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Welcome to the world premiere of the FX original series,
Mayans M.C.
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The new prospect.
EZ.
Gas it up and detail it.
I don't want to see a speck of dust.
Yes sir.
TAVA SMILEY: From Kurt Sutter, creator of Sons of Anarchy,
this drama takes place along the Cali-Mexican border.
It follows Ezekiel "EZ" Reyes, fresh out of prison,
who is a prospect in the Mayan's Motorcycle Club.
Where's your prospect?
He went to see our old man.
Need him on this Vegas run.
Protection?
Think he's ready?
Yeah.
We asked how Mayans M.C. explores themes
that are relatable to everyone.
It's set in the outlaw world, but ultimately, it's
a show about family and an exploration of the trap
of the American dream.
It's Shakespearean.
It's extremely well-written.
Very dramatic and very dark.
JD PARDO: We have characters in this story
that everybody can relate to.
Especially someone like EZ Reyes,
who has gone through a traumatic experience that
really altered his life plan.
And I think that that happens to all of us.
I can't ask you to do this unless I
know you really want it.
The club, the life, all of it.
All in.
'Cause if you have any doubt, I need you to walk away.
It doesn't really just talk about, you know, bike culture.
You see the familiar relationships with the father
and son and the brothers, and the brotherhood
within the club.
That ends up transcending colors and demographics and all that.
It's great to have a majority Latino cast,
but it's not just for Latinos.
It's for everyone who feels like the status quo has rigged it
against all the rest of us and, for an hour,
we get to watch the underdogs get theirs.
The way Kurt and Elgin write, they're writing about the time
that's happening now.
They're probably just touching on it right now,
there's probably more going on, but it's right on time.
We hit a bump in the road, Blue.
We'll get back on track.
Not quite sure what track that is.
All of their conflicts are universal.
Father-son conflicts, love conflicts,
and, obviously, rivalries.
SARAH BOLGER: This show has this amazing quality.
It's the family you're born into versus that brotherhood,
that bond, and the conflict that creates in the person.
DANNY PINO: Commitment to a group of people,
whether blood-related or not, and how that group is stressed,
and what decisions you make when you're stressed.
Sometimes we have to do very bad things for the greater
good of the club.
But I think everybody can kind of connect with something
that they would like to do but they
don't allow themselves to do.
You don't speak unless we tell you to.
Educate your prospect.
We're back at the world premiere of the FX
original series, Mayans M.C.
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Need to extract these indigenous ticks.
Expose the traitor in our midst.
How do you personally relate to EZ
and how did that inform your performance?
The area that I grew up in, everybody
was getting in trouble.
I wanted to be an actor, so I knew if I got in trouble,
I wasn't going to have those opportunities.
With EZ, he's trying to survive, and he's getting pulled
in all different directions.
DANNY PINO: I was born and raised
in Miami in a Cuban household and our family is tight.
So to play somebody who's so cold,
but when it comes to this family, he's emotional,
I can tap into that pretty easily.
You're farther away than usual.
Something I should know?
Just a few bumps the other world.
SARAH BOLGER: Emily's sort of a ball-busting character,
and, not that I see myself as that,
but she's someone I want to be like.
Me and Marcus Alvarez are pretty much the same.
We know we're loyal.
We're about family.
But just don't mess with us.
That's the way I've been all my life,
and I just carry it on to him.
My character Angel Reyes is overly ambitious.
And sometimes his ambition gets ahead of his reality.
And I personally have lived that thoroughly.
Need you on this Vegas run.
Dresses?
You good with that?
Yeah.
Whatever the club needs.
The elements are things you've never
seen before, because this culture's never been looked at.
You know, Bishop doesn't like to lose.
Michael hates to lose.
Cartel will never lay hands on a Mayan.
We got ourselves in deep, brother.
How is the series going to surprise and excite audiences?
You know, I love blowing [BLEEP] up and killing people
in interesting ways and pissing people off,
in terms of characters they fall in love
with and then killing them.
I will continue to do that.
A lot of surprises.
It just keeps escalating to an incredible climax.
Imagine a bunch of crazy brown tattooed dudes coming
in and smashing your house.
That's what it's going to be like.
Yeah.
With love, with pure love, but things
are going to get smashed.
JD PARDO: It's bad bikes, a lot of action,
and we're going to have some fun.
Go, go.
We got this.
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For FXM, I'm Tava Smiley.
See you next time.
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