00:01I love the movie from the get-go being that it's an anti-Christmas Christmas
00:05movie, which is my favorite, but the comedy, I mean I think that was the
00:08beauty of it, was the comedy. It was so upfront, you know? And the action, even
00:14the action, even though it's violent and gory, there's a lot of humor in that as
00:18well. There were moments that you're screaming and laughing at the same time.
00:24You know, my parents were immigrants so they'd make me earn all my Christmas
00:27present, and I had to read, you know, an encyclopedia and a book in Spanish,
00:32otherwise I wouldn't get my gift, and I did all that, so I, and I asked for an organ,
00:37and there was this giant box underneath my parents' bed, like an electric organ, and
00:45I used to play Hava Nagila Hava when I figured it out, and Sabbath night, and they
00:51sent me out to get to the store, and I didn't go because I knew they were up to
00:54something. So I locked myself in the coat closet, and I heard the coat coat,
01:04and I burst the door open, I go, I caught you, I got you, and they're like, no, no, no,
01:08Santa brought it to us and asked us to put on the tree. Yeah, right.
01:14I think Tommy Ricola is a genius director, and the way he was able to weave these
01:19disparate tones together of emotion and feeling, because I feel like the message
01:25does hit you hard at the end, that, you know, we got to believe, you got to believe
01:29in something, you know, whatever, whatever it is that you want to believe, you got to
01:32believe in something to get you through the day.
01:37Well, I bought my wife an incredible Christmas present that she hasn't seen yet, like the best I've ever given
01:43her.
01:46Your dreams are important to me, so I need you all to speak out, act out, keep writing letters, complaining
01:53until we get parity, until we get proper representation. And don't give up, don't listen to Hollywood,
01:59don't accept the rejection, because it's not really, I mean, if I would have accepted Hollywood's rejection
02:05of me, I would have never made it, but I knew that they didn't, they weren't for me, they didn't
02:09represent
02:09me, executives didn't look like me, they didn't care about my story, they didn't care about what I was
02:14about, and I made it against Hollywood, I made it on my own, you know, doing Broadway or Off-Broadway,
02:21and I found whatever venue would take me, and that's how I survived. So I want you to survive,
02:26and I want you to fight for it, and never accept until, never accept until we have parity.
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