ok folks dennis miller here and we're going to talk to stephanie beatrice today she's from brooklyn 99 and she's very excited got a big film coming up in june in the heights and that's coming right up right after this on dennis miller plus one. welcome to dennis miller plus one we're joined by the delightful we've had time to chat as they've set up the lights and cameras stephanie beatrice and she's joining me on the show today she's an arjan tinian american actress best known for her role as detective rosa diaz in the n.b.c. now good to see them over on the mother ship comedy series brooklyn 99 with andy

samberg she's currently starring in season 7 which like i said it shifted over from i believe was fox at one point to n.b.c. stephanie will also appear this must be exciting in the feature film adaptation of the broadway musical in the heights which i believe was the the miranda kids big one before before we began to get all the hamiltons on hamilton and that comes out on june 12th. for the welcome to the show but i think in the heights he probably did not get as much as he showed up because 1st time through yeah they don't give you the point is they give you tony award you know but then and now it's now it's now and now they haven't even really yeah hey it sounds like you're a woman and for what must be a good time in your life it is there is something coming out and and the in the shows in what season 7 yeah it's. now we'll start to shoot season 8 it's the

end of the summer is absolutely that is a long life for a show on and i remember i think early on when you're trying to get a palsy even seinfeld had to get a pulse at the beginning i think they won the golden globe the mirror something like that that was like paddles boom that was that was right out the gate we won the golden globe and he won for best actor best actor in a comedy it's like oh we're doing we're doing all right and then you know t.v. is a it's a fickle fickle world it's even more fickle now that i think it used to be so well you have your head on straight just saying that he had their kids out there think it's going to go forever and i know he has saved all that money immediately as soon as his 1st paycheck was like how do i set up a set fire a what do i do with all of this how do i save it because i knew you know i knew that it's like it's you literally won the lottery well good planning in the last 7 seas and andy by the way i just have to say for my.

age old friends but for my friend and fellow alumni just think of the biggest say over at the. sundance festival he seen that film my best friends practically live next to me their son max bar because 1st time director he directed to run and . he says i'm taking him up to sundance good luck max and then i'm reading in a favor because the biggest sale ever said and point absolutely fabulous is that it's such a good good good movie all the parts of it i think work well the shows the shows things now you can see like you know at the beginning everybody's but it's hand in glove and now it's very it's truly an ensemble show truly an ensemble you know and he obviously leads it but the ensemble that he's built and created around him and the environment that he's created at work is it's really like it's dreamy it's dreamy for an actor because i think i've definitely heard. or stories from other

shows and i don't i am very grateful that that's not the case on our show will tell us about officer diaz told him it was abuse and she says that he's like i think when i originally kind of built her she was built on that sort of. stereotype b.s. or very tough tough girl in a in an office you know leather jackets and dark clothes and mysterious backgrounds but i think also when i was building that character i thought this is somebody who doesn't allow a lot of people into her personal life and she's strategically choosing to allowed these friendships to blossom and grow over time. she's. you know i've always played her as a queer character and then around season 5 dan gore our creator. suggested to me that what you think if we i want to be very sensitive about this what would you think if we decided to make rose

a queer maybe even bisexual like you are and i was all for it and so that was very that was an exciting development especially with that character because she is so. closeted in her like. relation to in the book usually i thought your head was the 1st 4 seasons you were playing there were no i absolutely was there's lines there's like little clues and you're in there i think i think the way that i carried myself i think the relationship that i had with chelsea peretti was you know in any i think that was a very out of all of the characters on the show i think that that was the most flirtatious and fun i was always playing her as somebody who if you would ask her point blank like who do you date she said anybody that i want to you know i always have in the back of my head which i hope is also why they have a dog is that i was you'd lead them to the yeah. i mean truth obviously i'm an older man and $66.00 when i was young it would have been insult to say queer now i

know it's a sign of the end of the l g b t q yes and i hear you saying and i know it's a brave new world about being the old scold but i'm wondering when does the how did i would go you know i think it's going to slow gradual thing i think it's been a sort of gradual reclaiming of a word that was once really ugly and used as a slur and there are so many slurs in the gay community. but that one but clearly are sort of been it's so out of shape it's just beautiful like almost like an umbrella term for many different types of people right and it can even include people that don't necessarily find themselves. sort of. clearly attaching themselves to one identity it can it can serve as many things and it and it sort of has become this like shorthand phrase for. this family of many identities isn't that amazing. term that brings people together having

a lot of boy it when i was horrible in my twenty's that we had to fight started yeah for 100 percent 100 percent no under the umbrella as you say of queer as your character. in l g b t. b b c's beer the bisexual sort of you know i think the groom is your oyster yes he does kind of i mean it's really like the world because i don't think she's interested in not really getting out or you know work yeah people are you know enough about her she's changed apartments many times because her costars are you know. fellow detectives in over her house and she's constantly sort of changing identities and surprising them making and surprising me sometimes sometimes the stuff that i learn about her on set is like room ok puzzle to put together when i got in the way but yeah it is fun it's fun because it's also a wake. i just watch so much t.v. you know which like there's a school mysterious dude character that you know no one really understands why he's

such a bad just sort of is and it's the law of the land you don't ask questions and i think having more female characters like that rosa diaz is like the sergio leone where at strathclyde where she walks away from the coffee machine and you just hear . that good but i'm not exactly i'm a big argentina guy you were born there but i think you move baby like right to texas and to 2 and a half 3 well i'm telling you you must i don't know if you've been back but you must get down there sometime because it was only joint it's unbelievably beautiful the pre-board so sweet you know the food's just monstrous and the topography you walk around and you just cannot believe lovely it is so i hope you get back there when you are the biggest star in the world there and enter and through town in one of those confetti for i didn't get to go to columbia this past december and when your parents is colombiana dad called me and i was amazing and beautiful and

strange and very different i just kept thinking about you know what would life have been like if i had grown up here instead of in the u.s. your papa must be so proud of you very proud very very very yeah they're extremely embarrassing me so how what were you raised in the relative well paul revere only you know yeah i think i don't think that i was really aware. of how like how much was being made with how little we actually had until like may be. maybe middle school which for me was like 3rd 4th grade and then starting to do sleepovers the kids houses and realizing they opie pl have backyards and people have their own room and you know and then the gap felt the gaps are getting wider and wider as i moved into junior high and high school you know in high school it was like kids were getting cars and my family was struggling

to maintain the car that they had you know it was like everything was. nothing felt impossible but everything felt. a little bit scarce was in. the heart of love although i think so i mean it was i think my parents like they did the best they could with what they had available to them at the time you know like my mom came to the u.s. when she was like 22 my dad was like you know i think his sense of identity was very like. there was a lot of upheaval there because like they were young they were babies and they were immigrants and you know like they look at it and they sounded like to be in a still today we're dealing with this idea of like who is allowed to be american and what do they look like and what do they sound like and for my family it was a major struggle to sort of try to you know whether it was good or bad but like tried to assimilate my sister and i so that we were sort of protected from that

what they felt like it was an onslaught when dad was it's like a very typical i'm going through my dad was a chemical engineer or smart guy and what he was able to do in the u.s. was drive trucks and be a chauffeur and people treated him as such you know and so like so this day when i when i'm you know because now i have this job where like sometimes i get driven around but people sometimes i'm in a transport van with someone that like no one is polite to and i think it makes me think about my dad all the time it's like how many times that you have to deal with people just being him knowing that he's this like kind of a really smart intelligent wonderful dude but doing what he had to do to keep his family like and his hearing we're all for your babies be huge you know i mean there's a chemical engineer and there were like there is god we do and i'm telling you how do we make this you know the man sitting there and you come in at the end of the day. no you didn't for me only i know i mean he's the band that's paid off you'll

never know he was there he's like oh you know you are my american dream let me crying out yeah because like it's true he did they did everything possible for my sister and i to be able to do anything that we wanted to and now it's happening beautiful was part of the assimilation the arts when did you 1st get into a long article that he believes or what were the arts were like what can we do my mom is really smart she's like what can we do with them that's free and so we would go to all the museums around houston has amazing museums and has amazing arts in general we go to the ballet when we could you know when they'd have like free events we'd go to all of the museums when we could we would go to the library constantly and my mom would drive us to the good libraries you know like the good neighborhood libraries we had. at any given moment on our fireplace there were 30 to 40 books that my sister and i had taken out of the library yeah it was like constantly like consuming as much as we could at all times that wasn't just t.v. it was all art from all angles where your car must be good because you've got

a great place in the baby line when you think about where some people get at yes not always laundry to the lab no it is not 30 books on the fireplace of an old man this is a better get on with this you're able to get a feed these kids on the right you had the mother load after the break we had stephanie some rapid fire questions with our version of an oral rorschach test just quick to find out what makes her tick stay right there dennis miller plus one. the larry king question being listening learning you know all is said i never learned anything when i was talking it's important to listen to question more.

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this is the right. i'm. ok folks welcome back to mr miller. my guest is actress stephanie beatrice and we have a new season of brooklyn 99 coming up but also a little further down the road just out there where you can see it and get excited about it the feature film adaptation of the great musical it seems to me 1015 years

ago the sun just sold out every night in the heights to tell the viewers about the project we're excited to be a part of it yeah big hopefully big beautiful all. of the old sort of hollywood musicals of past times it's beautiful it's big very big we shot most of it in washington heights in new york over the past over the last another 100 inspectors they're pretty good now yeah i mean we were we basically did like a boot camp of dancing with these all these professional dancers from new york who were incredibly talented and you know the 7 sort of like actors are in the back sort of trying to do what we can and after about a month we looked pretty good you know this sort of stuck to sin like i think it was probably one of the best dancers that i want to answer was dancer names i mean she's she's a brilliant actress and she picked up those answers like it was like 2nd nature the

rest of us i think were struggling but they look pretty good on them now tell us about the story it's in washington yes yes and it was written by a little manual miranda it was the 1st musical that he wrote and it was sort of the 1st musical that sort of integrated. rap and hip hop into the musical theater library in the way that phelps i think i saw the 1st very 1st production of in new york and i thought it just integrated it so beautifully and did all the things that you want a musical to do you know it's like got all the numbers that you're expecting but in this very new very fresh way still feels really fresh he's changed he and the writer of the book u.r.l. agree a huge he's she's a brilliant writer and they sort of change just enough of the main book to make it feel very very now but the songs are still what they were and it's just you know it's a beautiful story about basically a block in washington heights a guy name is not b. who owns a bodega on the mourner that's right across the street from

a beauty salon and the girl that he's in love with works there and so he can stare out the window and look at her cutting hair every day she meanwhile sort of dreams of a bigger life beyond the body oh and then there's a couple other friends that are sort of in the mix one of whom is a young woman who's a student at stanford who grew up in the barrios and is now sort of thrust into this world and much like. the difference of the way that she grew up in the kids around her it's very stark and a kid in the neighborhood named benny who's sort of part of the neighborhood but also maybe slightly outside of a young black man but he has deep ties to this neighborhood he works for. a car service in a neighborhood that's like maybe slowly starting to like lose its footing because of the world that we're living in now and we're going to look through urban launch they were beautiful lee yes it is electric it is very urban it but it's also like the way that john john m. to is the director of the film and you know he sort of he came up doing the dance

movies and the last big thing that he did was create a rich asian beautiful electrical load of one is so fun and he's bringing that to this. well that's a good pedigree it's really. a big deal going to mean you know it's nice to have the day to move but it's yeah well you're a woman in for right now i hope you're taking mental snapshots i was relying on trying i also i'm 2 like very very wary so i'm like when people get excited i'm like yeah i did it i did i really did my part so now i just have to sort of like wait and see and i want to get too excited well and when can we look for you know that in theaters and you do to find 20 all right stuff we're going to play our voice shaft game and quick questions quick answers somebody who inspires you dolly parton beautiful i love her oh i know her a little over 40 really well she was on saturday night live so i spoke with there and she was have you ever seen her tell this story watch there's

a great thing we're really all gather around her for christmas to you have to watch it and she tells a tale and you know i don't want to ruin it for you ok but it's one of the sweetest thing that's a great day i and if you haven't seen country music the new ken burns thing she's a standout and i have to get her up when i have it all ready to go and very excited i want pipes and with songs like a dream and best songwriter of all time i think you guys would need each other up if you had met because she's such a good area soul as are you guilty pleasure reality television. in particular little island little island because they all have the accent and i just write about them all the time it's so fun it's ridiculous i must admit we all probably have watch something we should all be paying more attention to. i don't know our our. our general lack of kindness to each other i think it's more important than we think stranded on

a deserted island what 3 things do you bring with you. my favorite book right now oh i guess of all time the little prince. a packet of seeds seeds than an day or water purifier there is somebody is thinking right side left side of the brain you something still on your bucket list something you want to do oh yeah i mean i'd like to see the town that i was born in an arm or a thing about it now can argentina i'd like to go from down there kid and we're almost there when the not really still got to schlep that i've been all the way down to the and. it is way down to the leaping off point for arctic. it's very it's a cool place the people are very cool a show you're bingeing on right now. let's see. i mean i've watched it i've watched it twice now through but i really adore derry girls don't know if it's

fantastic irish sitcom it's like right during the troubles. it's ok that other girls yeah a favorite food you binge on while bingeing on dairy girls nice luxury you can't live without. good skincare that's a lot of. you my mum when i was young my mum used to always have you know your little boy you love with your mum should the beautiful skin always put upon you know. just sort of such sweet memories of my mom do is always stick your make them up at night and say care of it someone from history you'd like to take to lunch. oh i guess oh oh. i don't know don't have to have an answer maybe you'd like to eat alone i mean. i mean my initial answer is literally dolly parton but i guess she's she's kind of for the ministry but she's not gone

yet is this like a that they have to be dead you know what i mean that i learned you know your art you and all the. dollars and lastly your idea of a perfect day 0 7 oh it would be waking up in paris in. in the spring time and walking downstairs and getting a giant croissant and coffee and then maybe walking through a market buying food for lunch big bang and cheese and a bottle of wine and then sitting by the river and people watching while the sun went down eating the whole block of cheese maybe a couple gets to i was your perfect day my perfect. love that i do is the great we put the fact that we were going to interview up on the the world wide web is that it's called and we were inundated with questions and they were all very. you know you you must put a good vibe out there kids already are all sweet about chuck mcmanus on facebook.

moving on from brooklyn are you at least concerned about the possibility of being typecast as the tough girl or oh yeah of course i think all actors get afraid to be typecast 1st you want that because you want everyone to think of you as that thing and then you get scared that that's going to be it forever but now i mean i think in the heights is a very very different role i've played lots of different roles. i used to sort of jokingly say that i was a character actor trapped in ingenues body is not really an ingenue anymore but it still feels like i am like i guess a character actor trapped in a leading ladies body so yeah i'm concerned but i guess we'll see what happens you're going to take it step by step you can get out of the block you know they can ok it was a tough exactly get work who knows what amazing role is going to come along but is needs a tough girl and they think i know that girl isa play rosa de yeah i'm going to say no to it yeah the long view is one thing in showbiz but at the beginning your fight

. them to get paid and get that iron next week and be her on facebook is she going to appear on modern family stuff oh i did appear and this was their last season and i had one little hugo and i was really fun. you know you from a typecast but that's that's why it was there they are so tight and not only are they tight like friends but they're tight ensemble they know exactly how to play off of each other and it's like at 1st it was a little oh no i can't keep up and now now it is coming up to me after takes to be like oh it's funny you know if you turn a little faster i think you'll get a laugh harder they're like oh yeah. at least in the bunker for ages so. he tried out for the pittsburgh steelers if you can believe he really when he was a football player and i wrote that into married with children he he's a he's a good cat it was on him for years little yet sue smith now there's

a texas girl's name a little yet do you ever miss used in texas and yet all the time and so how often do you get back there i know you can't get. you know argentina but now i know i don't get back to houston enough i mean it's unfortunately what unfortunately slash fortunately with my schedule because you know like when you go home and suddenly you're 14 again but i do miss say i miss the people i miss the. sort of. there's a very you know texas can get a bad rap and that's a real. i remember they had a road to sort of a room to use the i phone yeah it was cool all the inner loop and there's the outer loop i was on the inner loop when i'm telling you going to a comedy gig in a range of a cloud burst like i've never been in in my life and i'm so i did started start filling up because it started right after we had to run into a friend i know you had wrestler and i hope and yeah it's like immediate immediate

and everyone i'll see to it i think about texas is like it's very welcoming i think . they i think they did give me a free burger in the fact that i had to operate a big thanks to my guest stephanie beatrice for joining me today you can cesar see her in season 7 of brooklyn 99 thursdays on and b c and see her later this year very excited for this in the summer the film adaptation of in the heights will be out in june and i will be there with bells on the banks 3 times steph and we will see all of you next time on dennis miller plus one. oh yeah oh.

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