Latin Spotlight : Eduardo Verastegui
It’s Wednesday. You know what that means. Time for Latin Spotlight. This week we bring you Eduardo Verastegui, a Mexican actor, model, and singer who disappeared for a few years but is back on the attack like a Big Mac snack..pack..ack. Sorry, back to Eduardo. Like many Latin actors, he got his start in novelas but eventually moved to Hollywood to make feature films.
His prime was in 2002-03 when he starred in the film Chasing Papi, even though the film was horrible, did not do well, and critics hated it. Regardless, he was the lead actor in the film and that resonated loudly with us Latinos. He had other smaller stints in Charmed and Meet Me in Miami following this film. He even released an album in Spanish that had luke-warm results.
Jennifer Lopez hand-picked Eduardo to be her love interest in the music video for Ain’t It Funny and the media speculated that there was a relationship between the two. Eduardo played a gipsy that danced and drove every girl (and some guys) bananas. Everyone wanted to be a gipsy after that, or at least get taken advantage by one.
Eduardo was in hiding for about three years because he was trying to find himself and has a new found interest in religion. He wants to serve others because he lost track and focus of that in the past. About acting, he says “I don’t want to act right now unless I had control over the literary content. I want to produce.” So much to the dismay of many, he won’t be utilizing that pretty face of his onscreen any time soon.
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Bella Takes Top Honors - Latin Gossip wrote:
[...] The film Bella, by Mexican director Alejandro Gomez Monteverde and starring Eduardo Verastegui, won the People’s Choice Award at the Toronto Film Festival. According to ABC News Online: It has won the People’s Choice Award, which is often an indicator of future Academy Award nominations.Past recipients of the top prize at Toronto include Oscar Best Picture winners American Beauty, Life is Beautiful and Chariots of Fire.The American-produced Bella has edged out Patrice Leconte’s Mon meilleur ami and the politically charged Dixie Chicks: Shut up and Sing for the award. [...]
09.18.2006 | 2:39 pm | Link
olivia wrote:
Hola Eduardo Alabado sea Dios y la Santisima Virgen Maria por tu testimonio de vida. Deseo de todo corazon que el Señor te siga bendiciendo y el siga al timon de tu vida. La razon por la que deseo escribirte es porque escuche que tu conoces al Sr. Tony Bennett y el ayuda a los jovenes que estan en pandillas. Yo estoy desesperada buscando quien me ayude y me oriente pues mi hijo esta en pandillas y no se como ayudarlo pues de nosotros sus padres no recibe ni siquiera un consejo si este mensaje llega a ti (oro por ello) me gustaria que me pudieras ayudar. Te lo suplico con todo mi corazon pues estoy muy triste no encuentro quien me ayude con esto ademas mi esposo tiene diabetes y todo esto que estamos viviendo se que no le hace nada bien hace unas semanas a mi hijo intentaron matarlo te suplico si puedes ayudarme te lo agradesco tambien te ruego que en tus oraciones pongas a mi hijo que se llama Luis C. Torres . Gracias Dios y la santisima Virgen te sigan Bendiciendo Olivia.
10.23.2007 | 1:10 pm | Link