Entrevista con la directora y guionista Tracie Laymon y la actriz Barbie Ferrera por la llegada del largometraje "Bob Trevino Likes It" a video on demand
00:00Amigos de Diario de las Américas, me encuentro con Tracy Laymon,
00:07directora y guionista de Bob Trevino Likes It,
00:09un hermoso dramedy que ya tienen en video on demand.
00:13Dad, ¿es esta una lista itemizada de todos los gastos de ser mi padre?
00:17Sí.
00:17Dad, hay comida de bebé en aquí.
00:19¿Sabes dónde estarías sin mí? ¡Estamos terminados!
00:22Sé que hay alguna inspiración, alguna real inspiración,
00:27detrás de la spark que ignora esta historia.
00:30¿Puedes decirme qué ha movido te contar esta historia,
00:33esta manera de drama y comedia y tocar estas cosas en la vida?
00:41Porque para mí, esto fue como un terapia film.
00:46Sí, absolutamente.
00:47Sí, yo fui inspirado por una real situación,
00:51donde yo estaba buscando mi padre y friended alguien con su nombre,
00:54quien fue más padre de mí que mi padre había sido en ese momento,
00:57y fue realmente healing.
00:58Y así, yo sabía que tenía que share lo que la kindness de un amigo
01:02tenía que me en mi vida.
01:03Y yo creo que, en cuanto a la tone,
01:08es como lo veo el mundo.
01:09¿Sobes hay cosas que son cosas que son así que me llaman,
01:14o cosas que son así que son así que es absurdo y que me llaman.
01:17Y yo creo que sometimes cuando cuando me ha experiencó,
01:23si se trata de la belleza, por ejemplo,
01:25la belleza es porque le haen loved Stück.
01:27And if you think sometimes about joy, the depths of your joy is sometimes because you have experienced the opposite.
01:38So I feel that they go together.
01:41And so this movie was, I just went all the way with how I see the world that way.
01:46And luckily people kind of get it and like it.
01:49And so I think I'll keep doing that tone if I can, because it's really who I am.
01:55And there's a poem that I read to my incredible cast called On Joy and Sorrow.
02:02It's by Khalil Gibran.
02:03It's from the prophet.
02:05And he says, your joy is your sorrow unmasked.
02:09And the selfsame well from which your laughter arises was oftentimes filled with your tears.
02:15And there's other parts where it says, like, is not the loot that soothes your spirit the same wood that was hollowed with knives, you know?
02:23And it's not the cup that holds your wine the same clay that was burned in the potter's oven, you know?
02:29And so it goes on to basically say that this balance of the joy and the sorrow is life, you know?
02:35And I hope that it helped the cast.
02:38I don't know.
02:38They didn't tell me.
02:39But that helped.
02:41That's beautiful.
02:42And I hear you.
02:44And for me, that's like the kiss tone from Lily.
02:48Hello?
02:49Hey, Dad.
02:49It's me.
02:50Gotcha.
02:50Leave a message.
02:51Hi.
02:52The mailbox is full.
02:53If I'm not the same as her.
02:55Me encuentro con Barbie Ferreira, la protagonista de Bob Termino.
02:58Like it.
02:59Barbie.
03:00Lily is such a complex character.
03:03She's always smiling and with others.
03:06But she's full of pain.
03:09What trait made you fall in love with her when you read the screenplay?
03:13Oh, my gosh.
03:14So many things made me fall in love with Lily.
03:16I think her childlike wonder was really my favorite thing.
03:22You know, she's a woman in her 20s.
03:23But yet, it feels like everything is brand new to her.
03:27It feels like, you know, she's still discovering things in like a childlike way that I thought was so interesting.
03:33It was just written in the script.
03:35And so I got, I had, I had a lot to play with that, you know, and just kind of someone who is so pure, but also so tainted.
03:43It's just, it's just a very strange woman who I thought was so cool.
03:49I'm, I love, I'm obsessed with strange women.
03:51I love strange, complicated women.
03:53So this is, it was perfect.
03:54I went searching for him.
03:57And I accidentally found another Bob Trevino.
04:01Bob Trevino likes your comment.
04:04How did you find Barbie?
04:05Because she made a terrific job as Lily.
04:08Oh, my gosh.
04:09Well, I, you know, I was, I was looking for Lily, you know, when I wrote it, I just kind of imagined myself because it was, you know, my situation.
04:16And then when I went to cast, I was like, this person doesn't have to look like me.
04:20They just have to understand what it's like to, to, to go through things, to be vulnerable, you know, to have awe, childlike awe.
04:29Like she hasn't, I'm pregnant, you know, she has this just magical awe that she, you know, in the, in the love story with Betty Who and just, you know.
04:37Um, um, and then, and then I saw her vulnerability and euphoria.
04:40And I said, you know, you take this, like, this actress who has this incredible ability to be vulnerable, like, like, like almost unparalleled, you know, and then, and then you, you, um, the same person can have childlike awe and wit and humor.
04:55You know, these things don't usually go together in the same, her range is just incredible.
04:59And I found myself just wanting to see more of her.
05:03And, and so, um, once I, there was a scene at the end of season one, um, where she's upstairs with, with Austin Abrams, um, talking about why she did the things that she did.
05:12And that, you know, she's, she's explaining, I'm sorry, I hurt you.
05:15I did all these, you know, and you can see, I, I, when I watched that scene, that's when I saw Lily and I never unsaw it.
05:21You know, it was like, she has this maze and somebody who hadn't been through what Lily's gone through or what you could say, oh, just say it.
05:28It's easy to say it, but you feel this maze of how hard it is to say it because this is what you've been through.
05:34And I thought that's her.
05:36That's Lily.
05:37She, you know, you can yell at the screen and be like, Lily, don't do that.
05:40Or Lily, come on, you know, but like we needed to see the maze and the journey and, and Barbie's just the absolute best at that and, and bring so much of herself, you know?
05:50So she's so authentic, you know?
05:53Yes.
05:54Yeah.
05:55Hi, are we related?
05:57Jeannie.
05:57I think I may have made a friend.
05:58Who?
05:59Some young woman on the internet.
06:01How do you approach this character as an actress?
06:03Because Lily has a lot of problems expressing herself and you can feel in every scene that she's holding so much.
06:12She doesn't tell everything, but you can feel it.
06:16Yeah.
06:16Well, you know, usually when you're an actor, you, most people you would, when you're doing a performance, you really want to be like practice a lot of restraint.
06:24Right.
06:25Right.
06:25So like, you know, with what was interesting about Lily is that she's such a raw nerve and so at like a place in her life that anything can really disrupt her is that her emotions are so face value.
06:39You get exactly what, you know, you, she expresses them in a way that is so uncomfortable for everyone around them because most people are taught to really keep it close to them.
06:50And so for her, a lot of her emotions are bottled, bottled, bottled.
06:53And then when they are released, which is most of this movie, of course, it's like a lot of her emotional, like, you know, like peaks in this film.
07:02That's what movies are.
07:03You, the way that she expresses it can be really uncomfortable for a lot of people because we're so taught to hide our vulnerability.
07:09And for her, she's just like, she's just like, um, you know, one little thing and it kind of blows up in this movie because she's at a point in her life where it's gone too far without any kind of healing.
07:22My name is Lily Trevino.
07:24I don't even know how she found me.
07:25He's funny.
07:27Look, she's screaming into the void.
07:29No one even likes her pose.
07:31You have a lot of experience as director and a screenwriter in short films and also series, but this is your first feature.
07:40How difficult was this leap to a larger format?
07:45Um, it was, you know, I, I was getting, you know, the years were going by and I was kind of like, well, if not now, when?
07:51And just, just risk everything and do it because, um, you know, people think that you're just going to get this big break and I think you have to make it.
07:59Like, it's not going to happen.
08:00You know, it's, it's, nobody's going to open the door and throw a million dollars in, you know, like that's not going to happen.
08:04So, so, um, I think I, because, and because my why and my cause was my North star, like why I had to make this movie, um, I was going to do it no matter what, you know?
08:16And luckily I just found the right team, cast and crew to, to do that with.
08:19Um, I think that some of the challenges for me were, um, you know, when you do a short or pilot or music video, it's like, oh, you're shooting one day, four days, you know, whatever it's, it's, it's, it's not so long.
08:32And I remember being like three or four days in and being like, oh, we still have a long way to go and it was fine.
08:38And I, you know, we're all ready and I could track everything, you know, shoot out of order and you're tracking everything.
08:42And as something changes, you need to look at how it changes everything every day, you know?
08:47Um, but I think, I mean, the biggest challenges were, it's a different amount of money.
08:51And I, I had to, with my producing partners had to, had to raise that money.
08:55Um, um, Carl F. Effenson, one of our EPs is extremely helpful with the, with doing all that, restructuring that Sean Mullen as well, my PGA producing partner.
09:04So, um, it was, that was really hard, you know, raising a little bit of money for a short is a lot different than raising, uh, you know,
09:11More money for a short, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
09:14Hi.
09:15Hi.
09:16This is just a kid who doesn't have anyone.
09:18I thought maybe I could have someone to offer.
09:20This is embarrassing.
09:21I'm sorry.
09:21Lily, you're going to learn that sometimes in life, shit happens.
09:26What traits does Barbie bring to Lily?
09:29And what did you learn from Lily?
09:32Oh my gosh.
09:32What did I bring to Lily?
09:34You know what I think I brought was, um, you know, I, I, I feel like I had to really
09:41shed a lot of my, like, quick-wittedness, my, um, my, like, comedic, my, my intentionally comedic things.
09:51Uh, so I think what I really brought to her was
09:55everything.
09:59My pain, my, like, um, I, you know, it felt like I, I had to, like, really, it feels like when you're an actor and you're a character,
10:07it feels like you have to filter all your emotions through the character, you know,
10:10it's like, these are real emotions that you filter through a completely separate human being.
10:15And so for me, I had to filter so much of my own mannerisms through her, uh, that it felt like I got lost in Lily for a sec.
10:23So I think, you know, I really brought my experiences in my life and, and really my, um, parts of myself that I don't really show people.
10:31Uh, you know, so yeah, I think so.
10:34What are you doing meeting 50-year-olds on the internet?
10:38We're just friends.
10:41What is that?
10:42Um, hi, everybody.
10:43Please, please, please watch Bob Trevino Likes It on digital.
10:46Um, let us know what you think.
10:47I hope you like it.
10:48Please watch Bob Trevino Likes It.
10:51It is out now.
10:52It is a wonderful film.
10:53Um, if you want to feel something, if you want to feel, um, happiness, sadness, joy, all sorts of things.
