Oscar De La Hoya Reveals His Most Spectacular Lies in HBO’s ‘The Golden Boy’: Exposing ‘My Feelings and My Emotions Was Petrifying’
variety.comAddie Morfoot Contributor Documentaries about celebrities are a dime a dozen these days. But docus about celebrities that don’t feel like infomercials and instead are raw, informative, and honest about their star subjects are few and far between.
HBO Sport’s two-part docuseries “Golden Boy,” about Oscar De La Hoya, fits into the jaw-droppingly candid, no-holds-bar category.In the first three minutes of the doc, directed by Fernando Villena, the Olympic boxing gold medalist and multi-world title-winning professional boxer, who is now 50 years old, says, “Everyone thought they knew me.
It was just all a lie because that’s what I do.”In part one of the series executive produced by Mark Wahlberg and Mario Lopez, De La Hoya reveals some of his most spectacular lies and painful childhood traumas.
The 77-minute episode also features interviews with members of the boxer’s immediate family, who don’t hold back about how they feel about the 11-time titlist. (Let’s just say that not everyone agrees on who should have won the iconic 1996 fight between De La Hoya and Julio César Chávez.)“It’s very therapeutic and so emotional hearing my family members talk about me,” says De La Hoya. “I needed that.
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