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Please help me welcome Miguel Mora to meet.
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the black phone rang again and you answered,
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but this time as the role of Ernesto in black phone too
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I got brought back to life as a little brother.
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and how does it feel to be back and like you went
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from being Robin to Ernesto?
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What can you tell us about that?
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Well, I feel really grateful to be back and be a
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part. Of a sequel this big coming back to a
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sequel is a great opportunity,
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but I think coming back to a sequel to portray a new
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character is something really special.
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That to me is something really exciting.
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So you did a really good job because I didn't even know
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you were Robin in the first one like because you portrayed these
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two different characters like the tough older brother and then the the
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younger brother that's a little like you like yeah.
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Yeah, it's adorable.
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but what excited you the most in returning to Black phone2
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When I read the script for the first time I was
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really confused on how they were gonna make a sequel because I
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knew that they were gonna make a sequel in 2022.
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I congratulated him for the film and I said hey hope you
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guys make the sequel like seriously big congrats and he's.
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Said we are gonna make a sequel and you're gonna be a
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part of it and I was like how my character died and
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like literally like a year and a half later I
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get the phone call for Black Phone 2 and there we go
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the director's phone call and that's when he told me,
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OK, we're bringing you back to play Ernesto.
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Ernesto is Robin's younger brother and he kind of just broke it
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down to me there like who Ernesto is and.
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Different different persona, different character.
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When I got the script I was like this is,
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this is gonna be a big thing like even when we
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were filming it, you know,
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you feel the energy on set like everybody just kind of knew
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That we're making something special here.
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were horror movies a part of your life and are there
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any Latino horror stories or legends that influenced you?
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I think the horror culture has always been something I grew up
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with. I think it's such a traditional thing for the Mexican
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culture to just scare the crap out of you growing up,
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La Lloronaca like all these like creatures.
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So yeah, I think growing up with that world of of
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being. Terrified and scared is is something where I'm not not
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new to me, you know.
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And then with me growing up Latina too,
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it's like it's funny how parents would use fear to kind of
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like, right, like and it's like no right or don't
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don't play with dolls too late or else they're gonna come
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alive and grab you by the feet and it's just like senorte
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you know, it's like crazy.
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No, you're just at the like at the store and like
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that happened to me before like ah you wanna yeah yeah and
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you believe it, you,
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you know, so that's how you know you get taught to
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be disciplined in the Mexican cultures through horror we love us Latinos
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we love scary movies.
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I say it's a special.
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in Mexico it's really cool to see how big the fandom is
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in Mexico for black phone too that's something I'm so grateful to
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see. We're proud of you for representing,
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you know, the culture we're like,
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oh he's Latino you know what I mean for sure that's a
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big big that's something I I pride myself on a lot you
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know growing up first generation Mexican American,
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you know, you grow up with that pride of of your
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roots and being able to portray.
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Two characters now Robin Arellano was Mexican American and now Ernesto Arellano
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is Mexican American, so it's not,
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it's not just Miguel Mora that's Mexican American.
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It's also the characters that I'm portraying,
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you know, I'm working alongside Damian Bichi,
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who's a Mexican actor.
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Such a pleasure. Ariana,
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She's,, a Latina actress.
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You know it's it's cool to see that in this sequel there's
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more Latinos now you know there's something we're really proud of and
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I hope all my Latinos and Chicanos,
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Mexican Americans are proud of it as well.
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That's great and it it looks like there's a lot that's gonna
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happen in the future for you and we're very excited for you
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you have like such a bright future and we're super super proud
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of you. Thank you for representing you and let's give it
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up for Miguel Mora guys.
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Thank you guys. Thank you so much and Black Phone
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2 comes out in theaters October 17th.
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Don't miss it, guys.
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if you love, you know,
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it is a little gory too,
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so yeah, it's it's a whole,
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a whole roller coaster,
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so definitely go, go check it out October 17 October 17th
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