Speaker 1: Hey, fan Ritos, and welcome back to an all new
Speaker 1: episode of How Rude Tan Ritos.
Speaker 2: Today's guest is a real treat.
Speaker 1: You know him as Kimmi Gibbler's hot and hilarious on
Speaker 1: and off again husband, Fernando Hernandez Guerrero Fernandez Guerrero.
Speaker 2: We know him as JP, our.
Speaker 1: Wildly talented, big hearted friend with big dreams, and one
Speaker 1: of those dreams recently came true. Juan Pablo de Pace
Speaker 1: is here to talk about his stunning new film Before
Speaker 1: We Forget, a raw, beautiful, emotionally charged story about unrequited
Speaker 1: first love. This film is deeply personal for JP, drawn
Speaker 1: from his memories of a particularly meaningful time during his adolescence.
Speaker 1: It is a beautiful film that Jody and I had
Speaker 1: the privilege of watching a few weeks ago at the
Speaker 1: LA screening, and we are so proud of him. We
Speaker 1: can't wait to talk about filmmaking Fernando and Fuller House.
Speaker 1: So Fannertos, help us give a warm welcome to Mia Moor.
Speaker 2: Juan Pablo de Pache.
Speaker 3: Can you hear me? Okay, Yeah, let's do it.
Speaker 2: I've been looking forward to this for so long. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's just to get to talk to you and catch
Speaker 2: up and share your beautiful film with the world.
Speaker 4: It's oh, oh great, so great.
Speaker 5: We were we just like before you hopped on the zoom,
Speaker 5: we were just having like a like a ten minute love.
Speaker 4: Fest about it, about just how beautiful.
Speaker 5: It was and how proud we were, and like just
Speaker 5: how we're like, oh my god, it's gonna win a
Speaker 5: boards and is that like we just yeah, it was.
Speaker 5: We're just very proud of you. So we're excited to
Speaker 5: have you on to talk about it. And also because
Speaker 5: you are just an amazing part of the full Fuller
Speaker 5: family now, like you're like you're in Sorry, it's it's forever.
Speaker 2: Never let you go.
Speaker 5: You can never be the annoying family members that you're like,
Speaker 5: oh no then again, yeah no.
Speaker 1: You're off directing in other countries and we're just like,
Speaker 1: come back for a full house barbecue.
Speaker 3: Yes, thank you. I mean, I don't know what to say.
Speaker 3: I'm speechless. I'm the one who's uh, just lucky and
Speaker 3: also I don't know, just just very very very honored
Speaker 3: to have I didn't even know what I was walking
Speaker 3: into and all of a sudden I was part of this. Yeah,
Speaker 3: this this really kind of I don't know, a very
Speaker 3: special family that that we we all thought, oh, you
Speaker 3: know this, this might be just one year and whatever,
Speaker 3: and then it just we didn't know five years of
Speaker 3: our lives, which is crazy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so great.
Speaker 1: So great, Well we will, we'll get to fuller house.
Speaker 1: But let's let's go.
Speaker 2: Back and start with your origin story first.
Speaker 1: Because I don't know if I even know this what
Speaker 1: age you started acting. I know you're from Argentina's so
Speaker 1: did you move to the US to become an actor
Speaker 1: or tell us everything about how you started in this business.
Speaker 5: Really feel like, if I remember right, you went from
Speaker 5: like Argentina sort of through Europe around and then kind
Speaker 5: of to the States.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Well okay, so it all it's really confusing.
Speaker 4: We do confusing well on this show. So it's fine,
Speaker 4: go for it. Yeah, it's our brand.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Obviously I was born in Argentina to an Italian
Speaker 3: dad Argentinian mom, and around twelve thirteen, I said to
Speaker 3: my mom, I really want to study in Europe and
Speaker 3: my mom said, absolutely, no way, You're going to study
Speaker 3: in Europe when you're twenty. You know, and life have,
Speaker 3: you know, things happen strange ways. One day I'm going
Speaker 3: to school and I see this little paper that says,
Speaker 3: would you like to finish high school in Italy in
Speaker 3: English for two years? And so I, without telling my parents,
Speaker 3: I actually applied to this thing. And it was basically
Speaker 3: a scholarship to finish school in Italy in this bizarre
Speaker 3: place called the United World College in a remote town.
Speaker 3: And I do this test, I get in and then
Speaker 3: my and then I tell my parents, oh, I got
Speaker 3: a scholarship to finish high school in Italy. And they
Speaker 3: were both like in shock, but also well, you can't
Speaker 3: say no. I mean it was anssive opportunity. This is
Speaker 3: called the United World College, And yeah, I kind of
Speaker 3: went there from Argentina to Italy to finish high school
Speaker 3: in this beautiful place that we can talk about later
Speaker 3: because this part of the film yeah yeah, oh yeah,
Speaker 3: but it was kind of like a Hogwarts nation, you know,
Speaker 3: students from world two hundred students and you're literally finishing
Speaker 3: a high school. It's nothing more than that, but it's
Speaker 3: pretty spectacular because obviously you leave everything behind at like
Speaker 3: fifteen years old, sixteen, you can't you know, when you
Speaker 3: have a crisis, you don't have mom to hug you
Speaker 3: you know you really, but also these kids become your family.
Speaker 4: Yeah, travels. I mean I always tell my kids.
Speaker 5: I've sent them on school trips to Japan and to Europe,
Speaker 5: and I'm like, travel, go find out that you can
Speaker 5: do stuff by yourself. I mean they're not by themselves,
Speaker 5: but still, like, you know, it's so I just it's
Speaker 5: so important. Yeah, God, I wish I could have finished
Speaker 5: high school in Italy.
Speaker 3: Wow. Yeah, it's amazing, pretty lucky.
Speaker 1: Yeah, were they all the same age around this, fifteen
Speaker 1: and sixteen? Because it's called college, which to me means.
Speaker 5: A college in Europe though, is like high school, isn't
Speaker 5: it sort it's just a university is more like what
Speaker 5: they call our version of college.
Speaker 3: It should be called high school. But yeah, it's it's
Speaker 3: it's really that. It's that age where everyone just before finishing.
Speaker 3: I don't know how in America.
Speaker 4: It is the last two year junior senior year probably would.
Speaker 3: Be yeah exactly. So that's what it is. And that
Speaker 3: place kind of gave me the wings really because I
Speaker 3: before going there, I wasn't really a performer. Before going there,
Speaker 3: I thought I was going to be a Disney animator.
Speaker 3: That was my thing.
Speaker 5: Like, I really, Yeah, my mom's an artist, right, yea,
Speaker 5: your mom's a really talented artist artist.
Speaker 3: And I grew up with that. I grew up with
Speaker 3: a lady who could draw and sculpt and things and
Speaker 3: and I kind of loved all that, and I loved
Speaker 3: being by myself. But somehow going to the college opened
Speaker 3: me up, and all of a sudden, I went from
Speaker 3: being like the shy kid at school to the one
Speaker 3: who would be performing and doing dances and doing you know,
Speaker 3: theater stuff. And so yeah, it was there that I
Speaker 3: kind of discovered, oh, I really like being on stage.
Speaker 3: So yeah, that's really how how in my mind it
Speaker 3: was really planted because I don't know why, but I
Speaker 3: went up to the headmaster's office and I said, I
Speaker 3: would I think college should have its first music ever music,
Speaker 3: And he goes, okay, with one condition, you put it together,
Speaker 3: you directed, and I don't want to know about it.
Speaker 3: Just go and here's some money to produce. And all
Speaker 3: of a sudden, I had this power to put on
Speaker 3: a show. I had never done that in my life,
Speaker 3: and so we did. So I learned by doing by.
Speaker 5: What a gift though from that head master of confidence
Speaker 5: in a young person to go, you know what, you
Speaker 5: can do this? You go do it, figure it out.
Speaker 5: You're gonna make it. You guys, do it Like that's
Speaker 5: so improdive. It was incredible.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it really, Like to this day, I go, what
Speaker 3: on earth you know was he thinking giving this kid?
Speaker 3: I mean, surely I don't know why, but anyway, it
Speaker 3: just happened that way, and it sort of gave me
Speaker 3: this responsibility of going, Okay, so what do I do?
Speaker 3: And so I had to learn to cast, I had
Speaker 3: to learn to direct, I had to learn to act
Speaker 3: because I was also playing Danny. This was Grease. It
Speaker 3: was gre Yes, I'm like directing it playing Danny's rouco
Speaker 3: like dealing with the details and the costumes and sonya.
Speaker 3: You could say that that college really gave me the
Speaker 3: beginning of then what I think now is my life,
Speaker 3: which is a bit of a jack of all trades.
Speaker 3: And I like a lovely pressure and I can sing,
Speaker 3: I can dense, and can draw and direct.
Speaker 4: You know, Yeah, you're kind of like a renaissance man.
Speaker 5: And I always like, I just have such admiration for
Speaker 5: all and you speak like seven languages.
Speaker 3: You're just just three.
Speaker 5: Well only the only direction it feels like seven to me,
Speaker 5: I speak one. No, I just it's I just love you.
Speaker 5: But yeah, like, what a what a beautiful gift. And
Speaker 5: I'm so glad that you saw that little piece of
Speaker 5: paper and decided to take a chance, like life changing
Speaker 5: moments that we never know about.
Speaker 1: How brave of you to do this at such a
Speaker 1: young age. And then you found yourself over there, like
Speaker 1: what a great story. This is a great origin story.
Speaker 1: I love this.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and then you went, didn't you after?
Speaker 3: What did you do after.
Speaker 4: You finished there?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: So so that was really it was not an art school,
Speaker 3: it was high school. Yeah. Well, once discover oh I
Speaker 3: like this too much, and the whole Disney dream just
Speaker 3: kind of died in my head. I was like, no, no, no,
Speaker 3: I want to do this thing. I I thought to myself, Okay,
Speaker 3: where where do I go? Where is the center of this?
Speaker 3: Where's the center of theater? And it was either New York,
Speaker 3: which seemed very far, or London. Yeah, and then it
Speaker 3: has the West End and Shakespeare and all I.
Speaker 4: Was going to say, like theater, theater, definitely London.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So I just it was nearing the end of
Speaker 3: this high school thing and I started auditioning, and I
Speaker 3: actually did one trip to London and I auditioned for
Speaker 3: three acting schools and I got a scholarship into one,
Speaker 3: and I was so excited to go. So I go
Speaker 3: back to Argentina to finish, like all my stuff, buy
Speaker 3: mom and dad, go to London with all my family savings,
Speaker 3: and I get a job at a place it's sort
Speaker 3: of like a home for people with learning difficulties during
Speaker 3: the evening so during the day I can do the course.
Speaker 3: So I had it all planned and it's like two
Speaker 3: weeks before the start of course, and I go to
Speaker 3: the office and I sit down next to the woman
Speaker 3: and she's like, okay, well, this is the end of
Speaker 3: your paperwork. How would you like to make your payment?
Speaker 3: And I go for what the course? No, no, no, I
Speaker 3: have a scholarship. You gave me a scholarship. And she
Speaker 3: starts looking in the computer and there's no scholarship. Oh no,
Speaker 3: And she's like, I'm sorry, I don't know who told
Speaker 3: you have a scholarship. And I've traveled all this way, nobody,
Speaker 3: like my only friends, other people in the home for
Speaker 3: You're like, oh my god, oh no, And she's like, no,
Speaker 3: I must have been a mistake. I don't know what happened,
Speaker 3: and I didn't even I don't know if I haven't
Speaker 3: had a letter, I had a phone call. I don't
Speaker 3: at that point what did I have?
Speaker 4: Was it an email?
Speaker 3: Was it.
Speaker 4: So long ago?
Speaker 3: And so she's like, well, it's gonna be thirty thousand
Speaker 3: pounds here if you want, we can keep your space
Speaker 3: for when you're able to pay it. But you don't
Speaker 3: have a scholarship. So yeah, so that kind of like
Speaker 3: I was like this and like that, and I called
Speaker 3: every single acting school to see for scholarships or whatever.
Speaker 3: No one had anything. I was dejected. I was going
Speaker 3: to go back to Argentina. How was all in my
Speaker 3: mom to say, I think I need a I need
Speaker 3: a trip back, and but I didn't. Walking down the
Speaker 3: street in London and I see this big, massive billboard
Speaker 3: that says cuts the music. I go, well, I like musicals,
Speaker 3: and I feel like crap. And so I go to
Speaker 3: the box office and I said, do you have a
Speaker 3: do you have a ticket? Yes? And I only had
Speaker 3: fifty pounds in my pocket because that's the only thing
Speaker 3: that the home gave me to eat. Okay, that's it.
Speaker 3: And so the lady goes, yeah, it's fifty pounds front row.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, And I'm like fine, I'm just so depressed
Speaker 3: that I'm like what, Like, what does it matter anyway?
Speaker 3: Who cares say that one of those lost?
Speaker 5: It's kind of when you get to that point, like
Speaker 5: it's a very freeing point in a weird.
Speaker 4: Way where you're like, listen, sure, who cares? You know what?
Speaker 3: I don't read my last fifty pounds? Yeah, so take it,
Speaker 3: take it. I sit in the front row. The lights
Speaker 3: go down, and then all of these cats starting.
Speaker 4: About right right as as cats is about.
Speaker 3: I can't tell I can't believe I'm telling you this story.
Speaker 3: But anyways, all the cats start dancing and like they're amazing,
Speaker 3: and you know, I don't know if you remember, but
Speaker 3: the original version of cats basically they come up to
Speaker 3: you and yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they definitely did. Was they There was a lot
Speaker 5: of more audience. Well I think it's still I haven't
Speaker 5: seen it live, but yeah, I remember very much.
Speaker 3: Like that was the thing, right, they came to people
Speaker 3: and they started dancing to people. Anyway, I thought I
Speaker 3: was the only person in the audience, like I had
Speaker 3: all these cats like dancing with I was. I was
Speaker 3: like aroused. I was honest, I was like all of
Speaker 3: the things. And so the show finishes and I'm just
Speaker 3: in seven Heaven and I go and I check where
Speaker 3: these cats come from, Like where what they study?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Where are these cats? Yeah? Where did you get these cats?
Speaker 3: And so the course that I had the scholarship was acting.
Speaker 3: But then I realized this is more of a dance
Speaker 3: musical kind of thing. And so I call and they
Speaker 3: all come from London Studio Center. And so I call
Speaker 3: London Studio Center and they say, yeah, yeah, we're we're
Speaker 3: looking for boys, and tomorrow we have auditions. And so
Speaker 3: I go to tomorrow to the auditions and I had
Speaker 3: never taken a dance class in my life, and I
Speaker 3: had to do ballet, jazz, tap, contemporary. I call it
Speaker 3: ithn And at the end of the day they call
Speaker 3: me to the office and they go, well, we want
Speaker 3: to take a chance on you because you have that
Speaker 3: desperation going on.
Speaker 1: That we like.
Speaker 4: Or skill.
Speaker 3: I'm skill and so yeah, they did give me a scholarship,
Speaker 3: and I stayed in London as a dancer, wanting to
Speaker 3: be a cat.
Speaker 4: Right, So when people ask you how your career started.
Speaker 5: You go, well, I really just wanted to be a
Speaker 5: cat and then a dancing cat. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so yeah, and that's really the beginning of everything
Speaker 3: because after that there's three years of ballet contemporary and
Speaker 3: jazz and singing and acting and so it was the
Speaker 3: triple threat school.
Speaker 4: You could, Yeah, you kind of found where you were
Speaker 4: supposed to be.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but from accidents, you know, like, well.
Speaker 5: That's always how it is, right, You're like everything you
Speaker 5: sort of fall into something.
Speaker 4: You go, oh, oh, you know came together.
Speaker 5: What a beautiful story though, Like that's such an adventure
Speaker 5: and such a testament to your like driven personality and
Speaker 5: your sense of like I'm just going to do it.
Speaker 5: Like I love that about You're like, I'm just going
Speaker 5: to take the chance and do it. I'm going to
Speaker 5: sign up for this school. I'm gonna ask if I
Speaker 5: can get into this school having never danced in my life.
Speaker 5: Like just that that takes balls, like it takes it
Speaker 5: takes a lot of courage and uh and I just
Speaker 5: admire that in you because how did all of us
Speaker 5: have that.
Speaker 3: It's coming to trouble too?
Speaker 4: Well look, yeah.
Speaker 3: But that's not important.
Speaker 4: What's important.
Speaker 5: It's important right, right, the results we don't talk about, right, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4: Those were the other things.
Speaker 1: So what prompted you to move to the United States?
Speaker 3: When did that happen? Well, that happened many many years later,
Speaker 3: because London for me was the twenty All my twenties
Speaker 3: happened in London. So all all my being poor, living
Speaker 3: with rats, doing seven jobs at the same time, all
Speaker 3: of that happened in London. And it got to a
Speaker 3: point where it was really tiring for me to feel
Speaker 3: like I wasn't advancing in in in acting because obviously,
Speaker 3: after after the school I started first one musical was Chicago,
Speaker 3: and that was like my one Okay, now I want
Speaker 3: to I want to try being the guy in the front, right,
Speaker 3: So then that's when the acting kind of really caught on.
Speaker 3: And but yeah, it was like seven years after the
Speaker 3: Color seven years of struggle and struggle and struggle and
Speaker 3: always playing like the waiter, you know, and the small, small, small,
Speaker 3: small parts, and so I was kind of getting tired,
Speaker 3: even though I did do my Moa Mia in the
Speaker 3: period with a big, big, big movie, but again I
Speaker 3: was just you know, a tiny, tiny part, and I
Speaker 3: just wanted to do what it was like to to
Speaker 3: kind of have lines, right, I want to speak right.
Speaker 4: You're like, I don't want to be a man in
Speaker 4: coffee shop number two.
Speaker 3: That's exactly. So this chance came to to to go
Speaker 3: to Spain and audition for another big musical project, which
Speaker 3: was Saturday Night Fever, and that was to play the
Speaker 3: lead to play Tony ONNY. Two really important moments in
Speaker 3: my love had to do with things that Travolta what
Speaker 3: God famous for. Oh yeah, I agree, Oh yeah, I
Speaker 3: got that. And then I moved to Spain and I
Speaker 3: became you know this guy and he was the most
Speaker 3: amazing university to have that amount of pressure every single
Speaker 3: night on my shoulders because if I had an off day,
Speaker 3: no old fellow, I had to like at this level
Speaker 3: every night. So that was a huge lesson.
Speaker 4: That's incredible. Yeah, theater actors, I'm always.
Speaker 3: Like, how do you do it?
Speaker 4: Like how every night?
Speaker 5: I mean it's such a like you know, you were
Speaker 5: asking Ben Platt that. I was like, how do you
Speaker 5: just lay it on the floor every night?
Speaker 4: It's so hard?
Speaker 3: But you don't have of a life outside of the show.
Speaker 3: You you sleep, you.
Speaker 5: Eat, you wake up, you go back to work. Yeah,
Speaker 5: so you love it. It's amazing, and it's.
Speaker 3: It was really, it was amazing. It was amazing because
Speaker 3: it just gave me all kinds of good stuff, like
Speaker 3: the joy of dancing and singing and acting every single
Speaker 3: night and entertaining people. And but also yeah, that that
Speaker 3: kind of responsibility, which I loved. Shed a responsible. So
Speaker 3: so yeah, after four years in Spain, I did little
Speaker 3: things and I thought, you know what, I'm in my thirties.
Speaker 3: I always always always wanted to go to La and
Speaker 3: try the Hollywood thing. Always since I was five. When
Speaker 3: I was five, I used to like stay up all
Speaker 3: night watching the Oscars with my grandma. I look at
Speaker 3: tinsel Town and you know, I looked at it, you
Speaker 3: girls like.
Speaker 4: You know, yeah, the outer image of Hollywood.
Speaker 3: The outer image of Hollywood, which is very very enticing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and then you get to and you're like, we was, Oh, it's.
Speaker 3: Just a it's just a set.
Speaker 5: It's just set, and there's still a grind, Yeah, a set.
Speaker 3: And fallen dreams.
Speaker 5: Well those are whatever you get trip on, those are everywhere.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Anyway, yeah, that was it. I came here. I mean,
Speaker 3: I'm going to spare you how but I had a
Speaker 3: manager and she basically just just sent my my, my
Speaker 3: CV to every single casting agent and and it was
Speaker 3: too lucky. I was just too lucky because because I
Speaker 3: arrived on a Monday and on the Saturday, I was
Speaker 3: already cast in Dallas the show Dallas. Wow. So it's
Speaker 3: so lucky to start in Hollywood that way. But I
Speaker 3: could say, you know what I struggled for, like to say,
Speaker 3: you were lucky when you got here.
Speaker 4: But it's not like it just fell in.
Speaker 5: Your lap, like you you put in the work and
Speaker 5: the dudes it was time.
Speaker 4: It was just your time. You earned it.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So so anyway, that's how, that's how. And really
Speaker 3: I met you. You were my third job in the States.
Speaker 2: Really, Oh my gosh, that's wild.
Speaker 1: What what was your first thought when you got the
Speaker 1: call to audition for Fuller House?
Speaker 4: Did you know about Full House?
Speaker 1: Had you ever seen it?
Speaker 3: Did you?
Speaker 1: We were like, what is this sitcom? Right?
Speaker 4: What am I doing here? Gibbler?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I have to be honest, I wasn't that
Speaker 3: familiar with I knew the show. But third World country,
Speaker 3: we in Argentina did not get Full House. Oh really
Speaker 3: got others. We got like friends, We got the Nanny
Speaker 3: didn't get full House. So even though I knew about
Speaker 3: it because you sort of know from I wasn't familiar,
Speaker 3: which was a wonderful thing for me to not know.
Speaker 3: When I went into that audition, I had like it
Speaker 3: was kind of like Black State. And do you remember,
Speaker 3: do you remember the Pilot season days when everyone was right.
Speaker 5: When you've several, like a couple months of your life
Speaker 5: you spent just driving all over LA going to auditions
Speaker 5: and getting callbacks and hoping that this would be the season.
Speaker 3: Well that's that's what happened. Like after Dallas, I played
Speaker 3: Jesus Christ, which was pretty incredible, and that was a
Speaker 3: whole thing in itself, and so I was like, I'm
Speaker 3: a serious I'm going to do serious work yep. And
Speaker 3: then and then rived all right, And it was the
Speaker 3: most awful Pilot season ever because I went from from
Speaker 3: playing like the most beautiful human god you know, in
Speaker 3: the history, I was just getting rejection and rejection and
Speaker 3: able to to kind of access. It was a time
Speaker 3: and I was, you know, it was weird for me.
Speaker 3: I was like what am I doing? And so I
Speaker 3: did like forty castings that wow, that's a lot. And
Speaker 3: the last one, Uh, it's would you audition for the
Speaker 3: sitcom Revival? And I was kind of I was, I was,
Speaker 3: I was angry. I was like, what's me? But are
Speaker 3: you funny? She says my manager. I don't know if
Speaker 3: I'm funny. Well, I told them you were really funny,
Speaker 3: So you go and so yeah, I go in and
Speaker 3: and this, and and I see tons of guys exactly
Speaker 3: looking like me, and everyone's so funny because I'm outside
Speaker 3: listening to everyone laugh. Oh.
Speaker 4: That was the worst part of auditioning, though.
Speaker 5: Would be in the hallway and you could hear through
Speaker 5: the door and you're like, oh, that was a good choice,
Speaker 5: But now I can't make that choice, like I exactly, I.
Speaker 2: Really like them with your mind is just.
Speaker 3: It does because yeah, yeah, And then you know, you
Speaker 3: talk to casting directors and they're like, well, we do
Speaker 3: that to make the actor feel better, like because from
Speaker 3: where I was sitting, I thought the guys were hilarious,
Speaker 3: like they would laugh so hard and then the guy
Speaker 3: go was it? And they not only laugh like hell,
Speaker 3: but the guy leaves, They shut the door in my face,
Speaker 3: they replay his tape, they laugh again, and they go,
Speaker 3: oh my god, he's amazed. Oh, I'm just thinking.
Speaker 4: That's oh God, You're like, I'll go home now.
Speaker 3: Thanks guy, casting number forty five. Oh but you know,
Speaker 3: it's like that choice. It's like the fifty pounds in
Speaker 3: the pocket. I went, I either give up right now
Speaker 3: because this guy got it, or I I am a
Speaker 3: clown and I had just become like an absolute tit
Speaker 3: of myself. Yeah, and I did. I just went in
Speaker 3: there and I was just so yeah, yeah, and yeah.
Speaker 4: That was it. That's how they were like, that is
Speaker 4: exactly full House.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I remember doing a screen test with you and Sony,
Speaker 1: like they had already cast Sony as our daughter Ramona,
Speaker 1: and so yeah, Jeff told me like, yeah, like he's
Speaker 1: great and he's perfect. But the but Warner Brothers or Netflix,
Speaker 1: one of the two, they were nervous, like is he
Speaker 1: funny because he's this dramatic, serious actor, right, So like
Speaker 1: Jesus Christ to full of House. Yeah, it's so they
Speaker 1: put us all in that little theater room where we
Speaker 1: were doing our screen test, and it was it was
Speaker 1: just magic from the very.
Speaker 3: Beginning, very beginning. Immediately, it was it was as soon
Speaker 3: as I met you. I of course I didn't have
Speaker 3: the job, but it felt like it was a done thing.
Speaker 3: So it was just so loving and sweet. And there's
Speaker 3: so many nerves when you're testing for anything like that,
Speaker 3: and it feels very daunting because you're in this room,
Speaker 3: this tiny theater, with cameras everywhere and some suits in
Speaker 3: the dark.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Right, it's intimidating.
Speaker 4: It's for me, and I had already had the job,
Speaker 4: and I'm nervous. Maybe I'm gonna get fired.
Speaker 3: I don't know, so I was, but I don't even
Speaker 3: remember what we did.
Speaker 4: It was.
Speaker 1: It was a scene that it was like one of
Speaker 1: those made up scenes, like it didn't ever make it
Speaker 1: to the show.
Speaker 2: It was just some Jeff test.
Speaker 1: Scene, So I don't remember what it was about either.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it was always you.
Speaker 3: I knew it. I could feel it.
Speaker 2: You can feel it in the room like I could
Speaker 2: feel it.
Speaker 4: I'm like, it's him.
Speaker 5: You guys have the best chemistry. Like it was just
Speaker 5: it was so great. It was so instant and you
Speaker 5: guys and Sony. First of all, I'm pretty sure she
Speaker 5: actually might be your child because she looks like she
Speaker 5: could totally be your guys's kid, like wild totally. But
Speaker 5: like you guys had to such I just wanted. I
Speaker 5: was like, I want more of that. I wanted to
Speaker 5: watch all of you guys, like the Gibblers were the Gibbler,
Speaker 5: Fernande's head good, Fernandez, Gredos were just amazing. I love them. So, yeah,
Speaker 5: you guys really had it right off the bat.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not a bragger, but it's true, like
Speaker 1: we we had just popping chemistry, and Teddy from Netflix
Speaker 1: was always was obsessed with our chemistry.
Speaker 4: You guys so much.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I have to say though, it was such a
Speaker 3: unique and interesting microcosm that happens when like entering into yours.
Speaker 3: This is your world, like this what's your world from
Speaker 3: day one, from when you were kids, And so I
Speaker 3: have to say, as an experience to step into this
Speaker 3: thing where it is not theater, it is not film,
Speaker 3: it's this thing in between, it's kind of both, kind
Speaker 3: of both. You were playing to an audience really, but
Speaker 3: at the same time, I don't know, that's just some
Speaker 3: magical thing that I had never experienced before. And I
Speaker 3: don't even know if all sitcoms are like that. I
Speaker 3: think it was just this one. I felt that the
Speaker 3: moment we did that first episode and DJ opens the
Speaker 3: door and goes Fernandez and I was crabbing my plants.
Speaker 3: I was so nervous because I saw, you know, I
Speaker 3: knew that people get fired in these things and whatever.
Speaker 3: And You're like, oh, this is my first moment, and
Speaker 3: if I screwed up, I probably you know. And I
Speaker 3: just remember how the moment that or opened and I
Speaker 3: just had to say, DJ, that's it.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you know right off the bat that you two.
Speaker 3: Yeah, immediately something happened. Everyone erupted in laughter. They didn't
Speaker 3: know who I was, and all of a sudden, it
Speaker 3: was like as if Juan Pablo the actor stepped into
Speaker 3: this bizarre, like parallel universe and I just knew who
Speaker 3: Fernando was. I knew who you guys were, Like, I
Speaker 3: don't know what happened. It wasn't research, it wasn't it
Speaker 3: was literally just stepping into this kind of weird, cumbersome, strange,
Speaker 3: funny world. Because really full and fuller house. It's kind
Speaker 3: of like a fantasy, isn't it. It's like, sure.
Speaker 5: In San Francisco, other than the Tanners, they get every
Speaker 5: job and all of the attention. It's incredible, really, Yeah,
Speaker 5: they are a very special family in San Francisco.
Speaker 3: So yeah, but you, I mean, your girls helped me
Speaker 3: so much and feeling it's so important to feel, like
Speaker 3: you said at the beginning of the podcast, like family,
Speaker 3: because you are You're just there pretty much all day,
Speaker 3: every day. So you could not imagine what it would
Speaker 3: be like to be in that situation and with like
Speaker 3: bad people any sense, right.
Speaker 5: I have fortunately never had that experience on SID I've
Speaker 5: never had. I mean there's people that have been better
Speaker 5: or you know, worse, but like never super problematic. And
Speaker 5: I just couldn't imagine working. I mean, you hear about it.
Speaker 5: These shows were like the two leads hated each other
Speaker 5: and then they've got to be making out. I'm like
Speaker 5: I could Oh god, I couldn't do it.
Speaker 6: Were the icky and especially when you have to be
Speaker 6: funny and made people laugh, right, yeah, arguing because of
Speaker 6: a joke because like, I don't like like it would
Speaker 6: it would be so strange.
Speaker 3: So we had we had to make each other laugh.
Speaker 3: And that's how things actually got better and better because
Speaker 3: because if if Andrea laughed inside and if you laughed inside,
Speaker 3: then I knew that it would work and vice versa. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so it's a very joyful. It was a very joyful
Speaker 3: five years, right. I loved how.
Speaker 1: Our relationship developed, I mean our fictional relationship.
Speaker 2: I've loved you for you know, since the day I
Speaker 2: met you.
Speaker 1: But like for Kimmy and Fernando, it started off a
Speaker 1: little dicey because the way Jeff wrote the pilot was
Speaker 1: that Fernando committed adultery.
Speaker 4: You know, you cheated.
Speaker 1: Fernando cheated on and the fans were so upset about
Speaker 1: that they did not want Kimmy to take him back
Speaker 1: because of this how Jeff wrote the pilot. And I
Speaker 1: feel like that that changed because once the writers saw
Speaker 1: our chemistry and just how we had this love hate
Speaker 1: we you know, like we could argue, we could make
Speaker 1: out like we did.
Speaker 2: We did it all and it all worked.
Speaker 1: And so I think that's why they were like, I
Speaker 1: think that was a misstep to make Fernando an adulterer,
Speaker 1: but they course corrected along the way, but a lot
Speaker 1: of fans couldn't let go of that.
Speaker 2: They were mad at Fernando.
Speaker 5: Well, it was kind of Fernando was just kind of
Speaker 5: the you know, the smooth, the talking race car driving,
Speaker 5: haircutting stylist, you know, talker.
Speaker 4: I think I get that people were very protect of
Speaker 4: their protect characters.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, well because I always say you're the
Speaker 3: original Phoebe. So so when this came, when when this
Speaker 3: character in twenty twenty was it twenty sixteen that we
Speaker 3: did it right? I think everyone just appreciated can be
Speaker 3: so much a reason she was this lovable, lovable oddball,
Speaker 3: And so you're right, I think, yeah, people got really protected.
Speaker 3: But also hadn't Fernando done one wrong thing, then this
Speaker 3: kind of fiery thing wouldn't wouldn't have been there, So.
Speaker 5: I yeah, exactly, it was a yeah, that was it
Speaker 5: needed that undertone of like slight anger.
Speaker 4: But also like I love you, but I hate you. Yeah,
Speaker 4: laid attention.
Speaker 1: That's a good point.
Speaker 3: That's a good point.
Speaker 1: Yeah. That set us up for on again, off again,
Speaker 1: getting married, getting engaged, getting breaking up, like all of
Speaker 1: the back and forth, which was so funny you did
Speaker 1: and you were spectacular. I mean they asked so much
Speaker 1: of you. Oh my god, it's an actor.
Speaker 4: Like a lot of us.
Speaker 5: There was well, every was some sort of like what
Speaker 5: wild thing are we doing this week? It's a musical number,
Speaker 5: We've got a stunt, there's a wild costume music.
Speaker 3: God knows what.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but they but especially you being I know, because
Speaker 1: you were such a serious actor. You were a SESPI
Speaker 1: and like so serious about your craft, and here they
Speaker 1: are putting you in like a pink silk nightie, you know,
Speaker 1: with your buns sticking out, and I'm just like, poor.
Speaker 4: Che how did we get here?
Speaker 3: Leopard print? Yes, yes, they've they've they blurred it in
Speaker 3: the show at huse. Oh my god. So it was like,
Speaker 3: after all those years of seriousness, it was the exact
Speaker 3: antidote for loving, like loving my profession again, because you know,
Speaker 3: when you struggle so much, because I sure I had great,
Speaker 3: great things here and there. But but what people don't
Speaker 3: understand is that life of actors is actually quite tough.
Speaker 3: I mean, I think right now, like everyone's getting a
Speaker 3: taste of that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, everyone's Is there any job? Anybody want to do
Speaker 5: some art around here?
Speaker 3: Exactly? Yeah? And so you sort of have to train
Speaker 3: yourself not to get feel personal about rejection and the
Speaker 3: node in the days that you have to wait tables
Speaker 3: at DA DA day and sometimes you know, a small
Speaker 3: one liner feels like an amazing win, which it is.
Speaker 3: So when you're able to have something where you're like, oh,
Speaker 3: I'm getting paid for this and I get to play
Speaker 3: alas so so so lucky. And then of course when
Speaker 3: you find you know, people like like you two. I
Speaker 3: mean I just I just remember we got to the
Speaker 3: place where we would I would just literally look at you, Jody.
Speaker 3: We didn't have a word and we knew exactly what
Speaker 3: was happening.
Speaker 2: Mind readers.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, oh yeah it was Yeah. I would just
Speaker 5: look at you and me like, no word, no, no, we.
Speaker 4: Just knew each other that well.
Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, yeah, that's so funny, so.
Speaker 3: Great that, I mean, those are the best kind of moments.
Speaker 5: We got to, like you said, we got to play
Speaker 5: on that show, and I.
Speaker 4: Think we were all so just game for whatever, you.
Speaker 3: Know what I mean.
Speaker 4: It was like and they knew that, so they were like,
Speaker 4: let's see what we can do.
Speaker 5: But we were all just like, Okay, I'll throw myself
Speaker 5: into this like and go for it.
Speaker 4: And it was hilarious.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And to your point of of like going from
Speaker 3: something serious to this, it was exactly exactly feeling like, Okay,
Speaker 3: you come in with these tools and you are this
Speaker 3: kind of person and then the writers are using what
Speaker 3: you have. The moment Jeff realized that I could sing,
Speaker 3: then he started putting making me sing all the time.
Speaker 3: And then yeah, and he did that, and then everything
Speaker 3: that Andrea and I were like it was basically showcasing
Speaker 3: our best bits for sure. Of course we played along
Speaker 3: with it and and we I don't know, it is
Speaker 3: kind of freaky how much chemistry you and I have
Speaker 3: in this weird type of you know, relationship. But but
Speaker 3: you do you feel like you feel like think someone
Speaker 3: is making your suit every week. You know, it's like
Speaker 3: it's like made for you. You know, this is okay. I
Speaker 3: know that they can do this and this and this
Speaker 3: and and and then they build on that.
Speaker 4: Mm hmm.
Speaker 3: So I don't know, it's a wonderful it's a wonderful genre.
Speaker 3: I think. Is they the writers get to know you
Speaker 3: and isn't you They get to give you more of
Speaker 3: that thing that they see.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's very different than than a film where
Speaker 4: usually the writer isn't really even on set sometimes you know,
Speaker 4: a lot of times it's they write it and then
Speaker 4: hand it.
Speaker 5: Off to you know, directors whoever. But it Yeah, sitcoms,
Speaker 5: especially if you're doing them for more than one season,
Speaker 5: like it does you get to know each other so
Speaker 5: well that they're like, oh this, I saw her do this,
Speaker 5: or I heard this happened, or I wouldn't like, let's
Speaker 5: throw that in. And it's such a like personalized experience
Speaker 5: more so than any other type of show I think.
Speaker 3: I don't think there's anything like it. Yeah, because a
Speaker 3: play has already been written, a movie's already been written.
Speaker 3: Usually a show is quite you know that.
Speaker 5: A single cam show is like, you know, it's you're
Speaker 5: not just playing around, you know, it's not theater in
Speaker 5: that way, like you can make edits and changes, but
Speaker 5: it's not, Yeah, it's it.
Speaker 4: They're not.
Speaker 5: It's you are being the character. They're not worrying about
Speaker 5: the character being you, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: So, because there's a like a thermometer of laughs when
Speaker 3: something's funny and thing's not, then that's what kind of
Speaker 3: makes makes the writers and the creators kind of go, oh,
Speaker 3: let's go that way because that was funny.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, lean into that.
Speaker 5: And there's nothing better than being able to. I mean,
Speaker 5: I love performing in front of a live audience. It's
Speaker 5: so much fun. It's mildly terrifying every time you do it.
Speaker 5: Every time you're like, I don't I don't remember any
Speaker 5: of my lines.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 5: Yeah, like you walk up for intro and then you're like,
Speaker 5: oh no, these people came to see a show and
Speaker 5: I don't remember any of it.
Speaker 4: Where can I yeah, exactly, where can I have my script?
Speaker 4: But it's like it is, it's just such a fun
Speaker 4: experience to get to do that sort of hybrid theater
Speaker 4: TV thing every week.
Speaker 3: Yeah, thanks to Lucy and Ricky.
Speaker 5: I mean, first of all, I was gonna bring up
Speaker 5: the Lucy and Ricky moment too.
Speaker 3: Because.
Speaker 5: Chef's kiss absolutely mind blowingly perfect. I mean uh no.
Speaker 4: No, no, Like we were backstage and everyone was like,
Speaker 4: oh my god, they're brilliant.
Speaker 3: It's them.
Speaker 5: It's Ricky like it.
Speaker 3: When I saw Henry addressed like that, I'm like, oh, oh,
Speaker 3: she looks like.
Speaker 5: She oh no, she yes, yeah those are and yeah
Speaker 5: the big eyes and the square active face and yeah,
Speaker 5: you have a like she had like that face that
Speaker 5: just like kind of like rubbery almost face.
Speaker 4: You know that would like make the most ridiculous.
Speaker 5: Expression and you can do that and it's brilliantly.
Speaker 1: We joked that we were gonna dress in those costumes.
Speaker 1: And walk down what Hollywood Boulevard like, ask for to do.
Speaker 3: Over pictures a blot.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you could have done now, you know, but it's
Speaker 5: it's rough.
Speaker 4: Out there you're doing now. I'm just saying, just get
Speaker 4: those costumes back, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: That's it again, your bongos? Right?
Speaker 3: Oh god?
Speaker 1: Yes, Well, I was gonna ask, do you have a
Speaker 1: favorite Kimmian Fernando moment or scene? I mean maybe it's
Speaker 1: this one, the Lucy and Ricky one, but do you
Speaker 1: have any other favorite scenes?
Speaker 3: I have so many, Like the does have too many?
Speaker 3: I have too many many.
Speaker 1: I love when you proposed to me with the falcon,
Speaker 1: Oh my bird's falcon.
Speaker 3: That was not the same time. Did you officiate, Judy.
Speaker 1: No, Jody ended up taking over for you because you
Speaker 1: Fernando was too emotional.
Speaker 5: That's right, and said so I said, that was the
Speaker 5: episode you and I kissed.
Speaker 4: Yes, I ended up killing it was.
Speaker 5: I had to step in for Fernando because you were
Speaker 5: falling apart.
Speaker 4: So I step in. I'm like, great, fine, I'll do it,
Speaker 4: and so.
Speaker 5: Then I have to like finish the proposal and then yeah,
Speaker 5: and then you just grabbed me and kiss me.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's for all three of us.
Speaker 1: You were you were singing and caressing me, and now
Speaker 1: there's gifts of that out and so oh gosh, yes,
Speaker 1: and people would tease Michael, my real life boyfriend. They
Speaker 1: would send him gifts of give me Fernando making out
Speaker 1: or yes, serenading me.
Speaker 3: God, yes, so funny. Yeah, I was not welcome. Funny.
Speaker 4: Oh god, that was Michael loved you.
Speaker 2: It was just a funny. It was just a funny
Speaker 2: because we did have such great chemistry. And that's all
Speaker 2: people think about Michael's like, don't.
Speaker 5: There's gifts of you, damn it, send them to everyone,
Speaker 5: you know what I mean, Like, that's just yeah, you
Speaker 5: got to send it.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, I mean yeah.
Speaker 3: There's so many moments I don't know. Yeah, I guess,
Speaker 3: I guess. Uh, Like like the that Lucy and Rickie
Speaker 3: was massive because I find I feel oh oh no, no,
Speaker 3: wait wait wait wait wait the dance competition, the dance competition. Yeah.
Speaker 3: The first one, episode three with with uh ah uh
Speaker 3: a singer. Okay, Oh, Macy Gray, Masy Gray.
Speaker 5: I have to pause for Oh Holly is stuck in
Speaker 5: the corner again, her poor dog.
Speaker 4: Oh Holly, Holly is eighteen and a half years old.
Speaker 3: Wow, Hollie is blind.
Speaker 5: Deaf and requires an I V every day, so she
Speaker 5: sometimes will get stuck.
Speaker 4: In a corner because.
Speaker 5: She does how to get yeah, so sometimes Andrea has
Speaker 5: to go rescue her.
Speaker 4: I don't know, this sounds different. Was it was Holly?
Speaker 1: Oh, she never had the I'm so sorry he was
Speaker 1: crying in the corner again, I'm so sorry about that.
Speaker 2: It was Bruno Bruno from Dancing with the Stars.
Speaker 4: Dancing with the Stars.
Speaker 3: Before Bruno was with Macy. Gray was Gray.
Speaker 4: It was with Macy and and and val and Max.
Speaker 5: And yes, run into valet the gym every once in
Speaker 5: a while, you really, yeah, I do. But yeah that
Speaker 5: oh my god, that show the dance competition, And this
Speaker 5: is when you and I had like the thing because.
Speaker 3: You were angry girl was coming and then right.
Speaker 5: Right you turned somebody else to the spot and the yeah.
Speaker 2: Yep, yeah, super friend.
Speaker 1: We were we were enemies at that point, and you
Speaker 1: were trying to woo me with your your sexy dancing
Speaker 1: and I just was trying to resist and trying to resist,
Speaker 1: but then I just fell for it and was like,
Speaker 1: oh so bad.
Speaker 3: We had that beautiful dance you and I together, which
Speaker 3: was lovely. You remember you were all about the dipic
Speaker 3: and what.
Speaker 2: Oh I love Are you kidding me?
Speaker 3: It was like a dream come true thing.
Speaker 2: It was a thing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, she was like you dipped me.
Speaker 2: Yes, that was rat.
Speaker 4: In the lift.
Speaker 2: We had to do it.
Speaker 3: Oh No, that was what I was.
Speaker 1: That's right, it was it was me and can't. I
Speaker 1: mean Canda started dancing right and I didn't with vowel.
Speaker 4: That's right. Those I hate those lifts.
Speaker 3: They're terrifying, tons of tons of scenes switching you uh
Speaker 3: and me and Ramona. I found like those were fun too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she talk about a star. She is such a star.
Speaker 1: I love her so much.
Speaker 4: I just went to lunch with her like two weeks
Speaker 4: ago and Sony Yeah.
Speaker 1: To JP, I ditched you guys on that one for you.
Speaker 1: You just saw her a couple of weeks ago too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, she's so she's so put together. I mean she
Speaker 3: was already put together, like yeah, she.
Speaker 4: Was like more mature than any of us for sure.
Speaker 3: That way. But but yeah, I know she always she
Speaker 3: looks like she's a woman, right, I know.
Speaker 5: I know she comes to my comedy shows and she's
Speaker 5: like having a cocktail and I'm like, yeah, no, it's crazy.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Oh so proud of her. She's really really she's
Speaker 1: a gem and I love her.
Speaker 4: Now, speaking of Pride, we need to get to your movie.
Speaker 1: Before we forget. Let's get to before we forget. Let's
Speaker 1: forget to before we forget. Yeah, oh JB.
Speaker 4: This movie was so good, like here talking about it,
Speaker 4: really really, I sometimes I've told so many people.
Speaker 5: Cause you never know what to expect when you're like going,
Speaker 5: you know what I mean, You're like, it's an independent film,
Speaker 5: like let's see what happens, and you know, and I
Speaker 5: had no doubt that you were going to be amazing.
Speaker 5: But the entire just everyone, every the casting you did
Speaker 5: an amazing.
Speaker 4: Job, like a who was blown away. Well, thank you
Speaker 4: fan Ritos for joining us for part one of this
Speaker 4: incredible interview with JP. So make sure you tune in
Speaker 4: to part two this Friday, uh.
Speaker 5: Because we have even more incredible conversations coming up with him.
Speaker 4: So thank you guys for listening.
Speaker 5: If you want to find us on Instagram, you can
Speaker 5: find us at how Rude podcast, or you can email
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Speaker 5: Check out our merch store howarudemerch dot com and then
Speaker 5: we will see you guys next time. But remember, everybody,
Speaker 5: the world is small, but the house is full of cats, sets, sets.
Speaker 2: Cats, dancing cat and singing cats.
Speaker 5: You know what, at least they at least they they're
Speaker 5: not the weird CGI cats from the movie.
Speaker 4: I'll take a person dressed as a cat all day long.
Speaker 2: The stage show is one thousand better