May 23, 2024 • 34 mins
Ros and Eric welcome actor, recording artist, philanthropist, father, and friend Ricky Martin to the show. Ricky opens up as he talks about his new role on the show Palm Royale on Apple TV+ and the "fluidity of entertaining”. At this stage in his life Ricky is so comfortable in his spirituality and grateful for what he has been blessed with, but it has not always been easy as he explains he can be surrounded by people but feel lonely and how he had to learn about putting his mental health first when sometimes he was asked to put on his entertainment mask. Well there are no masks anymore, and Ricky is living his life in gratitude as Ros and Eric really get a chance to have a real conversation with their friend.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is he said Aya Vijo with Eric Winter and
Rosalind Fantaz.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Hello, Hello, Hello, morning, morning after buen dia mihin the
ODA met today, I am excited to welcome a dear
friend to the show.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
I'm excited too.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Yes, he really doesn't need an introduction. We're going to
do it anyways, right because he is huge, a musician, philanthropist,
a dad, an inspiration and currently starring in Apple TV
Palm Royale. Do you understand Eric Winter that he has
sold more than sixty million albums worldwide as a solo artist.
(00:41):
Began acting in TV commercials at the age of six.
Nu Though he was Menuro in nineteen eighty four, and
then he left the band in nineteen eighty nine, joined
the cast of the Mexican tele NOVELA al cansar UNEs Treja.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Why he was on General Hospital too. Let's not forget
that he did.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
He won Premiolo Nuiz Through. He's done Broadway Limiss in
nineteen ninety six, che also in Broadway twenty twelve, a Vita.
He has a foundation, the Ricky Martin Foundation, many campaigns
against human trafficking.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
Let's not forget outstanding Emmy supporting Actor nomination for Versace.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
You're absolutely right. Do you know what's his actual name?
His real name, I don't Enrique Jose Martin moralist, Okay,
I don't know. Yes, Enrique Jose. And as a kid,
they call him Kiki.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Can't wait to chat with him. That's gonna be great.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Hey, what's going on?
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Hey, Kelly there?
Speaker 3 (01:44):
I love that art in your background. That's so cool.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
I have I have visited. I have, Yeah, she came
to visit and yeah, and she's only eating apple And.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Where are you notcalist in your house?
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Not modeling my house? So we rented a house in
the meantime. It's one of those things because of the
floods we got. It got really flooded. No from here,
because yeah, come yeah, So we took advantage. I said, okay,
let's clean it all up. Let's take advantage of this.
And it's working up fine.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
So that's good.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
That's good.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
But listen, going through remodels and building, it's it's it's
stressful because we've done it twice already and it's been
a nightmare.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
And they tell you three months and it takes seven.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Yeah, I've yet to see a contractor beyond time. With
any part of any construction.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
You want to hear something, you know, something crazy. We
had a problem with our house or we had to
do the same thing we were. We were like basically
building back the house, and we had to rent and
I kept and I got pregnant during the rental with Dylan,
my second the second one, and the whole thing was
telling the contractor, please, I don't want to deliver. I
have to be at the rental. I want to be
(02:54):
back home, so make sure you have ten months that
I just meet out. I had my baby and six
months later the house was ready. It took a year
and a half.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
That's where it goes. It is incredible and it doesn't
matter if it's in La Puerto Rico. It really doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
It's just how I know it's crazy. But anyways, listen away.
We are so excited to have you with us. Thank you, Brook.
It's been a while, like we've been dreaming about having Riki,
So thank you so much for taking the time of
doing this.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Much, for inviting me. Please are you kidding me? Congratulations
and all the success and everything and light and many
more to comfortfully.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Oh as well.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
I mean, you're always busy You're always doing incredible things,
not just with work but with philanthropy and everything else
that you do. You're always making a huge impact. But
with your latest project now Palmrele this is I mean,
this's been a lot of fun.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
We really enjoy.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
The sunes, this music ears.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Man, How what was that like? I mean, what's what
was the filming experience like for you? Like TV it
was a tax singe.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
I mean, a lot heavy hitters in this in this
show with you, right, like you've done that many times.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
But you always have to bring your A game to
the scene, obviously, because I'm so lucky to be surrounded
by such amazing actors. I mean, where do I start.
I mean, let's start dropping names. You know, Carol Burnett,
it's Laura Dern, It's the one and only Kristen Wigg.
(04:24):
You know. It's like we can keep going because it's uh,
it's it's it's like a dream team of like I said,
wonderful actresses. And then the story is so wonderful and
it's so brilliantly written. And Apple TV plus was they
were so generous because it's I can you can see that,
you can see the love.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
And for sure you can tell it's expensive expense on
that shows.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Can but I want to know about the process before
Ricky was this? Uh? Was this an offer that you
have to ca mystery? Read like, how did it go
down for you to? Did you read the material and
you call your people saying you know what I want in?
How did that go?
Speaker 1 (05:07):
You know? So it all started in a in a
in an after party in an Oscar night after party
where I was just dancing and and the creator of
the show, the One and Only Ape Sylvia, was there
and he just he said he went to my agent
who was with me, and he said, is what is
(05:28):
he doing now? And my agent goes, He's ready, He's ready.
He goes, let's talk. Let's talk. Two weeks later they
sent me the script and uh, two weeks two weeks later,
I was flying to LA to meet with the director,
Tate Taylor, who was someone that you know, I love
(05:49):
and he's been wonderful and and and and obviously you
know the typical question, who's attached to it? You know?
And and they just started dropping in. I'm like, I
don't even need to read this, let's jump in. I
meant get ready. Obviously, I I met with Tate and
and you know, I read all my scenes and I'm like,
(06:09):
I'm ready, let's read. I'm ready to audition. And he
goes like, no, I know what you can bring to
the table, don't worry, see you on set. That's great,
and let's do it. So it was wonderful and but
it's it's it was challenging. It was comedy. It was
the first time, you know, I did comedy. I'm lucky
to say that I was, you know, I was you know,
(06:30):
someone like Carol Burnette was holding my hand in the process,
and she taught me the wonders of of just forgetting
forgetting the script. You know, just leave your script on
your trailer and and let's walk and let's have fun
and whatever whatever happens between cut, between action and cut
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is is. It's about having fun. So it's it was
a very beautiful experience where I felt I felt free.
You know. The other projects that I've done were about
telling someone's story and not in this case. This was
a novel of soap opera album. I'm sorry, and you
could just add to it. And to have the writers,
you know, behind the camera taking notes of what we
(07:13):
were coming up with. Wow, we were giving and as
you know, and so we helped develop the characters a
little bit. So it was it was the most amazing experience.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
And so did you.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
So you did get to improvise quite a bit with
a lot on the scenes. I want to say a lot,
but they gave you freedom.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
For me, it was a lot, and and Kristin would
say it wasn't that much, and I'm like, okay, perfect,
you know, but but but but but I wasn't a
slave to the script. It where you know, if you
don't say the right words, we can get sued, which
was another case that I worked with in the past
with another production, and so so we were free. It
(07:54):
was the freedom of the liberty that I felt in
this project just to jump in and come up with
things and and I improvise on stuff that later on
were brought to different scenes because they were so effective
and and it was it was very special.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
Now I imagine something like, I mean, you were nominated
for an Emmy with Versace, right, So you're going from
drama drama, huge rhyme, Murphy right, like, very specific style
of storytelling into something like this. Was there a lot
of freedom in comparison like I with comedy, I find
that you often get a bit more freedom to dive
(08:31):
into the character and how you want to build out
the comedy with the dialogue. In a show like Versace
or a series like Versace that was that far different,
was ryan very particular on dialogue.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
We were not allowed to improvise at all because we
were telling someone's story. Yeah, and whenever we said we
chose another word, we would have the legal department show
up and say, wow, you cannot do this. You have
to go back to what is specifically on the script.
And it's understandable because we were telling the story of
(09:03):
the genre in this case and say it's a novel.
We were a little bit more more, a little bit
more now. We were great to to bring to bring
our Jews to the to the picture. And uh, I
mean there's magic in both. Obviously, you know, we're telling
the responsibility of telling the story of someone as iconic
as also it was wonderful, it was beautiful. But but
(09:27):
but it's it's incredible the darkness that you deal with
when you're when you're working with comedy. Right in order
for it to be effective, there there has to be
this darkness behind it, and and and I was dealing
with secrets that everyone had secrets in this palm real situation,
and and and we were able to to create our
(09:49):
own secrets that later on hopefully will become something else.
I I I was, I don't know. I'm still I'm
still floating over this. I saw the last episode and
I've been dealing with this script for two years, and
I was still in shock of how how what happened?
You know? And so there's been nothing but a wonderful experience.
(10:11):
And I'm very lucky.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
And that's fantastic. Did they announce a second season, Ricky
or not yet? You guys don't know. You're not supposed
to say anything.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Now, I'm like, come on, apple to you plus bring
it on and come.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
On so you will be off for it because I
know the last episode with something tragic happens to you.
So you we don't know what's what's going to happen.
If there's a second season, you're more than happy to
come back.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Course, I listen, I am. I love music and music
will always be there and music, obviously, what music has
has brought to my life is something that I will
always be very thankful and grateful. And we cannot deny
that part of that wonderful, that wonderful aspect of storytelling.
(10:57):
The first time I was in front of the camera
telling a story as an actor, I was fifteen years old.
With Manul, we moved to Argentina and we did a
TV series in Argentina. And at that moment when I
heard action for the first time, and I started telling
my story of this kid that was abandoned by his
father and he had a single mother. In the darkness
(11:18):
and the crying and the long it was something that
hooked me to acting right. And then obviously music came
into my life and did its thing, and I couldn't
just push it away. It was magical what was happening.
Once again, it's about storytelling. If it's through music that
I write or music that I don't write, if it's
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about a script, it's about storytelling. I had the honor
to be on Broadway. I've worked. I did Glee, and
then I did the Assassination of Danni VERSACEI and then
I went back to Broadway and then and now this
this is something that I that I that I want
to get ready for. I've been getting ready for many years,
but with a lot of respect and passion. Whatever I
(12:02):
do in this is because some ways, somehow people are
feeling some kind of of of of It's because it's
thought provoking and we're telling are are making people think
some way somehow and maybe changing the way they think
(12:22):
about life. And because of that, it's about storytelling. We
go back to that aspect of the fluidity of entertaining.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Right, have you ever thought about developing something for you, recky,
Like is there a TV show or a movie or
a limited series?
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Like?
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Have you ever thought about you know what? I love
acting clearly very good at this. It's about storytelling. Do
you think that you will develop something that you have
more control?
Speaker 1 (13:01):
My agent is constantly telling, constantly telling me, bring the book.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Bringing that that book.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
If you find that book, let's make it happen. And
there are some really interesting things that I that I'm
going through right now that I am that I would
love to bring into life. You know, it takes five years.
The first time I said, you know, I want to
do Broadway. I want to go back to Broadway, and
I want to do a Vita. It literally took five
years from that thought until we started production. So I,
(13:32):
you know, I just I turned fifty two years old,
and I think I am in a very special place
in my life where I can where I don't have
to prove anything to everybody. I just feel very comfortable
with my emotions where I'm at spiritually, physically, and and
and I don't, I don't. I just have to. I
(13:53):
just have to be grounded and vulnerable enough without fear
in to to to talk about things that I am
really concerned about through acting like I've done with music
some way, somehow, And then also very lucky to say
that people around me are inspiring me as well, and
(14:15):
the team that I've encounter in this journey has been wonderful.
So we'll see what happens.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
This is something I've always wanted to know, and you're
the perfect person to ask because an entertainer that has
reached so many different mediums in entertainment, right, I know
what the feelings like when you dive into a great
character and that rush that you get when you finally
connect to the character and you see it through, whether
it's a series or a movie, whatever it is. Right,
you've done Broadway as well, but you've also sold out
(14:45):
massive arenas with people singing your music. What's the biggest
adrenaline rush as an entertainer or that feeling that's just
like you're out of body, you're out of body experience
in a way, because to now it has to be
it has to be that. But I mean, I want
to hear from you what is because it's all different.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
They have.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
You know, you've done Broadways. You're still in front of
a crowd, and the.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Power, the power of the crowd doesn't comper to anything
because you know you have twenty thousand people giving you
energy right there, right that's at that moment when you say,
everybody put your hands together and your music a huge
(15:28):
arena to a song that you created, you know, I
don't know years ago, and it is really beautiful. And
Broadway you have that, and Broadway on Broadway, I haven't.
I had a moment where you know you're working on
actuals because I was. I was doing the miss and
I was I was playing Marius right and and there's
a moment where this character dies in my arms and
(15:49):
it's very wonderful moment, very sad, very dramatic, and all
of a sudden, from the last road, I hear someone
say freaky.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
I love Yeah, Oh, my god, So you know it
makes you break character or did you just stay? You stay?
Speaker 2 (16:08):
You were like I didn't hear I didn't hear it.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
She resurrected. I was like, yes, they right there.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Do you know that I went through I saw you
when you're did li miss? Oh that went to see you?
I went to Broadway? Yes, I saw him do the miss.
It was because I love Broadway and we love you.
So I was like, oh my god, what an incredible
Let me let me ask you something and this is
just me here tripping, you know, like because you have
you have accomplished so much. Do you take moments that
(16:42):
you're in the bathroom, you're in the sauna, like you're
by yourself, and let's say that it's a difficult time
in your life. Do you think and did you say
thank you? And those moments of greatness like you're in
a stadium with twenty five thousand people adoring you. How
does it make you feel reaky? You know, like, do
(17:04):
you go to God, I've been so freaking blessed? Or
does it feel lonely? Does it feel amazing knowing that
you're it?
Speaker 1 (17:14):
All of the above. Russell I started when I was
twelve years old. Like I said, I'm fifty two, and
I've had moments of joy, and I've had moments of
deep sadness and moments that are dark where I feel
lonely even though I'm surrounded by you know, one hundred
(17:35):
and fifteen people, people that travel with me when I'm
on the road. We could be like one hundred and
fifteen people, right, and that becomes your family. And sometimes
you feel the adrenaline of, like I said, the crowd
twenty thousand and thirty thousand people singing and dancing to
your music, and then the silence of when you go
(17:55):
back to your room, you gotta be careful because the
crowd could be a bit painful. So I'm just a
survival I am. I am so lucky. I don't know
it's because if it's because of my spirituality or because
(18:16):
it's it's been it's been really sad at times, you know.
And and uh and but like I said, I I
have people around me that they hold my hand, they
at my back, and they said, let's let's keep doing
this because you were born for this. For sure, this
is it, this is your life. Why do you want
to quit that? We can quit, We can quit for
a minute and then you're gonna say, Okay, I want
(18:37):
it again. In there, I said once I was in
Australia and I said, it's either my mental health or
the next three shows that I have. So I want
to go back home because my mental health. I feel weird.
I don't. I am not comfortable today. And I left.
I counseled. Everybody was like, what are you doing, Rickist,
It's three more shows, come on, we can do this.
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And I'm like, well, I want to be home. And
I went home, and that's all I wanted. I want
to be home. I wanted to be home with my dogs.
I wanted to jump in the ocean. You know, you know,
our little island has that thing in the ocean that
it fixes everything. So all I wanted. This is like
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twenty something years ago. By the way, this is many
many years ago, but this is the living la vida
loca moment where I was high fiving God in so
many ways. But at the same time, I didn't know
who I was. I was I was being pressured to
come out as a gay man when I was not ready,
you know, I was, you know, but then I had
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the pressure of but you were a sex symbol. You
got to shake those hips because they're dancing and they're
screaming when you do it. And I'm like, okay, I
can do this. I've been trained to do this since
I was on an Ulu. You know. This is this
is this is my entertaining mask that I wear. But
I said, but I don't want wear masks. But wait,
hold on a second. So I was lucky enough to say, Okay,
(20:05):
I'm gonna stop. And I took my sabbatical and I
just went to India and I went into ashrams and
I meditated, and I became a Buddhist.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
And by yourself, you had a family with you, you
have a you had some people with you along for
the ride.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
That time.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
I went to India because I met this Puerto Rican
monk in Thailand and really, wow, Puerto Rican Buddhist monk
in Thailand. And I'm like, who are you? Yes, I'm
Puerto Rican. And I'm like, oh yeah, and so what
are you doing? Well? I was. I was a Puerto Rican.
I was a monk, Buddhist monk up in the mountains
of Thailand. And I'm like, oh, we need to talk brother. Okay,
(20:44):
there going story short guys. I three weeks later we
were hiking the Himalayas and then and then you know,
I was, I was in touch with this other philosophy
is that heeled me. I grew up as an boy
in Puerto Rico. We went to the same cool rustling
I would. You know, every Friday, we would go to
Mass and I was to the priest and I was
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and it was beautiful. And I have that foundation, you know,
of spiritual foundation who's very solid. But I needed more.
I needed more because what I had was not enough,
and I was it was scary. It was scary. So
I went to India and I did my yoga deep yoga,
and I and I went into heavy mantras and Buddhism
and and now I keep searching. I keep searching. I'm
(21:31):
always looking for more when it comes to spirituality. And
at the end of the day, this is helping me today.
I of I guess I've in my mind, I draw
an ideal of what I want my life to be.
And I just be healthy for my kids because I
have four kids, three book one girl that are my inspiration.
(21:54):
And I am healthy. I love what I do and
what I do today is giving me the same emotions
of what I was feeling when I was twelve, thirteen,
fourteen years old, of what I'm feeling in the beginning
of my career. And that's why I say that I
feel like this is a new beginning. You know, it's
(22:15):
like a when you close cycles to open new ones.
It doesn't matter how old you are, you just got
to go.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
What else do you think you have to accomplish? Is
there one thing and it doesn't have to be within
the entertainment business? Is there one thing that you're like,
you know what, I have lived an incredible life. I
have traveled the world. I've done it all. But I
don't want to die until this happens.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Oh well, let me talk a little bit about entertainment business.
Say I need to do film. I've never been in
front of the camera as an actor doing film.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
I want to think, is you have wait?
Speaker 1 (22:55):
No, only once in Mexico and it was so vague,
so vague that it counts, But it doesn't. At this
stage of my life. I need to tell a story
in the big screen.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
That's gonna be your personal project. That's the buck you're
gonna get.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
It really needs to happen.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
But wait, but I'm assuming you get a lot of offers,
they call you to do a lot of film, but
you're just not not don't You don't respond to the material,
You're not available. It's not because of lack of opportunity.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
I've gotten I've gotten offers, and you're like, no, it
just has to hit you a certain way. And uh
and and I know it's coming, it's coming, It's it'll
be there. I know on wood.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Oh, I got no way, no way.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
It'll be amazing. And and I think that my dreams
right now, mind you, I am. I am super thankful
for everything that I've been through and and where I'm
at right now. But also my dreams transfer to my kids.
I have two teenage twin boys that are a fifteen
(24:08):
year old now, and now I can you can see
where they're at and what their passion is, and you
kind of see more or less what their future is
a little bit because of the decision that they are
independently making at this point. One of them loves computers
and he is coding and decoding and heat and it's
(24:28):
just like he's a he's like genius, like brilliant, and
you see it in his eyes and sometimes you go, okay,
but you cannot spend so long in front of the computer.
But he's just he's doing some really interesting things. And
then this other guy's he's so passionate about film. Oh wow,
(24:49):
super passionate. But he also is wonderful in sports. And
now he's not in one, he's in two baseball teams.
And he goes like, Dad, Yeah, all I want is
do really good in sports so I can get a
really good scholarship so I can go study film.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
So he's pretty clear.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
He's pretty pretty clear, and it's so cool to witness.
So that's why I said that my desires kind of
they morphed into the desires of my children. And I'm
sure you can relate. It's one of those things that
it's weird that you you still have a lot to
do and you still want to do more. Obviously you
(25:27):
want to do more, but it's it's in conjunction with
the desires of your children.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
So what about the little girl and the little boy
still too young to know what's happening there?
Speaker 1 (25:36):
The little girl is five, she's the only girl and
this you know, two daddies, three brothers, and she knows it,
and it's a wonderful thing.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
She's like half fun.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Yeah, he's like m early girly girl is so beautiful.
And then Wren, who's or he's I call him rn
Zen because he's so chill. He has he has an
older sister and he knows it. If you know, what
I said is all right, whatever she said, it's okay,
I'm good, I'm good. Sometimes he has to like, you know,
stump his feet so he can be heard.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
You know, yeah, you know parenthood rick As you know
we have too. It's so it's such a wild ride.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
You know.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
We have this girl, soabell as you's twelve years old,
and Sabbie is an athlete as well. You know, she
plays tennis. She's an avid tennis player. And we thought,
this is it. This is her career path, you know,
and she's really good at it. And the whole thing.
It's a scholarship, you know, hopefully she got a scholarship.
Maybe she's Sometimes she's like, I want to go pro.
It's a very difficult life. It's a lot of discipline.
(26:41):
It's life changing for the entire family. The mid that
when you have a professional athlete. But then yesterday and
I was in part of this conversation. It was just
I see them. Eric is in her bedroom and it's
like forty five minutes and just here that they're talking,
I'm going, what is going on? So I goes, what
are you guys talking about? And Eric is I We're
in the middle of a conversation here, So there's so
(27:02):
basically I'm going, I just want to know what's happening.
And I guess the girl said, you know, Dad, I
love tennis and I want to continue playing tennis, but
I want to do other things. I think I want
to act and model, and we're like, oh.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
Jesus, look, yeah.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
The funny thing about that is that she used to
completely be not annoyed, but like embarrassed by the fact
that we were in entertainment or people would stop us
and she'd be like, oh God, here we go.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Ye.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
Now she's starting to appreciate it more and like be
fascinated by the fact.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
But at the same time she thinks it's just so easy.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
And I tell her, I said, Sabella, if you think
trying to accomplish tennis, even at your young age is hard,
entertainment our world, there is zero guarantee. I come from
a background of sports my whole life. If you work hard,
you get better. You will most likely accomplish some part
of your goal. Maybe you won't be a pro, but
(27:57):
you might get a schollar. If you work that hard,
good thing will come. I say it all the time.
In entertainment, you could be the best actor in the
world and never get hired in a in a movie,
a TV show. You just be doing you know, student
films or whatever. You could be a phenomenal actor, and
you could be an average actor and be a movie star.
It's like there's no you know, correlation to hard work
(28:19):
and success in our business, especially as this a business.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
As this business has.
Speaker 4 (28:23):
Evolved, it's changed so much and it's becoming more challenging.
So I said, well, if you want to do this,
we'll support you. But like it's not We're not not
going to help you be in something. You're gonna go
take actor classes.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
That is not a TV show. I'll do that. I'll
do the show. And doesn't work like that. You know
what I mean is that you're gonna have to audition.
Daddy can say this is my daughter, and that's gonna
be the extent of it. You know what I mean,
It's on you and I don't think she comprehend. She
doesn't comprehend that right now. She said, what do you mean?
Speaker 1 (28:49):
My acting coach told me because I told him, listen,
I have this guy who's who's in love with with
he loves film. He wants no no, because this is
before he said he wants to be an act My kid.
He said, oh, Dad, I think I want to act.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
Do you want to act?
Speaker 1 (29:04):
And he's like, yeah, that I think so. And okay,
So I talked to my acting coach and I'm like, listen,
my son wants to act. What do you think. He
goes like, oh, he's he's a kid. Don't don't don't
break because you know he's he's It was it's business
for my acting coach where he goes like, no, don't
bring him to me. Get him a camera. Get him
a camera, because the moment he starts filming, even if
(29:26):
it's a flower, and he can start doing his own
little movies, he'll get a better understanding of cinema. Acting
will come on its own. Don't bring them to me.
And that's what I told And now my son is
obsessed with cinema and and eventually acting will come. If
maybe that's what he wants because advice, he goes that,
(29:48):
I understand what you're acting, coach said, And yes, I
love the idea of doing cinema. And now you sit
with my son to watch the Oscars, and it's amazing
to see him say, go, I know that director he
did this, and that his first oscar was in nineteen something,
blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
And he loves it. He loves it.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Oh my god, oh my god. I'm like, okay, dude,
do you know this? Yeah, you know, it's it's beautiful
to see. So it's one of those things.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Yeah, and you support it. If that's what he wants
to do, let's go all out.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
I'm here because my father supported me. My father is
a psychologist, my mom is an accountant like she. They
had nothing to do with the business, you know, and
and but they saw my passion. They saw that I
really wanted to be a minudo because for my generation,
that was the way out right. So I would I
would say, Dad, they're auditioning in three weeks, let's go.
(30:39):
And my dad would be like, okay, you know, not
the father that pushes you to be I was being
he was being pulled by me, like, come take me
there tomorrow before is the audition, So I will definitely
support them.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Yeah, that's fantastic. Oh my goodness. We're gonna let you go,
but I have one last question for you, Ricky, what
has been the craziest or funniest fun interaction that you
can remember that was just like completely off the charts.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
He's like which one? He's like, I can't give you one.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Like I was in Japan and this kid, like, what
was it?
Speaker 1 (31:16):
I have a few, but this one was really funny.
I don't know if it translated very well, but I was,
you know, driving from the airport to the hotel, and
there were fans following me with their cars or in taxis,
and there was this one girl that said, Ricky, let me.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
Pull your hair so you can whip me with it. Oh,
oh my god.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
This is to let me pull your hair so you
can't whip me.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
Oh my god, Oh my god.
Speaker 4 (31:50):
And that's one of many stories are probably infinite crazy,
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
It's funny, funny girls, You know.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Always, we love you so much and we appreciate your time,
and you know how much you mean to me and
to Puerto Rico. Onto every girl with a dream, you know,
and every boy with a dream. You're like the North,
You're like you know who to follow. So we we
thank you for that.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Thank you so much, Thank you so much for inviting
me to talk to your audience. And once again, all
the luck and everything you do well, luck is relative, right,
all the success for everything and anything you do, and
and once again, thank you. And I think we need
to together and have dinner or something.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
So we always say that we don't make it happen.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
Let's do it while you're here, while you're renovating.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Your trapped here with the six children.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
It's bringing together for sure.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
We just do it all night in the US. I
think we'll have a lot of fun. Let's plan something
for sure.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
Honest.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
So great.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
How incredible is Ricky?
Speaker 3 (33:03):
He's amazing. I mean, I know he's been somebody so
special to your whole life. Since we first met.
Speaker 4 (33:07):
You've always talked about Ricky Martin, Ricky Martin, and I
was fortunate enough to be able to meet him through you.
And he's such a class act, just such a great.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
Human, exactly right, class acts.
Speaker 4 (33:19):
And just incredibly successful and one of those people that
you go you know, what you deserve, every ounce of it.
You work incredibly hard, You're so grateful for everything to accomplished.
Amazing family man, I mean not. We couldn't say enough
positive things about him. He's just he's incredible, so.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
So his whole team. Listen, his brother, his parents, he's
he's core. You know, his family. Joselo which has been
his started as his choreographer in Menudo, then became his
right hand and now it is like his second dad.
You know this, This is the thing about Ricky, Ricky
has it's been consistency and when it comes to his circle,
(33:56):
you know, it's like once you work for Ricky or
you're with Ricky, you're with him for life. Yep, you
know you a lot of artists is like a revolving
door totally. You know, he's very loyal to his to
his people and that's beautiful.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
One.
Speaker 4 (34:08):
Well, everyone, if you haven't seen it yet, check out
Palm Royale, Apple TV. It's streaming now and again, Ricky,
thank you so much until next time.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
Love you, thanks for listening. Don't forget to write us
a review and tell us what you think.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
If you want to follow us on Instagram, check us
out at he said, ajav Orson is an email Eric
and Ross at iHeartRadio dot com. He said. Ajabo is
part of iHeartRadio's Mike Wulduda podcast network.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
See you next time, ye
This is he said Aya Vijo with Eric Winter and
Rosalind Fantaz.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Hello, Hello, Hello, morning, morning after buen dia mihin the
ODA met today, I am excited to welcome a dear
friend to the show.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
I'm excited too.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Yes, he really doesn't need an introduction. We're going to
do it anyways, right because he is huge, a musician, philanthropist,
a dad, an inspiration and currently starring in Apple TV
Palm Royale. Do you understand Eric Winter that he has
sold more than sixty million albums worldwide as a solo artist.
(00:41):
Began acting in TV commercials at the age of six.
Nu Though he was Menuro in nineteen eighty four, and
then he left the band in nineteen eighty nine, joined
the cast of the Mexican tele NOVELA al cansar UNEs Treja.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Why he was on General Hospital too. Let's not forget
that he did.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
He won Premiolo Nuiz Through. He's done Broadway Limiss in
nineteen ninety six, che also in Broadway twenty twelve, a Vita.
He has a foundation, the Ricky Martin Foundation, many campaigns
against human trafficking.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
Let's not forget outstanding Emmy supporting Actor nomination for Versace.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
You're absolutely right. Do you know what's his actual name?
His real name, I don't Enrique Jose Martin moralist, Okay,
I don't know. Yes, Enrique Jose. And as a kid,
they call him Kiki.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Can't wait to chat with him. That's gonna be great.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Hey, what's going on?
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Hey, Kelly there?
Speaker 3 (01:44):
I love that art in your background. That's so cool.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
I have I have visited. I have, Yeah, she came
to visit and yeah, and she's only eating apple And.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Where are you notcalist in your house?
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Not modeling my house? So we rented a house in
the meantime. It's one of those things because of the
floods we got. It got really flooded. No from here,
because yeah, come yeah, So we took advantage. I said, okay,
let's clean it all up. Let's take advantage of this.
And it's working up fine.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
So that's good.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
That's good.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
But listen, going through remodels and building, it's it's it's
stressful because we've done it twice already and it's been
a nightmare.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
And they tell you three months and it takes seven.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Yeah, I've yet to see a contractor beyond time. With
any part of any construction.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
You want to hear something, you know, something crazy. We
had a problem with our house or we had to
do the same thing we were. We were like basically
building back the house, and we had to rent and
I kept and I got pregnant during the rental with Dylan,
my second the second one, and the whole thing was
telling the contractor, please, I don't want to deliver. I
have to be at the rental. I want to be
(02:54):
back home, so make sure you have ten months that
I just meet out. I had my baby and six
months later the house was ready. It took a year
and a half.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
That's where it goes. It is incredible and it doesn't
matter if it's in La Puerto Rico. It really doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
It's just how I know it's crazy. But anyways, listen away.
We are so excited to have you with us. Thank you, Brook.
It's been a while, like we've been dreaming about having Riki,
So thank you so much for taking the time of
doing this.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Much, for inviting me. Please are you kidding me? Congratulations
and all the success and everything and light and many
more to comfortfully.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Oh as well.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
I mean, you're always busy You're always doing incredible things,
not just with work but with philanthropy and everything else
that you do. You're always making a huge impact. But
with your latest project now Palmrele this is I mean,
this's been a lot of fun.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
We really enjoy.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
The sunes, this music ears.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Man, How what was that like? I mean, what's what
was the filming experience like for you? Like TV it
was a tax singe.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
I mean, a lot heavy hitters in this in this
show with you, right, like you've done that many times.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
But you always have to bring your A game to
the scene, obviously, because I'm so lucky to be surrounded
by such amazing actors. I mean, where do I start.
I mean, let's start dropping names. You know, Carol Burnett,
it's Laura Dern, It's the one and only Kristen Wigg.
(04:24):
You know. It's like we can keep going because it's uh,
it's it's it's like a dream team of like I said,
wonderful actresses. And then the story is so wonderful and
it's so brilliantly written. And Apple TV plus was they
were so generous because it's I can you can see that,
you can see the love.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
And for sure you can tell it's expensive expense on
that shows.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Can but I want to know about the process before
Ricky was this? Uh? Was this an offer that you
have to ca mystery? Read like, how did it go
down for you to? Did you read the material and
you call your people saying you know what I want in?
How did that go?
Speaker 1 (05:07):
You know? So it all started in a in a
in an after party in an Oscar night after party
where I was just dancing and and the creator of
the show, the One and Only Ape Sylvia, was there
and he just he said he went to my agent
who was with me, and he said, is what is
(05:28):
he doing now? And my agent goes, He's ready, He's ready.
He goes, let's talk. Let's talk. Two weeks later they
sent me the script and uh, two weeks two weeks later,
I was flying to LA to meet with the director,
Tate Taylor, who was someone that you know, I love
(05:49):
and he's been wonderful and and and and obviously you
know the typical question, who's attached to it? You know?
And and they just started dropping in. I'm like, I
don't even need to read this, let's jump in. I
meant get ready. Obviously, I I met with Tate and
and you know, I read all my scenes and I'm like,
(06:09):
I'm ready, let's read. I'm ready to audition. And he
goes like, no, I know what you can bring to
the table, don't worry, see you on set. That's great,
and let's do it. So it was wonderful and but
it's it's it was challenging. It was comedy. It was
the first time, you know, I did comedy. I'm lucky
to say that I was, you know, I was you know,
(06:30):
someone like Carol Burnette was holding my hand in the process,
and she taught me the wonders of of just forgetting
forgetting the script. You know, just leave your script on
your trailer and and let's walk and let's have fun
and whatever whatever happens between cut, between action and cut
(06:51):
is is. It's about having fun. So it's it was
a very beautiful experience where I felt I felt free.
You know. The other projects that I've done were about
telling someone's story and not in this case. This was
a novel of soap opera album. I'm sorry, and you
could just add to it. And to have the writers,
you know, behind the camera taking notes of what we
(07:13):
were coming up with. Wow, we were giving and as
you know, and so we helped develop the characters a
little bit. So it was it was the most amazing experience.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
And so did you.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
So you did get to improvise quite a bit with
a lot on the scenes. I want to say a lot,
but they gave you freedom.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
For me, it was a lot, and and Kristin would
say it wasn't that much, and I'm like, okay, perfect,
you know, but but but but but I wasn't a
slave to the script. It where you know, if you
don't say the right words, we can get sued, which
was another case that I worked with in the past
with another production, and so so we were free. It
(07:54):
was the freedom of the liberty that I felt in
this project just to jump in and come up with
things and and I improvise on stuff that later on
were brought to different scenes because they were so effective
and and it was it was very special.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
Now I imagine something like, I mean, you were nominated
for an Emmy with Versace, right, So you're going from
drama drama, huge rhyme, Murphy right, like, very specific style
of storytelling into something like this. Was there a lot
of freedom in comparison like I with comedy, I find
that you often get a bit more freedom to dive
(08:31):
into the character and how you want to build out
the comedy with the dialogue. In a show like Versace
or a series like Versace that was that far different,
was ryan very particular on dialogue.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
We were not allowed to improvise at all because we
were telling someone's story. Yeah, and whenever we said we
chose another word, we would have the legal department show
up and say, wow, you cannot do this. You have
to go back to what is specifically on the script.
And it's understandable because we were telling the story of
(09:03):
the genre in this case and say it's a novel.
We were a little bit more more, a little bit
more now. We were great to to bring to bring
our Jews to the to the picture. And uh, I
mean there's magic in both. Obviously, you know, we're telling
the responsibility of telling the story of someone as iconic
as also it was wonderful, it was beautiful. But but
(09:27):
but it's it's incredible the darkness that you deal with
when you're when you're working with comedy. Right in order
for it to be effective, there there has to be
this darkness behind it, and and and I was dealing
with secrets that everyone had secrets in this palm real situation,
and and and we were able to to create our
(09:49):
own secrets that later on hopefully will become something else.
I I I was, I don't know. I'm still I'm
still floating over this. I saw the last episode and
I've been dealing with this script for two years, and
I was still in shock of how how what happened?
You know? And so there's been nothing but a wonderful experience.
(10:11):
And I'm very lucky.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
And that's fantastic. Did they announce a second season, Ricky
or not yet? You guys don't know. You're not supposed
to say anything.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Now, I'm like, come on, apple to you plus bring
it on and come.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
On so you will be off for it because I
know the last episode with something tragic happens to you.
So you we don't know what's what's going to happen.
If there's a second season, you're more than happy to
come back.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Course, I listen, I am. I love music and music
will always be there and music, obviously, what music has
has brought to my life is something that I will
always be very thankful and grateful. And we cannot deny
that part of that wonderful, that wonderful aspect of storytelling.
(10:57):
The first time I was in front of the camera
telling a story as an actor, I was fifteen years old.
With Manul, we moved to Argentina and we did a
TV series in Argentina. And at that moment when I
heard action for the first time, and I started telling
my story of this kid that was abandoned by his
father and he had a single mother. In the darkness
(11:18):
and the crying and the long it was something that
hooked me to acting right. And then obviously music came
into my life and did its thing, and I couldn't
just push it away. It was magical what was happening.
Once again, it's about storytelling. If it's through music that
I write or music that I don't write, if it's
(11:39):
about a script, it's about storytelling. I had the honor
to be on Broadway. I've worked. I did Glee, and
then I did the Assassination of Danni VERSACEI and then
I went back to Broadway and then and now this
this is something that I that I that I want
to get ready for. I've been getting ready for many years,
but with a lot of respect and passion. Whatever I
(12:02):
do in this is because some ways, somehow people are
feeling some kind of of of of It's because it's
thought provoking and we're telling are are making people think
some way somehow and maybe changing the way they think
(12:22):
about life. And because of that, it's about storytelling. We
go back to that aspect of the fluidity of entertaining.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Right, have you ever thought about developing something for you, recky,
Like is there a TV show or a movie or
a limited series?
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Like?
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Have you ever thought about you know what? I love
acting clearly very good at this. It's about storytelling. Do
you think that you will develop something that you have
more control?
Speaker 1 (13:01):
My agent is constantly telling, constantly telling me, bring the book.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Bringing that that book.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
If you find that book, let's make it happen. And
there are some really interesting things that I that I'm
going through right now that I am that I would
love to bring into life. You know, it takes five years.
The first time I said, you know, I want to
do Broadway. I want to go back to Broadway, and
I want to do a Vita. It literally took five
years from that thought until we started production. So I,
(13:32):
you know, I just I turned fifty two years old,
and I think I am in a very special place
in my life where I can where I don't have
to prove anything to everybody. I just feel very comfortable
with my emotions where I'm at spiritually, physically, and and
and I don't, I don't. I just have to. I
(13:53):
just have to be grounded and vulnerable enough without fear
in to to to talk about things that I am
really concerned about through acting like I've done with music
some way, somehow, And then also very lucky to say
that people around me are inspiring me as well, and
(14:15):
the team that I've encounter in this journey has been wonderful.
So we'll see what happens.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
This is something I've always wanted to know, and you're
the perfect person to ask because an entertainer that has
reached so many different mediums in entertainment, right, I know
what the feelings like when you dive into a great
character and that rush that you get when you finally
connect to the character and you see it through, whether
it's a series or a movie, whatever it is. Right,
you've done Broadway as well, but you've also sold out
(14:45):
massive arenas with people singing your music. What's the biggest
adrenaline rush as an entertainer or that feeling that's just
like you're out of body, you're out of body experience
in a way, because to now it has to be
it has to be that. But I mean, I want
to hear from you what is because it's all different.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
They have.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
You know, you've done Broadways. You're still in front of
a crowd, and the.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Power, the power of the crowd doesn't comper to anything
because you know you have twenty thousand people giving you
energy right there, right that's at that moment when you say,
everybody put your hands together and your music a huge
(15:28):
arena to a song that you created, you know, I
don't know years ago, and it is really beautiful. And
Broadway you have that, and Broadway on Broadway, I haven't.
I had a moment where you know you're working on
actuals because I was. I was doing the miss and
I was I was playing Marius right and and there's
a moment where this character dies in my arms and
(15:49):
it's very wonderful moment, very sad, very dramatic, and all
of a sudden, from the last road, I hear someone
say freaky.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
I love Yeah, Oh, my god, So you know it
makes you break character or did you just stay? You stay?
Speaker 2 (16:08):
You were like I didn't hear I didn't hear it.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
She resurrected. I was like, yes, they right there.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Do you know that I went through I saw you
when you're did li miss? Oh that went to see you?
I went to Broadway? Yes, I saw him do the miss.
It was because I love Broadway and we love you.
So I was like, oh my god, what an incredible
Let me let me ask you something and this is
just me here tripping, you know, like because you have
you have accomplished so much. Do you take moments that
(16:42):
you're in the bathroom, you're in the sauna, like you're
by yourself, and let's say that it's a difficult time
in your life. Do you think and did you say
thank you? And those moments of greatness like you're in
a stadium with twenty five thousand people adoring you. How
does it make you feel reaky? You know, like, do
(17:04):
you go to God, I've been so freaking blessed? Or
does it feel lonely? Does it feel amazing knowing that
you're it?
Speaker 1 (17:14):
All of the above. Russell I started when I was
twelve years old. Like I said, I'm fifty two, and
I've had moments of joy, and I've had moments of
deep sadness and moments that are dark where I feel
lonely even though I'm surrounded by you know, one hundred
(17:35):
and fifteen people, people that travel with me when I'm
on the road. We could be like one hundred and
fifteen people, right, and that becomes your family. And sometimes
you feel the adrenaline of, like I said, the crowd
twenty thousand and thirty thousand people singing and dancing to
your music, and then the silence of when you go
(17:55):
back to your room, you gotta be careful because the
crowd could be a bit painful. So I'm just a
survival I am. I am so lucky. I don't know
it's because if it's because of my spirituality or because
(18:16):
it's it's been it's been really sad at times, you know.
And and uh and but like I said, I I
have people around me that they hold my hand, they
at my back, and they said, let's let's keep doing
this because you were born for this. For sure, this
is it, this is your life. Why do you want
to quit that? We can quit, We can quit for
a minute and then you're gonna say, Okay, I want
(18:37):
it again. In there, I said once I was in
Australia and I said, it's either my mental health or
the next three shows that I have. So I want
to go back home because my mental health. I feel weird.
I don't. I am not comfortable today. And I left.
I counseled. Everybody was like, what are you doing, Rickist,
It's three more shows, come on, we can do this.
(19:00):
And I'm like, well, I want to be home. And
I went home, and that's all I wanted. I want
to be home. I wanted to be home with my dogs.
I wanted to jump in the ocean. You know, you know,
our little island has that thing in the ocean that
it fixes everything. So all I wanted. This is like
(19:21):
twenty something years ago. By the way, this is many
many years ago, but this is the living la vida
loca moment where I was high fiving God in so
many ways. But at the same time, I didn't know
who I was. I was I was being pressured to
come out as a gay man when I was not ready,
you know, I was, you know, but then I had
(19:42):
the pressure of but you were a sex symbol. You
got to shake those hips because they're dancing and they're
screaming when you do it. And I'm like, okay, I
can do this. I've been trained to do this since
I was on an Ulu. You know. This is this
is this is my entertaining mask that I wear. But
I said, but I don't want wear masks. But wait,
hold on a second. So I was lucky enough to say, Okay,
(20:05):
I'm gonna stop. And I took my sabbatical and I
just went to India and I went into ashrams and
I meditated, and I became a Buddhist.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
And by yourself, you had a family with you, you
have a you had some people with you along for
the ride.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
That time.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
I went to India because I met this Puerto Rican
monk in Thailand and really, wow, Puerto Rican Buddhist monk
in Thailand. And I'm like, who are you? Yes, I'm
Puerto Rican. And I'm like, oh yeah, and so what
are you doing? Well? I was. I was a Puerto Rican.
I was a monk, Buddhist monk up in the mountains
of Thailand. And I'm like, oh, we need to talk brother. Okay,
(20:44):
there going story short guys. I three weeks later we
were hiking the Himalayas and then and then you know,
I was, I was in touch with this other philosophy
is that heeled me. I grew up as an boy
in Puerto Rico. We went to the same cool rustling
I would. You know, every Friday, we would go to
Mass and I was to the priest and I was
(21:07):
and it was beautiful. And I have that foundation, you know,
of spiritual foundation who's very solid. But I needed more.
I needed more because what I had was not enough,
and I was it was scary. It was scary. So
I went to India and I did my yoga deep yoga,
and I and I went into heavy mantras and Buddhism
and and now I keep searching. I keep searching. I'm
(21:31):
always looking for more when it comes to spirituality. And
at the end of the day, this is helping me today.
I of I guess I've in my mind, I draw
an ideal of what I want my life to be.
And I just be healthy for my kids because I
have four kids, three book one girl that are my inspiration.
(21:54):
And I am healthy. I love what I do and
what I do today is giving me the same emotions
of what I was feeling when I was twelve, thirteen,
fourteen years old, of what I'm feeling in the beginning
of my career. And that's why I say that I
feel like this is a new beginning. You know, it's
(22:15):
like a when you close cycles to open new ones.
It doesn't matter how old you are, you just got
to go.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
What else do you think you have to accomplish? Is
there one thing and it doesn't have to be within
the entertainment business? Is there one thing that you're like,
you know what, I have lived an incredible life. I
have traveled the world. I've done it all. But I
don't want to die until this happens.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Oh well, let me talk a little bit about entertainment business.
Say I need to do film. I've never been in
front of the camera as an actor doing film.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
I want to think, is you have wait?
Speaker 1 (22:55):
No, only once in Mexico and it was so vague,
so vague that it counts, But it doesn't. At this
stage of my life. I need to tell a story
in the big screen.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
That's gonna be your personal project. That's the buck you're
gonna get.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
It really needs to happen.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
But wait, but I'm assuming you get a lot of offers,
they call you to do a lot of film, but
you're just not not don't You don't respond to the material,
You're not available. It's not because of lack of opportunity.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
I've gotten I've gotten offers, and you're like, no, it
just has to hit you a certain way. And uh
and and I know it's coming, it's coming, It's it'll
be there. I know on wood.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Oh, I got no way, no way.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
It'll be amazing. And and I think that my dreams
right now, mind you, I am. I am super thankful
for everything that I've been through and and where I'm
at right now. But also my dreams transfer to my kids.
I have two teenage twin boys that are a fifteen
(24:08):
year old now, and now I can you can see
where they're at and what their passion is, and you
kind of see more or less what their future is
a little bit because of the decision that they are
independently making at this point. One of them loves computers
and he is coding and decoding and heat and it's
(24:28):
just like he's a he's like genius, like brilliant, and
you see it in his eyes and sometimes you go, okay,
but you cannot spend so long in front of the computer.
But he's just he's doing some really interesting things. And
then this other guy's he's so passionate about film. Oh wow,
(24:49):
super passionate. But he also is wonderful in sports. And
now he's not in one, he's in two baseball teams.
And he goes like, Dad, Yeah, all I want is
do really good in sports so I can get a
really good scholarship so I can go study film.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
So he's pretty clear.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
He's pretty pretty clear, and it's so cool to witness.
So that's why I said that my desires kind of
they morphed into the desires of my children. And I'm
sure you can relate. It's one of those things that
it's weird that you you still have a lot to
do and you still want to do more. Obviously you
(25:27):
want to do more, but it's it's in conjunction with
the desires of your children.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
So what about the little girl and the little boy
still too young to know what's happening there?
Speaker 1 (25:36):
The little girl is five, she's the only girl and
this you know, two daddies, three brothers, and she knows it,
and it's a wonderful thing.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
She's like half fun.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Yeah, he's like m early girly girl is so beautiful.
And then Wren, who's or he's I call him rn
Zen because he's so chill. He has he has an
older sister and he knows it. If you know, what
I said is all right, whatever she said, it's okay,
I'm good, I'm good. Sometimes he has to like, you know,
stump his feet so he can be heard.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
You know, yeah, you know parenthood rick As you know
we have too. It's so it's such a wild ride.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
You know.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
We have this girl, soabell as you's twelve years old,
and Sabbie is an athlete as well. You know, she
plays tennis. She's an avid tennis player. And we thought,
this is it. This is her career path, you know,
and she's really good at it. And the whole thing.
It's a scholarship, you know, hopefully she got a scholarship.
Maybe she's Sometimes she's like, I want to go pro.
It's a very difficult life. It's a lot of discipline.
(26:41):
It's life changing for the entire family. The mid that
when you have a professional athlete. But then yesterday and
I was in part of this conversation. It was just
I see them. Eric is in her bedroom and it's
like forty five minutes and just here that they're talking,
I'm going, what is going on? So I goes, what
are you guys talking about? And Eric is I We're
in the middle of a conversation here, So there's so
(27:02):
basically I'm going, I just want to know what's happening.
And I guess the girl said, you know, Dad, I
love tennis and I want to continue playing tennis, but
I want to do other things. I think I want
to act and model, and we're like, oh.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
Jesus, look, yeah.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
The funny thing about that is that she used to
completely be not annoyed, but like embarrassed by the fact
that we were in entertainment or people would stop us
and she'd be like, oh God, here we go.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Ye.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
Now she's starting to appreciate it more and like be
fascinated by the fact.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
But at the same time she thinks it's just so easy.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
And I tell her, I said, Sabella, if you think
trying to accomplish tennis, even at your young age is hard,
entertainment our world, there is zero guarantee. I come from
a background of sports my whole life. If you work hard,
you get better. You will most likely accomplish some part
of your goal. Maybe you won't be a pro, but
(27:57):
you might get a schollar. If you work that hard,
good thing will come. I say it all the time.
In entertainment, you could be the best actor in the
world and never get hired in a in a movie,
a TV show. You just be doing you know, student
films or whatever. You could be a phenomenal actor, and
you could be an average actor and be a movie star.
It's like there's no you know, correlation to hard work
(28:19):
and success in our business, especially as this a business.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
As this business has.
Speaker 4 (28:23):
Evolved, it's changed so much and it's becoming more challenging.
So I said, well, if you want to do this,
we'll support you. But like it's not We're not not
going to help you be in something. You're gonna go
take actor classes.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
That is not a TV show. I'll do that. I'll
do the show. And doesn't work like that. You know
what I mean is that you're gonna have to audition.
Daddy can say this is my daughter, and that's gonna
be the extent of it. You know what I mean,
It's on you and I don't think she comprehend. She
doesn't comprehend that right now. She said, what do you mean?
Speaker 1 (28:49):
My acting coach told me because I told him, listen,
I have this guy who's who's in love with with
he loves film. He wants no no, because this is
before he said he wants to be an act My kid.
He said, oh, Dad, I think I want to act.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
Do you want to act?
Speaker 1 (29:04):
And he's like, yeah, that I think so. And okay,
So I talked to my acting coach and I'm like, listen,
my son wants to act. What do you think. He
goes like, oh, he's he's a kid. Don't don't don't
break because you know he's he's It was it's business
for my acting coach where he goes like, no, don't
bring him to me. Get him a camera. Get him
a camera, because the moment he starts filming, even if
(29:26):
it's a flower, and he can start doing his own
little movies, he'll get a better understanding of cinema. Acting
will come on its own. Don't bring them to me.
And that's what I told And now my son is
obsessed with cinema and and eventually acting will come. If
maybe that's what he wants because advice, he goes that,
(29:48):
I understand what you're acting, coach said, And yes, I
love the idea of doing cinema. And now you sit
with my son to watch the Oscars, and it's amazing
to see him say, go, I know that director he
did this, and that his first oscar was in nineteen something,
blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
And he loves it. He loves it.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Oh my god, oh my god. I'm like, okay, dude,
do you know this? Yeah, you know, it's it's beautiful
to see. So it's one of those things.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Yeah, and you support it. If that's what he wants
to do, let's go all out.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
I'm here because my father supported me. My father is
a psychologist, my mom is an accountant like she. They
had nothing to do with the business, you know, and
and but they saw my passion. They saw that I
really wanted to be a minudo because for my generation,
that was the way out right. So I would I
would say, Dad, they're auditioning in three weeks, let's go.
(30:39):
And my dad would be like, okay, you know, not
the father that pushes you to be I was being
he was being pulled by me, like, come take me
there tomorrow before is the audition, So I will definitely
support them.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Yeah, that's fantastic. Oh my goodness. We're gonna let you go,
but I have one last question for you, Ricky, what
has been the craziest or funniest fun interaction that you
can remember that was just like completely off the charts.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
He's like which one? He's like, I can't give you one.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Like I was in Japan and this kid, like, what
was it?
Speaker 1 (31:16):
I have a few, but this one was really funny.
I don't know if it translated very well, but I was,
you know, driving from the airport to the hotel, and
there were fans following me with their cars or in taxis,
and there was this one girl that said, Ricky, let me.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
Pull your hair so you can whip me with it. Oh,
oh my god.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
This is to let me pull your hair so you
can't whip me.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
Oh my god, Oh my god.
Speaker 4 (31:50):
And that's one of many stories are probably infinite crazy,
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
It's funny, funny girls, You know.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Always, we love you so much and we appreciate your time,
and you know how much you mean to me and
to Puerto Rico. Onto every girl with a dream, you know,
and every boy with a dream. You're like the North,
You're like you know who to follow. So we we
thank you for that.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Thank you so much, Thank you so much for inviting
me to talk to your audience. And once again, all
the luck and everything you do well, luck is relative, right,
all the success for everything and anything you do, and
and once again, thank you. And I think we need
to together and have dinner or something.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
So we always say that we don't make it happen.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
Let's do it while you're here, while you're renovating.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Your trapped here with the six children.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
It's bringing together for sure.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
We just do it all night in the US. I
think we'll have a lot of fun. Let's plan something
for sure.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
Honest.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
So great.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
How incredible is Ricky?
Speaker 3 (33:03):
He's amazing. I mean, I know he's been somebody so
special to your whole life. Since we first met.
Speaker 4 (33:07):
You've always talked about Ricky Martin, Ricky Martin, and I
was fortunate enough to be able to meet him through you.
And he's such a class act, just such a great.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
Human, exactly right, class acts.
Speaker 4 (33:19):
And just incredibly successful and one of those people that
you go you know, what you deserve, every ounce of it.
You work incredibly hard, You're so grateful for everything to accomplished.
Amazing family man, I mean not. We couldn't say enough
positive things about him. He's just he's incredible, so.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
So his whole team. Listen, his brother, his parents, he's
he's core. You know, his family. Joselo which has been
his started as his choreographer in Menudo, then became his
right hand and now it is like his second dad.
You know this, This is the thing about Ricky, Ricky
has it's been consistency and when it comes to his circle,
(33:56):
you know, it's like once you work for Ricky or
you're with Ricky, you're with him for life. Yep, you
know you a lot of artists is like a revolving
door totally. You know, he's very loyal to his to
his people and that's beautiful.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
One.
Speaker 4 (34:08):
Well, everyone, if you haven't seen it yet, check out
Palm Royale, Apple TV. It's streaming now and again, Ricky,
thank you so much until next time.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
Love you, thanks for listening. Don't forget to write us
a review and tell us what you think.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
If you want to follow us on Instagram, check us
out at he said, ajav Orson is an email Eric
and Ross at iHeartRadio dot com. He said. Ajabo is
part of iHeartRadio's Mike Wulduda podcast network.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
See you next time, ye
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