BARBIE FERREIRA: Two years ago, I got the script and I had no context for it.
There wasn’t any dates, there was nothing.
It was just like: are you interested in the script, period?
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So when I started, like a seedling, it was tiny, nothing was in stone yet.
It felt like this was the moment.
Tracie and I had so many conversations, and it was so incredible.
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I learned so much too about how the sausage is made.
It was really, really cool to watch.
You picked a good one for your first producing project.
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John, what about you?
How did you first get involved withBob Trevino?
JOHN LEGUIZAMO: Tracie is a force of nature.
I got to meet her at Morandi in New York after I read the script.
It’s a testament to her vision as a storyteller.
I was so glad to be part of it.
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It’s a really great, poignant relationship.
Was there improv involved with you two, as well, during your scenes?
FERREIRA: A little bit.
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He was like, You look like you look like an unmade bed.
You look like an unmade bed.
But oh, my gosh, there’s so much with French, hes a genius.
With John I think a lot of the basketball scene was improv.
LEGUIZAMO: Yeah, that’s true.
FERREIRA: Because alsoIdont know how to play basketball.
I don’t know, we were just going with the flow.
You know what I mean?
I think a lot of the sweet scenes of us connecting were a lot of improv.
Tracie writing the scenes where we have long conversations and everything.
We didn’t improv too much on those.
LEGUIZAMO: No, no, we didn’t.
FERREIRA: The fun stuff where we’re connecting, and we’re just naturally laughing and making jokes.
That really came out of us having fun.
John, does that include the dad joke when he comes in to fix the plumbing?
LEGUIZAMO: That was Tracie.
Tracies a funny lady, so its easy to bring these things to life.
In most cases, even Tracie mentioned earlier that’s usually the premise for a horror movie.
Where someone meets someone online and it goes horribly wrong.
He has that at home, you know I mean?
He wasn’t a guy who was trying to break.
He was a guy who was looking for somebody to parent, somebody to nurture.
There’s a lot of guys out in the world who are doing good things.
We talked about it a lot.
We were like, we don’t want this toevercome off as anything weird.
And the real Bob wasnt like that.
Although Tracie and the real Bob didn’t actually meet, it never like [shady] territory.
The truth ofthatwas always there.
The truth of the story is that it wasn’t that.
Whichhasto happen, right?
I mean, there’s millions of people on here.
There’s gotta be something good coming out of this.
Yeah, theres gotta be a good one.
It’s like a warm hug.
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Barbie, a question for you.
Is there a specific genre or series you’d like to be a part of?
Or would you want to be a part of something more intimate, likeBob Trevino Likes It?
FERREIRA: That’s a great question.
I did a rom-com.
I did a horror.
I did this drama- comedy, like heartfelt.
I’m open to anything that has really good character and really good story.
Thankfully, I’m finding really cool people to work with, especially in indie film.
I’ve been working with a lot of people who are indie filmmakers, right?
Obviously theres a balance.
So it’s really cool.
So hopefully something thats maybe a little bit not contemporary.
Anything I’ve been doing is pretty in the 2010s/2020s.
Is there a specific period you’d want to explore?
Something likeBridgerton, where it’s more Victorian or maybe Western?
I like things that challenge me or different things I haven’t done.
If I did a play on Broadway, I literally have never done professional theater.
Other than when I was a kid, that’s how I started acting.
Things that challenge me and that make me grow as an actor is always so fun.
You’re always working on the next big thing.
You’ve played so many great characters, so many iconic figures.
Unfortunately or maybe fortunately for you I was raised in the Ice Age.
So you will always be Sid the Sloth to me.
LEGUIZAMO:[As Sid the Sloth]Sid the Sloth!Ice Age 6coming up.
What made you want to come back to the series for the sixth one?
It’s great to see all of you together again.
Now is it being made in-house at Disney or is it a new studio thats taking over?
What has it been like making it?
But it’s so much easier now that we know the characters.
We have the same punch-up guys who punch it up.
It just gets easier and easier the more it’s possible for you to do it.
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That’s great to hear.
A question about maybe, potentially another future project, but really, I’m just curious.
How do you think your character from John Wick is doing?
How do you think the progress is coming on John Wicks car?
Because the last we heard about it was inJohn Wick 2.
Oh, that’s very fair.
Well, we did just hear a fifth one’s coming out, so who knows?
I actually think in the movie you said, Yeah, the car will be ready in 2030.
It’d be kind of epic if the next movie came out.
And then its like: Here’s the car.
Exactly when I said I’d finish.
LEGUIZAMO: I wouldn’t hold my breath on that one.
What is one thing that you really hope audiences take away from the movie?
FERREIRA: A lot of emotions that they haven’t really ever even tried to work through.
I also think, be kind to people.
Like Lily is so lonely.
Hopefully, we have more empathy towards each other and its not just so negative.
Hopefully they can think about the small acts we do every day.
And that will change someone’s life.
I think this in a community is anincredibleexperience.
To realize that we can really be role models of decency, respect, and doing kind things.
Doing kind things is a heroic thing and I think we need to celebrate that more.
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