Humberly Gonzalez (Star Wars)

It's time to take a trip to a galaxy far, far away as Humberly Gonzales, aka Kay Vess in the smash-hit game 'Star Wars Outlaws' joins JIm is discuss her career.

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Speaker 3 (00:48):
Welcome back, everybody to another episode of Tuned In with
Jim Cummings. I'm producer Chris. We have a great guest
for you today. Before that, Jim, how are you doing today, sir?

Speaker 2 (00:57):
Another day in paradise? Absolutely even better today that I
guess why.

Speaker 3 (01:05):
Joins us today. Thank you so much for being here.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
I literally just got off the plane. I like beautiful.
It is paradise. It is. Sorry I left rainy cold Toronto. Sorry,
not sorry.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
I was just going to ask you did come from
Toro and did just.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
For you guys right now though it is they're saying
it's the coldest mate in decades. Oh no, really, naturally
I'm here.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
Oh well, that's the perfect time to believe.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
Don't get to chose my arm. You want me there,
I'm there, yes, bye bye?

Speaker 2 (01:37):
Yeah, well that's good.

Speaker 3 (01:38):
Yeah, place for the place for the argoes my brother. Sorry,
I wasn't speaking of No. I was curious because my
brother lives in Toronto, so I was like, I don't
think you probably know him?

Speaker 2 (01:50):
Yes, Oh yeah, that's a little suburb there, I mean
a little little burg. Oh man, Well are you a
football fan? Bandy chance? I just thought i'd ask, because
you know, I'm shocked, but okay, yeah you still. I'm
a boxing fan too, so I understand like you. So yeah, okay,

(02:16):
well thanks for being here. But so are you? Are
you keeping busy? Are you keeping happy? These days?

Speaker 1 (02:23):
Very happy?

Speaker 2 (02:23):
What's keeping you? What's keeping you? Enthused? And going?

Speaker 1 (02:27):
And honestly, I've had an incredible year. I've kind of
traveled all over filmed all over the world. I just
filmed a movie in Cape Town that blew my mind.
But I'm taking a little bit of time off to
be home. I mean, obviously I'm here, but only like
a few days. But it's been nice to be home.
It's like the longest I've been it's like four weeks maybe.

(02:48):
But I traveled to London obviously because Star Wars got
nominated for the BAFTAs. That was really fun.

Speaker 4 (02:54):
Yeah, congratulations, It's it's such an honor and being I mean,
maybe I carry the sunshine everywhere, but every day I
was in London, it was sunny and beautiful, and everybody.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
Was like, I swear, it's not like this all the time.
I'm like, I don't know, I could move here. They're like,
it's not, like, oh it's like.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
This all the time. Oh, it looks like our screen
is giving us fish watch Netflix. Yeah apparently so, well,
you probably got something on there that we can.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
I mean, listen my new trailer for The Waterfront's Menu
Netflix series. We filmed it in North Carolina last year,
Kevin Williamson. This trailer just dropped, so people are excited.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
Fantastic. Yeah, oh my god.

Speaker 1 (03:38):
Sneak into the madness.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
Yeah, well this is well timed. Yeah, truly celebrating you. Yes, yes,
oh my goodness.

Speaker 3 (03:48):
Yeah, that comes out next month right on Netflix. Yeah,
June nineteenth.

Speaker 2 (03:53):
I've got that breaking down here, inspired by true events.
Deeply flawed, uly family? Are you? Are you deeply flawed
or just marginally.

Speaker 1 (04:04):
Just a tiny bit? Think every character in the show
is just struggling quite a bit, and every episode just
against wars and wars, which is the fun.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
Oh good, you know, well that's perfect.

Speaker 1 (04:14):
Lots of drama.

Speaker 2 (04:15):
Okay, good, Well, I'll be tuning in, amazing tuning in.

Speaker 3 (04:19):
What's that like psychologically when you have to get yourself
in a role like that?

Speaker 1 (04:23):
You know what? I love drama, not like in my life,
I guess right right, Yeah, it's really fun to you know,
you don't often get to dig deep into those emotions
as a human, to put myself in another character shoes
and be able to explore with so much like Gusto

(04:43):
and Vigor and be like, what are they going through today?
I could be having the best day ever and then
suddenly they yell action and I'm like in tears and
angry and mad and going through it. But it can
be very cathartic, honestly, and we have such a great team.
There's a lot of support, so it doesn't feel exhausting
to me. It's just really yea, here's my humanness.

Speaker 3 (05:02):
I was gonna ask you if that takes a toll
at all, because I had a weird experience. I'm gonna
tell a quick little story. I was on this show
called The one hundred on the CW years ago, and
I had my makeup all done because my character got
burns alive, right, so like all you know, big burn victim,
my hands, my whole face, like three hours of makeup,

(05:22):
and you know, it's all fun, fun and dandy, you know,
sitting in those trailers and you know, and everybody's pampering
you and all that. But I remember going back in
my trailer and like looking in the mirror and like physically,
like my body started having like a reaction like I
was injured, and like I know this is fake, but
like seeing my reflection and it was so real. It
was like it wasn't like I was panickering or anything.
I could just feel like a change inside of me

(05:45):
where my body was like reacting like oh, should we
be like in shock? Or something. And so the reason
I bring that story up is like, you know, like
you're saying, when you're playing like a role where you
have to be really mad or cry or something, you
really have to do those things, you know. And so
like I'm wondering if that takes like a toll, you know,
over time, Like Okay, you know you hear those old

(06:05):
stories of like Alfred Hitchcock, you know, forcing an actress
to do you know, like over and over until she's
physically exhausted so that it looks like that on screen.
You know.

Speaker 1 (06:15):
Yeah, it's a fine line between like doing the job
and it being like torturous. I think every actor has
their own methods of doing that. For me, I've learned
to really take care of myself. The movie I just
finished filming was like I was there every single day
because I was the lead, and it was definitely like
dark material, a lot of like emotional turmoil. I'm like, dirty, bloody, do.

Speaker 2 (06:38):
That every day every day, beat yourself up space.

Speaker 1 (06:42):
So I definitely, you know, it does take a toll,
like it costs something. It's exciting to tell that story
and to really dig into that, but I need to
know what I need to take care of myself. No
one else is going to do that for me. So
making sure that even in between takes, when I had
a moment, it worse for me to separate and then
come back to it, because you're right, your brain and

(07:02):
your body doesn't know the difference. Sometimes you're asking it
to think dark thoughts or to go somewhere that can
be triggering. You have to know that you can come
back from it.

Speaker 3 (07:13):
Absolutely. Is there any place that you wouldn't go? And
my dad's an actor as well, and he talks about
He talks about when he when he you know, is
getting cast for a role or something and they're asking
something of him, there's a certain point he'll go to
for on camera and then the rest he'll be like,
you didn't pay me enough, Like I'm not willing to

(07:34):
go through that for your entertainment, Like that's physically too
much for me. Do you have like a line where
you would go, I recently don't.

Speaker 1 (07:41):
I haven't encountered that yet. I mean, I haven't found
something to be so shocking or you know, triggering to
me that I go, I can't do that, but maybe
it'll come. I mean, you never know what the material
or what the job is. And sometimes you don't even
know that it's going to affect you that way until
you're living it.

Speaker 3 (08:01):
And then the third part about it is too, like
the backlash, Like you just see what's the actress who
just played she just won the oscar Mikey Madson, Yeah
before And I see a lot online she's getting a
lot of backlash for like not requesting an intimacy Cortis coordinator, right,
you know when she's filming all yeah, that's her creative
process and it's not like you can't let somebody dictate that.

Speaker 1 (08:24):
No, And I mean we're so grateful for intimacy coordinators.
I think adding that really does keep actors safe and
the team kind of it's it's more cohesive, there's more communication.
But if someone ultimately feels like it's a hindrance to
their work, I mean, we spent more time without them
than not, so who knows, Like I don't. I don't

(08:45):
know if that has affected her in the long run
or not. But she got an oscar something like.

Speaker 3 (08:49):
I know, I think she's doing all right.

Speaker 5 (08:51):
I think she's doing.

Speaker 3 (08:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (08:55):
Oh my god. There's a famous story about Bert Lancaster.
He was I don't remember the name of the movie,
but he had a scene and he was very young,
a young young actor at the time, you know, the
great Burt Lancaster, and I think it was with Ava Gardner,
very very beautiful actress in the forties maybe fifties. But

(09:17):
he had this intimate scene and he said he got
into it a little too much and his body underwent
a transformation and something responded. Some little bird was down there,
and he goes, what the hell is going What am
I doing? You know? Oh my, you should try acting.

(09:40):
And so so he just went well, you know, and
he was gratis helmet and sat it on his lap
and he got through this, got through the scene.

Speaker 1 (09:50):
The boy doesn't know the difference.

Speaker 2 (09:52):
I mean, what are you gonna do?

Speaker 1 (09:54):
That's the cost of it. You know. It's like it's
the next moment in your life. And maybe you happen
to know what happens mentally, but your body is going
through it for the first time, and it's impossible to recreate.
Every moment is different, it's new, you reset. But it's
fascinating to me. I mean, I love doing it. I
someone asked me, they were like, why do you love acting?

(10:14):
I'm like, I just love feeling. I want I want
to feel everything that I can, Like if this is
my instrument and this is all we get. Everybody has
their own unique footprint on what that work and artistry
is to be able to explore that, and you know,
a lot of the time it is a mirror to
my life. I find out a lot about myself through
the work that maybe sometimes I wouldn't otherwise.

Speaker 2 (10:37):
So well, that's pretty darn not very bad. That's pretty beautiful.
That's a that's a great observation. It helps in the journey,
you know, it's it's all part of the game. That's beautiful.

Speaker 3 (10:51):
When did you first start acting? Were you're acting as
a child?

Speaker 1 (10:54):
No, I mean, I don't know. Ask my parents. They
will tell you. That means my parents thing that I
was meant for this since I was born. They were like,
since you were like two three years old, I was
always dancing around, making music, making stories, just like Oh.
I was always very active in that and not a
super shy kid. I used to like kind of intervene

(11:17):
in the parents' parties and be like, Okay, it's it's
your time to listen to me. I've prepared. And my
brother is gonna harmonize and we're gonna dance for you guys.
Like it was just very but I think, you know,
it was always part of my soul. I grew up
in Venezuela, and you know, Latin America in general just

(11:37):
has such a it's like charismatic and there's a lot
of life and sound and music and dance, and it's
just part of me. I mean, I grew up dancing
and singing, and it seems like everybody there does that.
My entire family is super gifted, really, they just love it.
Like my dad was in a band, my mom sings.
A lot of cousins and aunts and uncles and they

(11:58):
all kind of do it. And instruments, yeah, well, I
taught myself the guitar and now I have two guitars
and I really love it and both of them, and
I taught myself both of them. But I do want
I want to take more lessons, Like I think there's
so much out there on the internet. I think you
can absolutely teach yourself anything, but there's something about like

(12:19):
a human teaching me that I think I would.

Speaker 2 (12:22):
I would probably sure, Yeah, yeah, no, why you get
that ping pong? You can get the the human interaction.

Speaker 1 (12:29):
Replace it with AI or robots. I'm sorry, I want
a human Yeah.

Speaker 2 (12:33):
Well, no, that's true. And and I think that too
about AI is because you know, if you stop and
think about it, or even if you don't, acting is
I don't know, half reacting at least. Yeah, I mean,
because you're not in a vacuum. No, you know, especially
on camera now off when you're doing a voice recording,

(12:56):
you kind of can be in a vacuum, you know,
to an extent, and sometimes somebody will read with you,
but but not on camera, I know. I mean that's
you've got to let.

Speaker 1 (13:05):
It affect you, right, And I think the best of
artists are the ones that are so open to someone else.

Speaker 3 (13:11):
M Yeah. I saw an interesting thing A thought about
AI and acting, you know, like I'm not gonna lie,
Like even last year, I didn't think it was like
this is never going to replace. I saw a video
literally yesterday, oh no, and they're moving and talking and
I'm like, oh, it's too real, and like the top
comment this is on Reddit and it was like, I
feel like Live theater is about to have a major comeback.

(13:34):
And I was like, that's actually really interesting.

Speaker 1 (13:35):
Yeah, Okay, Ai, you really can't. And there's something so
amazing that instant, you know, graphfication of like the audience
and the energy that's being you know. So I actually
just saw a theater show last night, two of them.

Speaker 3 (13:49):
And I I love it.

Speaker 1 (13:52):
It's part of a queer theater company called Buddies in
Bad Time in Toronto. They've been around for like forty
something years. But they were both one man show, yea
like one person and it was incredible. And one of
them being a Guslovita who is also from my same hometown, Venezuela,
and he was also in Star Trek, which is wild.

(14:12):
But we grew up in the same town, moved to Canada,
to the same province, and then ended up being actors
in Toronto. I don't know, you can't make this up,
but it's incredible, and I you know, he's always representing
Venezuela and our unique story, so it's kind of come
to have like this parallel career.

Speaker 2 (14:29):
Pretty cool. Yeah, man, oh man, what are the odds?

Speaker 1 (14:33):
They're very low. Yeah, no one makes it out of
Venezuela to do this, Like it's so rare to meet
other fellow Venezuelans in Hollywood. Venezuela have Likemirez who and
then Who's in Dynasty. But you know, even then, I'm like,
there's there's not that many. There's not that many of us.
Manz will be like a known name starting.

Speaker 3 (14:59):
Your way.

Speaker 2 (14:59):
Yeah, yeah, things are looking good. Yeah, this is just.

Speaker 3 (15:07):
A wind.

Speaker 2 (15:09):
We're in a wind twel here, folks, Uh excuse me?
Would you have me that blanket over there? Kind of
cold here? Oh my gosh. But yeah, well we'll take
care of that in case it's we're trudging across the
tune happening time here, speaking of Canada and Toronto. We're
on the tundra as we speak here. But boy, oh boy,

(15:30):
well you've been you've been very blessed. You're keeping busy
and keeping keeping those cards and letters coming in and
look at it, Look at all the things that are
coming up here. I mean that's saying.

Speaker 1 (15:43):
I mean, it's been ten years. It'll be ten years
this summer actually since I started my professional career, like
since I got my first agent after theater school, and
oh my god, I mean, if I if I go
back in time and look at what I've done now
and you know, the resume of the people, the connections
the places, have seen, the sets I've been on, the
actors I've been able to act opposite, I would be

(16:05):
so impressed, and it would just be I mean, I
didn't even think I was going to go into film
and TV. I thought I was going to be a
theater actor because I was, you know, I trained in theater.
It was conservatory. But it's my first love. I love
live theater. I love performance, and I'm sure I'll go
back to it one day. It's where the heart is

(16:26):
for me. Right, It's interacting in real time. There's a different,
different stakes. Honestly, I fell in love with film and
TV as well. It's a different machine for sure. Honestly,
the reason I fell in love with it was because
of continuity. I couldn't believe the multitasking that actors had
to do. I didn't I didn't get it. And it

(16:48):
was like when you put a cup down, because then
you know voice is listening, and then you have to
make sure that you put your purse here and that
your hair is back. And I was like, this is
a cool game. I'm going to master it.

Speaker 2 (16:59):
That's great.

Speaker 1 (17:00):
I just saw it as a very technically like challenging thing,
and I mean it turns out once you can be
free within the blueprints of the game, it's very exciting.

Speaker 2 (17:11):
Yeah, yeah, and you know, and it really jumps out
to me anyway during continuity, speaking of you know, you're
sitting around a card table having a conversation with this
person or that person, and the one person was sitting
there like this. Then they do a backshot of them
and they're sitting there like that, and you go, hey,
wait a minute. Wait.

Speaker 1 (17:28):
It takes you out because you're like, wait, that's not connected.

Speaker 2 (17:31):
That's right, So that counts.

Speaker 1 (17:33):
Continuity, Like continuity has an amazing job. And yes, I
pride myself and always keeping track of all of that.
It's fun for me because I love to know. I'm like, okay,
well if I did it in the master, now we're
going in for close ups. I gotta remember and kind
of imprint what I have done and why. But to me,
because everything is intentional, this is when mocap comes in.

(17:54):
It is marrying like theater and film at the same time,
which is why it's my favorite medium. Because everything is intentional,
nothing is out of sorts. You are being recorded from
head to toe, so everything means something.

Speaker 3 (18:08):
And what's wild to me. I love mocapy and I
got the pleasure to be around a lot of MOCAP studios.
My dad did Cradles. I'm God of War and so
like seeing all that stuff in the volume is just
so fascinating. It's like you get to be like a
child in like yes, yeah, like a sandbox. But what
really blew me away is there's no cameras. There's no cameras,
but they can film everything.

Speaker 1 (18:28):
But there's no care I'm wearing a camera. It's like
there's ghost cameras, so they're around, right, But so everybody
who's wearing the mocap suit, that's the only things that
are being recorded. Everybody else is a ghost and we
call them ghosts. So they can be holding a camera,
but like there's no axis, they can go all around you,
they can move around, your props kind of disappear into
fake pockets. And then you're surrounded by infrared cameras. There's

(18:51):
like hundreds of them that capture your skeleton. So you
really are just like this little thing around the volume.
And that's I think somehow it turns into a game.

Speaker 2 (19:02):
I think I had some of that with Hondo. Yeah, yeah,
that was I guess that was was that mo Cat?

Speaker 3 (19:09):
We were watching you? Yeah, I was in the studio
with Jim when they were doing the they were doing
the the DLC for Outlaws. Yeah, and they were voice matching,
you know, Jim was voice matching to I don't know,
some some actor they hired to do their physicality and
you were there doing your doing.

Speaker 1 (19:27):
Your thing right, and it's like what you're seeing that
would be one of the ghost cameras recording it, and
they kind of they move around like they would on set,
but they're not being recorded.

Speaker 2 (19:36):
So they can know.

Speaker 3 (19:36):
We were watching you guys in the suits.

Speaker 1 (19:38):
In the suits yeah, oh yeah, cool. Right, they're tight
and itchy, but you get used to it. You're lucky
you don't have to wear it.

Speaker 2 (19:46):
Actually, yeah, I'll be right back. I'll go change, just
get rid of get rid of this.

Speaker 3 (19:54):
And your your career is really on fire. I mean
you're not only getting work, but you're breaking down barriers
like you were. I read that you were in the
first lesbian Hallmark. Yeah, first lesbian couple Christmas movie.

Speaker 2 (20:09):
And it and it wasn't like that back then, I
know today, So I think we're making progress.

Speaker 1 (20:15):
Like I remember when I started acting and I would
audition for Hallmark, but like, I never even got a callback.
No one ever loved at me. I was like, yeah,
I don't know if they want this, like like what
I m hit, you know? And I was like, I don't.
I haven't seen myself represented as a lead in movies
like that. So the fact that they came to me
directly to be a part of this meant so much

(20:38):
because I think that is what representation does, right. It
actually shows the team that there is a demand because
the audiences are craving it. And I've built a career
based on the characters that I've portrayed that are so loved,
and they're like, actually, there's a big opportunity here to
to take advantage of that and then share a story

(20:59):
that you know, it's like queer love and just simple,
no challenge, is nothing, just they're just humans in love.
And I'm like, and it was so successful. People loved it.

Speaker 3 (21:09):
So what was the name of the movie? Sorry?

Speaker 1 (21:11):
Friends and Family? Christmas?

Speaker 2 (21:13):
Friends and Family, Christmas Beautiful.

Speaker 1 (21:15):
That's very Hallmarky, right, I mean get what you it
is what it is, right.

Speaker 3 (21:19):
It's like I haven't seen the movie, but I'm going
to take a stab at.

Speaker 2 (21:22):
The plot, got it?

Speaker 3 (21:24):
I tell Okay, yeah, so successful person goes back to
their hometown to reconnect with who they are as a
person and ends up falling in love with either former
person from earlier in life or a new, hard working,
blue collar person that they find endearing.

Speaker 1 (21:45):
Okay, you got you got some stuff in there.

Speaker 2 (21:48):
Okay, what about was there a high school sweetheart in
there anywhere?

Speaker 1 (21:52):
No, because they're strangers. Oh yeah, and this one is
actually a fake dating trope, which is so fun. They
have to ten today to appease their parents. But instead
of small town going back, it's more like small town
goes into the city.

Speaker 3 (22:09):
On the other I can't keep up with these TLC shows.

Speaker 1 (22:12):
Man have to like pretend today and in the process
of that they end up falling in love. But well,
you know, they're like, oh, we have to now, we
have to like end our fake relationship. And they're like,
oh no, yeah, it's great. It's really fun. And they
got to be Venezuelan in it. We actually like to

(22:32):
be that I had Latino parents. We got to like,
you know, add some Spanish in there. That's fine. It's
fun to see that.

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Speaker 3 (23:06):
When you're going out for roles, does your heritage and
your sexuality play a big factor in like what roles
you seek out?

Speaker 1 (23:13):
Honestly, they usually aren't me at all. It'll say open
ethnicity or you know, they're kind of casting a big net,
and then they'll come back to it.

Speaker 2 (23:25):
Well that's good. I mean you're nailing it anyway.

Speaker 1 (23:27):
So yeah, but I will say this that ones i'm
cast I will always push to be me, you know,
at least at the bare minimum, be Latina, not like
Italian or any other ethnicity. Because even though I know
I've been told us that I'm very ambiguous, I could
kind of play a bunch of different things. Venezuela is
and always represented. So to be able to even like

(23:49):
name it, to say it, to use the vernacular, everything
is just it's so important to me because ultimately, when
I get to talk about it, I get to really
stand behind it and bring myself to it. Yeah, but
a lot of the main projects that I've been a
part of were not Latina at all, So that's it's
just it makes me so proud that you're open to shifting.

Speaker 2 (24:11):
Yeah, you know, that's that's why it's called acting.

Speaker 1 (24:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (24:15):
Yeah, I'm not really a bear.

Speaker 1 (24:20):
I'm not.

Speaker 2 (24:24):
Well, I do that, but I but not in this context.

Speaker 3 (24:28):
And on the subject of breaking down barriers, you were
also the first Latina lead in any Star Wars anything.
But that's got to be that's got to be a
good feeling.

Speaker 1 (24:38):
Unreal, I mean what what? It still feels surreal And
it's been a few years of me sitting with this
and it's immortalized. Yeah forever, And I hope I'm not
the last. I think this again.

Speaker 2 (24:53):
Will open maybe also be the next because you know
how you I'm still here, You're yet yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
good for you. That has to feel good.

Speaker 3 (25:05):
Were you a Star Wars fan prior to getting cast?

Speaker 1 (25:08):
Listen, who isn't? If you haven't heard of Star Wars,
I like, I don't know where you are?

Speaker 3 (25:12):
Well everybody's heard of it.

Speaker 1 (25:13):
But I mean, okay, I'm not like a die hard
fan where I had collectibles and stuff, but I have
seen like the major films.

Speaker 2 (25:22):
Sure.

Speaker 1 (25:23):
And it's so cool because when I came into Star Wars,
it was all in Spanish, like obviously I was living
a completely different life in Venezuela. But that's the cool
thing about Star Wars is that it reaches everybody around
the world, no matter what color skin or what language
you speak. I grew up with it, and when I
told my parents, I told them in Spanish because I

(25:45):
knew it would be more meaningful that way that they understood, like,
it's this, you know, how.

Speaker 2 (25:52):
Did Chewbaca sound. I'm just curious.

Speaker 5 (25:56):
I don't have to rewatch it.

Speaker 1 (25:59):
Actually don't know. That's a good Spanish Spanish.

Speaker 2 (26:08):
That's perfect good. That's perfect, Ladies and gentlemen, Another star
is born again. Chewbacca. I remember when I first came
out and I was thinking, is that an abbreviation of
chewing tobacco? Chew tobacco, that'she tobacco. Yeah, I mean, because
my grandfather did. Yeah, and that's the first thing I

(26:30):
thought of.

Speaker 1 (26:33):
I don't know if they thought about this, it'll just
grow it for everybody.

Speaker 2 (26:37):
Now, Well, they put all these names together, you know,
like sky Walker, I mean you know, and of course
the next all these names.

Speaker 3 (26:46):
We got George. You gotta get George on the line.

Speaker 2 (26:53):
Clear. We got a few things for you to clear up. Mister,
get over here. But boy, you you've been I mean
from Star Wars. You're Star I have my notes. You're
You're in all of the major Stars Trek Gate. Oh no,
wait no yet, did I say Gate? Is that a
new world for you to conquer?

Speaker 3 (27:14):
They need to bring back Stargate, man, they need to
bring back Stargate, bring back star Gate. Sign a petition right.

Speaker 2 (27:18):
Now, and here's your next lead. See yeah, oh see,
how did you spell that? Missy s I yes, Ai
s I Yes. Well that's good stuff. Well, I mean
that's that's a heck of a pedigree though, I mean,
you know too.

Speaker 1 (27:39):
I feel so grateful to have done like both these
giant franchises, like within the same time. When I was
a comic con, I went for Star Trek and for
Star Wars.

Speaker 2 (27:49):
Like wow, okay, well you're you're You're the only one
in that club, you know that.

Speaker 1 (27:55):
I think so people have been asking me, like, who
else I'm like in major rules.

Speaker 3 (27:58):
Not that I know honestly, Yeah, who else?

Speaker 2 (28:01):
No, there is?

Speaker 1 (28:02):
I trust you. I feel like he would know.

Speaker 2 (28:04):
Yeah, it's true. I mean, you're it right here, ladies
and gentlemen.

Speaker 3 (28:08):
I wanted to say, I wanted to say Chris Pratt,
but no, I'm thinking of Chris.

Speaker 2 (28:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (28:16):
Yeah, no, no, not at.

Speaker 1 (28:17):
All, Chris.

Speaker 3 (28:21):
Yeah yeah.

Speaker 2 (28:26):
All the ras out there in the world lamenting this.
But that's that's pretty amazing.

Speaker 3 (28:30):
Have you done a lot of voice work? I see
you have a few credits, but how extensive have you
dove into the voiceover world?

Speaker 1 (28:37):
I remember I started in voice work because my agent
got me into voice looping, which is just if you
for the audience who doesn't know, it's part of post production.
It's part of like a d R, which is additional
voice recordings where you essentially dress a scene with improvised conversations.

(28:58):
So I would get hired with your bund of a
bunch of other actors to just just talk shit. Can
I swear anyway?

Speaker 5 (29:05):
You can just talk talk about stuff.

Speaker 1 (29:07):
You had some rules like don't say brand names, and
you know, just have at it. I really loved it.
I got really comfortable in the voice studio, which I
think gave me the confidence to then when I was
auditioning for voice stuff, to feel like I could do it.
I ended up doing some workshops for VEO just to
you know, find my range and characters and things like that,
and I really loved it. I started auditioning for things,

(29:27):
and I just started booking things. But I've done a
lot of like kids shows, like I did some Paw
Patrol stuff, Clifford Friends, like Charlie's Color Film City. What's
the other one. It's like a Little Tiger Daniels, Daniel's Neighborhood,
Daniel Tiger's Playhouse, something like that. He's cute. I played

(29:49):
like one of the kids moms. But it's been fun
because I get to do that. And then obviously video
games like that gave me a lot of like extensive work.
And I also did a show called Oracle the It
was with Joshua Jackson and de Vembostic and it was
for Audible and that was really cool. It was in
a ten part series and we recorded the whole thing,

(30:10):
so that was really fun.

Speaker 2 (30:11):
Yeah, we liked those. Yeah, the more parts the better.

Speaker 3 (30:14):
I wish those were more popular. I've done a couple
and they're really fun.

Speaker 1 (30:18):
Okay, but they're great to listen to because the sound
design everything exactly like you could be in a plane
and it feels like you're watching a show, but you
can just close your eyes and let your imagination build them.

Speaker 3 (30:27):
Right.

Speaker 1 (30:28):
I really enjoyed it.

Speaker 2 (30:29):
Oh that's good. Yeah, well, you know, anything that feeds
the feeds the uh of everything. Yeah, so do you
dance too? And I sing, Oh my god, how about
how about min min? It's ladies? Yeah. I used to

(30:54):
you know, there's a lot of street performers, and I
accidentally reminded myself of this goofy idea that I had
here so know, and I thought it would be great
because when you go to the French Quarter, street performers everywhere,
and and and a lot of mimes and mimes. I
really like them. They're really good. I understand they're this,
but they're a little annoying. You know, you're walking down

(31:17):
the street and some guy walks behind you and he's
kind of imitating you. Yeah, you know, and you turn
around and you go, you know, well, I used to
think it would be great to have a street perform
and my guy was going to be Lenny the Amazing
talking Mime. How does he do it? You know? And
I'd be and I would be doing the kite thing. Whoa, hey,

(31:39):
whoa look at this kite over here? Holy it's really witty,
am I?

Speaker 3 (31:44):
Right?

Speaker 2 (31:45):
Is this a lot of look at a kite I'm flying?
There's you know, and and and there's no kite and
but but you know he was talking, you know, because
that's a I think that's a trope that the among
the mime com unity.

Speaker 1 (32:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (32:00):
Well they're mute, but they also fly a lot of kites.

Speaker 1 (32:04):
Yeah, I did not know this fun fact of the day, fun.

Speaker 2 (32:07):
Back to the day. Yeah, and then they dance and
then they do whatever they do. But I thought, if
I were Lenny the Amazing talking mime, how does he
do it?

Speaker 1 (32:15):
You know what, it's not too late to bring it back.
You got to like workshop it and test it out
with the audience, like, okay.

Speaker 2 (32:21):
Send your cars and letters in you got it? Let
us know, Lenny, Yes, Lenny know, okay, we wouldn't it
be funny thing for it? We'll see.

Speaker 5 (32:32):
He's off.

Speaker 1 (32:33):
He's like new ideas.

Speaker 3 (32:37):
So when you decided to be an actor, what was
your parents' reaction. Oh, it's for some parents to accept.

Speaker 1 (32:44):
I built it up in my head thinking they were
going to think I was throwing my life away and
it was going to be a waste, mostly because you know,
it took a lot for my dad to to get
to where he needed to be, to take us out
of the country, learn a new leguage, start fresh with
a lot of opportunity. And any immigrant family will say this,

(33:06):
that takes a lot of guts, and you don't want
to waste that right. You want to make something of
your life. And usually it's tied to like financial gain,
like you gotta make money, you got to be stable
because we don't own yet. Sure, however, my parents, I
think they truly like they were just like, we just
want you to be happy, and I.

Speaker 2 (33:26):
Was like, that's a good answer.

Speaker 1 (33:28):
And so you know my dad, you know, he really
sacrificed so much to bring us here, and I I
was when I left. So I left Venezuela when I
was eleven, but I lived in Aruba for a while
and my brother and I learned English while we were there.
It was actually an American school, it was an international
school on the island. So I was able to learn

(33:49):
English before I emmigrated to Canada at almost fifteen, so
it was in the middle of high school I got
like kind of extracted and put somewhere else in a
completely I mean, it was culture shocking. I had never
been to North America. I've never seen snow in my
life or been in a place where everybody spoke England.

Speaker 2 (34:05):
And then you wound up in Canada you saw slow.

Speaker 1 (34:08):
Oh.

Speaker 4 (34:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (34:08):
It went from like beautiful if you know what Ruba
it's literally like people go there for their honeymoons. It's sunning.
And I went from a Ruba to like January third,
two thousand and seven, middle of winter in Alberta.

Speaker 2 (34:22):
Oh it was.

Speaker 5 (34:24):
Yeah, it was amazing, and I was like, where are we?

Speaker 1 (34:27):
I just kept thinking, like what's it like living there?
It's like like if you were living in your freezer,
Like what does snow look like? Is it like sand?
But not like it melts? It was. It was really
life changing. But I'm so grateful my parents were. Actually
I thought that I was going to like move to
Asia and like study communications or be like an opera
singer or something like We're going to you know, like

(34:49):
the Blues Bars like they hire people to go sing.
My dad was like, well, I think that if you
don't pursue performing that you won't be as happy. I
think you should try it. It was them who actually
brought it back into my life, and when they gave
me that freenline, I ran with it never looked back.

Speaker 2 (35:07):
Well that's a blessing in one basket. Yeah. Mine were
like okay, yeah, but what are you going to do
for living though? Okay, I know, yeah, you're gonna do cartoon.
The kid's gonna do cartoon. What are you gonna how
are you gonna eat?

Speaker 1 (35:20):
Now?

Speaker 2 (35:20):
Go, No, I'm gonna do that and I'll just do
it well enough to find some somebody dumb enough to
pay me.

Speaker 1 (35:26):
And uh the dumb part but yes, yeah, the dumb part.

Speaker 2 (35:29):
Yeah yeah, and yeah but it worked out. Hey yeah,
and then he was he was happy.

Speaker 1 (35:35):
Big risk for sure. Yeah, I'm sure that they're not
saying that now. They're like, are you eating together? Yeah,
it's funny to me today.

Speaker 2 (35:41):
Yeah, well it worked out. It's funny because I think
I've told that they want to bore people. But Chuck
McCann's great character actor. It's on Carol Burnett Show. Tons
of tons of movies, and my dad oddly, of course,
and I'm making a great living at the time. This
long was like thirty years ago. And I brought my
parents and brought him to a Tailspin recording session and

(36:04):
Chuck McCann, the great character actor, was there, and my
dad knew him and knew of him and knew and
you know, I was working with Chuck mcann, So I
must have made it. I must have done it. Okay,
it was finally, Okay, that's what it took.

Speaker 1 (36:18):
After you made a moment.

Speaker 2 (36:20):
Yeah, and then I bought him a house, and then
it was really okay, Oh yeah, there you go. Yeah
that worked out.

Speaker 1 (36:27):
What a blessing me?

Speaker 2 (36:28):
Yeah, yeah, you never know, And I just knew. I
never ever thought I was going to do anything else.
Did you ever think you were going to do anything else?

Speaker 1 (36:38):
I was very convinced that if I gave this my
full shot, I was find success in somewhere it was film,
TV or theater or something. But if not, I think
I wanted to be like a yoga teacher and like
travel the world. That would have probably moved to like
Custo Weekard, Thailand or Indi.

Speaker 2 (36:54):
Well, it would travel Yeah, that's true. Huh.

Speaker 1 (36:56):
And because I also love like holistic and people training,
love yoga, I might still do that, get my teachers
training and just like have that under my belt, because
why not. But it was always going to be about people.
And even then when you think about teachers or yoga
or anything like that, like they're still performing in a way,
You're still upfront through something. It's still like your energy,

(37:19):
your life. I would have just been like a star
yoga teacher, yoga teacher to the stars, who knows, Like
I think, I was always going to find my way
back to performance in some way.

Speaker 2 (37:30):
It's just who I am. Richard Simmons did it with exercise.

Speaker 1 (37:35):
Why not?

Speaker 2 (37:37):
Do you even know who that is? Because he's he's
been going on a long time.

Speaker 3 (37:40):
I don't know who that is.

Speaker 2 (37:41):
Yeah, and never mind anyway, he was one of those
guys who had a workout show. How do you have
a workout show? Joined physical? You know? Anyway, it was
it was never mind.

Speaker 3 (37:54):
Okay, did you did you watch cartoons growing up? Did
they have Winnie the Poo in Venezuela?

Speaker 1 (37:59):
They had every thing all in Spanish? In Spanish. I
loved SpongeBob SquarePants, that was probably favorite Boba Sponka. It
was in Spanish. Bobasponka is in Spanish. Even the song
like it was fully translated, like I know it in Spanish.

Speaker 2 (38:17):
Wow, Yeah, it was great.

Speaker 3 (38:19):
So does sound like Jim.

Speaker 1 (38:22):
They all have different voices, and it threw me off
because then when I realized that that wasn't their real voice,
I felt like so lied to.

Speaker 2 (38:30):
Yeah you felt cheated, but it.

Speaker 1 (38:32):
Sounds like like the laugh right, the iconic like SpongeBob las.
Oh yeah, but it was the same, but with just
a different guy's voice. Anyway, all of it, Like it
was just like my whole world shifted when I had
to kind of relearn all of this content and I
was like, what, no, it sounds off.

Speaker 2 (38:53):
Now when your things are translated, you can do your own.

Speaker 1 (38:56):
You can do there, you go, I'm like hiring me
to do the voice. They don't do it. It's just
it takes a lot of effort, you know. I know
that it was something like my team and I talked about,
I'm like, would be so cool to dub myself and
like Netflix show I have out next, But that takes
a lot of time. And I realized that it's you're
not always available to do it, but it would be
cool to do I would love to do it for

(39:18):
some project in the future, to do my own voice
in Spanish.

Speaker 2 (39:21):
Well that that way you'd be guaranteed that it sounded
like you exactly.

Speaker 1 (39:25):
I don't know what this you know what this is
going to sound like in Spanish. People have tagged me though,
even like with Star Wars, like they've dubbed it into
other things and people have tagged me in like their
versions of it, and that's really cool.

Speaker 3 (39:38):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (39:40):
One of the coolest things. I sang a few songs
in Pocahontas and they didn't use my songs, but they
colors of the wind, Colors of the Wind, and they
played it for me. And Disney did this thing and
it was in Portuguese, it was in French, it was
in German, it was in Lithuania, in Russian, I mean

(40:01):
just all and they played the song and then they
would put you know, German, Japanese and all around, and
it was one of the most beautiful things you've ever heard.

Speaker 1 (40:12):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (40:12):
And it was seamless. It sounded like one person going
from Russian to French to Spanish to Gaelic or you know,
I mean unbelievable and it was the coolest thing in
the world. I mean, what an amazing thing. And what's
I guess they had to do something with the lips
because AI doesn't.

Speaker 1 (40:33):
Now I don't know if you've watched any like foreign
language on things, for example, they try to do the
dubbing and match it to the lips so that your
brain gets tricked into feeling like you're watching it in
your tongue. It's tripping me out because sometimes it doesn't.
It takes you out and you're like, oh, right, this
is supposed to be like in German.

Speaker 3 (40:52):
To me, that's like a great use of as exactly.
It's a great tool.

Speaker 1 (40:56):
In that moment, I'm like, change my mouth perfect.

Speaker 3 (40:59):
Yeah, thank you, Yeah, absolutely, Like squid Game comes to mind,
and like I swear that was some of the best
dubbing I've ever seen, Like.

Speaker 1 (41:07):
They really, like, really great and like.

Speaker 3 (41:09):
When you watch with the subtitles, you can tell like, oh,
they changed this sentence so that it looks better with
their mouth. It's not it's like very loose translation. You know.
It's like I don't know, like, yeah, I don't have
an example, right, now, but but you don't have the
script memorized.

Speaker 1 (41:24):
What do you mean? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (41:26):
See, like okay, you said you don't have the script memorize,
and it would be like, but you failed to memorize
the script, right, it would be like slightly different, but like.

Speaker 2 (41:38):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, who's the guy that does that.
He's earning his stripes.

Speaker 1 (41:43):
Some like it's a new job. Well someone has I
don't know.

Speaker 3 (41:47):
Yeah, it's a robot.

Speaker 2 (41:48):
Yeah, it's true. The terminator is coming to get us all.

Speaker 3 (41:55):
Are you a gamer at all? Did you ever play
Star Wars Outlaws?

Speaker 1 (41:59):
So Xbox gifted me a custom console. They surprised me
with it when I was in Cologne a games colm,
and it's amazing. I still haven't haven't played on it.
I like started it, but I just haven't been home
and I just moved into a new house and I
just broke my TV.

Speaker 2 (42:20):
Oh did you say broke?

Speaker 5 (42:22):
I broke it.

Speaker 1 (42:23):
I literally knocked it over and it shuttered new TV.
And I need to game. I hope that once I'm
like done some of my travel and I guess to
walk home. That's that's my goal. Build my game room,
maybe get a switch. I used to have a switch
and the new one's coming out. Is it worth it?
I don't know. They say it's like the same thing,

(42:43):
but just more expensive. But I used to game a lot,
especially through COVID. I had a PS five and a
switch and I was an animal crossing girl love my
Anie Mario game. But I did play Last of Us
Part one and two. That was the first of that
kind of game that I've ever played, like role playing
where you go through the game open world, and I

(43:06):
really fell in love with it. So it kind of
taught me how to move in that way so that
I can play Outlaws. But I've watched a lot of
people play. That's my favorite thing to do. I just
go online and watch people.

Speaker 3 (43:17):
Like I was gonna say, because we've had quite a
few voice actors, you know from video games, and like
they'll stream like Ned Luke from Grand Theft Auto, Like
he streams like as his character. He does a little
role playing, so they're just gonna be like.

Speaker 1 (43:28):
Why are you dying so much? I'm just like petting
the animals, just like petting Nicks, not really doing the mission, distracted,
just hanging.

Speaker 2 (43:37):
Yeah, maybe they'll enjoy that.

Speaker 1 (43:38):
I'm like, this is a very wholesome way of playing.
I don't like combat as much. I like stealth and
I like running away from the bad guys. Don't like
fighting too much. But I need to learn how to
use the weapons, because I know there's some really cool
weapons like the blaster and all of the things that
you can do with it. I'm like, I do want
to learn to use it. I just panic and just.

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(44:23):
dot com slash Jim Cummings podcast. Do it Now. That's funny,
But you say that there there's a ride at Disneyland
Millennium Falcons Smugglers run where my guy Hondo's in it.
But you get to and you go to Disneyland and
there's the Millennium. I mean, it's life. So have you
seen that?

Speaker 1 (44:42):
Disney took me last year for the first time. I
had never been to Disneyland.

Speaker 2 (44:46):
Oh my god. Well that was.

Speaker 1 (44:47):
My first time. And they were like, we're taking you
on a VIP tour Galaxy side. I was like, what, okay,
that was worth it.

Speaker 2 (44:56):
And and then you hear they're telling me stories about this,
that and the other thing. And they said we had
to have people kind of space throughout the ride because
what happens was Star Trek fans get up and they'll
go over and then they'll see the three D chess
board where those little characters were, the hollow chests, Yeah,
the hollow chests, and they just go there and sit there,

(45:18):
sitting here all day. Yeah, I'm on the Millennium Falcon.
That's right, I'm just chilling. Yeah, I think I'll have
a sandwich. Yeah, talk amost yourself. And they just wanted
to hang out. They didn't even want to do the
ride or any of it. They were on the Millennium Falcon.

Speaker 1 (45:33):
They couldn't exist.

Speaker 2 (45:35):
That's I'm good. You know what times this place close? Okay?
You know, And I have to confess I was one
of them.

Speaker 1 (45:45):
I was lowing down. Yeah, I was.

Speaker 2 (45:47):
Okay, well what are you gonna do? But yeah, anyway,
but a great franchise.

Speaker 1 (45:54):
To be forever I'm immortalized forever.

Speaker 2 (45:58):
I know.

Speaker 1 (45:59):
You know, miss me. Just go play Star Wars out
of laws. You o my voice for a lot?

Speaker 2 (46:02):
I know, isn't that isn't that kind of a cool thing?

Speaker 1 (46:05):
It is cool?

Speaker 2 (46:06):
I mean, wow, like my legacy. Yeah, and you've got
all the you've got Trek Wars. It's it's crazy. That's
that's not bad.

Speaker 1 (46:19):
It's not bad at all.

Speaker 2 (46:21):
I mean, I again singular, right.

Speaker 3 (46:24):
Do you have like a dream role or dream character
that you would ever want to play?

Speaker 2 (46:28):
Don't say spuck, Oh my god?

Speaker 1 (46:31):
Okay, good no, no, I honestly, right now, I really
want to play either a cool super villain or like
just be in an action film. In general, it would
be really cool to like physically transform and do more stunts.
I think I have a calling for it. I really
enjoy it being like very physical. But I would love

(46:52):
to do an action film. So either, I mean, Thunderbolt
just came out, it was very very successful. I'm like,
I'm ready for.

Speaker 2 (46:59):
My Okay, yeah why not? Yeah? Good for you. Yeah, well,
we're putting it out there.

Speaker 1 (47:05):
Put it out there. Listen. Sometimes when I claim things,
it really comes. So we'll see what happens.

Speaker 5 (47:11):
I will see what out.

Speaker 2 (47:12):
Wow, lot of attraction. Indeed, it's true. Well, here we go,
it'll happen now. Probably your phone should be ringing.

Speaker 1 (47:24):
Actually right now. Yeah, I'm serious.

Speaker 3 (47:27):
I'm like, yeah, we haven't talked about Ginny and Georgia.
Another show you have on Netflix, the young adult hit
When it tell us about that show, you know what?

Speaker 1 (47:37):
Last night I got id'd in Canada, which means they
thought I was eighteen. They I were seventeen because in Toronto,
Ontario is nineteen. You have to be nineteen to drink.

Speaker 3 (47:48):
I stand corrected.

Speaker 1 (47:50):
Montreal is eighteen. But I was like what. The bartender
was just like enjoy it, well it lasts or like yeah.
I was like, oh my god, that's so. But in
a way, I was like, well that kind of tracks
because I am still playing a high schooler on TV.

Speaker 5 (48:04):
So that's a good thing.

Speaker 1 (48:05):
It's accurate. It's kind of cool though. Both the shows
that are coming out, they're like completely different. One of them,
I'm playing my actual age and she's like a career woman,
married all the stuff, and then the other one she's
like a senior in high school.

Speaker 2 (48:18):
Oh you got both of those? Yeah, yeah, I mean
you're good to go. That's amazing.

Speaker 1 (48:24):
Yeah, season three. I've been with this team since twenty nineteen.
Oh my god, it's been five years. This amazing family.
I'm very excited for season three. Netflix threw in their
little curveball, a little sneak peak. It was like a
one second clip of Sophie Sanchez and the internet exploded.
So very excited. I can't reveal anything. Not everything is

(48:47):
as it seems. That's all I'll say. You don't know
what you're in for, but it's going to be a
great season.

Speaker 2 (48:52):
Fine.

Speaker 1 (48:53):
I think what's cool is that you know the gang
is back together. I think that's how season two ends,
that you see them kind of all come together, so
the course together, it's like they got to kind of
face it all together. Yeah, you know, we got some
new characters, new plot lines. Exciting.

Speaker 2 (49:12):
Can you put in a word for Chris and I Actually, yeah,
you might have to.

Speaker 1 (49:21):
Shame you guys. Think may sun screen the next few days.

Speaker 2 (49:26):
I could be the principal.

Speaker 1 (49:27):
Yeah, you could could be a teacher bystander.

Speaker 3 (49:36):
If I showed up to set one day and some
my peer is playing a high school and I'm playing
a teacher, I'm like, I gotta stop smoking or something.

Speaker 2 (49:43):
I gotta I.

Speaker 3 (49:44):
Gotta go to a wellness or treat that's that's well.

Speaker 1 (49:48):
You know, hacking is becoming very popular. I'm sure there's
some things you can do.

Speaker 3 (49:53):
Oh god, Benjamin Button me, yes.

Speaker 2 (50:00):
So do you have Is there like something on the horizon?
You know, one thing I have to do before my
career is over? I have to.

Speaker 1 (50:10):
Hmmm, you know what, it would be really cool to.

Speaker 2 (50:14):
Other than this podcast.

Speaker 1 (50:15):
I'm sorry this, I've lived it. I'm done. No, you know.
Do you know the movie Ready Player one? Right? It
uses all the mediums of like motion capture VR and
then real filming. I would love to be a part
of a project like that where I get to do
like all of the skills that I've learned in the
last decade of my career and put them into one project.

(50:37):
Maybe I have to create it, who knows, But it
would be really cool to kind of do like a
mixed media project. I've always thought about that and then
throwing some like musicals in there. It's like, oh, sure,
a cool sci fi with music. I'd have to do
that before my career is done. Yeah, I do. Yeah,
it would be really cool. I do. I mean, I'll
say this, I would love to do a musical movie

(51:00):
like In the Heights. That was very cool for it.
I did my call back with Jonnam Chew, which iconic.
You know, they just did Wicked, But that really woke
this passion to me that I was like, wait, I'm
being considered for that, which means it's possible. So I'm ready.
I would love to do a musical movie. Yeah, it's cool.

Speaker 2 (51:22):
Well, if you can envision it, if you can dream it,
you know the.

Speaker 1 (51:25):
Power very diny dream.

Speaker 2 (51:28):
Yeah, I mean, I really truly do believe in that. Wow.
Good for you. I just got to Tingle. It's a
good sign.

Speaker 3 (51:45):
Do you have anything else that you want to bring up?
Plug talk about? Where can we find you on social media?
All that good stuff.

Speaker 1 (51:50):
You know. What's cool is that my handle's just my
name because no one else has it. It's just at
umberly Instagram.

Speaker 2 (51:57):
I think you're safe.

Speaker 1 (51:58):
I'm safe. It's just so one shot.

Speaker 2 (52:00):
You know.

Speaker 3 (52:01):
Is that a Venezuelan name. I've never heard that.

Speaker 1 (52:03):
Yes. So my dad's name is Umberto and my mom's
name is Liliana, so from both interesting. It's a very
common thing in Venezuela that parents combine their names to
make very unique names, usually for their daughters. But you'll
always find people with strange and unique names in Latin America.
When people are introducing each other or saying their name,

(52:24):
they'll just go, are you from Venezuela? Because with a name.

Speaker 2 (52:27):
Like that, oh, dare you?

Speaker 1 (52:30):
Yes I am, but yes, you're right.

Speaker 2 (52:33):
Well, that wouldn't work with me because my dad was Bob,
my mom was Sally, so Bob sal Sal Bob Bally maybe.

Speaker 1 (52:41):
Bally bally because you can, you can kind of mix
and match the letters, you know, Bally is course, sob
could be.

Speaker 2 (52:49):
It is a lot of the times it's unfortunate.

Speaker 3 (52:52):
I would be I'd be Doug great Doug and Margaret.

Speaker 5 (52:56):
Dog and Margaret Doug grit.

Speaker 1 (52:59):
I mean, listen Umberly, like when you think about it,
like I didn't like it at first. I thought it
was weird. I thought people were gonna be able to
pronounce it and especially go from like Spanish to English.
The H is silence, So a lot of people usually
like Humberly and I'm like, ah, so it's like I
had to really fall in love with it again and understand, like.

Speaker 3 (53:21):
I'm sorry, that's really funny to be. That's a really
fall in love with my name again. It really got
away from me. Yeah, I was reconnect Where did they go?

Speaker 2 (53:33):
Yeah, it's not like you. Weren't you in the meantime?

Speaker 1 (53:36):
I know, But I I was like, do I need
to come up with like a star name, like a
stage name? You know, my middle name is Vanessa. I
at one point thought about switching it to that and
being like Vanessa Sanchez, like my mom's name, or like Venesulz,
Like I don't know, but Umberly is so unique and
I think what I had to do is just own that.

(53:57):
And they're like, you will be the only Umberly who
will be in the world. So that's really unique in
itself and making my own unique imprint and in this industry.
So for sure, I love it.

Speaker 2 (54:08):
Now it's not like you were Jane Jones. So you're
you're I think you're in good standing. I think you're
good to.

Speaker 1 (54:16):
Go better to stand out.

Speaker 2 (54:17):
That's right.

Speaker 3 (54:18):
She's a good actress though, j Jo. That is true,
isn't there there's a what's her name? It's like almost
Jane Jones, Janet Jones, blonde girl, really pretty actress, January Jones.
Oh January January Jones close.

Speaker 1 (54:33):
Imagine your parents are just like, I.

Speaker 3 (54:35):
Don't think that's that's stop January Jane Lynch. Yeah, I
was thinking of January Jones.

Speaker 2 (54:41):
Oh okay, wow, you really were January Jones.

Speaker 3 (54:46):
Yeah, there's one hundred percent an actress named January Jones.
She was the last man.

Speaker 1 (54:51):
You know.

Speaker 3 (54:51):
I know this for a fact that I am telling
you audience, I'm telling you right.

Speaker 2 (54:58):
So there damn it. Take that.

Speaker 1 (55:01):
So it is Chris Saiso.

Speaker 2 (55:04):
That's right.

Speaker 3 (55:05):
She exists. She exists, she exists.

Speaker 1 (55:08):
It feels like bashing sub conscious message.

Speaker 3 (55:14):
I'm going to get her on the podcast just to
prove it.

Speaker 5 (55:18):
I hope you do.

Speaker 2 (55:20):
Yeah, and we won't have to channel her because she's real.

Speaker 3 (55:24):
Right, all right, anything else you want to talk about?

Speaker 2 (55:29):
Thank you for being I mean.

Speaker 1 (55:30):
Hey, I'm so glad to be here.

Speaker 3 (55:32):
Yeah, thanks for joining us.

Speaker 1 (55:33):
It's my first like in studio live podcast in LA.
So you know, milestone, we are honored.

Speaker 2 (55:42):
Yeah, milestone for us as well. Yeah, fantastic, very cool,
very cool. Stay tuned well, Yeah, thanks again for being here.
I really appreciate it. All right, everybody. That was another
episode of Tuned In with Jim Cummings. I'm producer Chris
is always joined by the legend Jim Cummings and umber
Lea Gonzales. Thank you again so much for being here.
If you guys like that content, be sure to like

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Speaker 3 (56:22):
With a lot of you watching right now, sixty one
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Speaker 2 (56:27):
What the why? For two cents?

Speaker 3 (56:29):
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good stuff stuff and oh, actually I have one more
thing stuff. Well not me, but Jim has one more thing.
Where can we see you at conventions coming up?

Speaker 2 (57:13):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (57:14):
That is true this month of June.

Speaker 2 (57:16):
I think why it just so happens that I have Okay, okay,
so here we go. Here's for you. Oh, look look
at that, Look at that. Let's see. We have nostalgic
on on Anaheim June sixth and eighth. Be there, Nostalgic
on Ane'm six to eighth. Uh and the Undiscovered Realm

(57:36):
dot com thing Comic Con and that's June twenty first
and twenty second. That's in White Plains, New York. You
know it, you love it. White Plains, New York. Undiscovered
Realm and Anime Verse Kansas City coming up June twenty
eighth and twenty ninth. Anime Verse. I'm huge in anime,
so be there. If you don't believe me, just ask

(57:57):
me and I'll tell you that lie again. Thank you.

Speaker 3 (58:02):
And if he's everybody, if you're one of the three
weirdos who wants to see me. I'll be Anaheim Comic
Con two.

Speaker 2 (58:07):
Yeah, so there, so take that stuff, producer Chris Ladies
and gentleman.

Speaker 3 (58:13):
But thank you as always for watching. Be sure to
like pubscribe all that good stuff. We will catch you
in the next one.

Speaker 1 (58:21):
Hi, my name is Umberlely Gonzalez and you're watching tuned
In with Jim Cummins. Did I say that weird?

Speaker 5 (58:27):
Put the come in see come in?

Speaker 1 (58:33):
Wait? M Hi, I'm Umberlelyanzalez and you're watching tuned In
with Jim Cummins.

Speaker 5 (58:39):
I can't say your name. I need water. Just wait.

Speaker 3 (58:43):
Take three right by your left foot.

Speaker 1 (58:47):
You better.

Speaker 5 (58:48):
He's gonna use all of these and they're gonna be
like over the Gonzales camp for now.

Speaker 3 (58:54):
Yeah, it's gonna be the first short we make. First talk.

Speaker 2 (58:57):
That's good stuff.

Speaker 5 (58:58):
Can we do a play and say please.

Speaker 1 (59:03):
Jim Cummings, Oh my god, yes, okay three times a charm?

Speaker 2 (59:14):
Right.

Speaker 1 (59:16):
Hi, my name is Umberlea Gonzalez and you're watching tuned in.

Speaker 3 (59:22):
What where are you looking at me?

Speaker 5 (59:25):
I'm sorry, guys, it's like when you audition. This late
is the hardest part. You forget your name, you forget
how tall you are like, where you are? I'm from?

Speaker 1 (59:34):
Where am I from? What do they want? What do
they want me to say? Who am I?

Speaker 3 (59:37):
I always feel like I'm standing weird too?

Speaker 5 (59:43):
Can I just point at this instead?

Speaker 3 (59:45):
No, you have to get it.

Speaker 1 (59:46):
Fine, I'm gonna get it, guys, I'm gonna get it. Hi,
my name is Umbrella Gonzalez and you're watching tuned in
with Jim Cummings.

Speaker 2 (59:53):
There we go.

Speaker 5 (59:56):
You need to splice all of these together.