Julián Gil is happy, he has just been announced as the male host of the 2023 Latin American Music Awardsthe first to be done on Univision, since until last year you could see it on Telemundo.
We exclusively spoke with an actor, driver and businessman, who tells us about his duo with Galilea Montijo, fulfilling a dream and ensures that It doesn’t matter how it went on Telemundo because, “I don’t know how they did it there, but here great things are done.”
-Julián congratulations presenter of nothing more and nothing less than the Latin American Music Awards…
Julian Gil: Yeah, happy, we did a special show for the nomination, and well They had the little surprise for me there… It was more or less like there were some approaches, and some conversations, even I had been invited to do ‘Premio Lo Nuestro’ first, last year, which I couldn’t because of the novelfinally I was given the opportunity to be in one of the main industry awards.
-It is a very special award for many reasons, it is very important within the music industry, until last year I had it on Telemundo, a challenge and a responsibility, how do you feel?
Julian Gil: Yes, imagine, as you say, it is always a great responsibility… I take on all projects with great responsibility, but as you say, this is a great challenge, not only because it comes from the other network, but it also enters the Univision family where there are already some awards that are established many years ago, such as ‘Premio Lo Nuestro’, the ‘Latin Grammys’, ‘Los Premios Juventud’, and cWell, with this one it already becomes the house of Latin music, that one is going to make a slogan that we are going to carry.
I will be with Galilea (Montijo) driving, As such, these awards are going to be different, that he has another type of personality, and for me it is one more challenge in my career.. There is very little left, we are just around the corner, because The awards are already on April 20, in Las Vegas, so I’m very happyand you who know me and have seen my career know how important it is and what it means for me to be there, it will be very important.
–What do you mean with a different way of doing the prizes?
Julian Gil: Much information I can not release, but Yes, I can tell you that they are different and I’ll come back and tell you, for example, the nominations show is like a game show with Migbelis Castellanos, with Aran Lemuswhere we were announcing the nominations, that in itself gives you a premise of what will happen on April 20, it will be different, and they are working on it… There is a very important creative team and writersAs well as telling you a lot I can’t, because it’s not like I know much either.
-How was that approach to invite you to drive them, and what was the first thing you thought?
Julian Gil: We were already flirting with the opportunity that was given to me to drive some prizes, which It has been like a dream not only for me, but for any driver or any actor, especially from the network, be it ‘Premio Lo Nuestro’, Juventud or Los Grammys… Last year They called me to do ‘Premio Lo Nuestro’, and I couldn’t. I wanted to die because I was just doing the novel, ‘La Herencia’, with Mr. Juan Osorioand due to time I couldn’t, it was impossible because we were very attached to the air with the novel.
Heaven and earth moved and it couldn’t, it couldn’t, I wanted to die because at last I’m being given the opportunityI couldn’t… I thought I was going to do the Lo Nuestro Awards, which were a little while ago, now in February, they didn’t call me and I said: “Well, last year he couldn’t, and what was I going to do and now, I’m not doing anything” and it was that they had the surprise in store for me that the LAMAS were going to give me.
-How do you imagine that driving with Galilea Montijo?
Julian Gil: I get along very well with Gali. I already texted on Instagram, we get along amazingly, I’ve known her for a long time, she’s one of the people I most admire in the business for her career, for what she does, for how well she does it, and I imagine him doing something very natural, very different. Now we’re going to start having creative ideas, and brainstorming with the writers, and yes I would like them to be totally different, maybe less stuffy. I watched the Oscars on Sunday, which is elegant and, I don’t know if I would like to do it differentlyI don’t know what’s going to happen, I’ll let the producers tell me what to do.
-Let’s imagine then, what would Julián Gil-style awards be like?
Julian Gil: as relaxed as possible as less stiff as possible, as organic as possible, perhaps finishing a nomination and singing an artist, there being able to talk to the artist, interview himtell me something, do many things behind the scenes, make it have different, interesting camera movements, entertaining, coming out of the mold, that’s how I imagine itNow I am the driver, if I were the producer and the director it would be different.
-The awards are always very important not only for the nominees, for the singers, for talents but also for the public, but it has shown that they are left aside, how do you reinvent an award to continue conquering the public?
Julian Gil: I do not think that the public abandons them, I think that the proof is that every time the awards are on TV, regardless of what the prize is, people see them and they come out super favored in rating.
-You are talking about the Univision awards, in the Latin Billboard, the same one that you are going to host now, last year the Univisión soap operas won.
Julian Gil: It’s because they do it elsewhere, but I’m telling you that is coming to the house of Latin music, where the best awards are made… I’m going to bet you, I can bet now, I’ll sign it wherever you want, that on April 20 we’ll be number one, and something very interesting is going to happen, for the first time the 3 networks will come together, it will air on Univision, on UniMás and by GalavisionIt is the first time that they are going to join, in addition to everything that is going to happen on social networks… How they did it there I don’t know the truth, I’m going to start investigating nowbut here big things are done.
-How do you see the nominations as a conductor, and as an audience?
Julian Gil: We have Bad Bunny with 11 nominations, I think they are deserved, because the truth is that what Bad Bunny has done with his career, especially this yearhas set a precedent worldwide. Then we have Daddy Yankee, Backy G with 9, and below many more artists, the Firm Group, Rosalía… Also many nominations, because I see them as fair, but now it depends on the public, they have to vote, the most important thing is that they vote and They have until March 26 to do so by entering univisión.com-latinamas… I see them very well, very fair, and very consistent with what is happening musically in the world.
–What does Julián Gil say to the public so that this coming April 20th he will accompany the LAMAS in this new house?
Julian Gil: They can’t miss it that it will be a show made especially for the public, because the public is the one that has the last voice in all the nominationsspecifically by entering our page you can vote, and it is you, from your home, from your phone who are going to choose the winners, I think that this is a great power that is being given to the public, incredible transparency, it is very important . So you can’t miss it, on April 20, from Las Vegas, in addition to Galilee and as Mandy says that she released a media scoop there, I think one or more hosts will be added, and there will be many surprises and as you well know Mandy, and you there at home, at Univision is where great things happen.
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