For reference, the two men first met when they starred alongside one another in an off-Broadway show back in 2005. They became fast friends, and in 2020, Oscar revealed that they initially bonded over their shared passions and frustrations as Latino actors.
“It’s gotten better, but at that point, it was so easy to be pigeonholed in very specific roles because we’re Latinos,” he told Variety at the time. “It’s like, how many gang member roles am I going to be sent?”
“The dream was to be able to pay rent,” Oscar said of him and Pedro during the early days of their friendship. “There wasn’t a strategy. We were just struggling. It was talking about how to do this thing that we both love but seems kind of insurmountable.”
