John Huertas
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703 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 8 Sep
John Huertas’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And then I told Dan and Jess, I was like, hey, I saw Zetna and they're like, we can't get her. We've been trying to get her back. And I was like, she coming back, y'all.
You want to speak to it a little bit? Yeah, I mean, first of all, Johnny, who wrote that episode, did such a great job. We, in the writers room, broke the episode, broke the story. And I remember just talking about all the ideas that we wanted to try to, you know, like a list of ideas for the episode that I thought three of these will make in the episode.
And somehow Johnny got almost everything in there. And so that was a big thing. And a lot of it came from, you know, my own personal experience being, you know, an Afro Latino from, you know, moving from one city to another and having to kind of give up a piece of his identity to
fit in and not be bullied or to hopefully, you know, make something of myself and, you know, the whole blow drying my hair thing was, you know, from an incident where this kid called me pubic head. He said, because the hair on his, my head looked like the hair on his And on his penis. Well, the hair doesn't actually grow on the penis. No, we understood. The nickname was enough.
You know what I mean? So anyway, I got in a fight, and I got in trouble, and started blow-drying. Well, the fix was a woman who my mom knew blew-dried my hair straight, and now he looks more white, so he won't get picked on. So then I did that every day through high school. I need pictures, by the way. I don't need to see this. I'll have some pictures when I do my one-man musical. Copy that.
But I gave up a piece of myself to appease oppression, really.
And so we wanted to kind of try to bring some sort of element of that into the Miguel story and show that he gave up a part of who he was to become a capitalist. And, you know, if you remember, and especially in season one and two, like he was always trying to get Jack to kind of toe the line and do the same thing.
Like, hey man, it's gonna be better for your family if you gotta join the country club or you gotta, you know, all of these things. And, And what was great is that, you know, Jack didn't really give up himself like that. But Miguel was. And he lost his family due to it. And, you know, I like that Miguel ended up having a full kind of circle moment.
Because once, I think once Jack died, once he started getting too close to Rebecca, he had to go and find himself. So that when he comes back, he's a better version of himself. And he's, you know, even more wealthy.
Yeah. Incredible. Yeah.
It was a really good feeling, and what really felt good is that the execution of that episode to me was near perfect. It was like the direction, the writing, the casting, everything was just... Proof... positive was the reaction that you guys had and that I had. Because I didn't cry that much watching This Is Us. I cried, I think, a total of three episodes. That was one of them. Really? Yeah.
You should try re-watching it because we are a mess.
I mean, everything is so, every moment was just amazing. So everything kind of blends together. I mean, I think there's one scene when we were at that, when we were in Paso Robles and you and I were like in the back of this building kind of overlooking this vineyard. And it was just like this kind of like bonding moment between a stepdad and his stepson.
Of course, right after that, we ended up getting into an argument. But before that, it was just the beauty of this place that we were filming in and the moment. It's just an image that is plastered in my brain somewhere.
It's gorgeous. Well, it was all on the page. I mean, incredible writers, so it's easy. No, no, no.
Yeah.
One was called Four Fathers. And what was the other one called?
There was one with you and William.
It was when he came back after he had his lung transplant. He was much heavier. We were trying to match something from season two.
And we were shooting something that was a direct cut from one of those driving scenes. It was incredible to, first of all, just direct him, because he was so, I mean, a powerhouse of an actor, right? My experience directing on the show was, first of all, you guys are all so talented and so good. Especially you, Chris. I was like, I'm a first-time director. How are they gonna feel?
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