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I really want a dog.
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Oh, I actually don't have any pets now.
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I used to have rabbits actually.
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Oh, congratulations on the film.
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Thank you. At the heart of many Latino families is a
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small white dog that one person in the family kind of really
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didn't want, but then ends up falling absolutely in love with
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kind of like someone I know you're familiar with,
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crypto. I'm curious,
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have you ever had a crypto in your life?
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she was a rescue pit bull.
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That we rescued. I actually had a tiny white dog growing
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up that someone did become incredibly fond of it that was a
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nightmare. What was her name?
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Nelson. Nelson. Mine was Lola.
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Millie, Supergirl is someone who leaves the only home she knows
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and carries the memory of her family and her culture.
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That's another thing that a lot of Latino and immigrant communities can
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relate to. How did that aspect of her story shape the
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way you approached that character?
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I could relate. To leaving everything I've ever known in,
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in pursuit of potentially finding myself.
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I'm Australian, I moved to the UK,
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my entire family lives there,
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so I could understand that being completely isolated and,
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and suddenly when you're not surrounded by the people,
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places and things that make up who you are and you're abandoned
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with just yourself, and there's no cornerstones to grab onto,
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you kind of go through that journey of,
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of, Discovery. So Kara was just incredibly accessible to me
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with within that way,
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and I think she will be for a lot of people.
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Many Latino fans are actually very drawn to your character because in
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Spanish Lobo means, were you,
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I'm you're aware of the translation.
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the name has a very different origin.
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What can you tell us about Lobo and who he is and
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what his character represents?
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well, he represents chaos,
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violence, freedom. And I read that you actually grew up
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drawn to Lobel even before you were an actor,
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because you grew up reading these comic books.
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How did reading these comics shape this moment in your career?
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I mean, this is kind of like one of those moments
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where it's, it's a bit of a pinch me moment where
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I'm reading these comics.
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I didn't even think of being an actor,
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40 years later, 30 years later,
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becoming to play my childhood comic books.
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It's pretty crazy, it's pretty wild.
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Who would you like to be if you were a superhero?
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Who, who would you like to play?
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Wonder Woman. There you go.
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How excited would you be to put everything on and go play
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it'd be a dream come true,
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right? Yeah, exactly,
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so I'm not gonna lie to you,
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when I put the like all the prosthetics go on.
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And I'm covered, they put the contacts in and then you
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open your eyes and you look in the mirror,
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you're literally that character,
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every part of you is is covered up and then you get
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to go on the set and.
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Tear it up. What was both of your favorite part about
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bringing Anna Nogaida's Supergirl script to life?
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It was so beautiful,
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and she has also had the experience of being a young woman
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and I think that is so imperative to.
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The way that the story is told,
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and I am very grateful that she was our writer and I
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think that the way that she wrote,
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me and Eve independently is that the these are fully fledged characters
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they don't kind of conform to traditional gender expectations that we
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might have seen before with people in the context of a superhero
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film,. And Anna made a very big importance of
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these, these two women just being people at the end of
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the day, they are just people,
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and that was so refreshing.
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It was. We're human and we're all Supergirl because Familia Mitu
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Supergirl is in theaters June 26th and take your little white dogs
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with you to go watch the movie if you can't sneak them
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in, sneak them in them in.
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