WEBVTT - The Spirited Actor - Ulysses Terrero (06/20/2024) 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:03.320 Hello, and welcome to the Spirited Actor Podcast with me 0:00:03.520 --> 0:00:06.440 Tracy Moore. I was a casting director for film and 0:00:06.480 --> 0:00:10.600 TV and commercials for over thirty years. I transitioned to 0:00:10.680 --> 0:00:14.200 a celebrity acting coach after I cast a film New 0:00:14.280 --> 0:00:19.440 Jersey Drive with executive producers Spike Lee and director Nick Domez. 0:00:20.079 --> 0:00:24.479 I auditioned every rapper from Biggie Smalls to Tupac, and 0:00:24.560 --> 0:00:28.240 I realized that rappers and musical artists they needed help 0:00:28.280 --> 0:00:32.560 transitioning to acting. My clients consist of musical artists from 0:00:32.760 --> 0:00:37.400 Buster Rhymes to Eve, Missy Elliott, Angela Yee from The 0:00:37.440 --> 0:00:41.120 Breakfast Club, and Vanessa Simmons to name a few. I 0:00:41.240 --> 0:00:45.120 also coach sports stars and host as well. I feel 0:00:45.320 --> 0:00:48.760 I have the best of both worlds. As a casting director, 0:00:48.800 --> 0:00:51.320 I know exactly what they're looking for, and as an 0:00:51.360 --> 0:00:53.840 acting coach, I can coach you to be remembered in 0:00:53.880 --> 0:00:57.120 that room. Now I know, I know actors want to 0:00:57.160 --> 0:01:00.240 get the job. I get that, but being remembered by 0:01:00.360 --> 0:01:04.880 casting director that is powerful. And now it's time for 0:01:05.040 --> 0:01:09.480 meditation of the day. To love oneself is the beginning 0:01:09.680 --> 0:01:17.280 of a lifelong romance. Oscar Wilde, who I have to 0:01:17.319 --> 0:01:19.959 say amen to that one, because we need to love 0:01:20.080 --> 0:01:25.160 ourselves more. One of the questions that I ask in 0:01:25.200 --> 0:01:31.720 my private sessions is how do you celebrate yourself? And 0:01:31.760 --> 0:01:34.520 I can tell you that fifty percent of the people 0:01:34.600 --> 0:01:39.040 that I ask that they don't. Actually it's probably seventy percent. 0:01:39.240 --> 0:01:44.479 I'm being nice, but people don't celebrate themselves every day. 0:01:45.720 --> 0:01:48.840 I have a challenge for you. It's not TikTok, it's 0:01:48.880 --> 0:01:54.520 not you know, Instagram. It's just a Tracy challenge. And 0:01:55.120 --> 0:01:58.600 I want to challenge all of you to celebrate yourself 0:01:58.840 --> 0:02:02.160 every single day. And it doesn't have to be with money. 0:02:02.680 --> 0:02:05.280 One of my favorite things is just to walk to 0:02:05.360 --> 0:02:07.400 the park and put my feet in the grass or 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:11.960 hug a tree. So I want to encourage all of 0:02:12.000 --> 0:02:15.040 you to be good to yourself, to love yourself, and 0:02:15.080 --> 0:02:18.680 to be nice to yourself, because no one is going. 0:02:18.639 --> 0:02:20.480 To do it better than you. 0:02:20.520 --> 0:02:22.520 No one is going to love you as much as 0:02:22.520 --> 0:02:25.080 you love yourself, and the love that you give to 0:02:25.120 --> 0:02:30.239 yourself pours out into others. So today, spend time celebrating 0:02:30.360 --> 0:02:35.840 and loving you. Before we get started, i'd like to 0:02:35.919 --> 0:02:39.959 remind everyone to look out for my new show Inside 0:02:40.040 --> 0:02:42.919 the Black Box. I'll be co hosting with the great 0:02:43.000 --> 0:02:47.440 Joe Morton. We'll be on Crackle Network real soon. I'll 0:02:47.520 --> 0:02:51.160 keep you posted. Welcome to the Spirited Actor Podcast with 0:02:51.200 --> 0:02:54.280 me Tracy Moore. You guys are not ready. You are 0:02:54.320 --> 0:02:57.400 not ready. I already know this, but you're gonna be ready. 0:02:57.760 --> 0:03:00.000 By the end of this interview, you will be ready. 0:03:00.280 --> 0:03:02.880 Let me tell you. One of the blessings that I 0:03:02.919 --> 0:03:06.239 have in my life is relationships. And when I look 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:09.320 back at how long I have known this gentleman, it 0:03:09.480 --> 0:03:13.880 is amazing to me that we are still in touch, 0:03:14.240 --> 0:03:18.079 we are still in each other's worlds, and we still 0:03:18.200 --> 0:03:21.760 have a diberic friendship. It's just it's a blessing. 0:03:21.960 --> 0:03:24.440 It's a blessing. Okay. 0:03:24.880 --> 0:03:27.360 I need you guys to understand that you are standing 0:03:27.400 --> 0:03:31.240 on this man's shoulders actors, and I want you to 0:03:31.280 --> 0:03:37.440 also understand that our guest and myself we have fought 0:03:37.520 --> 0:03:40.840 from day one for people of color, and we continue 0:03:41.360 --> 0:03:44.360 to fight for people of color. I need you guys 0:03:44.400 --> 0:03:48.120 to understand that because we're in two thousand, twenty three 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:53.000 and I have known him at least nineteen ninety. 0:03:52.880 --> 0:03:54.200 Three, ninety four. 0:03:54.240 --> 0:03:56.760 I want to say because I started new York Undercover 0:03:56.960 --> 0:04:03.120 in ninety four, Ladies and Gentlemen, a phenomenal human being, 0:04:03.480 --> 0:04:09.160 A caring, loving, supportive human being for y'all, actors, you 0:04:09.240 --> 0:04:11.320 need to know, because you need to know the people 0:04:11.400 --> 0:04:15.080 that stand by you, fight for you. I want you 0:04:15.160 --> 0:04:18.880 to put your hands together and stand up, stand. 0:04:18.680 --> 0:04:19.599 Up in your living room. 0:04:20.760 --> 0:04:22.679 I want you to put your hands together for casting 0:04:22.760 --> 0:04:30.600 director extraordinaire, producer extraordinay director extraordinary. Ladies and Gentlemen, Please, 0:04:30.800 --> 0:04:34.320 my dear friend, my spiritual brother, U Liftisterrrero. 0:04:37.480 --> 0:04:43.039 Wow. Oh the truth, Oh my lord, what an introduction. 0:04:43.240 --> 0:04:43.479 You know. 0:04:43.520 --> 0:04:49.680 What's brilliant, Juie. The fact that you have an acting background. 0:04:50.720 --> 0:04:53.040 I don't. I mean, I kind of do in San Francisco, 0:04:53.120 --> 0:04:53.880 But I'm just saying you. 0:04:54.000 --> 0:04:57.440 When I met you, you were actively pursuing a career 0:04:57.480 --> 0:05:01.800 as an actor, so you have that understanding. And then 0:05:02.680 --> 0:05:05.960 as a professional, this is what you do. And the 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:08.520 other day you guys. I saw him on live, I 0:05:08.600 --> 0:05:11.279 heard him, I supported him, and I was like, I 0:05:11.320 --> 0:05:14.520 want him on the podcast to talk to you directly, 0:05:15.200 --> 0:05:19.880 because a lot of things have changed since COVID and 0:05:20.360 --> 0:05:24.120 I have so many similar experiences with Julie. I have 0:05:24.279 --> 0:05:26.800 people I don't know why actors. I don't know why 0:05:26.839 --> 0:05:29.240 you guys think that you can just go out and 0:05:29.279 --> 0:05:32.920 come into this profession with no experience. Why would you 0:05:32.960 --> 0:05:35.799 even want to do that and put yourself out there? 0:05:36.040 --> 0:05:40.120 So I, Julie, I'm giving you the platform. Man, please 0:05:41.560 --> 0:05:44.240 talk to these people. I will interject, but I would 0:05:44.520 --> 0:05:47.279 this is your live again on imart Radio. 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:51.200 Please, I mean, where do we start? What do we 0:05:51.279 --> 0:05:54.480 talk about? I mean, like I said, you know lately 0:05:54.640 --> 0:05:59.280 for me, like you said, is because of Zoom now 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:02.240 everyone things they can be an actor now, so you 0:06:02.279 --> 0:06:04.400 get a lot of people that harass you to give 0:06:04.400 --> 0:06:06.719 them an opportunity. When you do, it's like they're terrible 0:06:07.160 --> 0:06:08.960 and it's just like the first question to ask them 0:06:09.000 --> 0:06:11.040 is like you know, what kind of training do you have? 0:06:11.240 --> 0:06:14.000 Like training, I'm a natural? I'm like natural? What disaster? 0:06:14.600 --> 0:06:17.599 Because it's like it's just like I can't no more. 0:06:18.160 --> 0:06:21.080 And then it's like, you know, then there's this new 0:06:21.120 --> 0:06:23.840 thing where it's like this thing called influencers now, right, 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:27.520 so if you bought a million followers, now you think 0:06:27.560 --> 0:06:29.120 I want to put you in a movie. You know, 0:06:29.160 --> 0:06:30.840 but it's like you have to be a good actor 0:06:31.480 --> 0:06:34.280 and ninety nine out of one hundred. Influencers that come 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:40.600 into the casting are really bad because telling jokes on Instagram, 0:06:40.680 --> 0:06:42.440 we're showing your butt or whatever people are doing to 0:06:42.480 --> 0:06:46.279 get numbers. That's one thing. But acting, it's a craft, 0:06:46.360 --> 0:06:48.599 it's an art form, it's a you know, it's a 0:06:48.720 --> 0:06:52.039 career that you have to manifest. You have to you 0:06:52.120 --> 0:06:54.040 have to train, you have to study like it's a 0:06:54.080 --> 0:06:58.000 full time gig, you know, to get the rewards that 0:06:58.040 --> 0:07:00.880 everybody wants. People want to be like on a serious 0:07:00.880 --> 0:07:03.200 regular on a TV show on a big network, but 0:07:03.279 --> 0:07:06.200 you have to be brilliant to get that opportunity, and 0:07:06.240 --> 0:07:10.280 it takes years. There's no naturals on a TV series. 0:07:10.320 --> 0:07:12.760 You know, anybody in the TV series was a natural. 0:07:12.960 --> 0:07:15.240 I was a natural that got a little independent film, 0:07:15.640 --> 0:07:18.400 woke up, smelled the coffee. Then they trained, and then 0:07:18.440 --> 0:07:23.000 they eventually twenty years later, got that opportunity. So you know, 0:07:23.040 --> 0:07:26.160 like I said, you know, we've both been blessed to 0:07:26.600 --> 0:07:30.040 have a lot of you know, uh, celebrity friends because 0:07:30.040 --> 0:07:32.240 we knew them before they were celebrities and now right 0:07:33.120 --> 0:07:35.960 now they're big, and you know, we might've had our 0:07:36.040 --> 0:07:38.320 hands in that a little bit so they give the 0:07:38.400 --> 0:07:41.120 love and pop up to our classes and stuff, and 0:07:41.560 --> 0:07:44.240 you know, like Louis school Smann. You know, I know 0:07:44.240 --> 0:07:46.360 if you guys know who that is. Yes, he's on 0:07:46.480 --> 0:07:49.000 you know, he's the father on Wednesdays he was you know, 0:07:49.080 --> 0:07:52.640 Colito's wave Wan Pachanga. But but you know, east comes 0:07:52.640 --> 0:07:55.920 to many of my classes and you know he said, uh. 0:07:56.440 --> 0:08:00.000 He was a social worker in the projects, no Eastside project. 0:08:00.520 --> 0:08:02.680 And the friend of his, you know, kept telling me 0:08:02.680 --> 0:08:04.200 should be a movie. She be a movie. She read 0:08:04.280 --> 0:08:06.960 movies and give him an opportunity. And he did a 0:08:06.960 --> 0:08:10.560 little movie and he was so great for everybody loved him. 0:08:11.040 --> 0:08:14.920 So they gave him another opportunity and another opportunity. Then 0:08:14.960 --> 0:08:18.360 he got Miami Vice, a big role, and that's when 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:21.080 he realized he couldn't act and was like, oh shit, 0:08:21.320 --> 0:08:23.520 this thing is hard. And then he went to the 0:08:23.560 --> 0:08:26.960 actor's studio, you know, when he was in Miami Advice, 0:08:27.000 --> 0:08:30.600 he went to the actors studio because that's when he realized, Okay, 0:08:30.840 --> 0:08:33.880 these one line is just cool. Being myself is cool, 0:08:34.080 --> 0:08:36.200 but to get the real money, you have to do 0:08:36.280 --> 0:08:40.120 these pages that somebody else wrote, these characters that somebody 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:43.160 else created, that's nothing like you, and you got to 0:08:43.160 --> 0:08:45.880 figure out how to become the person on the page. 0:08:46.240 --> 0:08:48.959 And that's when he realized he had to study. You know, 0:08:49.920 --> 0:08:50.240 I want. 0:08:50.640 --> 0:08:54.840 I wanted to ask you because like I stress to 0:08:55.000 --> 0:08:57.800 all actors that they have to read aloud every single day, 0:08:57.800 --> 0:09:00.880 three hundred and sixty five days a year, like when 0:09:00.880 --> 0:09:03.600 Michael Jordan was practicing every night the free. 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:04.400 Throws and stuff. 0:09:05.600 --> 0:09:10.319 Because in my experience and just wanting to get your input, 0:09:11.600 --> 0:09:15.760 people can't read Ulie. They cannot read. And when I 0:09:15.840 --> 0:09:20.320 say that to them, I'm saying breathing life into the words. 0:09:20.400 --> 0:09:24.280 Because you know this too, because you know a lot 0:09:24.320 --> 0:09:25.520 of directors and we. 0:09:25.559 --> 0:09:28.679 Got to give a shout out to Jesse. Got to 0:09:28.720 --> 0:09:30.600 give a shout out because that's why that's what I 0:09:30.679 --> 0:09:34.679 do too. Love be so Jesse, But directors. 0:09:34.720 --> 0:09:37.199 I had a conversation with Benny Boom, and Benny was saying, 0:09:37.280 --> 0:09:42.240 like maybe two takes Tracy, maybe two, so there's no 0:09:42.360 --> 0:09:45.079 longer coming on set warm up. You know, you got 0:09:45.120 --> 0:09:47.680 to come on Volcanic cop That's what I tell them, right, 0:09:47.720 --> 0:09:50.600 and have at least ten I say, ten to fifteen 0:09:50.679 --> 0:09:53.880 choices every scene you're doing, so you can have your 0:09:54.200 --> 0:09:58.640 archives to pull out right. But the reading is challenging 0:09:58.679 --> 0:10:04.240 for me, Yulie, because I had a reading for a 0:10:04.280 --> 0:10:09.000 project that I had cast two years ago, and it 0:10:09.160 --> 0:10:13.880 was so difficult getting through that reading because a lot 0:10:13.960 --> 0:10:17.080 of the actors don't know how to read and blow life. 0:10:17.080 --> 0:10:20.000 They're just reading, And I say to them, we don't 0:10:20.080 --> 0:10:24.959 hire readers, We hire characters. Characters have characteristics and. 0:10:24.920 --> 0:10:26.000 They do things. 0:10:26.320 --> 0:10:28.960 So in terms of like, you know, I want you 0:10:29.000 --> 0:10:31.400 to speak on reading, but what other things do you 0:10:31.640 --> 0:10:35.160 highly recommend and stress to these young actors out here. 0:10:35.000 --> 0:10:37.120 Who just think all I need to do is just 0:10:37.160 --> 0:10:38.240 memorize some lines. 0:10:39.920 --> 0:10:43.200 Yeah, I mean, like I said, that's what I encourage 0:10:43.280 --> 0:10:46.000 not to do. You know, what I encourage is to 0:10:46.280 --> 0:10:50.760 understand the character. You know, like, like, who is this character? 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:54.720 You know, what's the relationship with the person you're talking to, 0:10:55.360 --> 0:10:58.280 what's the purpose of the conversation, what's your goal? You know? 0:10:58.320 --> 0:11:01.079 Where are you outside? Is it cold? Is it how 0:11:01.120 --> 0:11:03.679 are you sitting down? You know? How you dressed? How 0:11:03.679 --> 0:11:06.240 do you feel? You know? You know, you know, understanding 0:11:06.240 --> 0:11:09.400 and sometimes this is given in the script, but sometimes 0:11:09.400 --> 0:11:11.720 it's not. And if it's not, you know, you have 0:11:11.760 --> 0:11:15.199 to with the With the majority the information you got, 0:11:15.360 --> 0:11:17.360 you got to make a call or judgment and go, 0:11:17.440 --> 0:11:19.920 you know what, this guy's from here, you know she's 0:11:19.920 --> 0:11:22.200 from there. You know this is the and create the 0:11:22.240 --> 0:11:24.920 backstory because without a backstory, you're only going to be 0:11:25.120 --> 0:11:27.440 the lines. But once you know the objective of the 0:11:27.480 --> 0:11:30.240 scene and the characters and the relationship, now the words 0:11:30.240 --> 0:11:32.600 can come out like the director would like them for 0:11:32.679 --> 0:11:35.680 them to come out. For example, if the line is like, hey, 0:11:35.720 --> 0:11:39.560 how you doing right, and you just the lines, you go, hey, 0:11:39.559 --> 0:11:42.240 how you doing right? But if you know the backstory, 0:11:42.240 --> 0:11:44.320 and the backstory is like, this is the guy who 0:11:44.360 --> 0:11:46.720 was screwing around with your wife for two years? Who's 0:11:46.760 --> 0:11:49.360 your best friend who just found that has been screwing 0:11:49.400 --> 0:11:52.840 your wife? You know, how are you going to say that? Now? 0:11:53.040 --> 0:11:56.120 Now you're be like you no, hey, how you doing? 0:11:56.520 --> 0:11:59.640 You know, like the tune's going to be different, you know. 0:11:59.760 --> 0:12:02.960 And that's what a lot of people, most new actors 0:12:03.200 --> 0:12:05.920 or want to be actors or or or you know, 0:12:06.240 --> 0:12:10.400 first time actors do. They just worry about memorizing these lines, 0:12:10.559 --> 0:12:12.440 and that's how they're coming. Hey, how you doing? How's 0:12:12.480 --> 0:12:14.520 everything okay? Cool? You know what I'm going to kill 0:12:14.559 --> 0:12:17.000 you tomorrow, and it's like, wait a minute, yeah, it 0:12:17.200 --> 0:12:20.400 just happened here. But when you know the backstories, like hey, 0:12:20.400 --> 0:12:24.280 how you doing. You know you're dying tomorrow, right, you know, 0:12:25.000 --> 0:12:29.199 you're like, oh wow, this versus an actor. They did 0:12:29.240 --> 0:12:31.040 the work. But like I said, this is not this 0:12:31.120 --> 0:12:33.760 is stuff that you know they learned in your class, 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:35.800 you know what I mean. These are things you just 0:12:35.800 --> 0:12:37.480 said some things right now. I was like, well, that's 0:12:37.480 --> 0:12:39.240 a good idea. I don't think I've ever done that before. 0:12:39.240 --> 0:12:41.960 So I just learned the jewel talking to you right now, 0:12:42.040 --> 0:12:43.840 you know so. 0:12:43.080 --> 0:12:45.600 So, but it's vice versa, and like I want the 0:12:45.679 --> 0:12:49.720 audience to know that. Like when I first started casting, 0:12:49.800 --> 0:12:53.800 there were like five casting directors, including Yulie, that I 0:12:54.000 --> 0:12:58.000 trusted and that I you know, if they needed anything, 0:12:58.280 --> 0:13:02.040 I would refer saying, you know, we we we help 0:13:02.080 --> 0:13:05.320 each other out like that. So it's never I never 0:13:05.360 --> 0:13:08.000 felt competition. I never felt like, oh, you know, I 0:13:08.000 --> 0:13:09.280 don't want to take a job from. 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:09.840 You Ley or whatever. 0:13:09.920 --> 0:13:12.160 I felt we were all blessed back then, and we 0:13:12.160 --> 0:13:13.959 were always working, all of us. 0:13:14.000 --> 0:13:15.080 We were always working. 0:13:17.040 --> 0:13:18.960 So I think that that's a great thing for you 0:13:19.000 --> 0:13:22.199 guys to know is that there's no competition between us. 0:13:22.240 --> 0:13:22.800 We share. 0:13:24.200 --> 0:13:27.040 The other thing is is that I encourage people who 0:13:27.200 --> 0:13:31.560 take my class to take your class after, because well, 0:13:31.679 --> 0:13:34.360 I think I think what's really important is that actors 0:13:34.400 --> 0:13:37.280 get a variety of teachers because not everybody is the 0:13:37.280 --> 0:13:41.200 same and not everybody teaches the same. But like, what 0:13:41.360 --> 0:13:47.400 I've started to enforce basically based on you is creating 0:13:47.679 --> 0:13:50.880 sort of this agreement with actors. You know in the 0:13:50.920 --> 0:13:57.600 beginning that talking to Elsa about but you know, homework 0:13:57.640 --> 0:13:59.920 assignments have to be turned in. I'm not giving you 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:02.600 homework assignments just because I'm playing teacher. I'm giving you 0:14:02.640 --> 0:14:05.400 homework assignments because the business part of it is what 0:14:05.520 --> 0:14:08.080 you need to focus on the business, and the spiritual 0:14:08.120 --> 0:14:11.960 side is knowing and understanding the manifestation process and the 0:14:12.040 --> 0:14:14.400 usage of your words. If you keep telling me you're 0:14:14.400 --> 0:14:16.640 a struggling actor, you're going to be a struggling actor. 0:14:16.800 --> 0:14:18.600 So you need to make adjustments in your words. 0:14:18.679 --> 0:14:18.839 Right. 0:14:19.120 --> 0:14:20.560 But when people don't. 0:14:20.280 --> 0:14:22.400 Turn in their homework or they turn it in the 0:14:22.520 --> 0:14:26.160 day of when it's supposed to do, what I'm trying 0:14:26.200 --> 0:14:30.240 to teach you, guys is discipline and routine because if 0:14:30.280 --> 0:14:32.720 you're not a morning person, you got to change your 0:14:32.760 --> 0:14:36.280 life if you plan on being an actor, because we 0:14:36.360 --> 0:14:40.400 shoot our shooting schedule, right, you know, if you're late 0:14:40.440 --> 0:14:42.280 all the time, you got to change your life because 0:14:42.320 --> 0:14:46.360 we need you to be on time. We hire business people. 0:14:47.360 --> 0:14:50.880 So I just want to make that clear because that's 0:14:50.960 --> 0:14:51.200 one of. 0:14:51.240 --> 0:14:53.240 The aspects that I love about Julie. 0:14:53.360 --> 0:14:57.240 When some Sinclair, Juli knows our usual suspects who we 0:14:57.280 --> 0:15:01.040 can tap into Yolanda Hunt that are always to assist us. 0:15:01.160 --> 0:15:01.440 Right. 0:15:02.520 --> 0:15:06.320 But I have a question in terms of you made 0:15:06.400 --> 0:15:12.240 a really good point in terms of the characters in 0:15:12.320 --> 0:15:18.600 your audition, and now with zooms are you finding because 0:15:19.080 --> 0:15:20.760 you know, I always want to give the benefit of 0:15:20.800 --> 0:15:23.640 the doubt, but if you were to put on a percentage, 0:15:24.400 --> 0:15:27.640 what is the percentage of actors in your opinion that 0:15:28.520 --> 0:15:29.080 are not. 0:15:30.680 --> 0:15:31.120 Training? 0:15:31.240 --> 0:15:34.680 Is one thing, but in the zoom being equipped with 0:15:34.800 --> 0:15:39.600 the proper background sound shooting, what is the percentage of 0:15:39.640 --> 0:15:41.600 actors that are really prepared out there? 0:15:42.840 --> 0:15:45.320 Well, it's unfortunate that I'm gonna have to break this 0:15:45.480 --> 0:15:52.520 down good an a racist or a racial a breakdown, 0:15:53.160 --> 0:15:58.400 But if it's a if it's a Corecasian character. We're 0:15:58.440 --> 0:16:04.120 looking for. Maybe nine out of ten are perfect on 0:16:04.280 --> 0:16:09.760 point type we needed. If it's African American, you know, 0:16:10.480 --> 0:16:13.960 I would say nowadays, in twenty twenty three, I would 0:16:13.960 --> 0:16:18.240 say like seven, seven out of ten, you know, sure 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:25.280 for sure. And if it's Latino or other they two 0:16:25.320 --> 0:16:30.760 percent two out of ten. You know, it's really it's 0:16:30.760 --> 0:16:32.600 really bad. Like I said, The thing is is like 0:16:33.000 --> 0:16:37.360 you know, you know, you know, we come we come 0:16:37.440 --> 0:16:40.240 from from the big beginning of time where there was 0:16:40.520 --> 0:16:43.040 not much color on TV. So we were part of 0:16:43.040 --> 0:16:45.960 that movement. And you know, so I was part of 0:16:45.960 --> 0:16:47.760 the fight. You know, I did the Black Lives Matter did. 0:16:47.840 --> 0:16:50.080 I was part of all that stuff. But now there 0:16:50.160 --> 0:16:53.720 is opportunity, you know for African American actors, there is 0:16:53.760 --> 0:16:58.400 now so now that there's opportunities, you know, African Americans, 0:16:58.440 --> 0:17:01.600 I stepped up to the plate and taking in the opportunities. 0:17:01.840 --> 0:17:05.960 There's still no opportunities for Latinos or you know, why 0:17:06.040 --> 0:17:09.680 spend money to study if there's no future? Why why 0:17:09.880 --> 0:17:14.280 learn what you have to do if there's no auditions. Now, 0:17:14.280 --> 0:17:18.040 if you're Mexican and you live in LA there's there's opportunities. 0:17:18.119 --> 0:17:20.600 You know to a certain degree, you know, but like 0:17:20.680 --> 0:17:23.720 Puerto Rican or Dominican or another type of Latino, like 0:17:23.760 --> 0:17:26.560 if you don't have the standard accident that they actually 0:17:26.640 --> 0:17:30.240 for on TV. Right now, there's two movies right now 0:17:30.320 --> 0:17:34.480 that came out. One is The The Friedo's I think 0:17:34.480 --> 0:17:38.840 it is with Jesse Garcia. Even then there's another one 0:17:38.880 --> 0:17:44.520 that's on Disney with uh uh. It's called The Lorus. 0:17:45.200 --> 0:17:48.200 The Law is something I just saw it today briefly, 0:17:48.240 --> 0:17:49.639 so I don't know the name of it, but you know, 0:17:49.880 --> 0:17:54.640 just a strong actress, the horror of dolorous, something like that. 0:17:54.840 --> 0:17:57.440 But anyway, you know, if you watch, if you see 0:17:57.440 --> 0:18:00.439 the trailers, you know, those are all my friends. I know. 0:18:00.480 --> 0:18:04.360 Everybody knows movies. Wow, And they don't talk like this, 0:18:05.000 --> 0:18:08.000 you know, they had the thought like this, like everyone 0:18:08.119 --> 0:18:11.320 talks like this, like I don't even know if I'm 0:18:11.320 --> 0:18:14.320 doing it right, but it's like it's like if there's 0:18:14.359 --> 0:18:16.720 a Latin role on the I tell you, I tell 0:18:16.720 --> 0:18:19.600 your story. So I was casting this movie for this 0:18:19.720 --> 0:18:24.080 big studio. We were looking for this specific type of actress, right. 0:18:25.040 --> 0:18:26.240 I don't want to, I don't want to in trouble 0:18:26.240 --> 0:18:28.879 with the studios. I won't see the description. But we 0:18:29.040 --> 0:18:34.040 never found her, so the movie never happened. Big studio, 0:18:34.280 --> 0:18:40.680 nice budget starring role for someone of my ethnicity, with 0:18:40.720 --> 0:18:45.040 my complexion, you know, certain specific things to the title 0:18:45.720 --> 0:18:50.560 and young, young actor, and we couldn't find anybody. So 0:18:50.600 --> 0:18:51.760 the movie never happened. 0:18:52.200 --> 0:18:55.359 You know, wow, and they have the financing and everything. 0:18:55.600 --> 0:18:58.680 Yeah, ten million dollars, big movie and then potentially a 0:18:58.760 --> 0:19:02.280 sitcom afterwards, and we couldn't find it. We found three 0:19:02.320 --> 0:19:04.920 girls that were amazing, but they were just too old 0:19:05.000 --> 0:19:07.680 supposed to be high school. They were like a year 0:19:07.800 --> 0:19:11.040 two old. We had three amazing options, but they were 0:19:11.040 --> 0:19:12.960 a year two old. And then we found one that 0:19:13.119 --> 0:19:15.679 was young, but she didn't want She didn't agree with 0:19:16.280 --> 0:19:18.639 you know, the sources attached to the character. She didn't 0:19:18.640 --> 0:19:21.119 want to play that kind of role. But anyway, but 0:19:21.200 --> 0:19:24.600 the long story shortness, so the character had a mother, right, 0:19:25.000 --> 0:19:29.600 a Latin mother, right. Every single Latin woman that came 0:19:29.680 --> 0:19:33.040 into the audition out of la was like, let's say, 0:19:33.040 --> 0:19:36.320 the girls that was ironic because like, well you're not here, 0:19:36.480 --> 0:19:39.240 why you're not whole? Like they all spoke like that, 0:19:39.680 --> 0:19:44.280 and I was just like vision, but I knew all 0:19:44.320 --> 0:19:46.720 of them. So I was calling, like, what's this terrible? 0:19:46.800 --> 0:19:51.159 Actually you're doing? You said Latina I know, yeah, but 0:19:52.160 --> 0:19:54.320 not like like where is where does that actually come from? 0:19:54.520 --> 0:19:58.640 It was Mexican. Yeah. I'm like like they're like, yo, 0:19:59.440 --> 0:20:02.120 like that's how it is over here. When they say 0:20:02.200 --> 0:20:05.159 Latin in the scripts over there, that's what that means. 0:20:05.520 --> 0:20:09.080 You have to ask. We all learned it. Wow, learned 0:20:09.080 --> 0:20:12.959 that if you watch all the movies like Ozart, right, yeah, 0:20:13.200 --> 0:20:16.480 you know, the new thing is now we're the new 0:20:16.520 --> 0:20:18.920 black now. So now when you do a movie, there's 0:20:18.960 --> 0:20:23.920 a lead black actor, lead female you know, LGTVQ, all 0:20:23.960 --> 0:20:27.720 these characters, and we're the drug dealers now, like we're 0:20:27.720 --> 0:20:29.919 the drug dealers. We're the ones that get killed in 0:20:29.960 --> 0:20:33.440 the first five minutes, which been to African American actors 0:20:33.640 --> 0:20:35.960 twenty years ago. But the good thing is that we 0:20:36.280 --> 0:20:38.760 have the blueprint now. So as Latinas were like, okay, 0:20:38.880 --> 0:20:40.800 this is the blueprint. This is what they did is 0:20:41.000 --> 0:20:43.520 you know, so now as Latinas, we just got to follow. 0:20:43.600 --> 0:20:47.000 The only difference is that you know, like Tyler Perry, 0:20:47.000 --> 0:20:50.840 God bless him so much, like you know, he had support, 0:20:51.000 --> 0:20:53.640 especially from the church, so he did all those plays, 0:20:53.840 --> 0:20:57.400 so we throw that into films. Every single person that's 0:20:57.400 --> 0:21:00.760 seen those plays ran to the movie theaters to support 0:21:00.800 --> 0:21:04.879 this young filmmaker African American and they all ran to 0:21:04.920 --> 0:21:07.639 the movie to this let's support this great guy. And 0:21:07.760 --> 0:21:10.720 he became successful because he had the fan base. If 0:21:10.720 --> 0:21:12.720 you ever go see a Tyler Perry movie in the theater, 0:21:12.960 --> 0:21:18.840 it feels like church, right right, family, the kids, the grandparents, 0:21:18.880 --> 0:21:22.560 there's hallelujah like. It feels like because he had the 0:21:22.600 --> 0:21:25.200 support from the from the church and everybody follow him. 0:21:25.960 --> 0:21:28.560 The black is well, we do it like we can 0:21:28.640 --> 0:21:30.960 follow the blueprint all we want, But if we do 0:21:32.440 --> 0:21:36.600 the Latin Hollywood shuffle, right, are Latinos gonna go see it? 0:21:37.920 --> 0:21:41.800 You know? Probably not? You know, I don't know. Like 0:21:41.960 --> 0:21:44.399 like I said, there was a Baker in The Beauty, 0:21:44.800 --> 0:21:47.000 which is a bunch of great actors, a great show 0:21:47.080 --> 0:21:51.199 on CBS. Nobody, ABC, nobody saw it. But at the 0:21:51.200 --> 0:21:53.000 same time, too, they didn't market it. 0:21:53.000 --> 0:21:55.400 Either, right because they don't know how. 0:21:56.960 --> 0:22:01.080 Yeah, they'll put a they'll put it on Moondo is 0:22:01.080 --> 0:22:06.359 a Spanish speaking audience English show. The show that'll make 0:22:06.400 --> 0:22:09.840 no sense. Then there was then there was in the Heights, 0:22:10.280 --> 0:22:13.880 you know, which is an attempt of a Broadway show 0:22:13.920 --> 0:22:17.000 turned to film with you know, I. 0:22:17.040 --> 0:22:18.960 Worked with Leslie Grace on that. 0:22:19.480 --> 0:22:24.760 Okay, you were a called me for her awesome, I 0:22:24.840 --> 0:22:25.320 love her. 0:22:26.760 --> 0:22:29.800 But but but nobody saw that show, right, you know, 0:22:29.840 --> 0:22:33.879 and the average Dominican didn't see that show. Oh no, 0:22:34.000 --> 0:22:37.159 because it didn't see didn't You're a fucking hater, right, sorry? Right, 0:22:37.200 --> 0:22:40.840 curse on the show. Sorry. Then then then there was 0:22:40.920 --> 0:22:44.320