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John Huertas

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
285 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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That Was Us
RE-RELEASE - Jon Huertas and Us | Miguel Rivas

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.

That Was Us
RE-RELEASE - Jon Huertas and Us | Miguel Rivas

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.

That Was Us
RE-RELEASE - Jon Huertas and Us | Miguel Rivas

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

That Was Us
RE-RELEASE - Jon Huertas and Us | Miguel Rivas

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

That Was Us
RE-RELEASE - Jon Huertas and Us | Miguel Rivas

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

That Was Us
RE-RELEASE - Jon Huertas and Us | Miguel Rivas

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.

That Was Us
RE-RELEASE - Jon Huertas and Us | Miguel Rivas

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.

That Was Us
RE-RELEASE - Jon Huertas and Us | Miguel Rivas

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.

That Was Us
RE-RELEASE - Jon Huertas and Us | Miguel Rivas

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.

That Was Us
RE-RELEASE - Jon Huertas and Us | Miguel Rivas

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.

That Was Us
RE-RELEASE - Jon Huertas and Us | Miguel Rivas

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.

That Was Us
RE-RELEASE - Jon Huertas and Us | Miguel Rivas

But I gave up a piece of myself to appease oppression, really.

That Was Us
RE-RELEASE - Jon Huertas and Us | Miguel Rivas

But I gave up a piece of myself to appease oppression, really.

That Was Us
RE-RELEASE - Jon Huertas and Us | Miguel Rivas

But I gave up a piece of myself to appease oppression, really.

That Was Us
RE-RELEASE - Jon Huertas and Us | Miguel Rivas

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.

That Was Us
RE-RELEASE - Jon Huertas and Us | Miguel Rivas

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.

That Was Us
RE-RELEASE - Jon Huertas and Us | Miguel Rivas

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.

That Was Us
RE-RELEASE - Jon Huertas and Us | Miguel Rivas

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.

That Was Us
RE-RELEASE - Jon Huertas and Us | Miguel Rivas

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.

That Was Us
RE-RELEASE - Jon Huertas and Us | Miguel Rivas

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.