Eugenio Derbez On 'Dora and the Lost City of Gold' and "Making Fun of the Cartoon" | In Studio - video Dailymotion

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"As soon as you start watching the movie, you understand that they're laughing at themselves. So that's a good thing," Derbez told In Studio.

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00:00All those that seek Parapata

00:03Shall surely perish

00:05Okay, I am ready for my parents to come and get me now. You have nothing to worry about. I promise. I mean, there's no need to overreact

00:21Hi, I'm Eugenio Derbez and I'm in a studio with the Hollywood Reporter

00:30All right, we're talking about Dora the Lost, Dora and the lost city of gold. Yeah

00:37What an amazing movie and so exciting. This is is this the first live-action Dora the Explorer movie?

00:44It is it is and and it's it's kind of different from it's very different actually from the

00:50The original one from the cartoon the cartoon is more

00:53simple the the the story line is more simple of course and the character is just

01:012d and

01:03It's an just an eight-year-old kid that is trying to figure out some stuff, but the movie is

01:09Really different. It's the character is more three-dimensional. Yeah, now you can know her now. She's a teenager of course and

01:17and she's facing the world for first time in her life and

01:22So she's getting out of the jungle finally and

01:26You're able to know her background her parents her friends and

01:33How is how is

01:36How she became the this icon and this

01:40Role model that she is right now, so it's very interesting

01:42Yes, and it's so fun to have to see Dora's

01:47Personality fleshed out she is so funny

01:50It's really such a funny character. It is yeah, what what are your favorite things about Dora just the character of Dora?

01:57What do you like about her? Well, my favorite part in the movie especially is when they mock the cartoon at the beginning

02:04yes, because

02:06Everyone was asking me the same question. Are we gonna see the map and the backpack and are they gonna talk and is she gonna be

02:12Asking everyone can you say delicioso and then she does but in a very funny way like making fun of the cartoon

02:21So and and as soon as you start watching the movie you understand that they're

02:27Laughing of themselves, so that's a good thing. Yes, there's some fabulous Easter eggs

02:33For people who are fans of Dora or grew up with Dora absolutely 100%

02:37Yeah as executive producer you have you have a lot of power

02:41In the making of the movie, so why did you choose Alejandro as your character?

02:46I mean he kind of gets put through the ringer

02:49Well, I wanted to play Dora, but they didn't

02:53You know I tried many many weeks in shorts and

02:58It doesn't look good so I finally said okay. Okay. I'll do Alejandro

03:01No, I think it was perfect for me. It wasn't like the right role and

03:09And it's it's very interesting. I'm played this mysterious

03:14Tour guide that it's a leading the kids through the jungle, but

03:21You'll see that I'm not very good at it, so

03:25What he seems exactly it's not what what I seem but I don't want to

03:29Spoil anything, but uh, but you'll see it's where it's a very mysterious tour guide

03:34All right, and and the kids get get into quite the adventure

03:37I mean once you go into a jungle there's all the things that can go wrong

03:42Once you're exploring a jungle

03:45So I mean your character has a couple of things happen to him that are not very pleasant

03:50Exactly one and let me tell you something we went through everything

03:54Everything you see in the movie everything. I mean

03:58first of all we were shooting in the jungle in the real jungle we were in Australia for almost five months and

04:05We were in the middle of nowhere. There was no Wi-Fi

04:09No cell phone signal nothing and

04:13And it was kind of scary because you know in Australia every animal wants to kill you

04:18Yes

04:19It's really dangerous. It's a lot of poisonous animals a lot a lot, but uh, we survived the shooting

04:27It was a lot of fun, but but uh, but I like that that everything that you're watching on screen is real and

04:34And we had our own stunts, but uh, we didn't use them. So

04:39Everything you see is it's us. Wow. We were doing our own stunts. Oh, wow. Yeah

04:45Wow, okay, so yeah, there's a there's a couple of scenes that I'm thinking of where I'm if you did your own stunts

04:51I you're a very brave man

04:52Well, let me tell you I I I swallowed there's a scene

04:57I'm not gonna be you give you a lot, but there's a scene when I'm in it in the quicksand and

05:03and and uh

05:04You can't imagine how much quicksand and water and dirty water I swallowed

05:10During the shooting that scene. Oh my god, and it because we were shooting for like an entire week

05:15Yeah, so it was really really hard. I had quicksand for like a week later

05:21I still was finding quicksand all around my body

05:25Oh, wow were you a fan of adventure movies growing up because this movie reminds me of so many movies that I grew up with

05:33Indiana Jones absolutely Indiana Jones actually my character is dressed

05:37uh, like in gent Indiana Jones

05:39uh, like an kind of an homage to him and yes, of course, I grew up watching Indiana Jones and

05:48Raiders of the Lost Ark and

05:50All these movies and Jumanji

05:52It has like a mix of everything so

05:56I'm I'm thrilled to be part of this I always wanted to be

06:00Part of a moodlet for movie like this to be in an action movie and this is my first time so I'm very happy

06:06Wow amazing

06:08Uh, yeah, well, uh, I also want to talk a little bit about uh, Dora's experience

06:12Like I said the character is so funny and so charming

06:16Um, when you first started filming scenes with Isabella, what was it like? What were your impressions of her?

06:22Well, uh, this is the first time I worked with with her. I heard about her

06:28But until I was on set I I remember my first day coming back to my apartment in

06:35in Australia

06:36And my wife came with me and I was like

06:39She was she the first thing she asked me was like, how was your day? And we're like, I'm worried

06:44She was like, why are you worried?

06:46Because

06:47The kids are amazing. I mean, they're really good. They're great comedians great actors

06:53Um, they're fantastic the energy the everything they're amazing

06:58So I was really surprised by them

07:01Since the day one Isabella is so talented

07:06And not

07:07Not only as an actress, uh, she's an amazing singer and a great great dancer

07:12And composer and she does everything she's amazing

07:17Uh, you know in her character Dora has such a fish-out-of-water story

07:22She moves to los angeles and becomes a high school student after living in in the jungle

07:28And uh, so there's this great kind of

07:31Storyline of her being the oddball

07:34In her high school in los angeles

07:36Do you have any stories about when you moved to los angeles if you had any fish-out-of-water stories?

07:42All the time

07:43Yeah

07:43Until now

07:45I mean, uh, when I came here to to la

07:50Five years ago when I moved here

07:53It's been an adventure since then because

07:56English is not my first language as you can tell

07:59I'm still learning it

08:01And

08:03Every time I go to meeting or something is is I feel like a fish out of water

08:08I

08:09Sometimes you know what it's let me tell you the story. This is really funny

08:13Uh, of course I have sometimes I get invited to some uh parties

08:17Cocktail parties meetings, whatever

08:20And then I go I hate to go to these parties

08:24Even though I I can probably meet producers or or huge Hollywood stars

08:30I hate it because it's crowded it's noisy and English is not my first language

08:35So I had I have a hard time understanding what they're telling me

08:39So I every time I go to a party like this I have something to eat

08:43So if they ask me something and I don't understand the question I do

08:46You know what? I'm going to steal that

08:57Yeah, it's really good

08:58It's genius

08:59Every time I they start asking me something

09:02I I I invite someone

09:04I'm gonna

09:06If I understand I said oh, yeah

09:08If I don't understand I'm like

09:09Hmm. Hmm. Hmm. Oh, so you're and I got grabbing information here and there. Oh, so you're yesterday

09:19Yeah, yeah, so I guess they what did I do yesterday? So I start like you know when I was

09:26Shooting Dora

09:28I didn't understand 50% of what the director was saying because he's British

09:33And he has a very thick accent and he speaks very fast very quick

09:38So, uh, I was like

09:41And I was like, oh my god, what did he say?

09:43And I was constantly asking everyone

09:46What did he say?

09:47Well, what would you like Dora's next adventure to be?

09:52Huh, well at the end of

09:55I don't want to spoil it again anything but uh

09:58But I think that

10:00She's an expert in in in the jungle and

10:04Now her biggest challenge is to explore

10:08high school

10:09And society so this is was like the first like attempt to

10:16Explore um

10:18Indigenous how what they call the the students she says i'm gonna stay at the high school because I want to to explore the indigenous people in

10:26At the high school so uh

10:28I think she needs to learn more about society and behavior human behavior especially

10:34And because she's been like also isolated in the jungle so

10:38I I would like to

10:40Keep her like around the city and see how she behaves in the city with other people

10:45I definitely I think it would be fun to see Dora explore

10:49Los Angeles exactly maybe the arts district

10:52Exactly something like that yeah definitely

10:55Thank you so much for being here the movie is Dora and the lost city of gold out in theaters

11:00August 9 don't miss it

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