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Speaker 3: Welcome back, everybody to another episode of Tuned In with
Speaker 3: Jim Cummings. I'm producer Chris. We have a great guest
Speaker 3: for you today. Before that, Jim, how are you doing today, sir?
Speaker 2: Another day in paradise? Absolutely even better today that I
Speaker 2: guess why.
Speaker 3: Joins us today. Thank you so much for being here.
Speaker 1: I literally just got off the plane. I like beautiful.
Speaker 1: It is paradise. It is. Sorry I left rainy cold Toronto. Sorry,
Speaker 1: not sorry.
Speaker 2: I was just going to ask you did come from
Speaker 2: Toro and did just.
Speaker 1: For you guys right now though it is they're saying
Speaker 1: it's the coldest mate in decades. Oh no, really, naturally
Speaker 1: I'm here.
Speaker 2: Oh well, that's the perfect time to believe.
Speaker 1: Don't get to chose my arm. You want me there,
Speaker 1: I'm there, yes, bye bye?
Speaker 2: Yeah, well that's good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, place for the place for the argoes my brother. Sorry,
Speaker 3: I wasn't speaking of No. I was curious because my
Speaker 3: brother lives in Toronto, so I was like, I don't
Speaker 3: think you probably know him?
Speaker 2: Yes, Oh yeah, that's a little suburb there, I mean
Speaker 2: a little little burg. Oh man, Well are you a
Speaker 2: football fan? Bandy chance? I just thought i'd ask, because
Speaker 2: you know, I'm shocked, but okay, yeah you still. I'm
Speaker 2: a boxing fan too, so I understand like you. So yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: well thanks for being here. But so are you? Are
Speaker 2: you keeping busy? Are you keeping happy? These days?
Speaker 1: Very happy?
Speaker 2: What's keeping you? What's keeping you? Enthused? And going?
Speaker 1: And honestly, I've had an incredible year. I've kind of
Speaker 1: traveled all over filmed all over the world. I just
Speaker 1: filmed a movie in Cape Town that blew my mind.
Speaker 1: But I'm taking a little bit of time off to
Speaker 1: be home. I mean, obviously I'm here, but only like
Speaker 1: a few days. But it's been nice to be home.
Speaker 1: It's like the longest I've been it's like four weeks maybe.
Speaker 1: But I traveled to London obviously because Star Wars got
Speaker 1: nominated for the BAFTAs. That was really fun.
Speaker 4: Yeah, congratulations, It's it's such an honor and being I mean,
Speaker 4: maybe I carry the sunshine everywhere, but every day I
Speaker 4: was in London, it was sunny and beautiful, and everybody.
Speaker 1: Was like, I swear, it's not like this all the time.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I don't know, I could move here. They're like,
Speaker 1: it's not, like, oh it's like.
Speaker 2: This all the time. Oh, it looks like our screen
Speaker 2: is giving us fish watch Netflix. Yeah apparently so, well,
Speaker 2: you probably got something on there that we can.
Speaker 1: I mean, listen my new trailer for The Waterfront's Menu
Speaker 1: Netflix series. We filmed it in North Carolina last year,
Speaker 1: Kevin Williamson. This trailer just dropped, so people are excited.
Speaker 2: Fantastic. Yeah, oh my god.
Speaker 1: Sneak into the madness.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well this is well timed. Yeah, truly celebrating you. Yes, yes,
Speaker 2: oh my goodness.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that comes out next month right on Netflix. Yeah,
Speaker 3: June nineteenth.
Speaker 2: I've got that breaking down here, inspired by true events.
Speaker 2: Deeply flawed, uly family? Are you? Are you deeply flawed
Speaker 2: or just marginally.
Speaker 1: Just a tiny bit? Think every character in the show
Speaker 1: is just struggling quite a bit, and every episode just
Speaker 1: against wars and wars, which is the fun.
Speaker 2: Oh good, you know, well that's perfect.
Speaker 1: Lots of drama.
Speaker 2: Okay, good, Well, I'll be tuning in, amazing tuning in.
Speaker 3: What's that like psychologically when you have to get yourself
Speaker 3: in a role like that?
Speaker 1: You know what? I love drama, not like in my life,
Speaker 1: I guess right right, Yeah, it's really fun to you know,
Speaker 1: you don't often get to dig deep into those emotions
Speaker 1: as a human, to put myself in another character shoes
Speaker 1: and be able to explore with so much like Gusto
Speaker 1: and Vigor and be like, what are they going through today?
Speaker 1: I could be having the best day ever and then
Speaker 1: suddenly they yell action and I'm like in tears and
Speaker 1: angry and mad and going through it. But it can
Speaker 1: be very cathartic, honestly, and we have such a great team.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of support, so it doesn't feel exhausting
Speaker 1: to me. It's just really yea, here's my humanness.
Speaker 3: I was gonna ask you if that takes a toll
Speaker 3: at all, because I had a weird experience. I'm gonna
Speaker 3: tell a quick little story. I was on this show
Speaker 3: called The one hundred on the CW years ago, and
Speaker 3: I had my makeup all done because my character got
Speaker 3: burns alive, right, so like all you know, big burn victim,
Speaker 3: my hands, my whole face, like three hours of makeup,
Speaker 3: and you know, it's all fun, fun and dandy, you know,
Speaker 3: sitting in those trailers and you know, and everybody's pampering
Speaker 3: you and all that. But I remember going back in
Speaker 3: my trailer and like looking in the mirror and like physically,
Speaker 3: like my body started having like a reaction like I
Speaker 3: was injured, and like I know this is fake, but
Speaker 3: like seeing my reflection and it was so real. It
Speaker 3: was like it wasn't like I was panickering or anything.
Speaker 3: I could just feel like a change inside of me
Speaker 3: where my body was like reacting like oh, should we
Speaker 3: be like in shock? Or something. And so the reason
Speaker 3: I bring that story up is like, you know, like
Speaker 3: you're saying, when you're playing like a role where you
Speaker 3: have to be really mad or cry or something, you
Speaker 3: really have to do those things, you know. And so
Speaker 3: like I'm wondering if that takes like a toll, you know,
Speaker 3: over time, Like Okay, you know you hear those old
Speaker 3: stories of like Alfred Hitchcock, you know, forcing an actress
Speaker 3: to do you know, like over and over until she's
Speaker 3: physically exhausted so that it looks like that on screen.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a fine line between like doing the job
Speaker 1: and it being like torturous. I think every actor has
Speaker 1: their own methods of doing that. For me, I've learned
Speaker 1: to really take care of myself. The movie I just
Speaker 1: finished filming was like I was there every single day
Speaker 1: because I was the lead, and it was definitely like
Speaker 1: dark material, a lot of like emotional turmoil. I'm like, dirty, bloody, do.
Speaker 2: That every day every day, beat yourself up space.
Speaker 1: So I definitely, you know, it does take a toll,
Speaker 1: like it costs something. It's exciting to tell that story
Speaker 1: and to really dig into that, but I need to
Speaker 1: know what I need to take care of myself. No
Speaker 1: one else is going to do that for me. So
Speaker 1: making sure that even in between takes, when I had
Speaker 1: a moment, it worse for me to separate and then
Speaker 1: come back to it, because you're right, your brain and
Speaker 1: your body doesn't know the difference. Sometimes you're asking it
Speaker 1: to think dark thoughts or to go somewhere that can
Speaker 1: be triggering. You have to know that you can come
Speaker 1: back from it.
Speaker 3: Absolutely. Is there any place that you wouldn't go? And
Speaker 3: my dad's an actor as well, and he talks about
Speaker 3: He talks about when he when he you know, is
Speaker 3: getting cast for a role or something and they're asking
Speaker 3: something of him, there's a certain point he'll go to
Speaker 3: for on camera and then the rest he'll be like,
Speaker 3: you didn't pay me enough, Like I'm not willing to
Speaker 3: go through that for your entertainment, Like that's physically too
Speaker 3: much for me. Do you have like a line where
Speaker 3: you would go, I recently don't.
Speaker 1: I haven't encountered that yet. I mean, I haven't found
Speaker 1: something to be so shocking or you know, triggering to
Speaker 1: me that I go, I can't do that, but maybe
Speaker 1: it'll come. I mean, you never know what the material
Speaker 1: or what the job is. And sometimes you don't even
Speaker 1: know that it's going to affect you that way until
Speaker 1: you're living it.
Speaker 3: And then the third part about it is too, like
Speaker 3: the backlash, Like you just see what's the actress who
Speaker 3: just played she just won the oscar Mikey Madson, Yeah
Speaker 3: before And I see a lot online she's getting a
Speaker 3: lot of backlash for like not requesting an intimacy Cortis coordinator, right,
Speaker 3: you know when she's filming all yeah, that's her creative
Speaker 3: process and it's not like you can't let somebody dictate that.
Speaker 1: No, And I mean we're so grateful for intimacy coordinators.
Speaker 1: I think adding that really does keep actors safe and
Speaker 1: the team kind of it's it's more cohesive, there's more communication.
Speaker 1: But if someone ultimately feels like it's a hindrance to
Speaker 1: their work, I mean, we spent more time without them
Speaker 1: than not, so who knows, Like I don't. I don't
Speaker 1: know if that has affected her in the long run
Speaker 1: or not. But she got an oscar something like.
Speaker 3: I know, I think she's doing all right.
Speaker 5: I think she's doing.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Oh my god. There's a famous story about Bert Lancaster.
Speaker 2: He was I don't remember the name of the movie,
Speaker 2: but he had a scene and he was very young,
Speaker 2: a young young actor at the time, you know, the
Speaker 2: great Burt Lancaster, and I think it was with Ava Gardner,
Speaker 2: very very beautiful actress in the forties maybe fifties. But
Speaker 2: he had this intimate scene and he said he got
Speaker 2: into it a little too much and his body underwent
Speaker 2: a transformation and something responded. Some little bird was down there,
Speaker 2: and he goes, what the hell is going What am
Speaker 2: I doing? You know? Oh my, you should try acting.
Speaker 2: And so so he just went well, you know, and
Speaker 2: he was gratis helmet and sat it on his lap
Speaker 2: and he got through this, got through the scene.
Speaker 1: The boy doesn't know the difference.
Speaker 2: I mean, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 1: That's the cost of it. You know. It's like it's
Speaker 1: the next moment in your life. And maybe you happen
Speaker 1: to know what happens mentally, but your body is going
Speaker 1: through it for the first time, and it's impossible to recreate.
Speaker 1: Every moment is different, it's new, you reset. But it's
Speaker 1: fascinating to me. I mean, I love doing it. I
Speaker 1: someone asked me, they were like, why do you love acting?
Speaker 1: I'm like, I just love feeling. I want I want
Speaker 1: to feel everything that I can, Like if this is
Speaker 1: my instrument and this is all we get. Everybody has
Speaker 1: their own unique footprint on what that work and artistry
Speaker 1: is to be able to explore that, and you know,
Speaker 1: a lot of the time it is a mirror to
Speaker 1: my life. I find out a lot about myself through
Speaker 1: the work that maybe sometimes I wouldn't otherwise.
Speaker 2: So well, that's pretty darn not very bad. That's pretty beautiful.
Speaker 2: That's a that's a great observation. It helps in the journey,
Speaker 2: you know, it's it's all part of the game. That's beautiful.
Speaker 3: When did you first start acting? Were you're acting as
Speaker 3: a child?
Speaker 1: No, I mean, I don't know. Ask my parents. They
Speaker 1: will tell you. That means my parents thing that I
Speaker 1: was meant for this since I was born. They were like,
Speaker 1: since you were like two three years old, I was
Speaker 1: always dancing around, making music, making stories, just like Oh.
Speaker 1: I was always very active in that and not a
Speaker 1: super shy kid. I used to like kind of intervene
Speaker 1: in the parents' parties and be like, Okay, it's it's
Speaker 1: your time to listen to me. I've prepared. And my
Speaker 1: brother is gonna harmonize and we're gonna dance for you guys.
Speaker 1: Like it was just very but I think, you know,
Speaker 1: it was always part of my soul. I grew up
Speaker 1: in Venezuela, and you know, Latin America in general just
Speaker 1: has such a it's like charismatic and there's a lot
Speaker 1: of life and sound and music and dance, and it's
Speaker 1: just part of me. I mean, I grew up dancing
Speaker 1: and singing, and it seems like everybody there does that.
Speaker 1: My entire family is super gifted, really, they just love it.
Speaker 1: Like my dad was in a band, my mom sings.
Speaker 1: A lot of cousins and aunts and uncles and they
Speaker 1: all kind of do it. And instruments, yeah, well, I
Speaker 1: taught myself the guitar and now I have two guitars
Speaker 1: and I really love it and both of them, and
Speaker 1: I taught myself both of them. But I do want
Speaker 1: I want to take more lessons, Like I think there's
Speaker 1: so much out there on the internet. I think you
Speaker 1: can absolutely teach yourself anything, but there's something about like
Speaker 1: a human teaching me that I think I would.
Speaker 2: I would probably sure, Yeah, yeah, no, why you get
Speaker 2: that ping pong? You can get the the human interaction.
Speaker 1: Replace it with AI or robots. I'm sorry, I want
Speaker 1: a human Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, no, that's true. And and I think that too
Speaker 2: about AI is because you know, if you stop and
Speaker 2: think about it, or even if you don't, acting is
Speaker 2: I don't know, half reacting at least. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 2: because you're not in a vacuum. No, you know, especially
Speaker 2: on camera now off when you're doing a voice recording,
Speaker 2: you kind of can be in a vacuum, you know,
Speaker 2: to an extent, and sometimes somebody will read with you,
Speaker 2: but but not on camera, I know. I mean that's
Speaker 2: you've got to let.
Speaker 1: It affect you, right, And I think the best of
Speaker 1: artists are the ones that are so open to someone else.
Speaker 3: M Yeah. I saw an interesting thing A thought about
Speaker 3: AI and acting, you know, like I'm not gonna lie,
Speaker 3: Like even last year, I didn't think it was like
Speaker 3: this is never going to replace. I saw a video
Speaker 3: literally yesterday, oh no, and they're moving and talking and
Speaker 3: I'm like, oh, it's too real, and like the top
Speaker 3: comment this is on Reddit and it was like, I
Speaker 3: feel like Live theater is about to have a major comeback.
Speaker 3: And I was like, that's actually really interesting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Okay, Ai, you really can't. And there's something so
Speaker 1: amazing that instant, you know, graphfication of like the audience
Speaker 1: and the energy that's being you know. So I actually
Speaker 1: just saw a theater show last night, two of them.
Speaker 3: And I I love it.
Speaker 1: It's part of a queer theater company called Buddies in
Speaker 1: Bad Time in Toronto. They've been around for like forty
Speaker 1: something years. But they were both one man show, yea
Speaker 1: like one person and it was incredible. And one of
Speaker 1: them being a Guslovita who is also from my same hometown, Venezuela,
Speaker 1: and he was also in Star Trek, which is wild.
Speaker 1: But we grew up in the same town, moved to Canada,
Speaker 1: to the same province, and then ended up being actors
Speaker 1: in Toronto. I don't know, you can't make this up,
Speaker 1: but it's incredible, and I you know, he's always representing
Speaker 1: Venezuela and our unique story, so it's kind of come
Speaker 1: to have like this parallel career.
Speaker 2: Pretty cool. Yeah, man, oh man, what are the odds?
Speaker 1: They're very low. Yeah, no one makes it out of
Speaker 1: Venezuela to do this, Like it's so rare to meet
Speaker 1: other fellow Venezuelans in Hollywood. Venezuela have Likemirez who and
Speaker 1: then Who's in Dynasty. But you know, even then, I'm like,
Speaker 1: there's there's not that many. There's not that many of us.
Speaker 1: Manz will be like a known name starting.
Speaker 3: Your way.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, things are looking good. Yeah, this is just.
Speaker 3: A wind.
Speaker 2: We're in a wind twel here, folks, Uh excuse me?
Speaker 2: Would you have me that blanket over there? Kind of
Speaker 2: cold here? Oh my gosh. But yeah, well we'll take
Speaker 2: care of that in case it's we're trudging across the
Speaker 2: tune happening time here, speaking of Canada and Toronto. We're
Speaker 2: on the tundra as we speak here. But boy, oh boy,
Speaker 2: well you've been you've been very blessed. You're keeping busy
Speaker 2: and keeping keeping those cards and letters coming in and
Speaker 2: look at it, Look at all the things that are
Speaker 2: coming up here. I mean that's saying.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's been ten years. It'll be ten years
Speaker 1: this summer actually since I started my professional career, like
Speaker 1: since I got my first agent after theater school, and
Speaker 1: oh my god, I mean, if I if I go
Speaker 1: back in time and look at what I've done now
Speaker 1: and you know, the resume of the people, the connections
Speaker 1: the places, have seen, the sets I've been on, the
Speaker 1: actors I've been able to act opposite, I would be
Speaker 1: so impressed, and it would just be I mean, I
Speaker 1: didn't even think I was going to go into film
Speaker 1: and TV. I thought I was going to be a
Speaker 1: theater actor because I was, you know, I trained in theater.
Speaker 1: It was conservatory. But it's my first love. I love
Speaker 1: live theater. I love performance, and I'm sure I'll go
Speaker 1: back to it one day. It's where the heart is
Speaker 1: for me. Right, It's interacting in real time. There's a different,
Speaker 1: different stakes. Honestly, I fell in love with film and
Speaker 1: TV as well. It's a different machine for sure. Honestly,
Speaker 1: the reason I fell in love with it was because
Speaker 1: of continuity. I couldn't believe the multitasking that actors had
Speaker 1: to do. I didn't I didn't get it. And it
Speaker 1: was like when you put a cup down, because then
Speaker 1: you know voice is listening, and then you have to
Speaker 1: make sure that you put your purse here and that
Speaker 1: your hair is back. And I was like, this is
Speaker 1: a cool game. I'm going to master it.
Speaker 2: That's great.
Speaker 1: I just saw it as a very technically like challenging thing,
Speaker 1: and I mean it turns out once you can be
Speaker 1: free within the blueprints of the game, it's very exciting.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, and you know, and it really jumps out
Speaker 2: to me anyway during continuity, speaking of you know, you're
Speaker 2: sitting around a card table having a conversation with this
Speaker 2: person or that person, and the one person was sitting
Speaker 2: there like this. Then they do a backshot of them
Speaker 2: and they're sitting there like that, and you go, hey,
Speaker 2: wait a minute. Wait.
Speaker 1: It takes you out because you're like, wait, that's not connected.
Speaker 2: That's right, So that counts.
Speaker 1: Continuity, Like continuity has an amazing job. And yes, I
Speaker 1: pride myself and always keeping track of all of that.
Speaker 1: It's fun for me because I love to know. I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: well if I did it in the master, now we're
Speaker 1: going in for close ups. I gotta remember and kind
Speaker 1: of imprint what I have done and why. But to me,
Speaker 1: because everything is intentional, this is when mocap comes in.
Speaker 1: It is marrying like theater and film at the same time,
Speaker 1: which is why it's my favorite medium. Because everything is intentional,
Speaker 1: nothing is out of sorts. You are being recorded from
Speaker 1: head to toe, so everything means something.
Speaker 3: And what's wild to me. I love mocapy and I
Speaker 3: got the pleasure to be around a lot of MOCAP studios.
Speaker 3: My dad did Cradles. I'm God of War and so
Speaker 3: like seeing all that stuff in the volume is just
Speaker 3: so fascinating. It's like you get to be like a
Speaker 3: child in like yes, yeah, like a sandbox. But what
Speaker 3: really blew me away is there's no cameras. There's no cameras,
Speaker 3: but they can film everything.
Speaker 1: But there's no care I'm wearing a camera. It's like
Speaker 1: there's ghost cameras, so they're around, right, But so everybody
Speaker 1: who's wearing the mocap suit, that's the only things that
Speaker 1: are being recorded. Everybody else is a ghost and we
Speaker 1: call them ghosts. So they can be holding a camera,
Speaker 1: but like there's no axis, they can go all around you,
Speaker 1: they can move around, your props kind of disappear into
Speaker 1: fake pockets. And then you're surrounded by infrared cameras. There's
Speaker 1: like hundreds of them that capture your skeleton. So you
Speaker 1: really are just like this little thing around the volume.
Speaker 1: And that's I think somehow it turns into a game.
Speaker 2: I think I had some of that with Hondo. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: that was I guess that was was that mo Cat?
Speaker 3: We were watching you? Yeah, I was in the studio
Speaker 3: with Jim when they were doing the they were doing
Speaker 3: the the DLC for Outlaws. Yeah, and they were voice matching,
Speaker 3: you know, Jim was voice matching to I don't know,
Speaker 3: some some actor they hired to do their physicality and
Speaker 3: you were there doing your doing.
Speaker 1: Your thing right, and it's like what you're seeing that
Speaker 1: would be one of the ghost cameras recording it, and
Speaker 1: they kind of they move around like they would on set,
Speaker 1: but they're not being recorded.
Speaker 2: So they can know.
Speaker 3: We were watching you guys in the suits.
Speaker 1: In the suits yeah, oh yeah, cool. Right, they're tight
Speaker 1: and itchy, but you get used to it. You're lucky
Speaker 1: you don't have to wear it.
Speaker 2: Actually, yeah, I'll be right back. I'll go change, just
Speaker 2: get rid of get rid of this.
Speaker 3: And your your career is really on fire. I mean
Speaker 3: you're not only getting work, but you're breaking down barriers
Speaker 3: like you were. I read that you were in the
Speaker 3: first lesbian Hallmark. Yeah, first lesbian couple Christmas movie.
Speaker 2: And it and it wasn't like that back then, I
Speaker 2: know today, So I think we're making progress.
Speaker 1: Like I remember when I started acting and I would
Speaker 1: audition for Hallmark, but like, I never even got a callback.
Speaker 1: No one ever loved at me. I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know if they want this, like like what
Speaker 1: I m hit, you know? And I was like, I don't.
Speaker 1: I haven't seen myself represented as a lead in movies
Speaker 1: like that. So the fact that they came to me
Speaker 1: directly to be a part of this meant so much
Speaker 1: because I think that is what representation does, right. It
Speaker 1: actually shows the team that there is a demand because
Speaker 1: the audiences are craving it. And I've built a career
Speaker 1: based on the characters that I've portrayed that are so loved,
Speaker 1: and they're like, actually, there's a big opportunity here to
Speaker 1: to take advantage of that and then share a story
Speaker 1: that you know, it's like queer love and just simple,
Speaker 1: no challenge, is nothing, just they're just humans in love.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, and it was so successful. People loved it.
Speaker 3: So what was the name of the movie? Sorry?
Speaker 1: Friends and Family? Christmas?
Speaker 2: Friends and Family, Christmas Beautiful.
Speaker 1: That's very Hallmarky, right, I mean get what you it
Speaker 1: is what it is, right.
Speaker 3: It's like I haven't seen the movie, but I'm going
Speaker 3: to take a stab at.
Speaker 2: The plot, got it?
Speaker 3: I tell Okay, yeah, so successful person goes back to
Speaker 3: their hometown to reconnect with who they are as a
Speaker 3: person and ends up falling in love with either former
Speaker 3: person from earlier in life or a new, hard working,
Speaker 3: blue collar person that they find endearing.
Speaker 1: Okay, you got you got some stuff in there.
Speaker 2: Okay, what about was there a high school sweetheart in
Speaker 2: there anywhere?
Speaker 1: No, because they're strangers. Oh yeah, and this one is
Speaker 1: actually a fake dating trope, which is so fun. They
Speaker 1: have to ten today to appease their parents. But instead
Speaker 1: of small town going back, it's more like small town
Speaker 1: goes into the city.
Speaker 3: On the other I can't keep up with these TLC shows.
Speaker 1: Man have to like pretend today and in the process
Speaker 1: of that they end up falling in love. But well,
Speaker 1: you know, they're like, oh, we have to now, we
Speaker 1: have to like end our fake relationship. And they're like,
Speaker 1: oh no, yeah, it's great. It's really fun. And they
Speaker 1: got to be Venezuelan in it. We actually like to
Speaker 1: be that I had Latino parents. We got to like,
Speaker 1: you know, add some Spanish in there. That's fine. It's
Speaker 1: fun to see that.
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Speaker 3: When you're going out for roles, does your heritage and
Speaker 3: your sexuality play a big factor in like what roles
Speaker 3: you seek out?
Speaker 1: Honestly, they usually aren't me at all. It'll say open
Speaker 1: ethnicity or you know, they're kind of casting a big net,
Speaker 1: and then they'll come back to it.
Speaker 2: Well that's good. I mean you're nailing it anyway.
Speaker 1: So yeah, but I will say this that ones i'm
Speaker 1: cast I will always push to be me, you know,
Speaker 1: at least at the bare minimum, be Latina, not like
Speaker 1: Italian or any other ethnicity. Because even though I know
Speaker 1: I've been told us that I'm very ambiguous, I could
Speaker 1: kind of play a bunch of different things. Venezuela is
Speaker 1: and always represented. So to be able to even like
Speaker 1: name it, to say it, to use the vernacular, everything
Speaker 1: is just it's so important to me because ultimately, when
Speaker 1: I get to talk about it, I get to really
Speaker 1: stand behind it and bring myself to it. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: a lot of the main projects that I've been a
Speaker 1: part of were not Latina at all, So that's it's
Speaker 1: just it makes me so proud that you're open to shifting.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, that's that's why it's called acting.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not really a bear.
Speaker 1: I'm not.
Speaker 2: Well, I do that, but I but not in this context.
Speaker 3: And on the subject of breaking down barriers, you were
Speaker 3: also the first Latina lead in any Star Wars anything.
Speaker 3: But that's got to be that's got to be a
Speaker 3: good feeling.
Speaker 1: Unreal, I mean what what? It still feels surreal And
Speaker 1: it's been a few years of me sitting with this
Speaker 1: and it's immortalized. Yeah forever, And I hope I'm not
Speaker 1: the last. I think this again.
Speaker 2: Will open maybe also be the next because you know
Speaker 2: how you I'm still here, You're yet yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: good for you. That has to feel good.
Speaker 3: Were you a Star Wars fan prior to getting cast?
Speaker 1: Listen, who isn't? If you haven't heard of Star Wars,
Speaker 1: I like, I don't know where you are?
Speaker 3: Well everybody's heard of it.
Speaker 1: But I mean, okay, I'm not like a die hard
Speaker 1: fan where I had collectibles and stuff, but I have
Speaker 1: seen like the major films.
Speaker 2: Sure.
Speaker 1: And it's so cool because when I came into Star Wars,
Speaker 1: it was all in Spanish, like obviously I was living
Speaker 1: a completely different life in Venezuela. But that's the cool
Speaker 1: thing about Star Wars is that it reaches everybody around
Speaker 1: the world, no matter what color skin or what language
Speaker 1: you speak. I grew up with it, and when I
Speaker 1: told my parents, I told them in Spanish because I
Speaker 1: knew it would be more meaningful that way that they understood, like,
Speaker 1: it's this, you know, how.
Speaker 2: Did Chewbaca sound. I'm just curious.
Speaker 5: I don't have to rewatch it.
Speaker 1: Actually don't know. That's a good Spanish Spanish.
Speaker 2: That's perfect good. That's perfect, Ladies and gentlemen, Another star
Speaker 2: is born again. Chewbacca. I remember when I first came
Speaker 2: out and I was thinking, is that an abbreviation of
Speaker 2: chewing tobacco? Chew tobacco, that'she tobacco. Yeah, I mean, because
Speaker 2: my grandfather did. Yeah, and that's the first thing I
Speaker 2: thought of.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they thought about this, it'll just
Speaker 1: grow it for everybody.
Speaker 2: Now, Well, they put all these names together, you know,
Speaker 2: like sky Walker, I mean you know, and of course
Speaker 2: the next all these names.
Speaker 3: We got George. You gotta get George on the line.
Speaker 2: Clear. We got a few things for you to clear up. Mister,
Speaker 2: get over here. But boy, you you've been I mean
Speaker 2: from Star Wars. You're Star I have my notes. You're
Speaker 2: You're in all of the major Stars Trek Gate. Oh no,
Speaker 2: wait no yet, did I say Gate? Is that a
Speaker 2: new world for you to conquer?
Speaker 3: They need to bring back Stargate, man, they need to
Speaker 3: bring back Stargate, bring back star Gate. Sign a petition right.
Speaker 2: Now, and here's your next lead. See yeah, oh see,
Speaker 2: how did you spell that? Missy s I yes, Ai
Speaker 2: s I Yes. Well that's good stuff. Well, I mean
Speaker 2: that's that's a heck of a pedigree though, I mean,
Speaker 2: you know too.
Speaker 1: I feel so grateful to have done like both these
Speaker 1: giant franchises, like within the same time. When I was
Speaker 1: a comic con, I went for Star Trek and for
Speaker 1: Star Wars.
Speaker 2: Like wow, okay, well you're you're You're the only one
Speaker 2: in that club, you know that.
Speaker 1: I think so people have been asking me, like, who
Speaker 1: else I'm like in major rules.
Speaker 3: Not that I know honestly, Yeah, who else?
Speaker 2: No, there is?
Speaker 1: I trust you. I feel like he would know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's true. I mean, you're it right here, ladies
Speaker 2: and gentlemen.
Speaker 3: I wanted to say, I wanted to say Chris Pratt,
Speaker 3: but no, I'm thinking of Chris.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, no, not at.
Speaker 1: All, Chris.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah.
Speaker 2: All the ras out there in the world lamenting this.
Speaker 2: But that's that's pretty amazing.
Speaker 3: Have you done a lot of voice work? I see
Speaker 3: you have a few credits, but how extensive have you
Speaker 3: dove into the voiceover world?
Speaker 1: I remember I started in voice work because my agent
Speaker 1: got me into voice looping, which is just if you
Speaker 1: for the audience who doesn't know, it's part of post production.
Speaker 1: It's part of like a d R, which is additional
Speaker 1: voice recordings where you essentially dress a scene with improvised conversations.
Speaker 1: So I would get hired with your bund of a
Speaker 1: bunch of other actors to just just talk shit. Can
Speaker 1: I swear anyway?
Speaker 5: You can just talk talk about stuff.
Speaker 1: You had some rules like don't say brand names, and
Speaker 1: you know, just have at it. I really loved it.
Speaker 1: I got really comfortable in the voice studio, which I
Speaker 1: think gave me the confidence to then when I was
Speaker 1: auditioning for voice stuff, to feel like I could do it.
Speaker 1: I ended up doing some workshops for VEO just to
Speaker 1: you know, find my range and characters and things like that,
Speaker 1: and I really loved it. I started auditioning for things,
Speaker 1: and I just started booking things. But I've done a
Speaker 1: lot of like kids shows, like I did some Paw
Speaker 1: Patrol stuff, Clifford Friends, like Charlie's Color Film City. What's
Speaker 1: the other one. It's like a Little Tiger Daniels, Daniel's Neighborhood,
Speaker 1: Daniel Tiger's Playhouse, something like that. He's cute. I played
Speaker 1: like one of the kids moms. But it's been fun
Speaker 1: because I get to do that. And then obviously video
Speaker 1: games like that gave me a lot of like extensive work.
Speaker 1: And I also did a show called Oracle the It
Speaker 1: was with Joshua Jackson and de Vembostic and it was
Speaker 1: for Audible and that was really cool. It was in
Speaker 1: a ten part series and we recorded the whole thing,
Speaker 1: so that was really fun.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we liked those. Yeah, the more parts the better.
Speaker 3: I wish those were more popular. I've done a couple
Speaker 3: and they're really fun.
Speaker 1: Okay, but they're great to listen to because the sound
Speaker 1: design everything exactly like you could be in a plane
Speaker 1: and it feels like you're watching a show, but you
Speaker 1: can just close your eyes and let your imagination build them.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: I really enjoyed it.
Speaker 2: Oh that's good. Yeah, well, you know, anything that feeds
Speaker 2: the feeds the uh of everything. Yeah, so do you
Speaker 2: dance too? And I sing, Oh my god, how about
Speaker 2: how about min min? It's ladies? Yeah. I used to
Speaker 2: you know, there's a lot of street performers, and I
Speaker 2: accidentally reminded myself of this goofy idea that I had
Speaker 2: here so know, and I thought it would be great
Speaker 2: because when you go to the French Quarter, street performers everywhere,
Speaker 2: and and and a lot of mimes and mimes. I
Speaker 2: really like them. They're really good. I understand they're this,
Speaker 2: but they're a little annoying. You know, you're walking down
Speaker 2: the street and some guy walks behind you and he's
Speaker 2: kind of imitating you. Yeah, you know, and you turn
Speaker 2: around and you go, you know, well, I used to
Speaker 2: think it would be great to have a street perform
Speaker 2: and my guy was going to be Lenny the Amazing
Speaker 2: talking Mime. How does he do it? You know? And
Speaker 2: I'd be and I would be doing the kite thing. Whoa, hey,
Speaker 2: whoa look at this kite over here? Holy it's really witty,
Speaker 2: am I?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 2: Is this a lot of look at a kite I'm flying?
Speaker 2: There's you know, and and and there's no kite and
Speaker 2: but but you know he was talking, you know, because
Speaker 2: that's a I think that's a trope that the among
Speaker 2: the mime com unity.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well they're mute, but they also fly a lot of kites.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I did not know this fun fact of the day, fun.
Speaker 2: Back to the day. Yeah, and then they dance and
Speaker 2: then they do whatever they do. But I thought, if
Speaker 2: I were Lenny the Amazing talking mime, how does he
Speaker 2: do it?
Speaker 1: You know what, it's not too late to bring it back.
Speaker 1: You got to like workshop it and test it out
Speaker 1: with the audience, like, okay.
Speaker 2: Send your cars and letters in you got it? Let
Speaker 2: us know, Lenny, Yes, Lenny know, okay, we wouldn't it
Speaker 2: be funny thing for it? We'll see.
Speaker 5: He's off.
Speaker 1: He's like new ideas.
Speaker 3: So when you decided to be an actor, what was
Speaker 3: your parents' reaction. Oh, it's for some parents to accept.
Speaker 1: I built it up in my head thinking they were
Speaker 1: going to think I was throwing my life away and
Speaker 1: it was going to be a waste, mostly because you know,
Speaker 1: it took a lot for my dad to to get
Speaker 1: to where he needed to be, to take us out
Speaker 1: of the country, learn a new leguage, start fresh with
Speaker 1: a lot of opportunity. And any immigrant family will say this,
Speaker 1: that takes a lot of guts, and you don't want
Speaker 1: to waste that right. You want to make something of
Speaker 1: your life. And usually it's tied to like financial gain,
Speaker 1: like you gotta make money, you got to be stable
Speaker 1: because we don't own yet. Sure, however, my parents, I
Speaker 1: think they truly like they were just like, we just
Speaker 1: want you to be happy, and I.
Speaker 2: Was like, that's a good answer.
Speaker 1: And so you know my dad, you know, he really
Speaker 1: sacrificed so much to bring us here, and I I
Speaker 1: was when I left. So I left Venezuela when I
Speaker 1: was eleven, but I lived in Aruba for a while
Speaker 1: and my brother and I learned English while we were there.
Speaker 1: It was actually an American school, it was an international
Speaker 1: school on the island. So I was able to learn
Speaker 1: English before I emmigrated to Canada at almost fifteen, so
Speaker 1: it was in the middle of high school I got
Speaker 1: like kind of extracted and put somewhere else in a
Speaker 1: completely I mean, it was culture shocking. I had never
Speaker 1: been to North America. I've never seen snow in my
Speaker 1: life or been in a place where everybody spoke England.
Speaker 2: And then you wound up in Canada you saw slow.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: It went from like beautiful if you know what Ruba
Speaker 1: it's literally like people go there for their honeymoons. It's sunning.
Speaker 1: And I went from a Ruba to like January third,
Speaker 1: two thousand and seven, middle of winter in Alberta.
Speaker 2: Oh it was.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was amazing, and I was like, where are we?
Speaker 1: I just kept thinking, like what's it like living there?
Speaker 1: It's like like if you were living in your freezer,
Speaker 1: Like what does snow look like? Is it like sand?
Speaker 1: But not like it melts? It was. It was really
Speaker 1: life changing. But I'm so grateful my parents were. Actually
Speaker 1: I thought that I was going to like move to
Speaker 1: Asia and like study communications or be like an opera
Speaker 1: singer or something like We're going to you know, like
Speaker 1: the Blues Bars like they hire people to go sing.
Speaker 1: My dad was like, well, I think that if you
Speaker 1: don't pursue performing that you won't be as happy. I
Speaker 1: think you should try it. It was them who actually
Speaker 1: brought it back into my life, and when they gave
Speaker 1: me that freenline, I ran with it never looked back.
Speaker 2: Well that's a blessing in one basket. Yeah. Mine were
Speaker 2: like okay, yeah, but what are you going to do
Speaker 2: for living though? Okay, I know, yeah, you're gonna do cartoon.
Speaker 2: The kid's gonna do cartoon. What are you gonna how
Speaker 2: are you gonna eat?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 2: Go, No, I'm gonna do that and I'll just do
Speaker 2: it well enough to find some somebody dumb enough to
Speaker 2: pay me.
Speaker 1: And uh the dumb part but yes, yeah, the dumb part.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, and yeah but it worked out. Hey yeah,
Speaker 2: and then he was he was happy.
Speaker 1: Big risk for sure. Yeah, I'm sure that they're not
Speaker 1: saying that now. They're like, are you eating together? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's funny to me today.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well it worked out. It's funny because I think
Speaker 2: I've told that they want to bore people. But Chuck
Speaker 2: McCann's great character actor. It's on Carol Burnett Show. Tons
Speaker 2: of tons of movies, and my dad oddly, of course,
Speaker 2: and I'm making a great living at the time. This
Speaker 2: long was like thirty years ago. And I brought my
Speaker 2: parents and brought him to a Tailspin recording session and
Speaker 2: Chuck McCann, the great character actor, was there, and my
Speaker 2: dad knew him and knew of him and knew and
Speaker 2: you know, I was working with Chuck mcann, So I
Speaker 2: must have made it. I must have done it. Okay,
Speaker 2: it was finally, Okay, that's what it took.
Speaker 1: After you made a moment.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then I bought him a house, and then
Speaker 2: it was really okay, Oh yeah, there you go. Yeah
Speaker 2: that worked out.
Speaker 1: What a blessing me?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you never know, And I just knew. I
Speaker 2: never ever thought I was going to do anything else.
Speaker 2: Did you ever think you were going to do anything else?
Speaker 1: I was very convinced that if I gave this my
Speaker 1: full shot, I was find success in somewhere it was film,
Speaker 1: TV or theater or something. But if not, I think
Speaker 1: I wanted to be like a yoga teacher and like
Speaker 1: travel the world. That would have probably moved to like
Speaker 1: Custo Weekard, Thailand or Indi.
Speaker 2: Well, it would travel Yeah, that's true. Huh.
Speaker 1: And because I also love like holistic and people training,
Speaker 1: love yoga, I might still do that, get my teachers
Speaker 1: training and just like have that under my belt, because
Speaker 1: why not. But it was always going to be about people.
Speaker 1: And even then when you think about teachers or yoga
Speaker 1: or anything like that, like they're still performing in a way,
Speaker 1: You're still upfront through something. It's still like your energy,
Speaker 1: your life. I would have just been like a star
Speaker 1: yoga teacher, yoga teacher to the stars, who knows, Like
Speaker 1: I think, I was always going to find my way
Speaker 1: back to performance in some way.
Speaker 2: It's just who I am. Richard Simmons did it with exercise.
Speaker 1: Why not?
Speaker 2: Do you even know who that is? Because he's he's
Speaker 2: been going on a long time.
Speaker 3: I don't know who that is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and never mind anyway, he was one of those
Speaker 2: guys who had a workout show. How do you have
Speaker 2: a workout show? Joined physical? You know? Anyway, it was
Speaker 2: it was never mind.
Speaker 3: Okay, did you did you watch cartoons growing up? Did
Speaker 3: they have Winnie the Poo in Venezuela?
Speaker 1: They had every thing all in Spanish? In Spanish. I
Speaker 1: loved SpongeBob SquarePants, that was probably favorite Boba Sponka. It
Speaker 1: was in Spanish. Bobasponka is in Spanish. Even the song
Speaker 1: like it was fully translated, like I know it in Spanish.
Speaker 2: Wow, Yeah, it was great.
Speaker 3: So does sound like Jim.
Speaker 1: They all have different voices, and it threw me off
Speaker 1: because then when I realized that that wasn't their real voice,
Speaker 1: I felt like so lied to.
Speaker 2: Yeah you felt cheated, but it.
Speaker 1: Sounds like like the laugh right, the iconic like SpongeBob las.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, but it was the same, but with just
Speaker 1: a different guy's voice. Anyway, all of it, Like it
Speaker 1: was just like my whole world shifted when I had
Speaker 1: to kind of relearn all of this content and I
Speaker 1: was like, what, no, it sounds off.
Speaker 2: Now when your things are translated, you can do your own.
Speaker 1: You can do there, you go, I'm like hiring me
Speaker 1: to do the voice. They don't do it. It's just
Speaker 1: it takes a lot of effort, you know. I know
Speaker 1: that it was something like my team and I talked about,
Speaker 1: I'm like, would be so cool to dub myself and
Speaker 1: like Netflix show I have out next, But that takes
Speaker 1: a lot of time. And I realized that it's you're
Speaker 1: not always available to do it, but it would be
Speaker 1: cool to do I would love to do it for
Speaker 1: some project in the future, to do my own voice
Speaker 1: in Spanish.
Speaker 2: Well that that way you'd be guaranteed that it sounded
Speaker 2: like you exactly.
Speaker 1: I don't know what this you know what this is
Speaker 1: going to sound like in Spanish. People have tagged me though,
Speaker 1: even like with Star Wars, like they've dubbed it into
Speaker 1: other things and people have tagged me in like their
Speaker 1: versions of it, and that's really cool.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: One of the coolest things. I sang a few songs
Speaker 2: in Pocahontas and they didn't use my songs, but they
Speaker 2: colors of the wind, Colors of the Wind, and they
Speaker 2: played it for me. And Disney did this thing and
Speaker 2: it was in Portuguese, it was in French, it was
Speaker 2: in German, it was in Lithuania, in Russian, I mean
Speaker 2: just all and they played the song and then they
Speaker 2: would put you know, German, Japanese and all around, and
Speaker 2: it was one of the most beautiful things you've ever heard.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: And it was seamless. It sounded like one person going
Speaker 2: from Russian to French to Spanish to Gaelic or you know,
Speaker 2: I mean unbelievable and it was the coolest thing in
Speaker 2: the world. I mean, what an amazing thing. And what's
Speaker 2: I guess they had to do something with the lips
Speaker 2: because AI doesn't.
Speaker 1: Now I don't know if you've watched any like foreign
Speaker 1: language on things, for example, they try to do the
Speaker 1: dubbing and match it to the lips so that your
Speaker 1: brain gets tricked into feeling like you're watching it in
Speaker 1: your tongue. It's tripping me out because sometimes it doesn't.
Speaker 1: It takes you out and you're like, oh, right, this
Speaker 1: is supposed to be like in German.
Speaker 3: To me, that's like a great use of as exactly.
Speaker 3: It's a great tool.
Speaker 1: In that moment, I'm like, change my mouth perfect.
Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you, Yeah, absolutely, Like squid Game comes to mind,
Speaker 3: and like I swear that was some of the best
Speaker 3: dubbing I've ever seen, Like.
Speaker 1: They really, like, really great and like.
Speaker 3: When you watch with the subtitles, you can tell like, oh,
Speaker 3: they changed this sentence so that it looks better with
Speaker 3: their mouth. It's not it's like very loose translation. You know.
Speaker 3: It's like I don't know, like, yeah, I don't have
Speaker 3: an example, right, now, but but you don't have the
Speaker 3: script memorized.
Speaker 1: What do you mean? Yeah?
Speaker 3: See, like okay, you said you don't have the script memorize,
Speaker 3: and it would be like, but you failed to memorize
Speaker 3: the script, right, it would be like slightly different, but like.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, who's the guy that does that.
Speaker 2: He's earning his stripes.
Speaker 1: Some like it's a new job. Well someone has I
Speaker 1: don't know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a robot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's true. The terminator is coming to get us all.
Speaker 3: Are you a gamer at all? Did you ever play
Speaker 3: Star Wars Outlaws?
Speaker 1: So Xbox gifted me a custom console. They surprised me
Speaker 1: with it when I was in Cologne a games colm,
Speaker 1: and it's amazing. I still haven't haven't played on it.
Speaker 1: I like started it, but I just haven't been home
Speaker 1: and I just moved into a new house and I
Speaker 1: just broke my TV.
Speaker 2: Oh did you say broke?
Speaker 5: I broke it.
Speaker 1: I literally knocked it over and it shuttered new TV.
Speaker 1: And I need to game. I hope that once I'm
Speaker 1: like done some of my travel and I guess to
Speaker 1: walk home. That's that's my goal. Build my game room,
Speaker 1: maybe get a switch. I used to have a switch
Speaker 1: and the new one's coming out. Is it worth it?
Speaker 1: I don't know. They say it's like the same thing,
Speaker 1: but just more expensive. But I used to game a lot,
Speaker 1: especially through COVID. I had a PS five and a
Speaker 1: switch and I was an animal crossing girl love my
Speaker 1: Anie Mario game. But I did play Last of Us
Speaker 1: Part one and two. That was the first of that
Speaker 1: kind of game that I've ever played, like role playing
Speaker 1: where you go through the game open world, and I
Speaker 1: really fell in love with it. So it kind of
Speaker 1: taught me how to move in that way so that
Speaker 1: I can play Outlaws. But I've watched a lot of
Speaker 1: people play. That's my favorite thing to do. I just
Speaker 1: go online and watch people.
Speaker 3: Like I was gonna say, because we've had quite a
Speaker 3: few voice actors, you know from video games, and like
Speaker 3: they'll stream like Ned Luke from Grand Theft Auto, Like
Speaker 3: he streams like as his character. He does a little
Speaker 3: role playing, so they're just gonna be like.
Speaker 1: Why are you dying so much? I'm just like petting
Speaker 1: the animals, just like petting Nicks, not really doing the mission, distracted,
Speaker 1: just hanging.
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe they'll enjoy that.
Speaker 1: I'm like, this is a very wholesome way of playing.
Speaker 1: I don't like combat as much. I like stealth and
Speaker 1: I like running away from the bad guys. Don't like
Speaker 1: fighting too much. But I need to learn how to
Speaker 1: use the weapons, because I know there's some really cool
Speaker 1: weapons like the blaster and all of the things that
Speaker 1: you can do with it. I'm like, I do want
Speaker 1: to learn to use it. I just panic and just.
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Speaker 2: But you say that there there's a ride at Disneyland
Speaker 2: Millennium Falcons Smugglers run where my guy Hondo's in it.
Speaker 2: But you get to and you go to Disneyland and
Speaker 2: there's the Millennium. I mean, it's life. So have you
Speaker 2: seen that?
Speaker 1: Disney took me last year for the first time. I
Speaker 1: had never been to Disneyland.
Speaker 2: Oh my god. Well that was.
Speaker 1: My first time. And they were like, we're taking you
Speaker 1: on a VIP tour Galaxy side. I was like, what, okay,
Speaker 1: that was worth it.
Speaker 2: And and then you hear they're telling me stories about this,
Speaker 2: that and the other thing. And they said we had
Speaker 2: to have people kind of space throughout the ride because
Speaker 2: what happens was Star Trek fans get up and they'll
Speaker 2: go over and then they'll see the three D chess
Speaker 2: board where those little characters were, the hollow chests, Yeah,
Speaker 2: the hollow chests, and they just go there and sit there,
Speaker 2: sitting here all day. Yeah, I'm on the Millennium Falcon.
Speaker 2: That's right, I'm just chilling. Yeah, I think I'll have
Speaker 2: a sandwich. Yeah, talk amost yourself. And they just wanted
Speaker 2: to hang out. They didn't even want to do the
Speaker 2: ride or any of it. They were on the Millennium Falcon.
Speaker 1: They couldn't exist.
Speaker 2: That's I'm good. You know what times this place close? Okay?
Speaker 2: You know, And I have to confess I was one
Speaker 2: of them.
Speaker 1: I was lowing down. Yeah, I was.
Speaker 2: Okay, well what are you gonna do? But yeah, anyway,
Speaker 2: but a great franchise.
Speaker 1: To be forever I'm immortalized forever.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 1: You know, miss me. Just go play Star Wars out
Speaker 1: of laws. You o my voice for a lot?
Speaker 2: I know, isn't that isn't that kind of a cool thing?
Speaker 1: It is cool?
Speaker 2: I mean, wow, like my legacy. Yeah, and you've got
Speaker 2: all the you've got Trek Wars. It's it's crazy. That's
Speaker 2: that's not bad.
Speaker 1: It's not bad at all.
Speaker 2: I mean, I again singular, right.
Speaker 3: Do you have like a dream role or dream character
Speaker 3: that you would ever want to play?
Speaker 2: Don't say spuck, Oh my god?
Speaker 1: Okay, good no, no, I honestly, right now, I really
Speaker 1: want to play either a cool super villain or like
Speaker 1: just be in an action film. In general, it would
Speaker 1: be really cool to like physically transform and do more stunts.
Speaker 1: I think I have a calling for it. I really
Speaker 1: enjoy it being like very physical. But I would love
Speaker 1: to do an action film. So either, I mean, Thunderbolt
Speaker 1: just came out, it was very very successful. I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm ready for.
Speaker 2: My Okay, yeah why not? Yeah? Good for you. Yeah, well,
Speaker 2: we're putting it out there.
Speaker 1: Put it out there. Listen. Sometimes when I claim things,
Speaker 1: it really comes. So we'll see what happens.
Speaker 5: I will see what out.
Speaker 2: Wow, lot of attraction. Indeed, it's true. Well, here we go,
Speaker 2: it'll happen now. Probably your phone should be ringing.
Speaker 1: Actually right now. Yeah, I'm serious.
Speaker 3: I'm like, yeah, we haven't talked about Ginny and Georgia.
Speaker 3: Another show you have on Netflix, the young adult hit
Speaker 3: When it tell us about that show, you know what?
Speaker 1: Last night I got id'd in Canada, which means they
Speaker 1: thought I was eighteen. They I were seventeen because in Toronto,
Speaker 1: Ontario is nineteen. You have to be nineteen to drink.
Speaker 3: I stand corrected.
Speaker 1: Montreal is eighteen. But I was like what. The bartender
Speaker 1: was just like enjoy it, well it lasts or like yeah.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh my god, that's so. But in
Speaker 1: a way, I was like, well that kind of tracks
Speaker 1: because I am still playing a high schooler on TV.
Speaker 5: So that's a good thing.
Speaker 1: It's accurate. It's kind of cool though. Both the shows
Speaker 1: that are coming out, they're like completely different. One of them,
Speaker 1: I'm playing my actual age and she's like a career woman,
Speaker 1: married all the stuff, and then the other one she's
Speaker 1: like a senior in high school.
Speaker 2: Oh you got both of those? Yeah, yeah, I mean
Speaker 2: you're good to go. That's amazing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, season three. I've been with this team since twenty nineteen.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, it's been five years. This amazing family.
Speaker 1: I'm very excited for season three. Netflix threw in their
Speaker 1: little curveball, a little sneak peak. It was like a
Speaker 1: one second clip of Sophie Sanchez and the internet exploded.
Speaker 1: So very excited. I can't reveal anything. Not everything is
Speaker 1: as it seems. That's all I'll say. You don't know
Speaker 1: what you're in for, but it's going to be a
Speaker 1: great season.
Speaker 2: Fine.
Speaker 1: I think what's cool is that you know the gang
Speaker 1: is back together. I think that's how season two ends,
Speaker 1: that you see them kind of all come together, so
Speaker 1: the course together, it's like they got to kind of
Speaker 1: face it all together. Yeah, you know, we got some
Speaker 1: new characters, new plot lines. Exciting.
Speaker 2: Can you put in a word for Chris and I Actually, yeah,
Speaker 2: you might have to.
Speaker 1: Shame you guys. Think may sun screen the next few days.
Speaker 2: I could be the principal.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you could could be a teacher bystander.
Speaker 3: If I showed up to set one day and some
Speaker 3: my peer is playing a high school and I'm playing
Speaker 3: a teacher, I'm like, I gotta stop smoking or something.
Speaker 2: I gotta I.
Speaker 3: Gotta go to a wellness or treat that's that's well.
Speaker 1: You know, hacking is becoming very popular. I'm sure there's
Speaker 1: some things you can do.
Speaker 3: Oh god, Benjamin Button me, yes.
Speaker 2: So do you have Is there like something on the horizon?
Speaker 2: You know, one thing I have to do before my
Speaker 2: career is over? I have to.
Speaker 1: Hmmm, you know what, it would be really cool to.
Speaker 2: Other than this podcast.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry this, I've lived it. I'm done. No, you know.
Speaker 1: Do you know the movie Ready Player one? Right? It
Speaker 1: uses all the mediums of like motion capture VR and
Speaker 1: then real filming. I would love to be a part
Speaker 1: of a project like that where I get to do
Speaker 1: like all of the skills that I've learned in the
Speaker 1: last decade of my career and put them into one project.
Speaker 1: Maybe I have to create it, who knows, But it
Speaker 1: would be really cool to kind of do like a
Speaker 1: mixed media project. I've always thought about that and then
Speaker 1: throwing some like musicals in there. It's like, oh, sure,
Speaker 1: a cool sci fi with music. I'd have to do
Speaker 1: that before my career is done. Yeah, I do. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it would be really cool. I do. I mean, I'll
Speaker 1: say this, I would love to do a musical movie
Speaker 1: like In the Heights. That was very cool for it.
Speaker 1: I did my call back with Jonnam Chew, which iconic.
Speaker 1: You know, they just did Wicked, But that really woke
Speaker 1: this passion to me that I was like, wait, I'm
Speaker 1: being considered for that, which means it's possible. So I'm ready.
Speaker 1: I would love to do a musical movie. Yeah, it's cool.
Speaker 2: Well, if you can envision it, if you can dream it,
Speaker 2: you know the.
Speaker 1: Power very diny dream.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I really truly do believe in that. Wow.
Speaker 2: Good for you. I just got to Tingle. It's a
Speaker 2: good sign.
Speaker 3: Do you have anything else that you want to bring up?
Speaker 3: Plug talk about? Where can we find you on social media?
Speaker 3: All that good stuff.
Speaker 1: You know. What's cool is that my handle's just my
Speaker 1: name because no one else has it. It's just at
Speaker 1: umberly Instagram.
Speaker 2: I think you're safe.
Speaker 1: I'm safe. It's just so one shot.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: Is that a Venezuelan name. I've never heard that.
Speaker 1: Yes. So my dad's name is Umberto and my mom's
Speaker 1: name is Liliana, so from both interesting. It's a very
Speaker 1: common thing in Venezuela that parents combine their names to
Speaker 1: make very unique names, usually for their daughters. But you'll
Speaker 1: always find people with strange and unique names in Latin America.
Speaker 1: When people are introducing each other or saying their name,
Speaker 1: they'll just go, are you from Venezuela? Because with a name.
Speaker 2: Like that, oh, dare you?
Speaker 1: Yes I am, but yes, you're right.
Speaker 2: Well, that wouldn't work with me because my dad was Bob,
Speaker 2: my mom was Sally, so Bob sal Sal Bob Bally maybe.
Speaker 1: Bally bally because you can, you can kind of mix
Speaker 1: and match the letters, you know, Bally is course, sob
Speaker 1: could be.
Speaker 2: It is a lot of the times it's unfortunate.
Speaker 3: I would be I'd be Doug great Doug and Margaret.
Speaker 5: Dog and Margaret Doug grit.
Speaker 1: I mean, listen Umberly, like when you think about it,
Speaker 1: like I didn't like it at first. I thought it
Speaker 1: was weird. I thought people were gonna be able to
Speaker 1: pronounce it and especially go from like Spanish to English.
Speaker 1: The H is silence, So a lot of people usually
Speaker 1: like Humberly and I'm like, ah, so it's like I
Speaker 1: had to really fall in love with it again and understand, like.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, that's really funny to be. That's a really
Speaker 3: fall in love with my name again. It really got
Speaker 3: away from me. Yeah, I was reconnect Where did they go?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not like you. Weren't you in the meantime?
Speaker 1: I know, But I I was like, do I need
Speaker 1: to come up with like a star name, like a
Speaker 1: stage name? You know, my middle name is Vanessa. I
Speaker 1: at one point thought about switching it to that and
Speaker 1: being like Vanessa Sanchez, like my mom's name, or like Venesulz,
Speaker 1: Like I don't know, but Umberly is so unique and
Speaker 1: I think what I had to do is just own that.
Speaker 1: And they're like, you will be the only Umberly who
Speaker 1: will be in the world. So that's really unique in
Speaker 1: itself and making my own unique imprint and in this industry.
Speaker 1: So for sure, I love it.
Speaker 2: Now it's not like you were Jane Jones. So you're
Speaker 2: you're I think you're in good standing. I think you're
Speaker 2: good to.
Speaker 1: Go better to stand out.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 3: She's a good actress though, j Jo. That is true,
Speaker 3: isn't there there's a what's her name? It's like almost
Speaker 3: Jane Jones, Janet Jones, blonde girl, really pretty actress, January Jones.
Speaker 3: Oh January January Jones close.
Speaker 1: Imagine your parents are just like, I.
Speaker 3: Don't think that's that's stop January Jane Lynch. Yeah, I
Speaker 3: was thinking of January Jones.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, wow, you really were January Jones.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's one hundred percent an actress named January Jones.
Speaker 3: She was the last man.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: I know this for a fact that I am telling
Speaker 3: you audience, I'm telling you right.
Speaker 2: So there damn it. Take that.
Speaker 1: So it is Chris Saiso.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 3: She exists. She exists, she exists.
Speaker 1: It feels like bashing sub conscious message.
Speaker 3: I'm going to get her on the podcast just to
Speaker 3: prove it.
Speaker 5: I hope you do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and we won't have to channel her because she's real.
Speaker 3: Right, all right, anything else you want to talk about?
Speaker 2: Thank you for being I mean.
Speaker 1: Hey, I'm so glad to be here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, thanks for joining us.
Speaker 1: It's my first like in studio live podcast in LA.
Speaker 1: So you know, milestone, we are honored.
Speaker 2: Yeah, milestone for us as well. Yeah, fantastic, very cool,
Speaker 2: very cool. Stay tuned well, Yeah, thanks again for being here.
Speaker 2: I really appreciate it. All right, everybody. That was another
Speaker 2: episode of Tuned In with Jim Cummings. I'm producer Chris
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Speaker 3: Where can we see you at conventions coming up?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 3: That is true this month of June.
Speaker 2: I think why it just so happens that I have Okay, okay,
Speaker 2: so here we go. Here's for you. Oh, look look
Speaker 2: at that, Look at that. Let's see. We have nostalgic
Speaker 2: on on Anaheim June sixth and eighth. Be there, Nostalgic
Speaker 2: on Ane'm six to eighth. Uh and the Undiscovered Realm
Speaker 2: dot com thing Comic Con and that's June twenty first
Speaker 2: and twenty second. That's in White Plains, New York. You
Speaker 2: know it, you love it. White Plains, New York. Undiscovered
Speaker 2: Realm and Anime Verse Kansas City coming up June twenty
Speaker 2: eighth and twenty ninth. Anime Verse. I'm huge in anime,
Speaker 2: so be there. If you don't believe me, just ask
Speaker 2: me and I'll tell you that lie again. Thank you.
Speaker 3: And if he's everybody, if you're one of the three
Speaker 3: weirdos who wants to see me. I'll be Anaheim Comic
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Speaker 1: Hi, my name is Umberlely Gonzalez and you're watching tuned
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Speaker 5: Put the come in see come in?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's gonna be the first short we make. First talk.
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Speaker 5: Can we do a play and say please.
Speaker 1: Jim Cummings, Oh my god, yes, okay three times a charm?
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: Hi, my name is Umberlea Gonzalez and you're watching tuned in.
Speaker 3: What where are you looking at me?
Speaker 5: I'm sorry, guys, it's like when you audition. This late
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Speaker 5: how tall you are like, where you are? I'm from?
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Speaker 1: they want me to say? Who am I?
Speaker 3: I always feel like I'm standing weird too?
Speaker 5: Can I just point at this instead?
Speaker 3: No, you have to get it.
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Speaker 5: You need to splice all of these together.