WEBVTT - “Inspirations Part 1” 0:00:09.520 --> 0:00:14.560 Welcome back to those amigos with Freda Rodriguez and yours 0:00:14.600 --> 0:00:17.720 truly when my mother, Ama, well, what do you uh, 0:00:17.920 --> 0:00:19.959 what are we doing here? What is this thing that 0:00:20.000 --> 0:00:20.880 we continue to sit on? 0:00:21.040 --> 0:00:23.440 You know, still a little coffee? Are we gonna move 0:00:23.480 --> 0:00:24.279 on to something else? 0:00:25.239 --> 0:00:26.520 I don't know. I think we're gonna have to spice 0:00:26.600 --> 0:00:28.560 us up a little bit. Spice it up, man, spice 0:00:28.600 --> 0:00:28.880 it up. 0:00:28.880 --> 0:00:31.400 With our good friend there, Aaron was good. 0:00:32.120 --> 0:00:33.839 Uh, everything is everything. 0:00:34.000 --> 0:00:36.559 I am just having a great time listening to you 0:00:36.600 --> 0:00:39.080 all reflect on life and everything in between. 0:00:39.320 --> 0:00:40.440 And thank you for being here. 0:00:40.760 --> 0:00:44.760 Aaron is one of our executive producers here whose whose 0:00:44.800 --> 0:00:50.240 knowledge for conversation is in incomparable. So we're so grateful 0:00:50.240 --> 0:00:52.479 to you here with us here, and you know it lead 0:00:52.560 --> 0:00:55.600 us into our next conversation next Chad. You know, you 0:00:55.600 --> 0:00:59.520 know I will be you know I would be fullished 0:00:59.560 --> 0:01:02.480 in our point out. That has been such a privilege 0:01:02.520 --> 0:01:04.759 to get to know you on such a level. And 0:01:04.880 --> 0:01:06.680 you know, it's crazy we know each other so well, 0:01:07.000 --> 0:01:11.479 and every episode we dig deeper on the roots of 0:01:11.520 --> 0:01:15.000 how this all really happened, and it continued to validates 0:01:15.200 --> 0:01:17.120 why I think you're such a special human being that 0:01:17.200 --> 0:01:19.720 I'm so proud that it show can you know, introduced 0:01:19.720 --> 0:01:22.520 to so many people too, and and you know, and 0:01:22.520 --> 0:01:25.720 to give like some of our existing friends and family 0:01:25.840 --> 0:01:27.760 and just you know, maybe some of our fans, you know, 0:01:28.520 --> 0:01:30.720 a window at what it took for us to get 0:01:30.720 --> 0:01:34.280 to their homes or to the theaters, you know, and 0:01:34.280 --> 0:01:37.240 and so that's fun. And as we think about that, 0:01:37.600 --> 0:01:40.920 you know, I think about inspiration. 0:01:42.319 --> 0:01:43.280 What is this inspiration? 0:01:43.360 --> 0:01:45.880 We talked about our breaks, you know, we talked about 0:01:46.280 --> 0:01:48.680 what it took there, the mentality that we had to 0:01:48.800 --> 0:01:52.360 have to go into these rooms and conquer Goliath in 0:01:52.440 --> 0:01:56.560 different ways and not know that we were actually performing 0:01:56.600 --> 0:02:00.280 at that level and giving ourselves that great in that 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:02.840 space to kind of appreciate that trajectory from you and 0:02:02.880 --> 0:02:06.320 from me. But there's a lot of inspiration that had 0:02:06.320 --> 0:02:08.400 to be around us, I would think, right, I would 0:02:08.400 --> 0:02:10.720 think that we would have to have had certain images, 0:02:10.760 --> 0:02:14.399 certain individuals that did it first perhaps, or individuals that 0:02:14.840 --> 0:02:17.919 you know that somehow, you know, we're along the way 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:21.120 that kind of helped us see a deeper version of 0:02:21.120 --> 0:02:25.640 ourselves or more I don't know, a vulnerable yet powerful 0:02:25.720 --> 0:02:28.600 version of ourselves. And you know, there's a lot of 0:02:28.600 --> 0:02:31.840 people I believe in my career that I can look 0:02:31.919 --> 0:02:34.560 back at, well, I mean who was my inspiration who 0:02:34.560 --> 0:02:37.320 told me that I could too? So for you, like, 0:02:37.360 --> 0:02:39.040 what were some of those images, What were some of 0:02:39.040 --> 0:02:42.200 those individuals that you were like, oh, that's like me, 0:02:42.440 --> 0:02:44.800 or like oh I can do it like them, or 0:02:44.840 --> 0:02:47.519 even if that wasn't it just like just knowing that 0:02:47.960 --> 0:02:51.040 the possibility was, you know, was was out there for 0:02:51.080 --> 0:02:52.800 you to reach out to, Like who were some of 0:02:52.800 --> 0:02:54.720 these images when some of these people that inspire you? 0:02:54.919 --> 0:02:57.480 Yeah, well, you know, for me growing up in Chicago 0:02:57.639 --> 0:03:00.800 and having two older brothers, I was lucky enough to 0:03:00.960 --> 0:03:04.680 almost live their teenage years vicariously do them right, And 0:03:04.720 --> 0:03:06.799 so we would you know, we lived in a in 0:03:06.880 --> 0:03:13.959 a one television household with like a lot of Latino families. Oh, absolutely, 0:03:14.040 --> 0:03:19.200 the dials, the hangar as, the pliers to like change 0:03:19.200 --> 0:03:23.760 the channel. But I remember really early on watching TV 0:03:23.880 --> 0:03:26.840 with my brothers and them pointing out, always pointing out 0:03:26.880 --> 0:03:29.360 who the Latino Latino actors are, right, I mean. 0:03:29.280 --> 0:03:32.519 We obviously grew up with like with the Rita. 0:03:32.360 --> 0:03:35.160 Morenos of the world, with the Anthony Quinns of the world. 0:03:35.240 --> 0:03:36.200 You know people like that. 0:03:36.840 --> 0:03:40.440 I remember vividly, like Jimmy Smith's being on TV and 0:03:40.960 --> 0:03:42.200 my brothers pointing. 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:43.640 Out, like, yo, that guy's Latino. 0:03:43.800 --> 0:03:46.880 You know. I remember seeing East SiGe Morales in the 0:03:46.960 --> 0:03:50.160 in the in the eighties. I remember seeing Andy Garcia 0:03:50.240 --> 0:03:52.840 in the nineties when he first came out and what 0:03:52.920 --> 0:03:56.240 a what an incredible movie star he was, right, I mean, 0:03:56.360 --> 0:03:58.440 it was the first time I had ever really seen 0:03:58.520 --> 0:04:01.680 someone like that and and speak Spanish and like a 0:04:01.920 --> 0:04:03.080 like a major. 0:04:02.880 --> 0:04:08.440 Blockbuster studio movie, you even play other ethnicities, right, but yeah. 0:04:07.720 --> 0:04:11.000 Yeah, yeah, right, playing playing Italian and The Godfather or 0:04:11.040 --> 0:04:15.320 the Untouchables, you know. And then I remember seeing Leguzamo, 0:04:15.560 --> 0:04:19.400 our mutual friend John Leguizamo. And the reason why John 0:04:19.480 --> 0:04:23.160 resonated a lot with me was, you know, seeing Jimmy 0:04:23.560 --> 0:04:29.240 who was so classy and or or Andy who was 0:04:29.279 --> 0:04:32.320 born in Cuba, like John, was one of the first 0:04:32.320 --> 0:04:35.200 guys that I saw that I felt like I could 0:04:35.240 --> 0:04:38.800 see that guy in my neighborhood. You know, there was 0:04:38.960 --> 0:04:42.880 a deeper familiarity with him, and so I remember watching 0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:46.320 him and following him closely and really being proud of 0:04:46.320 --> 0:04:49.200 what he was doing and also giving me the inspiration 0:04:49.320 --> 0:04:53.599 and an example of what I could do when I started. 0:04:53.720 --> 0:04:55.760 And how different, right, I mean, he was such a 0:04:55.800 --> 0:04:59.240 different type of performer and he was doing it. 0:04:58.560 --> 0:04:59.760 Like nobody else was. 0:05:00.480 --> 0:05:03.560 He allowed himself to be a different type of performer 0:05:03.600 --> 0:05:06.200 that was bringing something to the table that was not going. 0:05:06.160 --> 0:05:06.960 To be forgotten. 0:05:07.680 --> 0:05:10.760 Every perform you remember every performance, yeah, I mean even 0:05:10.800 --> 0:05:14.400 as like all the way to like the clown and spawn, right, 0:05:14.440 --> 0:05:16.760 Like he's done so much iconic stuff to that point, 0:05:17.120 --> 0:05:19.360 and then he does the clown and you're like what 0:05:20.240 --> 0:05:22.400 you know, but he was taking shots and he was 0:05:22.400 --> 0:05:25.320 taking chances with his performances and his choices that just 0:05:25.680 --> 0:05:29.679 most actors wouldn't, you know. And you know some people 0:05:29.680 --> 0:05:31.800 would be afraid to do it, to do those too 0:05:31.800 --> 0:05:33.719 well because they could get typecasts, you know. 0:05:33.760 --> 0:05:36.000 And he was just one of those guys. 0:05:36.040 --> 0:05:41.560 And he was unapologetically Latino the entire time at a 0:05:41.600 --> 0:05:45.039 time where Latino wasn't necessarily the popular cast. 0:05:45.360 --> 0:05:50.560 Yeah yeah, and wasn't afraid to be a character actors scrappier, 0:05:50.839 --> 0:05:53.279 yeah yeah, And came from that generation of what we 0:05:53.279 --> 0:05:55.960 were talking about this earlier, of like character actors, you know, 0:05:56.120 --> 0:06:00.520 like creating characters and voices and completely losing yourself and 0:06:00.560 --> 0:06:03.560 the character. And he definitely embodied that. You know what 0:06:04.000 --> 0:06:06.080 about you, I mean, you know you you came here 0:06:06.120 --> 0:06:10.000 as a teenager, and this is pre internet, pre cable. 0:06:10.080 --> 0:06:12.680 I would assume like, what was I mean, what were 0:06:12.680 --> 0:06:16.440 you watching out in Venezuela that that inspired you, that 0:06:17.080 --> 0:06:19.400 made you think that it was possible for you. 0:06:19.880 --> 0:06:22.800 So in Venezuela, you know, Venezuela is like always ten 0:06:22.920 --> 0:06:27.840 years late to get like new programming. So my collective 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:35.840 archives of television memories, Yes, it was crazy until I 0:06:36.000 --> 0:06:39.560 was watching first of all, I Love Lucy in Spanish, 0:06:40.040 --> 0:06:42.880 course in Spanish, in Spanish, which by the way, I 0:06:43.040 --> 0:06:45.680 never knew he had an accent until I watched it 0:06:45.720 --> 0:06:47.720 in English and in the United States. 0:06:47.720 --> 0:06:49.760 So wait, wait, so what did it sound like? How 0:06:49.760 --> 0:06:50.960 did he sound in Spanish? 0:06:51.000 --> 0:06:54.440 He sounded like the entire cast was speaking in Spanish. 0:06:54.720 --> 0:06:58.159 It was not in Spanish. None of them had accents. Huh, right, 0:06:58.200 --> 0:06:59.600 so they were speaking Spanish. 0:06:59.680 --> 0:06:59.960 Yeah. 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:02.040 So when I came to the United States and then 0:07:02.080 --> 0:07:04.039 I was learning how to speak English, I went back 0:07:04.080 --> 0:07:06.919 because I've seen every episode of I Love Lucy, and 0:07:06.960 --> 0:07:10.040 when I started watching I Love Lucy again, I realized, oh, 0:07:10.040 --> 0:07:12.640 wait a minute, that's what Lucy both sounds. 0:07:12.360 --> 0:07:16.520 Like, and he has an accent, right, and I didn't 0:07:16.560 --> 0:07:16.840 know that. 0:07:17.320 --> 0:07:17.720 Huh. 0:07:17.760 --> 0:07:19.800 So that was a magical moment for me. When I 0:07:19.840 --> 0:07:23.320 heard his accent. I was like, oh, that's like me. 0:07:23.760 --> 0:07:26.239 I have an accent. I just learned how to speak English. 0:07:26.320 --> 0:07:28.720 I have an accent too. But you know, beyond that, 0:07:28.760 --> 0:07:30.600 back and when it's well that we were watching stuff 0:07:30.600 --> 0:07:33.320 from you know, there was a live action Spider Man 0:07:33.400 --> 0:07:36.040 from the seventies or in the early eighties, you know 0:07:36.080 --> 0:07:40.680 whatever there was, you know, lu Forarigno's Hole, Charlie's Angels, 0:07:40.760 --> 0:07:44.040 you know, chips. I wanted to be punched so bad, 0:07:44.160 --> 0:07:47.120 you know, you know, and you think about all those shows, 0:07:48.680 --> 0:07:50.360 you know further, and then you kind of had a 0:07:50.400 --> 0:07:52.440 collect every think like the Simpsons were playing and like 0:07:52.480 --> 0:07:55.880 The Fresh Prince, you know, shows like that that were like, 0:07:56.160 --> 0:07:59.520 you know, obviously making its way into syndication around the world. Literally, 0:07:59.520 --> 0:08:02.200 did I know the syndication was created by the one 0:08:02.240 --> 0:08:04.200 guy that didn't have an accent and then eventually had 0:08:04.200 --> 0:08:06.440 an accent when I watched him in English and the 0:08:06.520 --> 0:08:08.160 United States, and that was Ricky Ricardo. 0:08:08.640 --> 0:08:09.400 Leasi Ernest. 0:08:09.840 --> 0:08:11.400 I didn't know he created Syndication. 0:08:11.560 --> 0:08:14.280 Yes, he was the He was the guy who who said, Hey, 0:08:14.280 --> 0:08:16.320 I'm gonna show with one more than one cameras and 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:19.600 we're going to record it, right and once they recorded it, 0:08:19.720 --> 0:08:23.200 this thing was available for sale internationally everywhere. So he 0:08:23.280 --> 0:08:27.400 accident to create it, the Syndication in the multi camp 0:08:27.520 --> 0:08:30.000 format and you know that that entire thing, you know, 0:08:30.040 --> 0:08:33.640 and and they owned it, you know. So so those 0:08:33.640 --> 0:08:35.680 are the kind of inspirations that I grew up with, 0:08:35.720 --> 0:08:39.120 like The Punch, you know, I grew up with Chico 0:08:39.160 --> 0:08:43.960 and The Man, you know USA, you know. So these 0:08:43.960 --> 0:08:48.520 were shows that like somehow was creating the solution that 0:08:48.559 --> 0:08:52.280 we were also included pop culture. You come to America 0:08:52.280 --> 0:08:54.880 and start watching TV and you realize that it's leaning 0:08:54.920 --> 0:08:57.960 away in the other side, which is fine, right, Like 0:08:58.040 --> 0:09:01.319 I didn't see anything wrong with it until I realized 0:09:02.679 --> 0:09:05.640 what America really looked like and what was really reflected 0:09:05.640 --> 0:09:08.360 on those stories, right, I never really knew you know, 0:09:08.400 --> 0:09:11.560 where we were in that in that in that inclusion meter, 0:09:11.840 --> 0:09:15.080 you know, did you feel like they were did you 0:09:15.080 --> 0:09:17.199 feel like when you were in Venezuela that they were 0:09:17.640 --> 0:09:21.800 specifically showing those shows because they were latinos in it. No, 0:09:21.960 --> 0:09:24.000 I think that they were selling contact around the world, 0:09:24.000 --> 0:09:26.040 and I think that the things that were really popular 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:30.000 in the United States were an easy cell for international markets, right, 0:09:30.920 --> 0:09:33.200 and you know, they were also selling like packages, you know, 0:09:33.320 --> 0:09:35.960 like maybe CBS Corps at the time, We're sending all 0:09:36.000 --> 0:09:38.120 their CBS sitcoms, you know, and then we're selling them 0:09:38.120 --> 0:09:40.439 across the world. I don't know what some of those 0:09:40.440 --> 0:09:42.240 factors playing in that time, but I was growing up 0:09:42.280 --> 0:09:46.760 with that. And then when it came to movies, you know, Rocky, 0:09:47.160 --> 0:09:53.040 you know, Cobra everything still yeah, you know, Conan Terminator, 0:09:53.200 --> 0:09:55.480 you know, everything are no right, like in our countries 0:09:55.520 --> 0:09:59.400 and back in in Latin America, these movies action movies 0:09:59.440 --> 0:10:02.400 were the ones that they played every weekend in TV, 0:10:02.720 --> 0:10:03.440 you know, on TV. 0:10:04.840 --> 0:10:06.760 So these were some of these images. 0:10:06.800 --> 0:10:09.040 But I mean to me, these characters, you know, were 0:10:09.160 --> 0:10:11.439 larger than live but they were capable, and there was 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:15.760 like these single mission guys. Yeah, Arnold's Commando, you know, like. 0:10:16.120 --> 0:10:18.040 Commando, you know, all these things. 0:10:18.160 --> 0:10:21.520 You know, you watch all the Godfathers in Spanish, you know, 0:10:21.679 --> 0:10:22.800 and yeah, was. 0:10:22.720 --> 0:10:23.840 It always in Spanish? 0:10:23.920 --> 0:10:26.480 Yeah, because we're watching free channels. 0:10:26.800 --> 0:10:30.720 Right, there was only two channels, Karakas and Venevicion, and 0:10:30.800 --> 0:10:32.240 they syndicate all this stuff. 0:10:32.280 --> 0:10:32.400 You know. 0:10:32.480 --> 0:10:37.040 During the weekends, they would play The Extorcists, the Rocky movies. Yeah, 0:10:37.400 --> 0:10:41.320 they played Superman, the Christopher Reeve movies, right every weekend. 0:10:42.080 --> 0:10:43.200 And in the movie theaters. 0:10:43.240 --> 0:10:45.000 We had a tiny little movie theater on the weekends 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:49.840 and we had only RoboCup, like robo We played Robo 0:10:49.880 --> 0:10:51.840 cup all year round in the movie theater, you know. 0:10:52.280 --> 0:10:54.760 But you know again, so these were some of the influences. 0:10:54.760 --> 0:10:57.400 And I think Punch, yeah, Dessi or Naz for me, 0:10:58.040 --> 0:11:01.400 we're like, oh, Punch is like it's like a hero, 0:11:01.600 --> 0:11:02.120 you know what I mean. 0:11:02.320 --> 0:11:04.000 It's like out there catching the bad guys. 0:11:04.360 --> 0:11:07.640 Desi er Nas wearing a suit, is playing music at 0:11:07.679 --> 0:11:09.760 a life band, and you know, he started doing a 0:11:09.800 --> 0:11:12.160 scene with John Wayne, He's doing a cameo on the show. 0:11:12.200 --> 0:11:12.360 You know. 0:11:12.360 --> 0:11:15.440 It's like I was like, how cool is that? You know? 0:11:15.559 --> 0:11:18.360 And so I think those things really inspire me and 0:11:18.400 --> 0:11:22.320 started like opening my mind. But never, never, as I 0:11:22.360 --> 0:11:25.400 was growing up, ever thought that I'd be one of 0:11:25.440 --> 0:11:29.360 these guys that eventually could create something that could maybe 0:11:29.520 --> 0:11:30.200 outlive me. 0:11:30.760 --> 0:11:31.160 Does it? 0:11:31.240 --> 0:11:35.240 Does it ever freak you out that, like, you know, 0:11:35.280 --> 0:11:38.120 you just described your childhood, you describe what you were 0:11:38.160 --> 0:11:42.520 watching like you're that guy now, like you're you're Eric 0:11:42.640 --> 0:11:47.120 Estrada now right to this next generation of kids in 0:11:47.240 --> 0:11:49.640 Venezuela and Colombia all. 0:11:49.480 --> 0:11:51.280 Through the world. You know, does that ever? Do you 0:11:51.280 --> 0:11:52.080 ever think about that? 0:11:52.200 --> 0:11:55.640 I never, I've never really take a moment to I 0:11:55.640 --> 0:11:58.520 can appreciate the fact that what I've done somehow, I've 0:11:58.520 --> 0:12:02.679 made it out there. When you really hit me was 0:12:02.720 --> 0:12:05.400 when I went to Venezuela to visit a bunch of 0:12:05.480 --> 0:12:08.680 years ago, many many years ago, and there was a 0:12:08.760 --> 0:12:13.239 channel there, Sony Entertainment Television, and Sony had all the shows, 0:12:13.840 --> 0:12:16.040 but they had him in English, you know, they just 0:12:16.280 --> 0:12:18.120 subtitled in Spanish, and. 0:12:18.000 --> 0:12:19.440 He did really well for young people. 0:12:19.520 --> 0:12:21.760 Young people loved watching it in English and reading the 0:12:21.760 --> 0:12:25.520 subtitles in Latin America. And when I went down there 0:12:26.840 --> 0:12:31.200 and I saw that my show was playing and the 0:12:31.240 --> 0:12:34.719 small little town that I grew up in, yeah, you. 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:37.400 Actually saw on TV. Oh wow, that's it. 0:12:37.559 --> 0:12:41.600 That's when I was like, what just happened? Yeah, in 0:12:41.640 --> 0:12:45.080 the same living room that I grew up. Yeah, that 0:12:45.160 --> 0:12:46.360 I was watching the shows. 0:12:46.440 --> 0:12:48.800 Now these shows are full circle coming. 0:12:48.640 --> 0:12:51.160 In this way, and so that was a moment that 0:12:51.400 --> 0:12:55.160 really felt, oh, like, when I'm doing is something real? 0:12:55.280 --> 0:12:59.160 It's not just like you know, it's not just playing right, 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:01.480 and you know you always knew that it was there 0:13:01.520 --> 0:13:04.160 was something to it, you know, but I just think 0:13:05.080 --> 0:13:07.280 you know it doesn't. The impact is like when when 0:13:07.320 --> 0:13:09.600 you walk down the streets of London and you've never 0:13:09.640 --> 0:13:11.960 been to London before, and all of a sudden someone's like, hey, 0:13:12.640 --> 0:13:13.280 you know, grew up. 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:17.000 Watching your show with a British accident and you're like, whoa. 0:13:17.679 --> 0:13:18.839 I mean like I've never been here. 0:13:18.920 --> 0:13:22.920 Somehow somebody knows that I exist a different like Singapore. 0:13:23.080 --> 0:13:25.560 Was walking down Singapore and these two ladies were leaving 0:13:25.600 --> 0:13:27.559 the store after that closed it and then they looked 0:13:27.559 --> 0:13:31.360 at me because oh I couldn't speak English, and so 0:13:31.440 --> 0:13:33.200 that kind of stuff that it really kind of hits 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:34.920 you and makes you go, whoa, man, this is Maybe 0:13:35.000 --> 0:13:37.640 what we're doing is it is larger than we think, 0:13:37.720 --> 0:13:39.760 and like what we are putting on that screen is 0:13:39.800 --> 0:13:43.640 also you know, like what are we inspiring you know 0:13:43.880 --> 0:13:44.400 people with. 0:13:45.840 --> 0:13:48.040 Did you have you had instances like that? Did you 0:13:48.120 --> 0:13:51.880 think to yourself like WHOA, Like, you know, it was 0:13:51.920 --> 0:13:55.400 cool making the movie, and now it's like, yeah. 0:13:55.320 --> 0:13:59.439 I just recently this sort of encompasses it. I had 0:13:59.480 --> 0:14:02.199 somebody around the holidays, I did this holiday movie and 0:14:02.679 --> 0:14:07.200 this around the holidays, I ran into a fan randomly 0:14:08.240 --> 0:14:12.240 and they said, you know, I love this this holiday movie. 0:14:12.240 --> 0:14:12.679 You did it. 0:14:12.840 --> 0:14:14.200 It's called Nothing Like the Holidays. 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:17.320 It was a legamo and media of course, and and 0:14:17.400 --> 0:14:19.320 she said, you know, me and my me and my 0:14:19.440 --> 0:14:22.680 father used to watch this movie every holiday. 0:14:22.720 --> 0:14:24.440 And I was like, oh, that's beautiful, you know. 0:14:24.680 --> 0:14:26.560 And then and then she gets tears in her eyes 0:14:26.600 --> 0:14:29.600 and she's like, but he's passed away, you know. But 0:14:29.680 --> 0:14:32.040 that's the thing that we had, is that we would 0:14:32.080 --> 0:14:33.280 watch this movie together. 0:14:33.560 --> 0:14:36.280 And now she'll watch that movie and it'll take her 0:14:36.320 --> 0:14:36.960 back to her dad. 0:14:37.080 --> 0:14:37.480 Yeah. 0:14:37.560 --> 0:14:41.400 Yeah, But it's been stuff like that, you know, really 0:14:42.400 --> 0:14:47.800 receiving the emotional impact that I've had on people, you know, 0:14:48.080 --> 0:14:50.160 and that really means a lot to me because that's 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:53.520 really what I'm doing right, Like I'm I'm I'm offering 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:56.880 a form of escapism for people, right and you don't 0:14:56.880 --> 0:15:00.520 know what's happening in people's lives, and you know you 0:15:00.880 --> 0:15:03.480 really think about that, right, Like, like, we come into 0:15:03.480 --> 0:15:08.520 people's most intimate spaces, right, we come into people's living rooms, 0:15:08.560 --> 0:15:12.800 we come into people's bedrooms, spaces that only only very 0:15:12.840 --> 0:15:16.680 few people are allowed to be into, and we're moving 0:15:16.760 --> 0:15:19.880 people emotionally in these spaces that are very intimate and 0:15:19.880 --> 0:15:22.120 dear to them, you know. And I think that that's 0:15:22.200 --> 0:15:25.600 why when you run into these kinds of people that 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:29.040 they feel that they know you because you've moved them 0:15:29.080 --> 0:15:32.080 emotionally in these intimate spaces. I mean, they spent hours 0:15:32.080 --> 0:15:35.040 with you hours man hours, you know the same way 0:15:35.040 --> 0:15:37.040 that we did, right, you know, they like like like 0:15:37.120 --> 0:15:40.040 the vision that you that you shared with me in Venezuela, 0:15:40.120 --> 0:15:40.880 the same way we did. 0:15:40.960 --> 0:15:42.000 Right, we're coming up. 0:15:42.040 --> 0:15:45.000 We're watching Punch, you know, chase people down the one 0:15:45.040 --> 0:15:47.240 on one you know, like, but but we spend so 0:15:47.320 --> 0:15:49.960 much time with them in our living room. 0:15:50.000 --> 0:15:52.200 Did you think about what what was your show? 0:15:52.320 --> 0:15:52.400 Was? 0:15:52.440 --> 0:15:54.960 It? Was it Punch? Like there was it Chips? Which 0:15:54.960 --> 0:15:56.360 one was? Yeah? 0:15:56.480 --> 0:15:59.040 Chips man, yeah, all of that chips. 0:15:59.440 --> 0:15:59.680 Yeah. 0:15:59.680 --> 0:16:03.440 I remember specifically seeing Eric Ostrada and. 0:16:03.360 --> 0:16:05.720 Going like, oh wow, man, there's like one of us, 0:16:06.080 --> 0:16:08.200 you know, he did a Spanish soap opera. 0:16:08.600 --> 0:16:15.119 Those those coming, those those coming, those those weirdest gummy coming. 0:16:15.760 --> 0:16:18.720 And which means two women on the one. 0:16:20.800 --> 0:16:21.080 Uh. 0:16:21.160 --> 0:16:24.240 And I watched that soap opera in Spanish. You did 0:16:24.480 --> 0:16:28.080 my mom in Venezuela. I think we were back in 0:16:28.080 --> 0:16:30.000 the United States at this point. I forget, but it 0:16:30.320 --> 0:16:34.680 was yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, And it was crazy about it. 0:16:34.720 --> 0:16:37.560 It's like I grew up watching him Punch, so of 0:16:37.600 --> 0:16:40.640 course as a little boy, I was like, oh, Punch 0:16:40.720 --> 0:16:44.640 is in a Spanish stillingela, Like I started watching him 0:16:44.640 --> 0:16:48.920 in those those modism comino and and the dude. The 0:16:48.960 --> 0:16:51.920 show is quite literally what the title was. 0:16:51.760 --> 0:16:52.080 It was. 0:16:53.840 --> 0:16:58.040 Women to figure out which one and they both were like, 0:16:58.120 --> 0:16:59.120 you have to pick yea. 0:16:59.200 --> 0:17:01.680 It weren't even mad about him two women at the 0:17:01.680 --> 0:17:03.480 same time. Is that what the whole show was about? 0:17:04.720 --> 0:17:05.720 What the show is about? 0:17:05.720 --> 0:17:09.240 The whole time he needs to make a decision between, 0:17:10.000 --> 0:17:13.160 you know, between these two actresses to the two these 0:17:13.200 --> 0:17:13.960 two characters. 0:17:14.119 --> 0:17:16.280 Wow, and it's the dilemma, you. 0:17:16.200 --> 0:17:18.880 Know, you know, why is his destiny but the other 0:17:18.920 --> 0:17:19.840 one he's in love with. 0:17:20.240 --> 0:17:20.399 You know. 0:17:20.440 --> 0:17:23.719 It's like like it was so it was so crazy, 0:17:23.760 --> 0:17:25.800 but only Spanish stilling over lets can sell you on 0:17:25.840 --> 0:17:26.800 that fantasy, you know. 0:17:27.520 --> 0:17:29.560 Yeah, yeah, yeah, wow. 0:17:29.680 --> 0:17:43.560 I remember my mom watching that, you know, but but 0:17:43.640 --> 0:17:45.320 I you know, you were asking me was it paunch? 0:17:45.440 --> 0:17:45.560 Was it? 0:17:46.119 --> 0:17:49.359 I remember I remember watching you ever seen this movie 0:17:50.200 --> 0:17:53.240 Internal Affairs with with Andy Garcia Richard Gear. 0:17:54.040 --> 0:17:54.840 I don't know how well. 0:17:55.040 --> 0:17:57.919 We got a hold of the video tape back in 0:17:58.080 --> 0:18:00.200 like the eighties and we had that. 0:18:00.200 --> 0:18:03.960 Movie on heavy rotation, and I remember Andy had a 0:18:04.000 --> 0:18:07.919 couple of lines in Spanish in that movie, and. 0:18:07.800 --> 0:18:09.159 It blew my mind. 0:18:09.320 --> 0:18:11.480 It was like the first time I had ever met 0:18:12.359 --> 0:18:15.120 I couldn't comprehend. It was like, well, wait, this guy 0:18:15.160 --> 0:18:19.399 is the lead guy, Richard Gear, major Hollywood movie and 0:18:19.440 --> 0:18:23.520 he's speaking Spanish. You know, it blew I don't I 0:18:23.520 --> 0:18:27.480 don't remember ever seeing that, like in like a major 0:18:27.560 --> 0:18:29.480 American film. 0:18:29.240 --> 0:18:29.840 Like that before. 0:18:29.960 --> 0:18:33.560 And when you see an American actor speak her language, 0:18:33.880 --> 0:18:38.000 it's like, you know, culture just like oh my, you 0:18:38.040 --> 0:18:40.560 know what I mean, It becomes it becomes interesting. Like 0:18:40.680 --> 0:18:43.280 I've seen Ben Affleck. Dude, fool. 0:18:44.760 --> 0:18:46.840 Can speak better Spanish than you and I. 0:18:48.600 --> 0:18:54.880 By the way, he sounds like, you know, like. 0:18:57.400 --> 0:18:58.480 You know, he literally does. 0:18:58.720 --> 0:18:59.920 He sounds like he's from like TG. 0:19:01.480 --> 0:19:03.280 Yeah, but you know, but we give them so much 0:19:03.320 --> 0:19:07.760 respect because whoever tries, you know, our culture rewards and 0:19:08.480 --> 0:19:09.679 we're loyalty, you know. 0:19:09.800 --> 0:19:13.240 And it's beautiful to see what actors really try. Uh. 0:19:13.280 --> 0:19:16.720 And I think it's becoming more possible now with our 0:19:16.720 --> 0:19:21.560 where characters are finally more in tune with the responsibility 0:19:21.640 --> 0:19:25.119 we have as we portray these characters on screen. You know, 0:19:25.200 --> 0:19:27.800 back then, you know, some of these characters were either 0:19:27.920 --> 0:19:30.760 not the imperfect or the bad guys you know, or 0:19:31.200 --> 0:19:33.280 you know, they were in the mob or whatever it is, 0:19:33.359 --> 0:19:36.000 you know. And and so to to see that there 0:19:36.080 --> 0:19:40.359 is a a new generation of Latino characters, did you 0:19:40.520 --> 0:19:43.440 feel a little responsible for like what you do now 0:19:43.480 --> 0:19:44.840 or how you pass down the torch? 0:19:45.760 --> 0:19:45.960 Oh? 0:19:46.080 --> 0:19:48.640 Man, that's a good question. Do I feel responsible? 0:19:48.800 --> 0:19:49.119