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Dascha Polanco · On with Mario Interviews

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  Speaker 1: You're on with Mario Libitz Zebra.
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  Speaker 2: Mario Lopez joining me right now on Zoom actress Dasha Polanco.
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  Speaker 2: How are you, Dasha?
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  Speaker 1: Good? How are you?
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing well? I just like saying your name, Dasha Polanco,
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  Speaker 2: what a great name.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. Do you know I'm Lopez too?
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  Speaker 2: Are you a Lopez to Dasha Planca? Lopez?
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  Speaker 1: You know that us Latinos we have five names, right,
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  Speaker 1: that's true. Lopez is somewhere in there.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, not Mario, the only has two. That's right. I'm
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  Speaker 2: the only Latino with no middle name. I really have congratulations.
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  Speaker 2: He joined the Walking Dead universe in season two of
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  Speaker 2: the series Walking Dead, Dead City. What's your character up
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  Speaker 2: to this series?
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  Speaker 1: Ooh, hello, Sergeant Too in our bias, Well, she's uh
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  Speaker 1: dealing with survival and also establishing her power and kind
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  Speaker 1: of dealing with the obstacles that we come across. So
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  Speaker 1: we'll see what It was a very good and fun
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  Speaker 1: role to portray on on the Walking Dead universe.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I bet I heard your character was attacked by zombies.
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  Speaker 2: Does that mean you can come back as a zombie
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  Speaker 2: or how does that work?
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  Speaker 1: You know with the walking that you just never know
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  Speaker 1: especially now with the methane being the currency. They might
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  Speaker 1: use me just for the methane, or they might release
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  Speaker 1: me onto the to the humans.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's a wide neck get casts right there. I
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  Speaker 2: wanted to get to this too earlier in the year
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  Speaker 2: you start in the Lifetime movie Terror comes Knocking, the
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  Speaker 2: more sell up We're just family, which is actually a
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  Speaker 2: true story of the family that was held for ransom. Right.
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  Speaker 2: I was fascinated by this. How was it for it?
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  Speaker 2: Especially when I'm sure you did the research. It was like,
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  Speaker 2: my god, what a what a horror?
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  Speaker 1: Well, you'll be surprised that things are really happening around
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  Speaker 1: this and sometimes we're like in our own bubble. And
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  Speaker 1: when I got the opportunity to portray this role and
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  Speaker 1: actually watch the documentary, I was like, I don't remember
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  Speaker 1: this clearly, but it does happen, and it was important
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  Speaker 1: for me to respect what the family had gone through
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  Speaker 1: and just to you know, it's it's it's families. You
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  Speaker 1: would be so price how much survival and being the
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  Speaker 1: lead a mother will lead you to do things to
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  Speaker 1: the extreme. I mean, I think she was such a
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  Speaker 1: hero in protecting her family.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, your human spirit is resilient. Did you
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  Speaker 2: get a chance to talk or meet meet the family
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  Speaker 2: at all.
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  Speaker 1: No, Yeah, I didn't get a chance to speak to them,
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  Speaker 1: And I respect it, but I wanted to be respectful
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  Speaker 1: enough to portray it as as close as possible. Obviously
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  Speaker 1: we do things for TV, but I got to do
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  Speaker 1: my own stunts, you know, and I got to do
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  Speaker 1: fun with that and just you know, I wanted to
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  Speaker 1: evoke the emotion as much as I could just portray
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  Speaker 1: the story.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, that's cool.
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  Speaker 2: This was cool too. You're part of qbc's Christmas in
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  Speaker 2: July on their new game show Rapped, and you got
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  Speaker 2: to judge people's gift wrapping skills. I might be the
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  Speaker 2: worst gift rapper ever. I just do the bags like
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  Speaker 2: I like the bags.
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  Speaker 1: And you stick it.
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  Speaker 2: Does that count as well? That's what I do. If
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  Speaker 2: that forgets how this gift giving? And you put the
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  Speaker 2: little the little stuff on the top, you can really
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  Speaker 2: tell when there's a good good. I don't think that's wrapping.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's bagging. That's bagging. But how did it work?
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  Speaker 2: Did you just basically judge like how fast? How stuff?
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  Speaker 2: That's cool?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I got to be a side great judges. But
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  Speaker 1: you know I used to give wrap for Harold Square
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  Speaker 1: and Macy's. You really had a red tale pacis. Yeah, so.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, you're legit.
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  Speaker 1: Al right, So I was a but I'll give you
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  Speaker 1: some credit for bagging. I guess these are for a
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  Speaker 1: little two pieces of tape, little staples, right right, right right.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a guy. I try to keep it simple. I
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  Speaker 2: try to keep it simple, right there. Wrappings a whole
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  Speaker 2: another deal right there. And I know you're you're an
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  Speaker 2: activist as well, specifically for HIV awareness. How did that
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  Speaker 2: become a passion ers?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I tried to align myself to a lot of
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  Speaker 1: organizations that do for the community, and you know, get
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  Speaker 1: involved with so many things children but most important things
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  Speaker 1: that are becoming very dormant. And I think this is
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  Speaker 1: a subject that, for some reason I found very interesting
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  Speaker 1: that we have not speaking about it, educate, educating the
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  Speaker 1: community about When I got the opportunity to be part
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  Speaker 1: of this panel with Soletto O'Brien, solet that O'Brien, who
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  Speaker 1: I'm also on her in her other organization, I was like, absolutely,
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  Speaker 1: I want to speak up on this. I think the
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  Speaker 1: organization that herself does such a great job with also
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  Speaker 1: providing prevention education and also how to get help, and
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  Speaker 1: that's that goes hand in hand.
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  Speaker 3: That's awesome.
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  Speaker 2: Good for you.
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  Speaker 3: Well, congratulations on everything, Dasha, and listen, you can check
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  Speaker 3: out Dasha right now in season two of The Walking Dead,
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  Speaker 3: Dead City on AMC and in her lifetime movie Terror
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  Speaker 3: Comes Knocking.
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  Speaker 2: On Amazon Crime. Thanks so much for checking in, Thank
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  Speaker 2: you all right, take care, three you too
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  Speaker 1: With Mario Lopez