Speaker 1: I am all in. Oh, let's kiss you. I am
Speaker 1: all in with Scott Pattison and I Hurt radio podcast Everybody.
Speaker 1: We're gonna sit down doing one on one interview with
Speaker 1: Oris Elorado, who portrayed the character of Caesar, the chef
Speaker 1: at Luke's Diner, My diner. Uh, Caesar's chef Lukes Downer.
Speaker 1: He's a bubbly He's bubbly and sweet. Did you know
Speaker 1: that he's bubbly and sweet? Did you know that you're
Speaker 1: bubbly and sweet? Yeah? I can't help it. It just
Speaker 1: turns on and Caesar is its head stressed when there
Speaker 1: are a lot of customers and not completely at ease
Speaker 1: and having to deal with them at times when Luke
Speaker 1: is away and Caesar runs the dinner. Your first appearance
Speaker 1: was season two, episode thirteen, Totist Get a Task at
Speaker 1: last appearances season seven, Wow. You hung in there for
Speaker 1: basically the run of the show. Season seven episode twenty
Speaker 1: two Bond Voyage, which we talked we will talk about. Um.
Speaker 1: So you're an accomplished actor. You're noted for your comedic
Speaker 1: timing and your roles in television. Early on his acting career, Uh,
Speaker 1: you spend time with variety of series, including Gilmore Girls,
Speaker 1: Ground for Life two thousand to two thousand five, The Shield,
Speaker 1: which was on FX. He continued his comedic performances throughout
Speaker 1: the early two thousands, appearing in Life on a Stick
Speaker 1: Fox two thousand and four, head Case Stars two thousand
Speaker 1: six through oh nine. In more recent years, he has
Speaker 1: had roles in the comedy The Yard Sale, Uh two
Speaker 1: thousand and six with John Fuentes, UH, Kicking It, Old
Speaker 1: school S k O L two thousand and seven, and
Speaker 1: the Joel Murray Black comedy God Bless America two thousand
Speaker 1: and twelve. He reprised his role of Caesar and Gilmore Girls.
Speaker 1: You're in Life two thousand sixteen. Ladies and gentlemen, let's
Speaker 1: bring them in the one, the Only, the Magnificent Caesar himself,
Speaker 1: Our Salvarado, thank you for coming on. Um, let's get
Speaker 1: started right away. How have you been What have you
Speaker 1: been up to in the last I don't know it
Speaker 1: twenty some odd years. You know, I'm still acted, having
Speaker 1: a good time, good man, good. So, So you played Caesar,
Speaker 1: who was you were my chef at the dinner? You
Speaker 1: were Luke chef. Um. But that you know that character
Speaker 1: is played by a couple of different actors. But you
Speaker 1: were originally cast, right, I mean tell us about that. Well,
Speaker 1: I originally came in for a different role that I
Speaker 1: got cast in. I paid a for an exchange student
Speaker 1: for um Um don't say do Um family. They were
Speaker 1: visiting and it was the episode with the hockey game
Speaker 1: and I was supposed to come down the stairs. Everybody
Speaker 1: into the hockey game and I come down and I said,
Speaker 1: you know those says I know they stopped in Spanish
Speaker 1: and that was my line. And then Lorelie was on
Speaker 1: the phone and she's like, oh, I don't know what
Speaker 1: to do with you now. And that's what I was
Speaker 1: cast for. We shot it, and I watched the episode
Speaker 1: and I was cut. They cut me out of it.
Speaker 1: So I called my agent. I'm like, hey, what happened.
Speaker 1: He goes, oh, I forgot to tell you. They said,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe they'll call you back for something else.
Speaker 1: And I was like, well, you didn't tell me. I
Speaker 1: got cut. But two or two months later, a few
Speaker 1: months later, I was in Vegas and I got a call, Hey,
Speaker 1: they need you tomorrow for a fitting at Warner Brothers.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm in Vegas. They're like, well, um, okay,
Speaker 1: let me find out. And they called me back. They said, oh,
Speaker 1: well they have your sizes already, don't worry about it,
Speaker 1: just be back in two days. They're giving you this
Speaker 1: part Caesar coming for it. And then show up at
Speaker 1: home and I'm like, hey, I never got a scrip
Speaker 1: or anything, you know, the night before and I didn't
Speaker 1: get anything. So I called the A D and they're like, well,
Speaker 1: let me see what what do you have to say?
Speaker 1: And it was like, oh, well your lines are no
Speaker 1: ham no ham no ham. I was like, all right,
Speaker 1: got it, don't need the script. And as I recall,
Speaker 1: you nailed it every time. Um uh, give us your
Speaker 1: impressions of I mean you, what was it like being there?
Speaker 1: You were there all of the time, we worked together
Speaker 1: all of the time. What was it like for you
Speaker 1: watching all that? And um tell us give us your
Speaker 1: best behind the scenes stuff. Well it was very um well,
Speaker 1: I loved it because in college they told me to
Speaker 1: slow down, slow down. I'll from New York, so I
Speaker 1: talk fast, but being on this set, it was like, oh,
Speaker 1: speed up. I'm like, wait a minute, you try to
Speaker 1: be to speed up. I went to school to slow down.
Speaker 1: What's going on, Okay, I'll speed up. But it was
Speaker 1: very in the beginning. I was very like scared because
Speaker 1: I didn't want it, like you guys have so much
Speaker 1: to learn. So we stayed back and did what I
Speaker 1: had to do. Went in, did my job, left, did everything.
Speaker 1: But it was very professional set. It was very I
Speaker 1: want to say intense, but it was, um it's like, well,
Speaker 1: like you gotta be on the ball. You have to
Speaker 1: be on the ball there. So it made me, It
Speaker 1: made me more disciplined as an actor to being on
Speaker 1: that set. Yeah, that was like, yeah, that was like
Speaker 1: a New York theater. You know. That was like you're
Speaker 1: always in a serious intense rehearsal, you know, and it
Speaker 1: was like fighting for your job every time you were
Speaker 1: there because you really wanted to do great. Yeah. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: um uh do you I mean I kind of remember
Speaker 1: you did have some lines. You did have lines. You
Speaker 1: had dialogue, right, sometimes not not a lot, but you
Speaker 1: did have some dialogue. Do you remember the dialogue? I
Speaker 1: mean yeah, I mean I had dialogue throughout every time
Speaker 1: I showed up, and it got bigger and bigger as
Speaker 1: you know every season went by, Like like like I
Speaker 1: love the scene where you're going out of town own.
Speaker 1: I know you're watching the episodes. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you open to these episodes yet. You go out of
Speaker 1: town and you're leaving me in charge, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, what is there's a flash flood? What
Speaker 1: am I gonna do? And you know who's gonna what
Speaker 1: if I get a bad shoulder, Who's gonna wrote my elbow?
Speaker 1: Because you know how to wrote my elbow? You know,
Speaker 1: I'm more nervous. And it's like a big run in
Speaker 1: the diner, outside the diner. So that was like a big,
Speaker 1: big scene. And I had another big scene with Laura Lyman.
Speaker 1: I had a day and she was looking for you.
Speaker 1: So got some nice big pieces in there. Most of
Speaker 1: the time it was a two or three lines, but
Speaker 1: you know those those were nice juicy parts that I
Speaker 1: love to do because it was like, all right, now
Speaker 1: they've given me, they're taking the trading wheels off, It's
Speaker 1: time for me to go. And there you go. Man. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't you know what. We haven't gotten to that
Speaker 1: scene yet, but I'm looking forward to that one. Um
Speaker 1: you see, there you go? Man? Um? Were there other
Speaker 1: scenes that you were in outside of Luke's or was
Speaker 1: it always inside of Luke's. Always inside of Lukes except
Speaker 1: for there was a car crash or something that hit
Speaker 1: the diner at one point and we were outside the diner.
Speaker 1: And then and then at the final one of seasons
Speaker 1: seven where we have the big party for Rory going
Speaker 1: away and we build a tent, and that's the other
Speaker 1: time I'm outside of the gotcha? So um? Oh in
Speaker 1: the town meeting? I did one town meeting? Oh oh
Speaker 1: you were I did one? Yeah. I was like, this
Speaker 1: is so cool if I do get the towel. Really,
Speaker 1: how long were you in the town meeting shooting? Um?
Speaker 1: It was just for one one episode. It might have
Speaker 1: been for the big tent scene because we're like trying
Speaker 1: to figure out what's going out. I'm not I don't
Speaker 1: remember the exact episode. But you made it into a
Speaker 1: You made it into a town hall meeting. Huh wow
Speaker 1: wow um? And they probably they probably had you there
Speaker 1: all day? Right Oh yeah? Oh sure? Oh yeah yeah. Um.
Speaker 1: So did you enjoy um being at Luke's more than
Speaker 1: you enjoyed being at Chilton Prep? Um? Yes, I did.
Speaker 1: The day was I always say, like you see me
Speaker 1: shol to Prep? I think I was just there on
Speaker 1: a date. I didn't go to that school. I think
Speaker 1: I was on a date with a girl that went
Speaker 1: to that school. That's what I my explanation of that series. Gotcha? Gotcha?
Speaker 1: So you were you were going out on a date
Speaker 1: with somebody from children nobody that went to that huh?
Speaker 1: And who was that? Who was that lucky person? I
Speaker 1: don't want anyone knows on the show. So here we go.
Speaker 1: That's the day. So tell us what it was like
Speaker 1: getting the call, uh in two thousand and fifteen to
Speaker 1: be invited back to do a Year in the Life.
Speaker 1: Tell us about that. That was? That was really cool because, um,
Speaker 1: it's funny because when I heard the revival was happening,
Speaker 1: I wrote Amy a letter be like, hey, I would
Speaker 1: love to be back on the show. You know, I
Speaker 1: gave her a little storyline. You're like, maybe Caesar's competing
Speaker 1: with Luke and he opened up his old diner or something. Nope.
Speaker 1: You know, but it was getting that call with special
Speaker 1: because I mean need like a lot of actors on
Speaker 1: the show. That was like my first row in Hollywood,
Speaker 1: a big studio and everything. You know, I did independent
Speaker 1: stuff before, but this was like my first row in
Speaker 1: going into that dressing room after getting the job and
Speaker 1: seeing my apron laid out for me. It was just
Speaker 1: like it was like a superhero moment. You know. It
Speaker 1: was like I was like, Wow, I'm would have donned
Speaker 1: this on again and go back to work. You know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was a really cool moment for me to when
Speaker 1: I walked into my trailer and sold the hat and
Speaker 1: the flannel and the Yeah, it's just like wow, yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah it is. It's it's like your uniform s. I
Speaker 1: love when Fats I see FETs dressed up as you.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, here's Caesar, there's Luke there. You go. Uh,
Speaker 1: um was your was it the same role? You came
Speaker 1: back for Caesar? And you're like, okay, Um, do you
Speaker 1: have a favorite scene that you filmed? Do you remember
Speaker 1: a favorite scene? Um? Who? I mean? My favorite scene was,
Speaker 1: I mean, as as an actor, was a big scene
Speaker 1: where we shot inside the dinner outside down and you're
Speaker 1: going out. But my favorite scene to be there was,
Speaker 1: um the Ted scene when like the Bond boyage the
Speaker 1: last episode. It was just like all the actors were there,
Speaker 1: you know, everybody in the town where that was there,
Speaker 1: and you know, it was like like we didn't know
Speaker 1: what the show was over yet, but it was a
Speaker 1: nice little you know, ending to that moment and having
Speaker 1: everyone there, the whole town bry to Glory going off
Speaker 1: to to do her job. Who'd you hang out with
Speaker 1: on set during breaks? Um? Because I had all of
Speaker 1: our chairs like in the same area all the time, right,
Speaker 1: So I was really shy and quiet, so like were yeah,
Speaker 1: So it was it was funny because what type Alexis
Speaker 1: and I were in our chairs inside the town hall,
Speaker 1: you know, waiting for the next seat, and we're both
Speaker 1: She's quiet and shy too, so we're sitting like, I
Speaker 1: don't know, tell me the way that what word went
Speaker 1: between us? Okay, we're gonna say so she's gonna say something, Okay,
Speaker 1: it was it was I was just I was very
Speaker 1: shy back then, so I mean people, it's only afterwards
Speaker 1: that I started talking to people like now freends with
Speaker 1: a lot of people in the cast, you know, right right,
Speaker 1: But I unders said, it was very quiet because I
Speaker 1: was only recurring, so I would pop in, you know,
Speaker 1: pop in one day every three months or something, right, right, right, right? Um?
Speaker 1: What else do you remember about that? Being on the set.
Speaker 1: Tell us tell us your best memories about being on
Speaker 1: the set, like when you were not working but just
Speaker 1: sort of waiting for setups and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: What would you do? Would you would you go to
Speaker 1: that's looking at those the studios and be like, oh,
Speaker 1: Friends is shooting here, and you know this show was
Speaker 1: shot there. And if you say, I remember one time
Speaker 1: I saw Matthew, Perry and Noral talking outside. You know
Speaker 1: one night it was just chilly because Matthew was shooting studio,
Speaker 1: I forgot the new for the show students. It's like
Speaker 1: cool and just being on that and on that and
Speaker 1: I said, I realized, you wait, uh, this is like
Speaker 1: I don't know it was. It was my first home,
Speaker 1: you know, like I love I love being that show.
Speaker 1: Your girls need so much to me, you know, it's
Speaker 1: like just being there. And every time they called me back,
Speaker 1: I'm like, all right, cool, they liked me. They still
Speaker 1: like me. Um so, um so. Tell us what you're
Speaker 1: working on right now? Um well, I just last year
Speaker 1: I did a bunch of stuff. You know, one movie
Speaker 1: just came out called Bromates Video The Man. I didn't
Speaker 1: even know it came out. It came out last week
Speaker 1: and somebody say I just saw you on my TV
Speaker 1: or whatever some video the man and as this other
Speaker 1: movie coming out called Bootyology, which is hilarious. It's about
Speaker 1: these guys that actually existed in l A in the
Speaker 1: nineties and they were like these white wrappers that wrapped
Speaker 1: about butts, but really intelligent wrapped like it's like, well,
Speaker 1: these guys are like smart. I mean these guys they
Speaker 1: are actually engineer, music engineers, and they do all the
Speaker 1: music for like Dancing with the Stars and so you
Speaker 1: take you to get dance, so they do all that music.
Speaker 1: So they their music has all these great sounds in it,
Speaker 1: and they're really smart, and it's supposed to be. It's
Speaker 1: been doing great on the film festival circuit, like we're
Speaker 1: winning awards, so they're supposed to give us some news lately.
Speaker 1: So I'm hoping like they got picked up by some
Speaker 1: distributor or maybe Netflix or something. So that's coming out.
Speaker 1: And I've just been working on different shows like Save
Speaker 1: by the Bell last year. Um just did Tacoma FD,
Speaker 1: you know, just working here and there. Oh Tacoma FD
Speaker 1: is funny. Oh yeah, I like that show. I've seen
Speaker 1: a couple of episodes. It's it's really funny. And yeah,
Speaker 1: I did one episode. The guys were great too. There
Speaker 1: just working with them and just you know, seat over
Speaker 1: and over. It was like laughter, right right right, They're
Speaker 1: really great. It's really a great show. Um um. So
Speaker 1: what else can you remember about filming in Luke's Diner?
Speaker 1: Because you know, the memory I have, especially of you,
Speaker 1: is that we did a big, big like ten It
Speaker 1: was like a tent paid scene and it was so
Speaker 1: busy diner, tons of activity and and you were passing
Speaker 1: me plates, uh several times throughout that and you were
Speaker 1: back there and we were hustling around, running around. Was
Speaker 1: a big rush, and you the timing had to be
Speaker 1: perfect and did you remember that day because that it
Speaker 1: was that one scene that that that never leaves my mind.
Speaker 1: It's like, how did we pull that off? Because it
Speaker 1: was such a blocking uh you know it was it
Speaker 1: was so it was so specifically blocked and everything had
Speaker 1: to be perfectly timed on the line and passing the plate,
Speaker 1: and we did it so many times. But yeah, that
Speaker 1: those rehearsing, those blocking was it was kind of intense,
Speaker 1: but you know, it was fun and I do kind
Speaker 1: of remember that day because it was like, Okay, we're
Speaker 1: gonna do this this pake with this head, and then
Speaker 1: you do it perfectly, and then the script superviter comes out.
Speaker 1: The script supervisor comes out and says, Scott, you actually,
Speaker 1: on you know, the fourth page here on this line,
Speaker 1: Caesar hands you the two plate, the one plate of
Speaker 1: the eggs with the with the bacon and the sausage,
Speaker 1: and you took it in your right hand. But in
Speaker 1: the master you you took it in your left hand. Sorry,
Speaker 1: we're gonna have to do it again. Yeah, And doing
Speaker 1: those so many times, I was like, yeah, you get fried.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm surprised at you because you have to
Speaker 1: do so much and then say so much. But there
Speaker 1: were fun scenes to do. When we had like this
Speaker 1: tourist there. I thought the more people, the better in
Speaker 1: the diner. I really enjoyed those scenes. You know, they
Speaker 1: were so hectic, and and you remember how nervous you'd
Speaker 1: get right before. I mean you'd rehearse, rehearse, rehearse, and
Speaker 1: then it was like, Okay, we're gonna shoot. And then
Speaker 1: you get like, oh god, here we go. We're actually
Speaker 1: gonna try this. You know, so much fun. Everybody's Scott
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Speaker 1: to meet everybody. See that. Okay, so we're gonna play
Speaker 1: a little game here called rapid fire. Okay, so I'm
Speaker 1: gonna fire questions at you, right uh, and just answer
Speaker 1: as quickly as you can. Good luck, good luck to you?
Speaker 1: All right? How many coups of coffee do you have them?
Speaker 1: One day? I don't drink coffee. There you go, are
Speaker 1: your team Logan Team Jesser Team Dean, Uh Team Jess
Speaker 1: Because I did my first team with oh you did
Speaker 1: tell us about that? That was that? What that was?
Speaker 1: The no ham, no ham, no hand. That was when
Speaker 1: his dad shows up. Oh right, that show up day
Speaker 1: and he's just sitting to Rob As he's just sitting there,
Speaker 1: you can't you can't really see him. And then Milo
Speaker 1: walks in. Yeah, he goes, I need um, I need ham,
Speaker 1: and he's like, I got no ham. He goes, well,
Speaker 1: so some pieces of bacon together and make some ham.
Speaker 1: You know, after I said no ham, no ham, no
Speaker 1: ham three times? Um? How how how long did you
Speaker 1: work on those lines at home before you can? Yeah?
Speaker 1: So what's your favorite Gilmore Girl's character? Oh? Kirk uh
Speaker 1: and why tell me why? Because he gets to pay,
Speaker 1: he gets to have all these jobs. Then you know,
Speaker 1: did he try it? There's one episode the episode was
Speaker 1: talking about before when you Can Leave You Down. He's
Speaker 1: trying to take my job in that in that and
Speaker 1: that scene, that's right, my job talking to you and
Speaker 1: he's inside already serving people. So I wrote back inside
Speaker 1: and fight with him like, hey, what are you doing?
Speaker 1: You know right? But he does have all these different
Speaker 1: jobs to do all these different things, and it's such
Speaker 1: a fun character to play. Variety and it's it's amazing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think Kirk. People answer that Kirk several times. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that would be fun. Uh what would you order at
Speaker 1: Luke's diner? I would order and Luke wouldn't like it.
Speaker 1: Chila quills. I don't know if you remember that. I
Speaker 1: try to bring it Chila kills as a breakfast day
Speaker 1: sees try to bring it chili kiles, and you were like, no,
Speaker 1: I don't want chilikils here, you know. And those characters
Speaker 1: loved it too. You know, yall know that Chila kills
Speaker 1: though Chia kills. You're like, what's that? It's a secret?
Speaker 1: Beat you at Luke's that you know you gotta come
Speaker 1: to be in a secret you know secret Beau? You
Speaker 1: know what? You and I we should open a diner together.
Speaker 1: I bet you we do well, what do you think
Speaker 1: a blast? No, we just go in, we take over
Speaker 1: a diner like one time. Yeah, it's funny. At the
Speaker 1: when he did the re Bible, I heard you you
Speaker 1: showed up at like a coffee shop. Yeah, and I
Speaker 1: did too. I went to a like proble Things. I
Speaker 1: went with a friend of mine, jumped behind the counter
Speaker 1: and started. But would it be funny if we took
Speaker 1: over you know, I walk in and you know, we
Speaker 1: take over a diner, and then and then you're actually there.
Speaker 1: It's like Caesar, give me the thing. But I guess
Speaker 1: that would be we should do. That would be very funny.
Speaker 1: Would you rather go on a road trip with Taylor
Speaker 1: or Michelle? I would like both of them because and
Speaker 1: sit in the back seat and watch them in the
Speaker 1: front seat right direct. That would be a show and
Speaker 1: I'll be entertained the whole time on the road trip.
Speaker 1: I wonder what they would be like together on a
Speaker 1: road trip. Do you think they cancel each other around
Speaker 1: or get into it? Recording the whole thing? Alright? Finished
Speaker 1: the lyric and where you lead? I will follow dot
Speaker 1: dot dot anywhere that you tell me to. You nailed it, buddy,
Speaker 1: nice job. Keep going, keep going. No, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I never forgot. I can't stop now. Uh, Jackson's Vegetables
Speaker 1: or Suki's baked goods, goods? There you go. Have you
Speaker 1: seen me? I got ask It's on the paper. I
Speaker 1: gotta ask you. I knew the answer that I got asked. Uh.
Speaker 1: Would you rather listen to Drella's harp or the Troubadour's
Speaker 1: cover song cover There you Go a little grantly, Buffalo Children,
Speaker 1: Prepper Stars Hollow Hi, I'm gonna says, there you go, buddy.
Speaker 1: All right. It was awesome catching up a little bit.
Speaker 1: You gotta you gotta come back when we have more time,
Speaker 1: because that was that was only twenty minutes. We could
Speaker 1: we could do, we could do two hours. Hot ja
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