WEBVTT - Gloria Estefan...Returns to Her Raices 0:00:00.920 --> 0:00:04.200 This is, he said, ayad ho with Eric Winter and 0:00:04.280 --> 0:00:05.399 Rodlin Fantas. 0:00:07.640 --> 0:00:12.120 Hello, Hello, everybody, Welcome to another episode of he said, jib, 0:00:12.320 --> 0:00:13.040 how are you. 0:00:13.400 --> 0:00:14.080 I'm doing good. 0:00:14.120 --> 0:00:16.520 I'm doing good. We have an exciting guest today. I'm 0:00:16.640 --> 0:00:19.040 very pumped. A friend of yours, actually a legend. 0:00:19.200 --> 0:00:21.280 It's amazing. I am so happy. 0:00:21.400 --> 0:00:25.800 Guys, we have the one and only Gloria is Stephan 0:00:27.000 --> 0:00:30.560 I've been a fan, I'm a colleague, I'm a friend, 0:00:31.040 --> 0:00:35.120 a lover. I think she is such a solid human being, 0:00:35.840 --> 0:00:38.000 as well as her husband Emilio. 0:00:38.280 --> 0:00:38.839 I adore. 0:00:38.920 --> 0:00:41.800 The whole family is just next level and incredibly talented 0:00:41.880 --> 0:00:47.080 and what a what a testament of success and discipline 0:00:47.240 --> 0:00:51.080 and working hard to accomplish dreams. 0:00:51.560 --> 0:00:56.120 They own Miami, the music industries. 0:00:55.760 --> 0:00:59.440 People who have revolutionized in industry. Yes, I'm so excited. 0:00:59.440 --> 0:01:03.040 She They're lovely people and good people, good people, Gloria. 0:01:03.080 --> 0:01:04.280 I'm with us, So let's bring her in. 0:01:05.000 --> 0:01:07.640 So Gloria, oh my goodness, let me tell you something. 0:01:07.680 --> 0:01:10.080 You are And I'm not kidding, You're going to tell 0:01:10.080 --> 0:01:12.800 you this. You're one of my idols, one of the 0:01:12.880 --> 0:01:17.720 people that I study your career, your personal life, and 0:01:17.840 --> 0:01:19.920 I just go Oh my god. 0:01:19.840 --> 0:01:20.600 She's not a stocker. 0:01:20.840 --> 0:01:23.160 It's not a stock a stalker. You know, I love 0:01:23.200 --> 0:01:25.600 you and you know it serve. You serve as an 0:01:25.600 --> 0:01:26.399 inspiration for. 0:01:26.400 --> 0:01:27.000 People like us. 0:01:27.000 --> 0:01:28.360 You know, we've been doing this for a long time 0:01:28.400 --> 0:01:30.759 as well. We've been together for a long time. It's 0:01:30.760 --> 0:01:33.600 going to be twenty years now, and you just seeing 0:01:33.600 --> 0:01:38.480 you thrive and still doing it hard and with passion 0:01:38.600 --> 0:01:44.120 and doing so well while maintaining a fabulous, beautiful personal life. 0:01:44.440 --> 0:01:46.039 It's thank you, Thank you for that. 0:01:46.600 --> 0:01:47.039 Thank you. 0:01:47.080 --> 0:01:49.360 And Dido, by the way, I'm a huge fan, as 0:01:49.400 --> 0:01:52.480 I've told you, and twenty years there is nothing to 0:01:52.520 --> 0:01:53.120 sneeze at. 0:01:53.280 --> 0:01:54.240 That's phenomenal. 0:01:54.760 --> 0:01:55.120 Thank you. 0:01:55.160 --> 0:01:58.760 So we feel blessed. I mean, you know, I don't. 0:01:58.760 --> 0:01:59.960 I'm not out there all the time. 0:02:00.280 --> 0:02:04.240 I really have the luxury of picking my projects. Sometimes 0:02:04.320 --> 0:02:07.160 it all converges, just like when it rains, it pours. 0:02:08.040 --> 0:02:11.000 But unless I'm really excited about a project, I'm not 0:02:11.040 --> 0:02:13.200 going to go into the studio unless I have something 0:02:13.240 --> 0:02:16.800 to say or want to share something in the last 0:02:16.840 --> 0:02:19.440 original song I did was during COVID that I did 0:02:19.520 --> 0:02:23.720 Kwandoy a Moore that was on the Brazil three five 0:02:23.760 --> 0:02:28.120 album All the other ones were like Brazilian versions of 0:02:28.160 --> 0:02:30.400 my hits, but that was an original tune. I thought 0:02:30.440 --> 0:02:33.120 that it was an important message to get out there. 0:02:33.560 --> 0:02:37.120 And likewise, now with it, I he says. I wasn't 0:02:37.160 --> 0:02:37.799 planning it. 0:02:38.480 --> 0:02:40.960 I was working for the last three years with my 0:02:41.080 --> 0:02:46.480 daughter on the musical that's an original musical that I'm 0:02:46.560 --> 0:02:49.800 super excited about. And Emilio comes to me with a 0:02:49.880 --> 0:02:51.560 song like a couple of years ago, and he goes, 0:02:51.680 --> 0:02:56.760 babe ata consiln you know, I really I wrote it 0:02:56.880 --> 0:03:00.080 supposedly for this artist that I'm doing this album, but 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:02.040 this song has to be for you, and I go, way, 0:03:02.080 --> 0:03:03.680 but I'm not doing an album. 0:03:04.560 --> 0:03:05.200 Let me hear it. 0:03:05.240 --> 0:03:08.800 I go, oh my god, this song is like off 0:03:08.800 --> 0:03:13.280 the charts. And I said, well, look, I can't divert 0:03:13.320 --> 0:03:15.240 because I have to focus on one thing. He does 0:03:15.440 --> 0:03:18.000 fifty things at once. He's got add and he's. 0:03:17.880 --> 0:03:19.520 Good at all. 0:03:19.680 --> 0:03:22.120 But I said, if if you wait, he goes, do 0:03:22.160 --> 0:03:24.400 you trust me? I go, of course, I trust you. He goes, 0:03:24.560 --> 0:03:26.920 would you let me write this album for you? I 0:03:26.960 --> 0:03:28.320 go go to it. 0:03:28.800 --> 0:03:30.520 Wow, that's what I was kind of going to ask you. 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:32.040 I was going to ask you about that because to me, 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:35.360 you're you and Amelia. It's like you set the bar 0:03:35.840 --> 0:03:40.600 for working couples that work together, build together, make magic together. 0:03:40.920 --> 0:03:43.040 And I was curious in a situation like that, And 0:03:43.080 --> 0:03:44.920 it sounds like in this he came to you with 0:03:44.960 --> 0:03:48.120 this idea and said, hey, what do you think? Throughout 0:03:48.160 --> 0:03:50.000 the years, has it always been sort of a back 0:03:50.000 --> 0:03:52.360 and forth? Sometimes you're the one that going to him saying, hey, 0:03:52.560 --> 0:03:54.400 I have an idea, I want to do this. Or 0:03:54.440 --> 0:03:56.040 is he more on you or you more on him? 0:03:56.120 --> 0:03:59.040 Or is it just it comes together, you know, harmoniously 0:03:59.040 --> 0:04:01.000 where it's just I don't know. Every time it just 0:04:01.000 --> 0:04:03.240 happens organically, you know, in this sense. 0:04:03.040 --> 0:04:04.839 It does, it doesn't. It's a mutual thing. 0:04:05.120 --> 0:04:08.720 Like Yeah, for example, when we did, he came started 0:04:08.880 --> 0:04:11.240 feeding me all these songs and they were phenomenal. It's 0:04:11.280 --> 0:04:15.480 like a really autobiographical our love story. I did write 0:04:15.480 --> 0:04:17.840 one song for my grandson, but I didn't I hadn't 0:04:17.880 --> 0:04:19.760 written it for this album. I had written it in 0:04:19.800 --> 0:04:22.599 English a while back because I missed him and he 0:04:22.640 --> 0:04:24.200 had just been with me and he left and it 0:04:24.279 --> 0:04:26.719 all poured out, and then I told him I want 0:04:26.720 --> 0:04:29.040 to write it in Spanish to include on this album 0:04:29.080 --> 0:04:30.080 and do this really. 0:04:29.839 --> 0:04:31.640 Old Cuban rhythm with it. 0:04:32.600 --> 0:04:34.719 And then when when we were going to do the videos, 0:04:34.720 --> 0:04:37.440 I directed both videos and I told him I have 0:04:37.520 --> 0:04:39.440 this idea that I want to do. What do you 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:42.160 think of this? And he goes, good luck of you 0:04:42.200 --> 0:04:44.760 can get that done. I wanted to shoot it at 0:04:44.760 --> 0:04:47.120 the place where my mother and I lived when we 0:04:47.160 --> 0:04:48.240 first got to Miami. 0:04:48.720 --> 0:04:50.200 Wow, And it looked. 0:04:50.000 --> 0:04:53.680 Exactly the same. And he said, are you sure you're 0:04:53.720 --> 0:04:55.320 going to be I go, I'm going to get it done. 0:04:55.320 --> 0:04:55.800 You watch. 0:04:56.400 --> 0:04:58.760 So he was very supportive of that, but at the 0:04:58.760 --> 0:05:00.520 beginning it was going, I don't think you're going to 0:05:00.560 --> 0:05:01.679 be able to pull it off. 0:05:01.720 --> 0:05:04.040 A go just watch me, just watch. 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:06.160 Me, watch me. 0:05:06.640 --> 0:05:07.000 Wow. 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:09.760 So this is the celebration of fifty years in the industry, 0:05:09.800 --> 0:05:13.000 which is unbelievable, and other accolades that you have gotten 0:05:13.279 --> 0:05:16.840 throughout the year. Would you say that rasis because it 0:05:16.880 --> 0:05:19.919 came like that. You know, it was spontaneous, it was organic. 0:05:20.320 --> 0:05:21.800 You were at a place that you were not even 0:05:21.839 --> 0:05:24.560 thinking about an album, and then it clicked and it 0:05:24.560 --> 0:05:26.920 all made sense. Do you think this one would be? 0:05:27.560 --> 0:05:29.800 And I know they're all special, they're all like delivering babies. 0:05:29.839 --> 0:05:31.839 You know, every time you do a project, especially an album, 0:05:31.920 --> 0:05:33.880 is that you're delivering your next child. But do you 0:05:33.920 --> 0:05:36.360 think this one is going to be the one that, 0:05:37.560 --> 0:05:40.320 whether you continue doing more or not, this one would 0:05:40.320 --> 0:05:41.679 be full circle for you guys. 0:05:42.160 --> 0:05:43.560 It's absolutely full circle. 0:05:43.640 --> 0:05:47.040 And by the way, Emilia didn't even realize that it 0:05:47.080 --> 0:05:49.640 was my fiftieth year. When it comes to me with 0:05:49.680 --> 0:05:53.560 this idea and we're finally doing the album, and I go, babe, 0:05:53.880 --> 0:05:57.960 do you realize I joined your band in nineteen seventy five. 0:05:58.600 --> 0:06:01.080 This is my fiftieth year doing this. He goes, no, 0:06:01.680 --> 0:06:05.000 it can't be. I go do the math Wow with 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:08.040 her fiftieth year. And then that's when you start thinking 0:06:08.040 --> 0:06:10.640 about it. It wasn't like I thought, oh, let's do 0:06:10.720 --> 0:06:13.800 this extravaganza for my fiftieth year. No, it just turned 0:06:13.800 --> 0:06:17.640 out that everything kind of clicked. I have the musical, 0:06:17.640 --> 0:06:20.560 I have the movie coming out in September, Gabby's Dollhouse, 0:06:21.120 --> 0:06:26.400 and it just all in this one year happened and it. 0:06:26.400 --> 0:06:27.440 Will be It's full circle. 0:06:27.520 --> 0:06:29.839 I told him when he brought the song, I go, 0:06:29.920 --> 0:06:32.000 you know what, if I do another album, I want 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:35.000 it all to be tropical and I wanted. 0:06:34.839 --> 0:06:37.120 To be in Spanish and this is the world. 0:06:37.720 --> 0:06:42.080 I got a taste of it Doingclorail, which we won 0:06:42.160 --> 0:06:44.680 a Grammy for, and she won her first Grammy. O 0:06:44.839 --> 0:06:48.240 Wo a song by Celia Cruz, who I loved and 0:06:48.279 --> 0:06:51.400 adored and was my idol and my like just like 0:06:51.480 --> 0:06:54.320 that North Star in so many ways. 0:06:54.800 --> 0:06:58.960 Her relationship with Pedro. You know, she was on stage 0:06:59.000 --> 0:07:00.840 and she was aged list up there. 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:06.520 She was the most humble and professional and warm human being. 0:07:06.560 --> 0:07:10.400 I'd get notes from her on every special occasion it was, 0:07:11.280 --> 0:07:15.400 and I saw it as a sign when Sheila text 0:07:15.480 --> 0:07:19.560 me in the middle of the night, Sister, I want 0:07:19.600 --> 0:07:22.120 you to join me. I'm doing a Sunsa jazz album 0:07:22.160 --> 0:07:25.720 and I want to do Bemba Golora and Mimi Suka 0:07:25.720 --> 0:07:28.520 and you and me and I go, Bemba Golora, I go. 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:31.520 I'm there. You know, she's been there for me so much. 0:07:31.960 --> 0:07:32.920 She's beautiful. 0:07:32.960 --> 0:07:33.120 You know. 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:36.200 I was listening to Raise as the single and it's 0:07:36.200 --> 0:07:40.960 such a positive, uplifting the message. You know, the lyrics 0:07:41.000 --> 0:07:43.520 are just just beautiful, and I was I've been listening 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:45.200 to it over and over. I love the musicality. I 0:07:45.240 --> 0:07:48.600 think the arrangement is incredible, the production, the lyrics, your performance. 0:07:48.800 --> 0:07:49.640 I love it. 0:07:49.840 --> 0:07:52.840 And it's interesting because it mixes like two worlds. It's 0:07:52.880 --> 0:07:56.080 like musically it has like this, all these different components 0:07:56.440 --> 0:07:58.960 and I'm listening to it and I'm thinking this song 0:07:59.000 --> 0:08:07.600 will become like an Them marc Antonia. Besides musically, it's 0:08:07.640 --> 0:08:11.560 it's incredible. It's a it's a very specific positive message. 0:08:11.600 --> 0:08:14.480 And this one you know, but not what I say. 0:08:14.640 --> 0:08:18.080 I guess, I guess, Brad, which is so true. And 0:08:18.120 --> 0:08:20.800 sometimely nowadays you know that I think the whole world 0:08:20.920 --> 0:08:25.800 is in this massive spiritual, spiritual search of what makes. 0:08:25.600 --> 0:08:27.840 Sense to them and you. 0:08:27.880 --> 0:08:29.360 I will have to translate it to you because you 0:08:29.360 --> 0:08:32.600 you would understand that. But it is beautifully written, Eric, 0:08:32.640 --> 0:08:34.319 and it's just the one thing that you if you, 0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:36.800 if you would listen to every single morning, it will 0:08:36.880 --> 0:08:39.600 reset your mind and your day. 0:08:40.440 --> 0:08:43.680 We wanted to remind people because you know, we forget 0:08:43.679 --> 0:08:46.360 about the simple things that are just so beautiful. You know, 0:08:46.440 --> 0:08:50.440 sometimes there's so much anxiety and depression going on. That's 0:08:50.440 --> 0:08:53.200 why the one line where it says, look to the sky, 0:08:53.800 --> 0:08:55.959 open up your heart, you know, because the stars are 0:08:56.040 --> 0:08:59.400 always gonna shine every night. They're gonna be there, you know, 0:08:59.480 --> 0:09:03.240 and let the light light your path. It's like they're 0:09:03.320 --> 0:09:07.000 simple truths, and you know what simple truths done in 0:09:07.040 --> 0:09:11.440 a beautiful way Like Emilio's got this special thing because 0:09:12.040 --> 0:09:16.160 he's very succinct in his thoughts. And that's not that 0:09:16.160 --> 0:09:18.840 it's not something that hasn't been heard before. You know, 0:09:18.920 --> 0:09:21.600 you reap what you saw, but in the way that 0:09:21.760 --> 0:09:25.320 he made it. Musically, my fan they go, I wanted 0:09:25.320 --> 0:09:28.560 to cry, but I wanted to dance. Y brying and 0:09:28.679 --> 0:09:29.760 dancing at the same time. 0:09:30.440 --> 0:09:32.440 But his joy isn't magical, it's joyful. 0:09:33.280 --> 0:09:36.640 How was it doing the video with the whole family? 0:09:36.679 --> 0:09:39.360 I understand was the first time, right the entire family 0:09:39.400 --> 0:09:43.040 had been together on screen doing something so meaningful like that. 0:09:43.160 --> 0:09:46.560 Was that just to me? I can't imagine. It means 0:09:47.000 --> 0:09:49.719 everything when you see your whole life and career come together. 0:09:49.480 --> 0:09:50.400 In one well. 0:09:50.400 --> 0:09:53.120 My family is actually in both videos in a certain way. 0:09:53.559 --> 0:09:56.240 In first video of Races, I wanted to go to 0:09:56.280 --> 0:09:58.720 some place that's like the most deeply rooted place in 0:09:58.800 --> 0:10:02.160 Miami Fairchalk Garden. It's been there for over one hundred years. 0:10:02.200 --> 0:10:07.040 It's got trees from both Cuba from here. I'm a virgo. 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:11.000 I need nature. I'm happiest there. So I was kind 0:10:11.000 --> 0:10:14.320 of mirroring life as a journey. I'm barefoot in the video. 0:10:14.920 --> 0:10:19.760 The fashion was just about being a part. The green 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:22.360 dress and the brown dress. It's just supposed to mirror 0:10:22.360 --> 0:10:25.440 like we are a part of everything, of the all, 0:10:25.480 --> 0:10:26.520 and we're all connected. 0:10:27.120 --> 0:10:29.680 And then I have my family through the years, all. 0:10:29.559 --> 0:10:33.080 These old videos, some pictures that I brought to life 0:10:33.120 --> 0:10:36.400 because I wanted also to touch the fact that we're 0:10:36.400 --> 0:10:40.360 in twenty twenty five. So I used AI to bring 0:10:40.440 --> 0:10:42.720 to life a picture of my mom and dad in 0:10:42.760 --> 0:10:47.160 Cuba where they literally waved me on to my journey. 0:10:47.240 --> 0:10:50.480 And when that came to life, it was like I 0:10:50.840 --> 0:10:54.640 was reclemped. I was going, oh my god. It really 0:10:54.679 --> 0:10:57.240 affected me. And there's little things like that. I brought 0:10:57.240 --> 0:10:59.640 to life. A picture of my grandmother holding my son. 0:11:00.160 --> 0:11:00.959 She smiles. 0:11:02.800 --> 0:11:04.840 A picture of Emilio and me both just like a 0:11:04.960 --> 0:11:08.640 cowboy and a cowgirl, him in Cuba, me here, and 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:12.000 they hug in the they cross the frames and hug. 0:11:12.320 --> 0:11:14.000 So we were trying to do it in a very 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:16.040 slight way, because you know, you gotta be careful with 0:11:16.160 --> 0:11:18.640 that kind of thing, but it's about. 0:11:18.360 --> 0:11:19.960 That journey, so they're all in there. 0:11:20.000 --> 0:11:22.480 And then at the end it's a photo album where 0:11:22.480 --> 0:11:25.079 all the pictures are falling on it from everybody from 0:11:25.160 --> 0:11:28.280 our great grandparents down to the last one, which is 0:11:28.280 --> 0:11:32.560 my grandson Sasha. In Lavesina video, where we shot at 0:11:32.600 --> 0:11:36.040 the place where I first lived with my mom, I 0:11:36.080 --> 0:11:39.760 played three characters. There's Lavesina sitting in the launchair. I 0:11:39.760 --> 0:11:42.320 have a picture of my mother sitting in a launchair 0:11:42.360 --> 0:11:44.319 in front of that apartment with me in her lap, 0:11:45.000 --> 0:11:47.240 so I do one scene from there. Then there's another 0:11:47.280 --> 0:11:49.480 one where I recreate a picture of my mother that 0:11:49.559 --> 0:11:52.720 she shot for my dad when he was in jail 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:56.640 in Cuba, a bay of pigs, political prisoner in one 0:11:56.640 --> 0:11:57.640 of those apartments. 0:11:57.800 --> 0:12:00.559 So that's the church lady. I call her more my mom. 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:03.400 And then at the end, we literally built a stage 0:12:03.440 --> 0:12:06.480 in the middle of the two apartments and it's my 0:12:06.760 --> 0:12:11.640 image now. So it's a place where I started, it's 0:12:11.679 --> 0:12:14.200 where I am now, and then my whole but now 0:12:14.240 --> 0:12:19.160 with my entire family revisiting this place where we started 0:12:19.200 --> 0:12:23.760 our lives. Here these little apartments that were like the 0:12:23.760 --> 0:12:25.319 size of a closet. 0:12:25.400 --> 0:12:26.559 And it was very emotional. 0:12:27.000 --> 0:12:30.839 I was very I had all kinds of memories all day, 0:12:30.880 --> 0:12:35.120 good ones, bad ones. But it was important because looking 0:12:35.160 --> 0:12:39.120 back on fifty years and that was sixty five years 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:41.680 ago when I was living in that place, to have 0:12:41.760 --> 0:12:44.000 it be exactly the same and soon they're going to 0:12:44.040 --> 0:12:47.600 tear it down, so we kind of saved it for posterity. 0:12:47.760 --> 0:12:50.920 And it was really special to have my family there, 0:12:51.080 --> 0:12:53.600 to have my son say yes, because he never does anything. 0:12:54.120 --> 0:12:54.960 It's like a hermit. 0:12:56.320 --> 0:12:59.200 And when I told him the concept, he really dug 0:12:59.240 --> 0:13:00.880 it because he's in film and all that. 0:13:01.440 --> 0:13:03.559 So he said, okay, Mom, I'll do it. I'll be 0:13:03.679 --> 0:13:06.720 there for you. So how beautiful Vin our grandson. 0:13:06.960 --> 0:13:09.960 Yeah, when the kids of your kids and the grand 0:13:10.000 --> 0:13:13.160 kids of your kids, you know this generational treasure that 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:14.559 they're going to have, you know, so they can look 0:13:14.600 --> 0:13:17.200 back and said, this is the video that grandma did. 0:13:17.679 --> 0:13:18.480 Ah amazing. 0:13:18.840 --> 0:13:20.720 And to have them there all day it was beautiful. 0:13:20.800 --> 0:13:23.120 I think that's the longest they've ever sat in one 0:13:23.160 --> 0:13:25.640 place because since they were at the end of the 0:13:25.679 --> 0:13:27.760 shot and then we had close ups, but they had 0:13:27.760 --> 0:13:31.079 to be there for a few hours and the stories 0:13:31.160 --> 0:13:34.920 from you know, them talking about their dad in shooting 0:13:34.960 --> 0:13:37.880 this thing, like you would tell them, okay, nobody, nobody 0:13:37.920 --> 0:13:40.520 look into the camera and the minute the camera would pass, why. 0:13:40.440 --> 0:13:44.240 You wouldn't look. They have made so much fun of him. 0:13:44.240 --> 0:13:45.800 Oh my god, Oh my god. I love it. 0:13:54.520 --> 0:13:59.360 Let's now transition Gloria to the acting because I know 0:13:59.400 --> 0:14:01.520 you have this movie coming out. You voiced one of 0:14:01.559 --> 0:14:03.600 the characters in September. 0:14:03.960 --> 0:14:05.400 Now it's live action as well. 0:14:05.520 --> 0:14:08.000 It's like, okay, I didn't know that. 0:14:08.080 --> 0:14:11.240 Okay, beautiful, And I know you've been acting for a while. 0:14:11.360 --> 0:14:14.280 You know, you've been doing it for many, many, many years, 0:14:14.280 --> 0:14:15.800 but you're coming and out. You know, like you said, 0:14:15.800 --> 0:14:18.560 you have the luxury to pick what resonates with you, 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:19.520 and that's what you do. 0:14:19.760 --> 0:14:22.680 But how important is acting to you? Is it as 0:14:22.720 --> 0:14:24.080 important as singing? 0:14:24.320 --> 0:14:27.520 Or was just a byproduct of because you became Glory 0:14:27.520 --> 0:14:30.640 staff and now people call you like how important. 0:14:30.280 --> 0:14:30.760 It is to you? 0:14:31.480 --> 0:14:34.880 Well, first of all, I have nothing but respect for actors, 0:14:35.080 --> 0:14:37.880 and early on in my career, I'm a musician. 0:14:38.040 --> 0:14:38.800 I'm a singer. 0:14:39.480 --> 0:14:43.440 That is my soul, right, But when we started having 0:14:43.520 --> 0:14:47.200 to do videos, because at the beginning, we could record. 0:14:47.360 --> 0:14:49.400 You know, we did our albums. There was no videos. 0:14:49.560 --> 0:14:51.760 The worst the biggest thing you did was going on 0:14:51.760 --> 0:14:54.520 a TV show and performing. But now, all of a sudden, 0:14:54.600 --> 0:14:56.800 here comes the eighties, eighties. 0:14:57.640 --> 0:14:59.360 And now, oh no, you're not done. 0:14:59.400 --> 0:15:01.320 When you do the album, you have to do a 0:15:01.360 --> 0:15:08.840 frigging mini movie. So I really enjoyed that part of it, 0:15:09.000 --> 0:15:10.720 but I knew I was in no way ready. And 0:15:11.120 --> 0:15:14.760 when we were really climbing, they approached me to do 0:15:14.920 --> 0:15:17.160 the role that Julia Roberts ended up doing. 0:15:17.000 --> 0:15:20.880 A Mystic Pizza. Okay, so they wanted me. 0:15:21.160 --> 0:15:24.000 I didn't have to audition, but I knew I wasn't ready. 0:15:24.080 --> 0:15:25.160 I knew I wasn't ready. 0:15:25.240 --> 0:15:27.360 I knew that the acting, I knew what it takes, 0:15:28.040 --> 0:15:29.360 and I wanted time to prepare. 0:15:29.440 --> 0:15:32.600 I didn't want to divert from the music because I go, 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:36.240 if I fail at the movies, it's going to screw up. 0:15:36.800 --> 0:15:41.000 You know, everything kind of washes over your career. So 0:15:41.080 --> 0:15:41.800 I thought there'll be. 0:15:41.720 --> 0:15:44.400 Other opportunities if it's meant to be. So I didn't 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:50.160 do it, and I started whenever I could. I started, 0:15:50.240 --> 0:15:53.720 you know, I got an acting coach, I started actually 0:15:53.760 --> 0:15:56.920 working on it before I ever did anything, because I 0:15:56.960 --> 0:15:59.200 have nothing but respect for acting. 0:15:59.280 --> 0:16:01.040 You know, it's you have to. 0:16:01.000 --> 0:16:03.760 Let go of your ego, and then for somebody like me, 0:16:03.880 --> 0:16:05.800 it's a double whemming because you have to make them 0:16:05.840 --> 0:16:09.400 forget it's you. Of course, early you know you're not 0:16:09.440 --> 0:16:12.920 coming as a blank slate. But I love it. But 0:16:13.040 --> 0:16:15.720 I got a lot of things offered through the years 0:16:15.720 --> 0:16:18.080 that I turned down because it wasn't going to advance 0:16:18.120 --> 0:16:20.040 me as an actor. He was going to portray my 0:16:20.120 --> 0:16:23.840 culture in the typical, stereotypical way that we tend to 0:16:23.880 --> 0:16:27.000 get treated, and I thought, no, I don't want to 0:16:27.040 --> 0:16:30.520 contribute to that. So when Andy called me for Father 0:16:30.600 --> 0:16:33.360 of the Bride, well, he texted me and is inimitable way, 0:16:33.560 --> 0:16:36.800 Oh yeah, the way I'm on that on script And 0:16:36.800 --> 0:16:38.120 I go, okay, what. 0:16:40.000 --> 0:16:40.280 Is it? 0:16:40.360 --> 0:16:43.080 He goes, you'll see and he goes the director wants 0:16:43.120 --> 0:16:45.840 to zoom with you. Because this was during COVID, he 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:49.600 wants to zoom with you on Tuesday. Go he wants 0:16:49.920 --> 0:16:52.600 me to audition. He goes, no, no, he wants you 0:16:52.640 --> 0:16:55.200 for the role. I want you for the role. It's 0:16:55.240 --> 0:16:56.000 you or nobody. 0:16:56.080 --> 0:16:57.800 I go, oh. And then when I get it and 0:16:57.840 --> 0:17:02.960 It's Father the Bride. I go, oh, so good, are 0:17:03.000 --> 0:17:05.000 you going to such a classic? How are you gonna? 0:17:05.880 --> 0:17:08.679 But the script was fun, it was good, yes, and 0:17:08.760 --> 0:17:11.000 I thought, oh wow, I get a chance to play 0:17:11.040 --> 0:17:14.359 with my friends. And it was during COVID, so we 0:17:14.359 --> 0:17:17.080 were in a hard bubble wow doing that thing. 0:17:18.119 --> 0:17:19.960 I enjoyed it so much. I loved it. I loved 0:17:19.960 --> 0:17:22.040 you guys. I really enjoyed it. 0:17:22.240 --> 0:17:24.040 Thank you. I enjoyed doing it, you know. 0:17:24.240 --> 0:17:26.240 And that's the best part when you get to a job, 0:17:26.280 --> 0:17:28.000 you know, there is basically you you have like a 0:17:28.000 --> 0:17:29.760 second family for a couple of months, you know, and 0:17:29.800 --> 0:17:31.359 you have to make the most out of it. And 0:17:31.400 --> 0:17:33.240 when you love the people that you work with, is 0:17:33.280 --> 0:17:36.560 it makes a huge difference, a huge different. 0:17:36.280 --> 0:17:39.440 Fun because it's fun for you, It's not gonna be 0:17:39.520 --> 0:17:41.159 fun for the people watching you. 0:17:43.200 --> 0:17:43.880 It's all about heart. 0:17:43.920 --> 0:17:45.360 And talk to us a little bit about this one 0:17:45.440 --> 0:17:47.640 you have coming, Gabby's Dollhouse. 0:17:47.800 --> 0:17:52.040 It's I wasn't as aware because my kids were already grown. 0:17:52.720 --> 0:17:56.240 But there's been a very, very successful children's series called 0:17:56.280 --> 0:18:00.359 Gabby's Dollhouse. They've had like nine seasons and little kids 0:18:00.400 --> 0:18:04.040 little they go crazy with It's this young girl that 0:18:04.240 --> 0:18:05.119 she talks. 0:18:05.200 --> 0:18:06.560 She breaks the fourth wall. 0:18:06.640 --> 0:18:10.280 She talks to her audience, and she has this magical 0:18:10.359 --> 0:18:13.800 dollhouse and these cat eers that when she presses it 0:18:13.840 --> 0:18:18.560 and does this little song, she becomes an animated character 0:18:18.640 --> 0:18:21.240 and is in the dollhouse playing with these little cats. 0:18:21.240 --> 0:18:23.640 They have one it's kind of like a Sinatra cat. 0:18:23.760 --> 0:18:26.800 They have Kki, like they each have their own little personality. 0:18:27.520 --> 0:18:31.160 So they were bringing this to the big screen and 0:18:31.240 --> 0:18:34.280 it's the original Gabby. I play her grandma who built 0:18:34.320 --> 0:18:39.359 her this dollhouse. So my house in the movie is insane. 0:18:39.480 --> 0:18:42.679 It looks like a copy of the dollhouse. And I 0:18:42.760 --> 0:18:46.560 got to drive a a seventies VW van that's decked 0:18:46.600 --> 0:18:49.760 out also like a cat because I'm like a super 0:18:50.880 --> 0:18:55.760 fun bohemian grandma that built her this thing and now 0:18:55.840 --> 0:18:59.080 wants to do something else with her. And then we 0:18:59.240 --> 0:19:01.560 end up I end up having to go into the 0:19:01.600 --> 0:19:05.000 dollhouse to help save her get out from the thing, 0:19:05.080 --> 0:19:06.440 and it's really fun. 0:19:06.480 --> 0:19:08.600 It was. It was a blast. I love shooting A two. 0:19:08.520 --> 0:19:14.479 Day Leila was amazing and Christen Wigg is in it, 0:19:14.800 --> 0:19:17.359 one of one of my favorites. 0:19:17.400 --> 0:19:19.720 She's amazing well, that's gonna be fun. I can't wait 0:19:19.720 --> 0:19:21.240