理查德·王（Richard Wong）在日落区的塔尔丁（Tartine）上嚼鸡蛋三明治，他沉思着他如何加入“代客”（The Vacret），这是一部耗资3000万美元的Hulu喜剧。前任导演离开了该项目，该项目由于大流行而被推迟，因此，尽管从未执导过这部电影这么大的电影，但旧金山导演还是登上了演出。
这部电影讲述的是一位温和的墨西哥移民和代客，他要求假装约会一个举世闻名的电影明星，以避免公关丑闻，这确实是关于他父亲的，他的父亲决定。
“这是关于这个工薪阶层的人,对他的family,” Wong said. “I immediately recognized it as my father and my family, and basically my whole pitch was centered around that. It’s no lie. I think the theme of invisibility, of this man who is so selfless that even his family overlooks him — I just connected to it on a deeply personal level.
“There’s also a theme of nice guys finishing first in this movie, which I really like. ‘Nice guys finish last’ has been something that’s plagued my life growing up as a male. Again, I think that’s partly about my father, you know, who is a nice guy who often finished last. Eventually I came to grips with the idea that my dad wanted to be invisible so that we could be visible. So that’s something that I try very hard to reflect in the movie.”
“The Valet,” which premieres Friday, May 20, on Hulu, is a remake of a2006年法国电影which starred Daniel Auteuil and Kristin Scott Thomas. In this one, Mexican actor Eugenio Derbez(“CODA”)安东尼奥是代客和澳大利亚女演员萨马拉·织（“九个完美的陌生人”，“比尔和泰德面对音乐”）is the diva, Olivia Allan.
当奥利维亚（Olivia“男人想要的”），her press agents put out the story that she is actually dating the valet who was getting her car. Antonio agrees to play along — the money he is offered will help his immigrant family, which includes an ex-wife (Marisol Nichols,“Spiral: From the Book of Saw”),son (Joshua Vasquez) and his aging and saucy mother (legendary Mexican actress and politician Carmen Salinas Lozano, hilarious here, who died in December at age 82).
安东尼奥（Antonio）突然与一个美丽的电影明星约会时，成为他的朋友和同伴的嫉妒。
When asked why Wong — who does not speak Spanish — was best suited to direct a film expected to be seen by a wide Latino audience, Derbez said during a video chat with The Chronicle alongside Weaving that he felt it was more important for the director to know about immigrant families than to be Latino.
“I think he was perfect for this movie, because he’s the son of immigrants, too, a Chinese American,” said Derbez, who helped set up the project through Pantelion Films. “And when we saw ‘Come As You Are,’ his last movie, he combined humor and heart really well. So we thought he had everything to direct this movie.”
这部电影中约25％的对话是西班牙语，而德比兹（Derbez）负责重写脚本的部分，鲍勃·费舍尔（Bob Fisher）和罗布·格林伯格（Rob Greenberg）的真实性，并捕捉了某种墨西哥幽默。
Wong叫Derbez合作，Derbez已经是墨西哥的明星，他在奥斯卡获奖电影“ Coda”，“制作电影的最佳部分”中广泛关注了一位苛刻的音乐老师。
“我不过是很高兴与他一起工作西班牙的东西，因为我想尽可能真实。这真的很重要，”黄说。“没有什么比在那里看到自己的文化更糟糕的了，这不是真实的，你知道吗？更不用说他是一位出色的电影制片人。伟大的演员，但还是一位伟大的电影制片人。”
Despite consistent urging from his agents to move to Hollywood, Wong has remained rooted, with wife Irene and daughter Avery, in the Richmond District,where he was born and raised.他的第一部电影 - 邪教经典“科尔玛：音乐剧”（2006年），“选项3”（2008年）和“是的，我们是公开”（2012年），是在湾区进行的，他与旧金山董事进行了长时间的合作韦恩·王；最近，他是王的旧金山摄影师的摄影师“Coming Home Again.”
但是他曾担任多个好莱坞项目，担任摄影总监，这就是主要是将食物放在桌子上的原因。担心他会担任这个角色，他齐心协力地重返导演的椅子，着陆“像你一样来”（2019年），一部令人迷人的100万美元公路旅行电影，讲述了三个希望拥有第一次性经历的残疾人。这是他七年来担任导演的第一部电影，并导致他导演“代客”。
Weaving说，她喜欢摄影师Mateo Londono和Wong对这部电影的整体愿景的“代客”的外观。
“我只是喜欢他以一种非常惊人的方式处理喜剧，”编织告诉《纪事》。“我还喜欢摄影与许多其他喜剧片不同。我绝对崇拜这很高和梦幻。”
Wong acknowledges that “a window is open” once again on his directing career, and he is trying to line up his next project before it closes.
“我喜欢20部电影，” Wong笑着说。“韦恩总是告诉我，‘你需要20个要做。’这就是为什么我一直瞄准20的原因。”
For now, he’s enjoying the ride with “The Valet.” It is the first of his films to have a big Hollywood premiere — with cast and crew at the Ricardo Montalbán Theatre on May 11 — and he was scheduled to attend a premiere in Mexico City on Thursday, May 19, where Derbez will be the clear star.
黄还期待与朋友和合作者一起出现生命值。门多萨在6月16日在罗克西剧院（Roxie Theatre）的“ Colma：The Musical”唱歌中。
他说：“我尽力做很多心脏的喜剧。”也许想着他的父亲，他补充说：“我秘密地想做戏剧。所以我把所有的喜剧都变成了戏剧。“
“代客”(PG-13) premieres Friday, May 20, on胡鲁。