The creative duo don’t know how they met, but we’re glad they did.
like alien featured in the first episode. “I would love to see them soon.” If you ask fans, however, it’s Martine who is perhaps the series’ biggest breakout star. In it, she plays Vanesja , a performance artist who’s posed as a talent agent for so long that she actually became one. The character serves as something of the voice of reason for Torres’s self-named protagonist, imploring him to pursue lucrative commercial work so he can finally secure “proof of existence” .
I was reading some of the other interviews you guys had done, but I saw two different versions of how you met.One story said it was at an archery competition. The other said it was maybe at a video shoot about an archery competition, but that was unclear.Is this like when my co-workers asked me what I did over the weekend and I don’t want to tell them the whole truth?Yeah, you're like, I took it easy, but then I didn't. And I should have, but it was fun....until it wasn't.
I love that the show aired on television at 11 PM on a Friday. It reminds me of the television I'd watch late at night when I was younger just trying to find somethingI lived on a dirt road. The bus would not go up that dirt road. It was too steep. There was nowhere for it to turn around, so I would walk alone to and from this kind of shepherded transit to school. On that road was where a lot of crazy magical awakenings occurred.
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