Harvey Guillén

Ah,

Absolutely.

I will audition for anything because I had been trying for years and I always get close and I always go with someone with a name or someone else who's been in the business for years.

Because, you know, to be in animation, I think you have to be able to do like a million voices.

And those people work and they constantly want to, you know, they book the next gig and they work with the same group of people.

So it's a tighter community to get into, I feel like, because it's, I think of it this way.

Think about the actor who did TV and film and movies.

and whatnot and then after a while they're like i don't want to worry about what my hair looks like i don't want to worry about like what i wore and i don't want to worry about my height my you know my weight or whatever what can you do that is performing but still part of the artistic world it's voiceover the whole world and universe with just your voice you can't rely on your you know mannerisms or your facial expressions because you're not in front of the camera all you can rely is telling a story through your voice and that's hard sometimes i go home more exhausted from voiceover than i do from on camera because

you have to convey everything empathy love hate all these emotions through your voice and through your acting which if you think about it close your eyes and if you can't see it then you didn't do a good job absolutely yeah it's um it's an audio cinema right yeah yeah and so um i got

I offered to do a Puss in Boots and it was next to Antonio Andres and Salma Hayek, which I grew up watching.

And those were mom and dad, like mom and dad, Latino community where Antonio Andres and Salma Hayek, when, when they succeeded, when it was one feather on their hats, it was a feather on all our hats because it was like watching someone or representation, uh,

was so limited.

And so I was just like, gosh, I get to like do this with both of them.

And that's so cool to join them as like the third musketeer in this movie.

And I was just, you know, super excited.

And the product that came out was like, the animation style was like the cutting edge.

And like, it was really cool.

I got nominated for an Academy Award.

I didn't think that my first nomination for an Academy Award would be performing as Perrito.

But you take it any way you can get it.