Andy Garcia
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jan 2025
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Plus, he also saw the potential that my brother and I had in the business world. Because we had been trained, and my brother is extremely successful in many things. But he's still in the fragrance business. And I have great admiration for him.
Yeah. Yeah. So... so you know he for him it was a big struggle you know it was a big struggle my mother was more you know and my mother just had you know a sense about her you know i guess you know it's like uh mother knows best you know well you my mother as well knew that you have to follow your heart uh on things that make you happy i believe
And I recently saw Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis. And I know he's been dreaming about this movie for many years. And I saw him and I said, I personally thought the movie was extraordinary, as all these movies are. There's an old Robert Browning quote saying, a man's reach should be greater than his grasp.
or what's a heaven for and all his movies have this kind of you know expansive paid for it himself he's in his 80s now insisted on making it it's the life work uh that is all about this great director's dream and he's done many movies like that where he's paid for himself you know and uh but i said i wrote him when i said francis and i said one of the things i took away from the movie was there's no there's no great obstacle that can't be overcome by a dream
And that's basically it. You know, the only thing that'll keep you in the game and falling forward, always fall forward. Like you said, don't lean back because then you're just keep falling forward and get up. Then you'll be over there. Then you'll be over there. Doesn't have to be big leaps, just steady. And my dad always said that to me before I left. He said, hey, steady and wear a tie.
Present yourself well.
They don't wear ties in Cuba. But he was always about, you know, the discipline of, you know, present yourself well and correctly and be responsible. You know, those things that you learn through watching, you know, through example. Their example, really.
I was always a fan of films all my life as a kid. You know, I just had a fascination like we all do with the movies and I would get lost in them. I remember we used to live in the beach and I used to take a couple of buses, the K and the L to Lincoln Road and on the weekends and always in the summers because they had the double bills.
you know of you know great escape or the bond movies or captain blood you know earl flynn and all these movies and i would just go and get there for the first showing and leave at eight o'clock at night you know watch them two times over so it's two movies twice for four showings you know And I would do that all the time and I would get lost in these movies.
And so I always had a love for films, you know, Peter Sellers and all this, whatever the heroes of the time. And I was I did a couple of plays when I was a kid. One at the North Beach Man Show was my first one. But there were, you know, reviews. 10th Street Auditorium.
But it's still there. The road is still there, right? Just the stores are different. But the bandshell is still there. It's an amazing place and they still play music there. And then the 10th Street Auditorium there on Ocean Drive, I did a thing there. Many, you know, when I was, I don't know, it was probably... But you're dreaming there of that's what I want to do.
I was an athlete, you know. A baseball player, right? Baseball and basketball. When I got to high school, I only played basketball. But I played baseball and basketball all my life. I played football, but flag football. I got too small. I was really too small to really continue playing. But we won the city championship from representing Normandy Isle Park. Played quarterback for the flag.
We played all the parks and we won. So it was fun. I love sports. A good athlete. And then you got mono, right? I got mono my senior year in high school, so I never played my senior year. And then I took an acting class there with a professor. They had Jay Jensen. And I was very stimulated by it, and he was very encouraging.
And that kind of awoke this thing inside of me that I was always interested in. And of course, I was inspired by being enamored with film and television. Of course, Desi Arnaz was a big inspiration to all of us.
He was Cuban. Rita Hayworth. No, she was Mexican, I believe. But Cesar Romero and Desi Arnaz were specifically of the Cuban culture. I might be missing someone else, but on American television, you know. You do realize you are those people for some, yes or no? Yes, I do realize that, yeah.
Yeah. Uh, and, uh, We rode together. We were friends in Miami. We both were acting. He was studying at UM. He had that show, Que Pasa, USA, which I did an episode of.
Great show. It was a great show. And he came, you know, because of his exposure on Que Pasa. He had a contact here and got an agent and came, got immediately a contract at Columbia Pictures Television. They put him on the contract. And I was still at FIU my last year. And he said, hey, you got to come out here, man. There's work, you know? And I said, yeah, I'm going to come out. And I came here.
I stayed with him for about a couple of weeks on his couch. And he got a little apartment here on Fountain in Sycamore, like a storefront apartment. You know, I was on street level with a big plate glass window that you see people walking by all night long. It was a bad choice. Let's not get into that in this thing. Let's not go there.
but uh it was you know crazy times you know right and uh i remember one night there was a knock on the door at three in the morning and i went what the hell what's going on here and the front door was next to the big floor to ceiling wind window solid window with a curtain so you can close the curtain but the street lights would put everybody in silhouette you know it was terrible so you know you had a the traditional thing you have a you have a you know a bed on the floor just a cushion
And a black and white TV that my dad sent me because he used to sell them overseas by the container loads. Black and white, 13-inch on an egg crate. It was for a lot of fun. And I used to eat on top of my conga drums. That was my dining room table. Anyway, it's an interesting look.
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