WEBVTT - Some Time With... Juan Pablo Di Pace! (Part 1) 0:00:19.280 --> 0:00:21.840 Hey, fan Ritos, and welcome back to an all new 0:00:21.880 --> 0:00:23.840 episode of How Rude Tan Ritos. 0:00:24.320 --> 0:00:26.160 Today's guest is a real treat. 0:00:26.560 --> 0:00:30.120 You know him as Kimmi Gibbler's hot and hilarious on 0:00:30.240 --> 0:00:34.280 and off again husband, Fernando Hernandez Guerrero Fernandez Guerrero. 0:00:35.159 --> 0:00:36.880 We know him as JP, our. 0:00:36.760 --> 0:00:40.599 Wildly talented, big hearted friend with big dreams, and one 0:00:40.640 --> 0:00:44.400 of those dreams recently came true. Juan Pablo de Pace 0:00:44.760 --> 0:00:47.680 is here to talk about his stunning new film Before 0:00:47.720 --> 0:00:53.000 We Forget, a raw, beautiful, emotionally charged story about unrequited 0:00:53.159 --> 0:00:57.240 first love. This film is deeply personal for JP, drawn 0:00:57.280 --> 0:01:01.400 from his memories of a particularly meaningful time during his adolescence. 0:01:02.040 --> 0:01:04.280 It is a beautiful film that Jody and I had 0:01:04.280 --> 0:01:06.399 the privilege of watching a few weeks ago at the 0:01:06.560 --> 0:01:09.920 LA screening, and we are so proud of him. We 0:01:09.959 --> 0:01:13.720 can't wait to talk about filmmaking Fernando and Fuller House. 0:01:14.280 --> 0:01:17.920 So Fannertos, help us give a warm welcome to Mia Moor. 0:01:18.480 --> 0:01:20.199 Juan Pablo de Pache. 0:01:19.800 --> 0:01:21.440 Can you hear me? Okay, Yeah, let's do it. 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:25.120 I've been looking forward to this for so long. Yeah, yeah, 0:01:25.120 --> 0:01:27.000 it's just to get to talk to you and catch 0:01:27.120 --> 0:01:29.959 up and share your beautiful film with the world. 0:01:30.040 --> 0:01:32.200 It's oh, oh great, so great. 0:01:32.360 --> 0:01:35.200 We were we just like before you hopped on the zoom, 0:01:35.200 --> 0:01:37.679 we were just having like a like a ten minute love. 0:01:37.560 --> 0:01:39.959 Fest about it, about just how beautiful. 0:01:39.480 --> 0:01:42.680 It was and how proud we were, and like just 0:01:42.840 --> 0:01:44.720 how we're like, oh my god, it's gonna win a 0:01:44.760 --> 0:01:46.520 boards and is that like we just yeah, it was. 0:01:46.760 --> 0:01:48.440 We're just very proud of you. So we're excited to 0:01:48.480 --> 0:01:50.720 have you on to talk about it. And also because 0:01:50.760 --> 0:01:55.320 you are just an amazing part of the full Fuller 0:01:55.640 --> 0:01:59.400 family now, like you're like you're in Sorry, it's it's forever. 0:02:00.160 --> 0:02:00.840 Never let you go. 0:02:01.040 --> 0:02:04.280 You can never be the annoying family members that you're like, 0:02:04.360 --> 0:02:06.080 oh no then again, yeah no. 0:02:07.920 --> 0:02:10.800 You're off directing in other countries and we're just like, 0:02:11.080 --> 0:02:12.800 come back for a full house barbecue. 0:02:13.080 --> 0:02:15.640 Yes, thank you. I mean, I don't know what to say. 0:02:15.720 --> 0:02:20.720 I'm speechless. I'm the one who's uh, just lucky and 0:02:20.800 --> 0:02:25.200 also I don't know, just just very very very honored 0:02:25.240 --> 0:02:27.359 to have I didn't even know what I was walking 0:02:27.360 --> 0:02:29.280 into and all of a sudden I was part of this. Yeah, 0:02:29.440 --> 0:02:34.720 this this really kind of I don't know, a very 0:02:34.760 --> 0:02:38.840 special family that that we we all thought, oh, you 0:02:38.840 --> 0:02:41.120 know this, this might be just one year and whatever, 0:02:41.160 --> 0:02:43.400 and then it just we didn't know five years of 0:02:43.440 --> 0:02:44.880 our lives, which is crazy. 0:02:45.240 --> 0:02:47.000 Yeah, so great. 0:02:46.919 --> 0:02:49.480 So great, Well we will, we'll get to fuller house. 0:02:49.600 --> 0:02:51.520 But let's let's go. 0:02:51.520 --> 0:02:53.640 Back and start with your origin story first. 0:02:53.480 --> 0:02:56.520 Because I don't know if I even know this what 0:02:56.600 --> 0:03:00.280 age you started acting. I know you're from Argentina's so 0:03:00.680 --> 0:03:03.600 did you move to the US to become an actor 0:03:03.880 --> 0:03:06.800 or tell us everything about how you started in this business. 0:03:07.000 --> 0:03:09.280 Really feel like, if I remember right, you went from 0:03:09.320 --> 0:03:13.200 like Argentina sort of through Europe around and then kind 0:03:13.200 --> 0:03:14.000 of to the States. 0:03:14.280 --> 0:03:18.960 Yeah. Well okay, so it all it's really confusing. 0:03:19.160 --> 0:03:21.160 We do confusing well on this show. So it's fine, 0:03:21.280 --> 0:03:22.519 go for it. Yeah, it's our brand. 0:03:24.000 --> 0:03:26.760 Yeah. Obviously I was born in Argentina to an Italian 0:03:26.800 --> 0:03:35.880 dad Argentinian mom, and around twelve thirteen, I said to 0:03:35.920 --> 0:03:40.160 my mom, I really want to study in Europe and 0:03:40.240 --> 0:03:42.960 my mom said, absolutely, no way, You're going to study 0:03:43.000 --> 0:03:48.880 in Europe when you're twenty. You know, and life have, 0:03:49.080 --> 0:03:54.080 you know, things happen strange ways. One day I'm going 0:03:54.120 --> 0:03:57.480 to school and I see this little paper that says, 0:03:57.480 --> 0:04:00.800 would you like to finish high school in Italy in 0:04:00.880 --> 0:04:05.560 English for two years? And so I, without telling my parents, 0:04:05.560 --> 0:04:08.360 I actually applied to this thing. And it was basically 0:04:08.440 --> 0:04:13.520 a scholarship to finish school in Italy in this bizarre 0:04:14.400 --> 0:04:18.599 place called the United World College in a remote town. 0:04:18.960 --> 0:04:22.760 And I do this test, I get in and then 0:04:22.800 --> 0:04:24.720 my and then I tell my parents, oh, I got 0:04:24.720 --> 0:04:29.520 a scholarship to finish high school in Italy. And they 0:04:29.520 --> 0:04:34.160 were both like in shock, but also well, you can't 0:04:34.160 --> 0:04:37.520 say no. I mean it was anssive opportunity. This is 0:04:37.560 --> 0:04:41.760 called the United World College, And yeah, I kind of 0:04:41.800 --> 0:04:45.400 went there from Argentina to Italy to finish high school 0:04:45.400 --> 0:04:48.279 in this beautiful place that we can talk about later 0:04:48.279 --> 0:04:50.960 because this part of the film yeah yeah, oh yeah, 0:04:51.000 --> 0:04:54.120 but it was kind of like a Hogwarts nation, you know, 0:04:54.279 --> 0:05:00.400 students from world two hundred students and you're literally finishing 0:05:00.400 --> 0:05:02.920 a high school. It's nothing more than that, but it's 0:05:02.960 --> 0:05:06.440 pretty spectacular because obviously you leave everything behind at like 0:05:06.839 --> 0:05:10.560 fifteen years old, sixteen, you can't you know, when you 0:05:10.680 --> 0:05:12.760 have a crisis, you don't have mom to hug you 0:05:12.760 --> 0:05:16.720 you know you really, but also these kids become your family. 0:05:16.920 --> 0:05:19.800 Yeah, travels. I mean I always tell my kids. 0:05:19.800 --> 0:05:22.599 I've sent them on school trips to Japan and to Europe, 0:05:22.640 --> 0:05:25.600 and I'm like, travel, go find out that you can 0:05:25.640 --> 0:05:28.719 do stuff by yourself. I mean they're not by themselves, 0:05:28.800 --> 0:05:31.120 but still, like, you know, it's so I just it's 0:05:31.160 --> 0:05:33.679 so important. Yeah, God, I wish I could have finished 0:05:33.720 --> 0:05:34.599 high school in Italy. 0:05:35.040 --> 0:05:37.599 Wow. Yeah, it's amazing, pretty lucky. 0:05:37.839 --> 0:05:40.560 Yeah, were they all the same age around this, fifteen 0:05:40.600 --> 0:05:43.800 and sixteen? Because it's called college, which to me means. 0:05:43.640 --> 0:05:46.320 A college in Europe though, is like high school, isn't 0:05:46.360 --> 0:05:49.320 it sort it's just a university is more like what 0:05:49.360 --> 0:05:51.440 they call our version of college. 0:05:51.480 --> 0:05:53.679 It should be called high school. But yeah, it's it's 0:05:53.720 --> 0:05:58.919 it's really that. It's that age where everyone just before finishing. 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:01.120 I don't know how in America. 0:06:00.760 --> 0:06:03.640 It is the last two year junior senior year probably would. 0:06:03.440 --> 0:06:08.400 Be yeah exactly. So that's what it is. And that 0:06:08.480 --> 0:06:11.120 place kind of gave me the wings really because I 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:16.839 before going there, I wasn't really a performer. Before going there, 0:06:17.800 --> 0:06:19.520 I thought I was going to be a Disney animator. 0:06:19.600 --> 0:06:20.240 That was my thing. 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:25.280 Like, I really, Yeah, my mom's an artist, right, yea, 0:06:25.400 --> 0:06:27.440 your mom's a really talented artist artist. 0:06:27.720 --> 0:06:29.360 And I grew up with that. I grew up with 0:06:29.600 --> 0:06:31.960 a lady who could draw and sculpt and things and 0:06:32.160 --> 0:06:34.400 and I kind of loved all that, and I loved 0:06:34.480 --> 0:06:39.520 being by myself. But somehow going to the college opened 0:06:39.560 --> 0:06:41.600 me up, and all of a sudden, I went from 0:06:41.680 --> 0:06:45.119 being like the shy kid at school to the one 0:06:45.160 --> 0:06:48.159 who would be performing and doing dances and doing you know, 0:06:49.400 --> 0:06:53.200 theater stuff. And so yeah, it was there that I 0:06:53.320 --> 0:06:57.440 kind of discovered, oh, I really like being on stage. 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:02.640 So yeah, that's really how how in my mind it 0:07:02.760 --> 0:07:07.000 was really planted because I don't know why, but I 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:09.039 went up to the headmaster's office and I said, I 0:07:09.080 --> 0:07:13.640 would I think college should have its first music ever music, 0:07:14.720 --> 0:07:19.880 And he goes, okay, with one condition, you put it together, 0:07:20.080 --> 0:07:22.920 you directed, and I don't want to know about it. 0:07:23.000 --> 0:07:26.040 Just go and here's some money to produce. And all 0:07:26.080 --> 0:07:28.520 of a sudden, I had this power to put on 0:07:28.560 --> 0:07:31.480 a show. I had never done that in my life, 0:07:31.680 --> 0:07:35.080 and so we did. So I learned by doing by. 0:07:35.160 --> 0:07:39.760 What a gift though from that head master of confidence 0:07:39.800 --> 0:07:42.080 in a young person to go, you know what, you 0:07:42.160 --> 0:07:45.040 can do this? You go do it, figure it out. 0:07:45.120 --> 0:07:47.880 You're gonna make it. You guys, do it Like that's 0:07:48.040 --> 0:07:50.360 so improdive. It was incredible. 0:07:50.880 --> 0:07:54.680 Yeah, it really, Like to this day, I go, what 0:07:55.480 --> 0:07:59.160 on earth you know was he thinking giving this kid? 0:07:59.200 --> 0:08:02.600 I mean, surely I don't know why, but anyway, it 0:08:03.240 --> 0:08:05.760 just happened that way, and it sort of gave me 0:08:05.840 --> 0:08:09.680 this responsibility of going, Okay, so what do I do? 0:08:10.200 --> 0:08:12.320 And so I had to learn to cast, I had 0:08:12.320 --> 0:08:14.560 to learn to direct, I had to learn to act 0:08:14.600 --> 0:08:17.960 because I was also playing Danny. This was Grease. It 0:08:18.040 --> 0:08:22.080 was gre Yes, I'm like directing it playing Danny's rouco 0:08:22.360 --> 0:08:27.400 like dealing with the details and the costumes and sonya. 0:08:27.480 --> 0:08:29.480 You could say that that college really gave me the 0:08:29.480 --> 0:08:33.080 beginning of then what I think now is my life, 0:08:33.080 --> 0:08:35.480 which is a bit of a jack of all trades. 0:08:35.520 --> 0:08:39.680 And I like a lovely pressure and I can sing, 0:08:39.679 --> 0:08:41.360 I can dense, and can draw and direct. 0:08:41.480 --> 0:08:44.079 You know, Yeah, you're kind of like a renaissance man. 0:08:44.120 --> 0:08:46.520 And I always like, I just have such admiration for 0:08:46.600 --> 0:08:49.160 all and you speak like seven languages. 0:08:48.720 --> 0:08:49.920 You're just just three. 0:08:50.640 --> 0:08:53.760 Well only the only direction it feels like seven to me, 0:08:54.200 --> 0:08:58.040 I speak one. No, I just it's I just love you. 0:08:58.200 --> 0:09:00.440 But yeah, like, what a what a beautiful gift. And 0:09:00.480 --> 0:09:03.680 I'm so glad that you saw that little piece of 0:09:03.679 --> 0:09:08.560 paper and decided to take a chance, like life changing 0:09:08.559 --> 0:09:10.800 moments that we never know about. 0:09:11.200 --> 0:09:14.320 How brave of you to do this at such a 0:09:14.360 --> 0:09:17.960 young age. And then you found yourself over there, like 0:09:18.000 --> 0:09:20.319 what a great story. This is a great origin story. 0:09:20.360 --> 0:09:20.960 I love this. 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:23.600 Yeah, and then you went, didn't you after? 0:09:23.720 --> 0:09:25.080 What did you do after. 0:09:26.640 --> 0:09:27.520 You finished there? 0:09:27.880 --> 0:09:28.040 Yeah? 0:09:28.160 --> 0:09:31.440 So so that was really it was not an art school, 0:09:31.520 --> 0:09:35.440 it was high school. Yeah. Well, once discover oh I 0:09:35.559 --> 0:09:38.480 like this too much, and the whole Disney dream just 0:09:38.559 --> 0:09:40.839 kind of died in my head. I was like, no, no, no, 0:09:40.880 --> 0:09:45.760 I want to do this thing. I I thought to myself, Okay, 0:09:45.840 --> 0:09:48.840 where where do I go? Where is the center of this? 0:09:49.000 --> 0:09:52.520 Where's the center of theater? And it was either New York, 0:09:52.679 --> 0:09:56.520 which seemed very far, or London. Yeah, and then it 0:09:56.520 --> 0:09:58.360 has the West End and Shakespeare and all I. 0:09:58.320 --> 0:10:01.680 Was going to say, like theater, theater, definitely London. 0:10:01.800 --> 0:10:02.199 Yeah. 0:10:02.360 --> 0:10:06.800 Yeah, So I just it was nearing the end of 0:10:06.840 --> 0:10:09.600 this high school thing and I started auditioning, and I 0:10:09.640 --> 0:10:13.920 actually did one trip to London and I auditioned for 0:10:14.000 --> 0:10:18.480 three acting schools and I got a scholarship into one, 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:22.200 and I was so excited to go. So I go 0:10:22.240 --> 0:10:26.240 back to Argentina to finish, like all my stuff, buy 0:10:26.320 --> 0:10:29.520 mom and dad, go to London with all my family savings, 0:10:30.520 --> 0:10:33.439 and I get a job at a place it's sort 0:10:33.440 --> 0:10:36.080 of like a home for people with learning difficulties during 0:10:36.120 --> 0:10:38.280 the evening so during the day I can do the course. 0:10:38.720 --> 0:10:42.640 So I had it all planned and it's like two 0:10:42.640 --> 0:10:45.280 weeks before the start of course, and I go to 0:10:45.320 --> 0:10:50.000 the office and I sit down next to the woman 0:10:50.080 --> 0:10:51.680 and she's like, okay, well, this is the end of 0:10:51.720 --> 0:10:54.640 your paperwork. How would you like to make your payment? 0:10:56.720 --> 0:11:01.680 And I go for what the course? No, no, no, I 0:11:01.720 --> 0:11:06.240 have a scholarship. You gave me a scholarship. And she 0:11:06.320 --> 0:11:09.280 starts looking in the computer and there's no scholarship. Oh no, 0:11:10.080 --> 0:11:11.640 And she's like, I'm sorry, I don't know who told 0:11:11.679 --> 0:11:16.880 you have a scholarship. And I've traveled all this way, nobody, 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:19.160 like my only friends, other people in the home for 0:11:20.320 --> 0:11:24.040 You're like, oh my god, oh no, And she's like, no, 0:11:24.080 --> 0:11:26.600 I must have been a mistake. I don't know what happened, 0:11:26.720 --> 0:11:28.839 and I didn't even I don't know if I haven't 0:11:28.960 --> 0:11:31.360 had a letter, I had a phone call. I don't 0:11:31.840 --> 0:11:32.960 at that point what did I have? 0:11:33.040 --> 0:11:33.760 Was it an email? 0:11:33.920 --> 0:11:34.240 Was it. 0:11:37.160 --> 0:11:37.600 So long ago? 0:11:39.360 --> 0:11:44.520 And so she's like, well, it's gonna be thirty thousand 0:11:44.640 --> 0:11:48.800 pounds here if you want, we can keep your space 0:11:49.120 --> 0:11:51.160 for when you're able to pay it. But you don't 0:11:51.200 --> 0:11:54.080 have a scholarship. So yeah, so that kind of like 0:11:54.360 --> 0:11:58.920 I was like this and like that, and I called 0:11:59.000 --> 0:12:02.400 every single acting school to see for scholarships or whatever. 0:12:02.679 --> 0:12:05.360 No one had anything. I was dejected. I was going 0:12:05.440 --> 0:12:07.480 to go back to Argentina. How was all in my 0:12:07.559 --> 0:12:09.720 mom to say, I think I need a I need 0:12:09.720 --> 0:12:14.959 a trip back, and but I didn't. Walking down the 0:12:15.000 --> 0:12:19.840 street in London and I see this big, massive billboard 0:12:20.400 --> 0:12:26.320 that says cuts the music. I go, well, I like musicals, 0:12:26.520 --> 0:12:30.720 and I feel like crap. And so I go to 0:12:30.760 --> 0:12:32.920 the box office and I said, do you have a 0:12:33.040 --> 0:12:36.160 do you have a ticket? Yes? And I only had 0:12:36.200 --> 0:12:38.840 fifty pounds in my pocket because that's the only thing 0:12:38.880 --> 0:12:43.400 that the home gave me to eat. Okay, that's it. 0:12:43.920 --> 0:12:46.559 And so the lady goes, yeah, it's fifty pounds front row. 0:12:47.080 --> 0:12:51.959 Oh okay, And I'm like fine, I'm just so depressed 0:12:52.000 --> 0:12:54.200 that I'm like what, Like, what does it matter anyway? 0:12:54.200 --> 0:12:56.960 Who cares say that one of those lost? 0:12:57.880 --> 0:12:59.600 It's kind of when you get to that point, like 0:12:59.679 --> 0:13:01.920 it's a very freeing point in a weird. 0:13:01.720 --> 0:13:04.520 Way where you're like, listen, sure, who cares? You know what? 0:13:04.600 --> 0:13:08.319 I don't read my last fifty pounds? Yeah, so take it, 0:13:08.360 --> 0:13:11.559 take it. I sit in the front row. The lights 0:13:11.600 --> 0:13:18.199 go down, and then all of these cats starting. 0:13:16.559 --> 0:13:20.000 About right right as as cats is about. 0:13:20.440 --> 0:13:22.480 I can't tell I can't believe I'm telling you this story. 0:13:22.679 --> 0:13:27.200 But anyways, all the cats start dancing and like they're amazing, 0:13:27.280 --> 0:13:29.040 and you know, I don't know if you remember, but 0:13:29.080 --> 0:13:31.560 the original version of cats basically they come up to 0:13:31.600 --> 0:13:33.560 you and yeah, yeah. 0:13:33.440 --> 0:13:35.839 Yeah, they definitely did. Was they There was a lot 0:13:35.840 --> 0:13:38.240 of more audience. Well I think it's still I haven't 0:13:38.240 --> 0:13:40.840 seen it live, but yeah, I remember very much. 0:13:40.960 --> 0:13:44.000 Like that was the thing, right, they came to people 0:13:44.000 --> 0:13:46.160 and they started dancing to people. Anyway, I thought I 0:13:46.200 --> 0:13:48.120 was the only person in the audience, like I had 0:13:48.160 --> 0:13:51.160 all these cats like dancing with I was. I was 0:13:51.240 --> 0:13:54.840 like aroused. I was honest, I was like all of 0:13:54.840 --> 0:13:59.160 the things. And so the show finishes and I'm just 0:13:59.240 --> 0:14:01.600 in seven Heaven and I go and I check where 0:14:01.679 --> 0:14:04.079 these cats come from, Like where what they study? 0:14:04.400 --> 0:14:04.559 Right? 0:14:04.640 --> 0:14:04.840 Right? 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:05.160 Yeah? 0:14:05.200 --> 0:14:07.600 Where are these cats? Yeah? Where did you get these cats? 0:14:08.640 --> 0:14:12.280 And so the course that I had the scholarship was acting. 0:14:13.000 --> 0:14:15.199 But then I realized this is more of a dance 0:14:15.520 --> 0:14:18.840 musical kind of thing. And so I call and they 0:14:18.920 --> 0:14:21.080 all come from London Studio Center. And so I call 0:14:21.160 --> 0:14:23.840 London Studio Center and they say, yeah, yeah, we're we're 0:14:23.840 --> 0:14:28.160 looking for boys, and tomorrow we have auditions. And so 0:14:28.360 --> 0:14:31.720 I go to tomorrow to the auditions and I had 0:14:31.760 --> 0:14:34.720 never taken a dance class in my life, and I 0:14:34.720 --> 0:14:37.080 had to do ballet, jazz, tap, contemporary. I call it 0:14:37.160 --> 0:14:40.200 ithn And at the end of the day they call 0:14:40.280 --> 0:14:42.440 me to the office and they go, well, we want 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:44.160 to take a chance on you because you have that 0:14:45.040 --> 0:14:46.240 desperation going on. 0:14:46.160 --> 0:14:46.720 That we like. 0:14:50.400 --> 0:14:50.920 Or skill. 0:14:51.120 --> 0:14:55.240 I'm skill and so yeah, they did give me a scholarship, 0:14:55.240 --> 0:14:58.560 and I stayed in London as a dancer, wanting to 0:14:58.600 --> 0:14:59.240 be a cat. 0:15:02.960 --> 0:15:05.400 Right, So when people ask you how your career started. 0:15:05.400 --> 0:15:07.080 You go, well, I really just wanted to be a 0:15:07.080 --> 0:15:10.280 cat and then a dancing cat. Yeah. 0:15:10.560 --> 0:15:14.320 Yeah, so yeah, and that's really the beginning of everything 0:15:14.320 --> 0:15:18.200 because after that there's three years of ballet contemporary and 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:21.600 jazz and singing and acting and so it was the 0:15:22.600 --> 0:15:23.640 triple threat school. 0:15:23.680 --> 0:15:26.240 You could, Yeah, you kind of found where you were 0:15:26.280 --> 0:15:26.960 supposed to be. 0:15:27.680 --> 0:15:30.360 Yeah, but from accidents, you know, like, well. 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:32.520 That's always how it is, right, You're like everything you 0:15:32.600 --> 0:15:33.560 sort of fall into something. 0:15:33.560 --> 0:15:37.240 You go, oh, oh, you know came together. 0:15:46.000 --> 0:15:49.240 What a beautiful story though, Like that's such an adventure 0:15:49.440 --> 0:15:56.560 and such a testament to your like driven personality and 0:15:56.600 --> 0:15:58.960 your sense of like I'm just going to do it. 0:15:59.320 --> 0:16:00.840 Like I love that about You're like, I'm just going 0:16:00.880 --> 0:16:02.240 to take the chance and do it. I'm going to 0:16:02.440 --> 0:16:05.840 sign up for this school. I'm gonna ask if I 0:16:05.840 --> 0:16:08.840 can get into this school having never danced in my life. 0:16:08.880 --> 0:16:13.320 Like just that that takes balls, like it takes it 0:16:13.360 --> 0:16:16.040 takes a lot of courage and uh and I just 0:16:16.080 --> 0:16:19.200 admire that in you because how did all of us 0:16:19.280 --> 0:16:19.720 have that. 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:20.760 It's coming to trouble too? 0:16:21.920 --> 0:16:25.080 Well look, yeah. 0:16:24.760 --> 0:16:25.760 But that's not important. 0:16:25.800 --> 0:16:26.400 What's important. 0:16:26.440 --> 0:16:31.280 It's important right, right, the results we don't talk about, right, Yeah, exactly. 0:16:31.320 --> 0:16:33.240 Those were the other things. 0:16:33.880 --> 0:16:37.440 So what prompted you to move to the United States? 0:16:37.640 --> 0:16:41.720 When did that happen? Well, that happened many many years later, 0:16:41.760 --> 0:16:45.400 because London for me was the twenty All my twenties 0:16:45.480 --> 0:16:48.840 happened in London. So all all my being poor, living 0:16:48.880 --> 0:16:52.440 with rats, doing seven jobs at the same time, all 0:16:52.480 --> 0:16:56.680 of that happened in London. And it got to a 0:16:56.720 --> 0:16:59.480 point where it was really tiring for me to feel 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:03.160 like I wasn't advancing in in in acting because obviously, 0:17:03.240 --> 0:17:07.800 after after the school I started first one musical was Chicago, 0:17:07.840 --> 0:17:11.280 and that was like my one Okay, now I want 0:17:11.280 --> 0:17:13.960 to I want to try being the guy in the front, right, 0:17:15.280 --> 0:17:19.160 So then that's when the acting kind of really caught on. 0:17:19.280 --> 0:17:21.760 And but yeah, it was like seven years after the 0:17:21.840 --> 0:17:24.280 Color seven years of struggle and struggle and struggle and 0:17:24.560 --> 0:17:30.320 always playing like the waiter, you know, and the small, small, small, 0:17:30.440 --> 0:17:33.760 small parts, and so I was kind of getting tired, 0:17:34.080 --> 0:17:36.760 even though I did do my Moa Mia in the 0:17:36.920 --> 0:17:40.480 period with a big, big, big movie, but again I 0:17:40.560 --> 0:17:44.119 was just you know, a tiny, tiny part, and I 0:17:44.160 --> 0:17:45.879 just wanted to do what it was like to to 0:17:45.960 --> 0:17:51.639 kind of have lines, right, I want to speak right. 0:17:51.720 --> 0:17:53.159 You're like, I don't want to be a man in 0:17:53.200 --> 0:17:54.280 coffee shop number two. 0:17:56.160 --> 0:18:01.520 That's exactly. So this chance came to to to go 0:18:01.560 --> 0:18:06.240 to Spain and audition for another big musical project, which 0:18:06.320 --> 0:18:10.080 was Saturday Night Fever, and that was to play the 0:18:10.160 --> 0:18:13.840 lead to play Tony ONNY. Two really important moments in 0:18:13.840 --> 0:18:16.960 my love had to do with things that Travolta what 0:18:17.200 --> 0:18:21.840 God famous for. Oh yeah, I agree, Oh yeah, I 0:18:21.880 --> 0:18:23.719 got that. And then I moved to Spain and I 0:18:23.760 --> 0:18:26.600 became you know this guy and he was the most 0:18:26.680 --> 0:18:33.240 amazing university to have that amount of pressure every single 0:18:33.359 --> 0:18:36.760 night on my shoulders because if I had an off day, 0:18:37.560 --> 0:18:41.359 no old fellow, I had to like at this level 0:18:41.400 --> 0:18:43.320 every night. So that was a huge lesson. 0:18:43.720 --> 0:18:47.120 That's incredible. Yeah, theater actors, I'm always. 0:18:46.880 --> 0:18:48.040 Like, how do you do it? 0:18:48.200 --> 0:18:49.280 Like how every night? 0:18:49.320 --> 0:18:52.640 I mean it's such a like you know, you were 0:18:52.840 --> 0:18:54.760 asking Ben Platt that. I was like, how do you 0:18:54.920 --> 0:18:57.440 just lay it on the floor every night? 0:18:57.520 --> 0:18:58.280 It's so hard? 0:18:58.800 --> 0:19:01.400 But you don't have of a life outside of the show. 0:19:01.400 --> 0:19:03.480 You you sleep, you. 0:19:03.400 --> 0:19:05.880 Eat, you wake up, you go back to work. Yeah, 0:19:06.560 --> 0:19:08.760 so you love it. It's amazing, and it's. 0:19:08.400 --> 0:19:10.720 It was really, it was amazing. It was amazing because 0:19:10.720 --> 0:19:13.920 it just gave me all kinds of good stuff, like 0:19:14.800 --> 0:19:17.600 the joy of dancing and singing and acting every single 0:19:17.680 --> 0:19:21.600 night and entertaining people. And but also yeah, that that 0:19:21.960 --> 0:19:27.240 kind of responsibility, which I loved. Shed a responsible. So 0:19:27.240 --> 0:19:29.639 so yeah, after four years in Spain, I did little 0:19:29.680 --> 0:19:32.000 things and I thought, you know what, I'm in my thirties. 0:19:33.240 --> 0:19:36.880 I always always always wanted to go to La and 0:19:37.480 --> 0:19:42.360 try the Hollywood thing. Always since I was five. When 0:19:42.359 --> 0:19:43.919 I was five, I used to like stay up all 0:19:44.000 --> 0:19:47.400 night watching the Oscars with my grandma. I look at 0:19:47.400 --> 0:19:49.320 tinsel Town and you know, I looked at it, you 0:19:49.480 --> 0:19:50.160 girls like. 0:19:51.720 --> 0:19:55.480 You know, yeah, the outer image of Hollywood. 0:19:55.080 --> 0:19:57.679 The outer image of Hollywood, which is very very enticing. 0:19:58.560 --> 0:20:03.919 Yeah, and then you get to and you're like, we was, Oh, it's. 0:20:03.880 --> 0:20:05.240 Just a it's just a set. 0:20:05.520 --> 0:20:10.560 It's just set, and there's still a grind, Yeah, a set. 0:20:10.640 --> 0:20:11.560 And fallen dreams. 0:20:13.880 --> 0:20:16.440 Well those are whatever you get trip on, those are everywhere. 0:20:18.560 --> 0:20:21.520 Yeah. Anyway, yeah, that was it. I came here. I mean, 0:20:21.760 --> 0:20:23.639 I'm going to spare you how but I had a 0:20:23.680 --> 0:20:27.159 manager and she basically just just sent my my, my 0:20:27.760 --> 0:20:32.480 CV to every single casting agent and and it was 0:20:32.800 --> 0:20:35.480 too lucky. I was just too lucky because because I 0:20:35.560 --> 0:20:37.399 arrived on a Monday and on the Saturday, I was 0:20:37.440 --> 0:20:42.280 already cast in Dallas the show Dallas. Wow. So it's 0:20:42.440 --> 0:20:46.199 so lucky to start in Hollywood that way. But I 0:20:46.200 --> 0:20:48.720 could say, you know what I struggled for, like to say, 0:20:49.240 --> 0:20:50.400 you were lucky when you got here. 0:20:50.440 --> 0:20:51.920 But it's not like it just fell in. 0:20:51.880 --> 0:20:54.679 Your lap, like you you put in the work and 0:20:54.720 --> 0:20:55.920 the dudes it was time. 0:20:56.119 --> 0:20:57.879 It was just your time. You earned it. 0:20:59.040 --> 0:20:59.280 Yep. 0:20:59.600 --> 0:21:02.800 Yeah. So so anyway, that's how, that's how. And really 0:21:04.000 --> 0:21:08.760 I met you. You were my third job in the States. 0:21:09.160 --> 0:21:11.960 Really, Oh my gosh, that's wild. 0:21:12.480 --> 0:21:15.480 What what was your first thought when you got the 0:21:15.680 --> 0:21:18.520 call to audition for Fuller House? 0:21:18.640 --> 0:21:20.240 Did you know about Full House? 0:21:20.320 --> 0:21:21.480 Had you ever seen it? 0:21:21.680 --> 0:21:22.000 Did you? 0:21:22.160 --> 0:21:23.800 We were like, what is this sitcom? Right? 0:21:23.840 --> 0:21:26.520 What am I doing here? Gibbler? 0:21:26.640 --> 0:21:30.640 Yeah, yeah, I have to be honest, I wasn't that 0:21:31.000 --> 0:21:36.680 familiar with I knew the show. But third World country, 0:21:36.880 --> 0:21:41.240