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Inside the grid with Arturo Castro: Working with Greta Lee, Jared Leto, and making 'Tron' a little more Latino

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00:02Crazy. I mean, I got to take my fiance. My mom flew in from Guatemala for it. I was there
00:06with
00:06all my friends and I was, I've never been to a premiere that big, let alone one where I'm in
00:11the film. So yeah, it was watching Nine Inch Nails perform while closing down Hollywood Boulevard was
00:18holy moly. It was a seminal moment for me that I didn't even know I could hope for, you know?
00:23That's so sweet that your mom was there. Wow. She's here too. She's down here doing press.
00:27She's doing my makeup. Yeah. It's mostly her going like this. Just go like her, like you got to smudge.
00:33You got to smudge. But yeah, you try to see your family as much as you can when you live
00:37in the
00:37States. You know, 10 years ago or 15 years ago, you didn't get to just be a character. It just
00:42happened to be Latin. You know, you had to, there had to be a shtick about it, you know? And
00:46to be
00:47a three-dimensional person in a film this big is a dream come true and also a big responsibility,
00:53which I took very seriously. And so I hope it's the first of many. I mean, we've seen
00:59wonderful work from Pedro Pascal is great at doing that, of just being a person who happens
01:04to be Latin in a movie. And I hope that that just becomes the norm and not the exception.
01:08The soundtrack, the sounds, the look, the emotions in it are so strong that was, you know,
01:14you had to be there and you have to be in a movie theater to experience it, I feel. And
01:19so it
01:20was, it was surreal for all of us. I think technology is something that you have to
01:26build ethically, but also you can't ignore it, right? You can't just stick your head in
01:30the sand and be like, well, this is going to go away. You have to, but one thing I've noticed
01:34is that there's nobody watching the gates. We keep thinking, I think, I think they were
01:38like, well, they're not going to allow for AI to suddenly take over. But I'm like, well, who
01:45is they? Because like, like people, particularly people in power, like barely understand this
01:50technology, even much less know how to, how to regulate it. So it's up to us, sort of the
01:58public and the users to, to see what we're comfortable and what we're not comfortable
02:03with. But that being said, I think there's such a benefit to having these super computers
02:08and super intelligent digital minds helping with medical stuff and with, with everyday
02:14life activities. But yeah, it's something to keep an eye on. But it's important. It's
02:19up to us. It's up to us is the, is the real message here of nobody's coming for us. It's
02:25you that, that's, it starts with you. When we create this tree out of nothing, right? Like
02:31we, we find the permanence coats, spoiler alert. And we had so many takes where they just wanted
02:38me to like, just scream how happy I was about this, but it's like like dead quiet set. And
02:45so if you ever want to have a humbling moment, like try going, we saved the world. And there's
02:51just a bunch of people really quietly looking at you. It was funny in hindsight, but in the
02:56moment it was really, really embarrassing. And well, at least it made Greta laugh a lot. So
03:00that's good. I came in like a month later, once they were already shooting. So she already
03:05knew what the set was about and like how they worked and how, and she was such a great guide
03:09into it, you know, and like was, she has an incredible talent for making the biggest thing
03:16seem very intimate. And so as opposed to focusing on the overwhelming weight of this massive epic
03:22story that we have to tell, she was just like, Hey man, we're just here talking and doing
03:26the thing. And that was so kind of her to do. So yeah, that's how we build the chemistry
03:30series. If you could upload one piece of pop culture into Tron forever, a movie, a meme,
03:35or a song, what would it be? I would say it would be Hook that movie,
03:41that Robin Williams movie from the nineties. I think that should live in infamy for eternity.
03:47It's like something that makes you feel good every time you watch it. So what an iconic movie that
03:51and the birdcage.

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