Speaker 1: Hey there, Fanaritos, and welcome to part two of our
Speaker 1: interview with Juan Pablo de Pache who played my on
Speaker 1: screen husband in Fuller House, Fernando. If you fell in
Speaker 1: love with Fernando on Fuller House like Kimmy did, you're
Speaker 1: sure to be head over heels after this interview because
Speaker 1: JP is truly the best.
Speaker 2: So let's get into it.
Speaker 1: I didn't realize how personal it was, Like I just
Speaker 1: thought this was you know, you were enthusiastic about making
Speaker 1: your own film, But then we get there.
Speaker 3: It was your own film, it was your story.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I didn't I didn't make that connection until until,
Speaker 1: you know, a few scenes into the film. But what
Speaker 1: an emotional experience. When did you start creating this writing it?
Speaker 1: I mean, I think I know what inspired it, your
Speaker 1: own life. But tell tell me how this all came about.
Speaker 1: How long had you been working on it?
Speaker 4: Well? Thank you first of all for all the beautiful
Speaker 4: wave of love that I just received. You're so amazing
Speaker 4: and sweet, and for me, it was really important to
Speaker 4: have you there because, like you say, you know we
Speaker 4: are family, and and I know that I've been banging
Speaker 4: on this. Ah, this movie, this movie, this movie, for years.
Speaker 4: I mean we're talking twenty twenty. Really we had we
Speaker 4: had it finished shooting in November nineteen, then the.
Speaker 5: World you know, and then and then twenty twenty game right,
Speaker 5: and all our very big plans went.
Speaker 4: To exactly and we can so well can's we finished
Speaker 4: the show and so and so then it was one
Speaker 4: of that year of it. But yeah, it was around
Speaker 4: that time that I mean, I'd always, like I said,
Speaker 4: I'd always always always wanted to be to direct, and
Speaker 4: since those days as a five year old watching the Oscars,
Speaker 4: you know, with my grandma. But but it's kind of
Speaker 4: became a need. It became like I have to do this.
Speaker 4: I don't know, sometimes in life you have those moments
Speaker 4: of us if I don't do this now, like like
Speaker 4: it's now or never kind of thing. And so yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: it was it was out of a couple of things,
Speaker 4: like but mostly I wanted to make my first film
Speaker 4: so that I continue to do doing my second and
Speaker 4: third and fourth. Uh And And it wasn't that I like,
Speaker 4: I didn't want to take my own life. I didn't
Speaker 4: want to kind of say, oh I want to do
Speaker 4: a movie about me, But it was really I wanted
Speaker 4: to have every detail of what I was going to tell.
Speaker 4: I wanted to know, right, I want to know every character,
Speaker 4: every situation, the places, the feelings, the the moment mins them.
Speaker 4: So so yeah, I think it was a mixture of
Speaker 4: talking to a friend and her asking me about what
Speaker 4: my first love was, how that happened, and also going
Speaker 4: to my parents' home while we were all quarantining, and
Speaker 4: just as you do, watching albums and going through and
Speaker 4: finding this tape the VHS tape in their VCR and anyway,
Speaker 4: without spoiling anything, this tape was very well. It was
Speaker 4: very important because it was a time when I was
Speaker 4: in that school that I told you about the United
Speaker 4: World College, and something had just happened that broke a
Speaker 4: lot of this heart. One of the kids had to
Speaker 4: leave the school and you could see it in this tape.
Speaker 4: It was very You could see the pain of these teenagers,
Speaker 4: but also are all we are all trying to make
Speaker 4: him feel better. And I just thought there's something here,
Speaker 4: and so this idea of teenage longing and and also
Speaker 4: how you feel everything so much more when you were
Speaker 4: that age.
Speaker 5: Because it's all the first time, like I've never had
Speaker 5: a broken heart before. This is I think it's going
Speaker 5: to kill me. Yeah, like all those feelings are.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, it's all amplified, and you don't like you say,
Speaker 4: you know, you haven't been there and you're not a
Speaker 4: child anymore, but you're not an adult yet. So it's
Speaker 4: the transitional moment, which which is why we have so
Speaker 4: many coming of age stories because it's an incredibly interesting time. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and in my case, I thought, okay, how can I
Speaker 4: make it so that it's actually the adult looking back?
Speaker 4: Add that memory of falling in love, and so the
Speaker 4: idea of a film director making a movie about his
Speaker 4: first love and being obsessed and frustrated with this movie
Speaker 4: that can't quite he can't quite finish. So then yeah,
Speaker 4: I created this meta meta movie which is a man
Speaker 4: making a movie about a memory and is sort of
Speaker 4: like a Russian doll. Straight.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's a great description, a Russian doll. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's just stunning. So explain for our listeners, just
Speaker 1: a very brief synopsis. You play the older version of Matthias,
Speaker 1: but most of the film is it revolves around young Matthias,
Speaker 1: who is you as a young boy going to this
Speaker 1: international college in Italy.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, so it's basically this film director who's struggling
Speaker 4: to finish a movie about his memory of his first love,
Speaker 4: of this kid, best friend he met when he was
Speaker 4: at a boarding school twenty five years earlier. And of
Speaker 4: course we go back into the past and we actually
Speaker 4: understand or at least get the crumbs of what happened.
Speaker 4: And what happened is that it was a very tumultuous, unsaid,
Speaker 4: unrequited thing, but at the same time very enigmatic because
Speaker 4: this boy, Alexander was incredibly loving and interesting and crazy
Speaker 4: and talented and so young. Matias was probably the opposite,
Speaker 4: you know, super shy, and so Alexander, this ball of energy,
Speaker 4: was obviously the you know, the one person that he
Speaker 4: felt seen by. And so so yeah, something happens in
Speaker 4: the school and Alexander has to leave and that kind
Speaker 4: of jump start really these feelings getting amplified, and and yeah,
Speaker 4: so so so really it's an exploration of the relationship
Speaker 4: between the adult and the teenager and and how sometimes
Speaker 4: when you can't quite give an ending to something love
Speaker 4: and and that relationship which just can't happen or or
Speaker 4: it doesn't or hasn't happened fully, now you can actually
Speaker 4: mess you up in the present. So it's it's like
Speaker 4: it's like dealing with the trauma you could see where
Speaker 4: this one thing can actually inform the rest of your life.
Speaker 4: So yeah, very psychological, very psychological, but it's true.
Speaker 5: It's you know, we sort of get hung up on
Speaker 5: like one thing and that becomes somehow it influences all
Speaker 5: of the rest of our choices about ourselves and the
Speaker 5: world that we create.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 1: But it's such a visceral film, like you really feel
Speaker 1: all of these emotions that the characters are going through.
Speaker 1: It's just very powerful, like you just the audience was
Speaker 1: you could feel it, you know. And there's one particular
Speaker 1: scene I would love to talk about, the scene in
Speaker 1: the car with the parents, which I think is just
Speaker 1: the heart of the film.
Speaker 3: And it was your actual mom.
Speaker 5: No, not that she's playing well the older mom, you
Speaker 5: I know, playing the old Yeah, he's the older but
Speaker 5: like she does play a part in it, and like
Speaker 5: that was so incredible. She's not in this scene, but
Speaker 5: I just yeah, anyway.
Speaker 2: Sorry, no, no, that's okay, Yeah, yeah, you're you're actual.
Speaker 2: We'll get to those easterings, we.
Speaker 3: Get to those just so incredible because she's like in
Speaker 3: her art studio, creating in your health.
Speaker 2: It was just very cool, so cool.
Speaker 1: But the car scene, I don't want to I don't
Speaker 1: want to give it away, but it is such a
Speaker 1: power powerful scene.
Speaker 2: Rheumatias breaks down in tears and the.
Speaker 1: The mom essentially says we love you exactly the way
Speaker 1: you are. What was it like for you to film
Speaker 1: that scene and to watch the actors perform that scene?
Speaker 4: It was It was hard. It's kind of painful because
Speaker 4: I got there's some scenes in the movie that I
Speaker 4: would say are almost exactly as they happened in my
Speaker 4: memory anyway, and that one is one of them. Like,
Speaker 4: and it didn't work. I don't think the movie would work.
Speaker 4: So so it to be like, I put so much
Speaker 4: weight on this scene because yeah, you're right, it's in
Speaker 4: the middle of the film and it's the heart of film, pivotal, pivotal,
Speaker 4: and the world changes after this scene. Yeah so, and
Speaker 4: we don't see it coming either, no, like out of nowhere. Really,
Speaker 4: So I love playing with these shifts of direction when
Speaker 4: it comes to storytelling, that you think something's going this
Speaker 4: way and then oh no, you know, And I think
Speaker 4: the movie does that like three four times but this
Speaker 4: particular one, it was it was a scene that explains
Speaker 4: a lot of things that you've been sensing, don't know,
Speaker 4: and then this kind of just opens everything up. So yeah,
Speaker 4: I mean shooting it was uncomfortable. I was in the
Speaker 4: back of the car. It was a it was a
Speaker 4: so the dop director of photography, Devin Douleval, my co
Speaker 4: director andres Pepiestrada. Obviously the actors were all bunched up
Speaker 4: in this tiny rental nineteen ninety one Volvo, and because
Speaker 4: it's a it's a period piece, and it's it's cold outside,
Speaker 4: it's hot inside, and so we were just kind of
Speaker 4: it wasn't really working. And I don't know what I
Speaker 4: said to the actors or whatever happened that it was
Speaker 4: one word, I think. And all of a sudden, you know, Alasseli,
Speaker 4: who plays the mom, this this one beautiful take, beautiful take,
Speaker 4: and I broke down watching her, and I'm like putting
Speaker 4: my hand in because I'm like sobbing and I don't
Speaker 4: want to mess up the audio. And I'm like shaking
Speaker 4: from watching, you know. And and then of course when
Speaker 4: I when when and this boy Santio mar Lusn, who
Speaker 4: is amazing. This is a very wonderful job. His first job,
Speaker 4: no way, first audition, Yes.
Speaker 6: What's incredible.
Speaker 3: He was amazing.
Speaker 4: Wow again, you know he was just how he responded
Speaker 4: to the scene in the moment, it was heartbreaking and
Speaker 4: beyond the dad as well, who didn't do anything and
Speaker 4: yet you feel everything that you know. I was very
Speaker 4: lucky to find these people. And I'm a firm believer
Speaker 4: in like finding finding the actors first, because I think
Speaker 4: we are in a moment where there's a little bit
Speaker 4: of criticism to the moment we're in right now, but
Speaker 4: we're in a moment where when the name sometimes is
Speaker 4: more important than the part towards the.
Speaker 5: Story, yeah, or how many followers you have is more
Speaker 5: important than them.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: And in this one, mostly because I didn't have the
Speaker 4: money to pay the big names, we actually went to
Speaker 4: the actors that felt the most right. And some of
Speaker 4: the people this is their first movie or whatever, and
Speaker 4: I would never have known that it was anyone's first
Speaker 4: movie at all, like it did.
Speaker 5: They're not at all blown away that like yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I can't really say anything other than
Speaker 4: when I when I when I when I open the
Speaker 4: files and started editing When you edit, you spend a
Speaker 4: lot of time with scenes. Sometimes this one scene has
Speaker 4: like twenty different versions. Okay, so it's not you know,
Speaker 4: it's very time consuming and you're spending time in this world, right,
Speaker 4: And I'm not exaggerating. Every time I used to open
Speaker 4: this scene up to work on it, I was just
Speaker 4: like right, bloodgates and so I remember the moment that
Speaker 4: I cried the most. I think it's ready.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's done.
Speaker 6: Got Yeah, don.
Speaker 4: Test yourself how you It's a weird process. You sort
Speaker 4: of use your own emotionality to be the audience member
Speaker 4: watching something that you are working, right, see how it's
Speaker 4: hitting you. So it's this conversation that youse a maker
Speaker 4: have with the material. It's a weird phenomenon. It's very strange. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it's like a part of you is an audience member
Speaker 4: and a part of you is the editor, and after
Speaker 4: you go between the two. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm so
Speaker 4: happy about that that's on screen because sometimes for people
Speaker 4: who don't are not on set and they don't understand
Speaker 4: perhaps about filming, is that filming in itself, just like
Speaker 4: we didn't fall our house. In everything, there's a moment
Speaker 4: of electricity and there's a moment when almost the air
Speaker 4: gets thick, you know, when they shot the action, like
Speaker 4: everything kind of just you know, slows down and then
Speaker 4: you're like anchored into this weird parallel universe. And the
Speaker 4: moment they say cut you tell it's just you know,
Speaker 4: it's like this energy just kind of open like this.
Speaker 4: And so there's moments on film. We've all had them
Speaker 4: when something something will inspire something for you to do
Speaker 4: something in a certain way, for for what the response
Speaker 4: to be X, and it's caught on film, and those
Speaker 4: are the moments of magic. Now you can't really explain it.
Speaker 4: I mean, you could write something till the Cows Come Home,
Speaker 4: but until the moment happens in the filming process, right,
Speaker 4: this actor has this I don't know, magical reaction. It's
Speaker 4: not really there out of this whole experience. I think
Speaker 4: that's what I've absolutely loved the most making a film
Speaker 4: is that you get to witness before the world something
Speaker 4: magical that you know the rest of the world will
Speaker 4: see at some point and it's like it's it gives
Speaker 4: you goosebumps.
Speaker 1: What was your mom's reaction? Were you with her when
Speaker 1: she watched the film? For the first time in the
Speaker 1: scene in particular, and what was her reaction.
Speaker 4: She wasn't there when we shot it because my mom
Speaker 4: was actually doing in art direction and costume design of
Speaker 4: the film, so she was very involved. So she was
Speaker 4: probably like, so was shooting Uh No, she she she's
Speaker 4: always been just so proud. And I know it's but
Speaker 4: it's true. And and we are My mom and I
Speaker 4: almost have a work relationship where we are kind of
Speaker 4: equals because she's the artist and and and I'm also
Speaker 4: an artist in a different way, and we exchange ideas
Speaker 4: and and there's one scene where my actual mother and
Speaker 4: I are talking about her work.
Speaker 6: And my work, and that's how we.
Speaker 4: Are with each other. And so so, yeah, this whole
Speaker 4: process was was about, okay, making something that comes from us,
Speaker 4: m H. Now that it's it's it's its own thing,
Speaker 4: it's its own story outside of us. And yeah, you
Speaker 4: have to learn to see it critically. And she is
Speaker 4: amazing at seeing things, like she's so critical.
Speaker 3: But my mother, she's so critical. It's great.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, most people all, but you're like, no, it's
Speaker 5: actually really she is.
Speaker 4: And I think some of us, some of my siblings
Speaker 4: have have said this before it's like you're too critical
Speaker 4: with you and and she's like, yeah, I can't help it.
Speaker 4: She's in aries.
Speaker 5: Ah, yes, yes, I have one of those. Yeah, Zoa's
Speaker 5: an aries. Yeah I yeah, yeah, just cherry fiery. It's
Speaker 5: going to be their way, it's going to happen and
Speaker 5: no way. And they're not shy about telling you what
Speaker 5: they think about your not at all.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, not at all, not at all.
Speaker 5: In fact, they're doing you a favor really actually, Yeah,
Speaker 5: you're like you should be thinking me.
Speaker 3: You're like, I don't know if I should.
Speaker 2: Oh, I love your mom so much, it's so amazing.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's o cute.
Speaker 5: Did she But did she give like notes and stuff
Speaker 5: as you guys were going along?
Speaker 3: Did she ever watch any of the dailies with you
Speaker 3: or anything?
Speaker 4: Or was it more like, you know what I really
Speaker 4: love about my mom, as stubborn as she can be
Speaker 4: about stuff and critical, maybe because she was a teacher,
Speaker 4: a school teacher for a long time art teacher, there's
Speaker 4: this respect that I always got where she would literally
Speaker 4: just stand back see what I was doing, and literally
Speaker 4: bite the head of anyone who would come close to
Speaker 4: me to criticize anything. So I now see it with
Speaker 4: distance and I go, wow, that was so. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 4: it's like Mama Bear, like, yeah, I had an idea.
Speaker 4: For example, I say, I think this should be lit
Speaker 4: in this way and I want the camera to start
Speaker 4: here and I want this to happen. And someone you
Speaker 4: know from art will go, well, we can't do that
Speaker 4: because you know the thing is not ready or this
Speaker 4: or that or the light it's near. And my mom,
Speaker 4: which would would basically just make them do what I wanted.
Speaker 4: So it wasn't that she was critical about what I
Speaker 4: was doing. She was actually respecting to the letter. Yeah,
Speaker 4: one of the things that.
Speaker 6: Your artistic were choices.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And and no, she's never really she's never really
Speaker 4: said oh, you should cut it this way or you
Speaker 4: should change this. She always trusted in whatever I wanted
Speaker 4: to do.
Speaker 5: Which it sounds like you guys have like an artist
Speaker 5: to artist relationship, like you were talking about, sort of
Speaker 5: that working relationship.
Speaker 3: There's times you can talk about it.
Speaker 4: And there's a thing about artists. We are so vulnerable
Speaker 4: and so it hangs by a thread, like our purity
Speaker 4: hangs by like this. Right. So, so when you know,
Speaker 4: when you're convinced of something, you want to do and
Speaker 4: you want to do it this way and whatever. You
Speaker 4: also have to arm yourself with the strength to defend
Speaker 4: it constant and it can be exhausting. And so when
Speaker 4: you have a parent and who is kind of like
Speaker 4: your colleague who's gone, well, he wants this right, everybody
Speaker 4: don't change it right, It's it's kind of amazing. I
Speaker 4: love her for it. I love her because sometimes you
Speaker 4: don't get that at all in this industry, Like you
Speaker 4: get people pushing, pushing of.
Speaker 3: Course, yeah, everyone's trying to elbow each other out of
Speaker 3: the way.
Speaker 5: Yeah. I actually I love working on like small films,
Speaker 5: independent films, because you are you're all in there, all
Speaker 5: doing everyone's doing it all, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: Like you're all just.
Speaker 5: Kind of in the muck together, creating and doing and
Speaker 5: like it's it's you know again, as an artist, you're
Speaker 5: just like, this is what I love. Is like the
Speaker 5: you know, the playing in the mud and the dirt
Speaker 5: and making something out of you know, whatever, if people
Speaker 5: knew what was going on outside of the shot of
Speaker 5: the camera, you know what I mean, it's like the
Speaker 5: magic that we get to create is really fun. Amongst
Speaker 5: the chaos.
Speaker 4: What's what's been your favorite kind of indie moment.
Speaker 5: Aren't something I mean, you know, honestly, most of the
Speaker 5: like small independent stuff I work on has been for
Speaker 5: Hallmark or for Lifetime. But still like you have, you know,
Speaker 5: twenty days to shoot a ninety seven page movie like there,
Speaker 5: you know, even if you're like, okay, I'm not, it's
Speaker 5: you know, there's not there's no scenes like there are
Speaker 5: in Before We Forget, But it's still like you're having
Speaker 5: to kind of be in the grind and do whatever,
Speaker 5: and you know, and everyone's making it work and no
Speaker 5: one's getting over time and you know, here at hour twelve,
Speaker 5: and but yeah, I'm actually there's a couple scripts that
Speaker 5: I'm working on right now, like producing stuff that are
Speaker 5: again very different, very like things that we're kind of
Speaker 5: having to like really fight for creative choices. So we'll see,
Speaker 5: we'll see the goes anywhere. I mean, we're just still
Speaker 5: in the kind of the writing and creating process.
Speaker 4: I look forward to seeing that because I do remember,
Speaker 4: I mean, you you were always both actually Andrea writing
Speaker 4: the one of the episodes and you're directing. I'm pretty
Speaker 4: curious to see also that vein that you actually you
Speaker 4: both have Andrew I'm still waiting on that show that
Speaker 4: we're going to do together.
Speaker 1: I am.
Speaker 3: Well, look, if you need a director, I'm just saying, I.
Speaker 2: Mean, let's make it happen. Yea on somebody, Warner Brothers, anybody,
Speaker 2: I mean, and.
Speaker 3: I will say it on the podcast, anybody that's looking
Speaker 3: for it.
Speaker 5: Not.
Speaker 2: We have a great script. We're ready to go.
Speaker 5: It actually is ready to go. Yeah, yeah, ready to go.
Speaker 5: Just hand us some money, that's it. Hand us the money.
Speaker 5: We're gonna go do the thing. It's gonna be great.
Speaker 5: We'll take care of all of it. Don't eve worry
Speaker 5: about it. JP's got it. JP and his mom are
Speaker 5: going to handle everything.
Speaker 4: Yeah, JP mom costumes are done.
Speaker 3: Done, they're already sown.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And don't don't tell her that you don't like him,
Speaker 3: because she is going to.
Speaker 2: Be she'll have opinions.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's it. That's what you're getting now.
Speaker 1: So your mom was in the film. Your dad made
Speaker 1: a cameo. He played was he the grandfather? He played Grandpa?
Speaker 5: I have.
Speaker 4: My grandpa was in a wheelchair. I don't even know
Speaker 4: if you see the wheelchair in the movie, but we
Speaker 4: had a wheelchair for him. He's in this sweet scene
Speaker 4: in Winnesida, is with the family. I needed. I wanted him,
Speaker 4: wanted him there, and he's so sweet, my dad. But
Speaker 4: actually that wasn't really his day job and the shoot.
Speaker 4: He was actually the transport manager, a transport that's it captain,
Speaker 4: So he would take the actress from me to be
Speaker 4: and every single day, well pick them up at the
Speaker 4: airport and come back. Yeah, and that way, I'm very lucky.
Speaker 4: I mean, we are, the three of us are very
Speaker 4: lucky that our parents are very supportive. Yeah, we've done.
Speaker 3: We got to meet your parents, which was so lovely.
Speaker 6: They came. I love they came.
Speaker 5: They came over, and we got to have some of
Speaker 5: your mom's amazing paea, which was a Yeah, your birthday.
Speaker 1: Was the biggest bowl of paa I have ever seen
Speaker 1: in my life.
Speaker 6: It was.
Speaker 5: It was, I mean, it was a giant piet Like
Speaker 5: that's what you you know, You're like, we're cooking for everybody.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was sounds of a dining room dangle.
Speaker 6: It was so good.
Speaker 5: It was so good, and we were all like just
Speaker 5: kind of standing over there and smelling it and like yeah.
Speaker 6: Go go, go go go, Yes, it's true.
Speaker 1: One thing I want to ask, Okay, so I didn't
Speaker 1: know this until I talked to you after the screening,
Speaker 1: but the real life Alexander, your real life teenage crush,
Speaker 1: also made a cameo in the film at the end.
Speaker 2: What tell me, Okay, tell me what was that?
Speaker 1: Like? What was what was his reaction when you told
Speaker 1: him you were making this film about this experience between
Speaker 1: you two.
Speaker 2: And have you guys kept in touch? Was this awkward?
Speaker 2: Was it fulfilling? Was it cathartic?
Speaker 6: Like what all of the things that.
Speaker 4: All of that there wasn't like one feeling. I mean,
Speaker 4: when you are doing something that's so close to an
Speaker 4: event and so close to people, you want to ask
Speaker 4: can I do this? And so yeah, we had a
Speaker 4: big conversation beforehand where I said, hey, I'm I'm I'm
Speaker 4: thinking about doing this movie and really, you know, I
Speaker 4: can need your blessing. And so he was amazing, amazing me.
Speaker 4: Just he just said to me, just promise me that
Speaker 4: you will that you won't leave any stones unturned, Like
Speaker 4: it wasn't don't do this right And it was so lovely.
Speaker 4: So so yeah, he was present in the shoot. He
Speaker 4: was present in four or five festivals that went two together.
Speaker 4: There's an easter egg in the film. I'm going to
Speaker 4: say where where you actually see him He's he isn't there, right,
Speaker 4: And it's not what you said, it's something else. Yeah,
Speaker 4: but no, he's he's he's been incredibly present and it's
Speaker 4: so him and his sister.
Speaker 1: Oh are they and are they really Swedish because in
Speaker 1: the oh he's not Swedish.
Speaker 4: Mm hmm.
Speaker 2: Are you willing to say what nationality or not?
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're they're Danish Danish.
Speaker 2: I love the Danes, Jason jac that sweet adjacent close
Speaker 2: yeah yeah, the dance yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah right right, the Upper Nordic.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're the most amazing people, like that whole family
Speaker 4: and the two of them, their parents, I mean, always
Speaker 4: been inspired by them as people and and the love
Speaker 4: they gave me without knowing, without knowing me at at
Speaker 4: seventy years old, and they embraced me, and and yeah,
Speaker 4: I was worried. I was worried to to talk about
Speaker 4: real people because you want to pay homage to them,
Speaker 4: you don't. You want to be very careful and so yeah,
Speaker 4: there was there was a lot of talking and discussing things.
Speaker 4: But yeah, yeah, we're we're best of friends. We talk
Speaker 4: all the time. He's always very involved in like what's
Speaker 4: happening is okay? So which in festival, which cinema is going?
Speaker 4: And if he can, he he comes.
Speaker 2: I love that. It's very full circle. That makes a
Speaker 2: movie even better, more beautiful.
Speaker 1: And I know you shot the film at these actual
Speaker 1: locations too, at the actual college and actually at the
Speaker 1: actual home.
Speaker 2: Right there, their holiday home.
Speaker 4: No, that that was we we we rented that one.
Speaker 4: This is a villa beautiful Venetian. Yeah that's weel thirty
Speaker 4: minutes from the college. But yeah, the college itself. That
Speaker 4: was the whole reason why this movie was made, really
Speaker 4: is because when I wrote it and then called the
Speaker 4: school and then said I would like to not go inside,
Speaker 4: not just would you let me do some establishing shots
Speaker 4: of the place, and but I won't bother you, And
Speaker 4: so the director studies like, no, no, no, no, no, you
Speaker 4: can't do that. You you but you can come to
Speaker 4: the school and shoot it here, shoot the whole film here.
Speaker 4: So the fact that they they led me, they opened
Speaker 4: the doors to a camera crew, I mean fair enough.
Speaker 4: It was like spring break kind of moments. So weep
Speaker 4: that the kids weren't in school. But basically they said,
Speaker 4: you can do this if you use the students. So
Speaker 4: we'll give you the chance if you involve them behind
Speaker 4: the camera, whatever you want. So we had sixty students,
Speaker 4: real students, be you know, the extras, the production managers,
Speaker 4: the costume assistants, and the best friends, which were like
Speaker 4: a group of which I had to kind of teach her. Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 4: They didn't really didn't have to do anything because they
Speaker 4: all have such charism. I loved working with with with
Speaker 4: them because I don't know, it's like I got my
Speaker 4: faith back in in in as an older person, you
Speaker 4: can get a little bit like how my time he
Speaker 4: used to.
Speaker 5: Be m never.
Speaker 6: Old lady.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, yeah, these amazing, remarkable humans that just kind
Speaker 4: of made me go, oh, we're good, We're good, the
Speaker 4: the world good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, right right there, So there's some hope out there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean all thanks to the school really, because
Speaker 4: because once once you have the approval the stamp place
Speaker 4: like that, you have the locations, then I'm not going
Speaker 4: to say it's easy to raise the cash. Yeah, but
Speaker 4: it's kind of like, okay, it's good, No, the train
Speaker 4: is moving. So this hopelly was made that way where great,
Speaker 4: we got there, let's keep going, look and and things
Speaker 4: would just happen. It just happened organically or magically or
Speaker 4: or but but yeah, yeah, the locations were all real
Speaker 4: where thing happened.
Speaker 6: Yeah, they were gorgeous.
Speaker 5: Do you think I could go finish two years of
Speaker 5: high school even though I finished and have a college
Speaker 5: degree in Italy? Would would they take me? I really
Speaker 5: just want to go have that experience? It sounds amazing.
Speaker 4: No, you could do?
Speaker 6: What can I do? What I'm up to?
Speaker 4: Tell me? You could offer a like you know, seminar,
Speaker 4: like a class. Yeah, but like for a week or
Speaker 4: three days or two day or whatever.
Speaker 6: I mean, don't say JP.
Speaker 3: Look at you coming up with ideas.
Speaker 4: No, that's actually really fun and you're there for like
Speaker 4: this beautiful.
Speaker 3: I fell in love with Italy when we went. It
Speaker 3: was just absolutely stunning and gorgeous.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I do that sometimes I go. I go
Speaker 4: there and I and I like, last year I choreographed
Speaker 4: their gala and this year I'm doing it again in October,
Speaker 4: so I'm involved. I just love that. It's like having
Speaker 4: a holiday from the world because you go to the season.
Speaker 4: They don't feel like they're belonging to any country. It's
Speaker 4: this very international thing. And and and also kids are
Speaker 4: so bright, yeah, so pure, so flexible in their minds,
Speaker 4: how they think, are exposed to all these cultures.
Speaker 5: Well, and I think too, like send, like you said,
Speaker 5: sending kids kind of off on the red like here
Speaker 5: you go, Like it changes them and it makes it.
Speaker 5: It creates this sense of self assuredness, I think, and
Speaker 5: capability and courage to try something new or do something different,
Speaker 5: you know, And I think so important.
Speaker 4: So I mean the world's already that way anyway. Kids
Speaker 4: because of social media, they're they're sharing things or they're
Speaker 4: looking at things that they would have never read were
Speaker 4: in our old baby Yeah, but so now the world
Speaker 4: is more connected for sure. But I do say that
Speaker 4: it's important to any any teenager really to at least
Speaker 4: have a holiday abroad or a summer.
Speaker 5: Yeah, now excited kind of travel, even if it's not abroad,
Speaker 5: Like just go go travel somewhere away from your parents
Speaker 5: in high school for like a week where you're with
Speaker 5: other people and you have to kind of figure out
Speaker 5: it changes you. Yeah, having to struggle, as you know,
Speaker 5: like struggle is what makes you kind of come out
Speaker 5: the other side and.
Speaker 6: Go, ah, all right, I survive that.
Speaker 5: Well, well, you're your movie was such a beautiful example
Speaker 5: of like you just working so hard and creating something
Speaker 5: so beautiful and just such a wonderful group of such
Speaker 5: talented actors and just everybody in it. I hope that
Speaker 5: everybody gets a chance to go see where can where
Speaker 5: can people see it? Actually, well, we're.
Speaker 4: Ending now our our theatrical run, which went to I
Speaker 4: think ten cities. Okay, wow, and so we're now we're
Speaker 4: entering the next the next moment, so you can check
Speaker 4: on before we forget movie Instagram or forgetmovie dot com,
Speaker 4: where the movie will be streaming soon. Oh good, great,
Speaker 4: we're in that process now. So well, I'm gonna watch it.
Speaker 5: We'll keep shouting it from the rooftops before we forget
Speaker 5: movie dot com.
Speaker 1: Everybody go check it out, because you it's a movie
Speaker 1: that stays with you, Like it's been two or three
Speaker 1: weeks and it's still I still yell it.
Speaker 2: Yes really, And we are so proud of you JP.
Speaker 5: You are just we're so glad you're in the fam.
Speaker 5: Yeah you really, Yeah, You've been a great addition to.
Speaker 3: Our little fuller, full house.
Speaker 6: Uh weird group of people.
Speaker 2: And I can't wait to see what you do next too.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is just the beginning a very long
Speaker 1: and illustrious filmmaking career and I just can't wait.
Speaker 5: Up.
Speaker 4: Well, we're making shows together.
Speaker 3: Yeah that's yeah, you guys, A yeah, we're maybe it show. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I'll put some dates in the calendar.
Speaker 5: Trans I'll work on getting a sound stage to Kim Moffett.
Speaker 5: She probably has some ideas of things. Yeah, yeah, No,
Speaker 5: we're gonna be fine.
Speaker 6: Guys.
Speaker 5: It's gonna two weeks from now we are going to
Speaker 5: be on a roll. We might be shooting Jody's garage.
Speaker 5: But yeah, it's fine, that's fine, it's big. I can
Speaker 5: clear some stuff out. Uh No, JP, we love you.
Speaker 5: Thank you so much for being on the show today.
Speaker 5: It was such a wonderful conversation. And you're just such
Speaker 5: a talented human. Where can people find you on Instagram
Speaker 5: or other socials.
Speaker 4: It's my very long names, just Juan Bablo, the bad Chick.
Speaker 6: Until we go.
Speaker 5: At one, Pablo Depache and that's d I p a
Speaker 5: Ce for those of you Yeah who might yeah not
Speaker 5: it looks like right yeah yeah, yeah. The American, it's
Speaker 5: not yeah, Americans, Yeah, it's not. It's not Juwan Pablo
Speaker 5: die Pace.
Speaker 3: Yeah it's not. No, no, no.
Speaker 5: Maybe somewhere they pronounced it that way, but not here.
Speaker 5: Uh No. We love you, JP, thank you so much
Speaker 5: for joining us, and it was fabulous.
Speaker 6: We'll talk soon.
Speaker 4: Love you so so, so so much. Sending the kisses
Speaker 4: from from this house to those houses.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, this was.
Speaker 4: I love you, I love your show. I love everything
Speaker 4: that you're doing, or like just bringing joy, which is
Speaker 4: which is the most important thing right now, making people happy.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, bring a little bit of joy to
Speaker 5: the world, all right, Jan you so much.
Speaker 4: We love you.
Speaker 2: So many kisses, so many bassos, and yes, yes, I
Speaker 2: call it for the listeners, I call.
Speaker 1: Him Mea More like we legitimately text each other that
Speaker 1: Hello Mia More, Hello Mea Moore.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, definitely, it's that funny.
Speaker 5: Oh remember I found I took that picture of Stephanie's
Speaker 5: flowers and I said it. I was somewhere like around
Speaker 5: my house and there was a Stephanie flowers and I
Speaker 5: was like, I said picture.
Speaker 6: I was like, it's real.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I know we're trying to wrap up,
Speaker 2: but you know.
Speaker 5: I know the Irish goodbye of podcasts, right, we're like,
Speaker 5: I mean, so and so I still have.
Speaker 1: The voice note that you made for me, where you
Speaker 1: say yay.
Speaker 4: Why did I make a voice note.
Speaker 1: So much I wanted to wanted to play anytime I'm
Speaker 1: sad or whatever, I just play it, yay.
Speaker 4: It could be like like a like a text message, right.
Speaker 3: Like a little yeah. Yeah, it's just a voice note
Speaker 3: that you can send.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, I love it. Okay, Well goodbye for real.
Speaker 2: Actually we'll let you go.
Speaker 6: No, thank you.
Speaker 3: I love you on the show.
Speaker 1: Bye.
Speaker 6: I love him.
Speaker 5: I think I fell in love with JP even more. Yes,
Speaker 5: and I didn't think I could. He's a pretty amazing human.
Speaker 1: He is just he's the best and so talented and
Speaker 1: I'm so happy that he gets to share this talent
Speaker 1: with the world and his film and his life story
Speaker 1: and it's just everything.
Speaker 6: What a cheat?
Speaker 5: Yeah, seriously, what what an incredible like I'm just really.
Speaker 2: You know, it's really happy for me too, me too.
Speaker 5: You see. Well, folks, thank you for joining us for
Speaker 5: uh this incredible.
Speaker 3: Interview with JP.
Speaker 5: We're so proud of him and hope you guys go
Speaker 5: check out the movie before we forget movie dot com.
Speaker 5: Uh it's a really special movie. So yeah, So anyway,
Speaker 5: we will see you.
Speaker 6: Guys next time.
Speaker 5: If you want to find us on Instagram, you can
Speaker 5: follow us at how Rude podcast, or you can send
Speaker 5: us an email at how Rude Tanner Ritos at gmail
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Speaker 3: Uh, make sure you're liking and subscribing to the podcast.
Speaker 5: You know, we always love to hear what you guys
Speaker 5: are thinking, So rate us review, send us emails, whatevs,
Speaker 5: and let's see what else?
Speaker 6: What else?
Speaker 3: Oh our merch store how rudemerch dot com. Make sure
Speaker 3: you check that out. And uh, I think that's it.
Speaker 2: I think you covered.
Speaker 3: I think we're good. Yep, all right, you guys. Well,
Speaker 3: remember the world is small, but the house is full.
Speaker 5: Hernandez get it, Hernandez get it, hern Nandez, Gereto, Gernando
Speaker 5: get it.
Speaker 2: It took me five years to master that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I apologize.
Speaker 3: To anyone who speaks Spanish.
Speaker 6: I actually could.
Speaker 5: It would sound better than that, but I tripped that anyway. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: it's just full. Guerrero Finane Fernandez is everywhere. Just keep
Speaker 5: repeating the same things over and just steps repeating yep, yep,
Speaker 5: it's just coming out everywhere.