I Can Feel The Beat, The Bad Bunny Effect, Sneakerheads and Loving GOD is Cool con Jearnest Corchado
February 6, 2025 • 44 mins
In this episode we sit down with the incredibly multi-talented Jearnest Corchado to talk about her journey from Puerto Rico to Hollywood. At just 17, she left everything behind to chase her acting dreams in California —now, she’s starring in major roles, including the highly anticipated Lisa Lisa biopic 'Can You Feel the Beat.'
Jearnest opens up about making it in the industry, the power of faith and manifestation, and why she believes it’s cool to love God. She also dives into the impact of Bad Bunny on Puerto Rican culture, the harsh reality of gentrification on the island, and what it was like landing roles on Blacklist, Sneakerheads, and Little America.
Plus, we get into family, her music career, and what’s next for this rising star.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Yes, Come Again a podcast by Honey.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
German and Let's Get It journis Gorchado. I am so
happy to see you today. How excited do you feel?
Speaker 3 (00:16):
I'm very excited.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
We're here in New York.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Last night was the premiere of your new movie Talk
to Me. Can you feel the beat?
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Can you feel the beat? Yes?
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Oh? You had to sing it?
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Yeah, I'm so excited.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
I'm there to see you guys sing it like Lisa,
right right right.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
I feel very excited. I definitely feel like I'm feeling
the beat for sure. I yesterday I got to watch
it with the entire cast and with friends and family,
and it was just a beautiful experience to see myself
on the screen. And this was a very difficult role.
You know, it was a very challenging.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
I bet you it was. You know why, because the
person you're playing is right in front of your face.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Yes, and a living She's a living icon. You don't
get to play living icons every day, you know.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
And you know it's one thing portraying a fictional character.
You add your little sass song here and there, you
do your own mannerisms. How long did you have to
study Lisa Lisa before you felt comfortable going into that role.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Well, to be honest, I didn't get up much time.
We only had three weeks to prepare pro pro. I
got offered the role like three weeks before filming, and
so I studied as much as I could.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
I how did you study? Where did you look? Well?
Speaker 3 (01:29):
I started first with YouTube and like watching as many
interviews as I could, and like the music videos and
kind of like trying to you know, for the for
the audition, I had to do I wonder if I
take you home clip? So I basically had to I
try to do the music video myself, kind of like
try to do every little like gesture and kind of
like get a sense of how she she was, you know,
(01:50):
how she moved, how she moved the way that. And
then as you as I kept discovering her, I realized
that I've been saying this, She's one of the toughest
people I know, but she's also this sweetest person I know.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Same here.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
So so for me it was really important. You know,
we only get a chance to tell her story in
one hour and thirty minutes. To me, it was very
important to show all of those nuances as a person,
like all those great areas that Lisa, Lisa have like
all the things that make her Lisa not only the artist,
but the human. So I did that. I did a
(02:24):
lot of I searched a lot on Google and then
talking to her.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
But then again, she was here. I was just there.
I was just gonna say that you she was here,
you could call her, you could ask her question.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Was there every single day? And so it was really
cool that I got to do that because of course
I was so nervous, but to get her blessing every
single day gave me the reassurance that I needed, you know.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
And it's all crazy. She was sitting in that same
exact seat and she told me she like, I have somebody.
She's amazing, you know, I had such a difficult times.
People are so amazing. And she wouldn't tell me who
it was. And fast forward like a couple of months later,
I was like, yay, look who got it? Because I've
been following you for a while. I discovered you on
sneaker Head really and I was just like, yo, she
is so dope and you just came off so genuine
(03:06):
and it just felt so real, like as a sneakerhead
and you know, an inner City Girl. It just felt
like you nail that role.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Thank you, thank you. Actually, you know, it's so funny
because Sneakerheads, I got that part two days before I
had to be on set.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 3 (03:20):
I had two days before they I think they had
someone and maybe, like I don't know what happened, like
scheduling problems, whatever, it worked out for you. Yeah, no,
thank you. Thank you to that girl that didn't make it,
I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
I hope you're okay.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
But I got that part two days before I had
to be on set. I was really nervous also because
we had to shoot that in less than a month.
We had to shoot six episodes, and we were doing
it in Fairfax and you know, all over It.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Felt really chaotic, like it just felt like you guys
were running everywhere like it was.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
It was. It was very chaotic. But I had a
really good team and any any Clements, who's a wonderful actor, producer, director.
He helped me a lot, you know, and thanks to him.
Actually i'm here now because in that show because Miss
Tracy Twinkiebird, she the producer of this film, saw me
on Sneakerheads, and.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
I saw you on Sneakerheads.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Right, it's thanks to that. I'm here.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Do you feel like you have a particular project that
pushed you in the forefront that you're like, now people
know who I am.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
I would say Sneakerheads did that for me. Okay, absolutely.
It was the you know, it was on Netflix. It
was top four for a couple of weeks.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Yeah, I remember, it was super popular. I felt like
everybody here at iHeart and at Power we were all
watching it.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
That's amazing. So I was in the island. I didn't
get to Puerto Rico. Yeah, I was in Puerto Rico,
so I didn't get And it was in the pandemic.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Too, so you didn't feel it, didn't feel it the
same way the buzz, right, the buzz, But I felt
it on Instagram. You know.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
I definitely got more followers because of the show. And
it's the show that people are like, oh my god,
you're the girl from Sneakerheads. It's definitely that that show
that made me feel seen.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
That's so dope because it was a good show and
we loved it. You said you you were in Puerto Rico. Yes,
were you born and raised in Puerto Rico?
Speaker 3 (05:01):
I was born and raised.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
So how'd you end up over here doing movies? You
gotta give me, you gotta give me the inside story.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
I'll tell you everything. So, you know, I think that's
one of the reasons I loved Lisa and her story.
It's because I saw myself and her identified I completely.
I was like, oh my god, I I'm Lisa. I'm
like me and me Lisa. You know, there's a scene
in the film where she tells her brother, Hey, Elalia, like,
I don't want to live and die in this neighborhood
and never.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Be nothing, and you want to die on your block.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Yes. And so for me, like ever since I was
very little, I you know, I I watched novelas growing
up and I would do mam yeah, And so I
I would see girls like Dana, Paola and Belinda who
were like Mexican stars doing novelas and also being amazing
(05:50):
musicians on the side. So I wanted that type of
career Italia exactly. So for me, it was like, oh
wait then, to me, I didn't see a difference between
acting and singing. To me, I saw it like as
a as a as.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
A whole, it comes all together.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Yes, And so I remember going to one of the
concerts I think it was Berlin DA's concert, and I
told my mom I want to be I want to
be like her. I want to be singing in concerts
and doing novellas.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Right, yes, She's like, classes, yeah, yeah, so I so
I are you an only daughter?
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Well the only girl, okay, the only girl. And then
I have two other brothers. They don't matter, they don't
they don't matter. They are a big part of the equation.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
And the reason I ask you is because you know,
sometimes when a mom makes a child a star, it
takes so much out of them. I just watched the
play on Broadway this week. It's called Gypsy and it
is It's about a stage mom and her obsession to
make her child a star, and it shows how she
never did anything with her life, stuck on making her
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daughter a star.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Well, to me, I feel like this was a decision
that my mom made for me. It was something that
I begged her to do.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
She did it for you.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Yes, so godless, I definitely, I definitely I'm gonna cry.
She's right here thanks to her.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
But you didn't absorb your mom one hundred percent. Your
brother's got some of your mom too, right.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Absolutely, no, I think I think I did a good job.
I think they they got my mom. I think I
they can't say.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
That's the only reason I bring it up because sometimes
you know, only child doesn't matter, you know, mom one
just to know she she gave, she.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Gave love to all of them. She never made us
feel like any of us mattered more. Everybody got even
though we joke around. We have a we have now
an eleven year old brother.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Oh she has a baby.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Yeah, yeah, that happened after seventeen years. So I was
leaving to LA at seventeen, right, I was going to
pursue my dreams in Hollywood. No by myself.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
No, No, no journeys.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
You're lying right, No, No, I left to LA.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
She said, those.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Well they were the thing is like my parents, somebody
waiting for you in La.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
No.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
They believed in education. So they were like, okay, listen,
you can go to LA, but you need to go
to college.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Latin parents don't play that.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
So I was like, okay, fine, I will go to
cal STADLA. And I went to Cali State, LA nice,
and I did theater. I studied acting, and then I
did film because after a while I was like, Okay,
I got the acting down. I want to understand the business.
I want to understand how to produce. I want to
know I love filmmaking, and so I dined the making
(08:31):
behind the cameras, and so I learned everything that had
to do with how to make a film. And at
the same time, I always say that I was Hannah
Montana because I was able to, like go to college,
but go to auditions in between.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
You know, how did you balance this? I know college
students that are like I can't even have a job
for ten hours a week, and here you are balancing
all that and without your parents there? Yeah, how did
you stay on the straight arrow?
Speaker 3 (08:53):
You know, it's funny because you know, I think this
is something that i've It's very about me. Like even indergarden.
When my parents left me the first time in kindergarten,
I was really happy. I wasn't one of those kids
that cried.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Peace peace, I'm about to do.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
I'm gonna chill with these kids. And that's literally the
same energy I had when I got dropped in LA.
You know, I never cried, I never felt homesick. I
felt on the contrary, I felt like I belonged there.
I belonged in LA and I was finally going to
start my life. And yeah, so I've I've always been
(09:30):
a good student. I've always been kind of like, you know,
someone that my values are very important to me. My
parents have been amazing, my family, my grandparents, So it
wasn't hard for me to stay on track because I've
just loved this so much and I've been so focused
on making my dreams come true.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
So you had a mission, you had the dream purpose,
and then you also had your parents back home that
you were like, I can't disappoint them.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Absolutely no, no, And and you know I had angels
too along the way.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
You know I had, you must have because it'd be
grown ass women that will go to LA and things
just go wrong.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Completely actually one So it's so funny. I believe in
the power of manifestation, and I remember writing a list
of things that I wanted to accomplish in five years.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Did you watch The Secret?
Speaker 3 (10:18):
I haven't. I don't know when I've learned the power
of manifestation.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
So that's what it's all about.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
It. Yeah, so I wrote in a list. I was like, okay,
in the next five years because I've as I always
heard that it was going to take time for me
to become something. So I was already had. I was
already prepared mentally for it to take me time. And
I wrote a list and I said, Okay, I want
to take acting classes, dancing classes. I want to have
an agent and a manager in the next five years.
(10:44):
And if I don't do it in the next five years,
I'm gonna go to Spain and I'm going to try
to try it over there. It's Fanya and fin Yah glad,
because that's the new Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
You know. I love those Netflix shows from Spain. They've
been top tier.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Oh my god, Hollywood has some competition right there, so
you're in house. So I so I arrived and in
less than a month, I was taking acting classes, dancing classes.
I had a manager and an agent.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
No better, better forget the angels. That's the big man God. Okay.
Because I speak to a lot of people, actors, actresses,
it takes some years, you know, to even get their
footing together where they feel like, Okay, I'm an actor.
And you know, I follow you on Instagram and you
shared a clip that you said, let's normalize talking about God. Yeah,
(11:32):
he's everything. God is we're here me and you are
here only because of God.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
And thank you so much for saying that, because even
you know, yesterday and when I got the call that
I was going to come here, I was like, Oh,
that's God, and I've I've just even today I was
going to post and I was going to write, God,
take me wherever you want me to go, Amen, because
and and that's something that I've always been very spiritual,
but last year I reconnected in a different level to
(12:00):
God and I realized, Wow, like I just when I
have you by my side, everything is possible. I don't
need anyone but you.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
And you made me so proud because I feel like
a lot of people are connected to God, but they
feel like it's not cool to put it out there,
Like how can you may not feel cool to have
Jesus in your life or to go to church, Like
if I go to church, I post it, just like
if I went to a movie premiere at church, it's
super cool. And I was like, Wow, she's so dope,
because it's something I think about all the time. And
I'm like, why do people not talk about God? Why
(12:32):
do people not think it's cool to go to church?
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Well, and It's a reflection of the society that we
live in today, and I think that everyone is trying
to be so cool for what, you know, for what
And even even in my journey with the music, because
I've been doing music as well, and that's something that
happened later on in my life. I had a big
struggle and an identity crisis because I was like, why
am I Like, what's gonna be the purpose? Right? What
(12:56):
am I gonna say? Because even with music, you have
a void as well.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
And I feel like music, you know, film is very important,
but music is something that we revisit a lot and
we can make connections with music heels. Yeah, like people
have albums, people have artists that they're like, this artist
pulled me out of depression, and this artist I was
going to commit suicide and I heard this song and
(13:22):
it stopped me. So music to me is even more
of a connection than film or movies are super important,
but music that's different. Let's when did you decide you
wanted to do music? Since to get us at Chiquita?
Speaker 3 (13:35):
But on my mom this is a joke. I always say, well,
can you feel the beat? And all the eighties definitely
and eighties it was like eighties freestyle. Yeah, oh my god.
She was yes, absolutely, absolutely, and SA was always like, so,
(13:58):
I've listened to everything. I don't have any I don't
discriminate with music. When did I start? So I always
have this joke around. I always tell people that my
mom it was a lot, you know, like.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Me, mama.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
She she had to take me to acting classes every
you know, saturdays. You know what.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
I love this because sometimes, you know, we're back in
the Islands and we prioritize so much like studies, like Denig,
I don't ever see that gay, you know, in like
the fact that she took time out to you know,
cultivate your creativity. Her for it, I.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Wouldn't have been able to thank you, thank you, no, honestly, Yeah,
thanks to her, I'm here and so. But but it's
so funny because she was going going crazy having to
take me to all these classes and and then like
it was a lot, right, My mom was a teacher,
so she had to she was she had all these kids,
(14:55):
take care of kids, and then she had you and
yours exactly, and then she had to go back I'm
at three p m. To also help my brother and
me to study and then you know, like so it
was a lot, and so the singing part it was
going to be another addition. She was like, erness like
I can do everything, you know, like stick to acting
for now we can. And I'm you know, I'm grateful
(15:19):
that I did because it's the one thing, Like acting
was my one thing for so long. Once I nailed it,
I think that after a little bit before sneaker Heads,
I was.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Like, oh, I want to sing La Mosica.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Yeah, I was, I want to sing and number one day.
(15:55):
I never the voice was always like I I never
felt like I had the voice.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Okay, it was did you hear yourselfie? You're like, okay,
this is my work.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
It wasn't until I started listening to Bad Bunny.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Here was a song.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Bang Hey, and I was like, this guy doesn't sing
that much.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Really you need to can do it.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
I can do I was like, if he can do it,
I can do it.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
But if he can do it, I can do it.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
So and I've always written, so I would write music.
I would always like the first song that I did
right now, I'm like a little raspee. But it's like Nina,
well Na, Melissa and Lael, this is me at seven
years old, like writing the song like haw Manina when
I you know.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
You were acting, you were singing.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
It was a lot. It was a lot. But it's
funny because I always thought that the acting was my
main thing, and it wasn't until I went back home
in twenty twenty because of the pandemic and I was
looking at like little things from high school whatever. I
had a like a like a book that and in
one of them, I had something that said what do
(17:09):
you want to be when you grow up?
Speaker 2 (17:11):
And I didn't put act, actress.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Celebrity, Shakira chaquiramo bam. And that made sense because Shakira
has always been like my biggest inspiration as a as
a musician. See so Shakira but am fue and I
would belly dance like her at fifteen, I would. I
would try to imitate her as much as I could,
(17:36):
so Chaquira for in Spiro to pursue this. And then
when I was seeing this new wave of Reeton, that's
a little happier, that's a little like like I said it,
Tamo biang, Tamo biang. It's it's it's urban world. It's
not Reton only, but like trap everything was changing and
it became a little bit more positive. And also you
have to understand, like, and you know this, as a
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young girl listening to Reeton, I only had Evy Queen
that see, So I didn't think that I was gonna
be able to be a Redon artist.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
You know, it's crazy that you say that. I saw
her in Carnegie Polled a couple of months ago, and
that place was like standing ovation for her because what
she's been able to do in the past, like twenty
years solely that Black Clado.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Like, I don't I remember, it's so too yeah, and
so I never thought to me, it was always like, Okay, Shakira,
but that's pop, you know. And so in my own career,
I've been having to figure out like, Okay, I do regaeton,
but I like pop, so I don't like to to
tie myself down to any genre.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Yeah. I was listening to your music and I was like,
I can't pinpoint it because you have you know, it's
like the latest song you put out. It felt kind
of like a ballad, but then some of it felt
like reggaeton. I was just like, I wonder if she's
gonna pick a genre? Are you just gonna stay like
open format.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
I think open format. I think I would always say
like pop ur would.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Be the I love, I love the way with it. Yeah,
and now that we're talking about let's talk about Bad
Bunny album?
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Did did you see them on?
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Did you see him on? Fallon?
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Like?
Speaker 2 (19:12):
How amazing was that?
Speaker 3 (19:14):
I always but that's that's about Bunny, And I think
I've been very inspired by him because he's done it
his own way, and I think by him, like even
in his way, I learned. I learned so much by
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every artist I listened to, But I really like I
feel very connected to his music and the way that
he writes things, even as a as a poet, right,
so I consider myself like deep down like as a poet.
I love poetry, and he's so when you me right,
when you analyze his his way of storytelling, I feel
very compelled by it. And even you know the I
(19:59):
only have seven songs out, I'm so excited for people.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
To accounted them.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
Yeah, it was just it was a seven.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Yeah, I hope it is, but I want feature see.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
It's act the But I I really I'm very excited
for people to get to discover the new songs that
I'm going to be coming out with because a lot
of them get to explore my soul more and I'm
I'm very excited about that. I as much as I
want to, I want to do it all. I want
to do commercial music, and I want and I want
people to dance, but I also want to be able
to to get people to connect with my soul as well.
(20:31):
And I always talk about this. I don't know if
I've actually said this publicly, but to me, i'm I
love the theory of like being a badass and the
and the Buddha. That's a book, the badast in the Buddha,
Buddha and the Badass, the buddh and the Badast, and
I think that's me, you know, as a human. We
all get to be Buddhas, and we get to be badass,
we get to be street all about the humanness, but
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we're very spiritual as well, and so I would love
with my music to bring both things, to bring the
baddestness in me and the street and the human, but
also the spiritual. I would love to figure out how
to do that.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
You're gonna make it happen, you know, because it's the
core of who you are. It's your essence, it's it's
your mission like that, that's what you want to do.
Where are you at with music right now?
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Well, we're gonna be dropping a single this later this month.
We're in February, right later this month. I actually did
a song in English. We did a couple of songs
in English, and one of them is inspired by Lisa. Lisa,
I wonder if I take you home really song? Yes,
I would love for you to listen it.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
I need to once we're not on once, we're not
on the micro.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Yes, yes, but it's it's I'm very excited. It's it's
something that I'm exploring the English division of film, yeah,
of music. You know, I would love to do both.
I would love to do Uh do I lingual music?
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Why are you just exploring it now? Like what prompted
you to start with Spanish music? It was it you
just felt more connected as as a wood cio.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
I think also I started in well, my first song
that I ever did was in La joking around with friends.
For some reason, I always connected with musician friends and
I would go to the studio and I would be like,
oh my god, there's they're having so much fun. I
have as an actors. You have to study so many lines,
and it's like some sometimes it's very stressful.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Well, I can only imagine.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
You have to study a lot.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
How do you remember all of this? I've always questioned this,
like especially when I go to Broadway. Yeah, they've been
going for two hours. General, how do you How do
you remember all this? Or how does it work with film?
Are you fed the lines? Do you stop? Do you go?
Speaker 3 (22:36):
My biggest technique, and this is something that I've realized
with time mine is I like to study the night
before because I don't know. I believe that my subconscious
is studying it while I sleep. So I like to
read the lines, study them I have.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
I feel like I've heard this before from one of
the greats.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Oh really, Well, I don't know, but that's what that is.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
You're theoring is true.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Yeah, So I like to study it, read it a
couple of times, hopefully you know, a little bit more
than ten times, and and then I go to sleep
and I let my subconscious just keep working on it,
and then by the next morning I know it all.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
And then you show up on setting and you just
know all this stuff.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
And I know it all, and I also have a
coach who taught me this other memory like memorization technique
tool technique, which is like always asking questions, like, for example,
if I'm saying, oh, I'm here at the radio talking
to Honey German, so you start asking questions like where
are you at the radio doing what? And so it's
(23:38):
it's like kind of like a question and answer type
of things. So you start kind of like a brain
muscle ex brain muscle. Yeah we got it.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Yeah now.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
See, Oh my god, it was so good. I feel
like Lasance every years, every year is going to get
crazier and crazier.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
It was like a J Puerto Rico. You No, you
go your Puerto Rico. On the hand, I'm like, get
hit soon. No, you're telling my car. I'm like car
trying to get a car. He's like need the Malow momentum,
Like it's just I'm okay weekend. They're like.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Oh yeah, say bro, Press, I'm like you gotta come
prepare and you gotta you gotta be.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Like it you joy ready.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
You should get an Airbnb or something in in the
old some one that I would next time I want
to stay there.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
You know what it felt like New Orleans. That's that's
what That's the only thing I can equate it to.
I was like, I feel like I'm a Mardi grab
but all the Briquas. My god, I'm not saying you
at the album you know that always listen Yeah, old
be that No Tocato must not.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
Bad Bunny has that effect on the island. Like, I
don't think people understand until they're in the island. We
celebrate that man in ways that I've never seen.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
I thought it was because the album dropped like that.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
No, no, no, we will listen to that album until December.
Like that's just how it is. Like the love that
people have for Bad Bunny and the island well and
the rest of the world. But just like that love
that people have in the island is so beautiful to see.
And wow me as an artist, I'm like, I hope
I get it even like half of that, because wow,
Puerto Rico, first of all, well he's an.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
International superstar like the one that he redid that. I
was like, I was like, no offense, I love you,
Puerto Rico.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
I don't know what it is about about Bunny in
bars and that, and but I don't see thief was
the same way the album.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
That was amazing that was during the pandemic, right.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
And it felt the same way it was, which I
which I have to give it to him, like I
didn't expect him to do up an album that was
just as good or even better than THI, and he
really did it.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
How do you feel about that album? Like the topics
that he tackled as far as like you know, gentrification
and how the island I.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
Connected him and say, levels up, bunny. So I love
that he loves love. You know, he loves love and
he loves his island, and he I think he's been
such a smart artist in combining both in exploring you
(26:49):
know that the college. I in college, I had a
class get a Latin American Studies and I did a
thesis on on know on Puerto Ricans being treated as
second class citizens. And I studied the same book that
he was reading, which is war on Puerto Ricans. I
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think it's called is it that one? I think it's
war on all Puerto Ricans And they talk about all
be so Campo and like how women were sterilized to
get birth control. Thanks to Puerto Rican women, we have
birth control today and like bieg like the way that
(27:34):
they you know, so Puerto Rico has been a guinea
pig for for the United States if we've been used
two to advance you know, Americans, and we are Americans,
but we're not treated the same way as Americans. Sometimes
we are being treated sometimes as second class citizens. So
(27:56):
what he's doing right now, it's it's giving that voice
to us. It's and to be honest, like, it's not easy.
It's not easy to sometimes you want to stay away, like,
oh it's politics, it's But I think right now he
is in the perfect spot to do it. He's proven
(28:16):
himself as an artist and now I think he can
use his platform to talk about what really matters.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
And I love that he's doing that. You know, he's
not shying away. It's very hard for artists to speak out,
you know what I'm saying. Like I was watching you know,
a Jay Bilbein documentary and he was struggling so much
with speaking out, you know, on behalf of his own country.
So what bad Bunny's doing worldwide? Hands down to him, man.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
Handsund I definitely respect him a lot. We're doing that,
and I know that this is just the beginning. I'm
I'm like, I wouldn't be surprised if he becomes a
governor one.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
I want him to. It's crazy because I brought it up.
I was like, I wonder bad Bunny's ever going to
run for politics.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
I see it too, I honestly see it was bad.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
I don't want to see it bad Bunny runs.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
I I just I really admire him as a business
person as well, because what he did with the residency.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Listen, I tried, noway.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Well, let me see what I can do for you, right,
I don't know, actually thirty days only I thought it
was of shows. Thirty shows, Yeah, well what yeah? What
he did with that? And how much money that's going
to break to the island.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
He loves his island. I read it was like a
billion or something like that as far as like travel, hotels,
and you know, it's just bringing people back.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
Well, and he's just showing the power that we have.
Like he's just showing people and and I love that.
And when people ask me like, oh, how do you
feel about being a Latino in the industry or how
do you feel, I'm like, I'm not a victim. Like
(30:11):
when you start realizing your power, not seeing yourself as
a victim.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
I don't get me started on this. You know, it's
crazy journess. Because I was at an event and they
were talking and it was a Latino event, and they
were talking about so much like victimization and you know,
being so like underserved, and I was just like, why
can I not identify? Do I just feel like so
powerful in my Latini ray, Like I've never felt like
(30:36):
inadequate or like I shouldn't be here because I'm Latina.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Absolutely, and I say the whole Second Act citizen as
a second, second class citizen, but I've never felt like one.
And that's that just comes from my own confidence. And
at the end of the day, you as a person,
you gotta find that for yourself. It doesn't matter your background,
it doesn't matter where you come from. You have to
believe in yourself and you have to give that power
to yourself. So as much as yeah, we can criticize
(31:00):
like oh, the governor or the president or this or that,
we all have the power to change our lives.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Gottle God See, we're in control of our destiny. Like
what you do today dictates where you're going to be
next year. Us sitting here, you know, and talking about
like I have a new single coming out, and this
is what I'm going to do, This is what going
to be happening for you next year. But it's totally
because you're doing it today. So if you're listening and
you know you want to make a change in your
life and you're feeling like inadequate or like life is
(31:27):
not where you want it to be, guess what You're
in the driver's seat adjusina mirrors and hit that gas
man because you can really be out of here. I
got to bring you back to can you feel the beat?
I saw you working with my mentor Angie Martinez. Yes,
Oh my god, that scene was so dope. I wasn't
working with Angie talk to me, and I don't mean
(31:48):
to keep bringing up different people, but I just feel
like this things me and you can identify with a
lease Angie Martinez.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
That was the first time that I worked with her,
that I met.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
Her, and I use an icon. She's a legend. I
immediately connected with her. She's so warm, right, Like, you
just feel so connected to her immediately, Yes, and that
scene and she was comforting you. I felt comforted too.
I'm like, what the hell is happening right now.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
It was so beautiful And I keep saying this, like,
you know, at the end of the day, for me
as an actor, I'm such a human first, and that's
to me acting like bringing that humanity to the screen
right and working with her in that scene, I didn't
expect it. I didn't know how it was going to go.
You know, I was just in it, and you know,
(32:30):
and when she comes in, it almost felt like it
wasn't Lisa, Lisa and the nurse, it was Angie and
me as humans doing that and we felt very connected
and she was wonderful. I would love to work with
her again. She was so so, so warm and so beautiful,
and she has so much heart and she supports Lisa
(32:51):
so much too.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
She really really does. The connection is there, and Angie,
you know, what you felt from her is genuine. I've
been working with her for the last nine years and
she's never you know, she hasn't been flip floppy. What
you see is what you get with an She's amazing
and you know, she's an icon, very respected, not only
in the radio, the Latino world New York. We just
adore her.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
I saw that like when you when I tell you
we like she.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Did. That should tell you how much New York and
what he was love Angie Martinez.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
I love that, and I think, you know, thanks to
this film, I feel like I've become more connected to
the world in New York as well. And like how
Puerto Ricans are in New York. How Puerto Rican is
New York, New York is Puerto Rico? What do you mean?
Speaker 2 (33:37):
Like?
Speaker 3 (33:38):
And I love that. I I want to even I
want to connect even more.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
Yeah, they get it.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
Move see, yes, I do. I would day dreaming. Yesterday
I was like, oh I would. I would love to
one day be a millionaire and have like a penthouse
in front of a Central Park area. You know, I
love dreaming. I love dreaming. I think that you can.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
I don't blame you. I'm that person to We'll get
you right.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
On Broadway, oh my god.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
And you can stay here with us, just walking around
the city. Just make sure it's a summertime though, Oh
my god, well right now it's cold springtime.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
I really have liked the weather.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Have you ever Have you ever lived in New York
or stayed here for a period of time.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
I did for two weeks for my first big project,
which was The Blacklist.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
That was a great show.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
Yes, that was my first. It was my gay star. Yes,
so I came for The Blacklist. I did an teenager
assassin on that show. Badass, very badass. I was like
running on top of a huge rooftop in New York
at six in the morning, freezing my ass. Sorry, I
don't know if I can say that. Yeah, And I remember,
(34:42):
it's so funny. I always tell this the story. It's
so funny to me because that was my first big role.
And I had a huge monolog And.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
When they gave you that, how intimidated were you? You
were like, I gotta say all.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
This, yes, And I was prepared. I felt very prepared.
But it wasn't until I was there was six in
the morning. I was it was really cold, and I
had two hundred crew members watching me, and just when
I was about to say my whole monologue, I froze.
It's like I just looked at everyone. I was like,
what am I supposed to say now? And then and
(35:16):
then nothing happened, just we were just we just did
it again. And that's when everything came to me. And
you know, the rest is history. But I just I
that was the first time that I felt, oh my god,
this is this is going to be my life, Like
I'm going to be traveling and working for working and
doing this. And it was the first I remember even
(35:36):
being on one of those black cars for the first
time for that job, and I remember there was like
a Hollywood not Hollywood, but like a New York City
tour bus and I was in the car in the
backseat like wow, I'm here and I'm doing it. I'm
making it. You're like, I've arrived, I've arrived, and a
photographer took a picture of me.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
I was like, I wonder where that picture is.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
I feel all right, like this feels this feels right.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
You were like, was that Paparazzi?
Speaker 3 (36:03):
Was that Paparassi? Yeah? No, but I think that show
definitely changed my life. And then I came for Apple
TV's show Little America, which I did in twenty nineteen
as well, and I worked in New York as well
for that. So so yes, I've been in New York
for work. I always said that I was gonna come
here for work, and.
Speaker 2 (36:21):
She said, bivan Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico. I don't blame
in Puerto Rico. It's just so beautiful. I went to
what was a crash boat beach for the first time and.
Speaker 3 (36:29):
It sang crash.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
Yes, it was so beautiful. I'm like, wow, this is
so okay you see ju I was like no, no, no,
but y perto Rica and I was like, wow, this.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
Is and you should to be honest that I'm glad
that you did that because Isla ve and San Juan
area is very city like and honestly, living there in
the past four years, I've.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
Seen it change in Puerto Rico.
Speaker 3 (36:58):
But I've seen the change is the pandemic, well before
the pandemic, and now like Puerto Rico is getting it's
gotten so expensive. It's just as expensive as New York's
like rents or every even coffee, like even rice and beans,
it's expensive nowadays, Like it's gotten really expensive. It's and
I think it's one of the fights that like, you know,
(37:19):
Bad Bunny is kind of like talking about. It's like,
how is it that we're getting gentrified from our own island,
you know, like it's the gentrification we're seeing it. We're
seeing it in the island.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
Like I was talking to a young girl, you know,
around your age, and she said, I can't buy a
house in Puerto Rico, she said. My dream of owning
a home is gone, she said, with the prices and
the people buying us out. She's like, I don't think
I could buy home.
Speaker 3 (37:44):
Even rent like something like renting right now, like a
good apartment. It's like twenty five hundred. I don't know.
It depends on the area as well, of course, but
the Miami exact TM thing. So look at they ask you,
you know, and the worst part is like our infrastructure
is not as new as Miamila, and.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
Like, yeah's environ and Puerto Rico, Like what do you
mean in Puerto Rico? So for me, it's different, you know,
like Clad, well.
Speaker 3 (38:28):
Look at that, look at that, and I think, yeah,
and that's another conversation claud complate though, but yeah, like
we were actually talking in my house.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
How like.
Speaker 3 (38:39):
It has been so you've evolved so much like it
it there's so much happening in so much development.
Speaker 2 (38:44):
And Clad, but there is a lot of tourism too,
entire developments in community, in real estate. Look now you
can buy condos, you could buy mansions. They're developing everything.
I'll tell you that much. In many kind of they
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are making, but it's a lot of outside investors that
are coming in, and.
Speaker 3 (39:09):
I think that's the hardest thing, Like how do you
how do you help your people when the money's coming? Yeah,
well how do you? That's that I think that's what
we're dealing within the island, Like we have so many
developers coming and taking our beaches and doing developments that
later on will not really help the people, the residents
from Puerto Rico. They're going to help other tourists. So
(39:31):
I think even going back to what you were saying,
like the Bad Bunnies album songs like Dorita songs, like
he talks about that, like they're in how why they're
taking our beaches or taking our you know, our land.
Speaker 2 (39:42):
Yeah. I remember I watched his short film probably two
or three years ago when he was talking about the
beaches and how you know they're privatizing all the beaches
to make them part of mansions.
Speaker 3 (39:52):
See, I don't think that beaches should Yeah, I don't
like you can build your house, but like yeah, absolutely, mynoo.
Speaker 2 (40:04):
That's get the What has you like the most excited
about twenty twenty five? Like what are you looking forward
to the most? Obviously can you feel the beat that's
out now?
Speaker 3 (40:16):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (40:17):
Where can people stream it on Lifetime? Okay?
Speaker 3 (40:21):
On Lifetime and I don't want to say I've heard that.
Maybe Hulu later on okay, but just search it on Google.
Can you feel the beat and you'll figure out where
to watch it. But as of now, Lifetime? What what
has me excited for this? I would love to drop
my first album. That would be my dream.
Speaker 2 (40:41):
You're gonna drop your first amen?
Speaker 3 (40:43):
Amen? I would love to do that. I would love
to release my English music again where God wants to
take me? If other I would love to. There's a
couple of projects of a couple of film projects. I'm
gonna be working on a Puerto Rican film as soon
as I get it Puerto Rico. See, I start working
next week, So my first Puerto Rican uh film. And
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I would love to produce. I would love to produce
my first rom com.
Speaker 2 (41:10):
And I feel like you can do it. I always
bring it back to Issa Ray and how she started
on YouTube.
Speaker 3 (41:17):
Yes, yea, truly, truly, I want to be able to
do that. And I've always said like I want to
be the next Jaal, I want to be the next
Lisa Lisa. Now you know, I want to be able
to to produce. I want to be able to sing
my music, go on tour and and just just keep dreaming,
just keep living and enjoying life.
Speaker 2 (41:38):
And you are. You live in a beautiful island, and
you know you've got a head start on so many
other people that are just thinking about now getting into
acting at your age, you know, your season do. You
have an amazing support system. They're here with you today
and you know I can tell that you know you've
already done a lot, but you have so much more
to accomplish.
Speaker 3 (41:57):
Hey man, I I'm going for that Oscar one day,
you know, like that's that's definitely my biggest dream.
Speaker 2 (42:04):
I can already see it.
Speaker 3 (42:05):
Yeah. We love to just keep getting roles like this,
you know, challenging roles that that I would love to
do more biopics as well.
Speaker 2 (42:14):
Those are amazing those and those are hard.
Speaker 3 (42:16):
Those are hard, But those are hard because you're portraying people.
Speaker 2 (42:20):
It's Nika Is.
Speaker 3 (42:20):
I'm not comparing you to Lisa Alsa exactly.
Speaker 2 (42:23):
They're doing you. You're putting your own sauce on it.
But when you're portraying people, you have to be genuine
to who they.
Speaker 3 (42:29):
Were Yeah, absolutely, and.
Speaker 2 (42:31):
You know it's crazy. That's what catapulted Jennifer Lopez to
the star that she is today. You know, Selena Catania,
it's crazy that you say that.
Speaker 3 (42:38):
Which is crazy because I've always said that. I've always said, like,
I want to be the next Jelo, and and for
me to be playing Lisa A Lisa the first of
before Jalo and.
Speaker 2 (42:48):
Selena, before Carol G, before Tormundo, Lisa Lisa, it's crazy
because my intro to the episode for Lisa Lisa, that's
exactly how I enter her. Before Jlo, before Shakira, before
Carol G. There was Lisa Lisa. She's pioneer when it
comes to this. Yeah, and I'm happy you know that
you took on that role. You crushed it. And you know,
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if you're listening, make sure you first listen to the
episode for Lisa Lisa so you can know her entire
life because it's a long hour plus episode, and then
I want you to cross reference and go to Lifetime
and watch her movie. Can you feel the beat? Journalists,
Thank you so much for sitting down with me today.
Speaker 3 (43:25):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (43:26):
It was amazing getting to know you and now we're
more than just friends on Instagram.
Speaker 3 (43:30):
Yes, memuck, it really feels like say, we'll hang out.
Speaker 2 (43:39):
Of it all shot.
Speaker 3 (43:46):
No, I to be honest, like I love when you
guys say that. No, it's it was amazing. No, like
Bad Bunny has transformed the island.
Speaker 2 (43:56):
You could. It was just electrifying. It was just a
vibe of a vibe and he was hanging around to
I don't know, you know, like the Porto Rican like
I swear to god, I think I saw something on
Instagram to the anything see so and when that music drops,
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we're gonna get We're gonna get behind you, we're gonna support,
and we're gonna push it out.
Speaker 3 (44:24):
I appreciate.
Speaker 2 (44:24):
I want to hear that English song. Yes, Grassiers and
come Again. I will oh, I will Kelly Gracia.
Speaker 1 (44:33):
This was Grassiers Come Again is a production of Honey
German Productions in partnership with Iheart's micro podcast network.
Speaker 3 (44:44):
No, that was
Yes, Come Again a podcast by Honey.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
German and Let's Get It journis Gorchado. I am so
happy to see you today. How excited do you feel?
Speaker 3 (00:16):
I'm very excited.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
We're here in New York.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Last night was the premiere of your new movie Talk
to Me. Can you feel the beat?
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Can you feel the beat? Yes?
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Oh? You had to sing it?
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Yeah, I'm so excited.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
I'm there to see you guys sing it like Lisa,
right right right.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
I feel very excited. I definitely feel like I'm feeling
the beat for sure. I yesterday I got to watch
it with the entire cast and with friends and family,
and it was just a beautiful experience to see myself
on the screen. And this was a very difficult role.
You know, it was a very challenging.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
I bet you it was. You know why, because the
person you're playing is right in front of your face.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Yes, and a living She's a living icon. You don't
get to play living icons every day, you know.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
And you know it's one thing portraying a fictional character.
You add your little sass song here and there, you
do your own mannerisms. How long did you have to
study Lisa Lisa before you felt comfortable going into that role.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Well, to be honest, I didn't get up much time.
We only had three weeks to prepare pro pro. I
got offered the role like three weeks before filming, and
so I studied as much as I could.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
I how did you study? Where did you look? Well?
Speaker 3 (01:29):
I started first with YouTube and like watching as many
interviews as I could, and like the music videos and
kind of like trying to you know, for the for
the audition, I had to do I wonder if I
take you home clip? So I basically had to I
try to do the music video myself, kind of like
try to do every little like gesture and kind of
like get a sense of how she she was, you know,
(01:50):
how she moved, how she moved the way that. And
then as you as I kept discovering her, I realized
that I've been saying this, She's one of the toughest
people I know, but she's also this sweetest person I know.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Same here.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
So so for me it was really important. You know,
we only get a chance to tell her story in
one hour and thirty minutes. To me, it was very
important to show all of those nuances as a person,
like all those great areas that Lisa, Lisa have like
all the things that make her Lisa not only the artist,
but the human. So I did that. I did a
(02:24):
lot of I searched a lot on Google and then
talking to her.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
But then again, she was here. I was just there.
I was just gonna say that you she was here,
you could call her, you could ask her question.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Was there every single day? And so it was really
cool that I got to do that because of course
I was so nervous, but to get her blessing every
single day gave me the reassurance that I needed, you know.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
And it's all crazy. She was sitting in that same
exact seat and she told me she like, I have somebody.
She's amazing, you know, I had such a difficult times.
People are so amazing. And she wouldn't tell me who
it was. And fast forward like a couple of months later,
I was like, yay, look who got it? Because I've
been following you for a while. I discovered you on
sneaker Head really and I was just like, yo, she
is so dope and you just came off so genuine
(03:06):
and it just felt so real, like as a sneakerhead
and you know, an inner City Girl. It just felt
like you nail that role.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Thank you, thank you. Actually, you know, it's so funny
because Sneakerheads, I got that part two days before I
had to be on set.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 3 (03:20):
I had two days before they I think they had
someone and maybe, like I don't know what happened, like
scheduling problems, whatever, it worked out for you. Yeah, no,
thank you. Thank you to that girl that didn't make it,
I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
I hope you're okay.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
But I got that part two days before I had
to be on set. I was really nervous also because
we had to shoot that in less than a month.
We had to shoot six episodes, and we were doing
it in Fairfax and you know, all over It.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Felt really chaotic, like it just felt like you guys
were running everywhere like it was.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
It was. It was very chaotic. But I had a
really good team and any any Clements, who's a wonderful actor, producer, director.
He helped me a lot, you know, and thanks to him.
Actually i'm here now because in that show because Miss
Tracy Twinkiebird, she the producer of this film, saw me
on Sneakerheads, and.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
I saw you on Sneakerheads.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Right, it's thanks to that. I'm here.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Do you feel like you have a particular project that
pushed you in the forefront that you're like, now people
know who I am.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
I would say Sneakerheads did that for me. Okay, absolutely.
It was the you know, it was on Netflix. It
was top four for a couple of weeks.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Yeah, I remember, it was super popular. I felt like
everybody here at iHeart and at Power we were all
watching it.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
That's amazing. So I was in the island. I didn't
get to Puerto Rico. Yeah, I was in Puerto Rico,
so I didn't get And it was in the pandemic.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Too, so you didn't feel it, didn't feel it the
same way the buzz, right, the buzz, But I felt
it on Instagram. You know.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
I definitely got more followers because of the show. And
it's the show that people are like, oh my god,
you're the girl from Sneakerheads. It's definitely that that show
that made me feel seen.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
That's so dope because it was a good show and
we loved it. You said you you were in Puerto Rico. Yes,
were you born and raised in Puerto Rico?
Speaker 3 (05:01):
I was born and raised.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
So how'd you end up over here doing movies? You
gotta give me, you gotta give me the inside story.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
I'll tell you everything. So, you know, I think that's
one of the reasons I loved Lisa and her story.
It's because I saw myself and her identified I completely.
I was like, oh my god, I I'm Lisa. I'm
like me and me Lisa. You know, there's a scene
in the film where she tells her brother, Hey, Elalia, like,
I don't want to live and die in this neighborhood
and never.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Be nothing, and you want to die on your block.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Yes. And so for me, like ever since I was
very little, I you know, I I watched novelas growing
up and I would do mam yeah, And so I
I would see girls like Dana, Paola and Belinda who
were like Mexican stars doing novelas and also being amazing
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musicians on the side. So I wanted that type of
career Italia exactly. So for me, it was like, oh
wait then, to me, I didn't see a difference between
acting and singing. To me, I saw it like as
a as a as.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
A whole, it comes all together.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Yes, And so I remember going to one of the
concerts I think it was Berlin DA's concert, and I
told my mom I want to be I want to
be like her. I want to be singing in concerts
and doing novellas.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Right, yes, She's like, classes, yeah, yeah, so I so
I are you an only daughter?
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Well the only girl, okay, the only girl. And then
I have two other brothers. They don't matter, they don't
they don't matter. They are a big part of the equation.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
And the reason I ask you is because you know,
sometimes when a mom makes a child a star, it
takes so much out of them. I just watched the
play on Broadway this week. It's called Gypsy and it
is It's about a stage mom and her obsession to
make her child a star, and it shows how she
never did anything with her life, stuck on making her
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daughter a star.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Well, to me, I feel like this was a decision
that my mom made for me. It was something that
I begged her to do.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
She did it for you.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Yes, so godless, I definitely, I definitely I'm gonna cry.
She's right here thanks to her.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
But you didn't absorb your mom one hundred percent. Your
brother's got some of your mom too, right.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Absolutely, no, I think I think I did a good job.
I think they they got my mom. I think I
they can't say.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
That's the only reason I bring it up because sometimes
you know, only child doesn't matter, you know, mom one
just to know she she gave, she.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Gave love to all of them. She never made us
feel like any of us mattered more. Everybody got even
though we joke around. We have a we have now
an eleven year old brother.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Oh she has a baby.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Yeah, yeah, that happened after seventeen years. So I was
leaving to LA at seventeen, right, I was going to
pursue my dreams in Hollywood. No by myself.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
No, No, no journeys.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
You're lying right, No, No, I left to LA.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
She said, those.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Well they were the thing is like my parents, somebody
waiting for you in La.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
No.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
They believed in education. So they were like, okay, listen,
you can go to LA, but you need to go
to college.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Latin parents don't play that.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
So I was like, okay, fine, I will go to
cal STADLA. And I went to Cali State, LA nice,
and I did theater. I studied acting, and then I
did film because after a while I was like, Okay,
I got the acting down. I want to understand the business.
I want to understand how to produce. I want to
know I love filmmaking, and so I dined the making
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behind the cameras, and so I learned everything that had
to do with how to make a film. And at
the same time, I always say that I was Hannah
Montana because I was able to, like go to college,
but go to auditions in between.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
You know, how did you balance this? I know college
students that are like I can't even have a job
for ten hours a week, and here you are balancing
all that and without your parents there? Yeah, how did
you stay on the straight arrow?
Speaker 3 (08:53):
You know, it's funny because you know, I think this
is something that i've It's very about me. Like even indergarden.
When my parents left me the first time in kindergarten,
I was really happy. I wasn't one of those kids
that cried.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Peace peace, I'm about to do.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
I'm gonna chill with these kids. And that's literally the
same energy I had when I got dropped in LA.
You know, I never cried, I never felt homesick. I
felt on the contrary, I felt like I belonged there.
I belonged in LA and I was finally going to
start my life. And yeah, so I've I've always been
(09:30):
a good student. I've always been kind of like, you know,
someone that my values are very important to me. My
parents have been amazing, my family, my grandparents, So it
wasn't hard for me to stay on track because I've
just loved this so much and I've been so focused
on making my dreams come true.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
So you had a mission, you had the dream purpose,
and then you also had your parents back home that
you were like, I can't disappoint them.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Absolutely no, no, And and you know I had angels
too along the way.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
You know I had, you must have because it'd be
grown ass women that will go to LA and things
just go wrong.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Completely actually one So it's so funny. I believe in
the power of manifestation, and I remember writing a list
of things that I wanted to accomplish in five years.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Did you watch The Secret?
Speaker 3 (10:18):
I haven't. I don't know when I've learned the power
of manifestation.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
So that's what it's all about.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
It. Yeah, so I wrote in a list. I was like, okay,
in the next five years because I've as I always
heard that it was going to take time for me
to become something. So I was already had. I was
already prepared mentally for it to take me time. And
I wrote a list and I said, Okay, I want
to take acting classes, dancing classes. I want to have
an agent and a manager in the next five years.
(10:44):
And if I don't do it in the next five years,
I'm gonna go to Spain and I'm going to try
to try it over there. It's Fanya and fin Yah glad,
because that's the new Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
You know. I love those Netflix shows from Spain. They've
been top tier.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Oh my god, Hollywood has some competition right there, so
you're in house. So I so I arrived and in
less than a month, I was taking acting classes, dancing classes.
I had a manager and an agent.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
No better, better forget the angels. That's the big man God. Okay.
Because I speak to a lot of people, actors, actresses,
it takes some years, you know, to even get their
footing together where they feel like, Okay, I'm an actor.
And you know, I follow you on Instagram and you
shared a clip that you said, let's normalize talking about God. Yeah,
(11:32):
he's everything. God is we're here me and you are
here only because of God.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
And thank you so much for saying that, because even
you know, yesterday and when I got the call that
I was going to come here, I was like, Oh,
that's God, and I've I've just even today I was
going to post and I was going to write, God,
take me wherever you want me to go, Amen, because
and and that's something that I've always been very spiritual,
but last year I reconnected in a different level to
(12:00):
God and I realized, Wow, like I just when I
have you by my side, everything is possible. I don't
need anyone but you.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
And you made me so proud because I feel like
a lot of people are connected to God, but they
feel like it's not cool to put it out there,
Like how can you may not feel cool to have
Jesus in your life or to go to church, Like
if I go to church, I post it, just like
if I went to a movie premiere at church, it's
super cool. And I was like, Wow, she's so dope,
because it's something I think about all the time. And
I'm like, why do people not talk about God? Why
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do people not think it's cool to go to church?
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Well, and It's a reflection of the society that we
live in today, and I think that everyone is trying
to be so cool for what, you know, for what
And even even in my journey with the music, because
I've been doing music as well, and that's something that
happened later on in my life. I had a big
struggle and an identity crisis because I was like, why
am I Like, what's gonna be the purpose? Right? What
(12:56):
am I gonna say? Because even with music, you have
a void as well.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
And I feel like music, you know, film is very important,
but music is something that we revisit a lot and
we can make connections with music heels. Yeah, like people
have albums, people have artists that they're like, this artist
pulled me out of depression, and this artist I was
going to commit suicide and I heard this song and
(13:22):
it stopped me. So music to me is even more
of a connection than film or movies are super important,
but music that's different. Let's when did you decide you
wanted to do music? Since to get us at Chiquita?
Speaker 3 (13:35):
But on my mom this is a joke. I always say, well,
can you feel the beat? And all the eighties definitely
and eighties it was like eighties freestyle. Yeah, oh my god.
She was yes, absolutely, absolutely, and SA was always like, so,
(13:58):
I've listened to everything. I don't have any I don't
discriminate with music. When did I start? So I always
have this joke around. I always tell people that my
mom it was a lot, you know, like.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Me, mama.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
She she had to take me to acting classes every
you know, saturdays. You know what.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
I love this because sometimes, you know, we're back in
the Islands and we prioritize so much like studies, like Denig,
I don't ever see that gay, you know, in like
the fact that she took time out to you know,
cultivate your creativity. Her for it, I.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Wouldn't have been able to thank you, thank you, no, honestly, Yeah,
thanks to her, I'm here and so. But but it's
so funny because she was going going crazy having to
take me to all these classes and and then like
it was a lot, right, My mom was a teacher,
so she had to she was she had all these kids,
(14:55):
take care of kids, and then she had you and
yours exactly, and then she had to go back I'm
at three p m. To also help my brother and
me to study and then you know, like so it
was a lot, and so the singing part it was
going to be another addition. She was like, erness like
I can do everything, you know, like stick to acting
for now we can. And I'm you know, I'm grateful
(15:19):
that I did because it's the one thing, Like acting
was my one thing for so long. Once I nailed it,
I think that after a little bit before sneaker Heads,
I was.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Like, oh, I want to sing La Mosica.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Yeah, I was, I want to sing and number one day.
(15:55):
I never the voice was always like I I never
felt like I had the voice.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Okay, it was did you hear yourselfie? You're like, okay,
this is my work.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
It wasn't until I started listening to Bad Bunny.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Here was a song.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Bang Hey, and I was like, this guy doesn't sing
that much.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Really you need to can do it.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
I can do I was like, if he can do it,
I can do it.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
But if he can do it, I can do it.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
So and I've always written, so I would write music.
I would always like the first song that I did
right now, I'm like a little raspee. But it's like Nina,
well Na, Melissa and Lael, this is me at seven
years old, like writing the song like haw Manina when
I you know.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
You were acting, you were singing.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
It was a lot. It was a lot. But it's
funny because I always thought that the acting was my
main thing, and it wasn't until I went back home
in twenty twenty because of the pandemic and I was
looking at like little things from high school whatever. I
had a like a like a book that and in
one of them, I had something that said what do
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you want to be when you grow up?
Speaker 2 (17:11):
And I didn't put act, actress.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Celebrity, Shakira chaquiramo bam. And that made sense because Shakira
has always been like my biggest inspiration as a as
a musician. See so Shakira but am fue and I
would belly dance like her at fifteen, I would. I
would try to imitate her as much as I could,
(17:36):
so Chaquira for in Spiro to pursue this. And then
when I was seeing this new wave of Reeton, that's
a little happier, that's a little like like I said it,
Tamo biang, Tamo biang. It's it's it's urban world. It's
not Reton only, but like trap everything was changing and
it became a little bit more positive. And also you
have to understand, like, and you know this, as a
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young girl listening to Reeton, I only had Evy Queen
that see, So I didn't think that I was gonna
be able to be a Redon artist.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
You know, it's crazy that you say that. I saw
her in Carnegie Polled a couple of months ago, and
that place was like standing ovation for her because what
she's been able to do in the past, like twenty
years solely that Black Clado.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Like, I don't I remember, it's so too yeah, and
so I never thought to me, it was always like, Okay, Shakira,
but that's pop, you know. And so in my own career,
I've been having to figure out like, Okay, I do regaeton,
but I like pop, so I don't like to to
tie myself down to any genre.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Yeah. I was listening to your music and I was like,
I can't pinpoint it because you have you know, it's
like the latest song you put out. It felt kind
of like a ballad, but then some of it felt
like reggaeton. I was just like, I wonder if she's
gonna pick a genre? Are you just gonna stay like
open format.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
I think open format. I think I would always say
like pop ur would.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Be the I love, I love the way with it. Yeah,
and now that we're talking about let's talk about Bad
Bunny album?
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Did did you see them on?
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Did you see him on? Fallon?
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Like?
Speaker 2 (19:12):
How amazing was that?
Speaker 3 (19:14):
I always but that's that's about Bunny, And I think
I've been very inspired by him because he's done it
his own way, and I think by him, like even
in his way, I learned. I learned so much by
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every artist I listened to, But I really like I
feel very connected to his music and the way that
he writes things, even as a as a poet, right,
so I consider myself like deep down like as a poet.
I love poetry, and he's so when you me right,
when you analyze his his way of storytelling, I feel
very compelled by it. And even you know the I
(19:59):
only have seven songs out, I'm so excited for people.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
To accounted them.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
Yeah, it was just it was a seven.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Yeah, I hope it is, but I want feature see.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
It's act the But I I really I'm very excited
for people to get to discover the new songs that
I'm going to be coming out with because a lot
of them get to explore my soul more and I'm
I'm very excited about that. I as much as I
want to, I want to do it all. I want
to do commercial music, and I want and I want
people to dance, but I also want to be able
to to get people to connect with my soul as well.
(20:31):
And I always talk about this. I don't know if
I've actually said this publicly, but to me, i'm I
love the theory of like being a badass and the
and the Buddha. That's a book, the badast in the Buddha,
Buddha and the Badass, the buddh and the Badast, and
I think that's me, you know, as a human. We
all get to be Buddhas, and we get to be badass,
we get to be street all about the humanness, but
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we're very spiritual as well, and so I would love
with my music to bring both things, to bring the
baddestness in me and the street and the human, but
also the spiritual. I would love to figure out how
to do that.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
You're gonna make it happen, you know, because it's the
core of who you are. It's your essence, it's it's
your mission like that, that's what you want to do.
Where are you at with music right now?
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Well, we're gonna be dropping a single this later this month.
We're in February, right later this month. I actually did
a song in English. We did a couple of songs
in English, and one of them is inspired by Lisa. Lisa,
I wonder if I take you home really song? Yes,
I would love for you to listen it.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
I need to once we're not on once, we're not
on the micro.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Yes, yes, but it's it's I'm very excited. It's it's
something that I'm exploring the English division of film, yeah,
of music. You know, I would love to do both.
I would love to do Uh do I lingual music?
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Why are you just exploring it now? Like what prompted
you to start with Spanish music? It was it you
just felt more connected as as a wood cio.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
I think also I started in well, my first song
that I ever did was in La joking around with friends.
For some reason, I always connected with musician friends and
I would go to the studio and I would be like,
oh my god, there's they're having so much fun. I
have as an actors. You have to study so many lines,
and it's like some sometimes it's very stressful.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Well, I can only imagine.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
You have to study a lot.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
How do you remember all of this? I've always questioned this,
like especially when I go to Broadway. Yeah, they've been
going for two hours. General, how do you How do
you remember all this? Or how does it work with film?
Are you fed the lines? Do you stop? Do you go?
Speaker 3 (22:36):
My biggest technique, and this is something that I've realized
with time mine is I like to study the night
before because I don't know. I believe that my subconscious
is studying it while I sleep. So I like to
read the lines, study them I have.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
I feel like I've heard this before from one of
the greats.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Oh really, Well, I don't know, but that's what that is.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
You're theoring is true.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Yeah, So I like to study it, read it a
couple of times, hopefully you know, a little bit more
than ten times, and and then I go to sleep
and I let my subconscious just keep working on it,
and then by the next morning I know it all.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
And then you show up on setting and you just
know all this stuff.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
And I know it all, and I also have a
coach who taught me this other memory like memorization technique
tool technique, which is like always asking questions, like, for example,
if I'm saying, oh, I'm here at the radio talking
to Honey German, so you start asking questions like where
are you at the radio doing what? And so it's
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it's like kind of like a question and answer type
of things. So you start kind of like a brain
muscle ex brain muscle. Yeah we got it.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Yeah now.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
See, Oh my god, it was so good. I feel
like Lasance every years, every year is going to get
crazier and crazier.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
It was like a J Puerto Rico. You No, you
go your Puerto Rico. On the hand, I'm like, get
hit soon. No, you're telling my car. I'm like car
trying to get a car. He's like need the Malow momentum,
Like it's just I'm okay weekend. They're like.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Oh yeah, say bro, Press, I'm like you gotta come
prepare and you gotta you gotta be.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Like it you joy ready.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
You should get an Airbnb or something in in the
old some one that I would next time I want
to stay there.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
You know what it felt like New Orleans. That's that's
what That's the only thing I can equate it to.
I was like, I feel like I'm a Mardi grab
but all the Briquas. My god, I'm not saying you
at the album you know that always listen Yeah, old
be that No Tocato must not.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
Bad Bunny has that effect on the island. Like, I
don't think people understand until they're in the island. We
celebrate that man in ways that I've never seen.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
I thought it was because the album dropped like that.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
No, no, no, we will listen to that album until December.
Like that's just how it is. Like the love that
people have for Bad Bunny and the island well and
the rest of the world. But just like that love
that people have in the island is so beautiful to see.
And wow me as an artist, I'm like, I hope
I get it even like half of that, because wow,
Puerto Rico, first of all, well he's an.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
International superstar like the one that he redid that. I
was like, I was like, no offense, I love you,
Puerto Rico.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
I don't know what it is about about Bunny in
bars and that, and but I don't see thief was
the same way the album.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
That was amazing that was during the pandemic, right.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
And it felt the same way it was, which I
which I have to give it to him, like I
didn't expect him to do up an album that was
just as good or even better than THI, and he
really did it.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
How do you feel about that album? Like the topics
that he tackled as far as like you know, gentrification
and how the island I.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
Connected him and say, levels up, bunny. So I love
that he loves love. You know, he loves love and
he loves his island, and he I think he's been
such a smart artist in combining both in exploring you
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know that the college. I in college, I had a
class get a Latin American Studies and I did a
thesis on on know on Puerto Ricans being treated as
second class citizens. And I studied the same book that
he was reading, which is war on Puerto Ricans. I
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think it's called is it that one? I think it's
war on all Puerto Ricans And they talk about all
be so Campo and like how women were sterilized to
get birth control. Thanks to Puerto Rican women, we have
birth control today and like bieg like the way that
(27:34):
they you know, so Puerto Rico has been a guinea
pig for for the United States if we've been used
two to advance you know, Americans, and we are Americans,
but we're not treated the same way as Americans. Sometimes
we are being treated sometimes as second class citizens. So
(27:56):
what he's doing right now, it's it's giving that voice
to us. It's and to be honest, like, it's not easy.
It's not easy to sometimes you want to stay away, like,
oh it's politics, it's But I think right now he
is in the perfect spot to do it. He's proven
(28:16):
himself as an artist and now I think he can
use his platform to talk about what really matters.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
And I love that he's doing that. You know, he's
not shying away. It's very hard for artists to speak out,
you know what I'm saying. Like I was watching you know,
a Jay Bilbein documentary and he was struggling so much
with speaking out, you know, on behalf of his own country.
So what bad Bunny's doing worldwide? Hands down to him, man.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
Handsund I definitely respect him a lot. We're doing that,
and I know that this is just the beginning. I'm
I'm like, I wouldn't be surprised if he becomes a
governor one.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
I want him to. It's crazy because I brought it up.
I was like, I wonder bad Bunny's ever going to
run for politics.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
I see it too, I honestly see it was bad.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
I don't want to see it bad Bunny runs.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
I I just I really admire him as a business
person as well, because what he did with the residency.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Listen, I tried, noway.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Well, let me see what I can do for you, right,
I don't know, actually thirty days only I thought it
was of shows. Thirty shows, Yeah, well what yeah? What
he did with that? And how much money that's going
to break to the island.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
He loves his island. I read it was like a
billion or something like that as far as like travel, hotels,
and you know, it's just bringing people back.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
Well, and he's just showing the power that we have.
Like he's just showing people and and I love that.
And when people ask me like, oh, how do you
feel about being a Latino in the industry or how
do you feel, I'm like, I'm not a victim. Like
(30:11):
when you start realizing your power, not seeing yourself as
a victim.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
I don't get me started on this. You know, it's
crazy journess. Because I was at an event and they
were talking and it was a Latino event, and they
were talking about so much like victimization and you know,
being so like underserved, and I was just like, why
can I not identify? Do I just feel like so
powerful in my Latini ray, Like I've never felt like
(30:36):
inadequate or like I shouldn't be here because I'm Latina.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Absolutely, and I say the whole Second Act citizen as
a second, second class citizen, but I've never felt like one.
And that's that just comes from my own confidence. And
at the end of the day, you as a person,
you gotta find that for yourself. It doesn't matter your background,
it doesn't matter where you come from. You have to
believe in yourself and you have to give that power
to yourself. So as much as yeah, we can criticize
(31:00):
like oh, the governor or the president or this or that,
we all have the power to change our lives.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Gottle God See, we're in control of our destiny. Like
what you do today dictates where you're going to be
next year. Us sitting here, you know, and talking about
like I have a new single coming out, and this
is what I'm going to do, This is what going
to be happening for you next year. But it's totally
because you're doing it today. So if you're listening and
you know you want to make a change in your
life and you're feeling like inadequate or like life is
(31:27):
not where you want it to be, guess what You're
in the driver's seat adjusina mirrors and hit that gas
man because you can really be out of here. I
got to bring you back to can you feel the beat?
I saw you working with my mentor Angie Martinez. Yes,
Oh my god, that scene was so dope. I wasn't
working with Angie talk to me, and I don't mean
(31:48):
to keep bringing up different people, but I just feel
like this things me and you can identify with a
lease Angie Martinez.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
That was the first time that I worked with her,
that I met.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
Her, and I use an icon. She's a legend. I
immediately connected with her. She's so warm, right, Like, you
just feel so connected to her immediately, Yes, and that
scene and she was comforting you. I felt comforted too.
I'm like, what the hell is happening right now.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
It was so beautiful And I keep saying this, like,
you know, at the end of the day, for me
as an actor, I'm such a human first, and that's
to me acting like bringing that humanity to the screen
right and working with her in that scene, I didn't
expect it. I didn't know how it was going to go.
You know, I was just in it, and you know,
(32:30):
and when she comes in, it almost felt like it
wasn't Lisa, Lisa and the nurse, it was Angie and
me as humans doing that and we felt very connected
and she was wonderful. I would love to work with
her again. She was so so, so warm and so beautiful,
and she has so much heart and she supports Lisa
(32:51):
so much too.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
She really really does. The connection is there, and Angie,
you know, what you felt from her is genuine. I've
been working with her for the last nine years and
she's never you know, she hasn't been flip floppy. What
you see is what you get with an She's amazing
and you know, she's an icon, very respected, not only
in the radio, the Latino world New York. We just
adore her.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
I saw that like when you when I tell you
we like she.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Did. That should tell you how much New York and
what he was love Angie Martinez.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
I love that, and I think, you know, thanks to
this film, I feel like I've become more connected to
the world in New York as well. And like how
Puerto Ricans are in New York. How Puerto Rican is
New York, New York is Puerto Rico? What do you mean?
Speaker 2 (33:37):
Like?
Speaker 3 (33:38):
And I love that. I I want to even I
want to connect even more.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
Yeah, they get it.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
Move see, yes, I do. I would day dreaming. Yesterday
I was like, oh I would. I would love to
one day be a millionaire and have like a penthouse
in front of a Central Park area. You know, I
love dreaming. I love dreaming. I think that you can.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
I don't blame you. I'm that person to We'll get
you right.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
On Broadway, oh my god.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
And you can stay here with us, just walking around
the city. Just make sure it's a summertime though, Oh
my god, well right now it's cold springtime.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
I really have liked the weather.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Have you ever Have you ever lived in New York
or stayed here for a period of time.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
I did for two weeks for my first big project,
which was The Blacklist.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
That was a great show.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
Yes, that was my first. It was my gay star. Yes,
so I came for The Blacklist. I did an teenager
assassin on that show. Badass, very badass. I was like
running on top of a huge rooftop in New York
at six in the morning, freezing my ass. Sorry, I
don't know if I can say that. Yeah, And I remember,
(34:42):
it's so funny. I always tell this the story. It's
so funny to me because that was my first big role.
And I had a huge monolog And.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
When they gave you that, how intimidated were you? You
were like, I gotta say all.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
This, yes, And I was prepared. I felt very prepared.
But it wasn't until I was there was six in
the morning. I was it was really cold, and I
had two hundred crew members watching me, and just when
I was about to say my whole monologue, I froze.
It's like I just looked at everyone. I was like,
what am I supposed to say now? And then and
(35:16):
then nothing happened, just we were just we just did
it again. And that's when everything came to me. And
you know, the rest is history. But I just I
that was the first time that I felt, oh my god,
this is this is going to be my life, Like
I'm going to be traveling and working for working and
doing this. And it was the first I remember even
(35:36):
being on one of those black cars for the first
time for that job, and I remember there was like
a Hollywood not Hollywood, but like a New York City
tour bus and I was in the car in the
backseat like wow, I'm here and I'm doing it. I'm
making it. You're like, I've arrived, I've arrived, and a
photographer took a picture of me.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
I was like, I wonder where that picture is.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
I feel all right, like this feels this feels right.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
You were like, was that Paparazzi?
Speaker 3 (36:03):
Was that Paparassi? Yeah? No, but I think that show
definitely changed my life. And then I came for Apple
TV's show Little America, which I did in twenty nineteen
as well, and I worked in New York as well
for that. So so yes, I've been in New York
for work. I always said that I was gonna come
here for work, and.
Speaker 2 (36:21):
She said, bivan Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico. I don't blame
in Puerto Rico. It's just so beautiful. I went to
what was a crash boat beach for the first time and.
Speaker 3 (36:29):
It sang crash.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
Yes, it was so beautiful. I'm like, wow, this is
so okay you see ju I was like no, no, no,
but y perto Rica and I was like, wow, this.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
Is and you should to be honest that I'm glad
that you did that because Isla ve and San Juan
area is very city like and honestly, living there in
the past four years, I've.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
Seen it change in Puerto Rico.
Speaker 3 (36:58):
But I've seen the change is the pandemic, well before
the pandemic, and now like Puerto Rico is getting it's
gotten so expensive. It's just as expensive as New York's
like rents or every even coffee, like even rice and beans,
it's expensive nowadays, Like it's gotten really expensive. It's and
I think it's one of the fights that like, you know,
(37:19):
Bad Bunny is kind of like talking about. It's like,
how is it that we're getting gentrified from our own island,
you know, like it's the gentrification we're seeing it. We're
seeing it in the island.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
Like I was talking to a young girl, you know,
around your age, and she said, I can't buy a
house in Puerto Rico, she said. My dream of owning
a home is gone, she said, with the prices and
the people buying us out. She's like, I don't think
I could buy home.
Speaker 3 (37:44):
Even rent like something like renting right now, like a
good apartment. It's like twenty five hundred. I don't know.
It depends on the area as well, of course, but
the Miami exact TM thing. So look at they ask you,
you know, and the worst part is like our infrastructure
is not as new as Miamila, and.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
Like, yeah's environ and Puerto Rico, Like what do you
mean in Puerto Rico? So for me, it's different, you know,
like Clad, well.
Speaker 3 (38:28):
Look at that, look at that, and I think, yeah,
and that's another conversation claud complate though, but yeah, like
we were actually talking in my house.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
How like.
Speaker 3 (38:39):
It has been so you've evolved so much like it
it there's so much happening in so much development.
Speaker 2 (38:44):
And Clad, but there is a lot of tourism too,
entire developments in community, in real estate. Look now you
can buy condos, you could buy mansions. They're developing everything.
I'll tell you that much. In many kind of they
(39:05):
are making, but it's a lot of outside investors that
are coming in, and.
Speaker 3 (39:09):
I think that's the hardest thing, Like how do you
how do you help your people when the money's coming? Yeah,
well how do you? That's that I think that's what
we're dealing within the island, Like we have so many
developers coming and taking our beaches and doing developments that
later on will not really help the people, the residents
from Puerto Rico. They're going to help other tourists. So
(39:31):
I think even going back to what you were saying,
like the Bad Bunnies album songs like Dorita songs, like
he talks about that, like they're in how why they're
taking our beaches or taking our you know, our land.
Speaker 2 (39:42):
Yeah. I remember I watched his short film probably two
or three years ago when he was talking about the
beaches and how you know they're privatizing all the beaches
to make them part of mansions.
Speaker 3 (39:52):
See, I don't think that beaches should Yeah, I don't
like you can build your house, but like yeah, absolutely, mynoo.
Speaker 2 (40:04):
That's get the What has you like the most excited
about twenty twenty five? Like what are you looking forward
to the most? Obviously can you feel the beat that's
out now?
Speaker 3 (40:16):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (40:17):
Where can people stream it on Lifetime? Okay?
Speaker 3 (40:21):
On Lifetime and I don't want to say I've heard that.
Maybe Hulu later on okay, but just search it on Google.
Can you feel the beat and you'll figure out where
to watch it. But as of now, Lifetime? What what
has me excited for this? I would love to drop
my first album. That would be my dream.
Speaker 2 (40:41):
You're gonna drop your first amen?
Speaker 3 (40:43):
Amen? I would love to do that. I would love
to release my English music again where God wants to
take me? If other I would love to. There's a
couple of projects of a couple of film projects. I'm
gonna be working on a Puerto Rican film as soon
as I get it Puerto Rico. See, I start working
next week, So my first Puerto Rican uh film. And
(41:06):
I would love to produce. I would love to produce
my first rom com.
Speaker 2 (41:10):
And I feel like you can do it. I always
bring it back to Issa Ray and how she started
on YouTube.
Speaker 3 (41:17):
Yes, yea, truly, truly, I want to be able to
do that. And I've always said like I want to
be the next Jaal, I want to be the next
Lisa Lisa. Now you know, I want to be able
to to produce. I want to be able to sing
my music, go on tour and and just just keep dreaming,
just keep living and enjoying life.
Speaker 2 (41:38):
And you are. You live in a beautiful island, and
you know you've got a head start on so many
other people that are just thinking about now getting into
acting at your age, you know, your season do. You
have an amazing support system. They're here with you today
and you know I can tell that you know you've
already done a lot, but you have so much more
to accomplish.
Speaker 3 (41:57):
Hey man, I I'm going for that Oscar one day,
you know, like that's that's definitely my biggest dream.
Speaker 2 (42:04):
I can already see it.
Speaker 3 (42:05):
Yeah. We love to just keep getting roles like this,
you know, challenging roles that that I would love to
do more biopics as well.
Speaker 2 (42:14):
Those are amazing those and those are hard.
Speaker 3 (42:16):
Those are hard, But those are hard because you're portraying people.
Speaker 2 (42:20):
It's Nika Is.
Speaker 3 (42:20):
I'm not comparing you to Lisa Alsa exactly.
Speaker 2 (42:23):
They're doing you. You're putting your own sauce on it.
But when you're portraying people, you have to be genuine
to who they.
Speaker 3 (42:29):
Were Yeah, absolutely, and.
Speaker 2 (42:31):
You know it's crazy. That's what catapulted Jennifer Lopez to
the star that she is today. You know, Selena Catania,
it's crazy that you say that.
Speaker 3 (42:38):
Which is crazy because I've always said that. I've always said, like,
I want to be the next Jelo, and and for
me to be playing Lisa A Lisa the first of
before Jalo and.
Speaker 2 (42:48):
Selena, before Carol G, before Tormundo, Lisa Lisa, it's crazy
because my intro to the episode for Lisa Lisa, that's
exactly how I enter her. Before Jlo, before Shakira, before
Carol G. There was Lisa Lisa. She's pioneer when it
comes to this. Yeah, and I'm happy you know that
you took on that role. You crushed it. And you know,
(43:10):
if you're listening, make sure you first listen to the
episode for Lisa Lisa so you can know her entire
life because it's a long hour plus episode, and then
I want you to cross reference and go to Lifetime
and watch her movie. Can you feel the beat? Journalists,
Thank you so much for sitting down with me today.
Speaker 3 (43:25):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (43:26):
It was amazing getting to know you and now we're
more than just friends on Instagram.
Speaker 3 (43:30):
Yes, memuck, it really feels like say, we'll hang out.
Speaker 2 (43:39):
Of it all shot.
Speaker 3 (43:46):
No, I to be honest, like I love when you
guys say that. No, it's it was amazing. No, like
Bad Bunny has transformed the island.
Speaker 2 (43:56):
You could. It was just electrifying. It was just a
vibe of a vibe and he was hanging around to
I don't know, you know, like the Porto Rican like
I swear to god, I think I saw something on
Instagram to the anything see so and when that music drops,
(44:21):
we're gonna get We're gonna get behind you, we're gonna support,
and we're gonna push it out.
Speaker 3 (44:24):
I appreciate.
Speaker 2 (44:24):
I want to hear that English song. Yes, Grassiers and
come Again. I will oh, I will Kelly Gracia.
Speaker 1 (44:33):
This was Grassiers Come Again is a production of Honey
German Productions in partnership with Iheart's micro podcast network.
Speaker 3 (44:44):
No, that was
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