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Speaker 1 (00:00):
On with Lopez's ron Mario Lopez joining me now in
the studio from the new Netflix series Foo Bar actor
Travis Van Winkle. Welcome to the show Man, Thanks for
having me, Thanks for taking the time to come. We
got to meet your lovely parents all the way from Georgia.
And are they staying with you while they're in town.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Yeah, they just came for the premiere actually, so they're nice.
My mom's gonna get dulled up. You got a nice dress,
my dad has a nice new suit, and we're going
to go walk.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
The red carpet. Good for you, Good for you.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
But I have to say before we go further, I
really respect your career. You've been doing this for a
long time, and lots of respect for you, my friend,
and you have you're more than a hunk with a body.
I just want you. I just want you to know
you have inspired my fitness career.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Oh I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Yeah, my journey's been very inspired by you. And I
just wanted to say, you know, that's just you being you.
So thank you for that.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Oh man, I appreciate the kind words. Well you look great. Thanks,
so congratulations on that. And I like that mom and
dad are here. I'm a big family guy. My mom
and dad often come up in and hang with me
as well. Congrats on the new series. For those who
may not be familiar, to tell us about Foo Foo Bar.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
It's a fun action comedy. It's about Arnold Schwarzenegger's character.
His name is Luke. He retires from the CIA and
gets pulled back in because he finds out his daughter
has been secretly in the CIA, and we're all operatives
and it's a big dysfunctional family trying to save the world.
So it's a fast eight episodes. It's a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
I'm looking forward to checking it out. It looks very
funny from the clips that I have seen, and obviously
a lot of action, but essentially a comedy.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Is that how you would I would definitely say a comedy.
Fortune Fimstair is in this and if you know who
she is, you know she can make you laugh. She's
my partner in crime in the show, and I just
had to follow her lead. She is hilarious.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
She is We've had her on the show actually a
couple of times. She's a lot of fun. And this
is this is Schwarzenegger's first TV series. Correct so a
great guy. I happened to know him, such a great guy.
How was it working with him? Onset.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
He's a playful guy, and he's mischievous. He really shows
up fully wherever he is, and he's actually really approachable.
You know, he's one of the most iconic people in
the world, yet he's approachable, and he's really personable, and
he's a lot of fun to work with because he's
always cracking jokes and giving you giving you a shit
can you say shit on here?
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (02:13):
He is and I was. I was talking about him
the other day. And Arnold truly is the ultimate American dream.
If you think about it. It came from Austria, achieved iconic
status as a bodybuilder seven times mister Olympia, then became
the highest paid movie star at one point, then became
the governor of California, married to Kennedy. When you think
about it, you wouldn't believe it. He saw in a movie.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
And he's got more details too. Lucille Ball was the
person who gave him his first TV guest star role. Really,
he played a masseuse from Austria and I love Lucy
and then she became his mentor.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Wow, that's a great story. It must have been the
newest rendition of the Lucille Ball Show when it went
to color, because I don't think he's that old. Because
she had another aside from my she had another what's
called the Lucy Show, I believe, like in the late seven.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
I'm not sure which one was, probably that one.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Yeah, that's a fun fact, right.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
I listened to his book on tape before working with him.
I would every time i'd be in the gym, I
would just listen to his book and it's like twenty
four hours long, this book, but it was He's done
a lot. I always say that he's the paragon of
self belief, of vision and execution, as this guy has
manifested everything he's wanted in his life.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
You're exactly or did you get an opportunity to work
out with him at all?
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Not yet. I am dying too. I'll get in there soon.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Yeah. Currently in the works the Roadhouse remake. What's your
role in this one?
Speaker 2 (03:34):
You know if you blink you're going to miss it?
So no, I'm kidding. I have a small role with
I play a police officer and I get into it
with Jake, Jill.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
And Hall nice.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Yeah, it's quite quite fun.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Yeah, and that's another nice guy. And is it essentially
the same storyline as the original?
Speaker 2 (03:50):
I think they're changing it up a little bit. Yeah
you have to, you can't, but I think a lot
of the basics are the same.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Okay, yeah, because there's some like MMA or an octagon
yeah all that.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
H Yeah. Look, so I got to work with with
Connor as well kind of and that was a dream.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
I've respected that guy for a long time.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Yeah. Oh that's cool man, even really working with some
cool people of late You were also a big part
of season three U, which was just renewed for a
fifth season. Any chance we could tie up your characters
loose ends or I.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Would love to come back on that show. That was
a really wild character to play. I got to lead
men on men's retreats and I was a swinger. I
got to be just this one. I got to this
wild character and it's so fun to play Gene Hackman.
Gene Hackman would always say you can be larger than
life if you believe it, and so my character got
to be larger than life. And so for me, it's
(04:39):
as an actor, it's fun just to go for it
and to really have no limits, and so I would
love to take another swing at that guy.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
I love the Gene Hackman reference. Great great actor. It's
amazing and underrated as far as I'm concerned too. We
haven't seen him in a minute, but my guy's got
to be in his eighties deep eighties.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
At this.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Exactly. Yeah, on ig, you're one of these cold shower guys.
A right? Is that by choice?
Speaker 2 (05:07):
By gunpoint? No, definitely by choice. I feel like it's
one of those things that starts me on.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Because I go to the gym and like they don't
have at my boxing gym, they don't have one wire,
so I am forced, not my choice. I just take cold,
which is great, so I make sure I have to.
I really have to have a good work on gym.
I don't know they are you going to like this
boxing gym in the hood that's where you get the best?
Speaker 2 (05:28):
For me, it's it's it's it's just strategy really, because
I start my day off with the cold shower and
it just wakes me up and it primes me for
the rest of my day. And I think it's it's
not comfortable and it's not supposed to be comfortable, so
it really allows you, hopefully over time it starts to
arm you to navigate difficult situations a bit easier.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
I like that. I just ordered one of those cold plunges.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Let's go.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
So I'm going to be the cold plunge, or at
least I'm going to attempt to be.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
So you want like thirty nine degrees to forty six
degrees and three minutes is all you need.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
That's all you need, right, yeah, but you want to
get your your head all the way into wait the
head too? Yes, yeah, yeah, I don't know I could
hold my breath that well.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
You know, you do like thirty seconds.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
At thirty secondow, you're still.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Going to be sweating in there?
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, are you sweater almost? I'm a major sweater.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
With my best he's a big sweater. Bob's say he's
leaning me though. I know big brothers and big sister
is a big part of your life. How'd you get
involved with him?
Speaker 2 (06:22):
I actually had an acting teacher once recommend it to me,
and she had a student that was Big Brother of
the Year that year, and I was in a place
where I was really trying to figure myself out. I
had a little dry spot in my career and and
she goes, get off yourself, go be of service, and
I did. And it was an incredible decision because Lyric
has been a part of my life now for twelve years.
(06:42):
He's now twenty four. I met him when he was
eleven turned twelve. Cool, and we've had some incredible experiences.
We've gotten to build two schools in Senegal together, and
he's just an incredible man. That's taught me so much.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Right on man and being born and raised in Georgia,
was was acting something you always wanted to get into,
something you fell into. How did it happen?
Speaker 2 (07:01):
No, I don't think so. I think Mom, you forced
me to be in a like a runway show once
when I was younger, and I got I think I
got like a he man or something after I did it.
But I remember this this really terrible blue sweater and
walking the runway.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
But I don't know that's when you were a little kid.
This was twenty this was last year, right.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
I actually never never thought about it. I had people
chirping in my ear. Her one of her colleagues, Tammy
Tammy Darcy would always tell me, like, you should be
an actor. You should be an actor, but it never stuck.
But I guess it was the seed was planted and
it just took a while to bloom.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
And did did you get involved in drama in school?
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Never?
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Really?
Speaker 2 (07:39):
I wanted sports. I wanted to be in the NFL,
but I was never fast enough, strong enough, or big enough.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
And was there a local talent agent you eventually signed
up with or how did it eventually happen?
Speaker 2 (07:47):
I ended up coming out to LA for the summer
and I jumped into a cold reading acting class, okay,
and I was hooked. I knew in that moment, I'm
not going back to Georgia. I'm staying here and this
is going to be my life.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Oh there you go.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
So you don't always get that, you know. I was
really lucky to have that moment. That's when I was twenty.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
See you got to thank mom.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Yeah, you always got to thank you.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
I always gotta think mom, they know best. And uh,
what about social life? You single?
Speaker 2 (08:12):
You married, single at the moment, single at the moment?
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Good for you?
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Yeah? Just uh, you know, focusing on being the best
version of myself.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Yep, when it happens, it happens. Good for you, man,
Good for you, well, congratulations on everything.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Before we go for well, thank you, before we get further.
We competed in the Nautical Nautica Malibu Trathlon in twenty ten.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Oh, did we really did well?
Speaker 3 (08:34):
You were there?
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Okay, I did, and I don't know. I may have
or may not have beaten you.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
I don't know. I'm sure you did it.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
I'm sure the other marathons he's been in, he's stopping
eight lunch at someone's here.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Yeah, there's any of the marathons or triathlons I've done,
there's always like a charitable component. So I'm not ever
going out there like trying for a time. The toughest
thing was that that damn swim. The swim is gnarly,
and then the feet in your face kicking and the water.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
You're guaranteed to get kicked in the face. Your dogles
are going to fall off, and it's gonna be miserable.
And that's part of the fun, I think, right, And
you don't do it first too, That's why they get that.
Out of a lot of people quit.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
I was surprised to see a lot of people like
screw this and they just stopped.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
But I didn't know that you weren't competing because I
saw you and I'm like, whoa, it's Mario Lopez. I've
looked up to this guy. I have to beat him,
and little did I know that you didn't give a shit.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
No, no, no, I got get it. I've done three marathons.
I don't how many. I didn't care about any of them.
It's true. When I did the Boston Marathon, I stopped
so I had to use the restroom this lady because
I said, you can I use your restaurant and she
let me use a restaurant. She wants to beat him?
All sure, she said lunch. I had food there, So yeah,
I just wanted to complete.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Exactly will Ferrell beat him in that I raised money
for a good cause, so I was like, if my
time doesn't count that, I'm just gonna I'm very competitive
of other things that I do, the jiu jitsu at
the boxing, but the triathlot of the marathon.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
That's funny. Man. Well again, congrats on everything. Very nice
to meet your family. Fubar comes to Netflix tomorrow, be
sure to check it out. Thanks come by, try
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Yep, thanks for having me on with Mario Lopez