00:00 How are you, Peter?
00:01 I'm very well, thank you. How are you?
00:02 Good, good, good. Pleasure to meet you.
00:05 You too. I will say congratulations on the film, first of all.
00:08 And I had the I had the pleasure of speaking to Sasha Khaje
00:13 when The Flash came out and she was saying
00:17 like how important it was for her to sort of, you know,
00:21 have that sort of Latino representation.
00:24 Like I imagine, was it the same for you sort of getting this film
00:27 and realising just how much like
00:30 or how organic you could make this film with these characters?
00:33 100 percent. Like
00:35 Latino is not a genre, you know, it's just who we are.
00:40 And we we cannot hide it.
00:43 Yeah, I cannot hide it in the way I do things like I'm Puerto Rican.
00:48 I'm inherently Latino.
00:49 That's what is going to come out.
00:51 And it's very nice just to see a different flavour of a superhero
00:55 and much like Khaje,
00:57 which who I adore,
01:01 our cast, who is all Latino, for the exception of Susan,
01:05 felt the same way.
01:08 They felt so excited to be able to be themselves
01:12 in these characters, not try to be somebody else
01:17 and also see themselves as heroes in a movie
01:21 because everybody in the family has a heroic moment.
01:25 And I can only wish them to be here because they would have loved it.
01:29 But, you know, they have our full support.
01:32 Absolutely. And like, as you were saying, I was so happy
01:37 and like so surprised that like as much as, you know, Jaime is Blue Beetle,
01:42 the women in this family like get to just like Nana
01:46 brandishing the gal, like it was amazing.
01:50 Like, did you have did you have like was from the get go?
01:53 Were you like, OK, I need these women to be just as much as as bad
01:57 as as as Blue Beetle?
01:58 100 percent. Like
02:00 even in my family, if I wanted to do something,
02:04 my dad would say, ask your mom.
02:07 My mom is. Yeah.
02:09 And our parents are like that, too.
02:12 So we really wanted to to to give the woman in our lives
02:17 the celebration and the power they deserve
02:21 because thanks to them, we at least we are the people we are now.
02:26 And thanks to them, I think
02:30 I wouldn't be where I am today.
02:34 Neither would Jaime.
02:35 So it was very important for us to give each and every one of them
02:40 a heroic moment that builds Jaime and Blue Beetle
02:45 to become the hero that he is.
02:47 Yeah, absolutely.
02:48 Now, like and I like just the film itself has as a kid of the 80s,
02:52 like it had that 1980s feel, which I was just like the energy,
02:56 the enthusiasm, like the the charisma of everything.
02:59 I just like responded to it immediately because, yeah, like we love seeing
03:03 those films that like aren't taking themselves seriously,
03:05 but then have this very serious like narrative underneath.
03:08 So I really have to say, I know, like, congratulations.
03:12 It's just awesome to see more and more stories, you know,
03:15 separate from everything else that we see get told.
03:17 So I really I really hope that everyone, you know, comes out for this one
03:21 because it's just like it's just fun.
03:23 And that's what we want right now.
03:24 Oh, man, I appreciate that.
03:25 We really wanted to do that.
03:27 There's there's that nostalgia factor from the movies
03:31 that we grew up watching that they have a message.
03:35 They have a serious thing, but it's about there's a fun element to it.
03:39 And we wanted to really lean into that fun
03:44 and also not lose perspective that the viscerality of their relationships
03:51 and the things that happen do happen in the real world.
03:54 And that way just allowed us to give homage to all those movies
04:01 we grew up with and the score, the aesthetics,
04:05 the lights and the overall energy is something that I was like, OK,
04:10 I want to do something for my younger self.
04:12 I want to do something that my nieces can watch.
04:15 I understand where why that why uncle is the way he is, you know,
04:19 and have fun with that.
04:21 Yeah, no, absolutely, man.
04:22 Thank you. Thank you so much.
04:24 Congratulations again. Thank you. Thank you.
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