WEBVTT - Episode 499 w/ John Leguizamo 0:00:11.800 --> 0:00:15.920 He is drink chess, motherfucking podcast man. He's a legends 0:00:15.920 --> 0:00:18.279 every queens rapper. He ain't agreed. That's your boy in 0:00:18.360 --> 0:00:21.639 O R E. He's a Miami hip pop pioneer, put up. 0:00:21.520 --> 0:00:22.680 As d J e f N. 0:00:22.840 --> 0:00:25.680 Together they drink it up with some of the biggest players, 0:00:25.680 --> 0:00:25.919 you know. 0:00:25.880 --> 0:00:26.239 What I mean. 0:00:26.320 --> 0:00:31.320 And the most professional, unprofessional podcast and your number one source. 0:00:31.040 --> 0:00:34.280 For drunk d chans mo postcavery Days, New Year c 0:00:34.600 --> 0:00:36.800 that's it's time for drink champs. 0:00:37.200 --> 0:00:45.559 Drink up mother? What good sho be? This your boy 0:00:45.600 --> 0:00:47.519 in O R E? What up is d J e 0:00:47.600 --> 0:00:55.400 f N. And this Miller tip crazy rope. And when 0:00:55.440 --> 0:00:57.160 I tell you we got a legend, legend, we got 0:00:57.200 --> 0:00:59.560 an icon. This man can do it all. Man. 0:00:59.680 --> 0:01:01.279 We're gon to give him his flowers, but to make 0:01:01.320 --> 0:01:03.120 sure that he understands how important he is to this 0:01:03.200 --> 0:01:05.319 coach and get it into it. 0:01:05.600 --> 0:01:08.720 He's a legend, legend. He for you. Many years I 0:01:08.760 --> 0:01:12.360 was scared of him. We're gonna get into it. You 0:01:12.360 --> 0:01:20.760 don't know what too, abue. No, I'm not gonna lie. 0:01:20.800 --> 0:01:22.720 Let me just get get that out the way. For 0:01:22.880 --> 0:01:24.880 years I was scared of Benny Blockole all that he 0:01:25.760 --> 0:01:27.480 creeps up on you and then. 0:01:28.440 --> 0:01:30.880 Like I didn't know that, like like I was like 0:01:31.040 --> 0:01:32.399 so young when I first saw that. 0:01:32.440 --> 0:01:33.720 I didn't know that was a character. 0:01:33.800 --> 0:01:36.880 Like I thought that was somebody sent you in another build. 0:01:36.880 --> 0:01:43.080 But I'm like, wait a minute, why bitty block? Ye possible? 0:01:43.680 --> 0:01:47.640 You must you were mad young, so you quee. That's 0:01:47.640 --> 0:01:50.040 another thing that even Queen Jackson Heights. 0:01:49.840 --> 0:01:58.360 Got Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, Okay he was seventy nine. 0:01:58.440 --> 0:02:01.440 Okay, so March for one year, be a Ford Catholic 0:02:01.480 --> 0:02:03.600 school Okay, okay, then Bertram the rest Okay. 0:02:03.760 --> 0:02:08.519 So no, they're from the Queens where I'm from. Like, 0:02:08.520 --> 0:02:14.440 like what I mean by that is uh. I recently 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:18.360 ran the Queensboro U and they called it Queens the 0:02:18.400 --> 0:02:22.720 world borough. Now I had never heard that expression already, 0:02:22.960 --> 0:02:26.040 but it is the world bor. Like I grew up, 0:02:26.639 --> 0:02:30.680 like my neighbor was Russian. Yeah yeah, I know I'm 0:02:30.680 --> 0:02:32.600 sad in naive. I know I'm sat the naive, right, 0:02:32.720 --> 0:02:35.200 But I grew up My neighbor was Russian. My downa 0:02:35.240 --> 0:02:38.480 blocked person was a Haitian. Up the block was a Colombian. 0:02:38.880 --> 0:02:41.200 You know what I mean? I know I'm sat in naive. 0:02:41.760 --> 0:02:45.760 I didn't understand racism until like I was an adult, 0:02:46.080 --> 0:02:51.160 because we all kind of lived. 0:02:48.440 --> 0:02:51.840 It's okay, Yes, So when I cut to Jackson Heights, 0:02:51.840 --> 0:02:54.600 we were the second Latin family on the block, and 0:02:54.639 --> 0:02:58.920 it was white flight was happening. You know, well you 0:02:58.919 --> 0:03:01.560 know before they left. It's trying to give me a beating, 0:03:01.720 --> 0:03:01.920 you know. 0:03:02.960 --> 0:03:04.520 And it was everybody was leaving. 0:03:04.560 --> 0:03:09.120 All the whites peoples were leaving, Irish, Italian, Jews, Germans, 0:03:09.160 --> 0:03:12.240 there were there were everybody was leaving. But I got 0:03:12.360 --> 0:03:16.120 beat up a lot. Yeah, so I saw racism matterly. 0:03:16.200 --> 0:03:18.000 And like when you when you're playing games with these 0:03:18.120 --> 0:03:20.280 when with the white kids and you beat them at something, 0:03:20.320 --> 0:03:23.120 all of a sudden you're a spick and that's like, 0:03:23.320 --> 0:03:26.200 you know, nine years old, I realized, oh I'm somebody, 0:03:26.240 --> 0:03:26.880 I'm other. 0:03:27.400 --> 0:03:30.480 I've seeing this other no matter what. Now your Puerto 0:03:30.560 --> 0:03:31.680 Rican and Columbia. 0:03:31.560 --> 0:03:36.280 Yah, that's right, okay, I got it mixed. 0:03:38.240 --> 0:03:40.160 I was reading where you said that you had to 0:03:40.200 --> 0:03:41.960 like study the Colombian accent. 0:03:42.080 --> 0:03:45.320 Yes, it did. Now for people who don't know, right, 0:03:46.600 --> 0:03:51.400 who has it come to Jackson Heighth schoo Corona, I'm Hurrison. 0:03:51.600 --> 0:03:53.920 What is the difference between the Puerto Rican accent and 0:03:53.960 --> 0:03:54.920 a Columbia accent. 0:03:54.920 --> 0:03:56.960 Well, a Puerto Rican accent is more. 0:03:58.600 --> 0:04:07.160 I got wrong, I hindle man because and then Colombian. 0:04:07.320 --> 0:04:12.320 But was you get sat down food mal. 0:04:14.600 --> 0:04:16.039 People from sound. 0:04:15.920 --> 0:04:19.159 More Caribbean like they they got American action Puerto Rican. 0:04:19.360 --> 0:04:19.800 That was a myth. 0:04:19.920 --> 0:04:22.640 The gene action that's a Pablo Escobar type of accent. 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:26.600 Gene accent is different from overall Columbian exactly, exactly the 0:04:26.920 --> 0:04:31.400 old school colonial conquest accent because in Spain and. 0:04:33.640 --> 0:04:39.080 Think, okay, scornation and that that's the same one from 0:04:39.120 --> 0:04:41.040 Spain is the same one. They haven't met the gene 0:04:42.320 --> 0:04:44.719 like I said, so that you know. 0:04:44.600 --> 0:04:49.880 There's been so many stories told by Pablo and I 0:04:49.920 --> 0:04:52.400 heard the difference between your story. This is the first 0:04:52.440 --> 0:04:56.719 time the family actually, Kosa, that's that's rights unique. 0:04:57.000 --> 0:04:58.920 I saw the whole There is a unique, very unique. 0:04:58.680 --> 0:05:02.600 Ye, right, Joe, because it's the first authorized by the 0:05:02.640 --> 0:05:05.400 family and by the son. So we're telling stories that 0:05:05.560 --> 0:05:08.839 no one knows. So he's telling what happens behind closed 0:05:08.880 --> 0:05:11.720 doors between his father and his mother, what happened between 0:05:11.800 --> 0:05:14.280 him and his father, and the conflicts that they had. 0:05:14.320 --> 0:05:17.320 Even though Pablo was the son told me directly. His 0:05:17.600 --> 0:05:19.760 new name is said Stam for security purposes. 0:05:19.760 --> 0:05:22.360 And at the end they called him when he was Argentine. 0:05:22.400 --> 0:05:23.800 He's a teacher or something, right, he does. 0:05:23.839 --> 0:05:26.000 He goes around preaching around the world and doing speeches 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:27.880 about peace and love and all that. So he really 0:05:28.000 --> 0:05:30.839 escaped the life. He definitely did. But he told me, 0:05:30.880 --> 0:05:32.880 you know, growing up in that life, you know, he 0:05:32.920 --> 0:05:34.839 had these babysitters because he couldn't go to school because 0:05:34.839 --> 0:05:36.839 theyre afraid of being kidnapped or assassinated, and the other 0:05:36.960 --> 0:05:38.159 kids were scared of him, so he. 0:05:38.160 --> 0:05:39.120 Had to be homeschool. 0:05:39.440 --> 0:05:43.600 But his pops, Polo Schobar, got him babysitters who were 0:05:43.839 --> 0:05:49.480 he didn't know where assassins right, right, but they were 0:05:49.480 --> 0:05:50.080 real killers. 0:05:50.960 --> 0:05:52.000 Their friends. 0:05:53.839 --> 0:05:56.280 He raised them, they raised you, getting the whole series. 0:05:56.360 --> 0:05:57.200 But they're not family. 0:05:57.480 --> 0:06:00.480 So some of them became informants, right, and so had 0:06:00.800 --> 0:06:03.560 off them. And that's when the son in him got conflict. 0:06:03.680 --> 0:06:06.080 At nineteen, before his pops died, he had words with 0:06:06.120 --> 0:06:08.040 his pops and he said to him, look a you're 0:06:08.040 --> 0:06:09.840 gonna kill next my my grandma. 0:06:10.000 --> 0:06:10.960 She looks you the wrong way. 0:06:11.040 --> 0:06:13.279 Mind, she says the wrong thing to you is this 0:06:13.360 --> 0:06:15.760 the kind of life that when does this killing stop? 0:06:15.839 --> 0:06:17.120 And that was the last speech he had it with 0:06:17.160 --> 0:06:20.240 his pops work for word, and that's what we have 0:06:20.320 --> 0:06:20.880 in the series. 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:24.360 Yet the POV is very unique for especially for these 0:06:24.400 --> 0:06:26.800 type of series like the Narco series, because I hadn't 0:06:26.800 --> 0:06:27.440 seen nothing like. 0:06:27.400 --> 0:06:28.960 It, and my action is the best. 0:06:29.240 --> 0:06:32.599 But all the Latin actors, because you know, white actors 0:06:32.640 --> 0:06:36.400 have to do Hamlet Latin actors and uys have to 0:06:36.400 --> 0:06:39.960 do public because he tore did it, Javier Bardem did it, 0:06:40.400 --> 0:06:42.680 Wagner More did it. But I think my accent is 0:06:42.720 --> 0:06:47.279 the dopest, you know, I did. And I got the 0:06:47.279 --> 0:06:50.520 physicality too, because because he had like a slow movement 0:06:50.600 --> 0:06:53.840 for like a tough guy, he was mad slow and 0:06:53.880 --> 0:06:57.040 he had like a breathing problem. He paused a lot, 0:06:57.200 --> 0:07:05.320 so I don't think so I was trying to really 0:07:05.320 --> 0:07:07.160 capture all his rhythms and patterns. 0:07:07.200 --> 0:07:08.320 How do you did you study? 0:07:08.400 --> 0:07:10.720 Like home footage, like what did you watch? 0:07:11.000 --> 0:07:13.080 You got someone? He had home footage that he showed me. 0:07:13.000 --> 0:07:16.080 Of a couple of home visits, the showing you this, 0:07:16.240 --> 0:07:19.400 yeah yeah, yeah, he's got to showing me all these uh, 0:07:19.640 --> 0:07:22.680 behind the scenes footage of different events they had for family, 0:07:22.880 --> 0:07:25.880 and then I study everything on YouTube and and tapes 0:07:26.160 --> 0:07:28.400 and to get it perfect. And the other thing he 0:07:28.440 --> 0:07:31.480 told me was that in Columbia back in the eighties, 0:07:31.560 --> 0:07:34.200 pops were about tough love. When they had a Sunday 0:07:34.320 --> 0:07:36.640 it was it wasn't your kissing it. It's like, you know, 0:07:36.720 --> 0:07:39.679 be tough with the macho kids. But his pops, because 0:07:39.680 --> 0:07:42.120 he was near death all the time, hogged them kissed him, 0:07:42.280 --> 0:07:44.760 said I love you publicly and change. The culture in 0:07:44.760 --> 0:07:47.040 Columbia between fathers and sons. 0:07:47.400 --> 0:07:50.640 Must have been conflicting too. For the sun like showing conflicting, bro. 0:07:50.760 --> 0:07:52.600 He grew up in this place where his dad was 0:07:52.640 --> 0:07:56.560 so charismatic and loving, but they lived in total paranoia. 0:07:56.640 --> 0:07:59.240 Like Pablo couldn't hang out with the family all the time. 0:07:59.360 --> 0:08:01.960 He had to be the from place to be a decoy. 0:08:02.200 --> 0:08:04.440 So how do you live like that? Constant movie and 0:08:04.480 --> 0:08:05.880 constant changing spots. 0:08:06.160 --> 0:08:06.720 It's rough. 0:08:06.880 --> 0:08:09.120 Like we when I went to when I went to Columbia, 0:08:09.160 --> 0:08:10.960 we went to many yings and we went to that 0:08:10.960 --> 0:08:11.760 building the one that. 0:08:11.800 --> 0:08:14.680 Yeah yeahs leather right yeah yeah yeah, and not. 0:08:14.600 --> 0:08:17.239 Too far as where he died, now you the meloe. 0:08:17.320 --> 0:08:20.520 Yeah, we filed in areas near where Pablo lived and 0:08:21.280 --> 0:08:24.080 was assassinated. But we had to do new spots because 0:08:24.080 --> 0:08:25.200 it's all destroyed. 0:08:25.200 --> 0:08:29.360 Everything is destroyed. And how much of the movie you 0:08:29.360 --> 0:08:30.560 say you shot in Columbia? 0:08:30.800 --> 0:08:36.240 All of it? Okay, okay, fifty Vacasians. Crew was Argentine, 0:08:36.280 --> 0:08:39.240 Mexican and Colombian. So much talent, man, so much talent 0:08:39.240 --> 0:08:40.000 in Latin America. 0:08:40.080 --> 0:08:42.120 Okay. Now us as rappers. 0:08:41.880 --> 0:08:44.280 Yeah yeah, yeah and DJs and. 0:08:44.440 --> 0:08:47.840 We go to Columbia and most of us, for lack 0:08:47.880 --> 0:08:51.120 of a better term, we be extorted. 0:08:51.360 --> 0:08:52.840 Like they make us. 0:08:52.880 --> 0:08:55.040 Like, you know, you want to go look at Pablo's 0:08:55.679 --> 0:08:57.480 you got to pay a certain amount of a certain amount, 0:08:58.679 --> 0:09:00.160 yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. 0:09:00.320 --> 0:09:02.480 Is that something that you you ran into him? No, no, no, no, 0:09:03.559 --> 0:09:04.160 had the blessings? 0:09:04.200 --> 0:09:07.520 Okay, yeah, because we we we promised them also that 0:09:07.559 --> 0:09:10.000 we weren't going to idolize him in the series. 0:09:09.760 --> 0:09:11.720 Like meaning like ida the criminal part of him. 0:09:11.800 --> 0:09:14.240 Yeah, yeah, to make him like you know, become a 0:09:15.280 --> 0:09:18.000 recruiting you know situation. We want to make sure we 0:09:18.080 --> 0:09:21.960 showed the humanize him, but also showed that he lived 0:09:21.960 --> 0:09:25.280 on the paranoid that's not a lifestyle that ends up. 0:09:25.720 --> 0:09:27.559 You know, you end up surviving, you don't survive it. 0:09:28.240 --> 0:09:30.760 He's he's we're fascinated by him because he grew up 0:09:31.040 --> 0:09:34.480 from extreme poverty and became the wealthiest criminal in the 0:09:34.520 --> 0:09:38.400 history of the world. He died being worth thirty billion 0:09:38.520 --> 0:09:41.160 by today's uh seventy billion. 0:09:41.200 --> 0:09:42.800 Did we make some noise to that? You got to 0:09:42.840 --> 0:09:50.640 make some noise. He was one of the most ruthless 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:53.640 ones too. He kind of like invented the n terrorism. Yes, 0:09:53.679 --> 0:09:57.120 he did narco terrorism exactum, I hit it correctly. You know. 0:09:57.400 --> 0:10:01.440 He did a ton of assassinations on politicians, journalists, anybody 0:10:01.480 --> 0:10:03.280 who opposed them. 0:10:03.320 --> 0:10:06.560 Crazy wow, like what Trump does verbally. 0:10:08.559 --> 0:10:14.120 That's that's the point that I wanted to bring, Like yeah, yeah, yeah. 0:10:13.720 --> 0:10:14.840 You know, what's the book you wrote? 0:10:14.880 --> 0:10:18.079 Pimps whole pimps, host and player hitters and the rest 0:10:18.120 --> 0:10:21.800 of my Hollywood friends. Don't ever Here's here's the big tip. 0:10:22.200 --> 0:10:25.880 Don't ever write an autobiography until you're about to die 0:10:26.040 --> 0:10:30.360 or retire, because you fuck up your life. I mean, 0:10:30.720 --> 0:10:33.360 I was only like thirty nine or forty was. It 0:10:33.920 --> 0:10:37.040 cost me a lot of problems for real, because you're 0:10:37.080 --> 0:10:40.560 gutting people, well, you're saying ship that nobody wants to 0:10:40.600 --> 0:10:42.520 be set and I said it, and then all of 0:10:42.559 --> 0:10:45.840 a sudden, I'm like, not casting this movie, not casting 0:10:45.880 --> 0:10:49.320 that movie. Yeah, you know, on the d L, nobody's 0:10:49.360 --> 0:10:51.320 telling me I'm being blasted, blacklisted. 0:10:51.360 --> 0:10:54.160 But it's not on you know, on full blast. 0:10:54.240 --> 0:10:54.360 Right. 0:10:54.440 --> 0:10:59.360 But was was Hollywood something that let you down? 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:00.240 Oh? 0:11:00.280 --> 0:11:01.000 Absolutely? 0:11:01.360 --> 0:11:03.120 But you know I didn't know as a young man 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:07.120 what was going on. I just thought, you know, Hollywood 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:13.199 is not completely for us, but that's the way life is, 0:11:13.800 --> 0:11:16.600 you know. I accepted it. And then as you get older, 0:11:16.600 --> 0:11:19.160 I going, wait a minute, why isn't it for us? 0:11:19.840 --> 0:11:23.160 Lattin people are thirty percent of the US box office, 0:11:23.160 --> 0:11:27.280 a third of streamers, less than six percent of the actors, 0:11:27.800 --> 0:11:30.120 and less than one percent of the stories and less 0:11:30.160 --> 0:11:33.040 than point nine percent of the executives. How is that possible? 0:11:33.080 --> 0:11:35.920 They're taking from us but giving us nothing back. That's 0:11:35.920 --> 0:11:38.400 not okay. That's when I realized, and I woke up 0:11:38.400 --> 0:11:39.240 and I was like, wait a. 0:11:39.160 --> 0:11:41.200 Minute, what the fuck is going on? How can we 0:11:41.240 --> 0:11:41.640 accept this? 0:11:41.800 --> 0:11:44.080 White people are only fifty eight point two percent of 0:11:44.080 --> 0:11:47.440 the population. Why were they getting a ninety percent of 0:11:47.440 --> 0:11:52.000 the roles executive stories everything. It's an overreach and an 0:11:52.000 --> 0:11:55.000 overrepresentation that's not not fair in any kind of book. 0:11:55.520 --> 0:11:56.920 I saw you at a breakfast club and you was 0:11:56.960 --> 0:11:59.720 talking about, are you going to watch all white movies? 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:02.360 I'm not gonna see white. I didn't realize. It's like 0:12:02.440 --> 0:12:03.320 there's some good like. 0:12:05.960 --> 0:12:06.040 You. 0:12:06.240 --> 0:12:11.080 Like. I was like, you said that. 0:12:11.120 --> 0:12:17.760 I didn't even realize you so used to realize that white. 0:12:17.480 --> 0:12:20.800 Movies Jaws, I was like, all white. It was like 0:12:21.720 --> 0:12:25.000 because even in the background. But I just finished watching 0:12:25.080 --> 0:12:27.079 George and I was like, how the funk? I didn't 0:12:27.160 --> 0:12:28.200 bet that future. 0:12:28.280 --> 0:12:32.959 There's not one person called, not one person called Poulter. 0:12:33.080 --> 0:12:33.400 Guys. 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:36.040 I'm bouncing around a little bit, but I love that 0:12:36.520 --> 0:12:44.319 you got Ah, that's a Latin story for me. 0:12:44.600 --> 0:12:45.360 I think it's up there with. 0:12:47.240 --> 0:12:50.760 Up there with Willie Cologne as a story that I 0:12:50.800 --> 0:12:54.000 would like for you to participate. 0:12:54.280 --> 0:12:56.480 The big punch story. Oh that would be hot. We 0:12:56.720 --> 0:12:58.640 got to do that. Why not? How come Fat Joe 0:12:58.720 --> 0:13:03.439 hasn't done it? Family? Is the family not letting? 0:13:03.520 --> 0:13:03.679 Uh? 0:13:04.800 --> 0:13:06.360 I don't. I don't want to speak on that because 0:13:06.360 --> 0:13:06.720 I don't know. 0:13:06.840 --> 0:13:09.280 I don't know like the particulars, but I know that's 0:13:09.280 --> 0:13:12.920 something that the hip hop game is missing and have 0:13:13.040 --> 0:13:14.760 you you got to make me bit fun. 0:13:15.600 --> 0:13:19.520 I didn't get to meet Wow. I met Bis Marquis. 0:13:20.640 --> 0:13:22.000 I went to school with Q Tip. 0:13:22.200 --> 0:13:24.560 Wow, I'm two weeks older yet. No, no where broke 0:13:24.800 --> 0:13:27.480 went to Brooklyn. 0:13:26.480 --> 0:13:28.760 No, No, Police Plaza, Manhattan. 0:13:29.280 --> 0:13:29.360 Ok. 0:13:29.480 --> 0:13:32.360 Yeah, yeah, I'm two years older than him. 0:13:32.559 --> 0:13:34.880 No. I didn't mean him though. I was about that 0:13:35.000 --> 0:13:37.000 met him. Yeah, I was. 0:13:37.040 --> 0:13:39.400 I was like kind of hollywoody at that time. Oh yeah, 0:13:40.760 --> 0:13:42.440 I was living in the hood anymore. I was like, 0:13:42.559 --> 0:13:44.240 I was like trying to live large and try to 0:13:44.280 --> 0:13:46.480 be you know, famous and shipped. 0:13:46.640 --> 0:13:49.600 But when Holly would let you down, they were letting 0:13:49.600 --> 0:13:51.160 me down. But they don't want to keep me away. 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:52.760 You can try to lock those doors, but I'm a 0:13:52.800 --> 0:13:56.199 bust them open, right. But what was the hottest year 0:13:57.080 --> 0:13:58.560 for me, dude? 0:13:59.200 --> 0:14:02.600 A good year from was nineteen ninety four. I did 0:14:02.679 --> 0:14:05.720 Carlito's Way, and I did Super Married Brothers, and I 0:14:05.760 --> 0:14:10.200 did Tu Wang Fu And two years later I did Spawn. 0:14:10.679 --> 0:14:13.800 I was the Clowning Spawn. I did The Pest. I 0:14:13.840 --> 0:14:17.839 did Romeo and Juliet and I said three plays. 0:14:19.440 --> 0:14:24.480 Yeah, and you're speaking of plays. 0:14:24.520 --> 0:14:26.520 You did a one man play yeah, I did six, 0:14:27.160 --> 0:14:29.320 six of them. 0:14:29.440 --> 0:14:31.520 Four of them on Broadway. I'm broady man, and it 0:14:31.560 --> 0:14:33.000 was hard to get the broad When I did Freak 0:14:33.040 --> 0:14:36.360 on Broadway, they were like, they don't know if Latin 0:14:36.400 --> 0:14:37.440 people are going to go to the theater. 0:14:37.560 --> 0:14:39.320 They don't know if a. 0:14:38.920 --> 0:14:42.000 Comedy about a Latin guy is gonna appeal to white people. 0:14:42.480 --> 0:14:44.400 And Brody was all white at that time, you know, 0:14:45.000 --> 0:14:46.920 so I was like the first all Latin show and 0:14:46.960 --> 0:14:49.760 then half the population was Latino and black, and they 0:14:49.760 --> 0:14:52.000 were astounded and sold out. 0:14:52.160 --> 0:14:54.560 Like white people who come to the Broadway show though, Yeah, yeah. 0:14:54.400 --> 0:14:58.240 The majority you know, the plays were mostly having classes. Yeah, y, 0:15:03.240 --> 0:15:07.040 the Monica wonderful. 0:15:07.640 --> 0:15:08.200 I love him. 0:15:09.800 --> 0:15:14.200 So so I we asked you all, did Hollywood disappoint you? 0:15:14.320 --> 0:15:16.600 What was something that Hollywood that that gave you? 0:15:16.680 --> 0:15:17.920 And you was like, man, I. 0:15:17.840 --> 0:15:20.080 Mean besides you know, getting out the hood or something 0:15:20.120 --> 0:15:20.400 like that. 0:15:20.440 --> 0:15:23.320 Well, I think Spike Lee giving me the lead role 0:15:23.680 --> 0:15:26.080 in Summer Sam was a big deal for me. That 0:15:26.200 --> 0:15:27.640 was a turning point in my life. And we went 0:15:27.680 --> 0:15:29.800 to Cannes Film Festival with that, which I had never 0:15:29.880 --> 0:15:32.320 been to. Was a big, big deal in Hollywood. Sisters, 0:15:32.840 --> 0:15:35.200 and uh, it's well with Spike, and Spike is the 0:15:35.200 --> 0:15:38.200 one that had the balls to make me a Latin. 0:15:38.040 --> 0:15:45.480 Guy be the lead Spike's best. 0:15:46.080 --> 0:15:49.320 Did you expect because with this series and it seems 0:15:49.320 --> 0:15:50.960 like you've always there's a third that you've always been 0:15:50.960 --> 0:15:53.680 trying to go back to your roots, like represent your roots. 0:15:53.760 --> 0:15:55.200 Yeah, me and I have young. 0:15:55.120 --> 0:15:57.120 Children, So in Gonto, I was like, this is dope 0:15:57.280 --> 0:16:00.920 for representation for Colombians. Like I thought it was super dope, 0:16:00.960 --> 0:16:02.160 Like how did that come about? 0:16:02.200 --> 0:16:02.360 That? 0:16:02.400 --> 0:16:03.840 The creation of that you be involved? 0:16:03.960 --> 0:16:06.680 Oh dude, that was such an incredible experience for me 0:16:06.720 --> 0:16:08.880 and how far we Latino people have come in this 0:16:08.960 --> 0:16:14.080 country to have all Latin cast right and Latin director 0:16:14.120 --> 0:16:19.600 and writer fran Conto Limnuel wrote the music, the ass music. 0:16:20.360 --> 0:16:22.720 It was an incredible turning point for me. And I 0:16:22.840 --> 0:16:26.720 improvised a lot for Bruno. I'm the Bruno. 0:16:27.160 --> 0:16:29.320 Yeah yes, yeah. 0:16:29.480 --> 0:16:31.280 The whole part too is if all we do is 0:16:31.320 --> 0:16:33.560 talk about Bruno, that's another story. 0:16:33.920 --> 0:16:36.280 So they're gonna have a ride in in Disney. 0:16:36.320 --> 0:16:38.720 Now I did your voice for that. There's a parade 0:16:38.760 --> 0:16:41.840 in Disney World for in Conto. Yeah. Yeah, that's huge, man, huge. 0:16:42.000 --> 0:16:44.680 It be frozen, Yeah, it's the number one. It was 0:16:44.720 --> 0:16:47.560 the number one Disney song in the history of Disney. 0:16:47.320 --> 0:16:48.840 And I think it's it brings a lot of pride 0:16:48.840 --> 0:16:49.280 being laudin. 0:16:49.440 --> 0:16:51.120 When you go to Disney, you see these little girls 0:16:51.120 --> 0:16:54.000 of all races, of all nationalities dressed up as the. 0:16:53.960 --> 0:16:59.520 Little Because in Conto had the true Latino experience, black, indigenous, 0:16:59.640 --> 0:17:01.960 and white. I didn't mixed and had you had all 0:17:02.000 --> 0:17:05.520 the hair textures, the hair color, the different color skins. 0:17:05.640 --> 0:17:08.480 It didn't have colorism, right, it was. It was such 0:17:08.480 --> 0:17:09.440 a powerful experience. 0:17:10.960 --> 0:17:14.320 I guess you didn't. You didn't watch little Kids? 0:17:14.400 --> 0:17:21.280 Yes, yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, Okay, let me bounced around 0:17:21.480 --> 0:17:21.920 real quick. 0:17:22.000 --> 0:17:25.960 Right. Did you get to see Bad Bunny in Puerto Rico? No, 0:17:26.040 --> 0:17:28.480 I didn't. I didn't get I was filming, Uh, I 0:17:28.520 --> 0:17:29.719 can't remember. I was filming. 0:17:29.800 --> 0:17:33.480 Uh. The which is coming out in July. It can 0:17:33.520 --> 0:17:36.080 be the biggest movie in the history of Hollywood. 0:17:36.359 --> 0:17:36.879 A shot to that. 0:17:37.000 --> 0:17:44.240 Yeah, shot two Latinos and three black people in it. 0:17:44.240 --> 0:17:46.239 It's not an all white movie, so I'm gonna see it. 0:17:46.520 --> 0:17:49.280 But I just wanted to, like, the first time I've 0:17:49.280 --> 0:17:51.879 ever seen this before, what Bad Bunny did, Like he 0:17:51.920 --> 0:17:53.159 brung everyone. 0:17:52.800 --> 0:17:56.400 To the island right like like he did it all back. 0:17:56.600 --> 0:18:01.480 Yeah, and he and he said uh uh like he 0:18:01.560 --> 0:18:03.680 basically went on tour in Puerto Rico. 0:18:03.760 --> 0:18:04.240 Incredible. 0:18:04.359 --> 0:18:06.720 I've never saw this now in my life, Like and 0:18:06.840 --> 0:18:08.960 like all the people that showed up, like it was 0:18:09.080 --> 0:18:10.679 all energy, like the. 0:18:11.080 --> 0:18:14.199 Beautiful man half time Super Bowl. Come on, you know, 0:18:14.240 --> 0:18:15.080 I was crying. 0:18:15.160 --> 0:18:17.000 Man's so beautiful. 0:18:17.040 --> 0:18:20.680 It was, dude, it was so emotional after what you're 0:18:20.680 --> 0:18:23.000 watching on TikTok and the gram. You see all these 0:18:23.200 --> 0:18:26.840 Latin bodies being assaulted, moms and children, and then you 0:18:26.880 --> 0:18:33.400 saw this love against hate theme, you know, all these 0:18:33.480 --> 0:18:37.520 Latin young people celebrating their culture, celebrating themselves. Yo, that 0:18:37.600 --> 0:18:42.080 was so powerful. And all the Easter eggs, like the 0:18:42.400 --> 0:18:47.440 original Puerto Rican flag that was banned. Yeah, the slavery like, yes, 0:18:48.080 --> 0:18:50.000 the whole thing is so powerful. Man, he had to 0:18:50.040 --> 0:18:52.119 bat buddy. 0:18:56.000 --> 0:18:58.520 Okay, let's schoo back to beating block for a second, right, Okay, 0:18:59.520 --> 0:19:02.000 our rest I'm weere that you had to actually because 0:19:02.440 --> 0:19:05.919 a queen's kid anybody from New York, right, Yeah, Well 0:19:06.000 --> 0:19:08.800 though Queens and Bronx is twenty minutes away, it's still 0:19:08.840 --> 0:19:12.000 a whole sepper who a whole super field, even even 0:19:12.080 --> 0:19:14.960 Queens Long Island, even Queens oh yeah, Brooklyn totally like 0:19:14.960 --> 0:19:17.879 it's totally different. So how did you, like, I know, 0:19:17.920 --> 0:19:20.080 you said you hung out in the Bronx, but how 0:19:20.080 --> 0:19:22.800 did you actually study for that character? Because like to 0:19:22.800 --> 0:19:25.239 this day, I know who you are and I can 0:19:25.320 --> 0:19:27.320 still look at that character and still be scared. 0:19:28.560 --> 0:19:30.000 So how did you study for that? 0:19:30.040 --> 0:19:33.840 Like like, oh, yeah, well, you know, I mean I 0:19:33.840 --> 0:19:37.119 grew up in Queens and when I was young, I 0:19:37.200 --> 0:19:40.800 hung out a lot, and there were some drug dealers 0:19:40.840 --> 0:19:42.439 and I hung out with them at times. 0:19:42.440 --> 0:19:45.200 You know, I never did anything bad. Well not really, 0:19:45.200 --> 0:19:49.520 I'm not lying. I'm lying, but I but you know, 0:19:49.680 --> 0:19:51.920 I I that was in my life. I saw where 0:19:51.920 --> 0:19:53.840 I was leading to, so I kind of avoid I 0:19:53.840 --> 0:19:55.200 just hung out with them at the park and played 0:19:55.200 --> 0:19:58.919