{"id":196817,"date":"2025-10-02T09:22:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T09:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/196817\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T09:22:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T09:22:07","slug":"eugenio-derbez-on-acting-producing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/196817\/","title":{"rendered":"Eugenio Derbez on Acting, Producing"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tMexican actor, producer, director\u00a0Eugenio Derbez<\/a>\u00a0(CODA, Radical) discussed his career, industry insights, moving from comedy to drama, and adding producing work to his acting career as chairman and co-founder of 3Pas Studio during a keynote on the third day of the fifth editio<\/a>n of Iberseries<\/a> & Platino Industria in Madrid, Spain<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tOf course, he was also asked about his take on artificial intelligence on the entertainment sector, predicting a flood of AI-driven projects in the future. But the technology can\u2019t replace the true emotion that human actors bring to the table, he emphasized. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t have a soul,\u201d he said about AI, according to an English translation of his comments. And he predicted: \u201cWe will pay more in the future to watch a film not produced by AI than one produced by AI. At the end of the day, we want to go to the movies to watch two people connect, \u2026 something that goes to your heart, not only your eyes.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHe concluded: \u201cAI will help some of us to create amazing effects that were impossible in the past. However, there is a dark side. Up until now, AI lacks emotion, lacks a soul.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDerbez also recalled mentioning his hits in Hollywood meetings to little avail in the past. \u201cI would say, \u2018Look, I am number 1 in Mexico.\u2019 \u2018But what have you done in Hollywood?\u2019 they would ask,\u201d the star explained. \u201cThis is too Mexican, they would say.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhen they opened the Hollywood gate to me, they wanted me to do comedy, but I wanted to do something deeper,\u201d Derbez said. \u201cI didn\u2019t necessarily want to become a producer, but I had to\u201d as way of pushing ahead on projects he is passionate about, he explained. <\/p>\n

\n\tAnd his success in such projects as CODA has helped him get more challenging projects done. Thanks to CODA winning Oscars, for example, \u201cI could make a movie like Radical, which nobody wanted to invest in originally,\u201d the actor-producer-director Derbez shared. The movie is about sixth-grade students at a school that is among the worst-performing in Mexico, with their world full of violence and hardship. But a new teacher is trying something different.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI used to be the comedian, the funny one, but when I did comedy, nobody cared,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen I did CODA and Radical, I started getting invited to parties.\u201d He pointed to the likes of Tom Hanks, Jim Carrey and Robin Williams as stars who moved from comedy to drama and ended up getting recognition. \u201cWhen you do comedy, you become Mr. Actor or so,\u201d Derbez concluded.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cYou must be authentic,\u201d he also highlighted when asked about key recipes of success. He also shared what it was like moving from Mexico to the U.S. at age 52. \u201cI had to do that,\u201d he explained. \u201cI knew it was the right move.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWhat is his producing work like? \u201cEvery day, I receive pitches,\u201d he told the event. \u201cBut how do you know if an idea is good or not?\u201d That can be difficult and tricky to assess, he shared. \u201cLocal humor does not travel. Now you are working with global [streaming] platforms. We work for a worldwide audience. In the past, Hollywood was the king, and if you didn\u2019t produce the movie in English, it wouldn\u2019t travel. From COVID, everything changed.\u201d Derbez cited the likes of Squid Game and Money Heist, as well as Parasite and Rome.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhat makes an idea universal is emotion,\u201d he concluded. \u201cIf you connect with the audience, that show or movie will travel.\u201d Why E.T. was so successful was \u201cbecause it had an emotional connection with the audience.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mexican actor, producer, director\u00a0Eugenio Derbez\u00a0(CODA, Radical) discussed his career, industry insights, moving from comedy to drama, and adding…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,113915,111841,111842,2091,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-196817","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-eugenio-derbez","12":"tag-iberseries","13":"tag-iberseries-platino-industria","14":"tag-international","15":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}