00:00You know you look amazing tonight.
00:02Thank you, so do you. You look very glamorous.
00:04Thank you. We're trying to give glamour.
00:06You're giving it all the way.
00:08Second time around this year for the Emmys, which is rare.
00:10You know, Hollywood is
00:12bouncing back in a new way.
00:14What are you excited to see, especially
00:16with this year in Hollywood that
00:18maybe we hadn't seen before?
00:20I think it is the most diverse
00:22Emmys list
00:24of nominees in its history.
00:26After 76 years,
00:28B-Line and Black B-Line have been here forever
00:30and not gotten our due.
00:32I think we're starting getting closer to parody.
00:34So I'm happy about that.
00:36I like a little progress.
00:38We all like a little progress.
00:40And speaking of progress,
00:42so many shows are making history.
00:44So many people are literally
00:46first-time nominees, which we also love to see.
00:48The newbies. We love the newbies.
00:50What shows are you rooting
00:52for the most tonight?
00:54Shogun.
00:56Baby Reindeer.
00:58The Bear.
01:00I mean, there's so much stuff, man.
01:02I can't even...
01:04Can't keep up. It's impossible.
01:06Well, tonight, obviously,
01:08you are here with...
01:10There's so many people that are coming right now
01:12that I love this. But what are you
01:14most looking forward to with this Emmys?
01:16Other than the history that's being made
01:18with the first-time nominees,
01:20what are you most looking forward to tonight?
01:22Well, Christopher Brago is a friend of mine
01:24and he's the new chair, the first Latin chair
01:26of the Emmys Awards.
01:28And I'm presenting him tonight.
01:30So I'm really looking forward to that moment.
01:32They gave me a really beautiful spotlight moment,
01:34so I'm going to seize it.
01:36Do you think you'll make your friend cry?
01:38I'm going to make a lot of people cry.
01:40Carpe diem.
01:42Here we go. I'm ready to see it.
01:44So I hear you have a new project coming
01:46that you've got to tell us about.
01:48Yes. It's on PBS. It's called
01:50American Historia, the Untold History of Latinos.
01:52It took me five years to get this on air.
01:54And it's the thing I'm most proud of.
01:56I think this is the cultural corrective
01:58my people have been waiting for their whole lives.
02:00Because John Hopkins University
02:02did a study and 87% of Latin
02:04contributions to making of the U.S.
02:06are not in history textbooks.
02:08And this is the antidote to that.
02:10That is amazing.
02:12What is the biggest thing
02:14that you learned during that time
02:16on the show that you were just shocked by?
02:18Even you as a person who's a part
02:20of the community, a leader and a representative
02:22of the community, what were you like?
02:24Oh, I didn't even know that.
02:26Well, I didn't realize
02:28how much oppression we had experienced.
02:30I was not aware.
02:32After black people were the second most lynched people
02:34in America, but we were burnt
02:36alive, shot,
02:38experimented on, sterilized,
02:40segregated.
02:42The first young
02:44boy lynched in America
02:46was a Latin boy, 1911,
02:48before Edgar Mevers,
02:50who's the second.
02:52And he was 14 years old because he disrespected
02:54a white man in 1911, Antonio Gomez.
02:56So that fact was like chilling.
02:58Wow.
03:00Crossed out, deleted, erased.
03:02And now we're putting it back into the world.
03:04And when does this project come out?
03:06September 27th on PBS at 9pm.
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