Chapter 1: What experiences shaped Harvey Guillén's journey to becoming an actor?
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So I forget sometimes. And I think, you know, my sister reminds me when we go out in public and stuff. Because I'm really like, I don't care. Like, we'll go out in public and stuff. And I don't think about like, oh, this is a crowded area. And it recognized it'll be like, you know.
Yesterday, we were at the airport in San Antonio, Texas, and it's a small airport in a great city, it's really lively, and we were just gonna go to our plane, we saw a little vending machine, a licorice vending machine, and we were like, by the TSA area, and we went there, and the TSA agent was like, excuse me, sir? And I was like, Oh my God. And I turned around and they looked serious.
Excuse me, sir. Can I talk to you for a second? And I was like, Oh my God. Like what I, I was like, what did I pack? Like, like, like I was like, do you have a water bottle?
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Oh, yeah, cats and kittens, welcome back to the commercial break. I'm Brian Greene, and no one is here with me, at least not right now.
Chrissy will be here in just a few minutes on the TCB Infomercial Tuesday to help me interview Mr. Harvey Guillen. Harvey Guillen, of course, is from the very popular show What We Do in the Shadows, one of our favorites around here. So we're very excited to have him. We don't have a ton of actors and actresses here on the show. Thespians don't tend to make their way to the commercial break.
But when we got an opportunity to talk to Harvey, we said, we'll take that. Because, again, What We Do in the Shadows, one of our favorite shows.
television shows of all time and if you haven't seen the show i'll spare you all the drama you should go and watch it i will do no spoiler alerts here but it's basically about vampires it's a comedic take on the vampire genre uh go ahead and see it it is lovely it is wonderful now a few facts about harvey that you should know that i may or may not ask him about when he comes on
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Chapter 2: How did Harvey fund his acting classes while facing homelessness?
It was disturbing. And I always, having drank alcohol as a teenager myself, I always knew that alcohol was probably the drug I was scared most of as a teenager, if I'm being honest, because people got too crazy. Right. Hey.
I don't, I don't think I, I always like jokes. People are like, when did you start, you know, once you have a first drink, like you sneak when you're 16 or I didn't have my first drink till my 21st birthday because I was trying to be like, you know, it was probably the one that scared me the most as well. Cause I was like, no, that just leads down a slippery slope. You know, it does.
Yeah.
What's next? Heroin. Right. Like once you start one. But I was so like worried about ruining any kind of chances that I had to like kind of, you know, go on my path that I wanted to take. And I was like, I'm not going to do anything, you know, and now as an adult, I'm like, well, you know, I know the difference between like having a cocktail and and going crazy.
Yeah.
Uh, so yeah, but as a kid, I was like, I did not touch alcohol. And I, I know my siblings were like, yeah, I had my first drink when I was like 16 at a friend's party. I was like, I didn't do, I didn't have that. Like I just didn't, I guess I was pretty square then if I was like, I don't want to say I was square. I was, I was mature for my age.
Yeah, you were mature for your age. Well, also, you, I think, were, I don't know you, but I'm assuming you were focused and motivated. You wanted to accomplish things. And you knew that veering off that path in any way could possibly put that dream in jeopardy. So the dream was more important than any one particular drink or night or party or whatever it was.
Right, and I already had so much on my plate. Like, I had full, like, exams and TAP finals and, like, co-parenting, like, my siblings because I was, like, you know, babysitting. Like, I didn't need to have an alcohol problem. Yeah, seriously. That would have been, like, a real, like, lifetime movie. You know, like, it would have been...
All he wanted was to become an actor, and I was a baby on it. And all he was was a drunk, an abusive sibling. Last time I was proud to present.
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Chapter 3: What role did Harvey play in 'What We Do in the Shadows' and how did it impact his career?
uh and then i became like the oldest in the family so i guess i i i see like that uh expectation of like you're the oldest right and i was like not really but i kind of took responsibilities of being the oldest and which i don't regret because i love my siblings and um in a way it was nice for me to like um see that like uh have that parental um instinct in me as a young age because i was like do i want kids and as an adult now i do not
And well, fair enough. You did it once.
Do you want to do it again?
I was like, my only regret in life is I had no children yet. I raised three, you know, but like, uh, I love, I love the idea that like, uh, you know, now as an adult, I have a different dynamic with my siblings. Cause as a kid, I had this like parental, like you have to do your homework, you have to eat your breakfast and you have to do these things.
And that's no fun as a kid because you want to be the fun brother. Um, same time you're like, we have to have structure in the house. And then now, As an adult, we have all the fun in the world because that had been taken off. And I'm like, I'm not your, you know, parental figure. I'm your sibling.
And so now we have fun and like get together and have dinners and go to Disneyland, you know, and do adventures that we didn't get to do when we were younger. So now as an adult, and we have the money to do it.
Yeah, exactly.
I'm the biggest kid you'll ever meet because I love going to Disneyland and love going to theme parks and whatnot because as a kid, it was so expensive to go once. Now I'm like, we're going all the time whenever you want. Whenever we want, we just get in the car and go.
Well, I love that. I love that, too. I love that. I think that that's... you are rewarded for kind of the blind faith in the family, in the unit, in the betterment of all. And that, first of all, takes a special kind of personality, right? And second of all, it is a charming and warming thought that your family unit was there kind of all working together to get to a better place.
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