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Capítulo 093: The Jackie Cruz Interview · Locatora Radio [A Radiophonic Novela]

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  Speaker 1: Jackie Cruise, actor, entrepreneur, vocalists and New Yorker of Dominican descent.
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  Speaker 1: Jackie Cruise became a household name for her portrayal of
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  Speaker 1: Marisol on the Netflix critically acclaimed series Orange Is the
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  Speaker 1: New Black. The original series, created by Jenji Cohen, became
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  Speaker 1: an award winning Magnet and released its seventh and final
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  Speaker 1: season in two thousand nineteen. But since then, Jackie has
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  Speaker 1: been making music, singing, performing, creating, are getting married, you know,
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  Speaker 1: raising dogs, being a dog mom, just living that life.
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  Speaker 1: And we had a really good time interviewing Jackie. We
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  Speaker 1: met Jackie's dogs. We talked about being dog moms, dog mothers,
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  Speaker 1: um latinas creativity acting, how she got into it. So,
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  Speaker 1: without further ado our episode with Jackie, Cruz, Vodkas, m
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  Speaker 1: of It and Ship, let's let's get started. So you know,
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  Speaker 1: we're all at home right now, right we're in a pandemic.
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  Speaker 1: We're looking at how to get creative, how to connect
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  Speaker 1: with our audience. And I've seen that you have been
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  Speaker 1: on Instagram a lot, You've been on the I G Lives,
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  Speaker 1: You've been performing on Instagram for your your community, for
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  Speaker 1: your followers, and it's so beautiful. I caught when you
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  Speaker 1: were singing Valerie. Uh, I think it was last week.
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  Speaker 1: So let's talk about that. Let's talk about getting creative
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  Speaker 1: at home during quarantine during COVID. Yeah, I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: have to tell you, UM, the one thing that I've
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  Speaker 1: learned through COVID is um, you know, as artists, next,
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  Speaker 1: what's next? What's next? We're never like, you know, kind
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  Speaker 1: of satisfied with the moment. And I feel like, UM,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of gratitude has come through COVID for me
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  Speaker 1: because I got to spend some time with my family,
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  Speaker 1: my little sister, she's thirteen and she drives me crazy.
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  Speaker 1: But um, it was you know, we got connected more
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  Speaker 1: and I feel like, you know, also getting inspired musically
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  Speaker 1: has been a lenge. So this Live with Jackie like
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  Speaker 1: the first few months of quarantine, and I got to
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  Speaker 1: meet some incredible artists that you know, people don't know
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  Speaker 1: about it, and I opened my platform to them and
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  Speaker 1: asked them questions and had them sing, and I had
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  Speaker 1: people from all the world. Alright, um, hey, sorry, I
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  Speaker 1: had It's all good. We're all dog mombs over here.
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  Speaker 1: I have five dogs. I'm a dog lady. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so I got to meet this uh so many incredible
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  Speaker 1: artists from all over the world. I had uh Salvadorian rapping,
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  Speaker 1: Swedish and Sweden like it just was crazy and like
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  Speaker 1: I was crying, like like just beautiful little little girls
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  Speaker 1: and even singing to me, and I was just it
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  Speaker 1: felt really good to connect with people because you know,
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  Speaker 1: I've been you know, very solitaire and I I literally
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  Speaker 1: just got into the studio maybe like two days ago,
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  Speaker 1: but it's been almost like since quarantine and I haven't
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  Speaker 1: been able to get in the studio with someone. So
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  Speaker 1: that's how I've been keeping myself busy. And then randomly
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  Speaker 1: I get on live accidentally really and I'm like, screw it,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna do karaoke for everyone. I'm pretty much bored
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  Speaker 1: or something. But like it feels something like, sorry, guys
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  Speaker 1: are gonna hear me singing, But everybody you know has
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  Speaker 1: fun on there. And it's been it's been, like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: a very interesting few months. But I've been trying to,
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  Speaker 1: you know, do do the best I can to stay
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  Speaker 1: motivated and try to inspire people around me through my socially. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you've been killing it with the content, and I think
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  Speaker 1: for a lot of us, we were introduced to you
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  Speaker 1: as an actress on Orange Is the New Black. You
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  Speaker 1: played Flack Out. We love Flack, I love the character,
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  Speaker 1: and then coming to know you as not only just
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  Speaker 1: an actress, but a singer, a songwriter, a musician. And
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  Speaker 1: my question is in your personal trajectory before Orange Was
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  Speaker 1: the New Black Orange Is the New Black? Were you
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  Speaker 1: a singer first? You're an actress first? What came first?
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  Speaker 1: The music or the acting? For sure? The music, Um,
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  Speaker 1: when I was fifth well actually when I was fifteen,
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  Speaker 1: I moved to California, to the Hollywood. You know, it
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  Speaker 1: was very you know different, but um, when I saw
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  Speaker 1: Whitney Houston singing in The Bodyguard, it was all dubbed
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  Speaker 1: in Spanish in the middle of the movie, you know,
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  Speaker 1: in the d R. And then it came back and
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  Speaker 1: I just saw the finale and I was just like
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  Speaker 1: mommy in love big screen and She's like, let's see
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  Speaker 1: if you got what it takes, you know, like six
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  Speaker 1: or so. And then she like, oh, I got some
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  Speaker 1: potential girlfriend. And she put me in like like acting
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  Speaker 1: classes and singing, you know. And then I have to
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  Speaker 1: say music has always been my my heart and I
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  Speaker 1: get to play like it's natural for me to like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, be other characters because I love to be
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  Speaker 1: goofy and fun. But um, singing is is the true me.
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  Speaker 1: And and I'm very vulnerable and shys sometimes and it's
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  Speaker 1: it's but when I myself, I'm more shy, which is silly.
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  Speaker 1: But I love that I got to open up through
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  Speaker 1: my album and how the Chavez and I got, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to show people like where I came from
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  Speaker 1: and who I am and I named every single song
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  Speaker 1: after the women who raised me. And I wanted people
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  Speaker 1: to know that that my father's name is Chops, but
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  Speaker 1: I never used it, and I have the first song
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  Speaker 1: is dedicated to him. Maybe he understands me through my
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  Speaker 1: music because personally, like I don't know if we get
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  Speaker 1: each other. But so singing my Nicolason and then acting
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  Speaker 1: is just like a plus that I love to do.
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  Speaker 1: And um and I'll never I'll never quit either one.
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  Speaker 1: I love the fact that you've already brought up like
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  Speaker 1: being a dog mom relationship with fathers. Like in music,
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot to class in too. So I kind
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  Speaker 1: of want to ask where are your dogs from? Because
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  Speaker 1: we have a ton of dogs at home, each of us,
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  Speaker 1: and like our dogs are like from the street or
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  Speaker 1: from the Humane Society or somebody s I had a
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  Speaker 1: literal puppies and we got one. And I love the
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  Speaker 1: origin story of Latino dogs. Dogs. Yeah, like THEA. I
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  Speaker 1: just had eight puppies and um, I drove from Maryland
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  Speaker 1: to here because they were so young with with the
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  Speaker 1: puppy um Priscilla, and so yeah, I know from my
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  Speaker 1: THEA because you know that wasn't supposed to happen. She like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm not gonna say the word, but you
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  Speaker 1: know it was inappropriate behavior from her dog. And she
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  Speaker 1: got eight puppies randomly and all of them are adopted.
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  Speaker 1: And then this one is from Tijuana and I've had
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  Speaker 1: her since college, so she's like seventeen or something. That's crazy.
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  Speaker 1: I live. I love that she doesn't have her paperwork,
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  Speaker 1: but she's fine. No one asked any questions. That is
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  Speaker 1: so funny. Um, does anybody like check for for your dogs,
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  Speaker 1: like any of the like local animal shelters or anything,
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  Speaker 1: because they come by our house to make sure that
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  Speaker 1: all of our dogs have licenses. Like, yeah, we won't
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  Speaker 1: tell anybody. I have another Mexican dog here, Molly. His
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  Speaker 1: name is Moldiiani. All of my dogs Picasso, I have Moldilani.
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  Speaker 1: I think they went outside. But because you know my husband,
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  Speaker 1: he's an artist, and we got our dogs together and
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  Speaker 1: then um, we broke up for like a year and
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  Speaker 1: a half and got another time. We're back gethers and
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  Speaker 1: now I really do have five dogs. It's using. Um,
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  Speaker 1: so first of all, congratulations, UM, I know that you're
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  Speaker 1: recently married, so let's talk. You know, if you're comfortable.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk about that, like marrying another artist. A lot
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  Speaker 1: of our listeners are you know, in the art community
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  Speaker 1: as well. You know, dating another artist can get kind
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  Speaker 1: of hectic sometimes, so you know what, um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: if you're open to talking about that, that experience of
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  Speaker 1: marrying another artist, getting married during a pandemic, like, let's
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  Speaker 1: talk about that. I know, um, well, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: always wanted something small anyways, so it just made sense.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't want to wait another year, like and I
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  Speaker 1: you know, people get engaged and like five years later
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  Speaker 1: they're still engaged. So I just like I was ready
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  Speaker 1: ready for you know, like two years ago. So I
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  Speaker 1: think it was really good that we separated to kind
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  Speaker 1: of grow into like even me as an art us
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  Speaker 1: as a musician. That's when like I just sat down
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  Speaker 1: and wrote and then he just painted and like became
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  Speaker 1: better and we just grew our you know, not our
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  Speaker 1: separate ways, but we grew with within our own art.
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  Speaker 1: It's just different because he's a he's a painter, you know. Um,
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  Speaker 1: it's a different kind of art. You know, he's not
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  Speaker 1: you know on TV, you know, so it's just a
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  Speaker 1: little different. So each other off because I just I
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  Speaker 1: love his his work, Like everything you see in the
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  Speaker 1: back um is his his artwork. Uh. I just you know,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I just feel like there's a balance
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  Speaker 1: between us. And he's very intellectual and he makes me
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  Speaker 1: read all these things that I don't think I would
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  Speaker 1: ever read if it wasn't because of him. Like I
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  Speaker 1: know all these painters and you know, like the Bosquiat,
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  Speaker 1: the you know the Picasso and I know the Blue Air,
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  Speaker 1: like I know everything about them because Fernando we talked
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  Speaker 1: about it. So it's really cool. I let's see your
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  Speaker 1: Frieda in the background. So yeah with frieda column too,
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  Speaker 1: and um yeah so and getting married to the pandemic.
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  Speaker 1: It was just like twelve people my immediate family and
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: his immediate family, swear to God. Because like it was
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: a Mexican family meeting a Dominican family. He would think,
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: I don't know, you would think, oh, a loud, but
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: my family is more like conservative, like they like to
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: like make sure you know they know people before I
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: guess they're loud. I don't know. So it was like
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: a weird kind of like in Fernando's mom was like,
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: oh yeah, that's you know, like like my big fact
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: crazy wedding, but it was great. It was a little
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: stressful because Fernando's mom is named Lauda, and during our
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: our wedding week, it was like Alaudauda and I was
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: so like the whole Weekahaka in Mexico, a beach town,
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: it rained the whole week, and so we had that
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: drama like I heard it's gonna rain all week. I'm like, no, mom,
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: it's not. But we made you know, we made food
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: at home, like we got to know each other. There
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: was like, you know, WiFi issues, you know, these nice
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: sisters still going to school. But it was like beautiful
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: at the end, like the last day was the wedding,
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: and it all came together and it was a dream
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: come true, like right on the beach, and everything was organic.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: I met the people there, you know, like the musicians,
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: I met them there. I met the women who helped
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: me plan it there. So it was all local, higher
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: and and it was just very intimate and organic and
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: not stressful really, only like my little sister stressed me
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: up a little bit. WiFi. I love that. That sounds
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: like a beautiful experience. We are always talking about wanting
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: to go down to Wahaka because we hear it's gorgeous.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: Did you absolutely love it? I love wa haaka, like
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: but yeah, like my little my little area over there,
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: you know, my skinker. Things get crazy in America, you know,
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: so I just I the people are so kind. It
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: was just a beautiful community. And like we got married
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: and like we walked down the street and took pictures randomly,
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: like me barefoot and my silk dressed, and everybody was
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: just congratulating us, like we had so much my scal
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: like it's insane, and uh, it was beautiful thing. And
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: it did rain on my wedding and I had to
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: do this beautiful like white god pop. But I'm so
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: happy that I did it. And my sister, who's thirteen,
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: I was like, well, I'm not paying for a anymore.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: If it rains, let people dance in the rain, you know.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: Nakida moha, my little sister was. I was like, She's like,
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: don't worry, Isabella, get you the goda And I was
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: like what you know, so like she got me the guy.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: But and it was actually the most beautiful thing because
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: it matched like the wedding. It was very it was
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: a white wet so everyone were white and it was
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: just beautiful green flowers and it just worked out really pretty.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: And then the next day it was sunny after my wedding.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: Of course it happens, so I always because I wanted
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: that beautiful view with the sun and all that. So
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: it just all ended up working out and I flew out.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: The photographer her name is um Eric Nande and Kanda
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: come in. So everyone who worked in my wedding was Latino.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: Just my ps helped me decorate and it was just
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: a very family event. And Fernando he drew every menu,
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: so the one got to take home a little piece
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: of his art. That's extremely beautiful. Wow. And I'm living
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: for the Dominican Mexican fusion like I live for it.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: I think we love a fusion. Two excellent culture is
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: coming together to be. Um. You know we are at
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: the UM I guess the later end of Hispanic Heritage
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: Month or Latin X Heritage Month. Um, you know, what
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: are your thoughts on this month? Like we always say that, Like, Okay,
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: all of a sudden, everybody's remembering the Latinos, the latin
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: X pant there right, they're reaching out. What about when
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: the month is over? Right? And so how you know,
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: what are your thoughts on Hispanic Heritage Month doesn't help
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: put the projects out, you know, like the media and
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: everyone is interested in what you know, the Latino community
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: is doing. But I do, I do agree with you.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: We should celebrate each other every day. Um. We work
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: so hard, and you know, especially being in this in
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: this country, we work triple are you know, and just
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: to just to make it through the day, you know,
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: and you couldn't have a day without us. So it's
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: it's kind of beautiful to celebrate this month. But I
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: do agree, it's it's an every day celebrate our stories,
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: celebrate everything about us because we bring a lot to
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: this country and we yeah, it would be kind of
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: black and white if it weren't involved. It's very colorful.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: We're very colorful people. And um and I just yeah,
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: I feel good that we get to celebrate it. But
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: it's an everyday thing for me at least, because you know,
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: we're lett you know, so we celebrate every day. And
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: I feel like, um, as far as Latinos in media
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: and entertainment or concerned, Dominican representation is really on the rise,
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: and it is really like on the come up because
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: there I feel like was a period of time where
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: there really wasn't much at all. And like the other day,
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: I just watched you know, Vampires Versus the Bronx on
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: Netflix and it was so good and I loved it.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: And like we are big fans of the Bodego Boys,
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: you know, Do This and Marrow obviously fans of yours.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: You didn't play necessarily a Dominicana and or just the
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: New Black, but you know, on TV and doing and
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: making movies and doing the thing. And I'm wondering if
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: you could just speak on that in what you've observed
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: as far as Dominican representation specific Like, yeah, I mean
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: that was so brilliant. Uh, the vampires in the Bronx. Um, yeah, though,
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: like all that is hilarious. Um I do, I um,
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: I do feel like we are up and coming. But again,
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: like like like I told you, like well, like you said,
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: I played you know, Maxicana mostly for for not mostly
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: in Oranges and his black. So for me, it's still
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: a struggle because, um, they still don't really know, you know,
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: what we look like, because we don't all look the
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: same and we're just you know, all different colors and
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: sizes and and even if I auditioned for the mikana.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: Sometimes I don't even get it because they say I
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: don't look enough this enough that I'm like, so it's
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: it's a bit of a struggle. I can't tell you that.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: The doors are like so open and they're flying and
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: I'm getting all these roles. I've actually everything I've done recently,
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: I don't think I've played a dominion in in anything.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: Maybe I don't know. Oh my recent short work Rosa
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: that just one Black Star Fest and Woodstock I did.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: I made sure that she was Dominican, and I you know,
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: I talked, I get to talk in Spanish and I
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: made sure that that was my accent. And so yeah,
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: I believe that for me. Right now, I'm opening my
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: own doors. I'm auditioning for everything. But everything I have
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: booked is just you know, a wife. Everything is is
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: just a woman. It's it's not really a Dominican woman,
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: you know. So um, yeah, the struggle is real and
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: the doors are opening up. But again, even even in
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: even in my own country like Gana, like you know,
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: like it's just like, ah, where do I fit in?
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: You know, so I didn't got yucky, you know, like
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: they're confused you look all these different things, and I'm like,
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: we are America's future, you know what I mean. We are,
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: you know, become biracial. We come from all different you know,
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: and some have more than others. And because you know,
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: everyone always says a little but that's not true either,
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: because I live in Santiago and we all are you know,
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: we go from A to Z. So, um, representation is
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: a little difficult right now, and when it comes to
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: being Dominican. But I'm not gonna sit here and complain
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: about it. I'm just going to create my own opportunities.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: And that's what I've been doing. I've been working on
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: a TV show that um hopefully you know, I can't
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: really talk about it yet, but you know, I've been
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: pitching to TV shows at one one specifically, and the
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: other one I'm I'm hopefully going to pitch uh soon.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: But yeah, it's just me bringing my people also and
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: showing us that we all look different and we have
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: different dialects and and I do love the fusion of
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: Mexican and Dominican because that's going on a lot here
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: in l A. Finally, you know, there's a lot of
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: Dominicans coming up, you know, even in um the show
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: uh gentrifiedfid Hentified Yea, Julius took out that on exactly,
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: so that really but they didn't make I don't know
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: if she's Dominican on the show. She is. She plays
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: a Dominican character on the show. We interviewed her on
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: look At about her role as yes Nica on Hnified,
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: and they actually wrote her in. Originally the character wasn't
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: a Dominican character that she was auditioning for, but after
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: she auditioned, they were like, let's change up the storyline
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: and let's make her a Dominicana who moves to l
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: A And it's like, now here in this community, Yeah,
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: that's wonderful. I didn't get to watch the last season,
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: but I do. I do love that. I love that
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: they're open to maybe, you know, liking someone and try
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: and change this because it's half we're living it, so
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: we deserve that representation. And I told you I moved
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: here when I was fifteen and they didn't know what
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: to do with me. She's like, you know, I have long,
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: curly hair, I'm brown, and um, I speak fluent Spanish,
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: but I don't look Mexican. You know, when I first
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: moved here and I actually quit acting and I focused
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: on my music. I was in a girl group working
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: under like the Black Eyed Peas, and then I moved
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: to Miami, then Miami to New York and then and
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: I said, hey, after sitting year, I said, maybe New
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: Yorker and let me give this a try because I
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: see my people here. You know, there was in the
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: hips there was all this like Dominicans and I was like,
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: oh my god, here Dominican. I was so impressed by
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: anyone Dominican in Hollywood. And at the time, I think
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: I just met Daniel Ramidez when I was fifteen, and
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: she yeah, and she was in Fat Albert and I
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: was like, I want to be an actress too, and she,
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: you know, she's like you could do with girl. You know,
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: I inspired me, But that was like the only one
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: that you know, was was really working. So I tried
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: it out in New York and and Oranges the New
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: Black was my first audition after I quit for six years,
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: and I was just working on music because I have
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: an EP out in two thousand and ten, and I
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: booked Orange in two thousand and twelve. And I would
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: love for you to talk about any advice you might
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: have for folks listening who have their own aspirations of
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: going into the arts and entertainment professionally. I think, especially
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: in Latin X Latino communities, we are sort of prepped
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: to go to college or become professionals and try and
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: find a secure career, and we're not necessarily encouraged to
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: go into the arts, to go into acting. It's not
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: a huge thing for us in our youth. So what
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: would you advise to those who are artists themselves but
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: not sure how to get started. I see, you know,
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: you gotta follow your heart. Literally, I was waitressing for
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: ten years and you know, working like the night shift.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: I actually worked Season one, two and three as a waitress,
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: and yeah, and I was recognizable, but I was seeing
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: and I did get extra tip, you know, I was
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: you know, second lu I was like, of course I'm black.
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: She's like, oh, can I get a picture with you?
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: I was like, oh yes, and um they would do pictures.
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: She's like, okay, I'm gonna need that sugar free red
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: Bull and vodka please. I was like, I got you, girl,
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: and like it was just beautiful because I felt, you know,
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: I loved it. I loved going to work. I love
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: that people recognize the show. I love you know, uh
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: that I you know that that door opened for me.
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: But it was a struggle. It was a struggle through
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: my family. Like my father, he wasn't really excited because
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: I didn't finish college, you know, my Diaz. They were like,
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: you know, you're getting a little older. But if I
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: could tell you anything, never put a time limit on
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: your dream. And it's gonna come when when, when it's
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: ready for you. And while you're waiting, work on your
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: craft because every day, if you think about it, if
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: God put that passion in your heart, why wouldn't you
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: do that? You know, why would you Why would you
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: work doing something that you really don't like? So you know,
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: it's it's it's hard. I mean I was homeless at
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: one point, you know, I I really I went from zero,
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: you know, I started from I went from zero. Then
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: I got back to zero, and I got back to zero.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: And all my failures are the reason that I'm here today.
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: And I could share my story because my my my
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: journey was was you know, very very hard to get
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: to where I'm at. But I don't regret, and I
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: love that I did have to work so hard because
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: someone that is looking at me now saying like, yo,
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: you know, she actually did it and she went through this,
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: She went through that, She went through this, and I'm
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: going through this, and you know, maybe you need that.
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: You need that because you know that helps me with
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: my writing, That helps me with my acting. The pain,
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: you know, the pain does help. You know, even as
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: Fernando and artists like U, people use that pain and
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: make art from it, whether it's music, whether it's painting,
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: whether it's you know, bringing those feelings to your acting.
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: So just don't give up, and you believe in you.
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: That's the most important thing. When you believe in yourself
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: and you are yourself, not trying to be someone else.
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: Because you see all the music out there were all
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: the actors and trying to look like them and trying
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: to be like them. No, no one's gonna be like
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: you know, one's gonna look like you. And that's what's
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: gonna that's where you're gonna shine when you're yourself. And
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: I learned that through my music really when I found
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: me with my song at Least sixteen. That is such
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: such beautiful advice. Thank you so much for offering all
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: of that the word words of wisdom that you just
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: you know, spoke about, you know, when you were starting,
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: when you were when Orange and You Black was really
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: taking off. I feel like that was one of the
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: first Netflix original series, right, And so we've parts and
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: Oranges and Black. Yeah, right, And so you know now
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: we see like all these Netflix originals, um, and they're
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: what we talked about on the podcast is that there's
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: somewhat of a cultural disconnect up with our families and
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: we can accomplish all these really amazing, fantastic things and
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: our families may not necessarily get it. And so did
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: you experience that with your family when you were you
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: know on this hit Netflix series. Did they understand what
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: Netflix was at the time, and like the power of it? Girl,
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: my cousin, one of them, I don't say names, she
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: was like, what is this a web series? I'm gonna
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna get a DVD like sent to my house. Like, girl,
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: I don't know, I think you should like look into
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: doing other the things. And I was like what And
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: like even my job, the manager at my job, nobody
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: was like impressed by Netflix at the time, you know
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: what I mean? And literally we had we started binge watching,
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: and you know, I feel like one of the godmothers
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: of Netflix because we I just I feel like, yeah,
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: there was a big disconnect. But my mom was always proud.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: Just she's the one person that never gave up on me,
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: and she's like, especially you know, after my car accident,
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: she was just like, oh, you need to make it
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: more than ever now, Jackie, because you're not supposed to
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: be here. God gave you another chance, and why wouldn't
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: it be to live your dream and share your story
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: and inspire others. So yeah, I you know, that's you know,
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: that's it. Like Netflix has become this monster, like in
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: a good, good month Conster, and it's kind of beautiful
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: to be that show that kicked off like such an
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: amazing you know, streaming for for everyone because now then
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: Hulu copied and Amazon and all these people, like we're like, oh,
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: these these people are into something, and uh yeah, it's
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: really it's really cool to be a part of that
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: massive um beginning. And also, you know Netflix, like Ted
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: Serrando's like we can calm him any any day. He'll
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: write us to eat lunch at his house, and he's
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: he like the head of Netflix, you know what I mean.
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: So it feels good to have that that family is
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: still there for us. And when I have projects, hopefully
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: I can you know, bring it to them and you
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: know we'll see. I mean, Netflix is always going to
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: have that special you know, place in my heart because
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: it opened the doors for a lot of us, and
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: it was groundbreaking. I don't think till this day we
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: have a show like Oranges into Black, So I feel
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: like we need to go back to that, you know,
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: to the beginning and and and show the world these
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: incredible women's stories and and I five five Dominicans in
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: one show. I mean, I think I want to see
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: more of that. Truly groundbreaking. Um it was, and that
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: the show, like you said, that launched this an entire
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: cultural shift into the way that we watch TV, like
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: the Binge Model, right, And it was launched because of
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: this show that was about women of color, Like that
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: is what caught everybody's attention to the extent that they
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: could not get enough, like they had to watch more.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: And I think that's super cool. I I just feel
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  Speaker 1: so blessed that, um that that was my open door.
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  Speaker 1: And I made it. I made I made I made
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  Speaker 1: it through that door being Latina. Yes, I was mad
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  Speaker 1: he got up, but I was there with my girls,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And like a lot of
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  Speaker 1: us in the in this industry, who do who do
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  Speaker 1: look unique and different like you know, let's say it's
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  Speaker 1: always Sandana or whatever, you know, like Rosario Dawson, like
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  Speaker 1: it was, it's hard to break into the industry being
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  Speaker 1: who you are, you know, because they never seen anyone
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  Speaker 1: like you, you know, So it kind of felt really
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  Speaker 1: amazing to be known for for being Latina and being
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  Speaker 1: that girl that everyone thinks, that's your home girl, you
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  Speaker 1: know what I mean. So yeah, I think we need
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  Speaker 1: to continue making shows like that, because that's why I
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  Speaker 1: started my own production company called Unspoken Film, and I've
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  Speaker 1: been working on a lot of incredible things and hopefully
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  Speaker 1: you'll see them very soon. Yes, absolutely, Thank you so
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  Speaker 1: much Jackie Cruz for joining us, your phenomenal actress, musician. UM,
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  Speaker 1: and we're excited to see this next phase where you're
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  Speaker 1: creating projects, right, and you're creating the hit Netflix series
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  Speaker 1: show right like, let's just call it now, don't work, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: let's call it now. Where can folks keep up with
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  Speaker 1: your projects and your work? Um? Jackie Cruise dot com
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  Speaker 1: and um um follow me on my social at Jackie
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  Speaker 1: Cruise and uh yeah that's pretty much it, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Like I just love that I feel like um as
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  Speaker 1: a musician to like I am a voice for the
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  Speaker 1: people and and I just I don't have like a
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  Speaker 1: machine behind me like on my own team. So like
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: everything you've seen, like you know, on in my music
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  Speaker 1: is all created through through me and my my vision
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  Speaker 1: to so you know, I need I need your support.
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  Speaker 1: I need you all to listen to my music. I
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  Speaker 1: you know, I because I'm my own machine. So if
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  Speaker 1: I could leave you with anything, it's just that you
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  Speaker 1: never put a time limit on your dream and follow
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  Speaker 1: your heart because no matter how long it takes, like
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  Speaker 1: you won't be happy until you do what you're meant
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  Speaker 1: to do and whatever it is that your heart desires.
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  Speaker 1: Jackie CRUs actress, feminist. We hadn't even talk about feminism today, actress, feminist, singer, songwriter.
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