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Speaker 4: Sometimes the bigger picture can be overwhelming, but you gotta
Speaker 4: be grateful for the small things, and so the small
Speaker 4: things will add up and the bigger picture will get resolved.
Speaker 4: Did you learn that from I think I learned along
Speaker 4: the way. I have a core group of friends who
Speaker 4: remind me of being grateful. I learned from their kindness.
Speaker 4: My friend from third grade, Romey, who is actually here,
Speaker 4: reminds me of that kindness every day.
Speaker 3: And you've been friends since went since third grade. You
Speaker 3: know how lucky you are, very lucky.
Speaker 2: But that's careless. If I get stop on the street
Speaker 2: for an auto drash like, oh yeah, I forget you
Speaker 2: do stuff on TV?
Speaker 3: Dear listener, did you watch that super popular show What
Speaker 3: We Do in the Shadows on FX? You might have
Speaker 3: seen Harvey Yen struttying his stuff on red carpets.
Speaker 4: Here's to fifteen year old Harvey watching the Golden Globes
Speaker 4: and dreaming that one day he'd be on the carpet.
Speaker 2: And here you are, babe.
Speaker 3: You might have also caught Harvey Gym in big budget
Speaker 3: films alongside big names like Antonio. He played the voice
Speaker 3: of Perrito in Puss and Boots The Last Wish this
Speaker 3: is going to Puss and Boots your Puss in Boots.
Speaker 3: Or you might have seen Harvey Gien in the Broadway
Speaker 3: revival of The Rocky Horror Show It opened earlier this year.
Speaker 1: The Rocky Horror Show is on Broadway as Studio fifty
Speaker 1: four and nominated for nine Tony Awards, including Best Musical Revival.
Speaker 3: But most people know Harvey from his role as Pierre
Speaker 3: de la Cruz in the FX vampire comedy What We
Speaker 3: Do in the Shadows.
Speaker 2: Are still angry about that Vampa. I tried to eat
Speaker 2: you on you Yes, don't deny it. I can tell
Speaker 2: you I said yes.
Speaker 3: The series, which ran for six seasons, earned multiple Awards nominations,
Speaker 3: including an Emmy win for its costumes. The Emmy goes
Speaker 3: to What We Do in the Shadows, along with multiple
Speaker 3: Critics Choice Award nods for Harvey's portrayal of Guillermo de
Speaker 3: la Cruz. He is the human assistant who lives in
Speaker 3: a house full of vampires.
Speaker 5: I promised to help my master apply for citizenship. Yes,
Speaker 5: you actually started a process, but you didn't finish what
Speaker 5: happened in nineteen ninety two with the Megarain Swift Nation,
Speaker 5: so I didn't really have time for anything is.
Speaker 3: And just like Gillermo opens eyes to the vampire world
Speaker 3: of Staten Island, Harvey has made a career out of
Speaker 3: going for roles that people in Hollywood didn't think he
Speaker 3: would fit into.
Speaker 2: With my eyes, with my height, with my body, with
Speaker 2: my voice, with my trades.
Speaker 3: As a petit. He's only five foot three. He's also
Speaker 3: plus sized, he's queer, he's Mexican American, he's brown, so
Speaker 3: he was just never what studios were looking for.
Speaker 4: Tall, blonde, blue eyed, and I would convince my agent,
Speaker 4: can I go in as a wild card. So the
Speaker 4: trajectory of my career has been book rolls that were
Speaker 4: never written for me, but I go in then people
Speaker 4: end up Yeah, what if they were?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 3: And what we Do in the Shadows it was one
Speaker 3: of those shows.
Speaker 4: Shadows was not written for me. The character Guillermo de
Speaker 4: la Cruz was written twenty years older.
Speaker 3: But after talking himself into that audition, he parted his
Speaker 3: hair down the middle, put on a beige sweater vest
Speaker 3: and some round glasses and well he made some magic happen.
Speaker 2: Happiana Past, Thank you, Master Slumper sleep Fast.
Speaker 3: A few days later, he got a call his audition
Speaker 3: was so perfect they wanted him on set the next
Speaker 3: week from Futuro Media. It's let you know us say
Speaker 3: I'm atrianga Hosa. Today we revisit a twenty twenty five
Speaker 3: conversation with Mexican American actor Harvey Gee Yeah, and we
Speaker 3: talk about his identity, his upbringing, and how he continues
Speaker 3: to make it in Hollywood and beyond. When Harvey Yian
Speaker 3: got on set for What We Do in the Shadows,
Speaker 3: he realized that his character Guillermo didn't have a last name.
Speaker 4: I gave him the last name of de la Cruz,
Speaker 4: like without knowing that he was a vampire slayer, Like
Speaker 4: I gave him the name early on and found out later.
Speaker 2: I am by birth and lineage, a vampire killer. And
Speaker 2: the only reason your life is because I let you live.
Speaker 2: And I was like, why did you let me name
Speaker 2: him that if you knew this? And it was like,
Speaker 2: because it's perfect.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, it's kind of perfect.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: That Guruz means of.
Speaker 2: The cross, across the cross. Yeah.
Speaker 4: And I just go back to my resume of like,
Speaker 4: every time I look at it a role I've played.
Speaker 4: First of all, you always think every time I book something,
Speaker 4: I won the lottery, because his business is tough, and
Speaker 4: so every time I book something or offered something. How
Speaker 4: lucky am I that I get to like do what
Speaker 4: I love and people enjoy it so much that they
Speaker 4: come back and ask me to do it again or
Speaker 4: do a different character. But all the characters that I've played,
Speaker 4: if you just go down my credit list, are usually
Speaker 4: roles that were not written for me, and I had
Speaker 4: to go in and convince whoever was in charge, to
Speaker 4: maybe consider me. I remember going into auditioning for the
Speaker 4: internship with Vince von Owen Wilson, and I knew that
Speaker 4: role was not for me, and I just had to, Like,
Speaker 4: my goal in life was to obviously want to book
Speaker 4: the role. But if you don't book the role, that's okay,
Speaker 4: as long as you book the room. So if you
Speaker 4: book the room, yeah, you book the room. You'll always
Speaker 4: have someone on your side. It doesn't mean that this
Speaker 4: project it was for you, but they'll be thinking about you.
Speaker 4: And so when I go in and I book the room,
Speaker 4: I walk away saying, I don't know if I'm going
Speaker 4: to get this, but I know what I did get.
Speaker 4: Everyone in this room enjoyed the work I put into this,
Speaker 4: the hardship I put into this, the character development I
Speaker 4: put into this, and that's all that matters. And as
Speaker 4: an artist, that's all you can do is put it
Speaker 4: out there and walk away.
Speaker 3: So you were raised in southern California, right, You actually
Speaker 3: were near Hollywood, but you were also very aware of
Speaker 3: your Mexican nests, your Mexican roots. What part of Mexico
Speaker 3: are you from?
Speaker 4: Do you know my parents are from me truck Cotton.
Speaker 4: My dad was from Sawayo. I was born in Los Angeles.
Speaker 4: I grew up in SGV in San Gabriel Valley.
Speaker 3: So in terms of distance, you were pretty close to Hollywood.
Speaker 3: Did you feel like the proximity to Hollywood was like
Speaker 3: this is going to benefit me rather Oh my god,
Speaker 3: I'm so far from Hollywood, but I wish I could
Speaker 3: get there.
Speaker 2: I knew that I was adjacent to Hollywood. I've always
Speaker 2: been like a daydreamer, so.
Speaker 4: Like the idea of being so close to something that
Speaker 4: I want to be a part of was really aspirational.
Speaker 2: But growing up, actually what I wanted to do was theater.
Speaker 2: I want to do musical theater.
Speaker 4: So for the longest time, TV and film was like
Speaker 4: something that was like WHOA, totally out of your reach,
Speaker 4: even though you live in LA The theater is what
Speaker 4: I was doing at school, and I was a daydreamer,
Speaker 4: so I was like, yeah, I'll just start with Broadway.
Speaker 4: And that's how people do it. They go to Broadway
Speaker 4: and then they do movies and then they do television.
Speaker 2: That's the way up.
Speaker 4: And I was so focused on Broadwick that when an
Speaker 4: opportunity came for television, it almost slipped through my fingers
Speaker 4: because I was so focused on doing theater. It was
Speaker 4: a lucky coincidence and then once I started doing an
Speaker 4: episode here, I did a short film there. It just
Speaker 4: added up before you knew what I was doing television film.
Speaker 3: Harvey is a Californian, though he's been bike coastal living
Speaker 3: between LA and New York for a while now, but
Speaker 3: still he holds a deep love for Los Angeles, especially
Speaker 3: following the twenty twenty five wildfires.
Speaker 4: There's something about it that I was just looking at
Speaker 4: the city skyline recently, and it's this dried up desert
Speaker 4: by the ocean with strong winds. But it's still an
Speaker 4: oasis and still paradise for me, So I'll always love it.
Speaker 4: I love that.
Speaker 2: You know, we've gone through some unfortunate moments.
Speaker 6: Another fire breaking out right now.
Speaker 2: Homes are burning as we speak.
Speaker 3: Fisials have issued a mandatory evacuation order. Well, Harvey, were
Speaker 3: terribly upset about what happened with your home. I can't
Speaker 3: even imagine how one processes that amount of loss as
Speaker 3: an artist, as somebody who is so deeply rooted in
Speaker 3: your space. Can you just tell us how is it
Speaker 3: all fitting into your head?
Speaker 4: Well, my home was damage. I caught on fire, but
Speaker 4: it is still standing. To tell you a little backstory,
Speaker 4: of the day that we were evacuated for the house.
Speaker 4: I am a first generational homeowner and I bought this
Speaker 4: house a year ago and I just announced it to
Speaker 4: my mom last Christmas. I had tricked George of thinking
Speaker 4: we're going to an Airbnb, and I told her the
Speaker 4: news that I bought this house, that I was an
Speaker 4: Airbnb and she cried and I cried, and that.
Speaker 2: For me, was one of my favorite moments to have.
Speaker 2: So it's important for me to let people know that
Speaker 2: I'm very lucky. I am very lucky.
Speaker 4: And I went out to my backyard the night that
Speaker 4: they evacuated us, and I asked ancestors to protect my house.
Speaker 2: And they did.
Speaker 4: And I had this guilt for a second because I
Speaker 4: had asked ancestors. And my friend saw how distress I
Speaker 4: was about feeling this guilt, and she put it into
Speaker 4: a way that I never even thought of. She said,
Speaker 4: you can't ask ancestors to help you, and when they do,
Speaker 4: disrespect them and feel shame.
Speaker 2: And my house caught on fire.
Speaker 4: Every corner of my house, the fences burned and the
Speaker 4: trees burn but the house stays intact and the house
Speaker 4: is still holding. There's smoke damage severe toxins that I
Speaker 4: can't live in that house for a while because it
Speaker 4: will be deep cleaning, throwing away of furniture, mattresses, of anything.
Speaker 4: So I may have to start over again with the
Speaker 4: interior and not able to live there for a while.
Speaker 2: But I did not lose my home.
Speaker 4: And there's people who lost everything, everything they had worked
Speaker 4: for generation wellth having passed down to Black families, Latino
Speaker 4: families that were able to buy property in this area
Speaker 4: for the first time southern California.
Speaker 2: And I am a part of that neighborhood. So we
Speaker 2: are going to rebuild.
Speaker 4: And you might have a tragedy like this that comes
Speaker 4: by and test you, but it is a resilient town
Speaker 4: and we will rebuild.
Speaker 3: Coming up on Latino USA, we continue our conversation with
Speaker 3: Mexican American actor Harvey gee yin he's going to share
Speaker 3: his comedic influences.
Speaker 4: I was very much this kid who was Mexican but
Speaker 4: also American and those two cultures intertwined.
Speaker 3: And later he reveals his true identity.
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Speaker 3: Hey, We're back. Before the break, actor Harvey Gien was
Speaker 3: sharing his love for Los Angeles and talking to us
Speaker 3: about the tragedy that hid his home and his community
Speaker 3: really hard during the fires. Now, Harvey is going to
Speaker 3: let us into his life growing up and the comedic
Speaker 3: influences that he experienced from two different cultures. Let's jump
Speaker 3: back to the conversation. You were raised in a Mexican
Speaker 3: immigrant household in the nineties and the early two thousands,
Speaker 3: and so what kind of television were you watching, both
Speaker 3: in Spanish and in English.
Speaker 2: I was watching a lot of Kantine Flassranny.
Speaker 3: My God.
Speaker 4: I got a lot of my comic physical comedy from
Speaker 4: watching Kantine Flask with my dad. My dad love Kantine Flash,
Speaker 4: and then I would watch I Love Lucy.
Speaker 3: Yes, Envire made a begamin.
Speaker 1: You can spoon your way to hell.
Speaker 4: It's so tasty too, tastes like.
Speaker 2: Candy, honest, So I would be like, it's the same thing.
Speaker 2: It's if it's one's in Spanish and one's in English.
Speaker 2: But the comedy is there, and these two people are
Speaker 2: comic genius. So growing up, a lot of my influence
Speaker 2: was Lucio Ball and was skantin Flus. So I was
Speaker 2: very much this kid who was Mexican but also American,
Speaker 2: and those two cultures intertwined. And so watching both of
Speaker 2: those at my home on a daily like after school
Speaker 2: movies with my dad on the weekend, used to like
Speaker 2: all the Maria Feliques like movies, like we used to
Speaker 2: watch all of those classes.
Speaker 3: So you are like, seriously Mexican.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm twisted.
Speaker 4: I am.
Speaker 3: So Harvey, did you feel like as a queer Mexican
Speaker 3: young man and boy, did you feel like there was
Speaker 3: space for you or were you still working that out
Speaker 3: as you were watching Ganting Pleas and Lucille Ball.
Speaker 4: You know, growing up Mexican is great and also has
Speaker 4: some of the bad traditional values that are bestowed upon men,
Speaker 4: which is like the machismo culture and how you see
Speaker 4: a man act like a man and a man is
Speaker 4: supposed to be a man, and if they see any
Speaker 4: kind of softness in a boy, it needs to be addressed.
Speaker 4: I remember being at a kid's birthday party in a
Speaker 4: park and someone makes you know comment you know, you know, which.
Speaker 2: Is the equivalent of the f slur.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a very very hard And as your child
Speaker 4: growing up, where you're just living your life and dancing
Speaker 4: in the grass and just having the best time, and
Speaker 4: to hear someone say to you like, don't do that,
Speaker 4: don't be that.
Speaker 3: That's not good. You don't want to be that, and
Speaker 3: you as a child saying what's not good?
Speaker 2: What did I do?
Speaker 3: So you had to ask your mom?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I remember when I was little. I actually years
Speaker 4: later I realized what happened. I'd been gay bashed. I
Speaker 4: went to play with my neighbors at my last place
Speaker 4: in Mexico, and I brought my tonguea truck because I
Speaker 4: played Tonka trucks and I played with like dolls.
Speaker 2: I play with both of those, and I brought my
Speaker 2: truck full of dolls.
Speaker 4: I was like, do you guys want to play with
Speaker 4: my Tongua and this is the Tonka trucks, the metal ones,
Speaker 4: the heavy ones. So I'd drag this big Tonga truck
Speaker 4: with the dolls and tops. You guys want to play,
Speaker 4: and I remember one of the kids saying, no, we
Speaker 4: can't play with you, and I was like why because
Speaker 4: my brother says it is Mariposa and I was like,
Speaker 4: I'm a butterfly, and I was like, what is that?
Speaker 3: What?
Speaker 2: And I didn't know at the time, because I didn't
Speaker 2: know I'm a child.
Speaker 4: That was a negative connotation about someone who is light
Speaker 4: on their loafers, or any other phrase that you've heard
Speaker 4: throughout history that has been given to kids, to young adults,
Speaker 4: to grown men, that we've been called for centuries just
Speaker 4: because it makes the other person feel that they're entitled
Speaker 4: to and to put you down.
Speaker 2: So I didn't know what that meant.
Speaker 4: So as I walked away with my toys, I got
Speaker 4: Tyria and I was like, why do they want to
Speaker 4: play with you? Anyway, I walked away, they started chanting
Speaker 4: it Maripo sat and they grabbed some pebbles off the
Speaker 4: floor and I was like, I'm walking back to my
Speaker 4: grandma's house. I felt something fly by my ear, and
Speaker 4: I didn't know and then I looked back and a
Speaker 4: rock just hit my and I.
Speaker 2: Still have that scar on my eyebrow.
Speaker 3: Oh my god.
Speaker 4: It was my first bashing when I was a kid,
Speaker 4: and I didn't know why. I was about six years old. Baby,
Speaker 4: being six years old and not knowing that you've just
Speaker 4: been bashed because of what apparently everyone else knows you are,
Speaker 4: except you don't know yourself because you're a kid and
Speaker 4: you're just being yourself and you don't know that this
Speaker 4: offends anyone so much that they have to take it
Speaker 4: upon themselves to tear you down.
Speaker 2: So for me, that was the beginning.
Speaker 4: I learned that there was something different about me that
Speaker 4: people were obviously scared of offended by.
Speaker 2: I didn't know what that was.
Speaker 4: And I ran home and I was crying and covered
Speaker 4: in blood and dirt, and my mom said was like,
Speaker 4: they call me Mariposa is why would they call you mariposa?
Speaker 2: And she looked at me, and I knew then that
Speaker 2: my mother knew what all of this meant.
Speaker 4: And all she said was like, yes, Like it's like,
Speaker 4: who cares they call you a butterfly? Because butterflies are
Speaker 4: beautiful and they get to fly far away.
Speaker 3: Places and oh my god, your mom is amazing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And so it was just like that turnaround for
Speaker 4: me of like I still knew something was different about
Speaker 4: me for the time being.
Speaker 2: That's all I needed to know to give me reassurance
Speaker 2: that there was nothing wrong with me.
Speaker 3: We'll be right back, Yes, hey, we're back. I'm going
Speaker 3: to wrap up my conversation with Harvey gen about his career, art,
Speaker 3: and his true identity.
Speaker 5: In the end.
Speaker 3: I mean, you're a star on television, So what are
Speaker 3: those friends and neighbors, what are they saying to you? Now?
Speaker 4: Well, it's funny now, like the people I've had, people
Speaker 4: who were definitely bullies reach out and like nothing happened,
Speaker 4: like none of their negative words had any damage. I
Speaker 4: called them out on it, like I said, I'm sorry,
Speaker 4: aren't you the same person who did A, B and C?
Speaker 4: And they're like, yes, oh my god, did I do that?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: And then I get it.
Speaker 4: People grow and they evolve and they make mistakes and
Speaker 4: we learn. But I make the choice to who I
Speaker 4: surround myself with and who I share energy with. And
Speaker 4: people trying to sneak in back into a life that
Speaker 4: they have not been a part of for years and years.
Speaker 4: Like it's kind of very telling on them, and I
Speaker 4: think a little bit of like yeah, like it's like
Speaker 4: they reached out to me, found me, found a way
Speaker 4: to get a hold of me, and said remember me,
Speaker 4: Remember me.
Speaker 2: It's like, I don't think.
Speaker 4: About you because you're that part of my life is
Speaker 4: back then, and I don't look back if I look forward.
Speaker 2: So if you keep looking back, you're going to miss
Speaker 2: what's right in front of you.
Speaker 3: You know what, You're giving us some life lessons. Okay,
Speaker 3: all right? So in Companion, it's in the near future
Speaker 3: kind of scarily where you can rent a highly sophisticated
Speaker 3: sex robot. The days of you controlling me are over?
Speaker 2: Did you Joe break your sex part?
Speaker 3: Okay, I gotta tell you this totally freaks me out,
Speaker 3: But let me ask you this, So, what do you
Speaker 3: think that this film actually says about men and love?
Speaker 4: I think the movie shows the relationship that men have
Speaker 4: with companions, with a partner, whether it's human or not,
Speaker 4: and those shows the loneliness and the epidemic that's happening
Speaker 4: where men feel the neat that they have to purchase
Speaker 4: a companion.
Speaker 2: When I was reading the script.
Speaker 4: One of the first lines that popped up to me
Speaker 4: was jack Quade's character and the way that he talked
Speaker 4: to Iris. And one of the scenes after they've been intimated,
Speaker 4: they're in bed and she's gushing about how much she
Speaker 4: loves him and whatnot, and he's just fed up and
Speaker 4: he just goes Iris go to bed and just like
Speaker 4: talks to her very direct and unbeknownst to me that
Speaker 4: far in the script, I had no idea what the
Speaker 4: premise of the movie was yet, and that was very
Speaker 4: like jolting to me, and it made realized, is this
Speaker 4: a norm that maybe I'm not used to? But then
Speaker 4: as you read the script, you find out why he
Speaker 4: was talking to her like that, And that's what's a
Speaker 4: great question for society of like why would it be
Speaker 4: okay to talk to if that's a companion, whether it's flesh,
Speaker 4: skin and human or robotic. Why is it okay to
Speaker 4: talk to partners like that? And why is the dynamic
Speaker 4: of power not leveled? And when do we draw the
Speaker 4: line when it comes to technology, like where is enough?
Speaker 4: We're losing human connection and how to connect with each other.
Speaker 4: So I think this movie's really well written and Drew,
Speaker 4: who the director and writer, did a fantastic job.
Speaker 3: I love this. Where did you get that? Let's goutness,
Speaker 3: le's goutnesssness?
Speaker 4: I think I've always I'm a child of my parents
Speaker 4: who were hard workers, multiple jobs just to make the
Speaker 4: dream in America come true.
Speaker 2: I think that in this industry you have to have talent.
Speaker 4: And if you're fortunate enough to have talent and work
Speaker 4: on your talent and get trained and whatnot, there's the
Speaker 4: other thing that people need to have. And I think
Speaker 4: that being part of a Mexican family, I think it's
Speaker 4: kind of naturally bestowed upon us, and that's tenacity, the
Speaker 4: other tea.
Speaker 2: You might not have talent. You might have talent, but
Speaker 2: tenacity is something that I think is bestowed upon us.
Speaker 4: And while we're survivors and lasanas, tenacity is something that
Speaker 4: you get on it or you have no one else
Speaker 4: to blame by yourself. Can't blame you know, yourself for
Speaker 4: being in a situation. If you don't like situation you're in,
Speaker 4: then get out of it. If you don't like the
Speaker 4: way your life's going, then change it. Get that tenacity
Speaker 4: and get going.
Speaker 3: You know what, Harvey, So I've been calling you Harvey
Speaker 3: because that's the way that everybody knows you. But when
Speaker 3: we were doing the prep, my team said, you know,
Speaker 3: your name is actually Havier. Like you grew up as Kaye,
Speaker 3: I'm still hat it.
Speaker 4: So when I grew up, one of my teachers couldn't
Speaker 4: say Javier, and so she's Hovey. Hovey and Haave was
Speaker 4: kind of the nickname, which is fine because that's what
Speaker 4: people call me at home.
Speaker 3: Have.
Speaker 4: And then when I got older and I got an
Speaker 4: agent who was, by the way, a Mexican agent, he
Speaker 4: was like Javier Bien.
Speaker 2: I was like, let's get you a stage name. What
Speaker 2: do people call you? And I said Hovey and then
Speaker 2: he goes Havy Harvey and I was like, uh huh.
Speaker 2: And at first I didn't like it, and I was like,
Speaker 2: but I love Javier, and I was like, it was
Speaker 2: my father's name and Javier is my name. And they
Speaker 2: were like, yeah, but Javier Bien, it's gonna limit you
Speaker 2: and what you get to play. And at this point
Speaker 2: in my career, with no credits under my name, he
Speaker 2: was making me feel that I was just going to
Speaker 2: be seen as a one trick pony. And that's when
Speaker 2: my wheel started like shifting because I was like, I
Speaker 2: guess he knows something. He's an agent, and I went
Speaker 2: along with it, and I'm.
Speaker 4: Kind of At first I was upset about it, but
Speaker 4: after a couple of years, I'm actually glad because Javi
Speaker 4: Javier is my name that my friends and my familia
Speaker 4: calls me when I'm at home. And if you know
Speaker 4: me for my work, and that's Harvey and that's all
Speaker 4: you need to know me. So if you know me
Speaker 4: as Harvey, you know me for my entertainment, you know
Speaker 4: me for my work, you know me as that. And
Speaker 4: Harvey is that Javier is more personal and more intimate
Speaker 4: to my family and friends.
Speaker 2: So my friends still call me Kave Javier.
Speaker 4: If I go to dinner with a group of friends
Speaker 4: that I've known since they're great, they don't call me Harvey.
Speaker 2: They call me Javier.
Speaker 4: And that's the what we get to call and when
Speaker 4: you talk to me, you get to call me because
Speaker 4: you are family. Javief is family and friends. How do
Speaker 4: we that's the stage name and we need to have
Speaker 4: the separation. And I like separation of that because family
Speaker 4: and friends is not intertwining with work. And sometimes now
Speaker 4: that people know this story. They do try to sneak
Speaker 4: in and they see me on the street and they
Speaker 4: try to go havevier and I'm like, oh hi, and
Speaker 4: it's to meet you. Harvey.
Speaker 2: You don't know me like that. Snap, you don't know
Speaker 2: me like that, because if you get to know me
Speaker 2: like that, And I've had like working on shadows, like
Speaker 2: Jana Gorskaya is one of our directors, and she was
Speaker 2: so lovely and we ca so close, and then one
Speaker 2: day I think, after seasons of working together, show, is
Speaker 2: it okay if I call you hovey and I've become
Speaker 2: so close to her, then now she become a dear friend.
Speaker 4: I was like, you can call me Hobby, you call
Speaker 4: me Hovey. You are part of a very small group.
Speaker 4: You call me Harvey. We're all business here entertainment. Howrvey's
Speaker 4: here to entertain and have a good time. But you
Speaker 4: don't go home with me, and you don't get to
Speaker 4: talk in a different level, in a personal level, like.
Speaker 3: That final question, Harvey, dream role, dream role? If you
Speaker 3: could dream it right now, your top role would.
Speaker 4: Be superhero comedy, love story. Ooh, I want to be
Speaker 4: the center of a romantic storyline. I love action I
Speaker 4: want to do my own stunts. I obviously love comedy
Speaker 4: or yit Mane.
Speaker 3: I did see you doing your own stunts and I
Speaker 3: was like, is that really him? And I was like,
Speaker 3: I really him? Yeah.
Speaker 2: Even my mom doesn't think like I was like, no notice, fool,
Speaker 2: and I was like, Mom, I did the stunts.
Speaker 4: She's like, no notice, fool. And I was like, mom,
Speaker 4: here's the video of you rehearsing no no Manda.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much, Harvey. Thank you for sharing so
Speaker 3: much of your heart and your wisdom with us and
Speaker 3: your life lessons. I appreciate it. Cio chav That was
Speaker 3: actor Harvey Giyin. You can catch him in any of
Speaker 3: his new films or on Broadway with the revival of
Speaker 3: The Rocky Horror Show, or as host of the Spotify
Speaker 3: podcast Serial Killers. This episode, which originally aired in twenty
Speaker 3: twenty five, was produced by Monicamreles Garcia and edited by
Speaker 3: Andrea Ropez Cruzado. It was mixed by gabriel A Bias,
Speaker 3: Nicole Rothwell and are Managing editor Fernande Chavari helped put
Speaker 3: this rerun together. Nancy Trujuillo is our production manager. The
Speaker 3: Latino USA team also includes Broxana Aguire, Julia Russo, Rinaldo
Speaker 3: Lanos Junior, Stephanie Lebau, Luis Luna, Dori mar Marquez, Julieta Martinelli,
Speaker 3: JJ Krubin and Adriana Rodriguez. Benileeira Merez and I are
Speaker 3: executive producers. I'm your host Maria no Josa. Latino USA
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