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| “ | C-ÑO MICKY!!! | „ |
| ~ Luisito Rey's catchphrase whenever he gets mad at Micky. |
| “ | You already know where she is... | „ |
| ~ Rey's last words before dying from pneumonia while still hiding the truth of Marcela's whereabouts to Micky. |
Luis Gallego Sánchez, also known as Luisito Rey, is one of the two main antagonists (alongside Patricio Robles) of the biographical television series Luis Miguel: The Series.
He is based on the real-life incarnation of the late Spanish singer of the same name, who is the father-turned-archnemesis of Mexican singer Luis Miguel.
He is portrayed by Óscar Jaenada, who also played The Spaniard in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Morgado in Snatched, and Victor Martinez in Rambo: Last Blood.
Biography[]
Season 1[]
Luisito Rey, aside from being a former singer, is also a married man to Marcela Basteri and father to his two children Micky and Alex living a life of poverty. Desperate to make money in no time, Rey comes up with a solution: he realizes how talented his son Micky is with singing and decides to seize this opportunity in order to keep their financial issues and home afloat. However, ambition starts to rule the Spaniard father's life as he keeps making a lot of decisions for Micky, rather than allow him to make his own both with his career and personal life. Also, he was partly responsible for his son's breakup with his first girlfriend, Mariana Yazbek, whom he did not accept, by paying a model into kissing Micky, knowing it would disgust Mariana in a bid for her to dump him, which was further reinforced with Micky's jealousy over the arrival of Mariana's ex-boyfriend. Despite a doctor's strong objections that Micky needs to rest, Rey forcefully makes him prescribe his son ephedrine in order to continue with the concerts.
For the majority of the episodes, flashbacks of Micky's childhood and evolution as a singer are shown, and how Luisito Rey's ambition had no boundaries.
To make matters worse, Rey forces Micky to choose who he wants to live with: him or his family. Micky chooses the former, believing it is the only way to move on. Years later, Micky, now 18-years-old and after being exploited at will, opens his eyes to a lot of lies, demands and manipulations. Rey and his cousin Tito are diverting funds to accounts in Switzerland, steals from Micky 20 millions of dollars and demands he give them back to him or he will face imprisonment for failing to pay taxes. In addition, Matilde, Rey's mother, is revealed to have been sending poscards to Micky and Alex posing as Marcela, whose whereabouts remain unknown and he is actively suspected in this situation, before also revealing the truth about Micky's birthplace which is San Juan, Puerto Rico and not Veracruz, Mexico as previously thought by everyone, almost costing him his newfound relationships with childhood friend, Erika Camil (based on the real-life incarnation of Issabela Camil).
Sometime later, Luis Rey falls ill at his doorstep and found by Sergio and Matilde, and is therefore rushed to the hospital. There, Erika, her father Jaime and his manager Hugo López arrive to support him in this tough moment. Rey makes Tito promise not to tell Micky about what happened to Marcela. On his deathbed, Micky questions him again and begs him for one last time to reveal Marcela's whereabouts. However, and after a brief moment of silence and resistance, Rey only responds "You already know where she is" before he dies of pneumonia, thus taking his secret about Marcela to the grave.
Season 2[]
Due to his ultimate death, Luisito Rey does not appear at all in the second season. However, he played a very pivotal role and was mentioned several times throughout the entire season. Now that Rey is dead, his mother and Micky's grandmother Matilde is granted full custody of Sergio (as stated in Rey's will), Micky's younger brother, whom she has been taking care of ever since Marcela's disappearance. Micky fights over the custody of Sergio, not wanting his brother to repeat the same mistakes he did in the past and be exploited at will until the last cent he earns. Rey is seen through video footage giving a serenade with Marcela, which Sergio watches along with Micky, inspiring him to write the song "Hasta que me olvides", continuing to fondly remember her rather than keep looking for her desperately, after some persuasion from Hugo since this would only push him away from the people he loves the most. At one point, Micky briefly imitated his father's sayings when Alex went out, rather than taking care of Sergio, and accidentally crashed his car (despite Micky's objections that the wasn't allowed to drive it), and in order to talk Sergio out of becoming a professional singer at such a young age. Rey was also mentioned by Micky when he confronted his childhood best friend Mauricio Ambrosi, for supposedly being involved in his fateful accident at the Peru concert and stealing money from him, when it was actually the doing of José Pérez, mirroring how his father has been lying to him and exploiting for years until he has had enough of said mistreatment. Matilde arrives at Micky's home to pick Sergio up, where he and Alex make him choose who he wants to live with: Matilde or his brothers. He chooses Matilde, again mirroring the same mistake Micky did that left him unable to see Marcela again. Not backing down, Micky finally provides Sergio with solid evidence about the true character of his grandmother, revealing the poscards she's been sending to him posing as Marcela and that she was responsible for leaking the information about Marcela's disappearance, something that caused many school kids to bully Sergio and journalists stalking him because of it. As a result, Sergio turns on Matilde and rejoins Micky and Alex, much to Matilde's distraught, although both her and her deceased son (from beyond the grave) would later gain the last laugh as Sergio had to move to Boston with Doc, in order for Micky to ensure his safety from the press.
Season 3[]
Luisito Rey returns in this season only once, appearing in a flashback before and when Micky was born. Still, he had played a major role in Micky's path of becoming the famous singer everyone knows and loves. When producers are interested in doing a series about Luis Miguel's life, they want to know more about how Micky's parents met and make a positive anecdote of his childhood with him. In 1969, he and Marcela have been dating for quite some time, but it is revealed that they didn't actually get married legally as a photographer merely took a picture of them kissing in front of a church, something that Marcela is not comfortable with. A year later, they travelled to Puerto Rico where Rey was forced to call off one of his concerts when he was given the heads up about Marcela giving birth to a boy at the hospital, whom they named Luis Miguel after the famous Spanish bullfigther, Luis Miguel Dominguín. The day when Rey and his family turned up late to church and Micky had to fill in for one of the choir boys, who was absent, was exactly the same day he discovered his son's hidden talent of singing, while initially bored but then captivated by Micky's powerful voice after some hesitation from the latter. During bedtime, Rey told Micky that he considered his singing voice a gift, saying that he himself had become a singer but not as acclaimed as Micky would later be, promising that one day everyone will get to hear him sing as long as Micky would listen to and obey his father in everything. Back to the present, the 50-year-old Micky made it clear that, despite how much his father hurt him in the past with his tyrannical and hegemonical personality, pressuring him to rehearse to exhaustion and exploiting him at will, the only positive thing Micky will always cherish about Rey is that he was the first person to believe in him and make him realize that music is his true passion, as his father used to often see a lot of his younger self in Micky.
Relationships[]
Family[]
- Rafael Gallego Rey † - Father
- Matilde Sánchez † - Mother
- Marcela Basteri - Wife (strained and divorced)
- Luis Miguel Gallego - Son (strained)
- Alex Gallego - Son (strained)
- Sergio Gallego - Son
- Tito - Cousin
- Vanda Tarrozzo - Mother-in-law
- Sergio Basteri - Father-in-law
- Michelle Salas - Paternal Granddaughter
Enemies[]
- Luis Miguel Gallego - Archenemy
- Alex Gallego
- Marcela Basteri - Alleged Victim
- Hugo López †
- Mariana Yazbek
- Rosy Esquivel