André Hazes Jr. has been recording a docusoap produced in-house for some time now. He hopes to cash in a lot with a sale to Videoland, reports Yvonne Coldeweijer.
André Hazes Jr. has not been heard from for quite some time. He does fly all the time back and forth from Amsterdam to various cities in the United States. What is he doing there? “André does not make a soap, but a documentary and that is about his life. He really wants to travel around the world and he has that recorded,” says Yvonne Coldeweijer in Popcorn Show†
Looking for Andre
What is that docusoap about? “André is of course a bit looking for himself and has, so to speak, incorporated music into it and that will become the documentary. It’s called Crossroads, so it won’t be installed until next June or July, so they’re still running. At the beginning of March, of course, they also went to Las Vegas.”
Yvonne doesn’t know if this will score. “I just really wonder why you have to visit fifteen to twenty cities for a documentary. I find the perspective in itself quite interesting of ‘searching for myself’ or something. That is also very relevant at the moment for Dreetje, but I would be less interested in seeing him travel or something. Is it me?”
waste of money
Yvonne doesn’t understand all that traveling to America. “It’s a bit of a waste of money too. He will probably earn it all back the moment he sells that documentary. At the moment he pays for everything himself, he also hires the camera team and the director himself.”
His last flight was to New York. “I just don’t really know if that’s really what the Dutch people want to know from André Hazes. How he likes it in New York or something. It just doesn’t seem juicy at all to me. Even when he goes there to visit bands or something; there’s nothing to it in principle, so to speak?”
Video country
It could of course become juicy if Monique Westenberg’s visit to New York is also filmed. She traveled to America with her son to investigate in what form she and André should continue.
Ultimately, André hopes to cash in on the sale of his series to a video service, according to Yvonne. “It probably won’t be sold to a Videoland or whatever until this summer.”