Fernando Carrillo recounted when he “opened the doors” to the Anglo-Saxon market for Eugenio Derbez in the early 2000s. The Venezuelan actor said it was the Mexican who asked him for the opportunity to join the cast of the show “Latinologues”, which he produced .
“I was a producer on ‘Latinogues’ in Los Angeles, and one day when the show was finishing, Eugenio was at the door and he said, ‘Fer, I love your job, I can be in it,’ and I said, ‘Don’t get dirty. Eugene, why aren’t you going to be in it if I’m the producer”, he recalls in “Hoy día”.
Carrillo explained that he spoke to his partner Rick Nájera to introduce him to “the Mexican Charles Chaplin” and so Derbez joined the cast: “We triumphed in Chicago at the House of Blues, the show sold out.”
Fernando Carrillo was removed from the project and Eugenio Derbez continued
According to the statements of the protagonist of “Rosalinda”, the play toured in New York for which he was not notified. However, it did not achieve the desired success and they lost a million dollars: “They went to Broadway and told me nothing, little things that hurt over there.”
Fernando believes that if he was part of the cast it would have worked better, because at that time he had a successful career on television for his melodramas.
“I always thought that if I had been invited on that tour in 2000 where my soap operas were hit all over the world, in more than 100 countries, maybe we wouldn’t have lost the millions of dollars“, he said on the show.
Does Fernando Carrillo resent Eugenio Derbez?
The 52-year-old actor assures that he does not hold a grudge against Derbez, on the contrary. He even wants to work with him in the future.
” I love Eugene and I’m sure at some point we’ll be able to work together on a film. I really admire what he does, I respect him, he is a tireless ‘chambeador’ (worker).
Fernando revealed that some time ago they were in touch and agreed to meet: “We were able to talk a year ago on the phone and he told me to look for him when he was in Los Angeles,” the star of “Abigail” concluded. .
Eugenio Derbez says Fernando Carrillo didn’t make him a career in Hollywood
After Fernando Carrillo declared in January 2020 that he was the one who opened the doors to the Anglo-Saxon market, Eugenio Derbez clarified the situation.
“I am very flattered they have opened the doors To my dearest and hardworking Eugenio Derbez, he himself said that it was I who opened the door for him or who gave him his first chance in the United States,” the Venezuelan told “First Hand” at the time.
Although he acknowledged that Carrillo introduced him to a theater producer, he clarified that it was just that: “In 2002, Fernando Carrillo introduced me to the director of this play and then I started a relationship with him of There I took my first steps in the United Statesbut nothing else, period,” Derbez told the same program days later.
However, in April 2019, Alessandra Rosaldo’s husband said that the Venezuelan was an inspiration to him and that the opportunity in the project was his first job in English.
” I am in the United States, in a way, thanks to this man (points to Carrillo), the first time I thought of trying the American dream was because I saw Fernando on stage in a play called “Latinologists,” which I ended up doing on Broadway,” he said of those dates.
“When I saw Fernando on stage doing what he did, I said, ‘I could never do that in my life,’ and it inspired meand that’s how my journey to the United States began and the first step I took in my life in the United States in English was thanks to Fernando,” he said.
Source: univision
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