The original story is true. When in 1931 Hollywood cinema continued to adapt to sound and The classic Dracula was made with Béla Lugosithe forum did not rest at night. The day shift left and another arrived at night. cast and production for rexplain everything that happened that day, but in Spanish.
“The story circulated there, in the underworld. There were many people who apparently did know her,” he said. Eugenio Derbez, who played Carlos Villarías, an intense theater actor who “deigned” to appear on the big screen for this experiment.
“It is a very different project from what I have done because in principle, as you say, it is based on real events. When they brought it to me I said, How come no one had told me about this? Was there really a Dracula that had been made in Spanish? Obviously this was because, since the final result was better, because all the Hollywood critics said that the Spanish version was better, they disappeared for almost 40 years.”
It is true that The series, being a comedy, took several creative liberties, but the following fact that Eugenio tells us made the entire existence of this story possible.
“In 1977 a copy appeared in Cuba in a basement and that was where the issue returned and that is why we are talking about it here today.”
Yare Santana, who plays the legendary actress Lupita Tovar, shared cHow he prepared to recreate one of the great movie stars from that time.
“I received a copy of the book by Pancho Kohner, Lupita’s son, which is a series of compilations of memories told from her. Then I was able to understand Lupita Tovar’s vision, from her birth to her last days and I had to read her entire post-Dracula process, not only in Hollywood but in Mexico. “He made Santa, the first sound film in Mexico.”
As to the comedyto this series, Eugenio describes much of what originates it, and this in his character.
“In this film I get to play an adorable ego-maniacal character, you don’t know how much I enjoyed it. Because apart from the Spanish accent, damn it, he thought he was the best actor in the world. He felt like a better actor than Lugosi. He’s insecure, he has an ego the size of the world. He’s one of those characters so flawed that you end up loving him. I loved him.”
This also explains whyand things could have turned out the way they interpret them in this comedy series. “What happened back then is that Hollywood didn’t know how to adapt to talkies, and since they were so excited because they were going to be able to speak in the movies, when they finally made them they realized that they couldn’t sell them internationally.l. Nobody understood them outside of the United States. There was no subtitling, there was no dubbing, and they’re starting to lose money like crazy. That’s when it occurred to the producer of Dracula to take advantage of the set, the costumes and make a version for Spanish-speaking countries at the same time, at night” and he added “They didn’t care about the quality, they said – hold on and film with a group of Spaniards, Mexicans, Cubans– it was a mix of accents. The surprise was when the critics there agreed that it was better than the English version.”
Being the son of Silvia Derbez was also one of the reasons which is why he felt so close to this project. “For me it has been very significant. My mother was in the Golden Cinema era Mexican. I grew up watching and with all that Mexican cinema. And for me, being able to be part of and tell that story has been the honor of my life.”
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The c seriesIt has seven episodesYes, the first two were already released by Vix.
Sofia Niño de Rivera, Aj Vaage, Diana Bovío, Jason Alexander and Manuel “El flaco” Ibañez is part of this cast.
