Adlih Torres on Studio Level Acting
Nicholas And Dj interview actress Adlih Torres. We ask about her life and how she went from living in Puerto Rico to acting in "This is Us". Listen in to find out more.
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Speaker:Now, here are your anchors, Derek Johnson II and Nicholas Killian.
Speaker:Hey, welcome to Film Center.
Speaker:I'm Derek Johnson II.
Speaker:I'm Nicholas Killian.
Speaker:And what are we doing today, Nicholas?
Speaker:Today, we're going to be interviewing some of the cast for our new show.
Speaker:And today we are interviewing, can you please introduce yourself?
Speaker:Hello, my name's Adley Torres.
Speaker:Oh, it's Adley.
Speaker:Oh, hey, Adley.
Speaker:How you doing?
Speaker:Doing good.
Speaker:How are you guys?
Speaker:Doing pretty good.
Speaker:Doing pretty well.
Speaker:And would you mind telling everybody who you're going to be playing?
Speaker:No, she can't do that yet.
Speaker:Oh, she can't?
Speaker:No, because of the NDAs, oh, gotcha.
Speaker:Nicholas, that's why I'm here.
Speaker:You can't do that.
Speaker:You can't say that.
Speaker:However, not yet.
Speaker:Anyway, not yet.
Speaker:Not yet.
Speaker:How but Adley and I, so you guys know, Adley and I have actually
Speaker:known each other for a while.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Film school.
Speaker:God, how long ago was that?
Speaker:I was just calculating in my head.
Speaker:This is what, like five years ago.
Speaker:It's 2019, 2018, 2019.
Speaker:So it was like five, six years ago.
Speaker:Ew.
Speaker:So long.
Speaker:So long.
Speaker:So long ago.
Speaker:That was way back when when Adley got here.
Speaker:I remember when I first met her.
Speaker:Where are you from Adley?
Speaker:From Puerto Rico.
Speaker:I said here.
Speaker:I'm at Los Angeles.
Speaker:Oh, yes I was not born in California But I moved to California from Spain.
Speaker:Yeah, she's been places So she has a nice you're like legitimately Spanish
Speaker:when did you move From Puerto Rico to Spain did you come to america
Speaker:first or went straight to spain?
Speaker:No, I came here first here I don't know the exact year.
Speaker:All I know is like the grades So for like then break it down in grade
Speaker:form When I was four, I moved to orlando Okay, and then second semester
Speaker:of Second grade I moved back to puerto rico And then I stayed there.
Speaker:What was the reason for moving from orlando to puerto rico?
Speaker:Just finding jobs like for my parents like trying to find like
Speaker:a better life, Cuz Puerto Rico the economy is not that great, right?
Speaker:So what are your parents do right now?
Speaker:My currently my dad is just a caregiver to my grandma my mom Not just, he
Speaker:is a kick we celebrate people taking care of their family around here.
Speaker:That's right.
Speaker:That's awesome.
Speaker:He sold his motorcycle so I could come here and study film.
Speaker:Wow.
Speaker:He loves his bikes.
Speaker:That's serious.
Speaker:My uncle loves motorcycles as much as my dad.
Speaker:And they would be like, Oh, no Uber or something.
Speaker:You're not, We'd never do it.
Speaker:That's awesome.
Speaker:That's great.
Speaker:CJ's parents love him very much.
Speaker:We love that.
Speaker:I was being sarcastic.
Speaker:And then what does your mom do?
Speaker:My mom doesn't have a job.
Speaker:She right now is raising my little sister, who I believe is turning four.
Speaker:You don't know.
Speaker:I do not.
Speaker:You don't know how old your sister is?
Speaker:I do not know.
Speaker:I don't even know how old my older sister is.
Speaker:To be fair.
Speaker:She might be 31, maybe turning 32.
Speaker:There's some, there's a little bit of age gaps here.
Speaker:There's, yeah.
Speaker:Yeah, cause you're in your 20s and she's 21.
Speaker:I'm 21?
Speaker:I'm not.
Speaker:You could've fooled me.
Speaker:I'm a 26, 21 year old.
Speaker:So when you're 26 with the spirit of a 21.
Speaker:That's right.
Speaker:So when you were in, you in Spain, were you living there?
Speaker:I was living in Mostoles, which is 40 minutes away from the city Madrid.
Speaker:Oh, I've been to Madrid.
Speaker:It's amazing.
Speaker:I heard the nightlife in Spain is crazy.
Speaker:It's just an all night thing.
Speaker:Or is that in a specific place?
Speaker:I've never been to Barcelona.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:So what I The good thing about Spain is like Your legal drinking age is 18
Speaker:and like clubbing or not 18, right?
Speaker:So I was able to experience that as my first time going out.
Speaker:You When it's like 1 a.
Speaker:m.
Speaker:You have to decide.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:Do I go home now or do I bite the bullet and get home at?
Speaker:6 a.
Speaker:m.
Speaker:Because the train stations closes at 2 a.
Speaker:m.
Speaker:So you're stuck.
Speaker:Oh But the club don't close at 2 like here They close at five, six.
Speaker:So you're, so either you're gonna, it's like a huge commitment, either
Speaker:you're all the way or nothing.
Speaker:Exactly.
Speaker:Either you quit right now or you're just all along for the ride.
Speaker:That's crazy, so you have to decide at one, hey, am I gonna do this
Speaker:all night or am I gonna quit?
Speaker:And this is also assuming that, you are in the right mental state.
Speaker:To even remember to make this decision at one point.
Speaker:Luckily I've been very not sheltered, but sheltered?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:In a way, I didn't experience Protected, exactly.
Speaker:I didn't get to experience blackouts until I'm here in California.
Speaker:You waited till you came here.
Speaker:Just go nuts.
Speaker:I waited till I turned 21 and then I moved here.
Speaker:Because she the legal drinking age of America on the show, no one
Speaker:here has ever broke the law ever.
Speaker:Never.
Speaker:We followed the law.
Speaker:No break areas either.
Speaker:All angels.
Speaker:That's the city to be in.
Speaker:City of angels.
Speaker:So tell us a little bit more about your, the audience, a little
Speaker:bit more about your background.
Speaker:So a lot of people listen to the show, they're either in the industry or they're
Speaker:trying to get into the industry and you have a kind of a unique case where you're.
Speaker:You weren't actually born here, right?
Speaker:And then, you're moving around a bunch and now you're here in L.
Speaker:A.
Speaker:Did something happen when you were, like, younger that really motivated you?
Speaker:Just oh, you know what?
Speaker:I think I want to do this.
Speaker:What precipitated you to want to be in the entertainment industry?
Speaker:What was, what's the story?
Speaker:What's the precipitation?
Speaker:What's the rain?
Speaker:What is rainin now?
Speaker:Give us the rain information.
Speaker:What was the inspiration?
Speaker:Is it 30 percent cloudy?
Speaker:What's the inspiration?
Speaker:30%.
Speaker:It is 99.
Speaker:9 percent cloudy.
Speaker:Everybody, grab your tissues real quick.
Speaker:I didn't want to be me.
Speaker:I wanted to be everybody else but me.
Speaker:So I was like, wow, okay, yeah, like Disney Channel, right?
Speaker:You'd see that Lizzie McGuire all those shows and you like I wanted
Speaker:to be them their life So cool.
Speaker:And then like when I lived in Orlando, it's pretty cool It's really cool.
Speaker:And then everybody that was friends with in elementary like they and I
Speaker:would go to their houses It was like these big houses, like The granite
Speaker:countertop, the island, and everything.
Speaker:They always had like their fridge stocked with every snack they wanted.
Speaker:And I was like, I want this life.
Speaker:Not saying that I hate my life, sometimes, but.
Speaker:Hey everybody hate a little bit, but I didn't want the life that I had.
Speaker:So I was like, exactly.
Speaker:So I was like, if I could do acting, not only could it help me get that life, but I
Speaker:could be different people live different.
Speaker:Do you find that acting helps you out in the therapy of becoming
Speaker:more comfortable in your own skin?
Speaker:Oh, 100%.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:100%.
Speaker:How do you think that helps you?
Speaker:It's for example, in real life, I hate confrontation.
Speaker:I hate it because I know as soon as I start speaking, What I feel.
Speaker:I start crying.
Speaker:I'm a cry baby.
Speaker:You're very emotional.
Speaker:I am very emotional because I've never had a good way to express how I feel.
Speaker:Yes, to be fair, one of the things that originally Me and Adley, I think
Speaker:we, I think actually when we first met it was in that the casting thing.
Speaker:Pandora.
Speaker:Yes!
Speaker:Yes, we were, I wasn't casting for that.
Speaker:It was the one before you were in somebody else's and you are a reader for them.
Speaker:I remember this, but hold on, we're getting off track.
Speaker:I'm gonna let you finish real fast and then I'm going to
Speaker:tell you how I met Adley.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:I was thinking like, was it for Inez?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:So you were a reader.
Speaker:So back in the day, me and Adley were in film school.
Speaker:And I was studying she was studying acting, I was studying filmmaking.
Speaker:. And one of my friends needed help in this casting process.
Speaker:So I went a casting room and a Lee's the reader.
Speaker:And I only bring this up now 'cause she's talking about emotions I like to read.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Ali's reading while people are coming in and auditioning and Aly,
Speaker:I was like, who is this person?
Speaker:Because she could, she can cry on command, but it's not just she's like.
Speaker:She's very emotional.
Speaker:So that's why I was like, oh my gosh, who is this person?
Speaker:And she was like, oh my god All right, cool.
Speaker:Next person.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:Are you ready?
Speaker:Okay, here we go Okay, cool, thanks for coming in I was like Who is his first?
Speaker:And then I like to cry.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And then I casted her in my very first short film, Rude Panic.
Speaker:I just remember doing this stunt where we had to smash my head into the table.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Yeah, that was quite dangerous.
Speaker:Wait, hold on.
Speaker:You had to smash your head into a table?
Speaker:That was to see, don't make it sound so bad.
Speaker:DJ, why would you write this woman getting smashed into a table?
Speaker:It was for the scene, man.
Speaker:It was for this script.
Speaker:Sounds very misogynistic.
Speaker:It's not.
Speaker:First of all, in this script, she's the only one with powers.
Speaker:All right.
Speaker:Don't try to, don't try to like, don't try to like, make it seem
Speaker:like I didn't say anything.
Speaker:I just called it like Adley's how do you get so emotional and cry all the time?
Speaker:She was like, because I always want to cry.
Speaker:That's always my secret cap.
Speaker:I'm always sad, especially when the director tells me that.
Speaker:The stunt is my head going against the table.
Speaker:Which, by the way, was very safe.
Speaker:I don't know.
Speaker:That's what it looks like.
Speaker:So how many times did you have to get your head smashed in the table?
Speaker:We only did that like a couple of times.
Speaker:I lost count.
Speaker:So you don't like women.
Speaker:That's what you're saying.
Speaker:No, dude, what is wrong with you, man?
Speaker:My mom listens to this.
Speaker:I'm just trying to make it as worst as I possibly can.
Speaker:Obviously.
Speaker:So you're a very emotional person.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:I think that playing these and playing these other characters, does that What?
Speaker:When I met Sir Ben Kingsley for the first time actually it was at NYFA
Speaker:one of the things that he said that was quite interesting about acting
Speaker:is that by playing other people, you get to know yourself more.
Speaker:Do you think that's true?
Speaker:A hundred percent.
Speaker:It's like an extension of yourself.
Speaker:It's I don't know where I heard this.
Speaker:I want to say maybe it was Zuko in Avatar saying that the sword is like
Speaker:an extension of yourself whenever he's like fighting, but it's there.
Speaker:He's the blue ghost.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And it's it's basically that Every character that you play, it's
Speaker:some kind of version of yourself.
Speaker:Do you feel that whenever you're playing a character, you can then
Speaker:look inside yourself and almost that character has a conversation with you?
Speaker:Can you repeat that again in different words?
Speaker:So I guess what I'm saying is whenever you're the character, can you then look
Speaker:through the character's eyes and think how you would act in this situation?
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:And does that help you get more comfortable in your own skin
Speaker:as you go on and provide more characters life into themselves?
Speaker:A hundred percent.
Speaker:I know it's very like they, different acting teachers will tell
Speaker:you like how to approach certain scenarios, certain characters.
Speaker:They, some of them always say don't do what you would do and
Speaker:stuff like that, but you have to.
Speaker:At least do what you would do at least once to see what not to do.
Speaker:If this character was that version of you, what would they do?
Speaker:Kind of thing.
Speaker:What are the processes for you as an actress?
Speaker:So the general idea for some acting teachers might have is
Speaker:you have to leave a piece of you in every person that you play.
Speaker:Disclaimer, Nicholas has way more acting experience than I do.
Speaker:This is why he's pulling out the chops here.
Speaker:I, let me go back to my notes real quick.
Speaker:On page 32 of this book, But what is it that you do to leave a piece of
Speaker:yourself that you discover the character and then what do you do to leave a
Speaker:piece of yourself once you move on?
Speaker:I'm not really sure.
Speaker:I, obviously I try to be as present as I can and try not to do the
Speaker:scene as Oh, I should be upset here.
Speaker:I should be like, not breathing here.
Speaker:Hold my pauses and stuff like that.
Speaker:I tried to like, what happens.
Speaker:And just for example, when when we did Pandora, like we did rip patting.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Rip patting.
Speaker:I tried to be.
Speaker:and then just feed off my, like my co star and just be they're giving
Speaker:me like X, I'm not going to go all the way to back to a and go raw.
Speaker:One of, one of our what's really interesting about, so Ripette, she played
Speaker:the lead Pandora in Rip Petting and she played across the Anatoly Panchenko.
Speaker:Anatoly.
Speaker:Yeah, Anatoly.
Speaker:He's in he's in, I think he's in Morocco right now because
Speaker:he was on He's doing great.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And then also Adly was in, was in This Is Us, but we're going
Speaker:to talk about that in a second.
Speaker:I was, yeah.
Speaker:People forget.
Speaker:What do you do when the person's we were just talking about how you feed
Speaker:off the other person's energy and that's how you make the scene more authentic.
Speaker:What do you do as an actress when you're not getting anything?
Speaker:There's nothing.
Speaker:The person's there and giving you the lines, but they're
Speaker:basically giving you nothing.
Speaker:Nothing emotionally.
Speaker:When they give me nothing I try to like not force it, but it's weird.
Speaker:If we were to like, visualize it as like a superpower, it's I'm Violet from the
Speaker:Incredibles with the force field, right?
Speaker:So it's if you're not doing anything, I try to like, okay.
Speaker:Let me try to drive the scene, but not so much where it's like
Speaker:exploding, but it's like getting you inside the force field with me.
Speaker:And how do you go about doing that?
Speaker:You just You got to feel it out as a monument?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:You just got to How can I attack this?
Speaker:How can I help this person out?
Speaker:Because we got to get through the scene.
Speaker:that you really don't get frustrated.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Something that you're really good at is bringing out that emotional core.
Speaker:And there are some people who say a lot about they call actor fatigue, right?
Speaker:Was like, Oh, I've done the scene, or I've done one particular section of the script.
Speaker:We've shot it like eight, nine times, but that happens sometimes.
Speaker:How do you keep?
Speaker:How do you keep?
Speaker:How do you keep that actor's endurance?
Speaker:You know what I mean?
Speaker:Cause especially in some scenes where they're very emotional, it's
Speaker:hard to just turn it on and off.
Speaker:I The type of person that I am is like, I'm very Like, like You just met me today,
Speaker:but you can get like that I'm very like Bright and very like go getter type.
Speaker:I try to Get out of character as soon as it's cut maybe give two minutes
Speaker:back to this bright self, And then where it's like, all right, let's go.
Speaker:All right, let's go back to Do you think that takes more skill
Speaker:to do that hop in and out then to just be method the whole time?
Speaker:It's I feel like it's more exhausting if it's Just keeping it method
Speaker:and staying in that character.
Speaker:Because I would think that it takes more skill to sit there and have a
Speaker:deep emotional scene and then come jump out, be all bright how you
Speaker:naturally are, and then have to go into it instead of just being stable.
Speaker:Actually when I was talking to, this actually reminds me, when I was talking
Speaker:to Sir Ben Kingsley, he said a lot about acting Being arrows and a quiver
Speaker:where you're acting is, when you're actually acting as the character,
Speaker:just pulling out the arrow, pulling it and stuff like that, but when you're
Speaker:done with the scene, you just let it go, and then it's no longer with you.
Speaker:Would you agree with that?
Speaker:I do.
Speaker:Cause if you keep holding on to it, even if it's like, You rapped and everything
Speaker:and you're still dwelling on that like that feeling it's gonna you up.
Speaker:How do you come out of that like sometimes people watch videos to come out of like
Speaker:you have a deep heavy emotional scene Some people watch south park or the wiggles
Speaker:or you know something Yeah, definitely.
Speaker:You know what?
Speaker:That's what I always do after a hard day of work.
Speaker:I turn on the wiggles and tell him Fruit salad yummy.
Speaker:So you don't ruminate in that emotion.
Speaker:I just start cra I love the backyard kids.
Speaker:I start cracking jokes.
Speaker:I just, the first thing that comes to mind as soon as I like that was terrible.
Speaker:And then just everybody starts laughing or something and it's cool.
Speaker:We're moving on.
Speaker:Do you do you find yourself what more roles are you usually attracted to?
Speaker:Is it more dramatic or comedic for you?
Speaker:It's I feel like I've done definitely more dramatic.
Speaker:I would love to do more comedic Which is why I started doing like sketches
Speaker:to like tap into that Some of your sketches have gotten a lot of use.
Speaker:Oh, yeah.
Speaker:I don't know how and why Yeah I'm, like, I guess it's the curse of being talented.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Oh my gosh.
Speaker:I'm sorry.
Speaker:I'm the golden girl Success.
Speaker:Oh my gosh, isn't that god give me my vine street hollywood star now, right?
Speaker:They have to pay for those right They pay now, they used
Speaker:to not have to pay for them.
Speaker:Oh, they used to not have to pay for them?
Speaker:Yeah, now they have to pay for them.
Speaker:Now they have to pay 30 grand to get their star.
Speaker:Only 30 grand?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Easy peasy.
Speaker:That kind of makes sense now because, I don't know, it started with
Speaker:Macaulay Culkin getting his star.
Speaker:And oddly enough, every other person started getting a star
Speaker:right after, and I'm like, It was like a shooting star, right?
Speaker:Yeah, Willem Dafoe, Zac Efron, Mark Ruffalo, and I'm like, deserved.
Speaker:But at the same time, it's now it makes sense.
Speaker:They got the money, they discovered, oh, that's You know what's interesting?
Speaker:I hear that, I think that that was also playing around the time where
Speaker:they were trying to get more tourism in Los Angeles, which is wild.
Speaker:Because it's Hollywood.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:It's literally Hollywood . What do you mean?
Speaker:You need America's biggest export?
Speaker:But something about that area.
Speaker:So for those of you who are listening and who might not know about Los,
Speaker:anything about Los Angeles, the street the walk of Famous Han.
Speaker:It's not the greatest.
Speaker:I was there last night.
Speaker:It's stinky.
Speaker:It's cleaner than Bourbon Street, I'll tell you that.
Speaker:It's cleaner than Bourbon Street in New Orleans, which is, that's
Speaker:not really saying anything at all.
Speaker:Bourbon's pretty bad.
Speaker:Pretty bad.
Speaker:It's the same type of energy.
Speaker:It's, the.
Speaker:It's like a little piece of New York.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:It's like a little piece of New York in LA, even though it's the, in front
Speaker:of the Chinese theater, you were in, this is us and that's really awesome.
Speaker:Cause I remember being like, oh my gosh.
Speaker:I I know this person.
Speaker:This is crazy.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:I always like seeing my friends win.
Speaker:What was the.
Speaker:That process like you're playing the younger version of a character.
Speaker:Yeah, right So and the reason why I bring this up is because you're basically
Speaker:having to be someone who this is us It's a very popular show You're having to
Speaker:be someone who's on already established character and yet take that character
Speaker:and make it a new spin on it to be the younger version What was that like?
Speaker:When I got the audition I haven't seen I knew of the show and whatnot.
Speaker:Especially because the person that I was dating at a time worked on
Speaker:it as a PA and that's how I knew a little bit more about like the
Speaker:actors and who they are and whatnot.
Speaker:And then I got the audition while I was just working my
Speaker:escape room job at the time.
Speaker:And I'm like, is this real?
Speaker:Is this, hello?
Speaker:And so I see it like.
Speaker:I'm like Googling like who the character might be because they gave me like the
Speaker:name like Beatrice and I was like Trying to find and I'm like, I can't find
Speaker:Anybody so I asked him and I was like, hey, is there this character like that?
Speaker:You might know who it is so I can finding them Yeah, so I can try to find who it
Speaker:is so I can do my research No, I don't know who that is and stuff like that.
Speaker:And I was like, and he works on the show and I'm like, great.
Speaker:So it turns out this character was, hasn't been introduced yet.
Speaker:It was just the main character, like Miguel's mother.
Speaker:So I had to play the young version in a flashback in the
Speaker:1950s or something like that.
Speaker:And I was like, cool, I have to watch the whole show now to get, I
Speaker:only made it to like episode four.
Speaker:Before I did my audition.
Speaker:I call those auditions.
Speaker:They don't give you a lot of time.
Speaker:They're like, Hey, we love you.
Speaker:We liked for you to come in for our edition.
Speaker:You have 24 hours.
Speaker:And I've auditioned for a lot of things.
Speaker:Before that audition, I haven't gotten anything, which is a big toll to pay.
Speaker:And yeah, which it sucks.
Speaker:Cause it messes up your jobs because they're like, Hey, so you
Speaker:know that thing you submitted for.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:We need you to come in at.
Speaker:1 p.
Speaker:m.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:I have a job that I need to pay bills and I can't come in now And then
Speaker:you call up your boss and it's hey, I guess it's yeah you've already
Speaker:been scheduled So, I don't know.
Speaker:Are you trying to trade shifts with someone?
Speaker:This way I call out I will call out on the spot I one thing I you know,
Speaker:I have a lot of respect for actors.
Speaker:Is that okay?
Speaker:Especially when you're coming up as an actor You apply to so much stuff.
Speaker:You don't hear back from a lot of them.
Speaker:And then some you do hear back, you're like, is this it or is this not it?
Speaker:And then when you do get something, it's thank it's about time.
Speaker:That, like it's pretty interesting.
Speaker:So when you're playing a younger version of a certain character do you really
Speaker:have to do anything to make you feel like, okay, I'm, this is believable.
Speaker:Not really.
Speaker:All I knew I had to do it in Spanish, right?
Speaker:Así.
Speaker:The character the main character, Miguel, played by John Huertas, he's Puerto Rican.
Speaker:His character is Puerto Rican.
Speaker:Obviously, I'm Puerto Rican.
Speaker:Duh.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:It fits.
Speaker:And it was like, we're back on the island in 1950s.
Speaker:And that's basically it.
Speaker:And my son who's seven years old is him.
Speaker:And I was like, I don't really have that much to pull through.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:I can watch the show, but there's Miguel is just Miguel.
Speaker:Like he's his own person.
Speaker:Compared to his mother.
Speaker:Exactly.
Speaker:And I don't know who was going to play the older version, which she
Speaker:killed it by the way, but I was like, okay, I got to speak Spanish.
Speaker:When I speak Spanish.
Speaker:My accent is mixed because I've grew up speaking Puerto Rican Spanish,
Speaker:but then at the same time, English.
Speaker:And then when I moved to Spain, it's Castilian Spanish for six years there.
Speaker:Everything is mumbled, jumbled, so it's Great.
Speaker:So what do I do after I go to Forever 21 and buy a 5 dress from
Speaker:the sales rack that fits the era?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:I blast Bad Bunny on my way to the self tape.
Speaker:Yeah, Bad Bunny, alright.
Speaker:I love Bad Bunny.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And so I, and then I also talk, try to talk to my mom.
Speaker:Whenever I talk to my mom on the phone, the, my accent comes
Speaker:out more because we're just more Puerto Rican and it's more casual.
Speaker:So it, it's comes out better.
Speaker:Is there a difference between the Spanish here and Puerto Rican Spanish?
Speaker:Yes, because I feel like there's more of like Mexican population here.
Speaker:And there's very rare Puerto Ricans.
Speaker:Like every time I find one, it's very Oh, you're Puerto Rican.
Speaker:Oh my God.
Speaker:There's there's nobody else here, but you.
Speaker:And it's yeah, okay.
Speaker:I love you, but the accents are interesting.
Speaker:I personally when I speak to my cousins from Cuba, they're at it.
Speaker:They don't sound like they're speaking Spanish to me.
Speaker:But they don't sound like they're Mexican.
Speaker:I thought like when I'm here in Los Angeles, I'm used to like Mexican
Speaker:Spanish compared to and then Cuban and Dominican accent are like, are both
Speaker:also like their own accents, but they're still like within the same pool, right?
Speaker:Just on the other side of the pool.
Speaker:Like you got the pool and then you got the jacuzzi and then you got, however,
Speaker:the reason why I say this because Spain Spanish is like massively different.
Speaker:The accent is they don't even say be we would be like Azul, right?
Speaker:But they don't say Azul, they say Azul, that T H.
Speaker:Azul.
Speaker:Yeah, with the Z's.
Speaker:I remember when I first went to Spain, I was like, Are you speaking Spanish?
Speaker:You have to be.
Speaker:This is Spain.
Speaker:You have a lisp.
Speaker:Antonio Banderas.
Speaker:Penelope Cruz.
Speaker:Yeah, that was crazy.
Speaker:Did you, so did you take a lot of inspiration from your mother, then?
Speaker:Who would My grandmother.
Speaker:Oh, your grandmother.
Speaker:I started, I was like, mom sent me pictures of grandma and that's where I got
Speaker:like the inspo to get the dress which is like Yes, it was like a mini dress like
Speaker:above my knees, but you didn't see that in the self tape You saw like from here
Speaker:up like chest up And it was very like turtlenecky like long sleeved floral like
Speaker:a deep burgundy scarlet color And I was like this fits and then I was like, let
Speaker:me go natural with the hair, like curly.
Speaker:And I did everything in Spanish.
Speaker:My reader, Jed, she's amazing.
Speaker:She did it in English because in the script, like in the sites, it was
Speaker:on one side, English, and then the other side translates to Spanish.
Speaker:So we did it and we did, Was it awkward because you practiced it
Speaker:in Spanish probably and then she's saying in English It wasn't because I
Speaker:can't like immediately like translate and hear like it's not as hard to
Speaker:Because your bilingual is like back.
Speaker:Yeah, and it's crazy because it's like I whenever people ask me So what's
Speaker:your first language english or spanish?
Speaker:I'm like, oh Both at the same time.
Speaker:It's both in need at the same time.
Speaker:'cause I grew up with both of them.
Speaker:With the character that you were playing, what was the pre-life like for you, for
Speaker:the character that you came up with?
Speaker:Very poor life.
Speaker:We come from scraps pause.
Speaker:We have to tell the audience what pre-life is.
Speaker:Oh.
Speaker:Those of you who might not know, even though we do have some people, listen,
Speaker:there's some people who listen to the show who want to get industry.
Speaker:Adley, could you explain to the audience what pre life means?
Speaker:Now that you actually won the definition, now I'm nervous.
Speaker:Because I was like, pre life, oh, that means like the backstory?
Speaker:Yep.
Speaker:Oh, correct.
Speaker:Hey!
Speaker:10 points for me!
Speaker:10 points!
Speaker:Put them on the board!
Speaker:Because, as I'm sure you can tell, most of the time when you get a
Speaker:character, there is no backstory.
Speaker:So you have to come up with the backstory.
Speaker:And then you have to come up with the backstory that happened right before the
Speaker:scene so that you don't go into it cold.
Speaker:Most of it is already there, like on the script.
Speaker:So in the dialogue, she's talking about how, Oh, we can't move to
Speaker:the States because you did get fired from your job, but see if
Speaker:there's something else you can do.
Speaker:See if someone else can help you get a job or something.
Speaker:We just, I don't want to leave the island because the island is all we know.
Speaker:And I'm scared.
Speaker:So it's all there.
Speaker:So we don't come from a lot of money.
Speaker:My husband got laid off work.
Speaker:We have a kid.
Speaker:I have a sister to support who is disabled.
Speaker:So it's it's all just there.
Speaker:And you just gotta here's the thing.
Speaker:The good thing, which is another reason why I booked is
Speaker:because it's my life in a way.
Speaker:Like I come from Puerto Rico, right?
Speaker:Check.
Speaker:My older sister is disabled.
Speaker:Check.
Speaker:I had to take care of her, help my mother.
Speaker:Check.
Speaker:We didn't come for money and we moved to the States to see if we
Speaker:can get jobs and Triple check.
Speaker:Check check.
Speaker:Eight check.
Speaker:When my manager at the time pitched me, he wrote that.
Speaker:He wrote my story, and they were like, Alright, let's go for the audition.
Speaker:Didn't hear for a while.
Speaker:My manager, I sent him everything.
Speaker:He's Hey, so when's the due date?
Speaker:And I was like, An hour ago.
Speaker:And he's Oh my god okay.
Speaker:And then he sent it, and I was like, That's it.
Speaker:I'm not getting it.
Speaker:At all.
Speaker:Cause it was an hour ago, yeah, for you.
Speaker:Pass the deadline.
Speaker:And then, randomly, like a few days later, I'm like at work, like a
Speaker:busy restaurant nightlife Friday night, and we're about to like open.
Speaker:He's like Calling me and I'm like, oh great.
Speaker:Like we didn't make it.
Speaker:He's hey, what's up?
Speaker:Hey, you're on avail and I was like Wait, what?
Speaker:What that's crazy didn't even get a call back or anything because you're
Speaker:like the way how I got taught It's like you did the audition Get a call back.
Speaker:Maybe do one more call back Avail, you know this went straight to avail
Speaker:and then i'm like Is this happening?
Speaker:And then my friends were like, you're on a veil.
Speaker:Does it mean like you got it?
Speaker:And I was like great.
Speaker:It just means your own deck.
Speaker:Exactly.
Speaker:And then I get the call, like after doing a COVID test like the
Speaker:other day, cause I started Oh, like looking at my car plate and Don's
Speaker:gonna call me and he's calling now.
Speaker:And then I'm like, yeah, I'm not getting it.
Speaker:Probably give it to somebody else.
Speaker:And then, Hey, you got it.
Speaker:And I was like, That's awesome.
Speaker:Me?
Speaker:Where were you at when you got it?
Speaker:I was, I don't know if it was like near Glendale or something like that.
Speaker:I was getting a cover test for a print commercial booking that I
Speaker:did for Disney, like Disneyland.
Speaker:So I was like driving back from that.
Speaker:So I was like, driving.
Speaker:And I was like, let's go!
Speaker:Yeah, I always play, every time something really great that happens or I get
Speaker:the gig, I always play I'm a Boss.
Speaker:Oh, I blasted Bad Bunny again.
Speaker:I was like, I'm a boss.
Speaker:I'm like, yeah, I love this song.
Speaker:Yeah!
Speaker:Adley, it's been so great to have you on the show.
Speaker:Thank you for having me.
Speaker:Do you have anything that you want to shout out or where anyone can follow you?
Speaker:You can follow me on Anywhere and everywhere.
Speaker:What's your Instagram?
Speaker:It's give us your handles.
Speaker:Adley Bytes.
Speaker:And that's A-D-L-I-H, Hilda Backwards, which is my mom's name.
Speaker:Oh, I, yeah, I had, and it's Adley, not Adi or Adli or Ashley or Ellen.
Speaker:I've gotten a on set once.
Speaker:That's unfortunate.
Speaker:Really.
Speaker:That person should be fired.
Speaker:, probably . But it's been so great to have you here.
Speaker:Hey guys, this is Film Center News.
Speaker:I'm Derek Johnson II.
Speaker:I'm Nicholas Killian.
Speaker:And we're here with Adley Torres.
Speaker:And we'll see you next time.
Speaker:See ya.
Speaker:This has been Film Center on Comic Con Radio.
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