- Do you remember the names of the eight women
that you eliminated?
- Yeah. (laughs)
- Bring it on, let's hear it.
- Oh, you wanna know?
- Yeah, I want to know.
- Yeah, uh.
- [Laela] I'm gonna get my pen out
to mark them off.
Okay, so, oh shit.
Hey, it's Peter Weber and you're in the studio
with the Hollywood Reporter.
(upbeat music)
- Let's talk about this season.
How has your life changed since becoming the leading man?
- Wow, yeah, it's been, it's been amazing.
It's really been life changing.
Airports are insane now when I'm going to work.
But just a ton of support, a ton of love.
Just from all the passengers that I fly,
saying bye to them as they're deplaning
and there's walking through the terminals
just out in public, it's been amazing.
And I feel very grateful for that.
- Which former bachelor has given you advice
and any of it stand out?
- Yeah, I've talked, honestly,
I've been really lucky,
I've talked to a lot of them,
Colton, Nick, Ben, Ben's given me, I talk with Ben a lot,
he's given me a lot of really good advice.
Awesome dude, I remember watching his season
and just being like that guy did it right
and yeah, I use his advice for sure.
- Okay, I want to talk about night one.
- Night one.
- What was your reaction watching everything back?
- It was, all the feels came back for sure
because, you know, that's back a couple months ago now
and then the lull after finishing filming
and now I get to relive it all again.
All the highs and the lows
and that was such a special night,
it's always a fun night for the show
and one I'll never forget.
And obviously a lot of unexpected stuff happened
that night that was just not planned
and it was a great night, for sure.
- When Monday night rolls around, do you get
together and watch with your family, friends?
How are you watching?
- Yeah, so for the premiere I got to have a cool
watch party with all of my close friends
and family at my house and that was just cool
to have them around me and have all that support
and get this thing going.
- Were there any comments from them,
side comments of like oh man,
I can't believe you let this person go
or what were you thinking?
- I got a lot of crap from my friends
for the shirtless airplane washing scene.
That was the biggest one.
- [Leala] The top dead wannabes.
- They're like really.
First time I've ever done that so.
- It's fair.
So you gave Hannah Ann the first impression rose
and she was pretty bold that night.
- [Peter] She was.
- [Laela] So is that going to continue
through the season from her?
- [Peter] Yes.
- [Laela] Awesome.
- Yes, she is very very bold
and one thing that I really appreciated about her.
I loved that quality.
She was very intentional.
Always showed me why she was there
and, you know, personally for me
I loved when she came up multiple times
showing me, yeah, she was there for me
and she wanted to take advantage
of as much time as possible.
It wasn't too much.
- Okay I want, as a Bachelor fan,
I want to know, when people are interrupting you
over and over again,
what's really going through your mind?
So with her it stuck out,
but do you ever get irritated?
- Okay I, even, well with her it wasn't,
I don't think it was ever too soon,
but if I just got into a conversation
with someone it's like come on,
I'm trying to establish something,
you know, have something to hold on to.
That can be a little bit, you know, she,
bad timing, but again that's just part of it
and there's 30 women that first night.
So yes we have the full night,
literally until into the morning,
but that's a lot of conversations
so you kind of have to,
you have to be bold
and fight for your time.
- Let's talk limo entrances.
- Yes.
- What's um, which ones stuck out to you the most?
What's the most memorable?
- Actually not the limo, it was the red corvet.
- [Laela] Okay, yeah.
- It was that with Lexi.
She came in and I could hear it
like coming around the corner.
I was like damn, what's that?
- [Laela] Are you a car guy?
- [Peter] I am, yeah, obviously plane guy first,
but car guy too and I just thought that was so bad ass
like that was really sexy.
- Something that seems to happen on the first episode
every year, there's tears.
Already there's tears.
They don't know you, but there's tears.
Please answer this honestly, when you see this
are you thinking I just dodged a bullet
or are you thinking like genuinely bummed
that you caused this?
- I can say, yeah, genuinely bummed about,
I promise you because I'm a really emotional person.
I even chocked up the first night, you know,
and it's to me it meant obviously so much
going into that night
and there was a lot of moments in conversations
that I had with people and I could see,
yeah there was a lot of tears,
but how badly they wanted to be there
and how much it meant to me
and that was everything.
That's all I wanted from that first night
and I know it can be crazy like we just met,
but it's real and if you're feeling it,
like you know, that's all I could ask for.
- But please don't ever lose those crying montages
though because those were the best.
(laughing)
- Lots of screams too.
- Oh my gosh.
Night one eliminations.
- Yeah.
- I have a quiz.
Do you remember the names of the eight women
that you eliminated?
- Yeah.
- Bring it on, let's hear it.
- Oh you want to know?
- Yeah I want to know.
(laughing)
- Yeah um.
- [Laela] I'm going to get me pen out
to mark them off.
- Okay, so, oh shit.
Okay there was three flight attendants.
- [Laela] Okay.
- I know that.
- [Laela] There was three of them.
- And that I like I felt bad about
I felt like I let my family down.
(laughing)
I need to redeem myself with um,
give me some of it.
Avonlea rhymes with heavenly, yes.
- U...
- Eunice.
- Yes.
- [Laela] Another word for the color green.
- Verna, um,(laughing) Jade, oh Jade.
- [Laela] Ding, ding, ding, ding.
- Oh yeah, she was one of the flight attendants.
She was a very sweet girl.
- [Laela] Yes and then we have Jenna.
- Maurissa, Maurissa, Maurissa was a...
- [Laela] Yes there was a Maurissa.
- Yeah.
- [Laela] There was a Jenna.
- Jenna, yes, Jenna was with Ashley P.
- [Laela] Two more Ks.
- And um, Katrina.
- [Laela] Yip.
- Katrina and I never get one last say it.
- She's also, well, a Kardashian,
it's one of the Kardashian's names.
- Kylie, Kylie yes.
(laughing)
- Yes. Last one.
- Megan, Megan was a flight attendant too.
- Yes, god you're so good at this.
- I know right, how do I do it.
- We just wanted to have some fun.
(laughing)
In terms of villains, how do you handle them?
And are there any in your season?
- I want you guys to watch
and you know not go into it with
any kind of preconceived notions.
I want you to make that decision for yourself.
- [Laela] Okay.
- I think you could point some out
if you wanted to.
- [Laela] Okay.
- And I think, but that, that also comes from
just the nature of this amazing experience.
When you date one person with 20 other people right.
- [Laela] Right.
- Stuff's going to happen.
Feelings are going to get hurt.
People are going to get pinned against each other
and that to me actually just shows it's working
cause they care you know.
- Are people coming to you, like the girls,
and almost talking behind each other's backs.
Doing sub-conversations.
- Yeah, yeah, that and to be honest.
That also was like, that was one
of the hardest things for me because
- [Laela] You don't know who to trust.
- You don't and I'm not,
I'm not in the house with them
when a lot of this stuff is probably going down.
I only see everyone when you put your best foot forward
and so it's hard to really gauge, especially early on,
because you're just getting to know these people.
Whose really saying the truth?
And you hear one story
and then a completely different story.
It's like well, how do I do this, you know.
- Tell me about your favorite date of the season.
You don't have to spoil who it was with,
cause god forbid you give us a spoiler,
but tell me about one of the fantastic Bachelor dates
that you got to go on.
- I mean I, you guys already saw it.
One of my favorite ones was the one
with the vow renewal ceremony at my house with my parents
and you know I had a great date with Madison
and it just, I remember going into this
I really was looking forward to the, to the,
cause you know there's always some like
music date where you get to like have a live performance
and I just thought that was so cool.
So I got that in it, got, you know,
my family got to surprise us there.
And just a great way to start off
the whole journey with a one-on-one
and that was a really great date.
Something later on, um, I get to see and experience
one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen
in my entire life, magical things I've ever seen,
but it's also in conjunction with something not so great,
so I don't know, that's a big date,
but it's a beautiful, beautiful date.
- Okay, I got to talk to you about Hannah.
- Yeah.
- (laughs) Hannah,
that first episode ends on to be continued.
How will that conversation resolve itself
in the second episode?
- That was a, that was a very raw conversation
that the two of us had and um, all that's,
again that conversation wasn't even supposed to happen.
The date was supposed to go and she had kind of explained it
that we were going to have an audience there
and that obviously didn't happen,
but it was a conversation that had to happen
between the two of us.
Feelings, for me for sure, resurfaced
that I thought I had put away
and that was just me.
I understand, kind of, in a,
I kind of struggle with it.
I'm like shoot I have an amazing group that,
of women, that came here to meet me
and I don't want to disrespect them in any way,
but I had to be true to myself
and that talk had to happen
and you guys will see what happens in the next episode.
- It seems that a major reason you're ending
isn't being spoiled is because there's no ending yet.
(laughing)
So what has life been like
since the cameras stopped rolling?
- It's been, it's been crazy.
I mean, you know, you kind of now,
with all of this excitement around it
and you know people want to know
and obviously you kind of have to like live a secret.
- [Laela] Yeah.
- Of what's going on and it's unique.
It's difficult.
You know I know it's not going to last forever
and I don't know it's kind of,
in a way kind of cool to just have that secret,
right now, that no one knows,
but you know thank god it's not for too long.
You know so.
- That's cool.
- In the previews we see your mom getting really emotional
and saying, "Don't let her go."
What can you say about that conversation
and how it played out if your journey?
- Yeah, that was a very emotional conversation
with my mom, no shortage there of emotion
and it was a tough one that I had with her,
my whole family and um, yeah you guys will see.
- [Laela] Awesome.
- It's a big one.
- You know I'll take it.
Is the ending what you expected?
- No, no, I couldn't have predicted it
to go the way that it did,
but I can tell you that I'm very happy.
- Okay great.
Is there a chance that it could change
(laughing)
from now until there?
This is my last one I promise.
- I mean, there's always a chance for anything right.
(laughing)
- Okay, okay.
Lastly you mention in your set-up package
that you come from a Cuban family
and you love dancing.
Is there a chance we're going to
see you on "Dancing with the Stars"?
- "Dancing with the Stars" that would be crazy.
Yeah .
- [Laela] Do you think you can hang?
- I would for sure have big shoes to fill
with Hannah Brown taking home the mirror ball,
but that would be such a cool opportunity.
So yeah we'll see.
- Thank you so much for letting me grill you.
- Yeah that was fun.
- Be sure to catch "The Bachelor" on Monday nights on ABC.