‘The Valet’ Star Eugenio Derbez on How the Hulu Rom-Com Is a ‘Love Letter to Latinos and Working Class Immigrants’
variety.comMarc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorEugenio Derbez has been working on getting “The Valet” made for quite some time.“When we started writing this, Barack Obama was the president.
Then Trump came in and we decided to change everything, because it was a different country,” the actor told me at the film’s premiere on Wednesday night at The Montalbán in Hollywood. “So it took us like, seven years to get the final draft.
But I think we nailed it. This is a love letter to Latinos and working class immigrants, but it’s also a very, very funny movie.”Derbez stars in the Hulu rom-com as a valet attendant who is hired to pretend he’s dating a movie star (Samara Weaving) so she could squash rumors that she’s having an affair with a Los Angeles real estate tycoon (Max Greenfield). “Prior to this, it was more like a comedy just to be a comedy,” Derbez said. “Then we wanted to give a voice to all the people that are kind of invisible.
There’s actually a line where I say, ‘You can’t imagine how hard it is when people hand me the keys and they don’t even look me in the eye.’ That’s what many janitors, cooks, waiters feel.
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