Speaker 1: This is he said Aya Vijo with Eric Winter and
Speaker 1: Rosalind Fantaz.
Speaker 2: Hello, Hello, Hello, morning, morning after buen dia mihin the
Speaker 2: ODA met today, I am excited to welcome a dear
Speaker 2: friend to the show.
Speaker 3: I'm excited too.
Speaker 2: Yes, he really doesn't need an introduction. We're going to
Speaker 2: do it anyways, right because he is huge, a musician, philanthropist,
Speaker 2: a dad, an inspiration and currently starring in Apple TV
Speaker 2: Palm Royale. Do you understand Eric Winter that he has
Speaker 2: sold more than sixty million albums worldwide as a solo artist.
Speaker 2: Began acting in TV commercials at the age of six.
Speaker 2: Nu Though he was Menuro in nineteen eighty four, and
Speaker 2: then he left the band in nineteen eighty nine, joined
Speaker 2: the cast of the Mexican tele NOVELA al cansar UNEs Treja.
Speaker 3: Why he was on General Hospital too. Let's not forget
Speaker 3: that he did.
Speaker 2: He won Premiolo Nuiz Through. He's done Broadway Limiss in
Speaker 2: nineteen ninety six, che also in Broadway twenty twelve, a Vita.
Speaker 2: He has a foundation, the Ricky Martin Foundation, many campaigns
Speaker 2: against human trafficking.
Speaker 4: Let's not forget outstanding Emmy supporting Actor nomination for Versace.
Speaker 2: You're absolutely right. Do you know what's his actual name?
Speaker 2: His real name, I don't Enrique Jose Martin moralist, Okay,
Speaker 2: I don't know. Yes, Enrique Jose. And as a kid,
Speaker 2: they call him Kiki.
Speaker 3: Can't wait to chat with him. That's gonna be great.
Speaker 1: Hey, what's going on?
Speaker 2: Hey, Kelly there?
Speaker 3: I love that art in your background. That's so cool.
Speaker 1: I have I have visited. I have, Yeah, she came
Speaker 1: to visit and yeah, and she's only eating apple And.
Speaker 2: Where are you notcalist in your house?
Speaker 1: Not modeling my house? So we rented a house in
Speaker 1: the meantime. It's one of those things because of the
Speaker 1: floods we got. It got really flooded. No from here,
Speaker 1: because yeah, come yeah, So we took advantage. I said, okay,
Speaker 1: let's clean it all up. Let's take advantage of this.
Speaker 1: And it's working up fine.
Speaker 2: So that's good.
Speaker 1: That's good.
Speaker 2: But listen, going through remodels and building, it's it's it's
Speaker 2: stressful because we've done it twice already and it's been
Speaker 2: a nightmare.
Speaker 1: And they tell you three months and it takes seven.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I've yet to see a contractor beyond time. With
Speaker 4: any part of any construction.
Speaker 2: You want to hear something, you know, something crazy. We
Speaker 2: had a problem with our house or we had to
Speaker 2: do the same thing we were. We were like basically
Speaker 2: building back the house, and we had to rent and
Speaker 2: I kept and I got pregnant during the rental with Dylan,
Speaker 2: my second the second one, and the whole thing was
Speaker 2: telling the contractor, please, I don't want to deliver. I
Speaker 2: have to be at the rental. I want to be
Speaker 2: back home, so make sure you have ten months that
Speaker 2: I just meet out. I had my baby and six
Speaker 2: months later the house was ready. It took a year
Speaker 2: and a half.
Speaker 1: That's where it goes. It is incredible and it doesn't
Speaker 1: matter if it's in La Puerto Rico. It really doesn't matter.
Speaker 2: It's just how I know it's crazy. But anyways, listen away.
Speaker 2: We are so excited to have you with us. Thank you, Brook.
Speaker 2: It's been a while, like we've been dreaming about having Riki,
Speaker 2: So thank you so much for taking the time of
Speaker 2: doing this.
Speaker 1: Much, for inviting me. Please are you kidding me? Congratulations
Speaker 1: and all the success and everything and light and many
Speaker 1: more to comfortfully.
Speaker 2: Oh as well.
Speaker 4: I mean, you're always busy You're always doing incredible things,
Speaker 4: not just with work but with philanthropy and everything else
Speaker 4: that you do. You're always making a huge impact. But
Speaker 4: with your latest project now Palmrele this is I mean,
Speaker 4: this's been a lot of fun.
Speaker 3: We really enjoy.
Speaker 1: The sunes, this music ears.
Speaker 3: Man, How what was that like? I mean, what's what
Speaker 3: was the filming experience like for you? Like TV it
Speaker 3: was a tax singe.
Speaker 4: I mean, a lot heavy hitters in this in this
Speaker 4: show with you, right, like you've done that many times.
Speaker 1: But you always have to bring your A game to
Speaker 1: the scene, obviously, because I'm so lucky to be surrounded
Speaker 1: by such amazing actors. I mean, where do I start.
Speaker 1: I mean, let's start dropping names. You know, Carol Burnett,
Speaker 1: it's Laura Dern, It's the one and only Kristen Wigg.
Speaker 1: You know. It's like we can keep going because it's uh,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's like a dream team of like I said,
Speaker 1: wonderful actresses. And then the story is so wonderful and
Speaker 1: it's so brilliantly written. And Apple TV plus was they
Speaker 1: were so generous because it's I can you can see that,
Speaker 1: you can see the love.
Speaker 3: And for sure you can tell it's expensive expense on
Speaker 3: that shows.
Speaker 2: Can but I want to know about the process before
Speaker 2: Ricky was this? Uh? Was this an offer that you
Speaker 2: have to ca mystery? Read like, how did it go
Speaker 2: down for you to? Did you read the material and
Speaker 2: you call your people saying you know what I want in?
Speaker 2: How did that go?
Speaker 1: You know? So it all started in a in a
Speaker 1: in an after party in an Oscar night after party
Speaker 1: where I was just dancing and and the creator of
Speaker 1: the show, the One and Only Ape Sylvia, was there
Speaker 1: and he just he said he went to my agent
Speaker 1: who was with me, and he said, is what is
Speaker 1: he doing now? And my agent goes, He's ready, He's ready.
Speaker 1: He goes, let's talk. Let's talk. Two weeks later they
Speaker 1: sent me the script and uh, two weeks two weeks later,
Speaker 1: I was flying to LA to meet with the director,
Speaker 1: Tate Taylor, who was someone that you know, I love
Speaker 1: and he's been wonderful and and and and obviously you
Speaker 1: know the typical question, who's attached to it? You know?
Speaker 1: And and they just started dropping in. I'm like, I
Speaker 1: don't even need to read this, let's jump in. I
Speaker 1: meant get ready. Obviously, I I met with Tate and
Speaker 1: and you know, I read all my scenes and I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm ready, let's read. I'm ready to audition. And he
Speaker 1: goes like, no, I know what you can bring to
Speaker 1: the table, don't worry, see you on set. That's great,
Speaker 1: and let's do it. So it was wonderful and but
Speaker 1: it's it's it was challenging. It was comedy. It was
Speaker 1: the first time, you know, I did comedy. I'm lucky
Speaker 1: to say that I was, you know, I was you know,
Speaker 1: someone like Carol Burnette was holding my hand in the process,
Speaker 1: and she taught me the wonders of of just forgetting
Speaker 1: forgetting the script. You know, just leave your script on
Speaker 1: your trailer and and let's walk and let's have fun
Speaker 1: and whatever whatever happens between cut, between action and cut
Speaker 1: is is. It's about having fun. So it's it was
Speaker 1: a very beautiful experience where I felt I felt free.
Speaker 1: You know. The other projects that I've done were about
Speaker 1: telling someone's story and not in this case. This was
Speaker 1: a novel of soap opera album. I'm sorry, and you
Speaker 1: could just add to it. And to have the writers,
Speaker 1: you know, behind the camera taking notes of what we
Speaker 1: were coming up with. Wow, we were giving and as
Speaker 1: you know, and so we helped develop the characters a
Speaker 1: little bit. So it was it was the most amazing experience.
Speaker 2: And so did you.
Speaker 4: So you did get to improvise quite a bit with
Speaker 4: a lot on the scenes. I want to say a lot,
Speaker 4: but they gave you freedom.
Speaker 1: For me, it was a lot, and and Kristin would
Speaker 1: say it wasn't that much, and I'm like, okay, perfect,
Speaker 1: you know, but but but but but I wasn't a
Speaker 1: slave to the script. It where you know, if you
Speaker 1: don't say the right words, we can get sued, which
Speaker 1: was another case that I worked with in the past
Speaker 1: with another production, and so so we were free. It
Speaker 1: was the freedom of the liberty that I felt in
Speaker 1: this project just to jump in and come up with
Speaker 1: things and and I improvise on stuff that later on
Speaker 1: were brought to different scenes because they were so effective
Speaker 1: and and it was it was very special.
Speaker 4: Now I imagine something like, I mean, you were nominated
Speaker 4: for an Emmy with Versace, right, So you're going from
Speaker 4: drama drama, huge rhyme, Murphy right, like, very specific style
Speaker 4: of storytelling into something like this. Was there a lot
Speaker 4: of freedom in comparison like I with comedy, I find
Speaker 4: that you often get a bit more freedom to dive
Speaker 4: into the character and how you want to build out
Speaker 4: the comedy with the dialogue. In a show like Versace
Speaker 4: or a series like Versace that was that far different,
Speaker 4: was ryan very particular on dialogue.
Speaker 1: We were not allowed to improvise at all because we
Speaker 1: were telling someone's story. Yeah, and whenever we said we
Speaker 1: chose another word, we would have the legal department show
Speaker 1: up and say, wow, you cannot do this. You have
Speaker 1: to go back to what is specifically on the script.
Speaker 1: And it's understandable because we were telling the story of
Speaker 1: the genre in this case and say it's a novel.
Speaker 1: We were a little bit more more, a little bit
Speaker 1: more now. We were great to to bring to bring
Speaker 1: our Jews to the to the picture. And uh, I
Speaker 1: mean there's magic in both. Obviously, you know, we're telling
Speaker 1: the responsibility of telling the story of someone as iconic
Speaker 1: as also it was wonderful, it was beautiful. But but
Speaker 1: but it's it's incredible the darkness that you deal with
Speaker 1: when you're when you're working with comedy. Right in order
Speaker 1: for it to be effective, there there has to be
Speaker 1: this darkness behind it, and and and I was dealing
Speaker 1: with secrets that everyone had secrets in this palm real situation,
Speaker 1: and and and we were able to to create our
Speaker 1: own secrets that later on hopefully will become something else.
Speaker 1: I I I was, I don't know. I'm still I'm
Speaker 1: still floating over this. I saw the last episode and
Speaker 1: I've been dealing with this script for two years, and
Speaker 1: I was still in shock of how how what happened?
Speaker 1: You know? And so there's been nothing but a wonderful experience.
Speaker 1: And I'm very lucky.
Speaker 2: And that's fantastic. Did they announce a second season, Ricky
Speaker 2: or not yet? You guys don't know. You're not supposed
Speaker 2: to say anything.
Speaker 1: Now, I'm like, come on, apple to you plus bring
Speaker 1: it on and come.
Speaker 2: On so you will be off for it because I
Speaker 2: know the last episode with something tragic happens to you.
Speaker 2: So you we don't know what's what's going to happen.
Speaker 2: If there's a second season, you're more than happy to
Speaker 2: come back.
Speaker 1: Course, I listen, I am. I love music and music
Speaker 1: will always be there and music, obviously, what music has
Speaker 1: has brought to my life is something that I will
Speaker 1: always be very thankful and grateful. And we cannot deny
Speaker 1: that part of that wonderful, that wonderful aspect of storytelling.
Speaker 1: The first time I was in front of the camera
Speaker 1: telling a story as an actor, I was fifteen years old.
Speaker 1: With Manul, we moved to Argentina and we did a
Speaker 1: TV series in Argentina. And at that moment when I
Speaker 1: heard action for the first time, and I started telling
Speaker 1: my story of this kid that was abandoned by his
Speaker 1: father and he had a single mother. In the darkness
Speaker 1: and the crying and the long it was something that
Speaker 1: hooked me to acting right. And then obviously music came
Speaker 1: into my life and did its thing, and I couldn't
Speaker 1: just push it away. It was magical what was happening.
Speaker 1: Once again, it's about storytelling. If it's through music that
Speaker 1: I write or music that I don't write, if it's
Speaker 1: about a script, it's about storytelling. I had the honor
Speaker 1: to be on Broadway. I've worked. I did Glee, and
Speaker 1: then I did the Assassination of Danni VERSACEI and then
Speaker 1: I went back to Broadway and then and now this
Speaker 1: this is something that I that I that I want
Speaker 1: to get ready for. I've been getting ready for many years,
Speaker 1: but with a lot of respect and passion. Whatever I
Speaker 1: do in this is because some ways, somehow people are
Speaker 1: feeling some kind of of of of It's because it's
Speaker 1: thought provoking and we're telling are are making people think
Speaker 1: some way somehow and maybe changing the way they think
Speaker 1: about life. And because of that, it's about storytelling. We
Speaker 1: go back to that aspect of the fluidity of entertaining.
Speaker 2: Right, have you ever thought about developing something for you, recky,
Speaker 2: Like is there a TV show or a movie or
Speaker 2: a limited series?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 2: Have you ever thought about you know what? I love
Speaker 2: acting clearly very good at this. It's about storytelling. Do
Speaker 2: you think that you will develop something that you have
Speaker 2: more control?
Speaker 1: My agent is constantly telling, constantly telling me, bring the book.
Speaker 3: Bringing that that book.
Speaker 1: If you find that book, let's make it happen. And
Speaker 1: there are some really interesting things that I that I'm
Speaker 1: going through right now that I am that I would
Speaker 1: love to bring into life. You know, it takes five years.
Speaker 1: The first time I said, you know, I want to
Speaker 1: do Broadway. I want to go back to Broadway, and
Speaker 1: I want to do a Vita. It literally took five
Speaker 1: years from that thought until we started production. So I,
Speaker 1: you know, I just I turned fifty two years old,
Speaker 1: and I think I am in a very special place
Speaker 1: in my life where I can where I don't have
Speaker 1: to prove anything to everybody. I just feel very comfortable
Speaker 1: with my emotions where I'm at spiritually, physically, and and
Speaker 1: and I don't, I don't. I just have to. I
Speaker 1: just have to be grounded and vulnerable enough without fear
Speaker 1: in to to to talk about things that I am
Speaker 1: really concerned about through acting like I've done with music
Speaker 1: some way, somehow, And then also very lucky to say
Speaker 1: that people around me are inspiring me as well, and
Speaker 1: the team that I've encounter in this journey has been wonderful.
Speaker 1: So we'll see what happens.
Speaker 4: This is something I've always wanted to know, and you're
Speaker 4: the perfect person to ask because an entertainer that has
Speaker 4: reached so many different mediums in entertainment, right, I know
Speaker 4: what the feelings like when you dive into a great
Speaker 4: character and that rush that you get when you finally
Speaker 4: connect to the character and you see it through, whether
Speaker 4: it's a series or a movie, whatever it is. Right,
Speaker 4: you've done Broadway as well, but you've also sold out
Speaker 4: massive arenas with people singing your music. What's the biggest
Speaker 4: adrenaline rush as an entertainer or that feeling that's just
Speaker 4: like you're out of body, you're out of body experience
Speaker 4: in a way, because to now it has to be
Speaker 4: it has to be that. But I mean, I want
Speaker 4: to hear from you what is because it's all different.
Speaker 1: They have.
Speaker 3: You know, you've done Broadways. You're still in front of
Speaker 3: a crowd, and the.
Speaker 1: Power, the power of the crowd doesn't comper to anything
Speaker 1: because you know you have twenty thousand people giving you
Speaker 1: energy right there, right that's at that moment when you say,
Speaker 1: everybody put your hands together and your music a huge
Speaker 1: arena to a song that you created, you know, I
Speaker 1: don't know years ago, and it is really beautiful. And
Speaker 1: Broadway you have that, and Broadway on Broadway, I haven't.
Speaker 1: I had a moment where you know you're working on
Speaker 1: actuals because I was. I was doing the miss and
Speaker 1: I was I was playing Marius right and and there's
Speaker 1: a moment where this character dies in my arms and
Speaker 1: it's very wonderful moment, very sad, very dramatic, and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, from the last road, I hear someone
Speaker 1: say freaky.
Speaker 3: I love Yeah, Oh, my god, So you know it
Speaker 3: makes you break character or did you just stay? You stay?
Speaker 2: You were like I didn't hear I didn't hear it.
Speaker 1: She resurrected. I was like, yes, they right there.
Speaker 2: Do you know that I went through I saw you
Speaker 2: when you're did li miss? Oh that went to see you?
Speaker 2: I went to Broadway? Yes, I saw him do the miss.
Speaker 2: It was because I love Broadway and we love you.
Speaker 2: So I was like, oh my god, what an incredible
Speaker 2: Let me let me ask you something and this is
Speaker 2: just me here tripping, you know, like because you have
Speaker 2: you have accomplished so much. Do you take moments that
Speaker 2: you're in the bathroom, you're in the sauna, like you're
Speaker 2: by yourself, and let's say that it's a difficult time
Speaker 2: in your life. Do you think and did you say
Speaker 2: thank you? And those moments of greatness like you're in
Speaker 2: a stadium with twenty five thousand people adoring you. How
Speaker 2: does it make you feel reaky? You know, like, do
Speaker 2: you go to God, I've been so freaking blessed? Or
Speaker 2: does it feel lonely? Does it feel amazing knowing that
Speaker 2: you're it?
Speaker 1: All of the above. Russell I started when I was
Speaker 1: twelve years old. Like I said, I'm fifty two, and
Speaker 1: I've had moments of joy, and I've had moments of
Speaker 1: deep sadness and moments that are dark where I feel
Speaker 1: lonely even though I'm surrounded by you know, one hundred
Speaker 1: and fifteen people, people that travel with me when I'm
Speaker 1: on the road. We could be like one hundred and
Speaker 1: fifteen people, right, and that becomes your family. And sometimes
Speaker 1: you feel the adrenaline of, like I said, the crowd
Speaker 1: twenty thousand and thirty thousand people singing and dancing to
Speaker 1: your music, and then the silence of when you go
Speaker 1: back to your room, you gotta be careful because the
Speaker 1: crowd could be a bit painful. So I'm just a
Speaker 1: survival I am. I am so lucky. I don't know
Speaker 1: it's because if it's because of my spirituality or because
Speaker 1: it's it's been it's been really sad at times, you know.
Speaker 1: And and uh and but like I said, I I
Speaker 1: have people around me that they hold my hand, they
Speaker 1: at my back, and they said, let's let's keep doing
Speaker 1: this because you were born for this. For sure, this
Speaker 1: is it, this is your life. Why do you want
Speaker 1: to quit that? We can quit, We can quit for
Speaker 1: a minute and then you're gonna say, Okay, I want
Speaker 1: it again. In there, I said once I was in
Speaker 1: Australia and I said, it's either my mental health or
Speaker 1: the next three shows that I have. So I want
Speaker 1: to go back home because my mental health. I feel weird.
Speaker 1: I don't. I am not comfortable today. And I left.
Speaker 1: I counseled. Everybody was like, what are you doing, Rickist,
Speaker 1: It's three more shows, come on, we can do this.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, well, I want to be home. And
Speaker 1: I went home, and that's all I wanted. I want
Speaker 1: to be home. I wanted to be home with my dogs.
Speaker 1: I wanted to jump in the ocean. You know, you know,
Speaker 1: our little island has that thing in the ocean that
Speaker 1: it fixes everything. So all I wanted. This is like
Speaker 1: twenty something years ago. By the way, this is many
Speaker 1: many years ago, but this is the living la vida
Speaker 1: loca moment where I was high fiving God in so
Speaker 1: many ways. But at the same time, I didn't know
Speaker 1: who I was. I was I was being pressured to
Speaker 1: come out as a gay man when I was not ready,
Speaker 1: you know, I was, you know, but then I had
Speaker 1: the pressure of but you were a sex symbol. You
Speaker 1: got to shake those hips because they're dancing and they're
Speaker 1: screaming when you do it. And I'm like, okay, I
Speaker 1: can do this. I've been trained to do this since
Speaker 1: I was on an Ulu. You know. This is this
Speaker 1: is this is my entertaining mask that I wear. But
Speaker 1: I said, but I don't want wear masks. But wait,
Speaker 1: hold on a second. So I was lucky enough to say, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna stop. And I took my sabbatical and I
Speaker 1: just went to India and I went into ashrams and
Speaker 1: I meditated, and I became a Buddhist.
Speaker 2: And by yourself, you had a family with you, you
Speaker 2: have a you had some people with you along for
Speaker 2: the ride.
Speaker 3: That time.
Speaker 1: I went to India because I met this Puerto Rican
Speaker 1: monk in Thailand and really, wow, Puerto Rican Buddhist monk
Speaker 1: in Thailand. And I'm like, who are you? Yes, I'm
Speaker 1: Puerto Rican. And I'm like, oh yeah, and so what
Speaker 1: are you doing? Well? I was. I was a Puerto Rican.
Speaker 1: I was a monk, Buddhist monk up in the mountains
Speaker 1: of Thailand. And I'm like, oh, we need to talk brother. Okay,
Speaker 1: there going story short guys. I three weeks later we
Speaker 1: were hiking the Himalayas and then and then you know,
Speaker 1: I was, I was in touch with this other philosophy
Speaker 1: is that heeled me. I grew up as an boy
Speaker 1: in Puerto Rico. We went to the same cool rustling
Speaker 1: I would. You know, every Friday, we would go to
Speaker 1: Mass and I was to the priest and I was
Speaker 1: and it was beautiful. And I have that foundation, you know,
Speaker 1: of spiritual foundation who's very solid. But I needed more.
Speaker 1: I needed more because what I had was not enough,
Speaker 1: and I was it was scary. It was scary. So
Speaker 1: I went to India and I did my yoga deep yoga,
Speaker 1: and I and I went into heavy mantras and Buddhism
Speaker 1: and and now I keep searching. I keep searching. I'm
Speaker 1: always looking for more when it comes to spirituality. And
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, this is helping me today.
Speaker 1: I of I guess I've in my mind, I draw
Speaker 1: an ideal of what I want my life to be.
Speaker 1: And I just be healthy for my kids because I
Speaker 1: have four kids, three book one girl that are my inspiration.
Speaker 1: And I am healthy. I love what I do and
Speaker 1: what I do today is giving me the same emotions
Speaker 1: of what I was feeling when I was twelve, thirteen,
Speaker 1: fourteen years old, of what I'm feeling in the beginning
Speaker 1: of my career. And that's why I say that I
Speaker 1: feel like this is a new beginning. You know, it's
Speaker 1: like a when you close cycles to open new ones.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter how old you are, you just got
Speaker 1: to go.
Speaker 2: What else do you think you have to accomplish? Is
Speaker 2: there one thing and it doesn't have to be within
Speaker 2: the entertainment business? Is there one thing that you're like,
Speaker 2: you know what, I have lived an incredible life. I
Speaker 2: have traveled the world. I've done it all. But I
Speaker 2: don't want to die until this happens.
Speaker 1: Oh well, let me talk a little bit about entertainment business.
Speaker 1: Say I need to do film. I've never been in
Speaker 1: front of the camera as an actor doing film.
Speaker 3: I want to think, is you have wait?
Speaker 1: No, only once in Mexico and it was so vague,
Speaker 1: so vague that it counts, But it doesn't. At this
Speaker 1: stage of my life. I need to tell a story
Speaker 1: in the big screen.
Speaker 3: That's gonna be your personal project. That's the buck you're
Speaker 3: gonna get.
Speaker 1: It really needs to happen.
Speaker 2: But wait, but I'm assuming you get a lot of offers,
Speaker 2: they call you to do a lot of film, but
Speaker 2: you're just not not don't You don't respond to the material,
Speaker 2: You're not available. It's not because of lack of opportunity.
Speaker 1: I've gotten I've gotten offers, and you're like, no, it
Speaker 1: just has to hit you a certain way. And uh
Speaker 1: and and I know it's coming, it's coming, It's it'll
Speaker 1: be there. I know on wood.
Speaker 2: Oh, I got no way, no way.
Speaker 1: It'll be amazing. And and I think that my dreams
Speaker 1: right now, mind you, I am. I am super thankful
Speaker 1: for everything that I've been through and and where I'm
Speaker 1: at right now. But also my dreams transfer to my kids.
Speaker 1: I have two teenage twin boys that are a fifteen
Speaker 1: year old now, and now I can you can see
Speaker 1: where they're at and what their passion is, and you
Speaker 1: kind of see more or less what their future is
Speaker 1: a little bit because of the decision that they are
Speaker 1: independently making at this point. One of them loves computers
Speaker 1: and he is coding and decoding and heat and it's
Speaker 1: just like he's a he's like genius, like brilliant, and
Speaker 1: you see it in his eyes and sometimes you go, okay,
Speaker 1: but you cannot spend so long in front of the computer.
Speaker 1: But he's just he's doing some really interesting things. And
Speaker 1: then this other guy's he's so passionate about film. Oh wow,
Speaker 1: super passionate. But he also is wonderful in sports. And
Speaker 1: now he's not in one, he's in two baseball teams.
Speaker 1: And he goes like, Dad, Yeah, all I want is
Speaker 1: do really good in sports so I can get a
Speaker 1: really good scholarship so I can go study film.
Speaker 2: So he's pretty clear.
Speaker 1: He's pretty pretty clear, and it's so cool to witness.
Speaker 1: So that's why I said that my desires kind of
Speaker 1: they morphed into the desires of my children. And I'm
Speaker 1: sure you can relate. It's one of those things that
Speaker 1: it's weird that you you still have a lot to
Speaker 1: do and you still want to do more. Obviously you
Speaker 1: want to do more, but it's it's in conjunction with
Speaker 1: the desires of your children.
Speaker 2: So what about the little girl and the little boy
Speaker 2: still too young to know what's happening there?
Speaker 1: The little girl is five, she's the only girl and
Speaker 1: this you know, two daddies, three brothers, and she knows it,
Speaker 1: and it's a wonderful thing.
Speaker 2: She's like half fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's like m early girly girl is so beautiful.
Speaker 1: And then Wren, who's or he's I call him rn
Speaker 1: Zen because he's so chill. He has he has an
Speaker 1: older sister and he knows it. If you know, what
Speaker 1: I said is all right, whatever she said, it's okay,
Speaker 1: I'm good, I'm good. Sometimes he has to like, you know,
Speaker 1: stump his feet so he can be heard.
Speaker 2: You know, yeah, you know parenthood rick As you know
Speaker 2: we have too. It's so it's such a wild ride.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: We have this girl, soabell as you's twelve years old,
Speaker 2: and Sabbie is an athlete as well. You know, she
Speaker 2: plays tennis. She's an avid tennis player. And we thought,
Speaker 2: this is it. This is her career path, you know,
Speaker 2: and she's really good at it. And the whole thing.
Speaker 2: It's a scholarship, you know, hopefully she got a scholarship.
Speaker 2: Maybe she's Sometimes she's like, I want to go pro.
Speaker 2: It's a very difficult life. It's a lot of discipline.
Speaker 2: It's life changing for the entire family. The mid that
Speaker 2: when you have a professional athlete. But then yesterday and
Speaker 2: I was in part of this conversation. It was just
Speaker 2: I see them. Eric is in her bedroom and it's
Speaker 2: like forty five minutes and just here that they're talking,
Speaker 2: I'm going, what is going on? So I goes, what
Speaker 2: are you guys talking about? And Eric is I We're
Speaker 2: in the middle of a conversation here, So there's so
Speaker 2: basically I'm going, I just want to know what's happening.
Speaker 2: And I guess the girl said, you know, Dad, I
Speaker 2: love tennis and I want to continue playing tennis, but
Speaker 2: I want to do other things. I think I want
Speaker 2: to act and model, and we're like, oh.
Speaker 3: Jesus, look, yeah.
Speaker 4: The funny thing about that is that she used to
Speaker 4: completely be not annoyed, but like embarrassed by the fact
Speaker 4: that we were in entertainment or people would stop us
Speaker 4: and she'd be like, oh God, here we go.
Speaker 1: Ye.
Speaker 4: Now she's starting to appreciate it more and like be
Speaker 4: fascinated by the fact.
Speaker 3: But at the same time she thinks it's just so easy.
Speaker 4: And I tell her, I said, Sabella, if you think
Speaker 4: trying to accomplish tennis, even at your young age is hard,
Speaker 4: entertainment our world, there is zero guarantee. I come from
Speaker 4: a background of sports my whole life. If you work hard,
Speaker 4: you get better. You will most likely accomplish some part
Speaker 4: of your goal. Maybe you won't be a pro, but
Speaker 4: you might get a schollar. If you work that hard,
Speaker 4: good thing will come. I say it all the time.
Speaker 4: In entertainment, you could be the best actor in the
Speaker 4: world and never get hired in a in a movie,
Speaker 4: a TV show. You just be doing you know, student
Speaker 4: films or whatever. You could be a phenomenal actor, and
Speaker 4: you could be an average actor and be a movie star.
Speaker 4: It's like there's no you know, correlation to hard work
Speaker 4: and success in our business, especially as this a business.
Speaker 3: As this business has.
Speaker 4: Evolved, it's changed so much and it's becoming more challenging.
Speaker 4: So I said, well, if you want to do this,
Speaker 4: we'll support you. But like it's not We're not not
Speaker 4: going to help you be in something. You're gonna go
Speaker 4: take actor classes.
Speaker 2: That is not a TV show. I'll do that. I'll
Speaker 2: do the show. And doesn't work like that. You know
Speaker 2: what I mean is that you're gonna have to audition.
Speaker 2: Daddy can say this is my daughter, and that's gonna
Speaker 2: be the extent of it. You know what I mean,
Speaker 2: It's on you and I don't think she comprehend. She
Speaker 2: doesn't comprehend that right now. She said, what do you mean?
Speaker 1: My acting coach told me because I told him, listen,
Speaker 1: I have this guy who's who's in love with with
Speaker 1: he loves film. He wants no no, because this is
Speaker 1: before he said he wants to be an act My kid.
Speaker 1: He said, oh, Dad, I think I want to act.
Speaker 3: Do you want to act?
Speaker 1: And he's like, yeah, that I think so. And okay,
Speaker 1: So I talked to my acting coach and I'm like, listen,
Speaker 1: my son wants to act. What do you think. He
Speaker 1: goes like, oh, he's he's a kid. Don't don't don't
Speaker 1: break because you know he's he's It was it's business
Speaker 1: for my acting coach where he goes like, no, don't
Speaker 1: bring him to me. Get him a camera. Get him
Speaker 1: a camera, because the moment he starts filming, even if
Speaker 1: it's a flower, and he can start doing his own
Speaker 1: little movies, he'll get a better understanding of cinema. Acting
Speaker 1: will come on its own. Don't bring them to me.
Speaker 1: And that's what I told And now my son is
Speaker 1: obsessed with cinema and and eventually acting will come. If
Speaker 1: maybe that's what he wants because advice, he goes that,
Speaker 1: I understand what you're acting, coach said, And yes, I
Speaker 1: love the idea of doing cinema. And now you sit
Speaker 1: with my son to watch the Oscars, and it's amazing
Speaker 1: to see him say, go, I know that director he
Speaker 1: did this, and that his first oscar was in nineteen something,
Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: And he loves it. He loves it.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, oh my god. I'm like, okay, dude,
Speaker 1: do you know this? Yeah, you know, it's it's beautiful
Speaker 1: to see. So it's one of those things.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you support it. If that's what he wants
Speaker 2: to do, let's go all out.
Speaker 1: I'm here because my father supported me. My father is
Speaker 1: a psychologist, my mom is an accountant like she. They
Speaker 1: had nothing to do with the business, you know, and
Speaker 1: and but they saw my passion. They saw that I
Speaker 1: really wanted to be a minudo because for my generation,
Speaker 1: that was the way out right. So I would I
Speaker 1: would say, Dad, they're auditioning in three weeks, let's go.
Speaker 1: And my dad would be like, okay, you know, not
Speaker 1: the father that pushes you to be I was being
Speaker 1: he was being pulled by me, like, come take me
Speaker 1: there tomorrow before is the audition, So I will definitely
Speaker 1: support them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's fantastic. Oh my goodness. We're gonna let you go,
Speaker 2: but I have one last question for you, Ricky, what
Speaker 2: has been the craziest or funniest fun interaction that you
Speaker 2: can remember that was just like completely off the charts.
Speaker 3: He's like which one? He's like, I can't give you one.
Speaker 2: Like I was in Japan and this kid, like, what
Speaker 2: was it?
Speaker 1: I have a few, but this one was really funny.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it translated very well, but I was,
Speaker 1: you know, driving from the airport to the hotel, and
Speaker 1: there were fans following me with their cars or in taxis,
Speaker 1: and there was this one girl that said, Ricky, let me.
Speaker 3: Pull your hair so you can whip me with it. Oh,
Speaker 3: oh my god.
Speaker 1: This is to let me pull your hair so you
Speaker 1: can't whip me.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, Oh my god.
Speaker 4: And that's one of many stories are probably infinite crazy,
Speaker 4: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: It's funny, funny girls, You know.
Speaker 2: Always, we love you so much and we appreciate your time,
Speaker 2: and you know how much you mean to me and
Speaker 2: to Puerto Rico. Onto every girl with a dream, you know,
Speaker 2: and every boy with a dream. You're like the North,
Speaker 2: You're like you know who to follow. So we we
Speaker 2: thank you for that.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Thank you so much for inviting
Speaker 1: me to talk to your audience. And once again, all
Speaker 1: the luck and everything you do well, luck is relative, right,
Speaker 1: all the success for everything and anything you do, and
Speaker 1: and once again, thank you. And I think we need
Speaker 1: to together and have dinner or something.
Speaker 2: So we always say that we don't make it happen.
Speaker 3: Let's do it while you're here, while you're renovating.
Speaker 2: Your trapped here with the six children.
Speaker 1: It's bringing together for sure.
Speaker 3: We just do it all night in the US. I
Speaker 3: think we'll have a lot of fun. Let's plan something
Speaker 3: for sure.
Speaker 1: Honest.
Speaker 3: So great.
Speaker 2: How incredible is Ricky?
Speaker 3: He's amazing. I mean, I know he's been somebody so
Speaker 3: special to your whole life. Since we first met.
Speaker 4: You've always talked about Ricky Martin, Ricky Martin, and I
Speaker 4: was fortunate enough to be able to meet him through you.
Speaker 4: And he's such a class act, just such a great.
Speaker 2: Human, exactly right, class acts.
Speaker 4: And just incredibly successful and one of those people that
Speaker 4: you go you know, what you deserve, every ounce of it.
Speaker 4: You work incredibly hard, You're so grateful for everything to accomplished.
Speaker 4: Amazing family man, I mean not. We couldn't say enough
Speaker 4: positive things about him. He's just he's incredible, so.
Speaker 2: So his whole team. Listen, his brother, his parents, he's
Speaker 2: he's core. You know, his family. Joselo which has been
Speaker 2: his started as his choreographer in Menudo, then became his
Speaker 2: right hand and now it is like his second dad.
Speaker 2: You know this, This is the thing about Ricky, Ricky
Speaker 2: has it's been consistency and when it comes to his circle,
Speaker 2: you know, it's like once you work for Ricky or
Speaker 2: you're with Ricky, you're with him for life. Yep, you
Speaker 2: know you a lot of artists is like a revolving
Speaker 2: door totally. You know, he's very loyal to his to
Speaker 2: his people and that's beautiful.
Speaker 1: One.
Speaker 4: Well, everyone, if you haven't seen it yet, check out
Speaker 4: Palm Royale, Apple TV. It's streaming now and again, Ricky,
Speaker 4: thank you so much until next time.
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