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C. I feel good. It's nice to be here. There was no traffic, and I like driving. That's right. Well, I came over from Venice. It was a long way. | 0 | |
There was no traffic. I mean, once you get to the one, let's do that. You know, and you start to go through downtown. Of course, it was traffic -y getting to the five. On the way over, and then got congested. | 0 | |
I was actually listening to KPCC, but normally I would be listening to music and driving kind of fast. Today? Yeah. | 0 | |
I don't know how to feel about it because it's never been the same. | 0 | |
Yeah. And we're still sort of figuring out how to do that again. | 0 | |
So, I don't know what normal is, obviously, but none of it exists in the realm of what my expectations or fears would be. | 0 | |
So, it sort of eliminates any kind of expectation because I'm like, I don't know what the hell is going on in this bonnet planet anymore. | 0 | |
I'm going to go do a podcast today and there's no traffic. There's no traffic? Does that mean nobody's going to the movies? | 0 | |
Does that mean that the movie that I have a supporting role in, they're just not? Exactly. Exactly. | 0 | |
I'm thinking about traffic. I'm thinking about the movies. People, please come see the movie for his sake. Yeah, serious. Come on. Yeah. | 0 | |
I think that because of what my timeline is specifically, I was born in 75. We got cable television pretty early. | 0 | |
So, there were some of his early movies on HBO. And then my father loved to go to the movies. He would take us to the movies a lot. | 0 | |
Valley Girl in particular because, what do you have? It's kind of like this sort of dyed reddish fuchsia hair, right? | 0 | |
What was crazy about that was, if you think about it now, it was cool to be in the valley. | 0 | |
And then those crazy delinquents on the other side of the hill in the cool part of town in Hollywood, having real lives. | 0 | |
She was just really slumming it. But yeah, sort of absorbing these kinds of movies. Very young. This is a different time. My parents were very young. | 0 | |
We were really kind of unsupervised a lot of the time. As far as TV was concerned, there weren't too many rules. It took a lot to send us out of the room. | 0 | |
Exactly. There were two movies, really, that I remember very vividly having a huge impact on me. And both of them because I didn't know what we were going to go see. | 0 | |
Often, already at a young age, I was like, I want to see this. Or I knew what we were going to go, and I had an expectation around it. But I remember Peggy Sue Got Married had no idea what it is. | 0 | |
What could it possibly be with a title like that? I had no idea it was directed by Francis Ford Coppola. And the other one was Raising Arizona. And I had no idea. I'd never seen. | 0 | |
I'd actually tried to see Blood Simple because the trailer had appeared before some movie I saw when I was a child. | 0 | |
And it looked so scary and so visually cool. I'm telling you. | 0 | |
And I remember on drives and stuff like that because there was this kind of, I just remember this sequel. | 0 | |
I was really into scary, thrillery shit when I was a kid and am still now. But I don't know. | 0 | |
He was burying a body out in some Texas field or something like that. I guess it was just all the drama that I was after. I don't know. | 0 | |
I remember thinking about the trailer. Did not connect it to when we saw Raising Arizona. | 0 | |
And at the start of Raising Arizona, I remember thinking that the whole first few minutes was a trailer for this phenomenal movie. | 0 | |
I'd never seen anything like that and had that sort of visual voluptuousness. It was just like, what is this? | 0 | |
And then the title blazed in and I was like, oh, this is the movie. | 0 | |
So anyway, they were very impressionable films very, very early with not normal performances from this actor. | 0 | |
Yeah, kind of big, big swings that shouldn't work and work incredibly. Yeah. | 0 | |
But if you see them again, it isn't about these performances being big. It's just completely stylized, but also really truthful. | 0 | |
I mean, look, I have been kissing this ass so much. I know, but I mean it. | 0 | |
It is everything that I would want to be able to pull off as an actor. | 0 | |
It is do something completely theatrical and there be so much truth and skill and believability on the performance. | 0 | |
I was nine months old when we left Chile. We were in Denmark like under a year and we ended up in San Antonio. | 0 | |
I've got an enormous family from both sides. | 0 | |
The way that that lived almost like a kind of supernatural presence in my imagination was so weird. | 0 | |
And then we watched so many movies and I remember seeing Indiana Jones like running across the plane field with Karen Allen in that white dress. | 0 | |
Karen Allen looked so much like my mother. And so I started to imagine things like that. | 0 | |
Like my father and mother hand in hand like running as like they were being shot at across like a dusty sort of airplane field. What do you call it? | 0 | |
Yeah. Yeah. And we're not talking about it either. There was a very dramatic. No, no, not at all. Nor any of the family members that made it over to us in Texas from Chile. | 0 | |
It's a true story where an American journalist went missing and was found dead. I remember watching this at home on cable. | 0 | |
And there was a moment where Sissy Spacek's character, she doesn't make it home before curfew. And she just kind of gets trapped in the city. | 0 | |
And again, sort of a beautiful, small framed woman that reminded me so much of my mother. | 0 | |
And I had sort of projected these kinds of images of my mother into these character circumstances. | 0 | |
I remember having a little bit of a breakdown. Yeah. And, you know, I could sit through anything at the time. | 0 | |
And I remember, like, just starting to cry and being like, I can't watch this. And I was like, gosh, I don't know. I must have been like eight. Yeah. | 0 | |
How old was I? Yeah, well, spoiled, you know. Our dad was taking us to the movies all the time. We had cable television. | 0 | |
You know, eventually, once we got into high school years, my mother had found this performing arts program that I had auditioned for and got into. | 0 | |
I didn't, like, have to work during school. They weren't comfortable with that, getting in the way of schoolwork. | 0 | |
They didn't buy me a car. I got, like, the hand -me -down Volvo for sure. | 0 | |
I think, culturally, what it means to spoil your kid in Chile, at least then, is a little different. | 0 | |
Although, certainly, I was developing needs from lots of John Hughes movies that I was watching when I was a kid. | 0 | |
And my dad would literally be like, who the hell, you know. Being allowed to see everything, you know. There was one movie I wasn't allowed to see. | 0 | |
The Breakfast Club. I was dying to see it. I was desperate to see it. And I wasn't allowed. | 0 | |
The argument being it was rated R. But I was like, but so was First Blood. And you took me to the movies to see that, you know. | 0 | |
Their lives look pretty good to me. So, no, you're not seeing that movie. Kinds of ideas. It's like, oh, yeah, yeah. | 0 | |
We could see the big chill about sort of like, you know, sex and vibe, whatever. But not kids complaining. | 0 | |
He's like, you're not getting any ideas from this thing. No, I wanted to. That was why my mom found this performing arts program. | 0 | |
Because it was sort of this fantasy that I was sharing with everybody at a very, very young age. You know, I knew I wanted to be in movies. | 0 | |
I started talking about it when I was seven years old. They thought it was cute. | 0 | |
So maybe they were like, yeah, you know, you definitely need a lot of attention. Nobody seemed surprised. And I got both. | 0 | |
You know, as soon as we moved to California at the age of I was 11 turning 12, I immediately was like, oh, we're getting closer and closer to Hollywood. | 0 | |
You know, really? Absolutely. And so my mother found like a summer program at South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa. This is before I got to high school. | 0 | |
Other friends found this like children's acting program at Laguna Beach. | 0 | |
And I auditioned for the kids show at the Laguna Beach Playhouse and got the lead. | 0 | |
And it was a play called Wiley and the Hairy Man. And I was Wiley. You know, so at that point, all right, he's really into this. | 0 | |
He doesn't want to swim anymore. Let's just keep him occupied. | 0 | |
Exactly. Over and over and over again. Too long. It's too fucking long. That's for sure. Yeah. Before Broadway. | 0 | |
Basically, my mother's friend said she had theater tickets to something that started at three in the afternoon and ended, you know, after 10 p .m. | 0 | |
and didn't have the back for it, like had back issues. | 0 | |
And so if I wanted these tickets, I could take a friend and she'd give me a note to get out of school early and drive to the taper and see this play. | 0 | |
She didn't know what it was and neither did I. And I was like, fuck yeah, get out of school early, go see a play. Hell yeah. And it was Oscar Eustace's production of Angels in America. | 0 | |
I think it's probably one of the 20th century's like most important pieces of literature, much less theater. | 0 | |
Because if you read it on the page, it's as good as a book, you know? | 0 | |
And so I saw that with this underdeveloped brain and it was about everything. | 0 | |
It just was so fantastic in concept and in drama. I'm sure there were a ton of things that were over my head. It was overtly sexual. | 0 | |
It was overtly political. It was overtly intellectual. It was overtly emotional. | 0 | |
And so there was just the visceral experience of these very well -written scenes, for one. | 0 | |
And these hyper -intellectual speeches and monologues opening each kind of chapter of the play and the political history of it all. | 0 | |
And, you know, you started to hear about AIDS before we all hit puberty in my generation. And so little information on that. | 0 | |
And I think sex for all of us just seemed so scary. It seemed scary to all of us, all my friends, you know what I mean? | 0 | |
Like the idea of like, you know, being reckless around sex seemed like it just would have such consequences. At that point, it didn't matter if you were gay or straight, you know? | 0 | |
As we were sort of entering into that phase in life, we started to, you know, look for sex, have sex, basically. | 0 | |
And so it was just dealt with all of these things kind of head on. I didn't know about Roy Cohn. I didn't know about the Rosenbergs. | 0 | |
And I didn't know enough about McCarthyism and all of these things. So it just kind of blew my brain wide open. But it was also like an incredible production. | 0 | |
And the acting was so fierce. | 0 | |
I just remember being blown away. I also remember around this time, like the kinds of impression that certain things made. | 0 | |
With movies as well, I remember seeing Sex, Lies and Videotape. And this four -character piece and just sort of getting into my system. | 0 | |
I remember a teacher doing Entesaka Shengas for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow was enough. | 0 | |
But also like what you were learning as a kid, you know. Yeah. | 0 | |
Well, there was just so many other movies that took place in New York that I had seen and I'd sort of already developed. I'd gone to New York with my father when I was a kid. | 0 | |
And I knew and again developed this fantasy of a life that would start in, you know, first it was going to be Hollywood. | 0 | |
And then I started to understand that real actors came from New York. And I loved it there. Really did. | 0 | |
When I was a kid, I saw Little Shop of Horrors, you know, that Second Avenue Theater where in 93, David Mamet's Oleana was there and then Stomp came and never left. | 0 | |
Stomp was there and I think is still there as far as I know. | 0 | |
And also just believed intrinsically that would happen. I got into NYU. My parents did not want me to go. They nearly didn't let me go. | 0 | |
Because in our house, like you had to do well in school and you had to get into college. And then the rest of it, it didn't matter what you were doing. | 0 | |
If these things were being accomplished, if these boxes were being checked, then they didn't care if you were fucking or doing, you know. And so they did. | 0 |
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