And I said, “What the heck is this?” And I said, “Oh my god. Then again I go back into being El Pachuco. But relax, weigh the facts, and enjoy the pretense.” Because the Pachuco realities would only make sense if you grasp the stylization. That’s how much it was buried into my brain: “The play you’re about to see is a construct of fact and fantasy. If they didn’t speak Spanish, they were really out of luck. I saw that in writing and said, “What the heck is this?” I saw everybody in the room looking at these words, and they were trying to figure it. And it was very much-do you speak Spanish?ĮJO: Imagine seeing this in writing. I had heard it on the streets, but never seen it written. A big one.” They gave me a piece of paper, which had a monologue written in a language that I had never seen written. I’d love to.” Quickly, I saw her attitude change, and I said, “Yeah, yeah, yeah.” She says, “Be here tomorrow at three o’clock.” And I was there at three o’clock the next day. Would you like to try out for a play?” And I said, “What play?” And she goes, “Would you or wouldn’t you?” And I said, “Well, yes. I didn’t get that role, but when I was walking out I was hit with, “Hey, you.” And I turned around and I saw this young woman who was sitting in an office. I actually went to the Mark Taper Forum to audition for something else. They dress differently now, the chucos.īut I didn’t know anything about Zoot Suit at first.
Not the zoot suiter but the pachuco, the “chuco suave.” Even today they’re still out there. I felt that I knew the character because these are characters that I was raised with in the area where I came from, First and Indiana, between Lorena and Indiana, right down First Street in Boyle Heights. But in this case, this was about the people inside the Latino world. It’s a vehicle it wasn’t like the through line. It’s like learning about Polynesian culture from South Pacific. The closest thing to a Latino-themed theatrical piece was West Side Story, and that really wasn’t about Puerto Ricans. Here I was, singing, dancing, doing drama, doing comedy in a theatrical piece, in a material that had never been seen before in the history of the American theater. My theater performances started to grow and I started to search out better training, and at the same time, continuing to play rock ’n’ roll. The work that I was doing as an actor in theater was really helpful to my performances as a singer. At the same time, I was singing rock ’n’ roll in a nightclub in Hollywood. Club spoke with Olmos about flawed characters, his famous Blade Runner ad lib, what was so difficult about making Selena, and how a motorcycle club became his family.Įdward James Olmos: I started doing theater in 1964 at East L.A. completed, Olmos has been enjoying a few binge watches ( The Crown, The Queen’s Gambit, and watching Battlestar Galactica from beginning to end for the first time).
Blade runner screenplay full#
brings his efforts full circle like Zoot Suit and American Me, the series, from Elgin James and Kurt Sutter, explores a subculture made up of disparate cultures. His performance as the soulful Felipe Reyes in FX’s Mayans M.C. His dedication to his craft is only matched by his dedication to his community, as Olmos continues to highlight Mexican and Mexican American history and culture in his work. With leading roles in everything from Stand And Deliver, American Me, and the Battlestar Galactica reboot, Olmos is one of the prominent Mexican American actors he was the first Mexican American to be nominated for a Best Actor Oscar.
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