00:00I'm Rafael De La Fuente and I'm so happy to be here.
00:03Now I am in Dynasty, which has been so much fun.
00:07It's my first series regular in an English-speaking show.
00:10It's been a wild ride for our third season.
00:14I knew about the show because my mom was a huge fan back in the 80s.
00:19I think that the essence of the characters are the same,
00:21but with our reboot we're trying to make a show that stands on its own
00:25and that it's its own thing.
00:26Obviously, you know, inspired by the original.
00:30I think that Heather, you know, is the original
00:33and we're always going to have her,
00:35but I'm trying to do my own thing.
00:37Sammy Jo is the hot mess that you want to root for.
00:41He's trying to be better and to, like, you know, evolve.
00:45He's had a rough upbringing and a rough beginning.
00:49He's definitely a good guy.
00:50When we first started the show,
00:52my character background wasn't really defined
00:55and the whole Venezuelan storyline came into play
00:58because I pitched the idea.
01:00So they do listen to us
01:02and they do pay attention to our point of view.
01:06Having a diverse cast nowadays,
01:09especially on a network show,
01:11is just kind of the only way to go about it.
01:13It's a more accurate and real representation
01:15of what the world really looks like.
01:17And whoever you are and where you come from
01:20or what you believe in,
01:21you definitely want to see yourself represented
01:24and you want to feel like you're a part of the conversation.
01:27It's a really solid cast and we all get along
01:29and we have fun together.
01:31From season one, we all bonded so much
01:33and we all care so much for each other.
01:36Like, I love Grant Cho.
01:38Liz Gillies, our lead, she's just so fantastic
01:41and so wonderfully talented.
01:42I love Alan Dale who plays Anders.
01:45We have a ton of scenes together
01:47so we have developed a strangely similar dynamic
01:51in real life as in the show.
01:54We're always having fun and jumping around.
01:57Madison is our little baby girl.
02:00She's 21.
02:01She's really sweet.
02:02She joined last season
02:03and it was really refreshing to have that bubbly energy around
02:07and, you know, for me it's great to have scenes with her.
02:10I love her energy.
02:11She's always so charming and easy in the scenes.
02:15Some of that relationship and the fiction filters into real life.
