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So it's really an amazing thing to be in a children's show where I'm being silly, and the comedy has nothing to do with my nationality or my ethnicity or whatever I identify with.Īnd my most favorite thing that I've heard so far comes from friends or friends of friends from their kids saying that they point at the TV screen or the computer screen and they go, hey, he looks like me. I think that's what the powerful part is for me and hopefully for other generations to come was that growing up, I never saw anybody that looked like me or that I could identify with that wasn't a caricature of a stereotype or somebody that didn't resort to violence or was a foreigner. And they didn't cast me because they needed to cast a Filipino American. You know, it's - I really feel honored that I've been given this opportunity to be in a role where it didn't require somebody that was Filipino American, you know, where I could just be myself. Which - we haven't seen a lot of Filipino Americans front and center on children shows, have we?ĭELA CRUZ: Yeah, not on children's television.
And that was my first brush with the show. And I was watching with my little sister. Did you watch the shows as a youngster?ĭELA CRUZ: I did.
SIMON: Well, it's a tribute to your acting ability that that doesn't throw you off. Yeah, she's usually a piece of green tape, or if I'm lucky - if I'm lucky, Scott - a green tennis ball. She's never there for any of my scenes.ĭELA CRUZ: You know (laughter) she's like Marlon Brando was during.ĭELA CRUZ. They add Blue later, right?ĭELA CRUZ: Yes. SIMON: Let's advise all youngsters to turn away from the radio for just a moment while I ask you this next question. After I finish a take, I'll usually turn to somebody and be like, did we get it? Was that funny because I have no idea (laughter). Because, you know, there's always an audience there with you when you're on stage. SIMON: What's it like to go from being on Broadway to playing to a green screen?ĭELA CRUZ: The most notable difference is the silence (laughter).ĭELA CRUZ. And then I took over for three months, which was a dream.
I was with the show for about five years. So that opens up an entire world of possibilities, and it's really exciting.ĭELA CRUZ: Yeah. But now on the other side, it's a smartphone. And we'll still draw on it with the crayon. It'll still have the classic yellow pages. And I guess the most notable is the handy dandy notebook. They will be furry and fluffy and.ĭELA CRUZ. SIMON: This new version, I gather, of the show is called "Blue's Clues And You." And besides you, what else is new?ĭELA CRUZ: (Laughter) Well, since it is 2019 and it's been years since a new episode has been released, we've updated a lot of things, starting with Blue and Magenta. JOSH DELA CRUZ: Thanks for having me, Scott. Blue returns with new puzzles for preschoolers and with a new human, a nice guy named Josh Dela Cruz, who joins us now from New York.
But there were no new episodes for 12 years. It was never BJ Leiderman, who writes our theme music. Started in 1996, that companion was Steve. SIMON: For the Blue's Clue-less, it's a kid's TV show on Nickelodeon with an animated blue dog and her companion who rely on viewers to help them solve mysteries. UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: (As character) Oh, a clue. UNIDENTIFIED CHILDREN: (As characters) There. UNIDENTIFIED CHILDREN: (As characters) A clue. (SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "BLUE'S CLUES AND YOU")
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