00:00Alejandro Eda, Clown and Out, I saw it all, I loved it,
00:07but I imagine when you received the script with that title, it was like, let's see,
00:13what attracted you the most about that project?
00:16That title did not exist, Clown and Out came to Sergio or Rafael, one of the producers,
00:26after, the truth is, right now I don't remember exactly what the original name of the script was,
00:35but regardless of the title, yes, it attracted me a lot the story, it attracted me a lot the character,
00:41and it was something that I had not really worked on a feature film or have this
00:47character in which he had, perhaps, hints of comedy, hints of drama,
00:58and also very down-to-earth, I liked that, and that was done, I think it gave me three quarters of the pandemic,
01:09I was living in Key Biscayne with my family, we went there when everything here in Los Angeles collapsed and closed,
01:16we all went to Florida and there, as in the middle, there was no COVID,
01:21so my children were going to school and everything was open, and it was just when Sergio called me,
01:28I just received a script, I thought about the main character, and when I read it, I also had a lot of desire to act,
01:36also to do what I like to do, and I said, come on, let's do it, and go to Los Angeles, and well, the rest is history.
01:44And you just mentioned that the film has, not only because of the clown himself,
01:50but it has that dark part, that part of comedy, that ambivalence,
01:56which is also inside the clown, how did you navigate that in your character?
02:05I think that at first my first approach was about stand-up comedy,
02:13for me, Paco's thing was more, if his dream was to be a stand-up comedian, that's where I started,
02:21and I've never done that exercise, I've never prepared for that, so I had to go to different comedy clubs,
02:28here in Los Angeles, see a lot of stand-up, and there was a stand-up, but in particular that Sergio
02:37and Esquetino, Francisco, who is one of the writers, had based themselves on the fact that it is a Latin stand-up comedy,
02:45so I started to see all his routines, and from there I started to build Paco,
02:50the clown thing, I think that as the script happens, it was a bit of an accident,
02:55where Paco, to solve his economic expenses, worked as a clown in children's parties,
03:02so from there he starts with his father, who was also a clown in Mexico, in Tepito,
03:07so more than anything, my goal was first to be a stand-up comedian, and then to help him with this clown routine,
03:14and well, with the influence of Cantinflas, of Tintan, of Mexican comedians, of the time of Ortega,
03:20and well, a lot of improvisation, a lot of what is skipped, there are many themes that also touch the film,
03:29that can be good or it can be bad, it is a two-edged sword, to also talk about different narratives,
03:35or different ramifications in question to the story, so maybe someone connects with the story of the father and the son,
03:44someone connects with the story of love, between Paco and Betty, or someone with their personal story,
03:51of the kid who, maybe that was the one I connected the most, in a way, the kid who comes here to start from the bottom,
03:59but with a dream, and the dream, in a certain way, is in the entertainment area, which is Los Angeles, the Mecca,
04:06and he has this great dream from where he started in a small stage, to reach a sold-out solo show, right?
04:16That, well, I relate in a certain way, maybe many Latinos also have this American dream,
04:24but it is in all nationalities, even the locals, I imagine they also want to make their American dream.
04:30And well, now you are living here in Los Angeles, right? We are just talking about these things that the actor has,
04:38that he does a project and after three years he launches it, and you are already doing another thing, or you have done three more things.
04:46Well, tell me a little bit about your life now, you are in Los Angeles, what are you working on?
04:51Yes, well, I have lived here for many years, I arrived here when I was 23 years old, I turned 40 this year,
05:00so it's been 17, I think, 16, 17 years in Los Angeles, fortunately for work I have had to leave Los Angeles
05:09and go to live in other countries, like Mexico, like Colombia, well, because of COVID we went to live in Florida,
05:16so during those 17 years we have also been out of LA, and that has also nourished me a lot,
05:22because it is sometimes nice to go out and then come back with more desire.
05:25And fortunately this 2024, from March, I have not stopped traveling, I have not stopped working,
05:35and projects have fallen on me like never before, auditions have fallen on me, or also direct offers,
05:43and I think that is also nice when you no longer have to train or win the characters,
05:47but a director out there looks at you and wants to invite you to his project,
05:51and I love that, because I embrace that invitation a lot, like the one that was just with Sergio here in Clown and Out, thank you.
05:59Alejandro, to finish, of all the beautiful messages that there are, some, and so deep, of Clown and Out,
06:07which is the one that stays with you forever, the one that has the most to do with you?
06:13I really like the message of perseverance, I really like the message of family,
06:19and in the end, the message of love too, sometimes you never know where those relationships are going to take you,
06:30those people you know, in question of love, and I feel that Paco does that in his life,
06:37he does things with love, and from there perhaps a happy ending unfolds.
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