WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.640 --> 00:00:03.080 Sometimes a bigger picture can be overwhelming, but you gotta 2 00:00:03.120 --> 00:00:05.600 lead grateful for the small things, and so the small 3 00:00:05.600 --> 00:00:09.480 things will add up and the bigger picture will get resolved. 4 00:00:09.600 --> 00:00:10.959 Did you learn that from Tumama? 5 00:00:11.600 --> 00:00:14.000 I think I learned along the way. I have a 6 00:00:14.080 --> 00:00:16.639 core group of friends who remind me of being grateful. 7 00:00:16.640 --> 00:00:21.000 I learned from their kindness. My friend from third grade, Romey, 8 00:00:21.160 --> 00:00:24.080 who is actually here, reminds me of that kindness every day. 9 00:00:24.160 --> 00:00:27.600 And you've been friends since Wentz, since third grade. You 10 00:00:27.640 --> 00:00:28.440 know how lucky. 11 00:00:28.480 --> 00:00:31.080 You are, very lucky. But that's care less if I 12 00:00:31.160 --> 00:00:33.360 get stop on the street for an auto crash, like 13 00:00:33.360 --> 00:00:35.680 oh yeahet you do stuff on. 14 00:00:35.760 --> 00:00:49.600 TV FA and PRX. It's Latino USA. I'm Maria no Josa. 15 00:00:50.280 --> 00:00:53.400 Do you watch that popular show What We Do in 16 00:00:53.440 --> 00:00:57.600 the Shadows on FX today? A conversation with Mexican American 17 00:00:57.640 --> 00:01:07.560 actor Harvey ye Yin. You might have seen Harvey Gien 18 00:01:08.280 --> 00:01:10.479 strutting his stuff on red carpets. 19 00:01:10.640 --> 00:01:13.760 Here's to fifteen year old Harvey watching the Golden Globes 20 00:01:13.800 --> 00:01:15.759 and dreaming that one day he'd be on the carpet. 21 00:01:16.160 --> 00:01:17.640 And here you are, babe. 22 00:01:18.280 --> 00:01:22.399 You might have also caught Harvey Giyen in big budget 23 00:01:22.440 --> 00:01:28.240 films alongside big names like Antonio Banderas. He played the 24 00:01:28.319 --> 00:01:32.440 voice of Perrito in Puss and Boots The Last Wish, 25 00:01:33.200 --> 00:01:37.440 This is going to Puss in Boots, Your Puss in Boots. 26 00:01:37.600 --> 00:01:41.000 Or you might have seen Harvey gey in alongside Susan 27 00:01:41.040 --> 00:01:44.479 Sarandon in the DC superhero film Blue Beatle. 28 00:01:45.200 --> 00:01:50.040 You more on What Are You, Joe? My name is 29 00:01:50.080 --> 00:01:54.120 not Sanchez Bedea. It was Seth. That's his The Loyal. 30 00:01:59.160 --> 00:02:02.680 But most people know Harvey from his role as guiller 31 00:02:02.760 --> 00:02:06.640 Modela Cruz in the FX vampire comedy What We Do 32 00:02:06.680 --> 00:02:07.600 in the Shadows. 33 00:02:07.880 --> 00:02:10.040 You're still angry about that vampa I tried to eat 34 00:02:10.120 --> 00:02:13.480 you onto? Yes, don't deny it. I can tell I 35 00:02:13.520 --> 00:02:14.040 said yes. 36 00:02:15.400 --> 00:02:19.520 The series, which has run for six seasons, has earned 37 00:02:19.720 --> 00:02:24.280 multiple Award nominations, including an Emmy win for its costumes. 38 00:02:24.480 --> 00:02:29.880 The Emmy goes to What We Do in the Shadows. 39 00:02:30.040 --> 00:02:34.919 Along with multiple Critics Choice Award nods for Harvey's portrayal 40 00:02:35.040 --> 00:02:39.160 of Guillermo de la Cruz. He is the human assistant 41 00:02:39.520 --> 00:02:41.799 who lives in a house full of vampires. 42 00:02:41.919 --> 00:02:45.799 I promised to help my master apply for citizenship. Yes, 43 00:02:46.360 --> 00:02:49.560 you actually started a process, but you didn't finish what 44 00:02:49.680 --> 00:02:53.839 happened in nineteen ninety two the mccarina Swift Nation, So 45 00:02:54.520 --> 00:02:56.520 I didn't really have time for anything is. 46 00:02:57.680 --> 00:03:02.200 And just like Giirmo opens up to the vampire world 47 00:03:02.320 --> 00:03:05.800 of Staten Island, Harvey has made a career out of 48 00:03:05.840 --> 00:03:09.240 going for roles that people in Hollywood didn't think he 49 00:03:09.240 --> 00:03:10.000 would fit into. 50 00:03:10.320 --> 00:03:12.720 With my eyes, with my height, with my body, with 51 00:03:12.760 --> 00:03:14.720 my voice, with my traits. 52 00:03:14.440 --> 00:03:18.400 As a petite he's only five foot three, he's also 53 00:03:18.560 --> 00:03:22.840 plus sized, he's queer, he's Mexican American, he's brown, so 54 00:03:23.520 --> 00:03:26.880 he was just never what studios were looking for. 55 00:03:27.240 --> 00:03:30.400 Tall, blonde, blue eyed, and I would convince my agent 56 00:03:30.440 --> 00:03:32.120 can I go in as a wild card? So the 57 00:03:32.280 --> 00:03:34.600 trajectory of my career has been booking roles that were 58 00:03:34.639 --> 00:03:37.320 never written for me, but I go in. Then people 59 00:03:37.400 --> 00:03:39.840 end up, yeah, what if they were? 60 00:03:39.880 --> 00:03:40.080 You know? 61 00:03:40.720 --> 00:03:43.120 And what we do in the Shadows? It was one 62 00:03:43.160 --> 00:03:43.840 of those shows. 63 00:03:44.680 --> 00:03:46.880 Shadows was not written for me. The character Guillermo de 64 00:03:46.960 --> 00:03:48.960 la Cruz was written twenty years older. 65 00:03:49.320 --> 00:03:52.960 But after talking himself into that audition, he parted his 66 00:03:53.040 --> 00:03:56.280 hair down the middle, put on a beige sweater vest, 67 00:03:56.440 --> 00:04:00.800 and some round glasses, and well he made some matchup happened. 68 00:04:11.160 --> 00:04:12.600 Some persons. 69 00:04:16.000 --> 00:04:18.719 A few days later, he got a call. His audition 70 00:04:19.040 --> 00:04:22.839 was so perfect they wanted him on set the next week. 71 00:04:23.120 --> 00:04:26.800 But when he got there, he realized Guillermo didn't have 72 00:04:26.920 --> 00:04:27.919 a last name. 73 00:04:28.680 --> 00:04:31.200 And I gave him the last name of the La Cruz, 74 00:04:31.360 --> 00:04:34.159 like without knowing that he was a vampire slayer. Like 75 00:04:34.200 --> 00:04:36.240 I gave him the name early on and found out 76 00:04:36.320 --> 00:04:39.479 later I am, by birth and lineage, a vampire killer. 77 00:04:40.480 --> 00:04:43.200 And the only reason your life is because I let 78 00:04:43.240 --> 00:04:49.360 you live. And I was like, why did you let 79 00:04:49.360 --> 00:04:51.840 me name him that? If you knew this? And then 80 00:04:51.839 --> 00:04:53.200 it was like, because it's perfect. 81 00:04:53.960 --> 00:04:56.520 It's kind of perfect. Yeah, that Guz means of the cross, 82 00:04:56.520 --> 00:04:57.279 across the cross. 83 00:04:57.400 --> 00:04:59.960 Yeah. And I just go back to my resume of like, 84 00:05:00.080 --> 00:05:02.000 every time I look at it a role i've played. 85 00:05:02.200 --> 00:05:04.200 First of all, you always think every time I book something, 86 00:05:04.200 --> 00:05:06.159 I won the lottery, because this business is tough, and 87 00:05:06.200 --> 00:05:08.680 so every time I book something or offered something, How 88 00:05:08.760 --> 00:05:10.760 lucky am I that I get to do what I 89 00:05:10.800 --> 00:05:12.960 love and people enjoy it so much that they come 90 00:05:13.000 --> 00:05:14.520 back and ask me to do it again or do 91 00:05:14.560 --> 00:05:17.080 a different character but all the characters that I've played, 92 00:05:17.120 --> 00:05:20.359 if you just go down my credit list, are usually 93 00:05:20.440 --> 00:05:22.000 roles that were not written for me, and I had 94 00:05:22.000 --> 00:05:24.880 to go in and convince whoever was in charge, to 95 00:05:24.960 --> 00:05:27.719 maybe consider me. I remember going into auditioning for the 96 00:05:27.800 --> 00:05:30.039 internship with Vince von Owen Wilson, and I knew that 97 00:05:30.120 --> 00:05:32.200 role was not for me, and I just had to, Like, 98 00:05:32.560 --> 00:05:36.080 my goal in life was to obviously want to book 99 00:05:36.120 --> 00:05:38.320 the role. But if you don't book the role, that's okay, 100 00:05:38.360 --> 00:05:40.400 as long as you book the room. So if you 101 00:05:40.480 --> 00:05:44.159 book the room, yeah, you book the room. You'll always 102 00:05:44.200 --> 00:05:46.240 have someone on your side. It doesn't mean that this 103 00:05:46.400 --> 00:05:48.840 project it was for you, but they'll be thinking about you. 104 00:05:48.880 --> 00:05:50.600 And so when I go in and I book the room, 105 00:05:50.760 --> 00:05:53.000 I walk away saying, I don't know if I'm going 106 00:05:53.080 --> 00:05:54.640 to get this, but I know what I did get. 107 00:05:54.839 --> 00:05:57.120 Everyone in this room enjoyed the work I put into this, 108 00:05:57.240 --> 00:06:00.279 the hardship I put into this, the character development to this, 109 00:06:00.360 --> 00:06:02.120 and that's all that matters. And as an artist, that's 110 00:06:02.160 --> 00:06:03.479 all you can do is put it out there and 111 00:06:03.520 --> 00:06:04.000 walk away. 112 00:06:04.360 --> 00:06:06.880 So you were raised in southern California, right, You actually 113 00:06:06.880 --> 00:06:10.120 were near Hollywood, but you were also very aware of 114 00:06:10.120 --> 00:06:13.400 your Mexican nests, your Mexican roots. What part of Mexico 115 00:06:13.400 --> 00:06:13.800 are you from? 116 00:06:13.839 --> 00:06:15.960 Do you know my parents are from me Track Cotton. 117 00:06:16.400 --> 00:06:18.960 My dad was from sa Uayo. I was born in 118 00:06:19.000 --> 00:06:22.400 Los Angeles. I grew up in SGV, in San Gabriel Valley. 119 00:06:23.040 --> 00:06:26.000 So in terms of distance, you were pretty close to Hollywood. 120 00:06:26.560 --> 00:06:30.039 Did you feel like the proximity to Hollywood was like 121 00:06:30.080 --> 00:06:32.960 this is going to benefit me rather Oh my god, 122 00:06:33.440 --> 00:06:36.440 I'm so far from Hollywood, but I wish I could 123 00:06:36.480 --> 00:06:36.880 get there. 124 00:06:37.720 --> 00:06:40.600 I knew that I was adjacent to Hollywood. I've always 125 00:06:40.640 --> 00:06:43.080 been like a daydreamer, so like the idea of being 126 00:06:43.120 --> 00:06:45.280 so close to something that I want to be a 127 00:06:45.360 --> 00:06:49.120 part of was really aspirational. But growing up, actually what 128 00:06:49.160 --> 00:06:50.640 I wanted to do was theater. I want to do 129 00:06:50.720 --> 00:06:53.479 musical theater. So for the longest time, TV and film 130 00:06:53.560 --> 00:06:56.280 was like something that was like WHOA, totally out of 131 00:06:56.279 --> 00:06:58.200 your reach even though you live in LA The theater 132 00:06:58.320 --> 00:07:00.800 is what I was doing at school, and I was 133 00:07:00.800 --> 00:07:02.839 a daydreamer, so I was like, yeah, I'll just start 134 00:07:02.880 --> 00:07:04.919 with Broadway. And that's how people do it. They go 135 00:07:04.960 --> 00:07:07.760 to Broadway and then they do movies and then they 136 00:07:07.800 --> 00:07:10.280 do television. That's the way up. And I was so 137 00:07:10.360 --> 00:07:13.160 focused on Broadwick that when an opportunity came for television, 138 00:07:13.440 --> 00:07:16.240 it almost slipped through my fingers because I was so 139 00:07:16.320 --> 00:07:19.920 focused on doing theater. It was a lucky coincidence. And 140 00:07:19.960 --> 00:07:22.800 then once I started doing an episode here, I did 141 00:07:23.080 --> 00:07:25.640 a short film there. It just added up before you 142 00:07:25.680 --> 00:07:27.520 knew what I was doing. Television film. 143 00:07:27.760 --> 00:07:31.080 So tell me, dear Californian, are you planning on moving 144 00:07:31.080 --> 00:07:31.680 to New York. 145 00:07:32.120 --> 00:07:34.480 I've lived in New York, I've been by coastal on 146 00:07:34.600 --> 00:07:37.480 and off, but I just always come back to California. 147 00:07:37.480 --> 00:07:40.080 And I love Los Angeles or something about it that 148 00:07:40.240 --> 00:07:43.240 I was just looking at the city skyline recently and 149 00:07:43.720 --> 00:07:48.520 it's this dried up desert by the ocean with strong winds, 150 00:07:48.960 --> 00:07:53.200 but it's still an oasis and still paradise for me. 151 00:07:53.360 --> 00:07:55.440 So I'll always love it. I love that. You know, 152 00:07:55.480 --> 00:07:59.200 we've gone through some unfortunate moments. Another fire breaking out 153 00:07:59.240 --> 00:08:01.120 right now, are burning as we speak. 154 00:08:01.160 --> 00:08:06.000 Misials have issued a mandatory evacuation order. Well, Harvey, were 155 00:08:06.120 --> 00:08:09.680 terribly upset about what happened with your home. I can't 156 00:08:09.720 --> 00:08:14.600 even imagine how one processes that amount of loss as 157 00:08:14.600 --> 00:08:17.280 an artist, as somebody who is so deeply rooted in 158 00:08:17.320 --> 00:08:20.160 your space, Can you just tell us how how is 159 00:08:20.240 --> 00:08:21.920 it all fitting into your head? 160 00:08:21.960 --> 00:08:25.400 Well, my home was damage I caught on fire, but 161 00:08:25.480 --> 00:08:28.440 it is still standing. To tell you a little backstory 162 00:08:28.440 --> 00:08:30.320 of the day that we were evacuated for the house, 163 00:08:30.360 --> 00:08:33.000 I am a first generational homeowner and I bought this 164 00:08:33.040 --> 00:08:34.640 house a year ago and I just announced it to 165 00:08:34.679 --> 00:08:36.880 my mom last Christmas. I had tricked George of thinking 166 00:08:36.960 --> 00:08:39.280 we're going to an Airbnb, and I told her the 167 00:08:39.360 --> 00:08:41.440 news that I bought this house, that it was an Airbnb, 168 00:08:42.080 --> 00:08:45.480 and she cried and I cried, and that for me, 169 00:08:45.600 --> 00:08:56.160 was one of my favorite moments to have. So it's 170 00:08:56.200 --> 00:09:02.840 important for me to let people know that I'm very lucky. 171 00:09:03.040 --> 00:09:07.440 I am very lucky. And I went out to my 172 00:09:07.440 --> 00:09:10.640 backyard the night that they evacuated us, and I asked 173 00:09:10.720 --> 00:09:16.240 ancestors to protect my house and they did. And I 174 00:09:16.320 --> 00:09:20.080 had this guilt for a second because I had asked ancestors. 175 00:09:20.080 --> 00:09:25.000 And my friend saw how distress I was about feeling 176 00:09:25.040 --> 00:09:28.520 this guilt, and she put it into a way that 177 00:09:28.559 --> 00:09:30.800 I never even thought of. She said, you can't ask 178 00:09:30.880 --> 00:09:34.480 ancestors to help you, and when they do, disrespect them 179 00:09:34.679 --> 00:09:38.160 and feel shame. And my house caught on fire. Every 180 00:09:38.200 --> 00:09:42.080 corner of my house, the fences burned and the trees 181 00:09:42.120 --> 00:09:46.679 burn but the house stays intact and the house is 182 00:09:46.720 --> 00:09:51.480 still holding. There's smoke damage, severe toxins that I can't 183 00:09:51.480 --> 00:09:53.679 live in that house for a while because it will 184 00:09:53.720 --> 00:09:58.360 be deep cleaning, throwing away of furniture, mattresses, of anything. 185 00:09:58.440 --> 00:10:00.600 So I may have to start over again with the 186 00:10:00.640 --> 00:10:03.440 interior and not able to live there for a while. 187 00:10:03.480 --> 00:10:05.440 But I did not lose my home. And there's people 188 00:10:05.440 --> 00:10:10.360 who lost everything, everything they had worked for. Generational wealth 189 00:10:10.400 --> 00:10:14.920 have been passed down to Black families, Latino families. They 190 00:10:14.960 --> 00:10:18.040 were able to buy property in this area for the 191 00:10:18.080 --> 00:10:20.880 first time southern California. And I am a part of 192 00:10:20.880 --> 00:10:24.880 that neighborhood. So we are going to rebuild. And you 193 00:10:25.240 --> 00:10:28.320 might have a tragedy like this that comes by and 194 00:10:28.440 --> 00:10:32.880 test you, but it is a resilient town and we 195 00:10:32.960 --> 00:10:34.000 will rebuild. 196 00:10:34.920 --> 00:10:38.040 Oh my god, what an't it? What an incredible thing 197 00:10:38.120 --> 00:10:40.319 to say like that is a life lesson that is 198 00:10:40.440 --> 00:10:44.400 pretty pretty incredible and profound. So thank you for sharing that. 199 00:10:44.559 --> 00:10:46.319 Harvey were wishing you all the best. 200 00:10:47.040 --> 00:10:47.400 Thank you. 201 00:10:59.120 --> 00:11:01.920 Coming up on that the USA, we continue our conversation 202 00:11:02.040 --> 00:11:05.280 with Mexican American actor Harvey g Yen. He's going to 203 00:11:05.360 --> 00:11:11.400 share his comedic influences and later he reveals his true identity. 204 00:11:12.040 --> 00:11:26.880 Stay with us, not yes, hey, we're back. Before the break, 205 00:11:27.040 --> 00:11:30.360 actor Harvey g Yen was sharing his love for Los 206 00:11:30.400 --> 00:11:33.960 Angeles and talking to us about the tragedy that hid 207 00:11:34.000 --> 00:11:37.480 his home and his community really hard during the fires. 208 00:11:38.160 --> 00:11:40.320 Now Harvey is going to let us into his life 209 00:11:40.640 --> 00:11:44.600 growing up and the comedic influences that he experienced from 210 00:11:44.679 --> 00:11:49.880 two different cultures. Let's jump back to the conversation. You 211 00:11:50.200 --> 00:11:53.599 were raised in a Mexican immigrant household in the nineties 212 00:11:53.640 --> 00:11:57.080 and the early two thousands, and so what kind of 213 00:11:57.080 --> 00:12:00.239 television were you watching, both in Spanish and in English. 214 00:12:00.320 --> 00:12:09.760 I was watching a lot of Cantine Flassy. 215 00:12:12.400 --> 00:12:19.880 Crannyany my god. 216 00:12:20.320 --> 00:12:22.840 I got a lot of my comic physical comedy from 217 00:12:22.840 --> 00:12:26.280 watching Kantine Flask with my dad. My dad love Caantine 218 00:12:26.280 --> 00:12:32.160 Flash and then I would watch I Love Lucy. Yes, 219 00:12:32.240 --> 00:12:33.679 We're borrow me a Begemine. 220 00:12:33.720 --> 00:12:37.040 You can spoon your way all. It's so tasty too, 221 00:12:37.880 --> 00:12:39.320 tastes like candy. 222 00:12:39.480 --> 00:12:45.839 Honest, So I would be like, it's the same thing. 223 00:12:45.880 --> 00:12:47.960 It's if it's one's in Spanish and one's in English, 224 00:12:48.000 --> 00:12:49.680 but the comedy is there and these two people are 225 00:12:49.760 --> 00:12:52.520 comic genius. So growing up, a lot of my influence 226 00:12:52.640 --> 00:12:56.320 was Lucio Ball and was Skantine Flash. So I was 227 00:12:56.559 --> 00:13:00.920 very much this kid who was Mexican but also American 228 00:13:01.240 --> 00:13:03.760 and those two cultures intertwined. And so watching both of 229 00:13:03.800 --> 00:13:06.560 those at my home on a daily like after school 230 00:13:06.960 --> 00:13:08.920 movies with my dad on the weekend, used to like 231 00:13:08.960 --> 00:13:11.760 all the Maria feliks like movies, like, used to watch 232 00:13:11.800 --> 00:13:12.560 all of those classes. 233 00:13:12.559 --> 00:13:16.640 So you are like, seriously Mexican, yeah twisted? 234 00:13:16.800 --> 00:13:17.360 I am. 235 00:13:20.040 --> 00:13:23.920 So Harvey, did you feel like as a weird Mexican 236 00:13:23.960 --> 00:13:26.120 young man and boy, did you feel like there was 237 00:13:26.160 --> 00:13:28.320 space for you or were you still working that out 238 00:13:28.360 --> 00:13:31.040 as you were watching Canting Pleas and Lucille Ball. 239 00:13:31.480 --> 00:13:34.760 You know, growing up Mexican is great and also has 240 00:13:35.240 --> 00:13:38.240 some of the bad traditional values that are bestowed upon men, 241 00:13:38.320 --> 00:13:41.280 which is like the machismo culture and how you see 242 00:13:41.320 --> 00:13:43.880 a man act like a man and a man is 243 00:13:43.920 --> 00:13:46.240 supposed to be a man, and if they see any 244 00:13:46.320 --> 00:13:49.280 kind of softness in a boy, it needs to be addressed. 245 00:13:49.400 --> 00:13:52.240 I remember being at a kid's birthday party in a 246 00:13:52.280 --> 00:13:57.559 park and someone making a comment you know, you know, 247 00:13:57.960 --> 00:13:59.760 which is the equivalent of the f slur. 248 00:14:00.280 --> 00:14:04.600 Yeah, that's a very very hard and as your child 249 00:14:04.640 --> 00:14:07.160 growing up, where you're just living your life and dancing 250 00:14:07.200 --> 00:14:09.560 in the grass and just having the best time, and 251 00:14:09.640 --> 00:14:12.959 to hear someone say to you like, don't do that, 252 00:14:13.679 --> 00:14:15.000 don't be that. 253 00:14:15.000 --> 00:14:18.079 That's not good. You don't want to be that, and 254 00:14:18.120 --> 00:14:20.720 you as a child saying what's not good? What did 255 00:14:20.800 --> 00:14:21.080 I do? 256 00:14:21.320 --> 00:14:22.640 So you had to ask your mom? 257 00:14:22.960 --> 00:14:26.000 Yeah, I remember when I was little. I actually years 258 00:14:26.080 --> 00:14:29.400 later I realized what happened. I'd been gay bashed. I 259 00:14:29.480 --> 00:14:32.600 went to play with my neighbors at my last place 260 00:14:32.760 --> 00:14:35.000 in Mexico, and I brought my Tongua truck because I 261 00:14:35.120 --> 00:14:37.000 played Tonka trucks and I play with like dolls. I 262 00:14:37.000 --> 00:14:39.120 play with both of those, and I brought my truck 263 00:14:39.200 --> 00:14:41.440 full of dolls. I was like, do you guys want 264 00:14:41.480 --> 00:14:44.000 to play with my Tongua And this is the Tonka trucks, 265 00:14:44.040 --> 00:14:45.840 the metal ones, the heavy ones. So I'd drag this 266 00:14:45.880 --> 00:14:47.640 big Tonga truck with the dolls and top no, you 267 00:14:47.680 --> 00:14:49.160 guys want to play. And I remember one of the 268 00:14:49.200 --> 00:14:51.360 kids saying, no, we can't play with you, and I 269 00:14:51.400 --> 00:14:54.160 was like why because my brother says it is Mariposa 270 00:14:55.040 --> 00:14:57.800 and I was like, I'm a butterfly, and I was like, 271 00:14:57.840 --> 00:15:00.000 what is that? What? And I didn't know at the time, 272 00:15:00.160 --> 00:15:01.680 because I didn't know I'm a child. That was a 273 00:15:01.720 --> 00:15:05.840 negative connotation about someone who is light on their loafers, 274 00:15:06.160 --> 00:15:08.520 or any other phrase that you've heard throughout history that 275 00:15:08.520 --> 00:15:12.120 has been given to kids, to young adults, to grown 276 00:15:12.240 --> 00:15:15.600 men that we've been called for centuries, just because it 277 00:15:15.600 --> 00:15:18.560 makes the other person feel that they're entitled to and 278 00:15:18.680 --> 00:15:21.720 to put you down. So I didn't know what that meant. 279 00:15:21.760 --> 00:15:25.840 So as I walked away with my toys, I got 280 00:15:25.880 --> 00:15:27.120 Tyria and I was like, why do they want to 281 00:15:27.120 --> 00:15:30.040 play with you? Anyway, I walked away, they started chanting 282 00:15:30.080 --> 00:15:33.840 it Mariposa and they grabbed some pebbles off the floor. 283 00:15:34.080 --> 00:15:37.120 And as I'm walking back to my Grandma's house, I 284 00:15:37.280 --> 00:15:40.280 felt something fly by my ear and I didn't know 285 00:15:40.440 --> 00:15:42.880 and then I looked back and a rock just hit 286 00:15:42.920 --> 00:15:45.000 my and I still have that scar on my eyebrow. 287 00:15:45.880 --> 00:15:46.800 Oh my god. 288 00:15:47.240 --> 00:15:50.480 It was my first bashing when I was a kid, 289 00:15:50.560 --> 00:15:54.920 and I didn't know why. I was about six years old, 290 00:15:55.240 --> 00:15:57.200 being six years old and not knowing that you've just 291 00:15:57.200 --> 00:16:01.040 been bashed because of what a pairent everyone else knows 292 00:16:01.080 --> 00:16:03.840 you are, except you don't know yourself because you're a 293 00:16:03.920 --> 00:16:07.120 kid and you're just being yourself and you don't know 294 00:16:07.160 --> 00:16:10.120 that this offends anyone so much that they have to 295 00:16:10.120 --> 00:16:13.800 take it upon themselves to tear you down. So for me, 296 00:16:14.720 --> 00:16:17.080 that was the beginning. I learned that there was something 297 00:16:17.080 --> 00:16:22.360 different about me that people were obviously scared of offended by. 298 00:16:22.560 --> 00:16:24.680 I didn't know what that was. And I ran home 299 00:16:24.800 --> 00:16:26.680 and I was crying and covered in blood and dirt, 300 00:16:26.720 --> 00:16:30.760 and my mom said, I was like, they call me Mariposa? 301 00:16:31.160 --> 00:16:33.160 Is why are they call you Mariposa? And she looked 302 00:16:33.160 --> 00:16:35.680 at me, and I knew then that my mother knew 303 00:16:36.560 --> 00:16:47.360 what all of this men. And all she said was like, like, 304 00:16:47.440 --> 00:16:49.440 it's like, who cares if they call you a butterfly? 305 00:16:49.520 --> 00:16:51.480 Because butterflies are beautiful and they get to fly far 306 00:16:51.560 --> 00:16:53.680 away places. 307 00:16:54.720 --> 00:16:57.200 And oh my god, your mom is amazing. 308 00:16:57.640 --> 00:17:00.000 Yeah, And so it was just like that turnaround from 309 00:17:00.080 --> 00:17:03.120 me of like I still knew something was different about me. 310 00:17:03.320 --> 00:17:05.240 But for the time being, that's all I needed to 311 00:17:05.280 --> 00:17:08.520 know to give me reassurance that there was nothing wrong 312 00:17:08.560 --> 00:17:08.760 with me. 313 00:17:10.640 --> 00:17:13.639 Hearby, Wow, you made me all emotional. 314 00:17:14.400 --> 00:17:15.800 You're asking the questions you're. 315 00:17:18.000 --> 00:17:21.720 In the end. I mean, you're a star on television. 316 00:17:21.880 --> 00:17:24.120 So what are those friends and neighbors, what are they 317 00:17:24.160 --> 00:17:24.760 saying to you? 318 00:17:24.920 --> 00:17:27.760 Now? Well, it's funny now, like the people I've had, 319 00:17:27.760 --> 00:17:32.160 people who were definitely bullies reach out and like nothing happened, 320 00:17:32.200 --> 00:17:35.320 like none of their negative words had any damage. I 321 00:17:35.359 --> 00:17:37.600 called them out on it, like I said, I'm sorry, 322 00:17:37.600 --> 00:17:40.200 aren't you the same person who did A B and C? 323 00:17:40.400 --> 00:17:43.800 And they're like, yes, oh my god, did I do that? Oh? 324 00:17:43.840 --> 00:17:46.399 And then I get it. People grow and they evolve 325 00:17:46.480 --> 00:17:49.360 and they make mistakes and we learn. But I make 326 00:17:49.400 --> 00:17:52.320 the choice to who I surround myself with and who 327 00:17:52.600 --> 00:17:55.520 I share energy with. And people trying to sneak in 328 00:17:55.600 --> 00:17:57.560 back into a life that they have not been a 329 00:17:57.600 --> 00:18:00.840 part of for years and years, like it's kind of 330 00:18:00.960 --> 00:18:03.479 very telling on them, And I think a little bit 331 00:18:03.520 --> 00:18:05.760 of like yeah, like it's like they reached out to me, 332 00:18:05.840 --> 00:18:07.520 found me, found a way to get a hold of 333 00:18:07.520 --> 00:18:09.800 me and said remember me, remember me, It's like, I 334 00:18:09.880 --> 00:18:12.320 haven't think about you because you're that part of my 335 00:18:12.359 --> 00:18:16.280 life is back then, and I don't look back if 336 00:18:16.280 --> 00:18:19.320 I look forward. So if you keep looking back, you're 337 00:18:19.359 --> 00:18:22.199 going to miss what's right in front of you. 338 00:18:22.200 --> 00:18:25.000 You know what, You're giving us some life lessons. Okay, 339 00:18:25.040 --> 00:18:28.520 all right? So in Companion, it's in the near future, 340 00:18:28.840 --> 00:18:33.080 kind of scarily where you can rent a highly sophisticated 341 00:18:33.760 --> 00:18:38.280 sex robot. The days of you controlling me are over. 342 00:18:42.080 --> 00:18:43.880 Did you, Joe break your sex book? 343 00:18:47.160 --> 00:18:49.400 Okay? I got to tell you this totally freaks me out. 344 00:18:49.880 --> 00:18:51.560 But let me ask you this, So, what do you 345 00:18:51.680 --> 00:18:57.200 think that this film actually says about men and love? 346 00:18:59.600 --> 00:19:03.880 I think the movie shows the relationship that men have 347 00:19:04.119 --> 00:19:07.000 with companions, with a partner, whether it's human or not, 348 00:19:07.560 --> 00:19:11.560 and shows the loneliness and the epidemic that's happening where 349 00:19:11.760 --> 00:19:14.120 men feel the neat that they have to purchase a companion. 350 00:19:14.480 --> 00:19:15.960 When I was reading the script, one of the first 351 00:19:16.000 --> 00:19:18.480 lines that popped up to me was jack Quade's character 352 00:19:18.880 --> 00:19:20.840 and the way that he talked to Iris. And one 353 00:19:20.880 --> 00:19:23.120 of the scenes after they've been intimated, they're in bed 354 00:19:23.359 --> 00:19:25.960 and she's gushing about how much she loves him and whatnot, 355 00:19:26.280 --> 00:19:28.439 and he's just fed up and he just goes Iris 356 00:19:28.480 --> 00:19:32.200 go to bed and just like talks to her very directly, 357 00:19:32.240 --> 00:19:35.159 and unbeknownst to me that far in the script, I 358 00:19:35.320 --> 00:19:38.480 had no idea what the premise of the movie was yet, 359 00:19:38.840 --> 00:19:41.480 and that was very like jolting to me, and it 360 00:19:41.640 --> 00:19:44.119 made realized, is this a norm the mayvie I'm not 361 00:19:44.680 --> 00:19:46.680 used to? But then as you read the script, you 362 00:19:46.720 --> 00:19:49.200 find out why he was talking to her like that, 363 00:19:49.359 --> 00:19:52.440 And that's what's a great question for society of like 364 00:19:52.960 --> 00:19:55.080 why would it be okay to talk to if that's 365 00:19:55.080 --> 00:19:58.000 a companion, whether it's flesh, skin and human or robotic. 366 00:19:58.359 --> 00:20:00.119 Why is it okay to talk to partners like that? 367 00:20:00.240 --> 00:20:03.359 And why is the dynamic of power not leveled? And 368 00:20:03.560 --> 00:20:05.840 when do we draw the line when it comes to technology, 369 00:20:06.040 --> 00:20:08.520 Like where is enough? We're losing human connection and how 370 00:20:08.560 --> 00:20:10.160 to connect with each other. So I think this movie 371 00:20:10.240 --> 00:20:12.240 is really well written and Drew who's the director and writer, 372 00:20:12.320 --> 00:20:13.240 did a fantastic job. 373 00:20:13.800 --> 00:20:17.160 I love this. Where did you get that let's gunness? 374 00:20:18.280 --> 00:20:20.480 That's gunnessnessness? 375 00:20:20.640 --> 00:20:24.199 I think I've always I'm a child of my parents 376 00:20:24.240 --> 00:20:28.000 who were hard workers, multiple jobs, just to make the 377 00:20:28.119 --> 00:20:31.159 dream in America come true. I think that in this 378 00:20:31.320 --> 00:20:33.760 industry you have to have talent, and if you're fortunate 379 00:20:33.840 --> 00:20:36.879 enough to have talent and work on your talent and 380 00:20:36.920 --> 00:20:40.280 get trained and whatnot, there's the other thing that people 381 00:20:40.400 --> 00:20:42.480 need to have. And I think that being part of 382 00:20:42.600 --> 00:20:46.360 a Mexican family, I think it's kind of naturally bestowed 383 00:20:46.440 --> 00:20:49.560 upon us, and that's tenacity, the other tea. You might 384 00:20:49.600 --> 00:20:52.560 not have talent. You might have talent, but tenacity is 385 00:20:52.640 --> 00:20:55.640 something that I think is bestowed upon us and how 386 00:20:55.680 --> 00:21:02.200 we're survivors and las tenacity is something that you get 387 00:21:02.280 --> 00:21:04.400 on it or you have no one else to blame 388 00:21:04.440 --> 00:21:07.600 by yourself. Can't blame you know yourself for being in 389 00:21:07.640 --> 00:21:09.439 a situation. If you don't like situation you're in, then 390 00:21:09.440 --> 00:21:11.280 get out of it. If you don't like the way 391 00:21:11.359 --> 00:21:14.280 your life's going, then change it. Get that tenacity and 392 00:21:14.359 --> 00:21:14.800 get going. 393 00:21:15.720 --> 00:21:17.879 When you know what, Harvey. So I've been calling you 394 00:21:17.960 --> 00:21:21.359 Harvey because that's the way that everybody knows you. But 395 00:21:21.480 --> 00:21:23.600 when we were doing the prep, my team said, you know, 396 00:21:24.320 --> 00:21:26.879 your name is actually Haavier. Like you grew up as Kavier, 397 00:21:26.960 --> 00:21:27.600 I'm still Havier. 398 00:21:28.119 --> 00:21:30.439 So when I grew up. One of my teachers couldn't 399 00:21:30.440 --> 00:21:34.120 say Javier, and so she's said Havey, Hovey, and Haave 400 00:21:34.359 --> 00:21:36.000 was kind of the nickname, which is fine because that's 401 00:21:36.000 --> 00:21:37.840