00:00Congratulations by the way. What a what a night. Tell me what that meant to you
00:03be standing in the Echos Theatre next to Jennifer Lopez and Bill Condon on stage
00:07receiving the applause. Yeah I don't I think surreal is the only word that
00:12really fits. I mean I come from an immigrant family and so it was a little
00:16weird to be like next to Jennifer Lopez and she's like how did I get here? What
00:20left turn did I make? But yeah no I've been working in this industry for about
00:2410-12 years and so it felt like this moment where I was just like gratitude.
00:30I don't know I just felt so grateful. And how does it feel to have this movie you
00:35know hopefully it will come out soon but landing at least even in Sundance at this
00:40time when you know Bill Condon made a really powerful political statement
00:44against President Donald Trump's executive order. How do you feel about that as
00:49somebody who identifies as queer and and and also you know the issues facing
00:55immigrants as well today? I mean I entered into this industry because of
01:01politics right. Humans don't understand a world outside of story and so right now
01:08all of those communities are being constantly attacked and there's this
01:11vicious PR negative campaign against both of them and it's us we're reminding them
01:17it's like what are you doing? Our contribution to this country to this
01:21world is is vital it's important it's necessary and we are our existence is all
01:26right our joy is our right and so I think that our film if anything serves as a
01:32buck to say we deserve to take up space and we'd have a right to exist and a
01:39right to live just as much as anybody else because at the end of the day like
01:42despite whatever it's our humanity that comes there and that's what our
01:47stories about it's about our humanity. Beautiful you're seeing so much are with
01:51Diego Luna what did you work what did you learn or from watching him work or
01:56what did you take away from that experience? You know I admit first of
01:58all that man is so charming like the second you meet him you're just like oh
02:01wow okay I get it I get it he's so present he's just so present with you and I
02:10think that's the biggest gift that any actor can ask for it's just to have
02:13someone who's just really there with you. And what about Jennifer Lopez? I mean
02:17that's like working with like the Sun you know she's brilliant and she's she's
02:21stunning truly and I know that everyone probably already says this but she is the
02:25heart one of the hardest working people that I know and and just like love and
02:31respect and she was just so kind and brought the generosity to set that was
02:34just a blast. And has it led to auditions more work are you more meeting? Yeah I mean I
02:39was very fortunate I just got I got off of carry-on in December which we
02:43premiered and now we're like number three yeah crawling crawling to number two
02:48top most watched of all time and then and it's a perfect to do this it's just
02:52been it's really really really really really really fortunate so we were
02:56currently cooking up a couple of interesting projects that we can't just
02:59talk about yet but it's just been nice it's been nice to meet other creatives
03:03that's my favorite part
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