S7 EP21: Our Lady Of The Tortilla

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[00:00:44] And just heartbroken, crest falling if you will miss Erem Maria Matriy

[00:00:49] I was gone but now she's back, say what's up, Elia

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[00:00:57] I missed you all, Kevin, good break Kevin held his own but at the end of the day nobody can replace Elia

[00:01:04] I'm a despised illustration, Elia tonight we're also joined by some very special guests and we're excited

[00:01:12] Trust me, if the pre-show was anything to say about it, we're gonna have a fun tonight guys

[00:01:16] You know, we have two members of the cast of the play that's being held by the part of the bilingual foundation of the arts

[00:01:25] Our Lady of the Tortilla and what's up today, I have Mr. Ese Valensa and is the Adriano Adrian, I don't want to put you on Adriano

[00:01:36] Adriano, Janice Susbarron

[00:01:38] We got everyone, I got it, we do it, we do it, Primo's get it done

[00:01:44] But I want to give you guys a moment of course to say hi to the Primo's out there, Teresa, let's start with you

[00:01:49] Hi Primo, it's so great to be here, super excited to talk about this show that we're about to put up in about a week

[00:01:57] And yeah, Bienvenidos

[00:01:59] Awesome, Adriano

[00:02:01] I'm Adriano, I'm a super excited to be playing the role of Nelson in our Lady of the Tortilla that goes up in a week's time

[00:02:08] It's Teresa's a super excited to be here, thank you so much

[00:02:12] I'm excited, I'm excited, I'm excited, I feel the bumps, you know, I'm excited because it's a fun we're all fans of creative here

[00:02:19] You know, we talk about Latino representation, Latino representation and all facets

[00:02:23] And Primo, as you can follow us online at my Primo's podcast and my Primo's podcast.com

[00:02:29] And of course, check out Miss Elia, my Dria at Spice Illustrations

[00:02:33] And Mr. Adriano, you have your socials there, and Teresa will give yours out here too, it's here in a sec

[00:02:38] But follow them here, guys, we need to have growth, we need to have not already

[00:02:43] And we need to get seen, that's the whole point, right? representation and all the money

[00:02:47] All the money that all that, all that, all that well

[00:02:51] We have the guest here, we're talking about the play, I'm curious, okay

[00:02:56] So I've had a little bit of the press release and I got excited with the art, man, that we're looking at over

[00:03:01] Can, are they on tell me a little bit what's the pitch for our lady of the tortilla?

[00:03:09] So our lady of the tortilla is a typical Latino family straight out of East Los

[00:03:14] It is crazy stories coming together of just two sons coming back home

[00:03:22] dealing with what it means to come back home, a mother and her sister being sisters

[00:03:28] But also how they interact with the two sons, my character Nelson is bringing Teresa's character Beverly home

[00:03:35] Because this is my first time bringing my white girlfriend home

[00:03:39] But the story is, you know, as this chaotic family reunion is happening over the course of this week

[00:03:47] And how does the sort of heart and soul of this family, my Dria, the notice, deal with what is essentially a miracle happening in our kitchen

[00:03:57] And just how that spirals out and how that affects and changes

[00:04:02] That come through crews family over the course of one miraculous night

[00:04:09] Wow, it sounds awesome

[00:04:11] I'm excited because I've affected, we have friends and we have, I would say collaborators are in the Los Angeles area

[00:04:20] And those are supposed to be right now in the Los Angeles area

[00:04:23] Teresa, tell us a little bit about your role, I mean in the play and kind of what that means

[00:04:29] And how you fill playing that type of position or role

[00:04:33] I mean it's like a duct to water essentially

[00:04:37] I am half Mexican and I grew up speaking Spanish, I didn't speak any English until I was like four or five

[00:04:44] But it's no surprise that I'm playing the Geringa in a show

[00:04:50] It was Spanish speaking show, we're actually doing performances in English and in Spanish

[00:04:54] So we have a chance to play with both languages which is really exciting and very much a challenge

[00:05:01] Playing Beverly is really, really fun because I get to kind of acknowledge and validate my own experience

[00:05:10] Being sort of an outsider in my Mexican extended family growing up

[00:05:15] And it's just really wonderful to be able to play in that pool with people who are incredibly safe and artistic

[00:05:27] And who support you as a performer and as a human being

[00:05:30] So it's been a really amazing opportunity

[00:05:33] And of course working with Adityan most closely, I guess since we, you know, all of our scenes are together

[00:05:39] It's just been really fun, we've had a wonderful time and we've gotten to know each other really well as friends

[00:05:45] And you know, just being able to go on stage

[00:05:55] And I mean we haven't yet, we're still a week out but being able to go on stage and express yourself in two different languages

[00:06:03] As, as the outsider I think looking in sort of an audience member

[00:06:09] I think that was something that Adityan and my director and I were talking about recently is that

[00:06:14] Beverly's character is kind of an outsider looking in

[00:06:17] She's like another audience member sort of

[00:06:20] And it's really interesting to have that part in the play

[00:06:27] So I'm just really looking forward to it. It's a blast

[00:06:31] It sounds awesome, especially the, you're taking on that, you know, the fact that, as you said

[00:06:37] It's a true example, you know we talked about this here and we've been mentioned that I social media, right?

[00:06:42] The stigma of Vinalatina and enough, Vinalatina and enough, right?

[00:06:46] And that becomes such a gay keeper attitude such a shitty way for the community that to act, right?

[00:06:54] And I mean this, this is this union right between everybody in the cast

[00:06:59] Can you talk about the cast and kind of like how that came together

[00:07:03] And maybe some of the other performers and kind of what they bring to the game as well

[00:07:09] It actually feels so like we are playing the roles like all of our roles are a family

[00:07:16] But from the jump that was so established

[00:07:21] And so like it happened so naturally

[00:07:26] I go, I walk into rehearsal and like yes, I know these people and I address them by their names

[00:07:32] But like half the time my good morning, everyone are just

[00:07:35] Allama Malatia, geobod Malatia, very like no this is of this is my family for the next

[00:07:43] You know six of course

[00:07:44] And the community that we have established both with amongst ourselves as a cast

[00:07:50] That just with our director, with our assistant director, with the members of the bilingual foundation

[00:07:55] It's very like it feels like going home in the best way

[00:07:59] And it just feels that inter-connectivity and that community that you know

[00:08:06] You would think being an LA is easy to come by

[00:08:10] But at least speaking in my experience this is the first time I've been surrounded by people who speak predominantly Spanish

[00:08:17] Since I moved out here from the 20th century

[00:08:21] So it's so good to speak my native tongue

[00:08:27] Without having to be like I'm swearing or saying whatever and then I have to train

[00:08:31] Yeah, what if you're out?

[00:08:33] Is that how this emphasis, you're going to sell all right?

[00:08:36] Yes, I see.

[00:08:37] You know for sure.

[00:08:39] Yeah, LA is really, really spread out

[00:08:42] LA is really spread out and sometimes it's really hard to build your community

[00:08:46] And then after the pandemic rebuilding your community

[00:08:49] It's been a huge huge challenge for a lot of people myself included

[00:08:54] And to be able to come back after that and find this lovely pool of people has been great

[00:08:59] I think before then I was, you know, I still go to a Spanish group where I speak, you know, Spanish with people

[00:09:09] And I'm just really just know them so that I can go when so he can speak

[00:09:14] Spanish, so he's like, you did?

[00:09:15] Like, that must all right.

[00:09:17] Yeah, they're all very sweet and everything but to be able to be in a theatre setting with people who are, you know,

[00:09:23] They're Latino artists like they get you on that level.

[00:09:26] That's really big, I think as well

[00:09:29] And we have a couple of cast members who's Spanish is their first language

[00:09:34] So they're having to work a little bit harder on the English side of things

[00:09:37] And then vice versa, we have some people who speak more English

[00:09:41] So it's really interesting like we're all coming together from slightly different backgrounds

[00:09:47] But we have so much in common and I think Aditya is an all Mexican cast

[00:09:51] I think we're all Mexican.

[00:09:52] Yes, that's the coolest part.

[00:09:54] It's a little bit of a Mexican cast.

[00:09:56] It's almost an entirely Mexican crew.

[00:10:00] The play itself.

[00:10:02] Play itself is set in East Los Angeles and it's, you know, centered around a Mexican family

[00:10:09] But you need that role of Salvadoria and the show's up and all to the part

[00:10:14] That's the thing for a play written about Mexicans in East LA

[00:10:19] The play was written by a Cuban man and our director's Puerto Rican

[00:10:24] I'm a fan of it.

[00:10:25] There you go.

[00:10:25] Yeah, it's there is a blend and it comes out so much and like the Spanish, especially

[00:10:31] Of just like I frasis Caribénia as I frasis, super mexas

[00:10:35] It like and then there's just the bass text that we're all drawing from and it's so nice to be like

[00:10:41] Why does this sound weird to us?

[00:10:43] But they hear a director say it and it's like, Oh, that makes sense.

[00:10:47] No, because it's different intonations.

[00:10:49] It's the different phrasing.

[00:10:52] It's beautiful.

[00:10:53] It's true.

[00:10:54] Latin and coming together and just mixing into making this beautiful show.

[00:10:58] And then there's a whole other level of weirdness when Beverly speaks Spanish because

[00:11:03] Beverly is essentially Midwestern, questionably.

[00:11:07] I mean, yes, I'm ready for it.

[00:11:10] Okay, I get like she's not.

[00:11:12] Oh, I love that.

[00:11:14] Yeah, as a completely different dialect, it's really fun.

[00:11:17] It's like layers upon layers.

[00:11:20] So in the performance whenever you're performing in Spanish mode, do you have that like

[00:11:26] Twang in Spanish like gross yes, paravivar in La Cosa?

[00:11:30] That's that's exactly what I'm going for and I really I feel like working with my voice

[00:11:38] is always really important.

[00:11:40] And I'm not going full midwestern because I want to make sure that people really understand

[00:11:46] what I'm saying, especially the reason we're doing you know the English and the Spanish

[00:11:51] and the Spanish language is just so that it's understand understandable in both languages.

[00:11:55] So so is not to go too far, which I can go far.

[00:12:00] You know, even just you know, elevating the voice a little bit and keeping her up here,

[00:12:06] you know, versus opening the mouth and you know, it just kind of changes.

[00:12:10] It's what's called oral posture.

[00:12:12] It's a real word.

[00:12:14] I did not make that up.

[00:12:15] I'm not just saying it.

[00:12:17] I mean, claim it.

[00:12:18] It's here.

[00:12:19] It's not.

[00:12:20] It is.

[00:12:21] Yeah.

[00:12:22] Oh, you see that and then allowing the Spanish to come through that is is really, really fun.

[00:12:31] And it's still understandable, you know, I really love that the performance itself,

[00:12:37] you're performing in an English, but you're also doing it in Spanish, which it's not really like

[00:12:43] out there as something that people are aware of, but accessibility to theater for the Spanish being community.

[00:12:50] It's not as prominent and to have something like this that just represents the culture to be available for the Spanish being community is like so great.

[00:13:02] And I'm so glad that that is out there.

[00:13:04] So the Spanish being community can also enjoy theater, which not many communities can do because lots of performances are only performed in English.

[00:13:12] Yeah, it's really great.

[00:13:14] And it's really good.

[00:13:15] It's also much to make and it costs a lot to go and see and whatever.

[00:13:20] And so we try to make it, you know, some of I think some of the work that the BFA does is donation based I guess and because I believe it's a nonprofit if I'm correct.

[00:13:32] So, you know, they do garner some of that from the community.

[00:13:37] People still pay for tickets but I mean, yes,

[00:13:40] we're definitely into trying to make it accessible for everybody, you know, through language and financially as well.

[00:13:47] So yeah, I just I love the work that they do. They're always trying to elevate let's see new voices and they've been around for like 50 years.

[00:13:55] This is our house.

[00:13:56] Yeah, it's like the BFA like to be fair and just fully transparent first I'm hearing of the BFA to be honest and then I did the research looking it up on social media like wow 50 years.

[00:14:08] Yeah, can you talk a little bit about the BFA and what their mission is and how you came about with them.

[00:14:16] So the BFA was started up 50 years ago by Carmen Sapata Margarita Galvan and Estela Scarleta.

[00:14:23] They have been doing work in the Latino community here in Los Angeles for the last 50 years being a nonprofit organization founded by three women producing Latino theater is such a wonderful experience.

[00:14:38] I mean, they have a trophy case as soon as you walk in so this has been this is a successful company and it's like theater company but also like a successful foundation that does good work for the community.

[00:14:52] It makes theater accessible. It puts our stories not just you know plays and English that are translated into Spanish but we're talking in the classics.

[00:15:02] Servantes, Lorca, Sorcoananes, the Lacrosse. They're doing actual Latino play stories and presenting it to a modern audience to really show Latin A stories on stage which is so, so massive there is such a difference growing up and saying oh I want to be an actor and dependency like what we can't.

[00:15:30] It doesn't make any money, we don't understand the language doesn't and then be like I'm doing a play by Lorca and they're like oh I know who Lorca is and it's in Spanish too great. I can understand what you're doing and going support it that way. So to have this foundation that has been around for so long.

[00:15:48] Be where I have found this community. It's everything I want from my career it's something that is so magical to have nowadays because like you said earlier like

[00:16:02] It's the accessibility of finding these stories is hard to come by,

[00:16:07] but it's not that big of a concept to just to a show into languages.

[00:16:13] It's not revolutionary, but when it is given to you,

[00:16:16] it makes it that much special.

[00:16:20] This is all giving me chills because I have my background in theater.

[00:16:25] I did an alter-high school.

[00:16:27] I studied at a university, got my degree,

[00:16:29] but unfortunately, my experiences were not diverse.

[00:16:34] And so I lost the passion for it.

[00:16:36] I ended up just stopping because I felt like I didn't belong in the space.

[00:16:41] And so hearing about a company like this

[00:16:44] that is highlighting Latin avoidces in the performance space,

[00:16:48] it's like literally, see-sip weather.

[00:16:51] You know?

[00:16:52] It's possible.

[00:16:53] Not only are we Latin at performers, there's Latin at playwrights,

[00:16:56] there's Latin at directors.

[00:16:58] Everyone involved in the show can be from a Latin background

[00:17:02] and bring life to this art and make it accessible,

[00:17:06] which is already just mind-blowing in the performative space.

[00:17:11] And it's something that really shouldn't be, you know?

[00:17:13] It's like you said, this is just translate

[00:17:15] and make it accessible.

[00:17:17] And so, like, in terms of y'all's theatrical journey,

[00:17:21] what was y'all's theatrical journey like coming

[00:17:24] from a Latin at background before you entered this space?

[00:17:28] That is a universe.

[00:17:31] But it's not a spot.

[00:17:34] Well, we all have, say in before I'm from Texas and,

[00:17:39] and, you know, I look like a lot of girls.

[00:17:41] So that's pretty much, you know,

[00:17:43] that's pretty much what was accepted for me.

[00:17:48] And coming out here,

[00:17:51] I think I pretty much have the same experience in Texas

[00:17:54] as I did out here initially,

[00:17:57] because I wanted to act in Spanish.

[00:18:00] Like I mentioned earlier, I think I've always been half Mexican.

[00:18:04] I've always spoken Spanish,

[00:18:07] but I don't present in that way.

[00:18:09] And that brings up some challenges for actors.

[00:18:13] I was having a lot of trouble, I think,

[00:18:17] identifying where I belonged.

[00:18:21] Just, I mean, in the Latinic community,

[00:18:24] as a human, not to mention an actor,

[00:18:28] I would go into auditions and they would say,

[00:18:32] I actually went, this actually happened.

[00:18:34] I went into an audition and they were,

[00:18:35] they were talking about me behind my back

[00:18:37] as though I couldn't understand Spanish,

[00:18:41] saying,

[00:18:41] no, it's what I'm in America now.

[00:18:42] She sounds, she sounds to American.

[00:18:45] And I really hurt my feelings.

[00:18:47] And I love seeing my call one of my best friends

[00:18:51] and he was incredibly supportive.

[00:18:54] And he's like, that is how you dare let them tell you

[00:18:57] that that's not true.

[00:18:58] He's like, you're not too American,

[00:19:00] you sound like a Northinia, that's different.

[00:19:03] You're from Matamoto, Stamoleba,

[00:19:04] that's a different accent,

[00:19:06] it's a different dialect,

[00:19:07] like, don't listen to them.

[00:19:08] And so I didn't, and I kept going.

[00:19:11] And even though it was really hard

[00:19:12] and even getting the audition is rough for me.

[00:19:16] But I think I also always went around feeling

[00:19:21] like I needed to be more Mexican,

[00:19:24] like you were saying, like I needed something.

[00:19:26] When really what I needed to do,

[00:19:29] I think, and this is still remains to be seen

[00:19:32] because this is my first role in which

[00:19:35] I'm speaking English and Spanish

[00:19:38] in the Latina community, but embracing the idea

[00:19:42] that, hell, I just look like a white girl

[00:19:44] who doesn't speak Spanish.

[00:19:46] Hey, maybe that accent is something

[00:19:48] I'm gonna be wearing for a long time.

[00:19:50] You know, and if that's how I'm cast,

[00:19:53] I welcome it with open arms

[00:19:54] because it's a place for me.

[00:19:56] It's a place for me to exist.

[00:19:57] It's a place for me to live.

[00:19:59] Hopefully it'll expand from that,

[00:20:01] but like, if that's where it starts,

[00:20:03] I'm okay with that.

[00:20:05] Being in this role for me personally,

[00:20:08] just to add, booking this show is just such a huge victory

[00:20:13] for me, because of that

[00:20:16] and it not only plays to my natural looks

[00:20:22] and one of my strengths, which is voices and dialects,

[00:20:27] but it validates my experience as a half-white girl

[00:20:31] from the States because I was born in Texas

[00:20:34] and raised in Texas,

[00:20:36] but who also interacted a lot

[00:20:38] with her Mexican extended family.

[00:20:42] So, a big part of my authenticity

[00:20:44] and my experience is not only being acknowledged,

[00:20:47] but it's being celebrated.

[00:20:49] And I love that.

[00:20:51] And I'm so here for it.

[00:20:53] So this show means a lot to me, being in it,

[00:20:56] means a little bit.

[00:20:56] Oh, no, hell yeah, good for you, oh, no.

[00:20:59] You know what I mean?

[00:20:59] We were talking about this before.

[00:21:01] One of one of our hosts, Kevin, he's half-white

[00:21:04] and he's always a teacher in school,

[00:21:06] he used to work down in South Texas by the border.

[00:21:09] Like, he has integrated with, you know,

[00:21:11] but like the Nicole Trigger and all facets

[00:21:13] of it, he's written books about it, like, he,

[00:21:15] but one of the things he's always kind of experienced

[00:21:18] was because like you said, you know, he's passing, right?

[00:21:21] And he's presenting more white,

[00:21:23] he's Spanish isn't as good, right?

[00:21:25] And there's always this issue of like,

[00:21:26] oh, you're not really Mexican.

[00:21:27] You're not really Latino, you know?

[00:21:29] But like, I think at this stage where things are,

[00:21:31] like, we're past that.

[00:21:33] My own family's guilty of it is saying,

[00:21:35] I'm not self-adorn enough

[00:21:36] because I don't look it and I don't act like it,

[00:21:39] but I'm like, what does it have a door in act like?

[00:21:41] Like, what are you talking about?

[00:21:43] I'm like, my blood.

[00:21:44] It wouldn't have that mean.

[00:21:45] Right? I mean, I'm kind of all in for a Spanish,

[00:21:49] Southern Twang, Matthew McConaughey, like,

[00:21:51] or I lay it or I lay it or I lay it like a doctor like that.

[00:21:54] Like, I'm all about it.

[00:21:56] Like, let's make that happen.

[00:21:57] Agriana, I don't know what you need to do, man.

[00:21:58] But then he could be maybe a character, you know?

[00:22:02] Maybe, maybe, maybe, but I feel what you're saying

[00:22:05] that is the fact that you have to almost,

[00:22:08] why do you have to work twice as hard

[00:22:09] to prove something?

[00:22:11] You are who you are, regardless of it.

[00:22:13] Right? And I mean, these experiences

[00:22:15] are shared throughout the community,

[00:22:17] everything from the color of your skin,

[00:22:19] the how good is your Spanish, right?

[00:22:21] I mean, like, are you an Oslo kid, right?

[00:22:23] All that stuff.

[00:22:25] So it's this awful.

[00:22:26] Adian, what about you?

[00:22:27] What is your experience coming up

[00:22:29] and getting in the game with that?

[00:22:32] So, I suppose to, that I said,

[00:22:35] and I don't say that in a negative way,

[00:22:36] I am a child of immigrants,

[00:22:39] both my parents are from Mexico.

[00:22:41] My dad from Mexico City, my mom from Atlanta,

[00:22:43] Chara, I was born here, but I was raised half and half,

[00:22:46] so half the year, I'm in Mexico, half the year, I'm in here.

[00:22:49] I learned, finally enough,

[00:22:51] I learned English through Shakespeare.

[00:22:54] Like, that's one of my favorite things to say.

[00:22:56] Like, yeah, I was in school and like, I heard English all the time,

[00:22:59] but I was like, well, if I'm going to

[00:23:00] be forced to speak this stupid language,

[00:23:02] I might as well learn from the best.

[00:23:04] Who's the best English person?

[00:23:06] Shakespeare.

[00:23:07] So, me who is that more is, I'm going to say it,

[00:23:09] say for the best.

[00:23:10] That's where I learned.

[00:23:11] That's where I learned.

[00:23:12] And then all the time.

[00:23:13] And the exact text.

[00:23:15] So, there you go.

[00:23:16] There you go.

[00:23:17] Yeah.

[00:23:18] All right.

[00:23:19] But yeah, so like theater has always been like

[00:23:24] what I've been around, what I've been drawn to,

[00:23:26] to steal a quote from Dave Shappelle.

[00:23:29] My parents did just good enough

[00:23:31] for me to grow up poor around white people

[00:23:33] and because of that, I was for the for a majority of my life

[00:23:38] like the token Mexican.

[00:23:40] I you know, was the old.

[00:23:42] Yeah.

[00:23:42] I speak English until second grade at the first thing

[00:23:45] that's anyone ever heard me say in English was

[00:23:48] Son of a bitch.

[00:23:49] I don't want to take this pop quiz.

[00:23:51] That's interesting.

[00:23:52] I love it.

[00:23:53] He's one of us.

[00:23:55] The nons had a field day.

[00:23:57] I got fantastic.

[00:24:01] But growing up and being in theater

[00:24:04] because I wasn't, you know, your your stereotypical white boy

[00:24:08] and like I used to be a lot fat or when I was younger.

[00:24:11] Like I lost 150 pounds going into college.

[00:24:14] They didn't really have a place for me in like the generic.

[00:24:19] What what a theater person is if I wasn't type cast as like

[00:24:23] the help I was a comedy relief character or they're like,

[00:24:28] yeah, sure.

[00:24:29] Here player romantically but we need you to be the most of noxious Latin

[00:24:32] lover like full on and I know that this I've been in a very

[00:24:37] old type because what you are right?

[00:24:40] That's you could do that right?

[00:24:42] I'm like yeah.

[00:24:44] Yeah.

[00:24:44] Love how that's the that's the mark of like a

[00:24:46] of noxious lover is who he knows that best.

[00:24:48] I'm with you.

[00:24:49] I mean, I grew up on family up in Luchia and then

[00:24:52] watch it like a Luchia right?

[00:24:54] Yeah.

[00:24:54] Yeah.

[00:24:55] And because I'm really and I are

[00:24:57] talkaios.

[00:24:58] I'm like my anytime I go to like my next like two

[00:25:01] Mexico city just spent time with my family to be like,

[00:25:03] oh you want me to act like him?

[00:25:05] All right do it do what people are normally I don't

[00:25:07] like we're talking about.

[00:25:09] Let me be different man.

[00:25:11] Let me be different.

[00:25:12] I'm not always actor.

[00:25:13] I'm not always the actor in the movie.

[00:25:15] So I'm just going to be a character.

[00:25:17] And so and like because of that sort of like I grew up being a bit more

[00:25:24] kind of gatekeeping in regards to

[00:25:27] experience and like because I was the only one who spoke Spanish

[00:25:31] the other like you know people I'd be around me like oh you're an

[00:25:33] Osawa kid I'm better than you haha.

[00:25:35] And I was like wait why am I doing that if we're both being

[00:25:38] you know made fun of and like ostracized for this why am I doing it more?

[00:25:43] No so eventually

[00:25:46] I obviously stopped doing that because now just anyone I could find to like

[00:25:50] say oh we share this thing how beautiful that we share this thing

[00:25:56] especially like in college I went to a really

[00:26:00] I was lucky enough because I got grants and you know

[00:26:04] pulling a card and be like yeah I'm a name of great let give me money

[00:26:08] you say great please hit

[00:26:12] I was lucky enough to go to like a fancy arts college

[00:26:17] and like get a degree in theater but even then they're like we don't know what to do

[00:26:21] with you and you're not paying us any money so

[00:26:24] you're on a thing I guess and I was like okay fine I will so I

[00:26:29] call it my collegial career

[00:26:31] doing what I knew how to do which was act

[00:26:35] and bring my culture the things and that even then I was lucky enough to have

[00:26:39] professors who grew up even though they were white who grew up close to

[00:26:45] the Latino community and we're like hey look into like Luis Valdez look into

[00:26:49] you um lorca or sort of one and just go and do that if you want someone like modern

[00:26:56] day like one of my professors who I love dearly put us going into

[00:27:03] watch John Ligwizamo's land history for morons like she'd like

[00:27:07] wrote it into the the curriculum for this message like you're in my class

[00:27:12] and you need to see all of it for yourself and I hugged her and I cried

[00:27:18] yeah bringing my culture to my acting and more over to like every

[00:27:23] facet of what I do as an artist has been the goal from the jump

[00:27:27] and it has always been the priority

[00:27:29] and I have fought in tooth and nail to have it be what it is because

[00:27:33] if I wasn't going to do it I know for a fact that the

[00:27:37] institutions I was in work and do it for me and if anything

[00:27:40] they were glad to use me for the help, glad to use me as a body

[00:27:44] very old school oppression type shooter just like yeah we got a

[00:27:48] father leader here like they haven't worked yeah and this

[00:27:51] put them to work put it to work is that I want to do something because I have the

[00:27:55] artistic capability and like half the time I'm smarter than the most of the people because

[00:28:00] I put in more of the work so to finally find a community where like all of that I don't

[00:28:07] have to worry about that being with the BFA has really just been like liberating just be

[00:28:12] I don't have to explain half of the shit I do because you understood it

[00:28:17] it's understood like if I get a direction and I say oh it's like this they're like yeah

[00:28:21] absolutely that's exactly what it's like oh thank god I don't have to go into this

[00:28:25] cultural diet drive but like well this word this very specific phrase means

[00:28:30] anything from things and I'm using it as well and it's the emphasis is here

[00:28:35] and this movie means this yeah you don't have to do that with your own right

[00:28:39] exact and but let me ask you this and this is just throwing a curve all out there and

[00:28:43] again we're talking about our lady of the tortilla putting on by the bilingual foundation of the

[00:28:47] arts and this is supposed to I think it launches a time of recording but this is out

[00:28:55] this would launch September the 27th yes 28th and 29th as well as we're looking at ahead

[00:29:03] here October 4th bit and 6 and Wolfcourse Wolfposts is on our social series well but of

[00:29:09] course you can just search our lady of the tortilla and the BFA you should come right out of

[00:29:15] that's what I did to find it but I have a curve ball here for you okay so we at me in L.L. I would say

[00:29:21] us we we're writers or creators L.L.L. is an artist he's a streamer she's also a writer as well

[00:29:27] and we always talk about putting ourselves into these books right and to these these

[00:29:31] comic books and these creations that we whatever it may be but we also don't think that it's just

[00:29:36] four Latinos right we want us to be our stories being shared our images being shared the same way

[00:29:43] the fucking market is saturated with people right every every other race the black agent even LGBTQ

[00:29:50] the whole communities are always fighting for what we feel is one space right but the reality is

[00:29:57] be everywhere and so is this place something that anybody can come or is it just strictly for the

[00:30:03] Latino side of of the community yeah I I'll take this one I was actually thinking about that earlier

[00:30:11] before we started talking and you know yes it's an English Spanish show and yes it revolves around

[00:30:20] around letting a culture but it's well rounded enough and universal and human

[00:30:26] most of the themes in it are very just very digestible very acceptable so I think anybody can really

[00:30:34] enjoy it and I personally I guess you may have to be a certain type of person to you don't want

[00:30:39] to go and like you know learn about a little bit about a culture that you may not know as much

[00:30:44] about that's always fascinating either I love going to see an Asian theater I love to I just look to

[00:30:55] cultures especially you know having my own so so yes I do a chance here question I do really

[00:31:03] think that it's very well rounded and really easy for anyone to enjoy another thing is that there

[00:31:09] are some cursing in it like it's like maybe like PG to PG 13 but kids can watch this too like

[00:31:16] anybody can enjoy it yeah we to build up with the rest of this and yes I think

[00:31:22] all theater like the goal of theater is to tell a story magnificently to an audience

[00:31:31] in doing so it has to be universal and while this is a very heavily like Latino family

[00:31:37] like a truly Mexican family crazy family dynamics are universal bringing someone to home for the

[00:31:45] first time to your mother is a universal theme yes cultures mixing is universal this is for everyone

[00:31:53] and it is an added benefit and an added joy that it is by Mexicans for Mexicans in Spanish as well

[00:32:02] I love it because there's always this stigma right you talked about the other end about oh well

[00:32:08] it's a Mexican cast they must tell a Mexican story and they must tell these things and eat these things

[00:32:14] there's something to be about being genuine right I get that there's a genuineity to everything

[00:32:18] we do because that's our life that's our people that's our culture but the same time it doesn't mean

[00:32:23] we only have to do barrio stories right it doesn't mean we only have to do shootings in the back

[00:32:28] guys like I love them my cupina went to space like fuck like I love that you know I mean like

[00:32:33] let's live like that's the shit that I want and I'm like we've always in my a primo from

[00:32:37] I think earlier in the season he says the Latino people in pay have always been told to look

[00:32:42] towards the ground being agricultural be working with your hands if always keep your gaze low

[00:32:47] but we want to look to the stars right we want to be more than that I want side by I want all these things

[00:32:53] I want a Latino Atlanta like I don't need it to be something you know that's just Latino

[00:32:59] centric bubble it can be anything but we have Latino faces there I mean what are your thoughts on that

[00:33:05] yeah yeah definitely I think we exist everywhere it's not like there is no exclusion it

[00:33:16] like my dad and I joke about this all the time because no matter where we go we always find at

[00:33:23] least one other you know person but like I've been lucky enough to like like to have traveled

[00:33:30] for school and for work and like no matter what happens I'm always gonna find one Mexican there that

[00:33:35] isn't me and it's just like oh my god you're right I have you so it's like a spider sense

[00:33:43] exactly and even then even if it's not just someone who's Mexican like you're absolutely right

[00:33:49] finding just Latino faces anywhere and everywhere it's so beautiful because um like yeah sometimes

[00:33:57] it is the center focus and it is what's important and sometimes it's just a thing that happens

[00:34:02] that is there that is true for real life it's not like I mean yes we have things like little Tokyo

[00:34:09] or like pockets of areas that are very distinct but at the end of the day you go outside you're

[00:34:15] going to see the whole spectrum of mess de sake wherever you are and that's beautiful to know

[00:34:24] that no matter what again this is a universal story because we live in the world that is also

[00:34:30] universal yeah so true and what you said uh tip my hat to you what you said about um looking to the

[00:34:40] ground versus looking to the stars wanting to look to the stars like it may chills like that's so

[00:34:44] beautiful that's that's the whole thing it's all about that it's all about up leveling expanding inclusion

[00:34:53] all of that and like you know as theater actors in particular I mean I guess all actors but you know

[00:35:00] I feel especially being in theater because it's existed since what the Greeks I guess um

[00:35:07] I think that's really important it started from the very beginning and it's grown so much like we

[00:35:13] need to grow with that we need to move with a flow we need to expand and yeah that's that's what

[00:35:19] we're all about for sure awesome I mean I hate I'm a hater I would say because now I got to

[00:35:28] fight home and see my mom and find the way to get there before the show runs out because yeah I'm from

[00:35:35] the lay I grew up in the lay I'm from LA you know how you said LA is so big because I'm sorry if you live

[00:35:41] in Pocoyma or you live in the river sagger not in LA I'm sorry you're not no no okay I'm an LA all right

[00:35:49] it's well be Hollywood you're not Hollywood you're good if it's so late because if you got like

[00:35:54] at water then you're just on a different world the different planet especially because you got to

[00:35:59] know you got to get water and then Glendale and all that and then Burbank you might as well be another

[00:36:03] plant but yeah I'm excited for the point yeah pretty much so I tell me excited because I love

[00:36:11] the passion that you are showing behind it right I'm sure everybody shares it on on the cast right

[00:36:16] and the BFA you know like I said it really had open my eyes to something that I hope would expand

[00:36:22] outside of LA do you know if they do any traveling shows or anything of the sort?

[00:36:27] I believe they do it you know depends on the show and how much traction it gets

[00:36:31] earlier there were talks of either this show going on tours maybe locally

[00:36:38] I know they're like sort of yearly holiday show do many tamales does tour a bit if I'm

[00:36:47] remembering correctly I could be wrong on that but while the BFA is centered in LA they do have

[00:36:54] contacts elsewhere and they do help out not just LA but you know other pockets across the country

[00:37:00] it's something that there are artistic director right now is very much trying to build up towards

[00:37:08] yeah that's another reason that I wanted to reach out to you to see if we could talk because

[00:37:15] yeah we really want the the chance to do this show or and you know however many more shows come

[00:37:21] our way through through BFA for more audiences and travel we were talking about

[00:37:27] we're asking our director if there was a possibility for an on course since a lot of our shows

[00:37:31] are selling out which is amazing actually it's not just getting any more and our shows are selling out so

[00:37:37] that's in an end of itself is such a huge gift and we were like oh maybe on core performances

[00:37:42] and they're like sadly that doesn't seem to be in the cards right now but maybe we could take this

[00:37:47] travel it you know take it to schools whatever we can do so we're down we're I mean I'm

[00:37:54] even saying no somebody that's you know a chair at a annual convention that happens here in

[00:38:00] those every year you know I'm not gonna say I'm not gonna say I'm just a buddy that can

[00:38:10] maybe you know be convinced somebody to make an event happen but hey

[00:38:14] basically I would love it honestly that would be like such a dream come true because as I said before

[00:38:21] I'm from Texas my mom lives in Ulyss my dad's in Fort Worth you know to be able to come from there

[00:38:27] come out here do the work go back and show it I mean come on that's horrible and I'm gonna

[00:38:34] let me just share a production of Lakcomo Nidad to the community out over here it's like

[00:38:42] yeah I be a blast I mean I'm just saying you know Elia Elia's the one you want to talk to guys

[00:38:48] Elia has the in a palanca's you know what I mean so she can make it happen okay

[00:38:56] maybe a more deal that will help but she has palanca's for sure I'm just gonna say all right

[00:39:02] I don't know if you're sure possible talk to your people and you know we'll make it happen

[00:39:10] that be a blast because yeah we do a you're the event here called Texas Latino Comic Con

[00:39:14] and Elia maybe you should talk about it since you know you're the one that kind of

[00:39:19] I'm gonna say you you run the show yeah we do a Comic Con every year the Texas Latino

[00:39:25] Cultural Center and one of the great things about this venue is there is an auditorium but recently

[00:39:30] I think it's only been like a couple years there's now a black box performance area

[00:39:35] at this theater and we try to utilize every single space during the convention with panels

[00:39:39] and Lucia and we just have a bunch of artists come in and just share everything together one day

[00:39:46] in the Latin creative community and I love so much bringing in creators from everywhere

[00:39:53] to share their work and I think performance art is something that we very much need

[00:39:59] in the Texas Latino Comic Con space. I think so too I think so too but you know that's

[00:40:06] kind of I want to make sure the most are listening out there right now of course

[00:40:16] this week as a recording as a recording this you guys hearing it there and as well of course we

[00:40:22] have a show on a part of me October 4th with in 6 so you know we're gonna we're gonna move forward

[00:40:28] a little bit but is there anything that you are the one and that's that want to talk about

[00:40:33] the play or anything that the listeners here need to know if you hate you want to get this through

[00:40:38] so they can come out of support. I mean I feel like we've we've covered so much ground

[00:40:46] and I really appreciate everything that you've been asking about this feels like a really full

[00:40:50] circle interview. I'm trying to think of what else we might be able to mention.

[00:41:00] I mean, yeah put you on the spot you know it's okay it's okay I think I'm not like people

[00:41:07] are in the listening and watch every day. I think just reminding everybody that you know that

[00:41:17] this is for people who understand English as a first language who speaks Spanish as a first

[00:41:23] language for anyone who's interested in learning more about the Latina culture it's good for adults

[00:41:29] it's good for kids it's universal and you know we we're just we're really excited.

[00:41:39] I'm safe we don't know what else is I am.

[00:41:43] I'm also in the way I'm going to say everything in Spanish. This obra is a project

[00:41:51] I don't love it and it's an orgullo and a pleasure to present this obra to my community

[00:41:57] and all those who are going to come to support us both in English and in Spanish is something

[00:42:03] I was able to show you a history of the Latin American language and especially

[00:42:09] you can be a theater in my language native and my language materna and it would be

[00:42:16] not just an orgullo in presenting and showing people what we do as actors but

[00:42:22] in being able to share a story universal with the audience and with all your ideas

[00:42:28] and you can be able to support us because really it comes from the heart we do with

[00:42:33] a lot of love and with a lot of affection and it's the pleasure and honor of my life as an actor

[00:42:39] and how a person can share my culture with the world so please come to support us

[00:42:46] I would like you to come to our teaching of the Latina

[00:42:49] and the bilingual foundation for the arts and finally on this MS.

[00:43:20] Yeah you talked about the class, you talked about board, you talked about Laura,

[00:43:25] you talked about all these old writers that I devour, I think I'm going to say a market

[00:43:29] on my favorite offers like devouring these things right but contemporary theater

[00:43:35] is something that isn't really looked at anymore because we talked about in the previous

[00:43:39] about my spiritual limits right like great show amazing show but it's obviously dated

[00:43:46] for a revolution right but I love that this is contemporary, I love that as you said

[00:43:52] it's interchangeable with just family right it's not just it is a Latino story

[00:43:58] but it's also introduced by it's a human being story right and that's the thing we always want to

[00:44:01] talk about yeah I'm my own person I have my roots, my culture but I'm not like a leopard

[00:44:09] I mean like hey we can we can mix we can talk we can share that's what it's all about

[00:44:13] yeah so definitely we're going to take a quick break, we must stay with us and we're going to

[00:45:41] welcome back to the most thanks for hanging with us and so this part of the night is of

[00:45:45] course just thanking our guests I want to thank Adrián for coming on, that is of course

[00:45:51] I hope you guys know that this is an open door, it's come through whenever you feel like anything

[00:45:56] you want to just hang you to shit from mode don't hesitate reach out please okay just know

[00:46:01] demos are here support and just you know hey you're part of the family right so let's just

[00:46:06] keep that sure for sure no no no no no no with recommendations and kind of hyper fixations

[00:46:15] and things we're into it's kind of what we do here at the end recently I got really into this film

[00:46:21] I just kept me in some streaming I actually mean my summer wife when this was first announced

[00:46:26] we were pumped because of how ridiculous the premise was but I was like I can't wait to watch it

[00:46:33] but no one was showing it it was one of those films where you're like the names in this film

[00:46:37] I'm holding it for a reason the name in these film are huge names but it didn't get a wide release

[00:46:43] and you had to kind of hunt for it especially here and that is for worth they don't have a lot of

[00:46:47] theaters that play maybe indie films or films that are just kind of obscure and weird but we

[00:46:51] even paid for it like on streaming to we have to watch this film and it's streaming again for free

[00:46:57] so be most I'm talking about the unbearable weight of massive talent oh my god that's so funny

[00:47:03] you mentioned that okay okay yes yes I was literally just talking about a better bus

[00:47:13] got last night with my brother we play this game where you guess the top four IMDB movies

[00:47:20] whatever actor oh cool one little game you can make it a drinking game or not or whatever

[00:47:25] and that was my first one to him because I've been talking about him recently I just think he's

[00:47:30] amazing and yeah we talked about a massive talent the other day that was such a good film really

[00:47:36] yeah i'll say two two three quick little things so finally enough better bus got and I

[00:47:43] have a connection i e we went to the same high school so okay okay okay okay i'm full of my friends

[00:47:48] actually we're in his class and they called him Peter so that's weird yeah yeah we also

[00:47:57] had a party at my house for another night in the peninsula on sad Sunday excuse me Sunday

[00:48:02] and we did talk about this movie for a bit that is an art director and I and weirdly

[00:48:11] my day job is I work from the National Association of Theatre Owners so if you want to see

[00:48:17] more movies and theaters go to support your local movie theaters because that tells studios hey

[00:48:23] put shit in theaters um yes not these are sponsored by my work but however uh you please do

[00:48:30] because it keeps doing yeah you know i had to drive to well Elia lives on the other side of

[00:48:36] the world apparently because she can never come to four words unless something is happening okay

[00:48:41] you live like you I don't know what you live you live on the mood apparently because we can't

[00:48:45] have a good job way to fuck out to like McKinney and past Plano going to damn near I didn't know

[00:48:51] that going to frisco you have to pass you frisco there's a lake in a little hidden little town

[00:48:56] apparently was like boats and a dock no clue but i went where the fuck out there to watch um

[00:49:02] more of a mista way they held out there to watch that movie because no one was showing and I had to pay

[00:49:07] like twenty five dollars a ticket to watch it because i was a damn but i wanted to support it

[00:49:12] wanted to see this fricken movie but why i bring this one up is because it is so much fun

[00:49:19] it is the fanboy it is in the case just letting loose because i feel like in the last few years

[00:49:24] that's what Nick Cage has been doing it's just kind of giggles though uh he's been doing um what was

[00:49:29] that one movie where he was in everybody's dream dream scenario yes i saw that too and like stuff

[00:49:36] like that had just been scratching in it for me because like i said i i love film i love writing

[00:49:41] we we come from that world me and earlier as to watch this film just how fun seeing these two

[00:49:46] great actors on screen together just tear it up man and so if you haven't seen it i really

[00:49:52] highly recommend if you're a fan of film and just writing in general great characters i mean

[00:49:58] it's just the scene these two guys play on screen is just a blast so i definitely definitely

[00:50:02] recommend it um do you all have something to say about the film i know i would end it i'm

[00:50:06] excited and talk about it but oh it's so good it's such a wonderful film it's been a while since

[00:50:14] i've seen it i actually saw it in theaters you're welcome um and with my brother and it was

[00:50:21] it was absolutely hysterical we were just talking to our director Izzy the other night about it

[00:50:25] as Azadian said and uh the thing that i brought up was was the uh the gift that's come up now

[00:50:33] of of Nick Cage in the car i like seriously it's totally tripping and he's just liking it

[00:50:40] uh like so yeah and how amazing that is and how universal and how they can like they can

[00:50:45] flip it and change it and like make it about anything and it works it's so good i'm gonna put

[00:50:50] that gift right in here watch don't worry it'll be right in the screen now it's a promise hilarious great

[00:50:56] other than i mean it's a phenomenal movie seeing Nick Cage just being Nick Cage is

[00:51:04] everything i've what like one of my favorite Nick Cage movies is face off so to see him change

[00:51:10] like that is always fantastic and i think uh we can all agree uh patting to as an underrated

[00:51:17] classic and everyone's watching patting to and yeah movie so popular and so heartwarming at the

[00:51:25] i think it shouldn't be as good as it is like my kid and me we we watch it and we're like

[00:51:30] like it's 15 now and we're like why is this fun why is this so good it shouldn't be as this good

[00:51:35] for a kid's film exactly yeah i think i cried at the end wasn't it like chair chair jerky at the end

[00:51:43] yeah okay i think it was a lot for me um i didn't want to pull thing i came in and sat down

[00:51:48] at like 10 o'clock at night and i was like what the fuck are you guys watching and you were in the right

[00:51:52] mine you you needed that cry you needed that cry apparently the universe was just like i'm

[00:51:58] going to give it to you so i sat down right and i was like oh my god patting to yeah

[00:52:05] oh yeah guys go check that out it's on hulu if you have hulu um it's on there so please check it out

[00:52:09] and we have and i really recommend it let me know what to think at my fingers. yeah what about you

[00:52:15] anything that we need to look into and then you're with the man so i've been on break

[00:52:20] so i've been consuming that had time to consume media but i'll name a couple highlights uh

[00:52:26] the first one was i found a movie on Netflix that i hadn't seen anything about but again there

[00:52:31] was a stacked cast and the premise just seemed absolutely ridiculous uh it's called unfrosted

[00:52:38] and it's the story of the feud between the Kellogg's brand and the post brand and how the pop

[00:52:44] art came to be now it's all just a spoof of the actual story but it's got comedian after

[00:52:51] comedian like Jerry Seinfeld directed it and starred in it and then it's just got a bunch of

[00:52:57] comedians like a me shumer um uh that all i i'm forgetting all their names now but it's just

[00:53:03] got a stacked cast and it's the the writing is hilarious and it's one of those movies where it's

[00:53:09] it's just it's meant to be funny they were going for a funny movie and i was cracking up i wasn't

[00:53:15] expecting to find it but it was just a random find that i was like um let's watch this and it

[00:53:22] was hilarious and it's the on told story of how the pop tart was invented unofficial

[00:53:28] because it's absolutely ridiculous no it's funny like the mascots end up staging a coup uh it's yeah

[00:53:37] it's it gets ridiculous i could hope on that show the history channel the food that built

[00:53:42] America i get so wrapped up in that show it's similar it reminds me of that vibe you know like kind

[00:53:48] of giving you the hey this is what happened there's a little bit of nuance in between and there's

[00:53:53] an old twist to it yeah okay um i watched Beetle juice this past week yeah oh my god

[00:54:03] i love it more than the first one i thought it was perfectly camp like it was so camp in the

[00:54:11] best way and i everyone came back did their roles amazingly i loved all the characters minus a

[00:54:20] couple because you're supposed to hate them um and no it was just like it when the movie ended

[00:54:26] up like timber and back you know it just it felt like his some of his old uh stylings that have

[00:54:32] so the live action it had some of his animated stylings in the movie as well and i i ended up i thought

[00:54:38] it was great i thought it was great oh yeah i always thought that timber and directed pop by but i

[00:54:44] know i'm wrong right the the pop by movie no because it gives me that that vibe it would

[00:54:51] tell my seat timber and movies now you know because we watched i was i watch i'll be fair beyond the

[00:54:55] 50 we watched the trailers to the timber and Batman's because my kid was saying why are these necessary

[00:55:01] why are these i'm almost black no yeah i'm so fun this is fun no one they're fine i was

[00:55:09] thinking pop by seems like that vibe you know i guess you're the been a certain jam you know

[00:55:14] Robin Williams and all that but i don't think it is yeah i could easily google it but i just won't

[00:55:21] because uh they decide what about you anything that uh it's been watching into or like a man

[00:55:27] yeah for sure i actually thought of of something to kind of tie things in with so um the other

[00:55:34] night uh i decided to go and see a movie by myself because sometimes you do yeah and i wasn't sure

[00:55:41] what to go see and i just i kind of looked last minute there was this film showing called city of dreams

[00:55:48] have you heard of it hmm no so i feel like it i could be totally wrong i feel like it was made

[00:55:55] maybe last year um it might be a little older so i was surprised because i remember being

[00:56:00] surprised that it was in the theater but it's about uh a a little boy who was living in in Mexico

[00:56:10] and he had dreams of becoming a soccer star and then he got i believe the way that it happened was

[00:56:17] that he got he got sold for that like he was told that he was going to be going to this to the soccer

[00:56:22] camp or like that was the the intention but then they drugged him and they put him in this underground

[00:56:29] L.A. sweatshop and it's it's very hard to watch i'm just going to be completely honest with you

[00:56:34] it's really hard to watch the kid that played the boy it's his movie he made it and like they

[00:56:43] interviewed him afterwards and he talks a little bit about it and he's like i made this film he already

[00:56:47] looks older than you know then he was when he was in it and i was just blown away at this kid

[00:56:54] it was incredible and it was shot beautifully it was in my opinion it was maybe a little long

[00:57:01] and it's it was very violent so it was hard to watch but let me tell you it definitely brought

[00:57:07] a lot of visibility in the issue that a lot of people don't know about

[00:57:12] and you know and it's a it's a Mexican issue it's an American issue it's a universal issue so

[00:57:18] i found that very very good oh no for a good look I'm down I'm down city okay okay

[00:57:29] okay I'm gonna watch the talk about oh yeah for sure where about you other yeah

[00:57:33] didn't recommendations for the pre-mosebter yeah a couple mainly just because i i like to

[00:57:41] but i think i'm an a sizable portion of an international community are grieving over the

[00:57:48] fact that JJK ends next week as it's time to go through it I'm like I have a I have to go to

[00:57:58] work conference while that last week is happening so i'm like turning off the internet like i mean you can't

[00:58:04] I think myself to just more like as a i'm a gojo youtube cosplayer so like oh okay

[00:58:14] the reverse potassium i'm not ready for that but i don't wish to reach JJK it's great

[00:58:21] as for actual recommendations though i have two in regards to theater because i'm always trying

[00:58:31] read and i'm always trying to get things out there um one of my favorite plays ever

[00:58:38] also written by Mexican playwright is cloud tech comics by uh Jose Rivera sorry um it's a beautiful

[00:58:47] magical realism play about one guy in his life and how he finds love and you know a lot of these

[00:58:56] things that our show deals with family love for like relationships between your brother versus

[00:59:03] relationships between a potential lover and a child like it's a beautiful play i highly recommend

[00:59:10] that for everyone um on the flip side uh the week after our show closes i will be in another show

[00:59:20] i'll be in Romeo and Juliet by a wonderful company yeah yeah yeah yeah uh a wonderful company out here

[00:59:30] called southern barred LA at southern barred LA on instagram where i will be playing table

[00:59:35] friends of cats and fulfilling all of mine ever since i saw John like was on my dude was i'm a

[00:59:42] same yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah other barred so there's a lot of other barred whole thing is

[00:59:47] that we do these Shakespeare plays in a bar with southern accents so like you're saying that sort

[00:59:52] of macaana hey alright i like i have to find that oh really oh really i have been wanting to see

[01:00:01] Shakespeare performed in southern accents because i'm like i feel like that's how it's supposed to be

[01:00:06] so i feel like i need to go it's so it's so great it's so much fun i this is a nice second show

[01:00:14] with that company the first one we did mid-summer night stream i played over on in these is

[01:00:19] which was another dream roll of mine so it is so cool a beautiful thing uh that would be october 12th

[01:00:27] at the world like theater the world like tavern here in uh burring but yeah that's even if you can't

[01:00:36] come out i hope people do but uh yeah no that William Shakespeare guy he he kind of cool he kind of

[01:00:44] uh he is something you know silly boy guy pretty good doesn't put it up and coming author

[01:00:49] William Shakespeare yeah i'm feeling like I'm in the ground after I am in the

[01:00:57] y'all just in general if you cannot make these performances if if travel is it thing please go

[01:01:03] support on social media and for the ones that are nonprofit make donations help these community

[01:01:09] share spread the word because even from afar we can support an uplift all right that's

[01:01:16] me definitely definitely get things done it's almost we get things done that's almost too

[01:01:20] yeah i have something else that uh that i can talk about as well another project that i booked earlier

[01:01:25] this year it's a short film it's called Cry of a Dreamer and it was directed by a bed

[01:01:31] of green in Atlanta Georgia it's a really really beautiful yet very sad concerning story about

[01:01:39] it was actually his personal account as a young African-American boy growing up going to school

[01:01:46] and he was accused um i think he was about a seven year old he was accused of trying to bomb his

[01:01:52] school and i played the teacher who has to go in and kind of do some damage control and talk

[01:01:57] to him as a trusted adult it's a really it's a it was a really well written script and that was

[01:02:02] what drew me to it and and the character itself was just really kind of natural for me so

[01:02:09] it was a really good story to be a part of and uh we it's just hitting some film festivals out in uh

[01:02:15] i don't believe in Texas or California sadly but uh in Atlanta and i think Indiana too they're

[01:02:21] showing it so um if you love fun festivals and you live in that area please check out Cry of a Dreamer

[01:02:28] oh wow it's such a awesome it's such a heavy subject but you know it's seven years old to be

[01:02:36] accused of that i mean i'm not gonna ask you to spoil anything maybe off after record but um uh

[01:02:42] i've seen that recently the news here in the W there's been um people spreading bomb threats

[01:02:47] school shootings like it's scary stuff you know and and life can get scary but i think that's what

[01:02:52] makes art amazing because that's what we do we bring these things in front of everybody right film

[01:02:58] play a comics right our stories would have you and i love that we can come together from everywhere

[01:03:05] and just make these stories um making impact right that's that's insane that's crazy seven years

[01:03:12] wow that's a true story yeah it is oh that's a lot but definitely um what's the call again

[01:03:19] cry of a Dreamer cry of a Dreamer okay i'm gonna put it on the list here that my sister stays in

[01:03:24] Georgia she's in Afraera so you know what i'll just drop it in her ear hey you check it out never know

[01:03:28] yeah that's cool actually that's that's where we were at that's uh partially where we filmed was

[01:03:33] Alfaretta oh yeah it's all of the demos getting connected do you know what i mean and with with

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