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00:18Hi, I'm Eugenio Derbez and I'm in a studio with the Hollywood Reporter
00:31All right, we're talking about Dora of the Lost... Dora and the Lost... 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
01:16course 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
01:43Yes, and it's so fun to have to see Dora's
01:48Personality fleshed out she is so funny. She's such a funny character. It is
01:53Yeah, what what are your favorite things about Dora just the character of Dora? What do you like about her?
01:58Well, my favorite part in the movie especially is when they mock the cartoon at the beginning
02:04because
02:06Everyone was asking me the same question. Are we gonna see the map and the backpack and are they gonna
02:11talk 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
02:21the 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 grew up with Dora absolutely 100%
02:37Yeah, as executive producer you have you have a lot of power in the making of the movie
02:43Yeah, so why did you choose Alejandro as your character? I 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
02:58Doesn't look good. So I finally said okay. Okay. I'll do Alejandro
03:03No, 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 I play 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
03:24It's not what he seems exactly
03:26It's not what what I've seen, but uh, I don't want to
03:30Spoil 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
03:47Has a couple of things happen to him that are not very pleasant exactly one and let me tell you
03:52something we went through everything
03:55You see in the movie everything. I mean
03:57And first of all we were shooting in the jungle in the real jungle we were in australia for almost
04:03five 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 and in australia every animal wants to kill you
04:18Yes, it's dangerous a lot of poisonous animals a lot
04:23A lot a lot, but uh, we survived the shooting it was a lot of fun
04:29But but uh, but I like that that everything that you're watching on screen is real and and we had
04:35our own stunts
04:36But uh, we didn't use them, so
04:39Everything you see is it's us
04:42Wow, we were doing our own stunts
04:44Oh wow, yeah
04:45Wow, okay, so yeah, there's a there's a couple of scenes that i'm thinking of where
04:50I'm if you did your own stunts. I you're a very brave man
04:53Well, let me tell you I I I swallowed
04:56There's a scene i'm not gonna be you give you a lot, but uh, there's a scene when i'm in
05:00a in the quicksand
05:03And and uh, you can't imagine how much
05:07Quicksand and water and dirty water I swallowed
05:11During 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
05:18I had quicksand for like a week later. I still was finding quicksand all around my body
05:25Oh wow, were you a fan of adventure movies growing up?
05:29Because this movie reminds me of so many movies that I grew up with indiana jones
05:34Absolutely, indiana jones. Uh, actually my character is dressed uh, like indiana jones
05:40Uh, it's like an kind of an homage to
05:42Yeah, to him and yes, of course. I grew up watching indiana jones and uh, raiders of the lost ark
05:49and uh
05:50all these movies and jumanji
05:53It has like a mix of everything so i'm i'm i'm thrilled to be part of this
05:58I always wanted to be part of a moodlet for movie like this to be in an action movie and
06:04this is my first time
06:05So i'm very happy. Wow
06:07Yeah
06:07Amazing. Uh, 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 because
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
07:00Uh, since the day one
07:02Isabella is so talented
07:06And not not 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
07:16Uh, you know in her character Dora has such a a fish out of water story
07:22She moves to los angeles and becomes a high school student after living in in the jungle
07:27Yeah
07:28And uh, so there's this great kind of
07:32Storyline of her being the oddball uh in 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
07:41stories?
07:42All the time
07:43Yeah
07:43Until now
07:45I mean as when I came here to to la uh five years ago when I moved here
07:53It's been an adventure since then because uh english is not my first language as you can tell
07:59I'm still learning it and
08:03Every time I go to meeting or something is is I feel like a fish out of water. I I
08:09sometimes you know
08:10What it's let me tell you the story. This is really funny
08:14Uh, of course I have sometimes I get invited to some uh parties cocktail parties meetings, whatever
08:20And then I go I hate to go with these parties
08:24Even though I I can probably meet a 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
08:38So 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
08:55You know what I'm going to steal that
08:57Yeah, it's really good
09:03It's genius
09:05If I understand I said oh, yeah
09:08If I don't understand I'm like
09:11Oh, so you're and I can kind of grabbing information here and there. Oh, so you're yesterday
09:21So I just say what did I do yesterday? So I start like you know when I was
09:25Um shooting 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
09:40I was like oh my god, what did he say?
09:43And I was constantly asking everyone
09:45What did he say?
09:47Well, what would you like dora's next adventure to be?
09:52Huh, well at the end
09:55I don't want to spoil it again anything, but uh, but I think that
10:00She's an expert in in the jungle
10:03And now her biggest challenge is to explore high school
10:09And society so this is was like the first like attempt to
10:16Explore um
10:18Indigenous how would they call the the students she says i'm going to stay at the high school because I
10:23want to to explore the
10:25Indigenous people in the high school
10:27So, 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 los angeles exactly maybe the arts district exactly
10:53Something like that yeah definitely thank you so much for being here the movie is dora and the lost city
10:58of gold out in theaters
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