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Welcome to Monita, a deep dive into the Latin X experience.
With Monita, we want to create a community and a
shared space with you while sharing knowledge and inspiration. This
show is about celebrating our culture with guests who exemplify
the best of us. I'm Darylene Gastillo, Ethane Vietle. Oh
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yeah me, hand said. Before we get to the episode,
I want to take a moment to address the June
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stripped away the legal right to have a safe and
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take care, and spread the word. Oh yeah me hinted.
Today we have a very very special episode for you.
That's right, very special because this time I'm the one
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in the hot seat. That's right, your favorite host here
on Moranita, Darlin Castillo is getting interviewed. Our producer here
at Son, Carlos are Nado, will be leading this one
today to ask me all of the questions. And when
I say all of the questions, I mean all the questions.
I'm so excited to share this with you guys because
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you can now have a little bit more of a
glimpse about where I come from, what I'm passionate about,
and learn about what my favorite things are. As I mentioned,
Carlos Arenado leads this conversation beautifully, and trust me, you
are in good hands. Carlos mentioned he was a bit nervous,
so be kind, but I also felt this youing very strongly,
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because I still get a bit nervous to this day
about interviewing some folks. We are more than thirty episodes
in on Monita Pat on the back, and those butterflies
still get me. But once the conversations begin to flow,
all of those nerves they just melt away, and I
find myself really feeling inspired and better than when I
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walked into the interview. That's how I felt after this one.
Not only was it just so nice to share myself
with you all, it was a beautiful reminder of why
I'm doing this podcast. Mon Anita is intended to be
a safe space for us Latina people to share opinions,
share our stories, and share our differences and our likes.
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Mon Anita is a space for learning and understanding. So
every time you click on a story, you get something different.
There's something to take away in each episode. Today, I
hope that you take away something special with my story.
For me, words like perseverance, growth, and hope came to
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mind for me. During this interview, they invite the to
listen to this one and see what pops up for you. Okay,
welcome to Anita. My name is Carlos. I'm one of
the producers. He at Mardonita and Happy fourth of July.
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This week, we thought we'd do something a little bit different,
and we're gonna put Darylyn, your favorite morn the host,
on the hot seat, and I'm going to ask her questions.
So if I may it for the first time, Drylyn, welcome.
I'm really happy that this is happening right now. You're natural,
you know, this is this is what the people have
been clamoring for, This is what all of America wants.
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I told you, I told you. No, I'm really happy
to be here. I'm happy that we're doing it on
this July fourth weekend. Moment. There's so much, so much
to talk about, so much, and so much of it
is uh makes me wanna get into a ball and crying.
So but we're not gonna talk about any of that
stuff today. We're just going to have some fun. Yes, yes,
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um any do you do anything for the fourth I'm
remodeling my house. I'm I'm literally like in this adult
ing go mode right now where it's like we're trying
to get this backyard done. We have a house in Florida,
so my fiance and this is going down there. So
I'm going to be home by myself, so I'll probably
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like make a fire in the firepit, like doing yardwork,
drink something I see then this you know what I'm
saying in fireworks, I mean that's that's the Dominican way.
It sounds pretty American for me. What is are you
big fireworks? Man? I love fireworks? Actually I cry every
time every time. Yeah, it's a thing makes me very emotional. Wow.
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So I grew up in Florida and I went to
Disney World all the time. They had fireworks every night,
and just like I saw so many fireworks that like
I can't get moved by them, Like I just I
see them. I'm like, cool, that's great. Wow, that's interesting.
Disney's Like that's where I cry the most. Yeah, there's
a part of me that's dead inside. So yeah, what
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what scares me is that part keeps growing every year,
does it. It's just like more and more dies inside
of me every year. So yes, I'm just gonna be
a hollow shell soon. Gosh. Yeah. Fireworks are they make
me so. They make me so happy and like, I mean,
they freak my dogs out. My dogs are like terrified
a fryworks fireworks, But I love them. I cry. They're
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just so beautiful. I'm like, how it's just I don't know.
I don't know. That's the correct emotion. That's what you
should feel when you see what I should feel. Everyone
should feel. That's what human beings should feel. But I don't.
We got to bring some happiness in your life, you know. Yeah,
it keeps it keeps my therapist employed, so hey, we'll
keep going with it. So you've been busy lately. I'm exhausted.
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I'm exhausted, but good exhausted. Like you know, there's times
where it's like where I also don't know how to
be still, so that's something that I talked to my
therapist about. Um, yeah, I don't know how to be still,
Like I just feel like it's never enough and then
like when my plates like overflowing or too full, then
like then I start, like then I start, you know, shedding,
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shedding the fat. Were you always that way? Like as
a kid? Could you just never said still? Did you
always have to be doing something like let's let's unravel this?
How this become you? Your personality? Yeah, I think it's
my mom because my mom is is like that, She's
always doing something like it's never enough, gotta keep going,
gotta keep going. And I think my mom raised me
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in that way, so like you know, I was always
doing singing, dancing, acting, gymnastics like you know, and it
just and I also think that the route of the
industry that I'm in, like you always feel like you
have to be doing something and if you're not doing anything,
are you really doing anything at all? And COVID helped
me sit down because it forced us to. But let's
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talk about the work. And this is gonna be a
really long winded question. So prepare yourself. Okay, take a nap,
grab some tea. But this is gonna be a long one,
all right. So originated the role of Julia in dream House,
which was written by Atliana Pipes, and she was on
the show. If you're listening to this, go ahead listen
to that episode two. It was great. And then but
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you were also famously in Hamilton's right, and of your
Hamilton performance, it was said, the real unexpected thrill for
me was Darren Castillo who takes the somewhat thankless track
of Peggy and Maria Reynolds and somehow makes it a meal.
That's a great quote. That it's good. It's a great quote.
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All of that to say, how do you prepare a
character when you're originating a role versus you? First of all,
it's on stage versus a musical where you it's already
been played and you have to inhabit the role, And
how do you make that your own? How is the two?
How's the preparation for the two different? Yeah? I think
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it's so funny because coming into Hamilton's I was really
lucky because we got to originate that company. So when
you're able to originate a company, the m Peggy Company
was able to originate the role in that there's a
freedom that they give you, UM to bring yourself to
that role because now that role is set, how how
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I've done it, which is that's the honor of that,
and then you know whoever steps into it is feeling that.
But Hamilton's does a great job at allowing the actor
the person shine through that role. So it's it's a
different it's a different experience than it was for Lion King.
Like for Lion King that's been around for fifteen twenty years,
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probably got what now, um, that's been around for so long,
they're on repeat, on repeat, on repeat, So there's a
certain box that you have to fill. And Lion King,
there's only two productions, tour and the Broadway Company. UM.
So just for my mom at home, so she knows company. UM,
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when you say company, that's the company is the ones
that originated and then they go on tour. So you'll
have the um, the original Broadway right show, and then
the company will be the different touring that could be
in San Francisco, they could be a Milwaukee, and you
could have different companies at once exactly exactly. Okay, So
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you're saying for each company, you basically get to reinvent
the role I mean, obviously within the context of the character,
but you get to reinvent the role with the shadings
that you want to see. Yes, my first rehearsal for
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Hamilton's I remember we got called, you know, separately in
the rooms to sing your parts and sing your versions.
And I was singing the Mariah Reynolds song with our
m d at, the musical director at the time, and
he like stopped me midway and he was like, Okay,
now I want you to do it again, and I
want you to do it as yourself. We didn't hire
you to like sound like Jasmine Stefa Jones. We didn't
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hire you to sound like Aubin. We didn't hire you
to sound like you know, the other peggies that have
been around. We hired you because we want you to
come through in this moment. And I kind of started crying.
I don't know why. Actually I do know why, because
I've I've had experiences in the industry where I've never
been able to bring myself to the table, bring myself
to the plate. It's always about fitting in to the
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box of what the character is because it's done so well,
because they made so much money off of it that
they just it's a repeat. So that was a very
like a moment of freedom in the room where I
was like, oh, I get to be myself. Obviously with
limitations still, like you know, you can't riff in certain
areas or like add flares and things like that. I
just want to rewrite the show. But um, it was
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a really good feeling. Now we're talking about dream House,
which is like also like just completely different because it's
a play. Um. I mean the playwright was there throughout
the entire process of each theater that we reopened in um,
and I was able to build this character with the
play right. I remember the first time when I went
in for Dreamhouse, I read the script and it was
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so phenomenal and I was like so obsessed with it.
And then I get into rehearsal for the first day,
I realized that some things are changed in the script,
so like our last name was all of a sudden
Castillo my last name. There was some nice moments that
the playwright was able to bring Darylyn into the play
and Jack and Mariana the other two fellow actresses, And
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it was just so cool to like to have the
play right there and like say the words and maybe
something didn't feel natural for darrellly so then she was like,
how do you want to say it? Elian is like
how do you want to say it? And it's like, oh, well,
I will say it this way, and then she's like okay,
great and rewrites it and that becomes the show. Um.
So it's a much more intimate process and more inclusive
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just because the show is so fresh and you're originating
the role completely. Um, I love plays, though, I love plays. Okay,
So when you're preparing, preparing that role and the role
is of a pregnant woman who's selling a house, I'm sorry,
there's a not selling a house. She's in that they
are selling an house her and her sister. Yes, we're
selling the house. We decided to put it on an
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h G TV show. That's the other third female character, Mariana. Yeah.
So do you you've do you go and read books
about pregnancy? Do you? Um? Are you reading books? Like
I had had an actor friend who had a role,
and so he just started reading books that seemed similar
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to that, just to like get into the character. Is
that part of your process with with Peggy since she
was a real person? Did you read the Hamilton's book,
like what's your process to get in the skin of
these people? So it depends on the role. I used
to be that way. I used to be very like, oh,
like I'm singing this opera song, what's the history of
the song? Or like and that, And I realized that
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for me sometimes that's overload and I and I sometimes
would prefer to come at it from a different perspective.
Now with Hamilton's there was no shying away from Hamilton's.
It was everywhere in all of our faces. Everyone's what
theater person knew it. I had gone in for the
show prior to booking the Puerto Rico cast. I had
gone in for it multiple times, so I was very
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well versed. And I did read the book when it
first came out, So, um, yeah, that was a different
experience for for Julia. I've played a lot of pregnant women.
I don't know why, um, and so I I was
very familiar with, like the I've played multiple pregnant women
in multiple actually new shows, and I've played them in
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different stages. So I even got I gave birth on
stage for one of my roles in college. That was
a Sunday morning in the South. Um, it was a
one act play, probably like one of my top three
favorite performances when I was a baby. Um, it was
an incredible play. Are incredible one act um. And it's
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very deep and very deeply rooted in slavery. And um,
my character gives birth on stage but finds out that
I'm giving birth to a boy. And back then that
was like a very traumatic thing because a lot of
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black young boys were being killed. Um. And I actually
my character kills her own baby on stage. Like it
was a very like dark, very intense and I was like,
I was like nineteen, and I was helping you possibly
prepare for that in nineteen. How do you get into that?
It's such a dark place to go to. I love
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dark stuff and I'll be and and even like my
role Julia, like she goes into some dark places too,
not that far, not that deep into the end, but um,
you know, just Julia loses her mother and then her
mother's passes away and she didn't even go to say goodbye.
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So there's this like really like deep emotional I just
love like emotional, Like I like to cry, I have
a cry baby. I just I like I'm not scared
of like tapping into like vulnerability. I'm not scared to
like dive into that. I'm not scared to like go
into the realness of those raw emotions. It's like one
of my favorites. Um, It's a very interesting thing in theater.
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It's hard to take musical people, like seriously musical theater
people seriously to the play world, which is just so
like it's just so to me because it's like most
of us start off acting, you know, that's our base,
that's our core. I think when you're singing a song,
it always starts off with acting, never starts off with
just the notes, you know. So, yeah, preparing for for Julia, like,
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I had an experience with women dealing with pregnancy, and
now I'm older and considering one day having children and
all of that. So I've been a very different place,
and I just felt like it was a perfect role.
I will say this something that I've never experienced before.
So I played a pregnant woman, a six months pregnant
women for like six months. Wow, I don't know, six wow,
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six six six dark dark stuff and Darylyn and Rosemary's
baby this November. Honestly call my people. Um, but yeah,
and I caught myself acting like a pregnant woman in
the entire six months. When I say acting like a
pregnant woman, I mean like moody for sure, but also
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like I was like eating a lot and like just chilling,
like my whole body was Like like I went into
this and I realized, like I wasn't It wasn't not
to say that every part every woman is different in
their process, but I went into this like mindset of
like I don't know, like I was more exhausted. I
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was like tired more I felt and maybe because I
was carrying the actual weight around so my belly that
I had was actually seven to ten pounds. They changed
it depending on the weights that they had available, which
also gave me back injury, thank you, um um. And
it just feeling that weight on my body for six
months and like eight times a week and two times
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in a day like and sometimes all day in rehearsal
for ten hours. Um. I just like it was very
in this fog like and then I would just come
home and I wouldn't Like I've always been a very active,
you know, very active going person, and I kind of
was a little more laid back than usual. I don't
know if that was a friend of mine was like, Oh,
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it's because you were a pregnant woman for six months,
and I was like, that's true, that could be true.
It's kind of just takes over your life a little bit.
You performed in my whole island of Puerto Rico shortly
after Hurricane Maria, and Lynn took the show back there.
He's got they decide this right. He performed a bed
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deside this because well he also performed in the Heights.
It's it's a big thing for him, but he really
wanted to raise money for the While you were there,
the island was still amidst its recovery. M hm. How
did it feel aside from obviously the show which is
great right and performing it and the love and adoration
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that the island has for Lynn and for the show,
but just in general, like the feeling of being there
for the recovery to seeing the tarps on the houses,
Like just in general, what was your feeling post Hurricane
Maria being on the island. I have to say, because
we were in Gonbado, like it was very touristy, like
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the recovery. I didn't really that area didn't seem like
there was a hurricane. I'll just be like flat honest
with that. Um, there's obviously money there, and like it's
obviously one of the biggest tourists attraction in San Juan.
In San Juan, I saw a little bit, but like
still also it just and it was really busy because
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I think Hamilton's, because Hamilton's was there. Of course it
was so interesting, like you would see the even the
locals were like, oh there these this is all like
this is all happening because of you guys. That was
really cool to experience and I love that the show
did something great. However, like it was a little heartbreaking
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to see like some of the locals having a hard
time coming to see the show. And that's just something
that for me, like I made that like a mission
of mine. So like I gathered as many tickets as
I could from from cast members, use all my preview
tickets because my family came to opening they weren't coming
to the previews, and a lot of us there in
the show, we didn't have people in Puerto Rico. And
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also like I was the only Latino female, Like you know,
like there wasn't there wasn't that huge of a presence
besides me, I believe me, Lynn the King, and um
my good friend Huban that we had on the show
as well. Um, there's only a handful of us. So
I made it my mission to invite as many people
as I could on the island, Like I invited like
the Ptagua guy, like literally I went to like get
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Hog and Dogs, and I invited the girl behind the counter,
like I was just like trying to Like people were like,
I can't get a ticket. I can't get a ticket.
They cost a thousand dollars, like it's and then you
know the days that the locals were coming in, which
is the students that got the tickets for I believe
ten dollars. The line was insane that these people are
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sleeping outside to come and see this show. And the
other crazy thing for me was like some of them
didn't even speak English and we're doing the show in English.
They just want to be in the room where it happens.
And that was just like two wishes of mine was
like I wish, I wish we did the show in Spanish.
That would have been so freaking dope. Um, And maybe
that's something that's in the works. I don't know. I
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mean they're doing German, you know that's happening now. So um,
maybe eventually that'll be a thing. And I and I
wish that some more locals were abould have come out,
and I and I know that, and I'm sure Lynn
feels equal to some of that. Um. But also like
the mission was to raise as much money as we
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could for the island. And I will tell you right now,
like people came and people spent money. People spent a
lot of money to come and see that show. So
I'm grateful that it did it had it reached its
goal and surpassed it. Um. And just to be there
was an honor. Just to be a part of it
was an honor to like to watch Lynn like working
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in that capat, like working on that level, like understanding
what it like takes to be on that kind of
level to do something like this for the island. That
was like, Yeah, it's like watching Oprah work. You're like, wow,
that's cool. Yeah, that's that's fantastic. You know. I know
that my family they didn't get to see the show,
but they the pride that they took in the show
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being there. Um, and my family, most of them were
very fortunate with Hurricane Maria. The ones that were affected
by Hurricane Maria, luckily we had other family members that
can help them and we can assist them. But aside
from that, it just helped with the national pride, just
because there was just you know, with um, the orange
man throwing the paper towels, um, and just the constant
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kind of like, you know, we already feel like second
class citizens. So to take this like cultural wonder that
is touring America and like setting American fire and to
bring it to the island, it just it really does
make such a difference to the people living on the island,
you know, who so often feel like the distant step
cousin that nobody pays attention to. And so that was
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so on behalf of the Puerourrican people, because I speak
for the Puertogrican people. Thank you for performing there. Yeah, no,
it's it's it's a really lovely thing. Um. All right,
let's talk about the Tonys again again. I want to. So,
I mean, there's there's so many ways we could go
with this, but for me, what's the energy like at
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the Tony. Okay, So the first so last year was
our first year back from the Tony's after COVID the craziness,
so we didn't have that, and last year it was downsized.
They had it at the Winter Garden, which is now
where music Man is at and then they usually have
a Radio City Music Hall. Yeah, so downsized a lot
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smaller because you can't invite as many people COVID. It's
still crazy. My first Tony experience was insane. Like I
remember being like so nervous. My left arm like went
completely numb like an hour before, and the person during
my hair was like, oh, that happens to some people
that I've done hair and make it like you're probably
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just have you drink water, like probably a little anxiety
like you're gonna be great. And I was like, okay,
you mention that. Because my left arm went on before
I got this did this interview, I felt I felt
similar nerves. So anyway, continuing, I'll show you some warm
up and massages for that next time. So yeah, so
I was just I was nervous. It was like a
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nerve wracking. I was like, oh my god, I don't
want to follow my face. What if I become a meme?
What if I become you know obviously like any publicity
is good for publicity, So I was like, Darylyn, You're
gonna be great. Um. And also I was masked, which
was made me. It made me a little less nervous.
I mean at first I was a little annoyed. I'm like, oh,
nobody's gonna see me. But then it made me a
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little less nervous because I was like, oh, I can
hide behind my mask a little bit and kind of
like I don't have to smile as much. I don't
have to be on. I can just with the eyes.
But learning experience backstage and those awards ceremonies are absolutely
insane because those stage managers are they haven't If they
do something wrong, and you do something wrong then makes
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them look bad, it is over for you. So I
learned very quickly not to give into that energy and
to just literally like I felt like it was my
job to like calm the stage man like that year
was somebody different this year the last year, like he
was stressed. Like when I say like tomato, his face
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was like a red tomato. And he has done like
the Oscars, He's done like the Grammys, So I'm thinking
he's cool. No, he was like military vibe, like where
are you? Where are you? What are you doing? What's
going on? And I literally at one point was like
I'm not gonna say his name, let's just call him.
Let's just call him SM. I was like, SM, I
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got this and walk out. So that the first year
was kind of like a crazy roller coaster. My second year,
coming back this time was phenomenal. I had the absolute
best time. And I think it was because I did
it last year. I knew what to expect, I knew
how to like handle myself in that environment. Um, and
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I had the best I actually saved a couple of moments,
UM because the the other SM was like freaking out
about something and they were like, do you want Darylynn
to come over there? She's coming You'll you'll feel better,
You'll feel better. And I went over there and like
I just felt very like at ease, and people were
like remembered me from last year. They were like, what's
her name again? I remember you? Um. I was like
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kicking it back there with Samuel Jackson and his wife,
like we were just leaning out. So I got to
see Lynn again and ari Ariana Debos was like a
good friend of mine and we were just like kicking
it too, and like it was just cool to be
back there and feel like I'm a part of the gang.
I'm here, and also just to provide a little bit
of like calm vibes because necessary necessary, for sure. I
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think what people don't realize about those shows is that
it's ten decisions being made every second and everybody supposed
to what they're doing, but nobody knows what they're doing.
So you're constantly like wrangling cats. But if something goes wrong,
everybody notices it, right, and so it's just like, uh,
it's a giant Jenga. One person is holding up and
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telling people which parts to pick, you know, and without
making a collapse. Okay, we're gonna get some random questions here,
o favorite part of the show. We're gonna just ask
some random questions. Are you ready? I'm ready? All right,
f Mary kill Nio, nick on long, oh come on,
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oh come on. I can't answer this, Come on, okay,
Son Culture, I would ask, Okay, you got to marry
the Dominican flag. That's fine, that's good. I'm going to
stick to that. That's my answer. Finally answer yeah, Cult,
you just want that, like, yeah, let's stop there that's
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a treat. That's a treat. What's the favorite city you've
ever been on touring A hard, hard question. Of course
I'm not including San Juan, which we're gonna say is
number one. And then well I was, of course, I
mean that's like that takes over everything. Because also we
got to spend like a few weeks they're kind of
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on vacation slash rehearsal wasn't rehearsal, um, but yeah, I
got to really explore the island and get to know
the island, and it was I was pleasantly surprised, especially
being Dominican. I never I mean I never want to
Puto Rico, which is crazy because there's that the boat
that brings us both to Puerto Rican diller, you know,
the card of the crew of the ship. My grandmother's
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done a bunch of times. I hadn't done it. So
to finally go to Puerto Rico and then like also
feel the love, like I don't know who made up
this Dominican Puerto Rico versus thing. I don't know what
who did that. Get out go somewhere because I felt
like I was home and like they I got. I
felt loved and cared for. Um okay, second favorite city, though.
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Something always brings me back to Detroit. I know that's
it's a weird Detroit. Detroit. I really do love to
do a Detroit. I don't know what it is. I've
been there like four times now and I've always just
had a great time. People, the vibes go to you know,
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hit up a casino. I love Detroit. I did not
see Detroit making the top five. Wow, how about that? Okay? Yeah,
I love Detroit. Check out to Detroit. Love working there,
I love the vibes, I love the people. You know
what it is. I guess it just reminds me a
little bit of New York, like it has grit, has
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like real authentic like grit in history. Just I'm even
gonna say Detroit pizza. I know. Do you enjoy the squares?
I do enjoy it. I know love Detroit. Alright, Little Caesars,
if you're listening, we'll take a sponsorship. Um okay. As always,
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we always closed with the same question, what is it
that reminds you at home? However it is that you
define home? All right? If you know me, you know
this answer. It has to go on. It has I
mean it's like it's the it's the national plate of
Dominican like it's it is the plate of Dominican Republic.
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Like I love food. I I could be anywhere in
anywhere in the world if there's I'm home. I'm like, yes,
thank you very much. I even have a mug. I
got two of them actually for Christmas. I want to
shout out my friends that know me. They got me
two mugs, the same exact gift that has it like
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it's in clay, like it's clayed, it's made into it's amazing.
And two of my really close friends got me the
same exact mug for Christmas, and it just was like
I have to I use them both every day today.
Man Satia, I said, well, yeah, like that's just everything fantastic.
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That's a good answer. All right. Well that is um
the end of our time together today. I hope you've
enjoyed this, uh, this little glimpse into our host life. Carlos,
you did. You did such a great job. I'm trying.
I'm trying. I can feel my left arm now, I
can feel it. It's coming back. Um, Darylyn. For the
listeners at home wherek and may follow you, Yes, you
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guys can follow. Well, first off, what I nat that
you guys can follow, um, What I Eat? That podcast
on Instagram and my personal Instagram is Darylyn Melody. That's
d A r I l Y n N E l
O d y excellent. And if you want to follow me,
you can follow me at Planned Parenthood dot org or
shout your Abortion dot com. If you give either of
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those causes, I will be sure to call you. Thank
you so much. This is the last have a wonderful
for the July week, however it is you're celebrating, and
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Today we have a very very special episode for you.
That's right, very special because this time I'm the one
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in the hot seat. That's right, your favorite host here
on Moranita, Darlin Castillo is getting interviewed. Our producer here
at Son, Carlos are Nado, will be leading this one
today to ask me all of the questions. And when
I say all of the questions, I mean all the questions.
I'm so excited to share this with you guys because
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you can now have a little bit more of a
glimpse about where I come from, what I'm passionate about,
and learn about what my favorite things are. As I mentioned,
Carlos Arenado leads this conversation beautifully, and trust me, you
are in good hands. Carlos mentioned he was a bit nervous,
so be kind, but I also felt this youing very strongly,
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because I still get a bit nervous to this day
about interviewing some folks. We are more than thirty episodes
in on Monita Pat on the back, and those butterflies
still get me. But once the conversations begin to flow,
all of those nerves they just melt away, and I
find myself really feeling inspired and better than when I
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walked into the interview. That's how I felt after this one.
Not only was it just so nice to share myself
with you all, it was a beautiful reminder of why
I'm doing this podcast. Mon Anita is intended to be
a safe space for us Latina people to share opinions,
share our stories, and share our differences and our likes.
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Mon Anita is a space for learning and understanding. So
every time you click on a story, you get something different.
There's something to take away in each episode. Today, I
hope that you take away something special with my story.
For me, words like perseverance, growth, and hope came to
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mind for me. During this interview, they invite the to
listen to this one and see what pops up for you. Okay,
welcome to Anita. My name is Carlos. I'm one of
the producers. He at Mardonita and Happy fourth of July.
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This week, we thought we'd do something a little bit different,
and we're gonna put Darylyn, your favorite morn the host,
on the hot seat, and I'm going to ask her questions.
So if I may it for the first time, Drylyn, welcome.
I'm really happy that this is happening right now. You're natural,
you know, this is this is what the people have
been clamoring for, This is what all of America wants.
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I told you, I told you. No, I'm really happy
to be here. I'm happy that we're doing it on
this July fourth weekend. Moment. There's so much, so much
to talk about, so much, and so much of it
is uh makes me wanna get into a ball and crying.
So but we're not gonna talk about any of that
stuff today. We're just going to have some fun. Yes, yes,
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um any do you do anything for the fourth I'm
remodeling my house. I'm I'm literally like in this adult
ing go mode right now where it's like we're trying
to get this backyard done. We have a house in Florida,
so my fiance and this is going down there. So
I'm going to be home by myself, so I'll probably
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like make a fire in the firepit, like doing yardwork,
drink something I see then this you know what I'm
saying in fireworks, I mean that's that's the Dominican way.
It sounds pretty American for me. What is are you
big fireworks? Man? I love fireworks? Actually I cry every
time every time. Yeah, it's a thing makes me very emotional. Wow.
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So I grew up in Florida and I went to
Disney World all the time. They had fireworks every night,
and just like I saw so many fireworks that like
I can't get moved by them, Like I just I
see them. I'm like, cool, that's great. Wow, that's interesting.
Disney's Like that's where I cry the most. Yeah, there's
a part of me that's dead inside. So yeah, what
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what scares me is that part keeps growing every year,
does it. It's just like more and more dies inside
of me every year. So yes, I'm just gonna be
a hollow shell soon. Gosh. Yeah. Fireworks are they make
me so. They make me so happy and like, I mean,
they freak my dogs out. My dogs are like terrified
a fryworks fireworks, But I love them. I cry. They're
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just so beautiful. I'm like, how it's just I don't know.
I don't know. That's the correct emotion. That's what you
should feel when you see what I should feel. Everyone
should feel. That's what human beings should feel. But I don't.
We got to bring some happiness in your life, you know. Yeah,
it keeps it keeps my therapist employed, so hey, we'll
keep going with it. So you've been busy lately. I'm exhausted.
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I'm exhausted, but good exhausted. Like you know, there's times
where it's like where I also don't know how to
be still, so that's something that I talked to my
therapist about. Um, yeah, I don't know how to be still,
Like I just feel like it's never enough and then
like when my plates like overflowing or too full, then
like then I start, like then I start, you know, shedding,
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shedding the fat. Were you always that way? Like as
a kid? Could you just never said still? Did you
always have to be doing something like let's let's unravel this?
How this become you? Your personality? Yeah, I think it's
my mom because my mom is is like that, She's
always doing something like it's never enough, gotta keep going,
gotta keep going. And I think my mom raised me
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in that way, so like you know, I was always
doing singing, dancing, acting, gymnastics like you know, and it
just and I also think that the route of the
industry that I'm in, like you always feel like you
have to be doing something and if you're not doing anything,
are you really doing anything at all? And COVID helped
me sit down because it forced us to. But let's
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talk about the work. And this is gonna be a
really long winded question. So prepare yourself. Okay, take a nap,
grab some tea. But this is gonna be a long one,
all right. So originated the role of Julia in dream House,
which was written by Atliana Pipes, and she was on
the show. If you're listening to this, go ahead listen
to that episode two. It was great. And then but
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you were also famously in Hamilton's right, and of your
Hamilton performance, it was said, the real unexpected thrill for
me was Darren Castillo who takes the somewhat thankless track
of Peggy and Maria Reynolds and somehow makes it a meal.
That's a great quote. That it's good. It's a great quote.
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All of that to say, how do you prepare a
character when you're originating a role versus you? First of all,
it's on stage versus a musical where you it's already
been played and you have to inhabit the role, And
how do you make that your own? How is the two?
How's the preparation for the two different? Yeah? I think
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it's so funny because coming into Hamilton's I was really
lucky because we got to originate that company. So when
you're able to originate a company, the m Peggy Company
was able to originate the role in that there's a
freedom that they give you, UM to bring yourself to
that role because now that role is set, how how
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I've done it, which is that's the honor of that,
and then you know whoever steps into it is feeling that.
But Hamilton's does a great job at allowing the actor
the person shine through that role. So it's it's a
different it's a different experience than it was for Lion King.
Like for Lion King that's been around for fifteen twenty years,
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probably got what now, um, that's been around for so long,
they're on repeat, on repeat, on repeat, So there's a
certain box that you have to fill. And Lion King,
there's only two productions, tour and the Broadway Company. UM.
So just for my mom at home, so she knows company. UM,
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when you say company, that's the company is the ones
that originated and then they go on tour. So you'll
have the um, the original Broadway right show, and then
the company will be the different touring that could be
in San Francisco, they could be a Milwaukee, and you
could have different companies at once exactly exactly. Okay, So
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you're saying for each company, you basically get to reinvent
the role I mean, obviously within the context of the character,
but you get to reinvent the role with the shadings
that you want to see. Yes, my first rehearsal for
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Hamilton's I remember we got called, you know, separately in
the rooms to sing your parts and sing your versions.
And I was singing the Mariah Reynolds song with our
m d at, the musical director at the time, and
he like stopped me midway and he was like, Okay,
now I want you to do it again, and I
want you to do it as yourself. We didn't hire
you to like sound like Jasmine Stefa Jones. We didn't
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hire you to sound like Aubin. We didn't hire you
to sound like you know, the other peggies that have
been around. We hired you because we want you to
come through in this moment. And I kind of started crying.
I don't know why. Actually I do know why, because
I've I've had experiences in the industry where I've never
been able to bring myself to the table, bring myself
to the plate. It's always about fitting in to the
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box of what the character is because it's done so well,
because they made so much money off of it that
they just it's a repeat. So that was a very
like a moment of freedom in the room where I
was like, oh, I get to be myself. Obviously with
limitations still, like you know, you can't riff in certain
areas or like add flares and things like that. I
just want to rewrite the show. But um, it was
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a really good feeling. Now we're talking about dream House,
which is like also like just completely different because it's
a play. Um. I mean the playwright was there throughout
the entire process of each theater that we reopened in um,
and I was able to build this character with the
play right. I remember the first time when I went
in for Dreamhouse, I read the script and it was
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so phenomenal and I was like so obsessed with it.
And then I get into rehearsal for the first day,
I realized that some things are changed in the script,
so like our last name was all of a sudden
Castillo my last name. There was some nice moments that
the playwright was able to bring Darylyn into the play
and Jack and Mariana the other two fellow actresses, And
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it was just so cool to like to have the
play right there and like say the words and maybe
something didn't feel natural for darrellly so then she was like,
how do you want to say it? Elian is like
how do you want to say it? And it's like, oh, well,
I will say it this way, and then she's like okay,
great and rewrites it and that becomes the show. Um.
So it's a much more intimate process and more inclusive
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just because the show is so fresh and you're originating
the role completely. Um, I love plays, though, I love plays. Okay,
So when you're preparing, preparing that role and the role
is of a pregnant woman who's selling a house, I'm sorry,
there's a not selling a house. She's in that they
are selling an house her and her sister. Yes, we're
selling the house. We decided to put it on an
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h G TV show. That's the other third female character, Mariana. Yeah.
So do you you've do you go and read books
about pregnancy? Do you? Um? Are you reading books? Like
I had had an actor friend who had a role,
and so he just started reading books that seemed similar
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to that, just to like get into the character. Is
that part of your process with with Peggy since she
was a real person? Did you read the Hamilton's book,
like what's your process to get in the skin of
these people? So it depends on the role. I used
to be that way. I used to be very like, oh,
like I'm singing this opera song, what's the history of
the song? Or like and that, And I realized that
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for me sometimes that's overload and I and I sometimes
would prefer to come at it from a different perspective.
Now with Hamilton's there was no shying away from Hamilton's.
It was everywhere in all of our faces. Everyone's what
theater person knew it. I had gone in for the
show prior to booking the Puerto Rico cast. I had
gone in for it multiple times, so I was very
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well versed. And I did read the book when it
first came out, So, um, yeah, that was a different
experience for for Julia. I've played a lot of pregnant women.
I don't know why, um, and so I I was
very familiar with, like the I've played multiple pregnant women
in multiple actually new shows, and I've played them in
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different stages. So I even got I gave birth on
stage for one of my roles in college. That was
a Sunday morning in the South. Um, it was a
one act play, probably like one of my top three
favorite performances when I was a baby. Um, it was
an incredible play. Are incredible one act um. And it's
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very deep and very deeply rooted in slavery. And um,
my character gives birth on stage but finds out that
I'm giving birth to a boy. And back then that
was like a very traumatic thing because a lot of
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black young boys were being killed. Um. And I actually
my character kills her own baby on stage. Like it
was a very like dark, very intense and I was like,
I was like nineteen, and I was helping you possibly
prepare for that in nineteen. How do you get into that?
It's such a dark place to go to. I love
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dark stuff and I'll be and and even like my
role Julia, like she goes into some dark places too,
not that far, not that deep into the end, but um,
you know, just Julia loses her mother and then her
mother's passes away and she didn't even go to say goodbye.
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So there's this like really like deep emotional I just
love like emotional, Like I like to cry, I have
a cry baby. I just I like I'm not scared
of like tapping into like vulnerability. I'm not scared to
like dive into that. I'm not scared to like go
into the realness of those raw emotions. It's like one
of my favorites. Um, It's a very interesting thing in theater.
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It's hard to take musical people, like seriously musical theater
people seriously to the play world, which is just so
like it's just so to me because it's like most
of us start off acting, you know, that's our base,
that's our core. I think when you're singing a song,
it always starts off with acting, never starts off with
just the notes, you know. So, yeah, preparing for for Julia, like,
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I had an experience with women dealing with pregnancy, and
now I'm older and considering one day having children and
all of that. So I've been a very different place,
and I just felt like it was a perfect role.
I will say this something that I've never experienced before.
So I played a pregnant woman, a six months pregnant
women for like six months. Wow, I don't know, six wow,
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six six six dark dark stuff and Darylyn and Rosemary's
baby this November. Honestly call my people. Um, but yeah,
and I caught myself acting like a pregnant woman in
the entire six months. When I say acting like a
pregnant woman, I mean like moody for sure, but also
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like I was like eating a lot and like just chilling,
like my whole body was Like like I went into
this and I realized, like I wasn't It wasn't not
to say that every part every woman is different in
their process, but I went into this like mindset of
like I don't know, like I was more exhausted. I
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was like tired more I felt and maybe because I
was carrying the actual weight around so my belly that
I had was actually seven to ten pounds. They changed
it depending on the weights that they had available, which
also gave me back injury, thank you, um um. And
it just feeling that weight on my body for six
months and like eight times a week and two times
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in a day like and sometimes all day in rehearsal
for ten hours. Um. I just like it was very
in this fog like and then I would just come
home and I wouldn't Like I've always been a very active,
you know, very active going person, and I kind of
was a little more laid back than usual. I don't
know if that was a friend of mine was like, Oh,
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it's because you were a pregnant woman for six months,
and I was like, that's true, that could be true.
It's kind of just takes over your life a little bit.
You performed in my whole island of Puerto Rico shortly
after Hurricane Maria, and Lynn took the show back there.
He's got they decide this right. He performed a bed
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deside this because well he also performed in the Heights.
It's it's a big thing for him, but he really
wanted to raise money for the While you were there,
the island was still amidst its recovery. M hm. How
did it feel aside from obviously the show which is
great right and performing it and the love and adoration
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that the island has for Lynn and for the show,
but just in general, like the feeling of being there
for the recovery to seeing the tarps on the houses,
Like just in general, what was your feeling post Hurricane
Maria being on the island. I have to say, because
we were in Gonbado, like it was very touristy, like
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the recovery. I didn't really that area didn't seem like
there was a hurricane. I'll just be like flat honest
with that. Um, there's obviously money there, and like it's
obviously one of the biggest tourists attraction in San Juan.
In San Juan, I saw a little bit, but like
still also it just and it was really busy because
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I think Hamilton's, because Hamilton's was there. Of course it
was so interesting, like you would see the even the
locals were like, oh there these this is all like
this is all happening because of you guys. That was
really cool to experience and I love that the show
did something great. However, like it was a little heartbreaking
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to see like some of the locals having a hard
time coming to see the show. And that's just something
that for me, like I made that like a mission
of mine. So like I gathered as many tickets as
I could from from cast members, use all my preview
tickets because my family came to opening they weren't coming
to the previews, and a lot of us there in
the show, we didn't have people in Puerto Rico. And
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also like I was the only Latino female, Like you know,
like there wasn't there wasn't that huge of a presence
besides me, I believe me, Lynn the King, and um
my good friend Huban that we had on the show
as well. Um, there's only a handful of us. So
I made it my mission to invite as many people
as I could on the island, Like I invited like
the Ptagua guy, like literally I went to like get
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Hog and Dogs, and I invited the girl behind the counter,
like I was just like trying to Like people were like,
I can't get a ticket. I can't get a ticket.
They cost a thousand dollars, like it's and then you
know the days that the locals were coming in, which
is the students that got the tickets for I believe
ten dollars. The line was insane that these people are
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sleeping outside to come and see this show. And the
other crazy thing for me was like some of them
didn't even speak English and we're doing the show in English.
They just want to be in the room where it happens.
And that was just like two wishes of mine was
like I wish, I wish we did the show in Spanish.
That would have been so freaking dope. Um, And maybe
that's something that's in the works. I don't know. I
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mean they're doing German, you know that's happening now. So um,
maybe eventually that'll be a thing. And I and I
wish that some more locals were abould have come out,
and I and I know that, and I'm sure Lynn
feels equal to some of that. Um. But also like
the mission was to raise as much money as we
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could for the island. And I will tell you right now,
like people came and people spent money. People spent a
lot of money to come and see that show. So
I'm grateful that it did it had it reached its
goal and surpassed it. Um. And just to be there
was an honor. Just to be a part of it
was an honor to like to watch Lynn like working
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in that capat, like working on that level, like understanding
what it like takes to be on that kind of
level to do something like this for the island. That
was like, Yeah, it's like watching Oprah work. You're like, wow,
that's cool. Yeah, that's that's fantastic. You know. I know
that my family they didn't get to see the show,
but they the pride that they took in the show
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being there. Um, and my family, most of them were
very fortunate with Hurricane Maria. The ones that were affected
by Hurricane Maria, luckily we had other family members that
can help them and we can assist them. But aside
from that, it just helped with the national pride, just
because there was just you know, with um, the orange
man throwing the paper towels, um, and just the constant
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kind of like, you know, we already feel like second
class citizens. So to take this like cultural wonder that
is touring America and like setting American fire and to
bring it to the island, it just it really does
make such a difference to the people living on the island,
you know, who so often feel like the distant step
cousin that nobody pays attention to. And so that was
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so on behalf of the Puerourrican people, because I speak
for the Puertogrican people. Thank you for performing there. Yeah, no,
it's it's it's a really lovely thing. Um. All right,
let's talk about the Tonys again again. I want to. So,
I mean, there's there's so many ways we could go
with this, but for me, what's the energy like at
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the Tony. Okay, So the first so last year was
our first year back from the Tony's after COVID the craziness,
so we didn't have that, and last year it was downsized.
They had it at the Winter Garden, which is now
where music Man is at and then they usually have
a Radio City Music Hall. Yeah, so downsized a lot
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smaller because you can't invite as many people COVID. It's
still crazy. My first Tony experience was insane. Like I
remember being like so nervous. My left arm like went
completely numb like an hour before, and the person during
my hair was like, oh, that happens to some people
that I've done hair and make it like you're probably
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just have you drink water, like probably a little anxiety
like you're gonna be great. And I was like, okay,
you mention that. Because my left arm went on before
I got this did this interview, I felt I felt
similar nerves. So anyway, continuing, I'll show you some warm
up and massages for that next time. So yeah, so
I was just I was nervous. It was like a
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nerve wracking. I was like, oh my god, I don't
want to follow my face. What if I become a meme?
What if I become you know obviously like any publicity
is good for publicity, So I was like, Darylyn, You're
gonna be great. Um. And also I was masked, which
was made me. It made me a little less nervous.
I mean at first I was a little annoyed. I'm like, oh,
nobody's gonna see me. But then it made me a
(25:23):
little less nervous because I was like, oh, I can
hide behind my mask a little bit and kind of
like I don't have to smile as much. I don't
have to be on. I can just with the eyes.
But learning experience backstage and those awards ceremonies are absolutely
insane because those stage managers are they haven't If they
do something wrong, and you do something wrong then makes
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them look bad, it is over for you. So I
learned very quickly not to give into that energy and
to just literally like I felt like it was my
job to like calm the stage man like that year
was somebody different this year the last year, like he
was stressed. Like when I say like tomato, his face
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was like a red tomato. And he has done like
the Oscars, He's done like the Grammys, So I'm thinking
he's cool. No, he was like military vibe, like where
are you? Where are you? What are you doing? What's
going on? And I literally at one point was like
I'm not gonna say his name, let's just call him.
Let's just call him SM. I was like, SM, I
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got this and walk out. So that the first year
was kind of like a crazy roller coaster. My second year,
coming back this time was phenomenal. I had the absolute
best time. And I think it was because I did
it last year. I knew what to expect, I knew
how to like handle myself in that environment. Um, and
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I had the best I actually saved a couple of moments,
UM because the the other SM was like freaking out
about something and they were like, do you want Darylynn
to come over there? She's coming You'll you'll feel better,
You'll feel better. And I went over there and like
I just felt very like at ease, and people were
like remembered me from last year. They were like, what's
her name again? I remember you? Um. I was like
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kicking it back there with Samuel Jackson and his wife,
like we were just leaning out. So I got to
see Lynn again and ari Ariana Debos was like a
good friend of mine and we were just like kicking
it too, and like it was just cool to be
back there and feel like I'm a part of the gang.
I'm here, and also just to provide a little bit
of like calm vibes because necessary necessary, for sure. I
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think what people don't realize about those shows is that
it's ten decisions being made every second and everybody supposed
to what they're doing, but nobody knows what they're doing.
So you're constantly like wrangling cats. But if something goes wrong,
everybody notices it, right, and so it's just like, uh,
it's a giant Jenga. One person is holding up and
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telling people which parts to pick, you know, and without
making a collapse. Okay, we're gonna get some random questions here,
o favorite part of the show. We're gonna just ask
some random questions. Are you ready? I'm ready? All right,
f Mary kill Nio, nick on long, oh come on,
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oh come on. I can't answer this, Come on, okay,
Son Culture, I would ask, Okay, you got to marry
the Dominican flag. That's fine, that's good. I'm going to
stick to that. That's my answer. Finally answer yeah, Cult,
you just want that, like, yeah, let's stop there that's
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a treat. That's a treat. What's the favorite city you've
ever been on touring A hard, hard question. Of course
I'm not including San Juan, which we're gonna say is
number one. And then well I was, of course, I
mean that's like that takes over everything. Because also we
got to spend like a few weeks they're kind of
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on vacation slash rehearsal wasn't rehearsal, um, but yeah, I
got to really explore the island and get to know
the island, and it was I was pleasantly surprised, especially
being Dominican. I never I mean I never want to
Puto Rico, which is crazy because there's that the boat
that brings us both to Puerto Rican diller, you know,
the card of the crew of the ship. My grandmother's
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done a bunch of times. I hadn't done it. So
to finally go to Puerto Rico and then like also
feel the love, like I don't know who made up
this Dominican Puerto Rico versus thing. I don't know what
who did that. Get out go somewhere because I felt
like I was home and like they I got. I
felt loved and cared for. Um okay, second favorite city, though.
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Something always brings me back to Detroit. I know that's
it's a weird Detroit. Detroit. I really do love to
do a Detroit. I don't know what it is. I've
been there like four times now and I've always just
had a great time. People, the vibes go to you know,
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hit up a casino. I love Detroit. I did not
see Detroit making the top five. Wow, how about that? Okay? Yeah,
I love Detroit. Check out to Detroit. Love working there,
I love the vibes, I love the people. You know
what it is. I guess it just reminds me a
little bit of New York, like it has grit, has
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like real authentic like grit in history. Just I'm even
gonna say Detroit pizza. I know. Do you enjoy the squares?
I do enjoy it. I know love Detroit. Alright, Little Caesars,
if you're listening, we'll take a sponsorship. Um okay. As always,
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we always closed with the same question, what is it
that reminds you at home? However it is that you
define home? All right? If you know me, you know
this answer. It has to go on. It has I
mean it's like it's the it's the national plate of
Dominican like it's it is the plate of Dominican Republic.
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Like I love food. I I could be anywhere in
anywhere in the world if there's I'm home. I'm like, yes,
thank you very much. I even have a mug. I
got two of them actually for Christmas. I want to
shout out my friends that know me. They got me
two mugs, the same exact gift that has it like
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it's in clay, like it's clayed, it's made into it's amazing.
And two of my really close friends got me the
same exact mug for Christmas, and it just was like
I have to I use them both every day today.
Man Satia, I said, well, yeah, like that's just everything fantastic.
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That's a good answer. All right. Well that is um
the end of our time together today. I hope you've
enjoyed this, uh, this little glimpse into our host life. Carlos,
you did. You did such a great job. I'm trying.
I'm trying. I can feel my left arm now, I
can feel it. It's coming back. Um, Darylyn. For the
listeners at home wherek and may follow you, Yes, you
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guys can follow. Well, first off, what I nat that
you guys can follow, um, What I Eat? That podcast
on Instagram and my personal Instagram is Darylyn Melody. That's
d A r I l Y n N E l
O d y excellent. And if you want to follow me,
you can follow me at Planned Parenthood dot org or
shout your Abortion dot com. If you give either of
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those causes, I will be sure to call you. Thank
you so much. This is the last have a wonderful
for the July week, however it is you're celebrating, and
we will see you next week here on Mona Mona
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