September 3, 2025 • 19 mins
Friend of the Cruz Show Isabela Merced checked in to talk about her new music, Superman, Last of Us & more. Isabela also chose between a Grammy and an Oscar + she explained her "house rules" for UNO.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Real ninety two three.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
The Cruise Show Real nightty two three is a developers
set is back and we are talking apocalypsis, because I mean,
are you kidding me? You absolutely not only just killed
it vocally, but the video itself, I can't believe, Like
I just can't believe it.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Thank you, Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Talk about a little bit about that collaboration with Tony
and how all of this came to be.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Well, first of all, thank you so much. I'm so
happy you like this song. I this is crazy because
the story call the song came to me is like
it's Originally it was like a chill like Regato sort
of a pop song, and then it turned into a
remix because Tony took it in his own hands and
he just he heard the song and he was like,
(00:59):
this could easily be a also thing. I met Tony
through his his aunt who knows everybody, and then and
then he made it into this remix, sent it to me.
It's twenty nineteen twenty twenty at this point, and he
I loved it as it was, and so really all
that was left to do was recorded. Because I was down,
I was like immediately, yes, I'm doing this, and then
(01:21):
and then from there, I mean, we recorded over zoom
and we even just like did some some riffing on
the on the day and coming up with new stuff,
and my little brother was engineering and he it was
funny because he produced the original song, so he signed
this remix. He loved it, and now we have this
whole song, which took forever to come out because like
timing or whatever. But it was perfect because Tony just
(01:44):
wanted his American Grammy and he's one of like probably
I think the first Provid ever win a Grammy, like
an American Grammy. So he's iconic and he's having a
moment and I'm just happy to support him.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Dude, that's crazy, because you said, like you've held onto
this for quite a while.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Then, yes, we've sat on this for so long, and
it had been so long that I was listening to
the recording of like my voice and stuff, and I thought,
my voice has matured so much since then, maybe we
should we should redo it. And we tried. I went
to New York. He met me in New York. Sorry, no,
somebody else met me in New York to help produce it,
and then he met on the Zoom. Tony was on Zoom.
(02:21):
I'm there doing it. We recorded the whole song again
and I went back and listened and I was like, wow,
there's really nothing like the magic of the first of
the first session. So we ended up keeping the original
vocals from twenty twenty nineteen. Wow, that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
It's also cool how you say that it was basically
a family affair. You guys met through his eye and
then your brother also produced it.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Like, oh yes, I did a performance live for Sirius XM.
We did like a session. I did three songs, like
literally two days ago, and my brother was like he
got a shout out there. But also Tony's brother, who
was also a musician, he was there and he was
singing for He's doing the background vocals USh And it
(03:01):
was great because I was watching on the TV before
I even got to meet him and talk to him
in person, and I was like, that looks like my
little brother Gio, and he does. He looks like my
little brother Je. But like if Gio was like half Japanese.
That's hell funny.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Who gave you these musical genes?
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Has this always been this way with you and your
brother when you were little, like just always about music?
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Honestly, Yeah, we've always kind of loved music, him and I.
I think my older brother's more into physical activities and
like adrenaline, and I guess I'm into adrenaline too, because
who the hell would do this if you didn't like
the thriller the rush of it. But yeah, like we've
always been into music. And I even just built a
studio at my house so that I could record from there.
(03:50):
And my little brother and I have always It's so
funny because we've He even tried acting for a second
and he did not like it. He just like thought
it was so funny. He couldn't sep laughing. And he's right,
like it is a ridiculous job, but you love it
and you commit to the bit or you don't. And
you would think that there'd be some sort of competition there,
because we tried to say we both do the acting,
(04:12):
we both you know, but it's actually the opposite. We're
actually very supportive of each other. And not only that,
but like my mom is supportive of the both of
us in all the ways, Like if he woke up
one day said you want to be an awstronaut, like
she would get it done by next month. That's awesome.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
Is this single, oh sorry, ghead Jack, Is this single
part of a bigger project that we can expect.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
You know? For Tony? Yes, Like he's been working on
stuff for a long time and this is me stepping
up as like a fellow Peruvian and he's working on
some iconic stuff. And he's actually going to perform at
a stadium, the National Stadium of Perus in December, and
like maybe I'll be there. Cannot confirm, nord to not,
(04:57):
but yeah, that's part of that. Like this little this
mom is for him and his post Grammy Win it,
his post Grammy Win project. I guess that he's were doing.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
What would you rather have a Grammy or Oscar?
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Oh my god, that's a good question. Both are rigged,
But I think no, I think I think which one
looks cooler? I guess, like which one would be cooler
to have on my mantle?
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Right?
Speaker 3 (05:24):
I feel like Oscar is skinny, Grammy is like a
little bit more artsy looking. I feel like Grammy looks cooler.
Honestly like a Grammy too.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
You can put like little flowers in there, make it
a little vase if you want it.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Yes, it's it's just like a little bit artsier to me.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
You know, you know you are so proud to be Peruvian.
I wanted to talk about you making Peru Forbes like
that is literally insane, Like how was that feeling?
Speaker 3 (05:54):
That was crazy? And it happened during all kinds of
press and stuff for Superman and for the last of
and I really wish that I took more time to
really soak it all in. I definitely have a delayed
reaction time because I mean, so much, so much is happening,
you kind of forget to be in the moment. But
I think the best part was them flying me out
to Peru, getting to do you know, press for that
(06:19):
and for Superman, and watching it all culminate in one place,
like I invited half I invited like half my family
and Lima to come, and they all came and supported
me and listened to me talk. And I was super
nervous because you know, like as a as a non
native Spanish speaker, or you know what I mean, Like
being in front of like all those Peruvians and having
to talk all in an educated manner about my profession
(06:42):
and what I do is definitely nerve wracking. But they
said I did a great job. I don't know, maybe
they're biased, but yeah, it was. A family is always
going to support and that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Like I love to say that, you know, speaking of
like Superman and like Last of Us, congratulations on all
of that. You have completely just skyrocketed the last time
we saw you and we were just talking about twizzlers
and redvines the last time we saw you. The skyrockett
has been you know, we were just we're so proud
of you on the show. I know I speak for
everybody and I say that, but also to what have
(07:14):
what has been your reaction when you see like the Superman,
like I was like I see on TikTok, It's like
everybody's saying, oh, I watched Superman for the plot the
plot is.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
You Oh my god? What is that reaction?
Speaker 2 (07:28):
And how like how love do you feel by that universe?
Speaker 5 (07:31):
Now?
Speaker 3 (07:33):
I feel great. I mean I'm just happy people are watching.
I feel like the movie has a really nice message
as a really positive message and it's like about humanity
and keeping keeping together and like supporting undocumented. It's literally
the it's got like some messaging in there that they
that they that's layered with like real comic book lore
(07:57):
and story that I just think it was so cleverly done,
and I think I wish I had a movie like
that growing up. That who's the movie's morals? I think
in messaging is very clear. I think that's what we
need more now than evers, like people actually standing for something.
I think people are a little scared to like actually
make a statement nowadays because it's very very both sides,
(08:18):
and so I think movies like this are are are
kind of good. They're gonna and especially if they do well,
they'll encourage other artists to do the same and not
be so scared to take a stance against something that
is inherently just harmful. Yeah, no, I completely agree. You
know you did such a great job in it.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
And going back to the music, as Becky G commented
and was just taken aback. I mean, when Beggy G
supports other women, she supports fully like and I love
that for you.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Wait, I didn't even know what they commented are idea?
Speaker 6 (09:01):
Oh? My gosh, would talks of working together or yeah, well,
I mean obviously I would love to do that, but
I'm more relaxed about music.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
She like, that's like her main thing, and she's a
hustler and she will she gets it done. But somehow
she also manages to go do charity work as well.
Like the last time I saw her in person was
not that long ago. It was like maybe a week
and a half ago, and we saw each other by
coincidence at this place where like it is like this
this is about humanity, and Girley was like wearing a
cab and like some jeans and she was very incognito
(09:36):
and packing up boxes. We were packing up boxes for
families who have been targeted by the ice raids and
so like, while she's going and making hits, she's also
just helping families in like local Los Angeles area, And
I thought that was super cool. I don't even know,
she commented, I haven't like I've been posting just for
(09:59):
just to promote myself, but I haven't like been on
Instagram like that. I really gotta do better because you'll
leave Becky g on Red like.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
To say that you can do that, though, is like
pretty wild, Like it's just like I just have to
get back to her.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
No, I'm I don't like social media. I don't like it.
I do it because it's my job. It's one part
of my job. Because literally they'll be like, well, you
just don't have that many followers, so we can't cast
you in this in this giant movie that you want
to be a part of, you know what I mean.
So I do it reluctantly, but I don't use it
like oxygen.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
You know, you don't have that problem anymore. Your followers
are on you.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
I mean I don't. Again, I don't even know what
my follower counts.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
Is give you anxiety? Social media or like I think
it's it's a little bit too concerned.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
It's when I do it it just for me personally.
I find that a lot of my headspace goes into
how I'm perceived, and enough of that is done with
my job. I have to know exactly how my face moves,
I have to know exactly like how I'm how someone
might interpret my actions. I just feel like it's too
much energy going into stuff that doesn't matter. So yeah,
(11:15):
I leave it for work and then and then I
then I go and mind my business and I unpack
my boxes. No help.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
Yeah, I'm the same way.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
If it's not work man like the family and everything
else and being in the moment is so much more
important to me, you know.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
It's like, that's what that's what's going to flash before
your eyes on your deathbed. Is not like your Instagram
reception your time with your family exactly.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Hey, when it came to the Last of Us, I
don't know how soon they gave you the scripts, but
we're big fans of the show. When you saw the
pedro scene and all that stuff on paper where you're like,
holy shit, this is really happening.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
Do what the hell?
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Oh that's right. We haven't gotten a chance to talk
about this.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
No, because the last time we saw you was before
all this.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Yeah, that's insane. Yeah, the Twizzler's bit, the Twizzler way
he ended up sending me. He ended up sending me
like a whole box of twistlings. Which one did it?
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Like?
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Who was? But no, I think I think, wow, so
what just happened? So yeah, I mean the Last of
Us It was just earlier this year, and it feels
like it was so long ago. But but I remember
reading that and being like, oh, this is what's in
the game, and then wondering how different it would feel.
(12:36):
I think maybe because the game is a little bit
I haven't played the game and I watched the TV
show more recently, meaning that scene is I don't remember
exactly how it was in the game. I remember being
devastating because Ashley, who portrayed Ellie in the game, was
very emotional. I found it harder to film it than
to watch it because I was hearing all all of
(13:00):
the the because Kaitlin wasn't hitting him with the golf club,
but she was hitting a matt next to his head
and so like I could still hear the like the
impact and hear him screaming and slowly just getting murdered,
and I couldn't open my eyes and watch. So I
was just like it was terrible, the worst kind of
(13:23):
asmr Like it was not good.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
That's you know, like that's so crazy to think about,
because like I I think, I mean as someone who
watched my brother, Like I literally just watched my brother
play the game, and I would just be there watching
just for the storyline in between whatever he was doing
and seeing it, I was literally bawling my eyes out.
I was like, dude, this is crazy, and to really
(13:47):
feel how you guys like really portray that on screen.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Yeah, you guys just did that so well.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
You guts excellent.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
M It was definitely a team effort. It felt like
it felt like a play. It felt like a theater
play because we're on It was like ten of us
and we all had our little parts to do in
our cues, and we'd all do it in one take essentially,
So it is this really really long scene and it
was all these actors having to remember each and every cue,
(14:17):
each and every mark. It was very technical, and I
think Mark my Lad, the director of that, did a
phenomenal job like really steering the ship because we would
have been lost otherwise. There's just so much happening in
that scene.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
How long does it seem like that take to put together?
Speaker 3 (14:32):
You said it's one take, right, Yes, that was. We
broke it down a bunch of times. Sometimes we do
one take, sometimes we split it into two. I mean
it took days. It took days. It was just so
much coverage because the amount of people in the scene,
so much coverage and so much like I had a wound,
so they had to like dress my wound and then
(14:53):
they had to inject me with the sleeping stuff and
then it was just it was just so much watch
and kind of a blurb. But I remember at least
in that area where we were staying, they put us
up at this lodge and there was like a nice
little spa there and we ended up we ended up
pampering ourselves quite a bit, like we as a group,
(15:13):
and it was it was pretty sweet actually, like on
our downtime, we managed to balance it with some relaxation
and not so much trauma.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Hey, I hear before we wrap up here, because I
know you got a lot of things to do.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
I hear you are an Uno player?
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Is it true you carry around like a deck and
all that stuff? Are Is it serious like that?
Speaker 3 (15:32):
I have a travel deck, yeah, because I used to
bring it in just like the cardboard, you know, carrier
or whatever, but it just like would fall apart because
I'm throwing it in my suitcase. But yeah, there's one.
You can get a travel case and it carries up
to like two decks of Uno cards in case you
have a bigger group.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
So let me ask you this as an Nuno player myself,
and there's been a lot of battles in my household,
a lot of kids stomping away from the kitchen table
pissed off. Can you add a plus four on top
of a plus four?
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Yes, you can stack in that way, but I have
my house rules are are interesting, like you don't keep
picking up cards until you get the next available playing card.
You just pick up one and then you move on
to the next person. But you can stack. You can
stack the plus four stack, the plus two's stack, the skips,
any of those special cards, you can stack them. Yeah,
(16:21):
And then I think this one I'm not really sure about.
I actually let my my audience decide. And it depends
on it's oh wait, no, there's one role I never
bend on. There's one rule I never bend on. One
that people will people want to play it so bad
to get away with it so bad that they'll pretend
like they didn't hear me yelling the instructions to them.
(16:41):
And it's the one where you're when you have two
cards left and you're about to say, you know, you
have to put down the card before you say who No,
motherfuckers will be like who no, no, no, no, no,
no no, no, that's not how you play. That's that's
illegal in my act.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
I agree, by the way, I agree, Yeah, that's bullshit
because you can't have it halfway down.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
Oh no, you know, hey, listen, you gotta be quick
once you put it down.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Yeah, like give all of a sudden you want to
in two time speed play.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
The game like yeah no, no, no, no, not a giant
I no cars like this.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
I love it that they do have that.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Have you ever lost anything or or bet anything on it?
Like with friends?
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Like maybe relationships? Oh whoa, okay, the relationship things are heated.
It gets heated. Oh you're passionate. I love that more
than anything.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Talk we gotta play when we see you next, please
that would be at.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
You guys want to show me.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Yeah yeah, I don't know. No maybe, yeah, I know.
I haven't. I know, I suck. I need to like no, no, no,
I'm not gonna shame you for it, Like there's always
an opening, You're always welcome to that. But also I
wanted to say thank you.
Speaker 5 (18:01):
You're you identify as queer ide too, and you're like
very open about it. You're not shy about it, and
it's super courageous. I think, especially in the you know,
the time that we live now, So thank you for that.
You know, behalpy to be in the community. The whyfe
is so important for you to be so open about it.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
We're in times where we're in times where the legitimacy
of you know, marriage is being threatened. I think it's
important to be very outspoken because who knows, maybe one
of the politicians children watches a show that I'm in
(18:39):
and is suddenly like, wait, I love her even though
she's she's queer. And then all of a sudden, you know, like,
we have an impact that we can make, and it
could it works on a level that we can't really understand.
So I think, more than anything, we just have to
be outspoken. I love that that far.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Amen, thank you so much for joining us as well.
I know you have a bunch of things to do,
but we can't wait to catch up with you next
time and see what else.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Has skyrocketed for you. I mean, and then we'll have
the game very very soon that well, I'm really looking
forwards to that.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
We'll have them on, we'll have them in the office
ready to go. Thank you, Thank you, So make sure
everybody go listen to you right now, go everything that
Isabella is in because she is on everyone's screens.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
And yeah, we'll talk to you next time. Thank you
so much. Bye, guys, so much for it's always so
nice talking to you. It feels like same here. Thank you,
thank you, bye bye bye. Hey check your riche from
the Cruise Show.
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
The Cruise Show Real nightty two three is a developers
set is back and we are talking apocalypsis, because I mean,
are you kidding me? You absolutely not only just killed
it vocally, but the video itself, I can't believe, Like
I just can't believe it.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Thank you, Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Talk about a little bit about that collaboration with Tony
and how all of this came to be.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Well, first of all, thank you so much. I'm so
happy you like this song. I this is crazy because
the story call the song came to me is like
it's Originally it was like a chill like Regato sort
of a pop song, and then it turned into a
remix because Tony took it in his own hands and
he just he heard the song and he was like,
(00:59):
this could easily be a also thing. I met Tony
through his his aunt who knows everybody, and then and
then he made it into this remix, sent it to me.
It's twenty nineteen twenty twenty at this point, and he
I loved it as it was, and so really all
that was left to do was recorded. Because I was down,
I was like immediately, yes, I'm doing this, and then
(01:21):
and then from there, I mean, we recorded over zoom
and we even just like did some some riffing on
the on the day and coming up with new stuff,
and my little brother was engineering and he it was
funny because he produced the original song, so he signed
this remix. He loved it, and now we have this
whole song, which took forever to come out because like
timing or whatever. But it was perfect because Tony just
(01:44):
wanted his American Grammy and he's one of like probably
I think the first Provid ever win a Grammy, like
an American Grammy. So he's iconic and he's having a
moment and I'm just happy to support him.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Dude, that's crazy, because you said, like you've held onto
this for quite a while.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Then, yes, we've sat on this for so long, and
it had been so long that I was listening to
the recording of like my voice and stuff, and I thought,
my voice has matured so much since then, maybe we
should we should redo it. And we tried. I went
to New York. He met me in New York. Sorry, no,
somebody else met me in New York to help produce it,
and then he met on the Zoom. Tony was on Zoom.
(02:21):
I'm there doing it. We recorded the whole song again
and I went back and listened and I was like, wow,
there's really nothing like the magic of the first of
the first session. So we ended up keeping the original
vocals from twenty twenty nineteen. Wow, that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
It's also cool how you say that it was basically
a family affair. You guys met through his eye and
then your brother also produced it.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Like, oh yes, I did a performance live for Sirius XM.
We did like a session. I did three songs, like
literally two days ago, and my brother was like he
got a shout out there. But also Tony's brother, who
was also a musician, he was there and he was
singing for He's doing the background vocals USh And it
(03:01):
was great because I was watching on the TV before
I even got to meet him and talk to him
in person, and I was like, that looks like my
little brother Gio, and he does. He looks like my
little brother Je. But like if Gio was like half Japanese.
That's hell funny.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Who gave you these musical genes?
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Has this always been this way with you and your
brother when you were little, like just always about music?
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Honestly, Yeah, we've always kind of loved music, him and I.
I think my older brother's more into physical activities and
like adrenaline, and I guess I'm into adrenaline too, because
who the hell would do this if you didn't like
the thriller the rush of it. But yeah, like we've
always been into music. And I even just built a
studio at my house so that I could record from there.
(03:50):
And my little brother and I have always It's so
funny because we've He even tried acting for a second
and he did not like it. He just like thought
it was so funny. He couldn't sep laughing. And he's right,
like it is a ridiculous job, but you love it
and you commit to the bit or you don't. And
you would think that there'd be some sort of competition there,
because we tried to say we both do the acting,
(04:12):
we both you know, but it's actually the opposite. We're
actually very supportive of each other. And not only that,
but like my mom is supportive of the both of
us in all the ways, Like if he woke up
one day said you want to be an awstronaut, like
she would get it done by next month. That's awesome.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
Is this single, oh sorry, ghead Jack, Is this single
part of a bigger project that we can expect.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
You know? For Tony? Yes, Like he's been working on
stuff for a long time and this is me stepping
up as like a fellow Peruvian and he's working on
some iconic stuff. And he's actually going to perform at
a stadium, the National Stadium of Perus in December, and
like maybe I'll be there. Cannot confirm, nord to not,
(04:57):
but yeah, that's part of that. Like this little this
mom is for him and his post Grammy Win it,
his post Grammy Win project. I guess that he's were doing.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
What would you rather have a Grammy or Oscar?
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Oh my god, that's a good question. Both are rigged,
But I think no, I think I think which one
looks cooler? I guess, like which one would be cooler
to have on my mantle?
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Right?
Speaker 3 (05:24):
I feel like Oscar is skinny, Grammy is like a
little bit more artsy looking. I feel like Grammy looks cooler.
Honestly like a Grammy too.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
You can put like little flowers in there, make it
a little vase if you want it.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Yes, it's it's just like a little bit artsier to me.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
You know, you know you are so proud to be Peruvian.
I wanted to talk about you making Peru Forbes like
that is literally insane, Like how was that feeling?
Speaker 3 (05:54):
That was crazy? And it happened during all kinds of
press and stuff for Superman and for the last of
and I really wish that I took more time to
really soak it all in. I definitely have a delayed
reaction time because I mean, so much, so much is happening,
you kind of forget to be in the moment. But
I think the best part was them flying me out
to Peru, getting to do you know, press for that
(06:19):
and for Superman, and watching it all culminate in one place,
like I invited half I invited like half my family
and Lima to come, and they all came and supported
me and listened to me talk. And I was super
nervous because you know, like as a as a non
native Spanish speaker, or you know what I mean, Like
being in front of like all those Peruvians and having
to talk all in an educated manner about my profession
(06:42):
and what I do is definitely nerve wracking. But they
said I did a great job. I don't know, maybe
they're biased, but yeah, it was. A family is always
going to support and that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Like I love to say that, you know, speaking of
like Superman and like Last of Us, congratulations on all
of that. You have completely just skyrocketed the last time
we saw you and we were just talking about twizzlers
and redvines the last time we saw you. The skyrockett
has been you know, we were just we're so proud
of you on the show. I know I speak for
everybody and I say that, but also to what have
(07:14):
what has been your reaction when you see like the Superman,
like I was like I see on TikTok, It's like
everybody's saying, oh, I watched Superman for the plot the
plot is.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
You Oh my god? What is that reaction?
Speaker 2 (07:28):
And how like how love do you feel by that universe?
Speaker 5 (07:31):
Now?
Speaker 3 (07:33):
I feel great. I mean I'm just happy people are watching.
I feel like the movie has a really nice message
as a really positive message and it's like about humanity
and keeping keeping together and like supporting undocumented. It's literally
the it's got like some messaging in there that they
that they that's layered with like real comic book lore
(07:57):
and story that I just think it was so cleverly done,
and I think I wish I had a movie like
that growing up. That who's the movie's morals? I think
in messaging is very clear. I think that's what we
need more now than evers, like people actually standing for something.
I think people are a little scared to like actually
make a statement nowadays because it's very very both sides,
(08:18):
and so I think movies like this are are are
kind of good. They're gonna and especially if they do well,
they'll encourage other artists to do the same and not
be so scared to take a stance against something that
is inherently just harmful. Yeah, no, I completely agree. You
know you did such a great job in it.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
And going back to the music, as Becky G commented
and was just taken aback. I mean, when Beggy G
supports other women, she supports fully like and I love
that for you.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Wait, I didn't even know what they commented are idea?
Speaker 6 (09:01):
Oh? My gosh, would talks of working together or yeah, well,
I mean obviously I would love to do that, but
I'm more relaxed about music.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
She like, that's like her main thing, and she's a
hustler and she will she gets it done. But somehow
she also manages to go do charity work as well.
Like the last time I saw her in person was
not that long ago. It was like maybe a week
and a half ago, and we saw each other by
coincidence at this place where like it is like this
this is about humanity, and Girley was like wearing a
cab and like some jeans and she was very incognito
(09:36):
and packing up boxes. We were packing up boxes for
families who have been targeted by the ice raids and
so like, while she's going and making hits, she's also
just helping families in like local Los Angeles area, And
I thought that was super cool. I don't even know,
she commented, I haven't like I've been posting just for
(09:59):
just to promote myself, but I haven't like been on
Instagram like that. I really gotta do better because you'll
leave Becky g on Red like.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
To say that you can do that, though, is like
pretty wild, Like it's just like I just have to
get back to her.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
No, I'm I don't like social media. I don't like it.
I do it because it's my job. It's one part
of my job. Because literally they'll be like, well, you
just don't have that many followers, so we can't cast
you in this in this giant movie that you want
to be a part of, you know what I mean.
So I do it reluctantly, but I don't use it
like oxygen.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
You know, you don't have that problem anymore. Your followers
are on you.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
I mean I don't. Again, I don't even know what
my follower counts.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
Is give you anxiety? Social media or like I think
it's it's a little bit too concerned.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
It's when I do it it just for me personally.
I find that a lot of my headspace goes into
how I'm perceived, and enough of that is done with
my job. I have to know exactly how my face moves,
I have to know exactly like how I'm how someone
might interpret my actions. I just feel like it's too
much energy going into stuff that doesn't matter. So yeah,
(11:15):
I leave it for work and then and then I
then I go and mind my business and I unpack
my boxes. No help.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
Yeah, I'm the same way.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
If it's not work man like the family and everything
else and being in the moment is so much more
important to me, you know.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
It's like, that's what that's what's going to flash before
your eyes on your deathbed. Is not like your Instagram
reception your time with your family exactly.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Hey, when it came to the Last of Us, I
don't know how soon they gave you the scripts, but
we're big fans of the show. When you saw the
pedro scene and all that stuff on paper where you're like,
holy shit, this is really happening.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
Do what the hell?
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Oh that's right. We haven't gotten a chance to talk
about this.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
No, because the last time we saw you was before
all this.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Yeah, that's insane. Yeah, the Twizzler's bit, the Twizzler way
he ended up sending me. He ended up sending me
like a whole box of twistlings. Which one did it?
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Like?
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Who was? But no, I think I think, wow, so
what just happened? So yeah, I mean the Last of
Us It was just earlier this year, and it feels
like it was so long ago. But but I remember
reading that and being like, oh, this is what's in
the game, and then wondering how different it would feel.
(12:36):
I think maybe because the game is a little bit
I haven't played the game and I watched the TV
show more recently, meaning that scene is I don't remember
exactly how it was in the game. I remember being
devastating because Ashley, who portrayed Ellie in the game, was
very emotional. I found it harder to film it than
to watch it because I was hearing all all of
(13:00):
the the because Kaitlin wasn't hitting him with the golf club,
but she was hitting a matt next to his head
and so like I could still hear the like the
impact and hear him screaming and slowly just getting murdered,
and I couldn't open my eyes and watch. So I
was just like it was terrible, the worst kind of
(13:23):
asmr Like it was not good.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
That's you know, like that's so crazy to think about,
because like I I think, I mean as someone who
watched my brother, Like I literally just watched my brother
play the game, and I would just be there watching
just for the storyline in between whatever he was doing
and seeing it, I was literally bawling my eyes out.
I was like, dude, this is crazy, and to really
(13:47):
feel how you guys like really portray that on screen.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Yeah, you guys just did that so well.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
You guts excellent.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
M It was definitely a team effort. It felt like
it felt like a play. It felt like a theater
play because we're on It was like ten of us
and we all had our little parts to do in
our cues, and we'd all do it in one take essentially,
So it is this really really long scene and it
was all these actors having to remember each and every cue,
(14:17):
each and every mark. It was very technical, and I
think Mark my Lad, the director of that, did a
phenomenal job like really steering the ship because we would
have been lost otherwise. There's just so much happening in
that scene.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
How long does it seem like that take to put together?
Speaker 3 (14:32):
You said it's one take, right, Yes, that was. We
broke it down a bunch of times. Sometimes we do
one take, sometimes we split it into two. I mean
it took days. It took days. It was just so
much coverage because the amount of people in the scene,
so much coverage and so much like I had a wound,
so they had to like dress my wound and then
(14:53):
they had to inject me with the sleeping stuff and
then it was just it was just so much watch
and kind of a blurb. But I remember at least
in that area where we were staying, they put us
up at this lodge and there was like a nice
little spa there and we ended up we ended up
pampering ourselves quite a bit, like we as a group,
(15:13):
and it was it was pretty sweet actually, like on
our downtime, we managed to balance it with some relaxation
and not so much trauma.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Hey, I hear before we wrap up here, because I
know you got a lot of things to do.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
I hear you are an Uno player?
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Is it true you carry around like a deck and
all that stuff? Are Is it serious like that?
Speaker 3 (15:32):
I have a travel deck, yeah, because I used to
bring it in just like the cardboard, you know, carrier
or whatever, but it just like would fall apart because
I'm throwing it in my suitcase. But yeah, there's one.
You can get a travel case and it carries up
to like two decks of Uno cards in case you
have a bigger group.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
So let me ask you this as an Nuno player myself,
and there's been a lot of battles in my household,
a lot of kids stomping away from the kitchen table
pissed off. Can you add a plus four on top
of a plus four?
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Yes, you can stack in that way, but I have
my house rules are are interesting, like you don't keep
picking up cards until you get the next available playing card.
You just pick up one and then you move on
to the next person. But you can stack. You can
stack the plus four stack, the plus two's stack, the skips,
any of those special cards, you can stack them. Yeah,
(16:21):
And then I think this one I'm not really sure about.
I actually let my my audience decide. And it depends
on it's oh wait, no, there's one role I never
bend on. There's one rule I never bend on. One
that people will people want to play it so bad
to get away with it so bad that they'll pretend
like they didn't hear me yelling the instructions to them.
(16:41):
And it's the one where you're when you have two
cards left and you're about to say, you know, you
have to put down the card before you say who No,
motherfuckers will be like who no, no, no, no, no,
no no, no, that's not how you play. That's that's
illegal in my act.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
I agree, by the way, I agree, Yeah, that's bullshit
because you can't have it halfway down.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
Oh no, you know, hey, listen, you gotta be quick
once you put it down.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Yeah, like give all of a sudden you want to
in two time speed play.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
The game like yeah no, no, no, no, not a giant
I no cars like this.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
I love it that they do have that.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Have you ever lost anything or or bet anything on it?
Like with friends?
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Like maybe relationships? Oh whoa, okay, the relationship things are heated.
It gets heated. Oh you're passionate. I love that more
than anything.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Talk we gotta play when we see you next, please
that would be at.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
You guys want to show me.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Yeah yeah, I don't know. No maybe, yeah, I know.
I haven't. I know, I suck. I need to like no, no, no,
I'm not gonna shame you for it, Like there's always
an opening, You're always welcome to that. But also I
wanted to say thank you.
Speaker 5 (18:01):
You're you identify as queer ide too, and you're like
very open about it. You're not shy about it, and
it's super courageous. I think, especially in the you know,
the time that we live now, So thank you for that.
You know, behalpy to be in the community. The whyfe
is so important for you to be so open about it.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
We're in times where we're in times where the legitimacy
of you know, marriage is being threatened. I think it's
important to be very outspoken because who knows, maybe one
of the politicians children watches a show that I'm in
(18:39):
and is suddenly like, wait, I love her even though
she's she's queer. And then all of a sudden, you know, like,
we have an impact that we can make, and it
could it works on a level that we can't really understand.
So I think, more than anything, we just have to
be outspoken. I love that that far.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Amen, thank you so much for joining us as well.
I know you have a bunch of things to do,
but we can't wait to catch up with you next
time and see what else.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Has skyrocketed for you. I mean, and then we'll have
the game very very soon that well, I'm really looking
forwards to that.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
We'll have them on, we'll have them in the office
ready to go. Thank you, Thank you, So make sure
everybody go listen to you right now, go everything that
Isabella is in because she is on everyone's screens.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
And yeah, we'll talk to you next time. Thank you
so much. Bye, guys, so much for it's always so
nice talking to you. It feels like same here. Thank you,
thank you, bye bye bye. Hey check your riche from
the Cruise Show.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
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