July 16, 2024 • 18 mins
Fernando Carsa joins us in the interview lounge to discuss the new season of Acapulco, his upcoming film, and everything in between!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You know, we interview almost everyone, but sometimes a special
person walks through this door that we really what just
bring you on in what's going on that we really
want to interview because we're excited all right now, Welcome
to the show. Fernando Carsa, who plays Memo on Acapulco.
Welcome to the show.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Everyone. Sorry, oh what's wrong? Having a bit of a
h early morning.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
That's Nake's chair. We are so excited to meet you.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
I'm so excited to meet you guys too. I'm so
happy to be here now.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
If you've never seen then that's why you're a miserable slub.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
You know you've never seen it.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
You know what, and I'll tell you now. I'll tell
you right now, Fernando, A show like is needed more
than ever when we live in a world that is
just so tacky and icky. This show is fun, and
you guys look like you have so much fun doing it.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
It's literally the best job anyone could ever have. I
highly recommend I love you to audition for us.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Do you guys really have as much fun as it
looks Do you get along as well as it looks
like you do?
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Yes? And I think we even have more fun than
what most people think because we live in the resort
that we film, right, so the entire resort is close
up for us. So it's it's our spring break.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
That it's in Porto Riarta, right, it's Miss Maloya.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
What's it called? It used to be Miss Maloya. We
switch hotels. But no, need to wait a minute. So
Apolco is filmed in Porto Yes, okay, yes, but just
like Howards was filmed, not in Howard's So we're good.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Yeah, why not?
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (01:39):
So gandhi, Yes, and anyone listening who has not watched
this is why you need to. It is a happy, fun, colorful,
uh storyline that's going on in the characters, including Memo.
It's just so lovable and huggable and you're you're just amazing.
So you were you were born and raised in Mexico.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
I was, yes, and when I was fifteen.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Now, how long did it take the process to move
from Mexico to the United States.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Well, when they first it was my mom's sister who
requested us to come into the country for my case
and my family's case to be open. It took seventeen years.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Seventeen years.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Yeah, I wasn't even born when they first started the process.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Wow, and you wanted to be in the arts and
you wanted to be on stage. You knew that you
needed to come to the US in order to make
these dreams come true.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Well yeah, that was kind of like my sneaky plan
because once we got the green cards, my parents were like,
we have our entire lives made, but if you guys
want to go, they told me and my brother and
I was like, well, I know that's where stars are born,
so we gotta go.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
So what he did is he spent thirteen years trying
to get here, and as soon as you got here,
he got a role on a show that is it Mexico.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Yes, yes, it's really funny. Most things I filmed. The
project that I'm currently working on is the first thing
that I haven't gone to Mexico to film it. But
even commercials, I I've only done one, but it was
last month. But even the commercial I went to Mexico
to film. So I don't know, it's ironic.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Well you know, hey, so okay, so back to Okapulco.
If someone like Gandhi here has never seen it, yes,
you of all people should be able to give like
the best synopsis, like what is the show about?
Speaker 2 (03:25):
So Akapulco is a coming of age story of a
twenty year old kid called Maximo ga Yarro and in
the present time, he's telling his nephew his story of
how he became the billionaire that he is today, and
he takes us back into the nineteen eighties nineteen eighty four,
specifically to the most amazing resort in Acapulco at the time,
and Acapulco is basically his story of how he became
(03:46):
the man who he is today and how he can
basically fix the past and move towards a better future,
per se and fix relationships. But it's a very feel
good comedy by Lingual with an international cast. It's gonna
make you cry laugh. It's for the entire family. And
if you would like to hear some really cool eighties
(04:07):
covers in Spanish, I highly suggest.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
You what what's your name?
Speaker 2 (04:10):
What's their name? August or you want the real names.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
I don't know that. It's a couple and they perform
at the pool and it's all your favorite songs from
the aighties, but it's in Spanish, and they.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Dressed in like eighties clothes and stuff, and they're doing
all the dancing and stuff. It's very funny.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
It's Laris.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
You got to see it to understand.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
So you've talked about this show so much. The just
even the backdrop and the setting of it is enough
to just watch it, even if you watch with your
ears closed, because it's so beautiful. Here's the thing. There's
only two types of people in the world, like Britney says,
but in my case is those who love and those
who haven't watched it.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
So, and you know what, our friend cord Over Street,
who's on with us all the time, is on the show.
So I was asking him. I was asking Fernando about him,
and I was like, so, you know, how did you
guys meet, how you get along? And he was telling
me the story about how they met.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
How did you record me?
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Okay, here's the thing you need to know. I was
a Glee fan, being because I'm a musical theater person
that was my whole thing initially, but I grew up
watching Lee in Mexico. When I booked the show, I
didn't know who was cast besides me. So they picked
me up at the airport in Porto Ayata and they
take me to the van. They opened the door and
(05:25):
Lord and behold, court Over Street is sitting in front
of me. I pooped my pants. I didn't tell him
I did.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
You pooped your pants?
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Metaphorically, but it didn't kill me. I was like no, no,
no no. But I was really just starstruck. But I
was trying to play it cool. So the whole ride
I was like, oh my god, do you speak any Spanish?
Have you been to Mexico? And meanwhile I'm texting my
friends like crazy, I'm not mad with Courtovers. It was
(05:54):
really cool and he's awesome. I love him so so much,
and these thirt season I didn't get to work with
him as much, just having the past too, and I
missed it.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
He's a great guy. Well, he and I are pretty
close friend. They're drinking, but yeah, we get obliterated together.
Usually I think he's in living.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
He's in New York, but then half the time he's
in Nashville. I feel like he's a global.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Yeah. And the last time he was here, we went
out and had a boozy brunch.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Like random art.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Yes we bought or if we cannot afford He's bad news. Anyway.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
I love him.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
He's a great guy. So so you guys, when you're
season three right right now, now, the first two seasons,
and you were saying you would actually kind of go
to camp together down there, you all just so when
the cameras aren't rolling, you're not working, you're just playing.
I guess a lot of playing going on. You're in Mexico,
You're you're in Paradise. How much fun is this job?
Speaker 2 (06:52):
I'm telling you it's the best job. If you guys
can autition for it, I would suggest you do. Sure,
I'll give you their contact, you know.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Just come, just come visit the show up.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Make they don't have any rooms left. You guys can
stay in. In mind, that's a space for everyone. But
it is a lot of fun. I mean the first year,
we were still in the pandemic, so it was a
complete shutdown, still in a complete close, closed bubble, so
we were not allowed to leave the resort. So we
all became very very close because we only had each
other for over three months. But then once things, you know,
(07:28):
went back to normal. We go out a lot to restaurants,
We go out at the pool a lot. We like
to run lines by the pool side and sometimes by
the ocean and a lot of We go to the
movies a lot collectively, not maybe not all together at
the same time, but like we go to the movies
a lot and shopping.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
How fun imagine that. I mean, these are the people
you work with. You're playing with them, you're working with them.
I've got a great text that just came through. It
says Ako helped me get through my mother's role in
March of twenty twenty two. So thankful for the bright
light shining from that show. What a beautiful thing they
just said.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Don't cry? Are you crying?
Speaker 1 (08:09):
This is right?
Speaker 2 (08:11):
I cry a lot. Here's here's the thing. I think
the one thing that I wasn't expecting one with my
work as an actor, but two with the show specifically,
was that type of connection with the audience, and specifically
this third season, we've been getting a lot of messages
like that, and it's there's no greater reward for what
(08:33):
we do. That's awesome. So thank you to whoever said that.
We love you.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Also something about it if you're just part of it.
Turning us on. Fernando Carsa is here in season three
of Acpoca, available on Apple TV Plus and just last
month You were awarded the Rising Star Award at the
inaugural Critics Choice Association Celebration of LGBTQ Cinema and Television
for your role as Memo, and you said something in
your acceptance speech was I thought was so cool? You said,
(09:02):
My hope is that anyone who is watching who is
still not ready to live their truth realizes there's an
ocean of us ready to love you and celebrate you. Yes,
isn't that cool?
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Yes? I mean that award alone was such a cool moment.
But what I was most proud about is that it
came in a moment in my life where I've completely
embraced who I am, every single part of myself. So
I wanted to share the message that it gets better
and there's a lot of us really here ready to
(09:35):
support and love everyone who's ready to live their truth.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Do you follow his Instagram? You have the most fabulous outfits.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
I'm like, oh my gosh, he looks amazing.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
You always look so good. My mother has a lot
to do in that.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
So you still live with your family?
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Yeah, I mean, here's the thing. I don't want to
be still holding. But I'm Mexican that's a good thing.
Mexican houses are full of family. There's all of us
are there. It's my parents, my brother, his family. Now
I have a four year old needs one of my cousins.
There's like eight of us in the house. So it
makes for cheap rent. Sometimes lots of drama, but overall
(10:12):
a lot of like it's just it's it's wonderful and
it's a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
But Fernando, one day, one day, you're gonna go, Okay,
I can really, I'm ready to go do this on
my own. That's gonna be a sad day for your mom.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Your mom's oh well, it's coming up. But we've actually
been in a lot of conversations now just me preparing
her mentally.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
But yeah, yeah, but are you gonna go far? Because
she's they're in LA, like Orange County, Layah, are you
how far are you going to move?
Speaker 2 (10:41):
I wanted to do Sherman Oak's initially, which is it's
like like forty four miles away, But she's begging me
not to go that far, So I don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Which is as all as you rent you can, you can, like, yeah,
U s day for a while.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Have you ever lived away from home I have when
I went to college. Yes, so you know you're going
to be missing out on like home cooking. I do
know a lot of the home cooking.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
So they're gonna be missing out.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
They're gonna be missing out. They're gonna be missing out.
I mean, there's nothing like Mum's meals. But right now
I'm the one with most of the free time quote unquotes,
and I'm not filming, so I take a lot of
the cooking.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
When you guys are filming, How long do you like
stay in the resort?
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Like three months? Wow, it's awesome. Three months.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
We do three months doing the shows four hours a
days enough. I can't have read someplace and just stay
there for a lot.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
I would love it.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
I would love it because we've I mean, Scotty, Scotty,
you're like, you're a huge fan of right, I love it.
He's over here, Yeah, Hi there, you see him up there?
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Oh? Perfect?
Speaker 1 (11:40):
So you and I, Scotty and I went on vacation
at the original resort years and years and years ago.
I mean what year was it was? That was probably
like ninety nine. You were barely born at ninety ninety nine. Yeah, yeah,
but yeah, no, I can't imagine that being just like
a big playground of like fun and festivities.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
I mean, we love the current resort that we're at,
but the first one was because he's like in the
middle of the jungle, sort of like the outside.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
It's outside of town.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Yeah, it's very like secluded. So he did feel like
our castle.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
How fun it was?
Speaker 2 (12:17):
The best make it happened?
Speaker 3 (12:18):
What made the move from one place to the other.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Business. Yeah, so here's the thing. Look, you know, if
you have never seen you need to see it. Like
I said before at the beginning of our interview with Fernando,
it's just it's here at a time where you really
need it. Was the timing was perfect, really was. I
love this. Look at this. This man's voice is amazing.
(12:45):
It's making me smile.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Oh thank you. I'm very secure about my voice because
it's really high.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Just started watching love it. I love it, and I
love your character memo as actually is he he dates women?
Speaker 2 (13:00):
I know, so that's the biggest suppress I mean, how I.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Mean, I haven't seen any like heavy duty like romantic
scenes or anything.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Have you watched the third season? No?
Speaker 1 (13:15):
No, I haven't really.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Well not scenes but some something's happened.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Oh really yeah, I haven't cracked season three yet. Guys,
I saw I saw Corn with a beard. I'm like,
what is he doing? So I know he moved away?
You know he's who plays Okay, who plays who plays
his mother?
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Oh my god, Jessica Collins.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
She is Wait, this woman makes me laugh with anything
and everything she does. You've got to watch this show.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
She's my fairy godmother. I love her. I learned so
much from her. Apple Plus login.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
You are free free? Do you get an Apple Plus
for free?
Speaker 3 (13:49):
No?
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Then we don't get anything from Apple. Wait. Actually we
get a great show. Hopefully we keep getting it yet okay,
not yet?
Speaker 3 (14:01):
How long after you finished filming and then it comes out?
Do you have to wait till they decide?
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Okay? So, for instance, last year the show came out
in October, right, No, not last year, the year prior.
They didn't tell us until the end of February.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
As an actor, you're like, well, I need a job,
but you don't want to take into jobs just in
case they say, got something else.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Yeah, therapy has been really good.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Great.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Yeah, yeah, that's what I want to say about that.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Lave it either well, it's just a pleasure for Nando.
It's such a pleasure to meet you. You have done
something really brilliant with this character memo, and I'll tell
you what it is. I love actors who can do
this and pull it off. There's you in that character.
You bring a part of you into that character. Without you,
that character would not be the same.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
It's just the most lovable, happiest person. And it's just
so I just talk to you here and watch you.
They're doing that.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Oh my god, that that means the world. And I mean,
I don't mean to brag, but the character did change
a lot from its original conception. I guess he was
supposed to be the way when I auditioned, it was
described as like a Jonah Hill in Super Bad, that
type of character, so a little more of like a
little rascal, I guess, and dirty. And but when when
(15:26):
we were filming the pilot, I just kept finding these
moments of this kid who comes from pretty much nothing.
He literally has one line when he says, my family
only has one chair. He doesn't have anything, and then
he's discovering this magical world that he's always dreamed about
with his best friend. So I just intuitively I started
(15:49):
leaning a lot into that kind of like naiveness and
exciting excitement about life. So they kind of like took
a different root with the character.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Well you you own it. I mean, it's definitely you.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Thank you. I mean, you know.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
It's it says a lot about you. I think I
felt like I knew you before you even walk through
the door. And you should never do that with a character.
You know what I'm saying. It's like we've met we've
met actors before who are nothing like the characters they play,
and that's just good. That's what you do for a living,
you know, Like, I'm glad you're not a murderer. You're
gonna kill us on me too anyway. So if you
(16:23):
love just listening to a little bit of Fernando Carsa,
then you need a lot more. So you watch all
Pool co It's in season three, Apple TV Plus Get
it now, and you'll when you watch it, you'll you'll
you'll get back to us, you'll let us know how
much you love it. It is terrific.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
You're gonna love it, I promise.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
So, so you actually listen to our show I do
where you watch the show.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Here's the thing I Okay, I do both. Okay, and
this is gonna sound cheesy, but it's true. One of
my comfort listens it's I go on YouTube and I
listened to an interview that you did with Britney Spears
back in twenty sixteen promoting Glory. Yeah, that was a lot.
She held your puppy.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
She almost pulled the fur off of it. Oh no,
she was petting my dog, match and she was like
pinching it. F I'm like, you're gonna kill my dog.
So you're a huge Brittany fan. I learned English through
her music. Really Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Yeah, Britney Spears is like I'm going through a Janet
Jackson's face right now. I get that we love her,
but Brittany, yeah, my whole life since. I mean I
I became aware of her when I was three and
oops I did again, had just come out right, But yeah,
She's the reason why I can have a conversation with
all of you right now.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
They're crazy because we have people listen to our show
every day and they say we just moved here from
Mexico or Puerto Rico, whatever, and they'll say, we learned
how to speak English with you because of you and
I'm like, oh God, because we're we we haven't even
learned how to.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Speak people.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Incorrectly. They were talking about we tell stupid stuff, and like,
oh god.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Listen, it's so fun. Fine alright.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Season three Alcoholico available. Like I said, Apple TV plus
for an Animal Cars to thank you, so thank you
for having me.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
I'm so happy to be here.
You know, we interview almost everyone, but sometimes a special
person walks through this door that we really what just
bring you on in what's going on that we really
want to interview because we're excited all right now, Welcome
to the show. Fernando Carsa, who plays Memo on Acapulco.
Welcome to the show.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Everyone. Sorry, oh what's wrong? Having a bit of a
h early morning.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
That's Nake's chair. We are so excited to meet you.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
I'm so excited to meet you guys too. I'm so
happy to be here now.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
If you've never seen then that's why you're a miserable slub.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
You know you've never seen it.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
You know what, and I'll tell you now. I'll tell
you right now, Fernando, A show like is needed more
than ever when we live in a world that is
just so tacky and icky. This show is fun, and
you guys look like you have so much fun doing it.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
It's literally the best job anyone could ever have. I
highly recommend I love you to audition for us.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Do you guys really have as much fun as it
looks Do you get along as well as it looks
like you do?
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Yes? And I think we even have more fun than
what most people think because we live in the resort
that we film, right, so the entire resort is close
up for us. So it's it's our spring break.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
That it's in Porto Riarta, right, it's Miss Maloya.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
What's it called? It used to be Miss Maloya. We
switch hotels. But no, need to wait a minute. So
Apolco is filmed in Porto Yes, okay, yes, but just
like Howards was filmed, not in Howard's So we're good.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Yeah, why not?
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (01:39):
So gandhi, Yes, and anyone listening who has not watched
this is why you need to. It is a happy, fun, colorful,
uh storyline that's going on in the characters, including Memo.
It's just so lovable and huggable and you're you're just amazing.
So you were you were born and raised in Mexico.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
I was, yes, and when I was fifteen.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Now, how long did it take the process to move
from Mexico to the United States.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Well, when they first it was my mom's sister who
requested us to come into the country for my case
and my family's case to be open. It took seventeen years.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Seventeen years.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Yeah, I wasn't even born when they first started the process.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Wow, and you wanted to be in the arts and
you wanted to be on stage. You knew that you
needed to come to the US in order to make
these dreams come true.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Well yeah, that was kind of like my sneaky plan
because once we got the green cards, my parents were like,
we have our entire lives made, but if you guys
want to go, they told me and my brother and
I was like, well, I know that's where stars are born,
so we gotta go.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
So what he did is he spent thirteen years trying
to get here, and as soon as you got here,
he got a role on a show that is it Mexico.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Yes, yes, it's really funny. Most things I filmed. The
project that I'm currently working on is the first thing
that I haven't gone to Mexico to film it. But
even commercials, I I've only done one, but it was
last month. But even the commercial I went to Mexico
to film. So I don't know, it's ironic.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Well you know, hey, so okay, so back to Okapulco.
If someone like Gandhi here has never seen it, yes,
you of all people should be able to give like
the best synopsis, like what is the show about?
Speaker 2 (03:25):
So Akapulco is a coming of age story of a
twenty year old kid called Maximo ga Yarro and in
the present time, he's telling his nephew his story of
how he became the billionaire that he is today, and
he takes us back into the nineteen eighties nineteen eighty four,
specifically to the most amazing resort in Acapulco at the time,
and Acapulco is basically his story of how he became
(03:46):
the man who he is today and how he can
basically fix the past and move towards a better future,
per se and fix relationships. But it's a very feel
good comedy by Lingual with an international cast. It's gonna
make you cry laugh. It's for the entire family. And
if you would like to hear some really cool eighties
(04:07):
covers in Spanish, I highly suggest.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
You what what's your name?
Speaker 2 (04:10):
What's their name? August or you want the real names.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
I don't know that. It's a couple and they perform
at the pool and it's all your favorite songs from
the aighties, but it's in Spanish, and they.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Dressed in like eighties clothes and stuff, and they're doing
all the dancing and stuff. It's very funny.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
It's Laris.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
You got to see it to understand.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
So you've talked about this show so much. The just
even the backdrop and the setting of it is enough
to just watch it, even if you watch with your
ears closed, because it's so beautiful. Here's the thing. There's
only two types of people in the world, like Britney says,
but in my case is those who love and those
who haven't watched it.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
So, and you know what, our friend cord Over Street,
who's on with us all the time, is on the show.
So I was asking him. I was asking Fernando about him,
and I was like, so, you know, how did you
guys meet, how you get along? And he was telling
me the story about how they met.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
How did you record me?
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Okay, here's the thing you need to know. I was
a Glee fan, being because I'm a musical theater person
that was my whole thing initially, but I grew up
watching Lee in Mexico. When I booked the show, I
didn't know who was cast besides me. So they picked
me up at the airport in Porto Ayata and they
take me to the van. They opened the door and
(05:25):
Lord and behold, court Over Street is sitting in front
of me. I pooped my pants. I didn't tell him
I did.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
You pooped your pants?
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Metaphorically, but it didn't kill me. I was like no, no,
no no. But I was really just starstruck. But I
was trying to play it cool. So the whole ride
I was like, oh my god, do you speak any Spanish?
Have you been to Mexico? And meanwhile I'm texting my
friends like crazy, I'm not mad with Courtovers. It was
(05:54):
really cool and he's awesome. I love him so so much,
and these thirt season I didn't get to work with
him as much, just having the past too, and I
missed it.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
He's a great guy. Well, he and I are pretty
close friend. They're drinking, but yeah, we get obliterated together.
Usually I think he's in living.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
He's in New York, but then half the time he's
in Nashville. I feel like he's a global.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Yeah. And the last time he was here, we went
out and had a boozy brunch.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Like random art.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Yes we bought or if we cannot afford He's bad news. Anyway.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
I love him.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
He's a great guy. So so you guys, when you're
season three right right now, now, the first two seasons,
and you were saying you would actually kind of go
to camp together down there, you all just so when
the cameras aren't rolling, you're not working, you're just playing.
I guess a lot of playing going on. You're in Mexico,
You're you're in Paradise. How much fun is this job?
Speaker 2 (06:52):
I'm telling you it's the best job. If you guys
can autition for it, I would suggest you do. Sure,
I'll give you their contact, you know.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Just come, just come visit the show up.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Make they don't have any rooms left. You guys can
stay in. In mind, that's a space for everyone. But
it is a lot of fun. I mean the first year,
we were still in the pandemic, so it was a
complete shutdown, still in a complete close, closed bubble, so
we were not allowed to leave the resort. So we
all became very very close because we only had each
other for over three months. But then once things, you know,
(07:28):
went back to normal. We go out a lot to restaurants,
We go out at the pool a lot. We like
to run lines by the pool side and sometimes by
the ocean and a lot of We go to the
movies a lot collectively, not maybe not all together at
the same time, but like we go to the movies
a lot and shopping.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
How fun imagine that. I mean, these are the people
you work with. You're playing with them, you're working with them.
I've got a great text that just came through. It
says Ako helped me get through my mother's role in
March of twenty twenty two. So thankful for the bright
light shining from that show. What a beautiful thing they
just said.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Don't cry? Are you crying?
Speaker 1 (08:09):
This is right?
Speaker 2 (08:11):
I cry a lot. Here's here's the thing. I think
the one thing that I wasn't expecting one with my
work as an actor, but two with the show specifically,
was that type of connection with the audience, and specifically
this third season, we've been getting a lot of messages
like that, and it's there's no greater reward for what
(08:33):
we do. That's awesome. So thank you to whoever said that.
We love you.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Also something about it if you're just part of it.
Turning us on. Fernando Carsa is here in season three
of Acpoca, available on Apple TV Plus and just last
month You were awarded the Rising Star Award at the
inaugural Critics Choice Association Celebration of LGBTQ Cinema and Television
for your role as Memo, and you said something in
your acceptance speech was I thought was so cool? You said,
(09:02):
My hope is that anyone who is watching who is
still not ready to live their truth realizes there's an
ocean of us ready to love you and celebrate you. Yes,
isn't that cool?
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Yes? I mean that award alone was such a cool moment.
But what I was most proud about is that it
came in a moment in my life where I've completely
embraced who I am, every single part of myself. So
I wanted to share the message that it gets better
and there's a lot of us really here ready to
(09:35):
support and love everyone who's ready to live their truth.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Do you follow his Instagram? You have the most fabulous outfits.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
I'm like, oh my gosh, he looks amazing.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
You always look so good. My mother has a lot
to do in that.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
So you still live with your family?
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Yeah, I mean, here's the thing. I don't want to
be still holding. But I'm Mexican that's a good thing.
Mexican houses are full of family. There's all of us
are there. It's my parents, my brother, his family. Now
I have a four year old needs one of my cousins.
There's like eight of us in the house. So it
makes for cheap rent. Sometimes lots of drama, but overall
(10:12):
a lot of like it's just it's it's wonderful and
it's a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
But Fernando, one day, one day, you're gonna go, Okay,
I can really, I'm ready to go do this on
my own. That's gonna be a sad day for your mom.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Your mom's oh well, it's coming up. But we've actually
been in a lot of conversations now just me preparing
her mentally.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
But yeah, yeah, but are you gonna go far? Because
she's they're in LA, like Orange County, Layah, are you
how far are you going to move?
Speaker 2 (10:41):
I wanted to do Sherman Oak's initially, which is it's
like like forty four miles away, But she's begging me
not to go that far, So I don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Which is as all as you rent you can, you can, like, yeah,
U s day for a while.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Have you ever lived away from home I have when
I went to college. Yes, so you know you're going
to be missing out on like home cooking. I do
know a lot of the home cooking.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
So they're gonna be missing out.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
They're gonna be missing out. They're gonna be missing out.
I mean, there's nothing like Mum's meals. But right now
I'm the one with most of the free time quote unquotes,
and I'm not filming, so I take a lot of
the cooking.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
When you guys are filming, How long do you like
stay in the resort?
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Like three months? Wow, it's awesome. Three months.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
We do three months doing the shows four hours a
days enough. I can't have read someplace and just stay
there for a lot.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
I would love it.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
I would love it because we've I mean, Scotty, Scotty,
you're like, you're a huge fan of right, I love it.
He's over here, Yeah, Hi there, you see him up there?
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Oh? Perfect?
Speaker 1 (11:40):
So you and I, Scotty and I went on vacation
at the original resort years and years and years ago.
I mean what year was it was? That was probably
like ninety nine. You were barely born at ninety ninety nine. Yeah, yeah,
but yeah, no, I can't imagine that being just like
a big playground of like fun and festivities.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
I mean, we love the current resort that we're at,
but the first one was because he's like in the
middle of the jungle, sort of like the outside.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
It's outside of town.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Yeah, it's very like secluded. So he did feel like
our castle.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
How fun it was?
Speaker 2 (12:17):
The best make it happened?
Speaker 3 (12:18):
What made the move from one place to the other.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Business. Yeah, so here's the thing. Look, you know, if
you have never seen you need to see it. Like
I said before at the beginning of our interview with Fernando,
it's just it's here at a time where you really
need it. Was the timing was perfect, really was. I
love this. Look at this. This man's voice is amazing.
(12:45):
It's making me smile.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Oh thank you. I'm very secure about my voice because
it's really high.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Just started watching love it. I love it, and I
love your character memo as actually is he he dates women?
Speaker 2 (13:00):
I know, so that's the biggest suppress I mean, how I.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Mean, I haven't seen any like heavy duty like romantic
scenes or anything.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Have you watched the third season? No?
Speaker 1 (13:15):
No, I haven't really.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Well not scenes but some something's happened.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Oh really yeah, I haven't cracked season three yet. Guys,
I saw I saw Corn with a beard. I'm like,
what is he doing? So I know he moved away?
You know he's who plays Okay, who plays who plays
his mother?
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Oh my god, Jessica Collins.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
She is Wait, this woman makes me laugh with anything
and everything she does. You've got to watch this show.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
She's my fairy godmother. I love her. I learned so
much from her. Apple Plus login.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
You are free free? Do you get an Apple Plus
for free?
Speaker 3 (13:49):
No?
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Then we don't get anything from Apple. Wait. Actually we
get a great show. Hopefully we keep getting it yet okay,
not yet?
Speaker 3 (14:01):
How long after you finished filming and then it comes out?
Do you have to wait till they decide?
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Okay? So, for instance, last year the show came out
in October, right, No, not last year, the year prior.
They didn't tell us until the end of February.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
As an actor, you're like, well, I need a job,
but you don't want to take into jobs just in
case they say, got something else.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Yeah, therapy has been really good.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Great.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Yeah, yeah, that's what I want to say about that.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Lave it either well, it's just a pleasure for Nando.
It's such a pleasure to meet you. You have done
something really brilliant with this character memo, and I'll tell
you what it is. I love actors who can do
this and pull it off. There's you in that character.
You bring a part of you into that character. Without you,
that character would not be the same.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
It's just the most lovable, happiest person. And it's just
so I just talk to you here and watch you.
They're doing that.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Oh my god, that that means the world. And I mean,
I don't mean to brag, but the character did change
a lot from its original conception. I guess he was
supposed to be the way when I auditioned, it was
described as like a Jonah Hill in Super Bad, that
type of character, so a little more of like a
little rascal, I guess, and dirty. And but when when
(15:26):
we were filming the pilot, I just kept finding these
moments of this kid who comes from pretty much nothing.
He literally has one line when he says, my family
only has one chair. He doesn't have anything, and then
he's discovering this magical world that he's always dreamed about
with his best friend. So I just intuitively I started
(15:49):
leaning a lot into that kind of like naiveness and
exciting excitement about life. So they kind of like took
a different root with the character.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Well you you own it. I mean, it's definitely you.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Thank you. I mean, you know.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
It's it says a lot about you. I think I
felt like I knew you before you even walk through
the door. And you should never do that with a character.
You know what I'm saying. It's like we've met we've
met actors before who are nothing like the characters they play,
and that's just good. That's what you do for a living,
you know, Like, I'm glad you're not a murderer. You're
gonna kill us on me too anyway. So if you
(16:23):
love just listening to a little bit of Fernando Carsa,
then you need a lot more. So you watch all
Pool co It's in season three, Apple TV Plus Get
it now, and you'll when you watch it, you'll you'll
you'll get back to us, you'll let us know how
much you love it. It is terrific.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
You're gonna love it, I promise.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
So, so you actually listen to our show I do
where you watch the show.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Here's the thing I Okay, I do both. Okay, and
this is gonna sound cheesy, but it's true. One of
my comfort listens it's I go on YouTube and I
listened to an interview that you did with Britney Spears
back in twenty sixteen promoting Glory. Yeah, that was a lot.
She held your puppy.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
She almost pulled the fur off of it. Oh no,
she was petting my dog, match and she was like
pinching it. F I'm like, you're gonna kill my dog.
So you're a huge Brittany fan. I learned English through
her music. Really Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Yeah, Britney Spears is like I'm going through a Janet
Jackson's face right now. I get that we love her,
but Brittany, yeah, my whole life since. I mean I
I became aware of her when I was three and
oops I did again, had just come out right, But yeah,
She's the reason why I can have a conversation with
all of you right now.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
They're crazy because we have people listen to our show
every day and they say we just moved here from
Mexico or Puerto Rico, whatever, and they'll say, we learned
how to speak English with you because of you and
I'm like, oh God, because we're we we haven't even
learned how to.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Speak people.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Incorrectly. They were talking about we tell stupid stuff, and like,
oh god.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Listen, it's so fun. Fine alright.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Season three Alcoholico available. Like I said, Apple TV plus
for an Animal Cars to thank you, so thank you
for having me.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
I'm so happy to be here.
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