:13:46.840 I'm sorry because I'm like, I don't want you to 0:13:46.880 --> 0:13:53.840 confuse you. I decided to to finally perform in English 0:13:53.880 --> 0:13:59.760 every weekend. Then I went back to Mexico. I I 0:13:59.840 --> 0:14:04.480 did Broadway in La, no Broadway in New York, and 0:14:04.520 --> 0:14:07.880 then I went back to La to do the Adam 0:14:07.960 --> 0:14:10.920 Sander movie, then the Rob Schneider and then I quit 0:14:11.080 --> 0:14:15.240 the American Dream. But I was still working in Mexico 0:14:15.360 --> 0:14:19.760 with my show on my TV shows that were airing 0:14:19.840 --> 0:14:22.840 every single week at the same time. So it was 0:14:23.080 --> 0:14:27.720 really really tired, tired for me. And then I had 0:14:27.720 --> 0:14:32.000 to make a decision. When the movie opens in two 0:14:32.000 --> 0:14:36.000 thoy thirteen and it became the highest grossing splanis Langlas 0:14:36.040 --> 0:14:39.520 film in the US and worldwide, my agents told me, 0:14:39.600 --> 0:14:43.560 you need to come to the US, and it's now 0:14:43.680 --> 0:14:49.280 or never. So I closed my office, my production company, 0:14:49.960 --> 0:14:52.600 every my entire life. I shut down my entire life 0:14:52.600 --> 0:14:58.160 in Mexico to move to the US. And I was 0:14:58.200 --> 0:15:02.200 fifty two by then, So it's been it's been an 0:15:02.200 --> 0:15:03.760 insane adventure. 0:15:04.520 --> 0:15:14.480 And you know, a you hennyway, I think it is 0:15:14.560 --> 0:15:17.360 so cool for people to hear and to listen because 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:19.880 people think I'm too old. I can't do this, I 0:15:19.920 --> 0:15:23.480 can't learn that. I can't be that vulnerable. I can't 0:15:23.520 --> 0:15:27.640 push myself that hard. I'm this age to hear you 0:15:27.720 --> 0:15:30.400 tell your story and to see your level of success. 0:15:30.440 --> 0:15:33.600 It wasn't luck, it wasn't right place, right time. It 0:15:33.720 --> 0:15:38.360 was courage, and it was hard work. And that was 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:41.480 and of course you're talented, you have to have that foundation. 0:15:41.760 --> 0:15:46.720 But that is so inspirational and I appreciate. I know 0:15:46.760 --> 0:15:50.480 people listening appreciate hearing your story because we give up 0:15:50.520 --> 0:15:53.360 too quickly. But to hear what you did and to 0:15:53.360 --> 0:15:54.880 see your success, it's awesome. 0:15:55.000 --> 0:15:56.600 Even I appreciate hearing it. 0:15:56.880 --> 0:16:00.800 Oh, thank you. It was. It was hard because I 0:16:00.840 --> 0:16:03.840 remember that I was fifty two when I took a 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:07.880 lip of faith and I left everything behind. Everyone. Everyone 0:16:07.880 --> 0:16:11.160 in Mexico was telling me, are you crazy? I mean, 0:16:11.680 --> 0:16:16.080 you have a family, You had the highest My show 0:16:16.240 --> 0:16:20.560 was number one on ratings in Mexico. Imagine like, I 0:16:20.560 --> 0:16:24.920 don't know if all of a sudden, Jimmy fallon quitting 0:16:24.960 --> 0:16:27.840 his job and going to China to start all over 0:16:27.880 --> 0:16:31.960 in another language. 0:16:32.760 --> 0:16:34.880 Yeah, that would be saying. 0:16:34.960 --> 0:16:37.880 It was insane in the room. Are you crazy? Your 0:16:37.920 --> 0:16:40.200 show is number one on the Are you going to 0:16:40.320 --> 0:16:43.760 quit your show? Your production company? Everything? But I felt 0:16:44.000 --> 0:16:46.680 inside of me that it was my dreams. Inside was 0:16:46.680 --> 0:16:50.040 a kid that I and I fought for it like 0:16:50.880 --> 0:16:54.560 it left ten years before and it didn't really happen. 0:16:55.040 --> 0:16:58.520 So it was now or never. So I moved to 0:16:58.640 --> 0:17:02.880 LA and it was this is a true story. When 0:17:02.880 --> 0:17:05.359 I took them, I make the decision to move to 0:17:05.359 --> 0:17:10.120 the US. June nineteenth, I was flying with my wife 0:17:10.800 --> 0:17:15.520 finally with all my luggage to start a new life 0:17:15.600 --> 0:17:19.720 in the US. And that day we woke up at 0:17:19.760 --> 0:17:22.840 four am. We say we said goodbye to my house 0:17:22.880 --> 0:17:26.639 for many many years, friends, family, and I was on 0:17:26.760 --> 0:17:30.240 the airplane with my wife and I was like, I 0:17:30.760 --> 0:17:33.240 asked her, do you think we're making the right decision? 0:17:33.680 --> 0:17:37.320 And she was like, my love, it's too late. Let's 0:17:37.520 --> 0:17:41.800 just go for it. We were flying and when we 0:17:42.000 --> 0:17:49.159 landed in LA we had hundreds of messages. While we 0:17:49.160 --> 0:17:52.080 were flying from Mexico to LA. They gave me the 0:17:52.200 --> 0:17:57.359 start in the Hollywood Book of Fame. While we were flying. 0:17:57.440 --> 0:17:59.239 I mean, if I put this in a movie, They 0:17:59.280 --> 0:18:03.240 will say, come on the day you were moving from Mexico, 0:18:03.640 --> 0:18:06.679 that day you received it. Well, that really happened in 0:18:06.720 --> 0:18:07.160 real life. 0:18:07.760 --> 0:18:11.520 And when we come on sign oh come on it 0:18:12.720 --> 0:18:17.800 no way, this is the universe asking your question that 0:18:17.960 --> 0:18:20.000 you asked me when we were about to take off. 0:18:20.080 --> 0:18:24.240 So it's crazy that that same day, when we were flying, 0:18:24.640 --> 0:18:27.520 I received the news that I got the starting the 0:18:27.520 --> 0:18:28.400 Hollywood Block of Fame. 0:18:29.440 --> 0:18:31.280 It's called validation from the universe. 0:18:31.560 --> 0:18:36.400 Yeah, are you one of those folks who again, I've 0:18:36.400 --> 0:18:38.200 been on board with this more of the past few 0:18:38.240 --> 0:18:42.000 years because of my dear Amy Robot here. But don't 0:18:42.000 --> 0:18:44.479 ignore the signs from the universe. Are you one that 0:18:44.560 --> 0:18:47.200 now pays attention to signs? Are you one that follows 0:18:47.320 --> 0:18:49.480 or you one that kind of has ignored them a 0:18:49.480 --> 0:18:51.439 lot of times in your life? Because this one was 0:18:51.600 --> 0:18:52.240 a clear sign. 0:18:53.119 --> 0:18:58.879 Absolutely. I I I'm always looking for those signs that 0:18:59.080 --> 0:19:03.440 life is given you. And the first time I really 0:19:03.600 --> 0:19:09.679 understood the value of flowing. Actually I'm right right now, 0:19:09.680 --> 0:19:14.480 I'm writing a movie about about that. But the first 0:19:14.520 --> 0:19:17.840 time I pay attention was when I in two thousand 0:19:17.880 --> 0:19:23.800 and one, I was doing my shows were like number one. 0:19:24.040 --> 0:19:26.280 For the first time I was the peak of my 0:19:26.359 --> 0:19:31.080 career in television in Mexico and I wanted to transition 0:19:31.160 --> 0:19:35.560 to movies and nobody wanted to hire me. And I 0:19:35.640 --> 0:19:39.280 was like, but why, I mean, I have the highest ratings. 0:19:39.560 --> 0:19:42.159 All the companies wanted to work with me, but not 0:19:43.160 --> 0:19:48.640 the the movie directors, the director from the movies. They 0:19:48.720 --> 0:19:53.040 didn't want to hire me, and they said, you are 0:19:53.080 --> 0:19:59.560 too commercial, too commercial for us, you are the TV comedian. 0:20:00.760 --> 0:20:04.520 So they never gave me the opportunity. And that's when 0:20:04.680 --> 0:20:07.160 I and back then, I said this is not fair. 0:20:08.760 --> 0:20:14.600 Life is not fair. I was blaming on everyone and 0:20:14.600 --> 0:20:18.080 and but because of that, I had the courage to 0:20:18.240 --> 0:20:21.320 start writing my first movie, because I said, if nobody's 0:20:21.359 --> 0:20:23.919 gonna is giving me the opportunity, I have to build 0:20:23.920 --> 0:20:28.080 my own opportunity. And that day I sat down to 0:20:28.160 --> 0:20:34.280 start writing my own movie. Twelve years later, that movie 0:20:34.720 --> 0:20:43.119 was instructions not included. When I I was finishing the movie, 0:20:43.280 --> 0:20:45.560 I told my produce, my co producer, I was like, 0:20:45.600 --> 0:20:47.720 I want to put at the very end in the 0:20:47.720 --> 0:20:51.960 credits something like I want to thank all the people 0:20:52.040 --> 0:20:57.760 who rejected me, because thanks to them, I could make 0:20:57.800 --> 0:21:02.560 this movie. I didn't do it but that was a lesson. 0:21:04.240 --> 0:21:08.080 Sometimes life is you you feel that this is unfair. 0:21:08.240 --> 0:21:10.760 Why is this happening to me? It's the universe telling 0:21:10.800 --> 0:21:13.440 you it's this way, not this way. 0:21:14.960 --> 0:21:16.439 You didn't have to put that at the end of 0:21:16.480 --> 0:21:19.080 your movie at all, because when you were on the 0:21:19.240 --> 0:21:24.840 Oscar stage with your cast from Coda getting a freaking Oscar, 0:21:25.240 --> 0:21:27.760 I assure you that was a bigger message than anything 0:21:27.800 --> 0:21:29.199 you could have put at the credits. 0:21:29.560 --> 0:21:34.919 Now I got Chelsea, yeah. 0:21:32.760 --> 0:21:35.879 Oh yes, we didn't even talk about Soda that movie. 0:21:37.160 --> 0:21:41.720 My god, what I've seen it twice now, but your performance, 0:21:41.720 --> 0:21:44.520 along with everyone else in that cast, that had to 0:21:44.520 --> 0:21:47.840 be What was that moment like you've just described how 0:21:47.880 --> 0:21:52.440 you have, you know, just paved your way like a bulldozer, 0:21:52.600 --> 0:21:56.119 just finding a way, forging your own path to be 0:21:56.280 --> 0:21:59.880 standing on that stage for that incredible piece of art. 0:22:00.320 --> 0:22:01.679 What was that moment? Like? 0:22:02.800 --> 0:22:07.120 It was surreal. As I told you before, I used 0:22:07.160 --> 0:22:10.680 to watch the Oscars every year since I was eight 0:22:10.880 --> 0:22:14.240 years old. I was watching every year the Oscars with 0:22:14.280 --> 0:22:17.119 my mom by my side. So if you see the 0:22:17.240 --> 0:22:21.760 video when we are receiving the Oscar at the very end, 0:22:22.359 --> 0:22:25.600 you will see me back looking at the sky and 0:22:25.640 --> 0:22:28.879 I was talking with my mom. It's it's there. I 0:22:28.880 --> 0:22:32.119 don't have the picture right now, but I was like Mom. 0:22:32.880 --> 0:22:34.960 Inside of me, I was like telling Mom, I'm here. 0:22:35.240 --> 0:22:38.400 I mean, I know, many many years ago, I was 0:22:38.720 --> 0:22:41.119 on the other side of the TV in my house 0:22:41.119 --> 0:22:44.639 in Mexico watching the Oscars. Now I'm here. Finally. I 0:22:44.640 --> 0:22:50.679 couldn't believe it. And I swear that year there were 0:22:50.920 --> 0:22:55.359 there were many, many, many movies with it was Leonardo DiCaprio, 0:22:55.520 --> 0:23:02.960 Jennifer Lawrence, will Smith, Al Pacino, Lady Gaga, your Red Letto. 0:23:04.040 --> 0:23:07.360 The casts of the other movies was insane, and we 0:23:07.359 --> 0:23:12.000 were small independent movie with no big names. So I 0:23:12.160 --> 0:23:17.320 was absolutely sure that we were not gonna win. It 0:23:17.480 --> 0:23:22.720 was like so I enjoyed the Oscars so bad because 0:23:22.760 --> 0:23:26.440 I was like, I'm sure this, It's just I we're 0:23:26.480 --> 0:23:28.760 not gonna win. I don't have to speak anything. So 0:23:28.960 --> 0:23:33.120 I was just watching the Oscars. I was a little 0:23:33.119 --> 0:23:36.679 bit shocked by the slap because that year was well 0:23:37.720 --> 0:23:41.520 remember but all of the time when they said and 0:23:41.560 --> 0:23:46.840 the winner is coda, I just couldn't believe. I'm I 0:23:46.840 --> 0:23:50.720 don't have I don't remember what happened when between they 0:23:50.760 --> 0:23:53.600 said coda, and I went to the stage. I was like, 0:23:55.480 --> 0:23:58.359 it was like all the memories coming into my head 0:23:58.400 --> 0:24:02.000 and the shock that I don't even remember what happened 0:24:02.000 --> 0:24:04.960 between they said code and I went to the stage. 0:24:05.160 --> 0:24:06.040 It was insane. 0:24:07.840 --> 0:24:10.040 But how did your life change from the moment you 0:24:10.080 --> 0:24:12.560 got off that stage. We've seen the projects you've been 0:24:12.560 --> 0:24:14.600 doing and what now, But really what how did you 0:24:14.840 --> 0:24:18.240 feel life got different from you? Almost literally from the 0:24:18.280 --> 0:24:20.240 moment you walked off that stage. 0:24:20.560 --> 0:24:25.479 Everything changes in your life. I remember that in just 0:24:25.880 --> 0:24:30.480 I was shooting a movie called Radical and I had to. 0:24:32.520 --> 0:24:35.840 I stopped shooting for just twenty four hours to go 0:24:35.920 --> 0:24:38.680 to the Oscars, and then I went back to Mexico 0:24:39.280 --> 0:24:44.320 and just the airport was insane, insane. I couldn't walk 0:24:44.359 --> 0:24:47.200 when I came back to my country because the press 0:24:47.280 --> 0:24:50.600 was there and they didn't let me even walk outside 0:24:50.640 --> 0:24:56.879 the airport and a lot of offers, and I remember 0:24:56.880 --> 0:25:00.639 that I had to. It's very dangerous when you you 0:25:00.760 --> 0:25:02.600 get to that point, because you have to make a 0:25:02.680 --> 0:25:05.439 lot of big decisions. And I think I was not 0:25:05.560 --> 0:25:09.240 ready for that, because you have a lot of voices 0:25:09.320 --> 0:25:12.960 like don't take any job, wait for something more important, 0:25:13.240 --> 0:25:15.600 and on the other side, it's like, no, no, no, 0:25:15.840 --> 0:25:19.600 this is a great opportunity. It's really really, really life changing. 0:25:20.040 --> 0:25:25.840 It's complicated. And then on the other hand, I'm well 0:25:25.880 --> 0:25:30.760 known for being a comedian, so constantly everyone wanted me 0:25:30.840 --> 0:25:33.840 to do comedy, and I want to do more drama. 0:25:34.880 --> 0:25:38.360