August 14, 2024 • 22 mins
Isabela Merced checked in with the Cruz Show to talk about her new movie Alien Romulus. She also talked her family & so much more. Always great vibes on the Cruz Show
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What's good? This Isbela mar said, and you're checking out
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
Hi, how are you good?
Speaker 1 (00:09):
I'm happy to be here.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Man, it's been it's been it's been a while. Yeah, right,
but you've been busy, been working.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Yeah. It honestly feel like it's been five minutes since
I last saw you.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
I know, right, yo, Alien Romulus. This is a legendary franchise, right,
what an honor to be a part of it?
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Do you like Horr?
Speaker 2 (00:25):
I do?
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Do you like her?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Anybody here doesn't like it, so it's like I have
to watch it on my own.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Well, I personally draw the line at like demonic stuff.
That's when I'm like, I don't want to film it.
I don't want to be a part. When I watch it,
I'm missaging the house like That's that's where I draw
the line. But anything else like Gore. I watched all
the Saw movies in one night in seventh grade and
on one night when I say one night in one
winter break in seventh grade, so I'm a big fan
of Gore and there's a lot of Gore in this
(00:51):
as well, Like grow stuff that you're.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Just very gory and very bloody.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Yeah, that popcorn will start tasting weird, but hopefully you
get the popcorn by using the popcorn bucket for it.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Yeah, I have.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Lately for popcorn buckets has been a.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Crazy that's the way to go.
Speaker 5 (01:07):
I think it's safe to say going to the movies
is officially back, like they're.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Making it a back.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Oh yeah, I love it. And you know, Latinos are
the biggest immigrants.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Come on.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
I like to do like the Tuesdays.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
It's like five dollars intry.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Oh yeah, oh my god. And I got the dollar
movies now that I got an American Express card, got
them stuffs.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
And I feel so fancy because I'm like, I use
all those rewards. And yesterday I got a large popcorn,
I got a large drink, and I got candy because
I put a bunch of crunch in my popcorn and
it was all ten dollars.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Is that amazing?
Speaker 1 (01:39):
And you get I got Gallidated parking.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
We big backing on a budget, back budget.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
I'm always on a budget. I'm from Ohio and the
daughter of an immigrants.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
We grew up on a budget. We were born into.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Budget, born into born to budget.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
But movies are still a magical thing, going to the movies,
grabbing the popcorn and red vines, not Twizzlers red vines.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Okay, okay, you said that really controversial.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Tape because I want it with anyone who likes Twizzlers.
You feel me like you.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Know what it is, you know, I like to say
it's a plastic I like it. I'm full of microplastics,
I guess so I guess I like myself then.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
But yeah, like going to the movies with your family
or even solo, right, Like I've done that before, Nothing
wrong with that that because you're in a different world.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Well, what's interesting about going to the movies with people?
I think you absorb their sort of energy while watching it.
Like like just when you show somebody your favorite movie,
you're sort of halfway watching their reaction. You're sort of
taking the cue from other people when to laugh. Sometimes
I'll start to laugh a lot of times in theaters.
Maybe it's not even supposed to be funny, but I'll
just do it because it's like a social experiment because
slowly everybody lasts with you. If you clap, somebody will
(03:03):
clap with you. Sometimes there's that one loan clapper. Oh god,
I guess what we're second hand embarrass that's tough.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
But literally, my boyfriend, I'm like, I was like, I
can't know that, and I didn't like.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
I didn't come with this, man, I didn't.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Come with this.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Yeah, a lot of people are scared to go along
to the theaters.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Yeah, that's all the time. That's silly. Yeah, you should
enjoy it. You know, it's cheaper. It's cheaper, you feel me?
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Why is your chair so low today?
Speaker 2 (03:27):
My standards are.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
And that's why he.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Goes he goes alone. You know. Wow, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
I observed something actually today and it was that all
of you guys have J in your names, that right
or also if you don't have Jay, your names is DJ.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Yeah, like the shatto is just well he was DJ.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
No longer Djattle my middle name, so there is okay.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
So I was wondering if the j's were requiring Jeff Garcia, yeah,
Jackie JJ.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
I didn't know. I tell you to put the DJ
because you needed a Jay still, like you know DJ fuse. Yeah,
I don't know, just wondering.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
You're just loving to have a job at the end
of the day.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
That's so true.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Like, you, guys, how important is work right, Like to
have a job and to be working right.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
That's that's especially as a Latina because when you're not working,
you feel like you're not doing anything.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Oh yeah, no, there's definitely this thing called actors guilt
where you're guilt. You feel guilty when you are working
because you don't have a personal life and your families
and friends are some somewhat neglected. And then you also
feel guilty when you're not working because you're not making
any money.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
You're not You kind of feel like you hear the
voice of your ancestors in the back of your head.
You lazy, you're lazy.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
It's usually my own voice. Actually, I'm my own biggest hater.
So okay, I gotta work on it.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
What are the nicest things you're you tell yourself.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Internally, the nicest things. That's That's the thing that when
I was talking about earlier with Mama Yaasca, what I
repeat now is what she told me, Like it's kind
of her voice. Whenever I feel like too much pressure
for myself is like I get the resounding this gunsa
hita like rests. You know, you're just you're just a baby.
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That's literally what it is like. In that experience, I
was also taken kind of into the womb of some
sort like it was very it was very cool to
that was a very unique experience that I always go back.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
To when I'm stressed out right right right right, you
tap into it.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Yeah, it's a very like and something about the whole
like I'm just a baby thing. I'm not trying to
be infantalizing. I just mean there's something about that takes
the pressure off your new spirit, your new soul on
this earth. Therefore you can take it a little bit
easier on yourself. You don't have to know so many things.
You can still be wide eyed and absorb the world
as like a newcomer and free. Yeah, less less burdens
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when you're when you're new here.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
And I think when you're a baby, your sponge you absorb,
so I think I think it's also looking at that way,
like mm hmm, you got a whole new learn so.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
No pressure, do you know what I mean? Like be
open to whatever, because I truly believe like whatever you're
meant to learn, you will learn. You don't have to
go out of your way to do it. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Ye Alien Romulus out Friday, scary ass movie. Yeah, yeah,
there's there's some moments. I've seen so much of it
I believe I've seen it all. Okay, at this point,
you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
But doesn't like Fedna doesn't like spoilers FETI the director.
Sorry he I'm sure the studio is probably pushing him
to release more. But at the same time, I think, what,
at least my favorite moments of the movie aren't in
the spoiler or like aren't in the teasers or the trailers,
or like what people are saying are spoilers. But I really,
(06:45):
I really think this happens every time a movie comes out. Absolutely, yeah,
I know a few, a few, yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
There was a jump scare that I didn't even know
was coming because I wasn't you know, I wasn't in
that particular scene, and I, oh my god, I jumped
out of my seat, like physically out of my seat,
and that I don't think I remember the last time
a movie has done that to me, right right, Yeah,
I'm pretty like used to it at this point. I guess.
(07:14):
I guess because I like scary stuff and I'm usually
the in a haunted house I'm the first one that
leads the group, you know, like I'm ready, I'm like,
give it to me, make my heart race. Yeah, but yeah,
that on't got me.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Yeah no, I mean that's great, right when you can
be surprised by your own work or the work that
you're a part of.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Yeah, A lot of that's props to Fede though. Like
he he's very in charge, very like hands on. He
edits the trailers, he edits the tasers, edit, he put
together you know, a lot of the San Diego Comic
Con experience as well. I think we're dealing with somebody
who works really, really hard, and he's Latinos, so I'm
rooting for him and was the DP and so there
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was a lot of like dialogue on set that was
like in Spanish. So that was pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
He would give you my Spanish. Yeah, yeah, that was cool.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
I never had that experience.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Like, I guess, it's got to make you feel seen
and included.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
That's that's kind of what it is. Yeah, I think
it was. It also has the opposite effect, sorry, not
the opposite effect, but the same effect on the other person.
I think suddenly certain barriers are down, like the ability
to communicate. I know they're fitted and Gallo's first languages
are Spanish, so you know, there's a sort of switch
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that happens when they realized like, oh, this is one
of my people, like I could be comfortable with open.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
So a few sentences back, you mentioned like, uh, I
guess movie terms, like certain things can you allow, like
can you teach us like movie set LINGO.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Like like yeah, yeah, okay, So ten one means I
gotta go pee? Yeah, okay, And then can I say
what I say?
Speaker 2 (09:02):
I say.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
No.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
They got like my favorite thing to hear is Martini
BRKINI because that means that's the last shot of the day.
But I call it margarita margarito, and I'm trying to
let it catch on to other people because that's way
more fun than a martinie, Like you're trying to make
fetch happen there. Yeah, it works. It works on a Friday.
(09:31):
On a Friday, everybody's like, yeah, the margarita. But the
other day of the week they're like, we still got
to go to work tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Yeah it's a school night. Yeah that's cool. I don't
know that Martini. Yeah. What else?
Speaker 1 (09:43):
There's the Abbey, which is the second to last shot
or second last setup. I guess, sorry, second last setup,
because you have different setups and then within that you have,
however many shots until you get that set up. What's
another thing that pertains to film? I swear I make movies.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
I mean, you're a part of it every day, right,
so a lot of this stuff is just second nature
and it's just common to you.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
I guess what does that mean?
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Right?
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:13):
I think the coolest thing for me on this one,
at least that I'd never experienced before, was all the
practical effects that I got to see, Like they built
a spaceship inside of the sound stages.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
A lot.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
I mean, all the monsters that you see in Miss
we saw all of it. Like, it's not CGI in
that aspect space Obviously it has to be CGI for sure,
unless they that Disney can afford that. Maybe they did,
I don't know, maybe they don't they could, but even
the even the VFX, the CGI have the space like
(10:45):
it's just beautiful. The visuals are incredible. Anyways, I'm getting distracted.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Did you see stuff for the first time in your
career making this movie? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Yeah, yeah, I mean my career is not that long.
In retrospect, but I do feel like, uh, like yeah,
very new to this in the sense that I hopefully
maybe this will start a trend of bringing back practical effects.
You know, I think it's a lost art form.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
I think sometimes CGI it's great, right, but you can
tell sometimes well.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Also as an actor, in my personal experience, you can
feel the presence of something. In that specific trailer shot
that I was talking about where I'm crawling on the
crates and he's above me, I felt that weight and
that body of this creature over me, and you hear
it and it rattles the room around you, and it's
not just like a crew member. That's you know what
(11:41):
I mean, like yeah, and you yeah, and you look
up and you see the shadows of the light hitting
the claws of the creature and I see it right
in front of me, and the the audience might not
see it. But as an actor it's so oh, it's
so beneficial. And then there's a.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Tool you get more natural reaction. Yeah, a movie feeling.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Yeah, yeah, every day was like that. I mean, eventually
walking onto the spaceship and like seeing all the buttons
and the I call it the boot boop bee boop like,
like you just all the technology that's there, you know,
it's very cool.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
How did you prepare personally for this kind of movie.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
When mentally right, because you don't really I didn't really
know what I was getting into, to be honest. I mean,
you have this script, but there's so many other elements
that you're sort of thrown into. I think I think
kay my character was the most work I did, where
she's like very she's very innocent, she's very young, and
she's just she's literally just a baby and she's the
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youngest crewmember on on board.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
So I thought that was really fun because I've never
gotten to play like that vulnerable of a character. I
think I played generally strong characters that can hold their
own or for some reason can beat up like sixty
grown men. So I'm like, I'm I'm really honored to
be able to represent somebody who's so vulnerable and like
who is sort of a vessel for the audience. And
(13:08):
I think I would react similarly to her in a
lot of these situations.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Ah yeah, so you put yourself in that position, and.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
It's interesting because like the fear, I've never had to
like feel fear throughout a whole production, Right, it has
to go somewhere, so like it started, it has to
start at level one and the eventually end on ten,
so that exploration of it. Luckily, we shot it chronologically,
so I didn't have to keep track of which levels
I was at an each scene. It's sort of like progressively,
I had to just explore fear in ways that I
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never have before, and like different levels of it and
different reactions to it.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Yeah, with that kind of intensity and fear in the
air right.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
And in the script and yeah, Welle would also play
pranks on us, like not not funny pranks, like it
was very scary. It's just scare.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
I was gonna say, was there a lot of method
acting going on?
Speaker 1 (13:53):
And maybe on accident? I don't know, I'd never met
that on. Yeah, I don't method on purpose, but I
do feel like I saw times I'll read about a
certain method Actually I'm like, wait, I do that, And
I'm like, oh, maybe I'm on accidentally doing method.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
And I'm glad. I love Kaylee Spainey. I think she's
had to pronounce her name right. Yeah, she's a great actress.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
I think both of you have a great opportunity with
this movie, and you guys seem to vibe really well
to you guys have been seeing some of the social
from Comic Con and stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Was it cool working with her? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Yeah, No, she's a pro. She's had a lot of
time in this industry as well, and like her career
has been a slow bird as well. You know, she's
she's been doing it for a long time with people
you know, are just now kind of giving her the
hype that I think she deserves. She had probably the
most difficult, challenging sequences in this movie that were a
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lot more physically demanding than mine. So I think this
will really hopefully prove to people you know that she
deserves to be a star. Yeah. It's very disciplined, very disciplined.
I don't know a lot of disciplined actors actually, unless
they're like Broadway. I feel like stage actors are very
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disciplined and they write their notes, and maybe I lack
discipline at certain times, perhaps, but I have my own
ways that work for me. It's it's really interesting. Everybody
has their own method, but like real recognize real. So
when I see somebody working hard, it's no matter what
they're doing, whether it's taking notes or like really throwing
themselves into it. You kind of you see it, and
I think it usually translates unless there's a bad editor.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Behind the movie, you know, which happens.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Yeah, absolutely a lot.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Yeah, what's up Jack?
Speaker 4 (15:48):
Before you know you started interviews and your career, did
you ever do like fake interviews with yourself?
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Yeah, all the time. Yeah, absolutely, Like I'm weird as shit.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
What would you ask yourself?
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Well, it's interesting. I would explore different professions, right, So,
like I would explore makeup artists, I would explore like
singer I was rarely. Rarely I would do the actor
thing honestly, really like it was very much. I don't know,
Like I would see other people's interviews that start to
mimic them, And I think a lot of a lot
of why I became an actors because I like to
(16:22):
mimic people. So I would I would mimic like a
makeup artist getting interviewed, Yeah, like a singer.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
You know.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
I feel like with the younger like generation of actors now,
like you guys, don't take yourself too seriously, Like I
feel like there's so much more behind the scenes that
are is shown on social media that you guys are
just literally like making content and everyone loves to see that.
I feel like this younger group of actors is just
completely different now.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
I think what's cool about it is I think there's
less I think there's a lot at least in my
experience from the actors that I worked with, there's a
lot more like homegrown, blue collar family like hard workers
that really work their way to get here. There's less,
like there's actually more options and more availability in this
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industry for people to find a space. I think people
are looking for fresh new faces and there's less like
in the like the nebel babies, like I don't see
that many that are like my age. To be honest,
I haven't worked with them, so I'm like, I think
that sort of. I think I've seen people feel the pressure.
It is interesting. I think it's a really cool thing
that I have noticed, like people really go out of
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their way to seem silly or like they're having fun.
And I think also maybe because I've worked with mostly
young people, that's the case. But also social media didn't
exist very much back then so at all. Actually back then,
so they were actually getting they were very nefarious up
to no good. I mean I hear all these stories
about yeah, like just just chaotic and dark. Yeah, like
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they were up to no good back that you just document.
And I think I'm really happy to be in this
industry because it's it's growing, and it's like HR is
really incredible and like they're really hopefully you know, it
will improve on the crew side of things too, because
like I know, the crew is getting screwed over and
I want I want people to you know, get paid
what they deserve. But I think it's becoming a really
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safe space and I think that's why actors feel comfortable
enough to be silly.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
That's right. Yeah, Isabelle, according to you, your favorite scene
in this movie Alien?
Speaker 1 (18:30):
I can't say. It's at the end, and I think
everybody will mostly everybody will agree. I think it's at
the end, and it's.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
It's so messed up.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Yeah, it's so messed up.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
M M. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Yeah, that's why I'm like, I don't think they're spoiling
anything because the goods are at the end, you know yourself, Oh,
like what do you mean?
Speaker 2 (18:58):
I don't know, it's just is it if you're asking,
is it gonna make your pants?
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Ten?
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Two?
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Oh I was like today, Oh, I thank you. That
was good. That was good. I just missed I misheard it.
It was Yeah, maybe I think it'll mostly be like
a more one, more like an upper reaction, you know,
like a you know, like a vile, vile situation.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
The movie is vile, right, the movie is very very gruesome.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Aarez there for you. I mean he wrote it with
his writing partner though, h and it was more like
I like to say, it's like a what pad fan fiction,
you know, he wrote it. He wrote it as like
a fan and he like emailed it to Ridley's team
and then got an email and a response and they
were like, we like, this was make another movie after
Redly said he wasn't.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Gonna make it.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
How many fan fictions have you read? I read a
lot as a kid, Like I was that kid with
Tumblr with what pas, which was toxic. I'm glad I
have been on the dark side because it was I
wasn't posting. I was merely an observer, that's right, Yeah, yeah,
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but yeah, I was definitely one of those kids.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Yeah yeah. How do you prepare your face for certain
scenes and very scary scenes where you have to portray
this person that's just scared out of their mind.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
I put myself in I try to feel it fully.
I guess you start with yeah, you kind of start
with raising your heart, right, I think, honestly, I'm very
in the moment, Like I really, I really go off
of how I felt waking up that morning, my information
and knowledge on the script. But then like in the moment,
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there just might be certain elements that you didn't predict
that that actually help you or hurt you. And yeah,
I'm very just like in the moment when it comes
to acting, and I'll pull from the moment. And I
have a very adhd brain, So I think, I honestly
think that's why I'm a good actor. Like a lot
of people have linear thoughts, mine are very scattered, so
I have many places to pull from. I get ideas
(21:18):
on the spot and I'm like, oh, this will work,
and then I you know what I mean. So it's
in a way it's burden, but it's also a gift.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
No, yeah, exactly, it is burden, right because you got
to carry it with you and you got to pull
from it, and you know, but it also helps in
a tremendous way. And then you know the audience gets
to feel it, not only see it, but feel it,
which I hope they feel it. Yeah, they gonna feel it.
They're gonna feel it.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
Man Alien Romulus ol friday Isabellmer said, you're the best.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Thank you so much, thank you, and that's a.
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
Hi, how are you good?
Speaker 1 (00:09):
I'm happy to be here.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Man, it's been it's been it's been a while. Yeah, right,
but you've been busy, been working.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Yeah. It honestly feel like it's been five minutes since
I last saw you.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
I know, right, yo, Alien Romulus. This is a legendary franchise, right,
what an honor to be a part of it?
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Do you like Horr?
Speaker 2 (00:25):
I do?
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Do you like her?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Anybody here doesn't like it, so it's like I have
to watch it on my own.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Well, I personally draw the line at like demonic stuff.
That's when I'm like, I don't want to film it.
I don't want to be a part. When I watch it,
I'm missaging the house like That's that's where I draw
the line. But anything else like Gore. I watched all
the Saw movies in one night in seventh grade and
on one night when I say one night in one
winter break in seventh grade, so I'm a big fan
of Gore and there's a lot of Gore in this
(00:51):
as well, Like grow stuff that you're.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Just very gory and very bloody.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Yeah, that popcorn will start tasting weird, but hopefully you
get the popcorn by using the popcorn bucket for it.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Yeah, I have.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Lately for popcorn buckets has been a.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Crazy that's the way to go.
Speaker 5 (01:07):
I think it's safe to say going to the movies
is officially back, like they're.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Making it a back.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Oh yeah, I love it. And you know, Latinos are
the biggest immigrants.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Come on.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
I like to do like the Tuesdays.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
It's like five dollars intry.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Oh yeah, oh my god. And I got the dollar
movies now that I got an American Express card, got
them stuffs.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
And I feel so fancy because I'm like, I use
all those rewards. And yesterday I got a large popcorn,
I got a large drink, and I got candy because
I put a bunch of crunch in my popcorn and
it was all ten dollars.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Is that amazing?
Speaker 1 (01:39):
And you get I got Gallidated parking.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
We big backing on a budget, back budget.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
I'm always on a budget. I'm from Ohio and the
daughter of an immigrants.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
We grew up on a budget. We were born into.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Budget, born into born to budget.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
But movies are still a magical thing, going to the movies,
grabbing the popcorn and red vines, not Twizzlers red vines.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Okay, okay, you said that really controversial.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Tape because I want it with anyone who likes Twizzlers.
You feel me like you.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Know what it is, you know, I like to say
it's a plastic I like it. I'm full of microplastics,
I guess so I guess I like myself then.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
But yeah, like going to the movies with your family
or even solo, right, Like I've done that before, Nothing
wrong with that that because you're in a different world.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Well, what's interesting about going to the movies with people?
I think you absorb their sort of energy while watching it.
Like like just when you show somebody your favorite movie,
you're sort of halfway watching their reaction. You're sort of
taking the cue from other people when to laugh. Sometimes
I'll start to laugh a lot of times in theaters.
Maybe it's not even supposed to be funny, but I'll
just do it because it's like a social experiment because
slowly everybody lasts with you. If you clap, somebody will
(03:03):
clap with you. Sometimes there's that one loan clapper. Oh god,
I guess what we're second hand embarrass that's tough.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
But literally, my boyfriend, I'm like, I was like, I
can't know that, and I didn't like.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
I didn't come with this, man, I didn't.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Come with this.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Yeah, a lot of people are scared to go along
to the theaters.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Yeah, that's all the time. That's silly. Yeah, you should
enjoy it. You know, it's cheaper. It's cheaper, you feel me?
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Why is your chair so low today?
Speaker 2 (03:27):
My standards are.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
And that's why he.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Goes he goes alone. You know. Wow, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
I observed something actually today and it was that all
of you guys have J in your names, that right
or also if you don't have Jay, your names is DJ.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Yeah, like the shatto is just well he was DJ.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
No longer Djattle my middle name, so there is okay.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
So I was wondering if the j's were requiring Jeff Garcia, yeah,
Jackie JJ.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
I didn't know. I tell you to put the DJ
because you needed a Jay still, like you know DJ fuse. Yeah,
I don't know, just wondering.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
You're just loving to have a job at the end
of the day.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
That's so true.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Like, you, guys, how important is work right, Like to
have a job and to be working right.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
That's that's especially as a Latina because when you're not working,
you feel like you're not doing anything.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Oh yeah, no, there's definitely this thing called actors guilt
where you're guilt. You feel guilty when you are working
because you don't have a personal life and your families
and friends are some somewhat neglected. And then you also
feel guilty when you're not working because you're not making
any money.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
You're not You kind of feel like you hear the
voice of your ancestors in the back of your head.
You lazy, you're lazy.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
It's usually my own voice. Actually, I'm my own biggest hater.
So okay, I gotta work on it.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
What are the nicest things you're you tell yourself.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Internally, the nicest things. That's That's the thing that when
I was talking about earlier with Mama Yaasca, what I
repeat now is what she told me, Like it's kind
of her voice. Whenever I feel like too much pressure
for myself is like I get the resounding this gunsa
hita like rests. You know, you're just you're just a baby.
(05:18):
That's literally what it is like. In that experience, I
was also taken kind of into the womb of some
sort like it was very it was very cool to
that was a very unique experience that I always go back.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
To when I'm stressed out right right right right, you
tap into it.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Yeah, it's a very like and something about the whole
like I'm just a baby thing. I'm not trying to
be infantalizing. I just mean there's something about that takes
the pressure off your new spirit, your new soul on
this earth. Therefore you can take it a little bit
easier on yourself. You don't have to know so many things.
You can still be wide eyed and absorb the world
as like a newcomer and free. Yeah, less less burdens
(05:54):
when you're when you're new here.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
And I think when you're a baby, your sponge you absorb,
so I think I think it's also looking at that way,
like mm hmm, you got a whole new learn so.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
No pressure, do you know what I mean? Like be
open to whatever, because I truly believe like whatever you're
meant to learn, you will learn. You don't have to
go out of your way to do it. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Ye Alien Romulus out Friday, scary ass movie. Yeah, yeah,
there's there's some moments. I've seen so much of it
I believe I've seen it all. Okay, at this point,
you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
But doesn't like Fedna doesn't like spoilers FETI the director.
Sorry he I'm sure the studio is probably pushing him
to release more. But at the same time, I think, what,
at least my favorite moments of the movie aren't in
the spoiler or like aren't in the teasers or the trailers,
or like what people are saying are spoilers. But I really,
(06:45):
I really think this happens every time a movie comes out. Absolutely, yeah,
I know a few, a few, yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
There was a jump scare that I didn't even know
was coming because I wasn't you know, I wasn't in
that particular scene, and I, oh my god, I jumped
out of my seat, like physically out of my seat,
and that I don't think I remember the last time
a movie has done that to me, right right, Yeah,
I'm pretty like used to it at this point. I guess.
(07:14):
I guess because I like scary stuff and I'm usually
the in a haunted house I'm the first one that
leads the group, you know, like I'm ready, I'm like,
give it to me, make my heart race. Yeah, but yeah,
that on't got me.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Yeah no, I mean that's great, right when you can
be surprised by your own work or the work that
you're a part of.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Yeah, A lot of that's props to Fede though. Like
he he's very in charge, very like hands on. He
edits the trailers, he edits the tasers, edit, he put
together you know, a lot of the San Diego Comic
Con experience as well. I think we're dealing with somebody
who works really, really hard, and he's Latinos, so I'm
rooting for him and was the DP and so there
(07:53):
was a lot of like dialogue on set that was
like in Spanish. So that was pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
He would give you my Spanish. Yeah, yeah, that was cool.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
I never had that experience.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Like, I guess, it's got to make you feel seen
and included.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
That's that's kind of what it is. Yeah, I think
it was. It also has the opposite effect, sorry, not
the opposite effect, but the same effect on the other person.
I think suddenly certain barriers are down, like the ability
to communicate. I know they're fitted and Gallo's first languages
are Spanish, so you know, there's a sort of switch
(08:32):
that happens when they realized like, oh, this is one
of my people, like I could be comfortable with open.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
So a few sentences back, you mentioned like, uh, I
guess movie terms, like certain things can you allow, like
can you teach us like movie set LINGO.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Like like yeah, yeah, okay, So ten one means I
gotta go pee? Yeah, okay, And then can I say
what I say?
Speaker 2 (09:02):
I say.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
No.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
They got like my favorite thing to hear is Martini
BRKINI because that means that's the last shot of the day.
But I call it margarita margarito, and I'm trying to
let it catch on to other people because that's way
more fun than a martinie, Like you're trying to make
fetch happen there. Yeah, it works. It works on a Friday.
(09:31):
On a Friday, everybody's like, yeah, the margarita. But the
other day of the week they're like, we still got
to go to work tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Yeah it's a school night. Yeah that's cool. I don't
know that Martini. Yeah. What else?
Speaker 1 (09:43):
There's the Abbey, which is the second to last shot
or second last setup. I guess, sorry, second last setup,
because you have different setups and then within that you have,
however many shots until you get that set up. What's
another thing that pertains to film? I swear I make movies.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
I mean, you're a part of it every day, right,
so a lot of this stuff is just second nature
and it's just common to you.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
I guess what does that mean?
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Right?
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:13):
I think the coolest thing for me on this one,
at least that I'd never experienced before, was all the
practical effects that I got to see, Like they built
a spaceship inside of the sound stages.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
A lot.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
I mean, all the monsters that you see in Miss
we saw all of it. Like, it's not CGI in
that aspect space Obviously it has to be CGI for sure,
unless they that Disney can afford that. Maybe they did,
I don't know, maybe they don't they could, but even
the even the VFX, the CGI have the space like
(10:45):
it's just beautiful. The visuals are incredible. Anyways, I'm getting distracted.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Did you see stuff for the first time in your
career making this movie? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Yeah, yeah, I mean my career is not that long.
In retrospect, but I do feel like, uh, like yeah,
very new to this in the sense that I hopefully
maybe this will start a trend of bringing back practical effects.
You know, I think it's a lost art form.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
I think sometimes CGI it's great, right, but you can
tell sometimes well.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Also as an actor, in my personal experience, you can
feel the presence of something. In that specific trailer shot
that I was talking about where I'm crawling on the
crates and he's above me, I felt that weight and
that body of this creature over me, and you hear
it and it rattles the room around you, and it's
not just like a crew member. That's you know what
(11:41):
I mean, like yeah, and you yeah, and you look
up and you see the shadows of the light hitting
the claws of the creature and I see it right
in front of me, and the the audience might not
see it. But as an actor it's so oh, it's
so beneficial. And then there's a.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Tool you get more natural reaction. Yeah, a movie feeling.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Yeah, yeah, every day was like that. I mean, eventually
walking onto the spaceship and like seeing all the buttons
and the I call it the boot boop bee boop like,
like you just all the technology that's there, you know,
it's very cool.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
How did you prepare personally for this kind of movie.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
When mentally right, because you don't really I didn't really
know what I was getting into, to be honest. I mean,
you have this script, but there's so many other elements
that you're sort of thrown into. I think I think
kay my character was the most work I did, where
she's like very she's very innocent, she's very young, and
she's just she's literally just a baby and she's the
(12:43):
youngest crewmember on on board.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
So I thought that was really fun because I've never
gotten to play like that vulnerable of a character. I
think I played generally strong characters that can hold their
own or for some reason can beat up like sixty
grown men. So I'm like, I'm I'm really honored to
be able to represent somebody who's so vulnerable and like
who is sort of a vessel for the audience. And
(13:08):
I think I would react similarly to her in a
lot of these situations.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Ah yeah, so you put yourself in that position, and.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
It's interesting because like the fear, I've never had to
like feel fear throughout a whole production, Right, it has
to go somewhere, so like it started, it has to
start at level one and the eventually end on ten,
so that exploration of it. Luckily, we shot it chronologically,
so I didn't have to keep track of which levels
I was at an each scene. It's sort of like progressively,
I had to just explore fear in ways that I
(13:35):
never have before, and like different levels of it and
different reactions to it.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Yeah, with that kind of intensity and fear in the
air right.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
And in the script and yeah, Welle would also play
pranks on us, like not not funny pranks, like it
was very scary. It's just scare.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
I was gonna say, was there a lot of method
acting going on?
Speaker 1 (13:53):
And maybe on accident? I don't know, I'd never met
that on. Yeah, I don't method on purpose, but I
do feel like I saw times I'll read about a
certain method Actually I'm like, wait, I do that, And
I'm like, oh, maybe I'm on accidentally doing method.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
And I'm glad. I love Kaylee Spainey. I think she's
had to pronounce her name right. Yeah, she's a great actress.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
I think both of you have a great opportunity with
this movie, and you guys seem to vibe really well
to you guys have been seeing some of the social
from Comic Con and stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Was it cool working with her? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Yeah, No, she's a pro. She's had a lot of
time in this industry as well, and like her career
has been a slow bird as well. You know, she's
she's been doing it for a long time with people
you know, are just now kind of giving her the
hype that I think she deserves. She had probably the
most difficult, challenging sequences in this movie that were a
(14:57):
lot more physically demanding than mine. So I think this
will really hopefully prove to people you know that she
deserves to be a star. Yeah. It's very disciplined, very disciplined.
I don't know a lot of disciplined actors actually, unless
they're like Broadway. I feel like stage actors are very
(15:19):
disciplined and they write their notes, and maybe I lack
discipline at certain times, perhaps, but I have my own
ways that work for me. It's it's really interesting. Everybody
has their own method, but like real recognize real. So
when I see somebody working hard, it's no matter what
they're doing, whether it's taking notes or like really throwing
themselves into it. You kind of you see it, and
I think it usually translates unless there's a bad editor.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Behind the movie, you know, which happens.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Yeah, absolutely a lot.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Yeah, what's up Jack?
Speaker 4 (15:48):
Before you know you started interviews and your career, did
you ever do like fake interviews with yourself?
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Yeah, all the time. Yeah, absolutely, Like I'm weird as shit.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
What would you ask yourself?
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Well, it's interesting. I would explore different professions, right, So,
like I would explore makeup artists, I would explore like
singer I was rarely. Rarely I would do the actor
thing honestly, really like it was very much. I don't know,
Like I would see other people's interviews that start to
mimic them, And I think a lot of a lot
of why I became an actors because I like to
(16:22):
mimic people. So I would I would mimic like a
makeup artist getting interviewed, Yeah, like a singer.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
You know.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
I feel like with the younger like generation of actors now,
like you guys, don't take yourself too seriously, Like I
feel like there's so much more behind the scenes that
are is shown on social media that you guys are
just literally like making content and everyone loves to see that.
I feel like this younger group of actors is just
completely different now.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
I think what's cool about it is I think there's
less I think there's a lot at least in my
experience from the actors that I worked with, there's a
lot more like homegrown, blue collar family like hard workers
that really work their way to get here. There's less,
like there's actually more options and more availability in this
(17:11):
industry for people to find a space. I think people
are looking for fresh new faces and there's less like
in the like the nebel babies, like I don't see
that many that are like my age. To be honest,
I haven't worked with them, so I'm like, I think
that sort of. I think I've seen people feel the pressure.
It is interesting. I think it's a really cool thing
that I have noticed, like people really go out of
(17:32):
their way to seem silly or like they're having fun.
And I think also maybe because I've worked with mostly
young people, that's the case. But also social media didn't
exist very much back then so at all. Actually back then,
so they were actually getting they were very nefarious up
to no good. I mean I hear all these stories
about yeah, like just just chaotic and dark. Yeah, like
(17:58):
they were up to no good back that you just document.
And I think I'm really happy to be in this
industry because it's it's growing, and it's like HR is
really incredible and like they're really hopefully you know, it
will improve on the crew side of things too, because
like I know, the crew is getting screwed over and
I want I want people to you know, get paid
what they deserve. But I think it's becoming a really
(18:20):
safe space and I think that's why actors feel comfortable
enough to be silly.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
That's right. Yeah, Isabelle, according to you, your favorite scene
in this movie Alien?
Speaker 1 (18:30):
I can't say. It's at the end, and I think
everybody will mostly everybody will agree. I think it's at
the end, and it's.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
It's so messed up.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Yeah, it's so messed up.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
M M. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Yeah, that's why I'm like, I don't think they're spoiling
anything because the goods are at the end, you know yourself, Oh,
like what do you mean?
Speaker 2 (18:58):
I don't know, it's just is it if you're asking,
is it gonna make your pants?
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Ten?
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Two?
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Oh I was like today, Oh, I thank you. That
was good. That was good. I just missed I misheard it.
It was Yeah, maybe I think it'll mostly be like
a more one, more like an upper reaction, you know,
like a you know, like a vile, vile situation.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
The movie is vile, right, the movie is very very gruesome.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Aarez there for you. I mean he wrote it with
his writing partner though, h and it was more like
I like to say, it's like a what pad fan fiction,
you know, he wrote it. He wrote it as like
a fan and he like emailed it to Ridley's team
and then got an email and a response and they
were like, we like, this was make another movie after
Redly said he wasn't.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Gonna make it.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
How many fan fictions have you read? I read a
lot as a kid, Like I was that kid with
Tumblr with what pas, which was toxic. I'm glad I
have been on the dark side because it was I
wasn't posting. I was merely an observer, that's right, Yeah, yeah,
(20:18):
but yeah, I was definitely one of those kids.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Yeah yeah. How do you prepare your face for certain
scenes and very scary scenes where you have to portray
this person that's just scared out of their mind.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
I put myself in I try to feel it fully.
I guess you start with yeah, you kind of start
with raising your heart, right, I think, honestly, I'm very
in the moment, Like I really, I really go off
of how I felt waking up that morning, my information
and knowledge on the script. But then like in the moment,
(20:55):
there just might be certain elements that you didn't predict
that that actually help you or hurt you. And yeah,
I'm very just like in the moment when it comes
to acting, and I'll pull from the moment. And I
have a very adhd brain, So I think, I honestly
think that's why I'm a good actor. Like a lot
of people have linear thoughts, mine are very scattered, so
I have many places to pull from. I get ideas
(21:18):
on the spot and I'm like, oh, this will work,
and then I you know what I mean. So it's
in a way it's burden, but it's also a gift.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
No, yeah, exactly, it is burden, right because you got
to carry it with you and you got to pull
from it, and you know, but it also helps in
a tremendous way. And then you know the audience gets
to feel it, not only see it, but feel it,
which I hope they feel it. Yeah, they gonna feel it.
They're gonna feel it.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
Man Alien Romulus ol friday Isabellmer said, you're the best.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Thank you so much, thank you, and that's a.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Hey, Jack your rich from the Cruise Show. Thanks for
listening to The Cruise Show podcast.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
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Speaker 5 (22:00):
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