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Paola Núñez on Hollywood

June 7, 2024
Mexican actress Paola Núñez on how telenovelas gave her crying “muscle memory” for her upcoming “Bad Boys: Ride or Die.”
Show transcript
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We are here with Paula Nunez from the new Bad Boys Movie
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Ride or Die. I hi,
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welcome. Thank you.
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Thank you for coming on.
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Jump into it. I have to ask how excited is your
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family to see you like on the big screen?
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I don't know how we're excited.
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Are you? So my mom's here visiting I guess she's
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pretty, you know,
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my mom is always just so what can I say?
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She's my mom. She's so proud of me and everything that
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I do. She's like,
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yay Miha, you're the best.
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And I'm like, no,
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I'm not. But thank you mom.
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So, but it's funny because now that when I started working
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in the States and I started doing things in English,
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I never came back to Mexico until now.
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Actually. Now I'm shooting moving Spanish.
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But sometimes when I'm doing stuff like this like bad boys,
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she's proud of me,
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but she's also like,
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I need you to come back and do something in Spanish because
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you know, because people ask me all the time,
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are you going to come back and do like telenovelas and stuff
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So, yeah,
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so now I'm back in Mexico shooting in Spanish so she can
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be proud of me again.
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So she's your number one fan,
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you would say definitely she's my number one fan.
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And actually speaking of Novelas,
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how does being on a Novela set prepare you for the Hollywood
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Sphere? Because I'm sure it's way different.
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I think doing telenovelas is the best,
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the best preparation for an actor,
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the best I've worked with,
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like I worked with actors here in the States that have only
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done like movies. And if they have like an emotional scene
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you know, they have to prepare with their headphones and
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just like listening to dark music or I don't know what they're
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listening to. Being a Tenno Vla actor is like,
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it opens the floodgate for like emotion flight gate.
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You know, it's like if they say like cry,
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I'm crying, it becomes like a muscle.
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You're so in touch with your emotional self,
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with your emotions when you tell novellas because everything happens to you
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It's a roller coaster in one episode.
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Yeah. And also you shoot so many episodes and like so
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many scenes a day you have to deliver and you have to
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memorize really quickly. So I think it's been great for me
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now that I'm doing other stuff because I can go in and
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out, in and out,
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in and out. So,
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yeah, I'm really proud of my telenovela background.
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I love that. What would you say is a highlight of
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being on set on a telenovela,
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all the slapping. No,
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that's what I was going to ask,
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dramatic slaps in Spanish.
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You know, like the genre melodrama genre is so specific that
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if you take it seriously,
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it's just not going to work.
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When I started doing 10 novelas.
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I tried to be logical and I was like,
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but this doesn't make sense.
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My character wouldn't do.
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Why would I slap my mom?
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Stuff like that? And,
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and like, what do you mean?
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I have a twin sister and I don't know if she wears
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glasses and I don't identify her or stuff like that.
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It's a trick you have to learn to have fun,
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but also make it real,
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right? And that's when people start to enjoy your characters,
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you can actually do complex interesting vulnerable characters within the genre.
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So I think that's the fun of,
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of, of doing things,
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novelas like you have to believe it,
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but also you have to not take yourself really seriously.
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And that's almost like your job to entertain and make them happy
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and make them cry and just make them feel all of these
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scale of emotions that your character is going to feel.
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Also, I have to ask like,
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what's, what's your favorite telenovela word?
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Des gra? I don't know.
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What's your favorite word that they say?
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I guess that would be my,
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how dare you? I love that.
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And for bad boys,
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are you doing any crazy action scenes that we should be on
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the look out for.
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I have one amazing action scene and inside an elevator that I
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prepared during the whole movie for it.
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And when we shot it,
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I was really, really excited.
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And then I had my stunt girl with me and,
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and she was prepared to do all the sequence,
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but I was like,
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no, I want to do it.
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I want to do it because I prepared the whole movie for
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it and I'm excited to see it.
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I haven't seen it.
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I'm excited to see it and I hope it came out great
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because I had an amazing time doing it and I hope,
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I hope it looks amazing.
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I'm sure it did.
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He said you have a and so now you're sprinkling in that
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action for sure. Well,
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well, thank you so much Paula.
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We really appreciate you coming on and we can't wait to see
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the movie and we're so proud of you.
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Congratulations. Thank you guys and don't miss for all your audience
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Don't, don't miss Bad Boys Ride or Dies.
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You know, it's gonna deliver the same amazing sequences,
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action sequences and especially that banter that will and Martin has and
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my character Rita Secara is coming back.
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So I hope you enjoy it and I hope you like it
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and we deliver and we don't disappoint you.
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We're excited. Take care.
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Bye bye guys. Don't forget and don't miss out Bad Boys
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Ride or Die is coming to theaters,
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June 7th and it is gonna be good.
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Like Jenny's dad said,
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Pion, my dad loves the,
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loves the o especially,
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it's like nonstop action.
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This is the one.