Nicholas and Derek talk to Joaquina about her International acting journey, and how she found her way to Hollywood.

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Hey, welcome to Film Center.

My name is Derrick Johnson II.

I'm Nicholas Killian.

And today we have a very special guest.

We're here with Joaquina Gentil.

Also known as JoJo.

Also known as JoJo.

And, it is possibly a JoJo reference, we don't know.

That could possibly it could be a JoJo reference from two different cartoons.

It could either be JoJo's Bizarre Adventures.

That's true.

Or Powerpuff Girls.

Oh, that's true.

Or, isn't there a JoJo and Josie and the Pussycats?

I feel like there was one in there too.

Have you ever gotten a Mojo JoJo reference?

All the time.

I'm sure you Especially when I'm angry.

They're like, Mojo JoJo coming out.

I've gotten a lot of JoJo Rabbit lately as well.

I've gotten a lot of JoJo Oh, what's Jojo Rabbit?

The movie.

The movie.

Jojo Rabbit.

I don't know what that is.

Oh, you haven't seen it.

Yeah.

To be fair, he's not really into that kind of stuff.

He's more into New Girl.

Nicholas.

Oh!

That's Nicholas bread and butter.

He's more into New Girl.

I love New Girl.

Do you like Big Bang Theory?

I don't know.

Yeah, Big Bang Theory was ours.

Yeah.

That says this some more.

Sitcoms.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's his more his speed.

So you want to tell us about a little bit where you're from?

Yeah, a hundred percent.

I'm originally from Argentina.

I would say born and raised, but it's not really true.

I was actually raised in Brazil 10 years of my life.

Really?

Yeah, I know.

All around the world.

So you were born in Argentina.

Which city in Argentina?

Buenos Aires.

Nice.

Okay.

And then you moved to Brazil.

When I was like A little kid.

Huh.

Was raised there until I was like 12, 13.

Where in Brazil?

In Rio and in Sao Paulo.

Oh, Rio, that's so busy.

It's such a busy city.

But you guys should go to Sao Paulo.

Sao Paulo it's bigger and it's I've been to Minas.

Minas Gerais?

Ah, Minas Gerais.

Yes.

I've been there too.

For the cheese bread.

Don't they have, they're famous for cheese bread.

For pão de queijo?

Does that translate to cheese bread?

Yes.

I used to date a girl from Minas.

Oh!

Yes.

Oh, you dated a Brazilian girl?

Yes.

Wow.

She was also the first Latina I ever dated, too, so that's I, when I used

to wear construction the scaffold builders were like, bro, you went

from just being white to just dating a bangled tiger, man, you gotta tip

your toe in the pool first, man.

Yeah, Brazilians are intense, but in the best way.

We're both from we're both from the South, so I was like, bro the

likelihood that He's not even from New Orleans, you're from Baton Rouge.

Yeah, Baton Rouge.

So Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

It's oh yeah, I'm dating this person from Brazil.

And everyone's what?

And I went to, I went there for a month.

I went to Uruguay, which I found out that's how they pronounce it.

They don't say it Uruguay.

And then Argentina.

And then I was in Buenos Aires.

Oh, what do you do in Uruguay?

I don't know, wherever the I took a cruise.

I paid I did a cruise.

Okay.

And it didn't speak English.

Which I was really upset about because I told her make sure they speak English.

Yeah.

You should just learn, Portuguese and Spanish overnight.

Portuguese is so hard to learn.

It's it's The sounds are complicated.

I don't know.

I lived there for 10 years of my life and I have Brazilian

friends and we speak to them.

Sometimes I'll like I don't remember how to say this.

Like the sound happen.

You know what's crazy makes is hello friend.

But you can't say that to a guy.

'cause then that's like fruity.

What again?

Oy Meeks.

O me O.

Yeah.

Oy Meeks.

Yeah.

I don't know that It must, it might be term, it might be like a slang Yeah.

Slang terms.

Yeah.

It's interesting because then like to a lot of Americans when they're like.

It Portuguese is not Spanish, but to a lot of like uneducated

Americans, it sounds similar enough.

So they're like, you sound like you're just saying Spanish words.

I've never heard of, but it's not even Spanish at all.

I think Brazilians and Argentinians, we can definitely understand each other.

Like in a way, like we'll get our points across.

You know what I mean?

Like we can definitely hold a conversation, especially

if it's about soccer.

We'll go all in.

Let's go.

Cool.

Guys, let's not start on soccer.

I'm really passionate.

I used to really like to mess with her though.

Like she would be talking with her friends and I would just say a couple of words

in Portuguese just to make her sound like I know what it is they're saying.

Be like, Oh, because they, I am, he, my name is Nicholas in like Portuguese.

And they, no, I used to just say like random words and then they'd

look at each other blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Nicholas, can you understand what we're saying?

And I was like, Nicholas, you did that thing from a family guy where

that that Spanish speaker tells Brian, he's no, I only know how to

explain that one sentence in English.

So you spent growing up in Brazil and then went back to Argentina.

Went back to Argentina.

I did end of my high school.

Years, first years of university.

And then I decided from one day to the other that university,

which university you go to, so an Argentinean one called WADE.

So it's called Universidad Argentina de la Empresa, but basically, yeah, I know.

I was starting performing arts and production and already in college.

Yeah, oh, we got a backup.

We got a backup.

So what got you then interested in the entertainment space?

Let's go.

When I finished high school, I was like, when I was in high school, I

already wanted to quit high school.

I wanted to drop out and study music.

Oh, crazy.

Okay, what kind of music?

Any type of music?

Like not like just like in like comp composition, direction, whatever.

I was crazy.

I didn't do that.

Okay.

Of course.

Here we are.

I actually, I always participated in like school plays, choirs, singing.

So when I got out of high school, I was like, this is it.

I'm done with this.

My parents were like thinking, Oh, she got really good grades.

Top grades in class, she has scholarships, she's definitely gonna

study something like business, to be a lawyer, something where all those good

grades can be like put to use, yeah.

No mom, no, I'm studying acting, that's what I'm doing.

And what was your parents reaction to that?

My dad, imagine, he wanted to kill me.

Oh, yeah, I imagine.

And also for the audience at home, what I, correct me if I'm wrong when I say

this is that the university system is flipped like it is here in America.

You have the, it's better to get into the public schools than the

private schools because the private schools are just There's a mix.

We have really good private schools, like really good private schools.

And we have really good public university.

University in Argentina is free.

We, the college system is different.

We don't have like college and then university.

Does it make sense?

Yeah.

I thought the two were the same thing.

Yeah, we're the same thing.

You just go to whatever you want to study directly.

So if you want to be a doctor, you can.

You go directly to medical school, instead of being like, Oh, college

first and then medical school, you just go directly to medical school.

Like you're going to share some subjects with, probably with the

dudes, studying biology, chemistry, but You guys are all STEM though.

Yeah, but you're gonna be doing your medical school from the start.

You're not going to be doing anything filler.

No.

No, no English or general education.

No.

No GED.

No.

It's just all directly to whatever you want to study.

That's a good idea actually.

It works pretty well.

That's what it should be.

When I started studying, so I was like, Mom, I'm gonna study this.

It took me a while.

I'm not going to lie, I started with journalism first, and

production and journalism.

I hated journalism, especially in Argentina, because it's

like really political and no.

And I had to learn the constitution, and I was like, point by point,

I was like, I'm not doing this.

I'm not doing this.

So I went back and I started and I got into a bunch of, musical theater, like

weekly classes and acting classes.

And then I started doing production in WADE, which is the school I

told you about, and this new career opened, which was a performing arts

career with professionals of the space that were really well known.

I was like, I need to do this.

And the good thing is as I said, my production career and my performing

arts career, they shared subjects.

So I wouldn't have to take a lot of them again.

Exactly.

And I just started off, I had done like six months of the other one.

So I jumped in and at the same time I had a band.

I, Oh, what instrument do you play?

I don't play, I sang.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, you sing?

Yeah.

That's how I got into acting actually.

Cause I was like, Oh, I love musical theater.

And then I completely moved away from musical theater.

But cause that's what I was going to ask you.

What was the hook, what was the thing that got you into it?

So it's musical theater.

Yeah.

It went all from like music, it started all from music and singing in choirs

and then getting a role in a musical theater, playing in high school and

then being like, Oh, I want to do this outside, bringing it outside.

So you're a musical theater kid.

Oh, wow.

I'm not proud.

I'm not proud.

I was in musical theater when I was in high school, too.

It's you took a little bit farther than I did.

But yeah, musical theater is always so interesting, especially

if you always have that one kid.

And this is at least in my high school and other high schools.

I've noticed there's always one kid who can't sing at all.

They are a terrible singer, but they have so many other skills.

We had a kid in our high school.

He couldn't sing, hold a note for his life, but he could build

sets like basically by himself.

Oh my God.

Our teacher was like, I don't care.

He's in the play.

Cause he's building.

Yeah, that is so fun.

It that's so true.

Pretend he knows how to sing.

And then, he never sung anything by himself.

No solos, always surrounded by other people.

That is so funny.

Yeah.

My only problem was like, I felt like that world didn't match my personality.

I don't know if that happened to any of you guys.

Yeah.

Cause it's all the cattiness in the two face.

And yeah, I just didn't want to act anymore.

To be fair.

That was like, that was my thing.

I was like, you know what?

There are a lot of really great actors out there.

I don't want to be one of them.

I feel like the world, I would have, I to write stuff, that's, that was like

it's, it was more like I like to direct and watch stuff and I didn't even start

writing until I got to film school.

So then what.

And then brought you to America.

Oh, here we go.

So I in the middle of this training that I was going through, which was more

towards musical theater and performing arts as a whole, as I would say I was

like, I feel like I'm not acting enough.

I feel like this is not enough.

Like I felt like I had classes, but they weren't like in depth.

I felt like there was thing, there were things missing.

So I was like, satisfying the hunger.

Yeah.

And when I was 15, I went to New York for the first time.

Oh, cool.

What part of the city?

I assume.

Yeah.

I went to Manhattan for the first time and with my grandmother

instead of having a quinceanera, I had a Fifteen year old trip.

She was like, yeah, I'm gonna go ball out in New York, see

ya, enjoy your cake, losers.

Exactly.

I was like, why do I want to party?

Let's go on a trip.

Yeah.

So I went to New York and of course I went to Broadway, watched plays, et cetera.

I was like, I need to do this.

This is what I want to do.

Do you have any favorite Broadway plays?

No.

You don't, you can't choose one?

No.

Like cats or something like that?

No.

I'm gonna say something that's really controversial.

I really enjoy to perform in them.

Yeah.

I don't know if I enjoy watching them as much.

Yeah.

I hear that a lot.

Statistically musicals do way worse than any other genre of performing.

In fact, especially when it comes to theater, not theater, when it

comes to a television movies, that's why I like in the, like the 19.

Like in, in like the mid 1900s, like sound of music did well, but sound of music

is also not really about the singing.

It's about, Nazis, right after the war.

But that's why they like mean girls, like the recent mean girls that came out,

the recent color purple that came out.

Those were both musicals in the advertising for both of those movies.

They did not advertise their musical because they were afraid

people wouldn't go to see it.

And in fact, there's, you can look it up.

There's tons of videos on the internet of people.

They're in there watching it.

They're recording on their phones.

They're not supposed to be doing that, but as soon as they start

singing and goes, Oh, you could see him like get up and leave.

I'm like, that's so embarrassing.

Why did you do this?

Yeah, that's like Les Miserables.

Did they not advertise that it was a musical?

Yeah.

They didn't advertise that was a musical either.

Because my dad really wanted to see that and we went into the theater and I was

like, okay Maybe they're just singing a little bit and then I talked and turned

to my dad I was like, hey, they're doing nothing but sing and into the woods

also did that too Even if it is like a musical rendition now, here's the thing

Wicked is coming up wicked is my one of my favorite plays I've seen it more

times than I would like to admit however, I've seen the advertisement for it,

there's no singing that I saw, but Ariana Grande is there, I need to watch that

just to see what's gonna happen there.

Yeah, there's so much drama behind that, know.

But you came to New York when you were 15, and then.

And then I was like, I have to come back at some point to study.

So yeah, cut to when I was 21, 20, 21.

I go to New York.

I do a course at NYFA.

You went to New York Film Academy?

Yeah, but it did a short course.

It wasn't like I went to the one here in Los Angeles.

Oh, really?

Yeah.

Yeah.

I'm still the guy from their commercial.

I had shorter hair back then.

Wait, what year did you go to?

I have a lot of friends from NYFA here.

Yeah?

A bunch.

I graduated during the pandemic in 21, but I got here like late 2018.

And to be fair I had no aspirations of being a writer when I got here.

I did, I was doing art and I, and the art PD department.

And I will forever say that Gilbert there was this guy named Gilbert, who

was our first semester writing teacher.

I was in the wrong class.

Cause everyone in the class was like, It was like, all right, I won't go around

the room and say what you're here for.

And I'm like, Oh, I'm a writer.

I'm going to be a director.

I'm a writer.

And I was like, Oh, I'm art department and costumes.

I'm in the wrong place.

And that's, I was like yeah, I'm also a writer too.

Thinking oh, okay.

I'm about to leave after this.

Yeah.

And yeah, Gilbert wasn't like, Hey.

Don't your costumes are great, but your writing's better to the point where your

costumes suck That man changed your life.

Yeah.

Yeah, so you went to you tonight for new york tonight for new york

And I was like I need to come back.

I need to come back to the united states I need to I don't know when

I don't know how but I just have to I just have to come back Cut to I

didn't come back to the united states.

I went back home.

I continued.

University and then I was in my third year of university.

What year was this?

So I went to New York 2016 and then 2017 a friend of mine calls me and she's

you have to audition for the school.

I was like, what?

School where?

She's you have to audition for the school in France.

Oh.

And I'm like, there is no way.

No way.

Why France?

She's shut up.

Just go.

Do it.

That's a good friend.

Yeah.

I'll tell you about this friend of mine in a second, but she was

like, shut up, just go and do it.

And I was like, okay, I'll show up.

My grandma had died.

I was like grieving and stuff.

And I was like, I'll just do it.

And I did the audition, I had to do a contemporary monologue and a Shakespeare

monologue, and it was the first time I had to do a Shakespeare monologue.

Because in Argentina you don't see Shakespeare until a certain point.

Like it's not our what's the idea behind that?

Like why don't you see it till then?

I think Because it's so complicated?

Because Shakespeare in Spanish?

Yeah.

That's true.

It's already I am a pentameter, yeah.

It's already confusing in English.

I can only imagine what it sounds like in Spanish.

Yeah.

Translate it from In English for kids.

Yeah.

Yeah.

No, that doesn't exist.

And I got in to the school.

Oh, that's awesome.

And then I remember the name of the school.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's called phone act Fontainebleau school of acting.

So the school it had just started.

And the cool thing about them is that they brought, they still

bring, cause they still exist.

And I love them very much.

And I would actually say, anyone who's interested in doing theater and likes

the UK model of schooling, you have to go there, because it's insane.

Oh, even though they're French, they use the UK model?

The owner used to go to Guildhall, which is a school in London.

And he got a lot of the teachers from Guildhall, Lambda and Radha,

to just come and teach in the middle of nowhere, in France.

Wow.

Wow.

Hey, wow, that must have some pull, huh?

These are teachers that taught like Orlando Broom, Daniel

Craig, like crazy people, right?

Yeah, and all of a sudden I'm like, I have to go there.

What the hell?

Yeah, and I went there I was like, I'm just gonna go a year.

I'm gonna try for a year if I don't like it Whatever.

I'll just go back and finish university.

I went for a year.

I went for two I stayed for two.

I had a theater company there with my friends.

We went everywhere like London, Brussels.

We had the best fricking time.

That sounds great.

I know.

And then when I finished that, my, the same friend who called me like, you

have to audition to come to France.

She called, she got into Yale and she called me, yelled drama and she's you have

to audition to come to the United States.

I This friend of yours is like, all right, now that I got you to level

two, I got to bring you to level three.

The same friend.

She's yeah.

Who's this friend?

This friend is awesome.

This friend is the MVP of your life.

She's the MVP of my life.

You guys are like the Kobe and Shaq of friendship.

Y'all are doing it.

We don't share birthdays for a day.

So it's it's some weird thing.

But she was like, just come just audition for a bunch of schools.

So audition for a few, and then I got accepted at American

Academy of Gerontic Arts.

And that's how I came to the U S finally with a scholarship.

But and I did that and then COVID and I stayed and I worked through it.

And here we are working.

COVID threw a monkey wrench in, a lot of people's plans.

When you told me, cause I'm sure you're traveling all over the world, and what

did your family think about you traveling so much, especially in I'm pretty sure

they wanted you to come back home.

When COVID hit, I was here in LA and they were like I just got back from

London cause we put up a play and they were like, what are you going to do?

And I was like, I don't know how long this is going to last.

I'm going to stay I'm going to stay, whatever happens, like I'm staying.

And I stayed and What did your parents think this whole time?

They're just like, you gotta come home.

We don't know what's going on.

You're on my end.

Yes, but they supported me at the same time.

Yeah, it was a weird time.

I'm not gonna lie.

A lot of times I was like, what the hell am I doing in this city?

Like everything, everybody in Los Angeles, all the time.

I think that to myself every day.

I don't, I think that to myself, when I walk into work, I'm driving down the 405.

What the hell am I doing?

What is actually going on?

Especially Every time I talk to my parents about what I do, I try

to explain to them in the most clear cut, basic English I can.

And their response every time is my mom's response is always that's nice.

That great job, babe.

And I'm like, And then, this is really hard, but I appreciate it.

And then my dad, this is his, he gives this phrase when he wants me to change

the subject and doesn't understand.

He goes, that's Chinese to me.

Alright.

And meaning oh, I have no idea what you're saying.

But, whatever, let's talk about something else.

Yeah, I think with my parents, we're like beyond the point of me

trying to explain to them things that they're like, We don't get it.

We don't get it.

We support you.

We don't get it.

It's fine.

They're probably just do you have money?

Who?

Are you good?

Are you eating?

Yeah.

Are you okay?

Do you feel well?

Yes.

Are you healthy ish?

Eh, cool.

Went down the alive checklist.

Yes.

My dad's phrase is always, he doesn't really say much, but he's

it's good work if you can get it.

And that's literally what he says.

Oh, dad, this is what I'm doing.

He's yeah, cool.

Good work if you can get it.

Nicholas dad is actually mad funny.

Yeah.

He'll Your dad?

Yeah.

He'll be like, oh, hey, Ma.

Cause he'll be like, hey, Ma, put dad on the phone.

And Nicholas dad will be like, what's up?

And you're like, hey, dad, how you doing?

Good.

And he's alright.

And then I'll be like, how you been?

What you been doing?

And he was like, and I'll say what else?

And he was like, what else do you want me to do?

And they'll be like here's your mother.

And she'd be like, wow.

He said four words at that time.

Good chat, dad.

Good chat.

That is funny.

You actually, so you did play, you were producing plays.

Yeah.

We were also in them as well, right?

So what type of plays were you guys putting on mostly comedies,

mostly dramas, Shakespeare?

Oh yeah.

Oh really?

Wow.

Yeah.

So the, we toured with Twelfth Night.

We did a version of Twelfth Night and the director, her name is Christy Bushell,

Christy, she is, If there's anyone who's a monster on stage, it's this woman.

This woman has done so many Shakespeare plays at the Globe with the RSC,

with the Royal Shakespeare Company.

She is a beast.

And working with her, especially on Shakespeare, has been incredible.

I'm getting goosebumps as I speak.

She dissects the play in a way, and the sounds, cause she has this

theory that Shakespeare, and it's not a theory, it's a fact, but

Shakespeare was written to be heard.

Yeah.

not seen.

So she's very adamant about the language and how you're saying it and

how you're breaking up the script.

Imagine me, a foreigner.

I was about to say, you must be incredibly intelligent to be a we have

a hard time translating Shakespeare.

And then you come from somebody who's English is not even your native language.

So it's almost like you have to translate three languages.

Yes.

Yeah.

So I, my, the owner of this is.

School where I was, who was the one who introduced us to Kirstie, and

he was also co directing the play.

He's French, and he used to look at me.

He's we have to work three times as hard.

And I was like, I used to hate it.

I used to hate it.

I was so frustrated.

I think every black parent says to their child, it's so fake, it's true.

Like frustration to the max, and that was one of the reasons

why I ended up coming to the U.

S.

because the U.

K.

market is so much more closed, closed up.

If you're not, and he told me this, he's if you're not from the U.

K., if you're not, or if you're not American as well you're always going

to get cast as like the foreigner.

I've heard that.

I've heard that.

Like in Europe, basically, if you're not European, you're

just straight up the foreigner.

And it's not even like they care which type of foreigner you are.

There's oh no, this is just, here are all the roles.

And then we have six foreigners.

Doesn't matter where they're casting from.

And this is the other problem with my casting, which is I'm white.

Like I look, I don't look.

Yeah, but talking to you for five seconds, you can tell.

To her talking a lot of the cast of people I did look at your photo

and they're like, Oh, she's you know, she looks like she has money.

Oh, she must.

She's not Latina.

It's like my you look at me and they're like a Scandinavian or

German or something like no.

But yeah, so They're very closed up and they're very protective about

their market, which I appreciate.

And, they have, they go about it in a different way, which I also appreciate.

They're very heavy on craft.

Who did you study with?

Where did you study?

And it's pretty cool.

Like they have a whole different approach.

But that being said, it was really frustrating for me.

So my friend, her name is Maya, the one who got into Yale.

She's Argentinian too.

She has.

Very similar problems that I have.

And she's come to the U S you're going to feel accepted.

I was like, okay.

And I did, I came here and it was like a whole different world of it.

Very different.

I think there's like the industry has.

More opportunities, I would say like it's it there's way more things going

on, but there's more of everything.

I always say it's like America.

We have we produce almost more content almost we do produce more

content than any other country.

And I think part of that though is because of people like you because let's go.

We, America is so mixed seriously there's not one group of people

in the world that then doesn't also exist somewhere in America.

100%.

We have come to this issue, and what it sounds like coming from the UK,

it sounds like the UK, it's more streamlined, and it's more But here in

the US, there's tons of opportunities, but not a whole lot of competency.

Yeah.

I would definitely agree that there's a lot of people who get it.

Everybody says they're an actor or says they're a producer.

Yeah.

So I would say you need to know how to navigate.

I'd say You need to know how to navigate this world.

And it seems like the UK, the pipeline is very disciplined and streamlined.

And it's okay, you do this.

Whereas in Los Angeles, it's okay, you got to do, around the pond until

you find, there's still like a lot of like independent stuff going on in

the UK, like I have friends who are.

working on theaters like off West End and stuff and they do great.

Of course, but I do think what I meant by protect, like they protect

their talent in the sense of they're going to pick their people first.

Does that make sense?

Yeah.

I think the U S has a little bit of that as well.

If you're not American, like you are American, there's gatekeepers, of

course, but I think there is more of everything and not only in front of

the camera, but also behind the camera.

And I see it with the crews I work with, with everything.

So for someone like you, who's an actor and a producer, when you look

at a script or a play, I'm sure you have, I'm a writer director.

So I have two brains when I look at a script.

How does that looking what does that like for you?

I guess is, I guess for the first part would be like, Oh,

what's my position for this?

But as someone who's Oh, I'm putting on the play and I'm also adding in it.

How do you navigate switching those hats?

They are really, I think I've learned with time to switch

them on and switch them off.

Because it has to do with let me tell I started being an actress first, right?

So I studied to be present in the moment.

Connect, listen, be open, be responsive, be open to respond in a different way and

whatever they're giving you in the moment.

Very theater.

Very, childhood exercises.

Yeah, exactly.

But when when I started producing, I have this other side of my brain, which is

like executive of okay, I need to deliver.

I need to create, I need to execute.

And they don't mesh well.

They, how do you, because I find the same issue, how do you feel that the, that

being an actress first is a benefit to you as a producer, and then how do you

find it being just ungodly frustrating?

Cause I like, cause we produce stuff ourselves and I like when I'm

writing something, sometimes like it.

Is negative because I'll write something like, I don't

think this can be affordable.

Okay, I gotta, I can't do the scene, so I'm sure it's different for you though.

I think, yeah.

So I'm gonna answer his question first, which was how do you feel like

being an actress Benefit or didn't benefit me being as a producer.

I feel like everyone who works in film or in theater should go through being

in an acting class once has to go has to understand like talent because you that

way You'll understand what they can bring to you and what instead of saying be

more sad Yeah, be more sad be more angry.

What do you mean by this mom?

I hate that so much being in film school You see so many directors,

like, when they're trying to learn.

Yeah.

Would you, I heard, my favorite note ever.

Someone said I'm not gonna name this person.

But we're in class, and this person we have some actors come in.

They're doing our little scenes that we wrote.

They go, they're like, Yeah I want you to smile, but with less teeth.

And it's okay And all of us were like, that's the note for this scene.

The acting in the scene and he's yeah, it's only she smiled with less teeth.

Oh my god We're a context talking about for context this person's at her

father's wake So and there's no funny.

It's not like fun.

You're not it's a very dramatic scene So I have no idea what's going on.

Yeah, that is bizarre.

That is bizarre for sure.

But there you go.

It's a perfect example.

If someone was like, give them something that is actionable, that is

something that they can bounce off of.

Not be more sad.

But I think it's cool.

Cause when you study to be an actor, I feel like there's a if you're

not empathetic after studying to be an actor, I don't know what

you're doing with your life.

But but there's this sense of empathy and of understanding

that comes with it, right?

I think that it makes you more humane in whichever position

you choose to be after that.

So when I became a producer, I was, The good thing about starting to work as a

producer was that before I feel like as an actor, sometimes you can get stuck in

this mindset of Oh, I need to get the job.

I need to book the job.

I need to.

What?

What even is that?

But I need to book the job.

I need to book this.

I need to book that.

And everything revolves around that, right?

Around the booking, right?

The booking.

But when me.

when I started working, producing things, I was like, Oh my God.

There's so much more to the production.

Yes.

There's so many hands on this pot.

There's so many people spinning this wheel.

I am just like this little cat, like this little trerial cog in the machine, right?

Yeah.

Cog in the machine that is like helping this big picture come to life.

And I think it gives you such a sense of like humbleness and of I was so grateful

to all the people I was working with.

Cause I was like, this dude is making me look good.

And this light is making me look It's not just me and what I'm giving.

And it gives you a perspective.

It's just exactly how collaborative this stuff can really be.

It's been great having you on the it's been great having you on the show.

People can follow you?

Oh, yeah.

My Instagram is Juaquitax.

J O A Q U I T A X.

If you guys want to follow me there, for sure.

Awesome.

Awesome.

Like I said, it's been great talking to you.

And that's where people can follow you on Instagram.

Do you have any other social medias or just on IG for right now?

I'm on IG for right now.

Yeah.

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