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It’s award season, so Dos Amigos is popping the champagne and lifting the curtain - because is everything that glitters really what it seems? In Season 2's first episode, Freddy and Wilmer poke at the politics behind those shiny trophies and ask what it will really take for more Latino talent to get their hands on them.
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How are you, warmer?
You good?
I'm glad you asked.
That's a great jacket, yeah, by the way.
Thank you, man.
How I complimented you when I saw you today.
Thank you.
Yes, you liked this jacket.
That's a great jacket.
You thought it was Ralph Lauren.
Because I remember when we were in Texas that time,
we went to that store, you took me to in Austin.
Yeah.
And it had all that great gear,
and you were explaining to me how Ralph Lauren does
their own sort of line.
What's that line called?
Double RL, that's it.
I mean, double RL is very cool.
It's a, it's inspired by so many vintage pieces
that no longer are in rotation.
So it's like almost like vintage new.
Yeah, you know, like you can put on some pair of pants
knowing that somebody else's stuff was not in it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's kind of like your, your, your speak easy is, is that style.
Yeah, a little bit.
It's a little like vintage new, but you know,
the only thing that's like really, really vintage is this
motorcycle, which somebody's stuff has definitely been on
that seat.
You know, make sure to look barn, you know,
who let us have this motorcycle.
Yeah, you know, as a, as a backdrop.
But are you a motorcycle guy?
Not really.
I've been married a long time and my wife's not crazy
about me being on a motorcycle and having kids.
What about you, your motorcycle guy?
Well, like every young Latino in the 90s,
I wanted a ninja.
Yeah, yeah.
Oh, I wanted like, like a real colorful neon.
Yeah, no, maybe that would be cool.
Maybe red, black, you know, and I, you know,
I just wanted to wear that outfit, you know?
Yeah, what do you mean?
Like the whole motorcycle jacket.
Yeah, like the jacket, the leather pants.
It's like speaking leather pants, not to bring back a
social object, but, you know, Freddie has a
like experience with leather pants.
Yeah.
So have I to be fair?
It's going to say, I have a feeling you did too.
I just got a mind.
To my fortune, it was, it's never been historically recorded.
So yeah, I think I'm going to have to talk to a man about that.
But I have more embarrassing stuff in my career.
This is definitely historically recorded and immortalized.
Like, like, could you, could you give an example?
Ah, man.
Did you watch that 70s show?
Do you have 200, half hours to talk about this?
This brilliant comedic acting is what I saw.
But you had the television once before.
Yeah, a little bit.
You had the TV before and there.
It's embarrassing moments.
What's the longest running show you're, you've done.
The longest running, let's see, a bowl.
The show was your son ran five seasons.
Six feet under, ran five seasons.
Five has been the magic number.
All right.
And how many episodes do you do in those?
The cable, six feet under was, it started off as like 13 episodes.
That was kind of like a tamper order at that time.
Yeah, yeah, but bowl was like 22, 23 episodes.
Which made it, it's right.
You hit like that January point after the holidays.
And you're just like, wow.
So six feet under was nominated for tons of awards.
It was, yeah, yeah.
We were actually at a certain point,
we're in the Guinness Book of World Records
for the most Emmy nominations of all time.
No way.
Yeah, this was like 2001 or something like that.
I don't know.
Who had the record?
Before us, I'm not sure.
The lesser show.
Who was the lesser show?
I don't know, maybe Masha.
I don't know, but Game of Thrones de-throamed us, I believe.
But they had VFX and all the categories
that you didn't compete in, you know.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, but we held that record for a while,
but they, I heard that they de-throamed us.
So I don't know.
Speaking of going through and shout out to Brian Cogman.
Yeah, I'm Brian.
Our boy Brian is a great executive producer and writer.
Game of Thrones for Emmys as a writer for that show.
Crazy.
Just an amazing brilliant man and a good guy.
So with that show,
actors got nominated on that too?
Yeah, yeah, I was nominated.
Oh, yeah, that's what I was learning today.
You're going to have to finish my sentence.
Yeah, I was.
Perfect set with the talk about award season
because you had an experience.
I only campaigned for a team choice award.
I won it.
Yeah.
With the Emmys, I don't have much experience,
but you have, which I'm excited to talk about
because I know award season is about now.
The Oscars is, you know, is a big deal in this town
and also a lot is defined.
You know, a lot is dictated by, you know,
some of some of these academies, right?
I mean, they're, yeah, I mean, when you,
when you did your show six feet under,
what was that like?
You get a phone call like how do you,
how do you first had you find out that you're nominated?
You watched the, the nominated announcement of the nominations
or you're just wake up the next morning.
You get a call from the producer.
How does that work?
I got a, well, for me, person,
I got a call at like five in the morning
to tell me that I was nominated, which is insane.
Where you sleep in the morning.
You know, I was like half asleep, you know,
we were all nervous.
It was, it was like our second season, I believe.
And then we, we sort of,
I'm in a second season.
Yeah, second, it was like first season
going into like second season.
And this was before social media, before any of that, you know?
I mean, it was, it was like being shot out of a cannon,
you know, all of a sudden you're,
you're a part of the biggest show on the planet, you know,
and you get nominated, but it's up,
but it was such a humbling experience.
And then you, you go through these different like lunches
and you get to meet the other people who were nominated.
You, you get to go to different parties.
You get to, I mean, I, I describe,
because I've also gone through an Oscar campaign.
Oh, okay.
You didn't even let me, you didn't even let me go there.
No, no, no, no, what I was going to say is that what's similar
is that it's very, it's what I would imagine is,
is like a, like a political campaign,
like if you're running for office,
who are the people you kind of have to, you know,
kind of be in community with during that campaign?
The voters, the Academy voters.
And so, you know, in 16 Under's case,
it was the, in 16 Under's case, it was different
because it was such a, it was such a phenomenon
from like, from, from the joke.
It was a very obvious choice for the, yeah, yeah.
So there wasn't much campaigning beforehand.
But, but I did a movie called Bobby.
And for that, there was a lot of campaigning.
And, and I describe it, I mean,
I've never ran for office before,
but from what I've seen in documentaries and on TV,
it was very similar to that.
You, you literally launch a campaign.
And if you're running for office, right?
The campaign is vote for me, right?
I should be in this position in office, right?
If you're doing it for an Oscar,
it's the same thing.
You're saying vote for me, you know,
for best supporting actor, best actor, whatever it was.
That's an interesting campaign, because I wonder
what gets the, the vote?
Is this lobby and actually, you know,
you know, influential?
Yeah.
Is the proximity at the artist or the filmmaker?
You know, a favorable moment for a voter.
Like, I think that's the biggest question for me
when you think about this campaigning.
Like, what is effective, you know, in campaigning?
In your opinion, you, you, you feel like meeting the voters,
is it about them liking you?
Or is it about them like just being exposed to your process
and understanding that it was deeper than just a nomination
that you didn't work for the part?
I don't know, it's, I'm trying to figure out exactly
what gets it done, what gets that vote?
It's, it, in my opinion, I think it differs every time, right?
Like, like I was saying, like, with six feet under,
it was an obvious thing because it was such a phenomenon, right?
And sometimes even for film, as it pertains
to the academy, right?
Sometimes there are particular films
that are just such obvious choices, right?
Because they've become phenomenons.
And then there's, there's sort of the smaller movies, right?
That have really good performances in it.
And like, like, the film that I was in, Bobby,
and that we were sort of vying for that position.
And then sometimes I kind of feel like, you know,
there are some pretty big name actors in some other films
and they want those actors to show up, right?
So, so, you know, they kind of try to make a place
for those guys to be nominated.
It's a, at the end, what I got out of it was that
it was just this huge balancing act of all of it, you know,
of popularity, of merit, of campaigning,
which, by the way, costs so much money, man.
Like, how do those little movies do it, right?
Like, if you'd probably get a distributor on board,
yeah, I mean, look, I think a distributor
that gets one of those independent films that, you know,
we're made by two million dollars and adopt investments
and other nine million dollars in a campaign
or five million dollars in a campaign
to just ultimately get that second wave of awareness
for the movie, because really,
the way I look at nominations and I look at award shows
is that for a lot of these movies that are breaking even,
because they only had 400 screens
or they have maybe just 600 screens across the United States.
Right.
They didn't make their money back.
I mean, I feel like this is such a crazy gamble.
You're trying to get nominated because you know
that it'll put you on a world stage
and people could find your movie
and also eventually be distributed on a wider air
because then the secondary window
and third window of distribution happens
after you get nominated.
But that's a good question.
You know, it's funny, you mentioned that.
The Golden Gloves just happened, right?
And like, I think his name is Joe Edgerton, the actor, right?
And he was in a movie called Train Dreams
and it was on Netflix.
And I thought the movie was fantastic.
It was such a beautiful film,
but it was a small film as you were just saying, right?
And it didn't seem like the budget was that high
and it didn't seem like they had much of a budget
for the PNA, for the publicity and advertisement.
However, he got nominated for Golden Globe
and he won the Golden Globe, right?
So it's like, oh, okay, they really didn't put
that much money behind the campaign,
but nevertheless his performance got found
within the plethora of other performances.
But he didn't get nominated for an Oscar, right?
He won the Golden Globe
and didn't get nominated for the Oscar.
And I'm always such an eccentric thing, right?
Like if you win the Golden Globe,
it doesn't necessarily means
you're even gonna get nominated for the Oscars.
In his case is a perfect example, you know?
Did that have to do with maybe
they didn't have the financing for the campaign?
To, you know, you look in variety, right?
For your consideration, you know,
like that stuff calls money, man, you know?
Or the billboards that you see in sunset Boulevard
or, you know, all that stuff costs so much money.
The same way it would, you know,
for like someone running for office, right?
You know, you see someone like a Kamala Harris
or Joe Biden, whatever you're like,
they have a hundred million dollar war chest for their...
They spend up $1 billion on this campaign.
It's the same thing, man, you know,
to a smaller degree.
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It brings me full circle to reflecting on some of our communities
and some of our cultures, as you know,
some of them have had the privilege of having people like you
and others who hit that stage and actually brings quite a great deal of pride
to see some of these images being considered at the same caliber
as some of those that I conically will be known for these nominations
and these wins.
Do you feel, and I think this is a question I guess for both of us,
do we feel that it has gotten better at a presentation?
Now, and that's a question with also a secondary statement,
which is there's tons of studies that says we're only 6%
of the roles of entertainment period, right?
That doesn't reflect on the majority of the consumers,
the man, which happens to be a lot of Latino communities
for the opening weekend, you know,
for the same day of viewership and streaming subscription,
also advertising buyers and things like that.
So when you see the power of the spending power
in the buying power of this community,
and when you look at what gets made,
it doesn't really reflect on that,
but based on how long we've been doing this,
roughly between 30 and 40 years,
each one of us combined with almost 100 years of entertainment.
But the idea is that the you feel
that it has gotten better since when we started
and then for, have you seen us on that stage,
you know, of the award shows?
As well, what do you feel?
That's a really tricky question, you know?
I feel like it fluctuates every year, right?
You know, you brought up a really interesting point
to say that our demographics, buying power is high,
and it continually is high every single year.
And so perhaps the award seasons should reflect that,
as basically what you're kind of saying to a degree, right?
And it doesn't, right?
And so their lies, the dilemma, you know?
Or even the quantity of opportunity, right?
That will get us a proximity to be noticed
on one of these, you know, world stages.
Yeah, the quantity, right?
Which is a whole other conversation about, you know,
us getting projects out there and them being greenlit.
Some of them being commercially viable enough to do well
so that the power's at me go, hey, it made some money.
Let me give you some money to do another one
and then another one after that, you know?
You know, you brought up an interesting point
in one of our conversations before about it all being
sort of an ecosystem, right?
That perhaps needs to be fine-tuned maybe a little more
and perfected a little more in order for that ecosystem
to continue to work in.
And let me follow that rabbit hole there
because I think the ecosystem is an interesting conversation.
We're yet to really be a part of that ecosystem.
The ecosystem has now been balanced, right?
I mean, they can, you can put odd bets in Vegas
about whether the movie's gonna be number one or not.
Right.
Now, you can predict based on level of awareness
a week before, whether the release is going to get
to X amount of dollars, right?
Like they can predict that number,
but what they cannot figure out is how they can trust
that it will do good merely by saying
the ecosystem has a healthy amount of not only representation,
but a real thorough look at how we consume content,
how are we invited to the content?
You know, I dared to say at Universal,
that's a really great job with the Latino community.
A lot of their movies, which are John Rae,
whether it's Adventure, Horde, or Action,
they speak a language and marketing that actually says,
hey, this is a movie we're inviting you to this movie too.
You know, most, I think most of you are-
You're referring to like Fast and the Furious
or Fast and the Furious.
Jurassic Park, you know, like when you look at the numbers
of Latinos that show up to those movies,
you're like, whoa, is it a genre or is it the marketing?
And when you think about it,
you go to the neighborhoods that are prominent in the Latino culture.
In Latino culture, you realize there's like,
there's posters there, there's flyers.
There's like, you know, Jurassic Park, you know,
candy at the 7-Eleven, like, you know,
they're really infiltrating pop culture
for the individuals who really trust that genre.
I don't know that most studios have really given
a kind of scientific look at like,
how do we balance our marketing strategies?
And then, you know, and then they think that is really about
just like putting a piece of casting in front of it, right?
It's really about hitting the notes.
It's not just the brown face
and a beautiful character that takes you
to an extraordinary circumstance.
I think it's to me about,
it's about, you know, what, you know, what notes,
what boxes does it check in values, right?
And spirit and trajectory and story,
they're actually relatable to our specific experience.
And I'm not saying like, it has to have salsa music
and maracas, right?
That's not how we relate to content, right?
Right.
But it is about uniting us all in the tones
and in the boxes.
Is it the genres, right?
Like, people are blown away when they saw Jen Artega,
you know, doing incredible with Wednesday.
You're like, whoa, Wednesday and, you know,
Luis Guzmán plays, you know, they're all good.
They're a character like it's,
a lot of this stuff is like really interestingly,
you know, subliminally successful
and they can't explain it.
Why?
Like, it's the same thing.
It's like, we want to be going along with
an extraordinary circumstance
and we want to be able to be part of the character lineup
that actually contributes to winning the day.
And look, it gets very, very complicated,
but as we bring a full circle to the awards
in the award season,
did you feel like you've seen an improvement on,
you know, on Latinos
and minorities as a whole,
being invited to the award shows?
Improvement is a really tricky word.
I don't know if I would say improvement,
I would say that it fluctuates.
I would say that there's certain years
where you do see representation
that has earned their position in those categories
and there's certain years that it doesn't,
that sometimes there are projects out
that you point to those projects and you go,
well, why wasn't this person do you think
it has something to do with the inconsistency
of the quantity of opportunities
for certain actors to be showcased?
I mean, I think the quantity has something to do with it, right?
Because some years, like,
Pedro Pascal does three movies
and then next year he's in only one.
Right, right.
Well, I think, you know, you talk about quantity,
which is an interesting conversation,
I feel like if we had more quantity
than we would have more opportunities
to be allowed to fail, right?
I think sometimes you have to be allowed to fail
in order to learn from that failure, you know?
It's just like in any sort of business, right?
Like the more you have, the more could be sacrificed
in order for the others to do well.
Everybody gets more strikes than we do.
Yeah, yeah.
And then so then when we do get that opportunity at bat,
man, we have to hit a home run every single time.
And sometimes that's not humanly possible to do, right?
But that's what's required of us.
And, you know, I think that's maybe a little unfair.
Yeah.
What do you think?
Hum, I think you're right.
I think that's it.
I mean, I think that we have to continue to work
on the all the different connecting tissues
that make Latino entertainment.
Yeah.
And I'm only saying, and let me really, really deep down
on this double down on this is that the Latino entertainment
is mainstream entertainment.
But I only say Latino because it finally comes from us
for the world, right?
Like we're creating and developing things
and putting things out there.
We've never been the entertainers or the artists
that are just like, oh, I'm the brown character, right?
Like we never think of ourselves as that.
Specifically, the two people sitting in this chair, right?
Right.
What I can say is that I think that to your point,
there hasn't been an opportunity to continue to cultivate
the talent we already have because there's a lot
of like that bottlenecking.
And when somebody wants to make something,
there's a usual suspect short list
that is trusted with that stuff.
And I don't think necessarily they,
you know, they get it to the next level, right?
So I think it's about investing in community.
So by investing in the trust in the audience.
And in order to do that is you got to put more, you know,
you got to put more on that screen that test is, you know,
what you've already tested for decades
and decades of content and with other, you know,
configurations.
Yeah, you're right.
There is a short list, you know?
And that short list is always expected to hit a home run.
And many, many times they do,
but sometimes there's another list of people
who may not always hit a home run,
but maybe if they were given more opportunities
that bad that they would, they would hit a home run.
But you brought up an interesting point about Wednesday,
you know, first of all, she was terrific,
as she always is on that show.
But what I really loved about what she was doing,
what Louis was doing and just the whole construct
of that show was that here was the show
about this family, these people.
And she just happened to be Latina, right?
And like Louis Guzman just happened to be Latina.
And I don't, I don't even think,
I don't even know or think if that's mentioned at all
during the series, whether that's important or not, right?
Which is a whole other conversation, right?
Why every time like we're on screen,
it's always, you know, they feel that we have to sort of
emphasize ethnicity, I just feel like they were just people.
There were people who were playing these characters
who did a great job at it.
And they were seen as Americans, right?
And I think that if we had more of that sort of business
model on screen, I think that,
I think that we would have more opportunities
to be more commercially viable.
Exactly.
And to tell the stories that connect with the masses
and general audiences, yeah, absolutely right.
I think piggybacking off of what we just said,
I think that's why it's so important
with what you're doing, for example,
with your company and the stuff that you're producing.
Because I feel like the stuff that you're producing
is very much on track with what we're talking about.
I feel, I feel that you're not have been in this thing
long enough to kind of understand how to really help,
in the kitchen.
And I think to be invited to the kitchen
is to kind of start cooking up some of that solution, right?
Yeah.
But I think we're both been kind of part of that
kind of early forefront to do that.
If I were to ask myself the same question,
is it getting better?
Is it improving?
I will tell you that I remember
that we both always were the only Latino
on the whole network sometimes, right?
It's no longer the case, right?
So when you look at a network like CBS,
there's multiple Latinos in different shows,
there's African-Americans, there's Asian communities
represented, so there's like,
it feels that there's more organic in a more fruitful
kind of interpretation of that.
That being said, it's not enough shows,
there's not enough things.
We're still like a very small percentage
of the storytellers and lead characters and shows
which I think has to still continue to improve and evolve.
I will dare to say that I think the studio's trying
to figure it out, I think they're smart enough to know
they really have to get to the audiences
and I think we're looking at a very interesting moment
of shifting of paradigm.
You know, look coming for a circle to like,
most importantly, the marketing and how we show up
for each other, we've seen more of us show up
for each other's premieres and each other's
as social media campaigns for each other's projects
than before.
You post something about a movie immediately
and repost in it, right?
Back in the day, we didn't have those tools
to be able to show up for each other.
We had to go to a red carpet and be like,
I'm here supporting Freddie.
Right.
Now we can do that,
but then also there's all the ways in which
we can support another.
And I think one another,
and I think that we're seeing this very uplifting moment
where a lot of Latinos I think are showing up
for each other at least in the, you know,
you got a thing, let's all tweet it.
You know, we're getting behind it and, yeah,
there's definitely that system in place now
where that didn't exist before.
You can look at what, you know,
Bad Bunny just did in this, in the halftime,
you know, at the Super Bowl a while ago.
They, you know, they, you know,
the Latino world was like,
yes, we're all in this thing together.
We're all waving our flags, but one together.
Yeah.
You know?
And I think that's what we got to do in entertainment
to kind of keep it pushing.
Yeah, yeah.
There was definitely that,
although he is Puerto Rican and a lot,
and a lot of the show focused on very specific intricacies
that revolve around Puerto Rico.
It felt very unifying, you know,
and it was wonderful to see people of other ethnicities
supporting him and supporting.
And we have to translate that energy
into all the different parts of the thing.
Yeah.
But, you know, but I, listen,
this whole episode was about making sure
that people knew you were nominated for the N.A.
and that you were definitely a part of.
That's what literally what this episode was about.
Especially because you also did an Oscar campaign.
So, I'm just a nice guy.
I appreciate it.
You're one of our great, Senator.
Thank you, my brother.
Thank you, man.
But either way, everyone,
thank you so much for joining us
on our first episode of those amigos.
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Season, those.
And, you know, remember,
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