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. hey 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 arjun 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. 6th for the welcome to the show i think in the heights he probably did not get as much vegas 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 if now it's now and now they haven't even really yeah hey it sounds like you're a woman and for we 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 is that it is airing now will start to shoot season 8 it's the end of the summer it's absolutely out is a long line. for

a show and i remember i think early on when you're trying to get a pulse even seinfeld had to get a pulse at the beginning i think they won the golden globe the mirror something like that was like paddles boom that was that was right out the gate we won the golden globe and he won for best 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 pickle 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 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 seasons 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 set 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 you know 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 horror stories from other shows and i don't i am very grateful that that's not the case on our show tell us about office tell us yet rosa do you know she's back he's like i think what

i originally kind of built her she was built on that sort of. stereotype very tough tough girl in a in an office you know leather jackets and dark clothes and a serious background 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 allow these friendships to blossom and grow over time. she is. you know i've always played her as a career character and then around season 5 or our creator. suggested to me that what would 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 bush years when i thought you had was the 1st 4 seasons you were playing or 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 90 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 daughter is that i was you'd led them to the yeah. i mean true obviously i'm older 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 really a 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 would clearly are sort of been 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 is an 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 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 so yeah kind of i mean it's really like the world because i don't think she's interested in not really getting 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 a thing 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 of the 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

strangway where she walks away from the coffee machine and you just hear. that's 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 22 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 sometimes i because it was only joint it's unbelievably beautiful pre-board so sweet foods just sponsor some of 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 as columbia my 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.

with must be so proud of these are very proud very very very yeah they're extremely embarrassing really 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. maybe middle school which for me was like 3rd 4th grade and then starting to do sleep over as the kids houses and realizing like oh people have backyards and people have their own room and you know and then the gap felt the gap started getting wider and wider as i moved into junior high and high school you know in high school it was like people 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 sound it and to be still today we're dealing with this idea of like who is allowed to be american and what did they look like and what did 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 maybe was an onslaught when dad was it's like a very typical immigrants from 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 to this day when i when i'm you know because now i have this job where like sometimes i get driven around but people and 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 this hearing we're all for your babies is a huge you know i mean there's a chemical engineer and there were like there is god and they do and i'm telling you how do we make this move 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 where that is where 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 it 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 it's 30 books on the fireplace of an old

man this is a better get on with this you're able to go to feed these kids 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. there's so much going on in the world don't you think when's the last time you add a real bird's eye view. or just hours of bickering give me 30 minutes i'll take you off the hello. larry king question being listening learning you know all the more said i never

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buy those dollars back because there are losing catastrophic way in all their non dollar plays in the market and this is causing a runaway freight train of the u.s. dollar going higher. folks welcome back to dennis miller. my guest is actress stephanie beatrice and we have a new. 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 this thing just sold out every night in the heights to tell the viewers about the project we're excited to be a part of it big hopefully big beautiful. to the old sort of hollywood musicals of past times it's beautiful it's very big we shot most of it in washington heights in new york over the past over the last another 100 years

they're pretty good now 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 a 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 daniel moore and 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 felt 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 be who owns a bodega a 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 a to be universally yes it is electric it is very urban it but it's also like the way that john john m. chu is the director of the film and you know he sort of he came up doing the dance movies and the last big pigment he did was create a rich asian beautiful electric motors 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 2 but it's yeah well you're

a woman in 4 right 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 of 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 we see and i want to get too excited well and when can we look for nobody in theaters june 2 funny 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 for you really well she was on saturday night live so i spoke with there and she was have you ever seen her tell the story of 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 it'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 what types and with songs like

a dream and best songwriter of all time i think you guys would need each other up if you've 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 that sense 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 vegetable seeds and a 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 get down there kid and we're almost there and when the not really still got to schlep that i've been all the way down through 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 brilliant ok that the 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 go save. 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 yeah just subset sweet memories of my mom who is always take your make that. they care of that someone from history you'd like to take to lunch. oh i guess oh. i don't know don't have to have an answer maybe like to eat alone i mean. i mean my initial answer is literally dolly parton but i guess she's she's kind of from history but she's not gone yet is this like that that they have to be dead you know what i think that i learnt you know your art you and all the together . and lastly your idea of a perfect day oh oh it would be waking up in paris in. in the springtime 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 and i. love that i do. 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 you must put a good vibe out there kids. 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 it's not really an ingenue anymore but it still feels like i am like a 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 yeah you get out of the block you know they can ok it was a tough exactly it 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 you're 5. shots right and to get paid and get that iron next week and be sure on facebook is she going to appear on modern family again stuff oh i did appear and this was their last season and i had one little you go and i was really fun yeah. i'm 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 a beating that was 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 they were only when he was a football player and i wrote that in to marry the children. he's a he's a good kid it was on him for years yet susa. now there's a texas girl's name he little yet do you ever miss used in texas 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 are 14 again but i do miss

a i miss the people i miss that sort of there's a very you know texas can get a bad rap and that's a real i don't. use them i remember they had a road that sort of a river used to i fell 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 go into a comedy gig in a range of cloudburst 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 you to 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 all right a big thanks to my guest stephanie beatrice for joining me today you can caesar 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

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