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Giveaway! Las Píldoras de mi Novio!

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GIVEAWAY! We have FIVE digital codes of Las Píldoras de mi Novio (My Boyfriend’s Meds) for FIVE lucky winners.

Synopsis: Sparks fly when marketing exec Jess (Sandra Echeverría) meets charming store owner Hank (Jaime Camil), and when Jess invites Hank to accompany her to an island resort for a business retreat, he accepts. But when they arrive, Hank discovers he’s left behind the array of meds he secretly takes to manage his multiple personality disorder!

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Las Píldoras de mi Novio (My Boyfriend’s Meds) available on Digital and On Demand from Lionsgate.

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Las Pildoras De Mi Novio (My Boyfriends Meds)

Jaime Camil and Sandra Echeverría talk about their roles and director Diego Kaplan’s throwing out words for Camil’s character, who has some Tourette syndrome. Which is a balancing act when you are dealing with bipolar, schizophrenic and manic disorders.

©2020 Angela María Ortíz S.

Camil & Echeverria

You can watch a short video in Spanish below and you can click on the audio box to listen in.

Synopsis: Hank (Camil) is a charming store owner who takes an endless assortment of prescription drugs for his multiple personality disorder. He’s delightfully surprised when his new girlfriend Jess (Echeverría) invites him to an island resort for a business retreat—then horrified to learn that he forgot to bring his medication upon arrival. Now unable to control his symptoms, Hank soon finds his relationship in jeopardy as he suddenly transforms into a wild and obnoxious loudmouth.

Starring Brian Baumgartner, Ana Belena, Daniel Tovar, Kevin Holt, James Maslow, Juan Soler, Monica Huarte, Brooke Shields, and Jason Alexander.

Las Pildoras De Mi Novio in theaters February 21. — A.O.

Busco Novio Para Mi Mujer U.S. Premiere

busco novio para mi mujer 2016Busco Novio Para Mi Mujer (Seeking Boyfriend for My Wife) has some funny stuff going for it. Sandra Echeverría (Dana) is wonderful as the nagging and nitpicking wife to Arath de la Torre’s (Paco) character. Jesús Ochoa who plays “El Taiger,” an unlikely well-known neighborhood lothario that is hired by Paco (de la Torre) to whisk his wife (Echeverría) off her feet and out of the marriage.

Sandra Echeverría and Arath de la Torre Busco Novio Para Mi Mujer

Sandra Echeverría and Arath de la Torre
Busco Novio Para Mi Mujer

Arath de la Torre described the “Taiger” character as a metaphor, like an angel who comes to help their relationship. Both actors do theater but love doing films much more, because film lives on forever.

Echeverría, who is a producer on film, joked that Arath is Mexico’s Jim Carrey. Since he’s very happy making films in Mexico and not in a hurry to make a change or a move into the U.S. film world.

Sandra Echeverría, Jose Ángel Torres Reyes and Arath de la Torre

Sandra Echeverría, Jose Ángel Torres Reyes
and Arath de la Torre

The film is directed by Enrique Begne and also stars Mónica Huarte, Mauricio Isaac, Jorge Zárate, and Alejandro Cuétara.

In the video interview below, we have a few snippets of how they felt working on the film.

Thanks Jose Ángel Torres Reyes and Estrellas En LA for the video interview.

The film is in theaters now. — A.O.

“The Bridge” Stands Alone on Wednesday Night

If there’s any one Latino actor who can hold up a whole night’s worth of programming, it’s Demián Bichir, and he’s doing a heck of a job (along with ample support from a wealth of Latino guests and supporters). With Emily Rios, Alejandro Patino, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Carlos Pratts, Alex Fernandez, Daniel E. Mora, Dyana Ortelli, Alma Martinez, Sandra Echeverria, Diana Maria Riva on The Bridge. On another new episode at 10P on FX, with just a few more to go.

Photo: Catalina Sandino Moreno

Sandra Echeverría breaks in with “Savages”

From Mexican soap operas to Oliver Stone, in one dizzying step

We’ve been a little conflicted about Oliver Stone’s latest project, Savages. On the one hand, it’s the only big-budget project this summer that has any significant number of Latinos in major roles–Benicio del Toro, Demián Bichir, and Salma Hayek–and a large number of other Latino actors, from the well known like Mía Maestro to the unknown–at least in the U.S.

On the other hand, virtually all this wonderful talent is pointed in the wrong direction: towards crafting extremely convincing and effective portraits of Latino drug lords, manic killers, and victims. In a summer when there are so few Latinos in so few movies, it’s sad to say almost all of them relegated to a single film, stuffed with the least attractive stereotypes we can think of. Read the rest of this entry »

Latinos at the Movies, Summer 2012 Blockbuster Edition: a long, dry season

A report from midsummer: a dozen blockbusters already here or on their way…and not a Latino lead or significant supporting character to be seen.

There’s been a lot of talk about the number of Latinos on TV arriving in the fall of 2012…but at the same time we’ve missed a different and far less positive story that’s already well underway: the almost complete absence of Latinos in lead roles in any of 2012’s summer blockbusters.

Think about the big-big movies you’ve already seen, mega-hit and flop alike: The Avengers, Dark Shadows, Battleship, Men in Black 3, Snow White and the Huntsman, Prometheus. Then think about the ones still to come: The Amazing Spider-Man, The Dark Knight Rises, Brave, Abe Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, The Bourne Legacy, Total Recall. None of these summer blockbusters for 2012–not one–have Latinos in significant roles–not in the lead, not even in a large supporting role with the exception of Martin Sheen  as uncle Ben in The Amazing Spider-Man.

Sure, you can comb through the cast lists on imdb and see a few Latinos buried in there (for instance, Nestor Carbonell as the mayor of Gotham in Dark Knight Rises, or Jesse Garcia and Walter Perez as S.H.I.E.L.D. techs and pilots in The Avengers), but–with no offense to the actors–these are way, way down the cast list.  And those few hard-to-find names are all you’ll find, no matter how hard you look.

That’s not to say Latinos are entirely invisible in theaters this summer. We’ve already seen What to Expect When You’re Expecting, with Cameron Diaz, Jennifer Lopez, and Rodrigo Santoro in May, though, honestly, it came and went so quickly it was barely noticed. Yvette Yates did a fine job in the small independent, El Gringo, and Eva Mendes, Cierra Ramirez and Eugenio Derbez, among others, gave very sweet performances in Girl in Progress as well, but Girl–like every other theatrical release in may–was smashed by The Avengers, with the longest legs in history. It was a full month before people stopped going back to see that superhero epic for the fourth or fifth time, and every film released in for weeks after its premier, from romcom to actioner, was lost in the tidal wave. Besides, these films–good or bad, well-received, or panned–were small films, meant to fill in the breathless weeks between blockbusters, and the point is those blockbusters were totally lacking in Latino talent. Read the rest of this entry »

Sandra Echeverría: a beautiful woman on the edge

Sandra Echeverría is on the edge of making it big in the USA. The beautiful young woman is already a star in Mexico; she was the star of Marina, a popular telenovela on Telemundo and the hugely successful Univision telenovela La Fuerza del Destino; she’s had hit songs as part of the musical group called Crush, and even had a hit with the Destino’s theme song–a duet with Marc Anthony. And she was one of the stars of 2033, the first major science fiction epic financed and filmed in Mexico.

But that’s all last year’s news. Now Sandra Echeverría has signed on as the newest U.S. Brand Ambassador for Neutrogena, joining an impressive group of beautiful women encompassing a wide range of ethnicities and ages: Jennifer Garner, Vanessa Hudgens, Diane Lane, Hayden Panettiere, Emma Roberts and Gabrielle Union, to name just a few.

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