- We should also mention that
breaking news here at Comic Con,
that's Season Two,
we're gonna get Season Two. - Yes,
yes we are!
- Very pleased to be joined by Diane Guerrero,
representing 'Doom Patrol,'
- Yes! - How you doing?
- I'm doing great, how are you?
Do I do this?
- Yeah, you're doing it-- - Okay, (laughs)
- You're doing it right.
Like a pro. - Yes.
Thank you.
- Congratulations. Is this the first Comic Con
for you? - Yes.
- Because of the timing wise, it didn't work out last year,
- Yeah, it didn't work out last year,
I was gonna go to the one in London,
and it didn't work out, but now I'm here,
and this is great.
- This must be, I mean, this is the audience.
- Yes.
- This is what you make, these are the people you
make the show for. - Yeah.
I appreciate that, I love running into people and,
people having so much knowledge about the show and
really really, I mean, they're helping me learn stuff
that I didn't you know, that I didn't get--
- Yeah. - while doing an entire season
of the show, so it's really great.
- So give me a sense of your background in terms of like
knowledge and interest in this type of material.
Were you-- 'cause I've read somewhere,
that you wanted to play like a superhero,
that was on the list.
- Of course, that's definitely on the list,
I mean I was seeing all these superhero shows,
and people playing superheroes, and I was like,
well where am I in that?
And I'd like to, sort of see myself in that role.
- Yeah.
- And everyone would like to think of themselves
as superheroes, I think that's kind of,
why we have so many of them. (laughs)
- Right.
- But I feel like I lucked out,
I've always--
I wanted to be a superhero, and people would ask me,
"what kind of powers would you have,
"or what kind of superhero would you be?"
And I'm like, "well I don't know yet",
"it's not out there yet." - Right.
- So I'm glad that I'm actually doing it now,
as a reluctant superhero.
- There you go, and-- - Which is...
- And we should say you're also part of a very unique team.
We've seen a lot of, like, superhero teams,
and it feels like, by now, okay,
we've seen every different kind of type.
- Right.
- Until you've seen 'Doom Patrol' maybe--
- It's a whole different thing, and I love that,
I love that I'm-- you know, the unexpected,
- Yeah - superhero,
the unexpected character, I'm always, like,
kinda shooting for those, for those characters to play.
- An acting challenge, to say the least.
- For sure, for sure. - Talk to be about what,
I mean it's on the page, like,
it's the nature of this character,
the multiple personalities.
- Yeah. - How many do we have,
how many--
- Sixty-four
- That's easy. - Yeah.
- Simple. (laughs)
- No biggie.
- Basically they're getting sixty-four--
- They told me it was gonna be seven,
and then I of course I get on,
I start reading the actual comic,
and I'm like "there's 64. How's this gonna work out?"
I was really, I was really happy to do it.
It actually came really naturally to me,
believe me, I'm not like good at auditions,
the auditioning process is such--
you ask any actor and they'll tell you it's a nightmare.
- Right. - Right?
And so for me it was just the same, and believe me,
I'm not very good at testing, or anything like that,
but this one just really came really natural to me,
and I was like, oh, what does that say about me?
- (laughs) Have you already found a favorite personality
among the sixty-four?
- I think it depends on the day,
- Okay - But um...
- Personality for every mood. - Exactly.
I mean, that's how I am, you know,
I operate in moods, and so,
I think it's the same with 'Doom Patrol.'
I love, I love all those crazy gals,
I really do, Karen, Hammerhead, the whole gang.
- We should also mention that, breaking news here,
at Comic Con, well after the news has been broken,
- Yes. - That, Season Two!
- Yes! - We're getting Season Two.
- Yes we are!
- Which is a way to come to Comic Con,
you don't wanna come and be like,
yeah, hopefully, maybe, no!
We know it. - Yeah.
- We're getting a second season,
and you're expanding where it's gonna be seen,
it's gonna also seen on HBO Max,
which is awesome. - Yeah.
- So give me a sense of sort of, like,
having done this through the first, what, 15 episodes,
I think you did at first, right?
- Yeah.
- So, what are the learnings from the first season,
what do you want to see in the second season,
what's on the to-do list for you and your character?
- Well, I wanna, I mean,
I think that we've all sort of found out,
all of us are dealing with very deep-rooted issues,
and a lot of trauma,
and we've sort of come together in a very special way,
even though, you know,
we've been reluctant to do so,
and so for the last episode,
for those who've seen it,
we saw that they come together as an actual team,
and that was so much fun to play.
'Cause if you watched, if you watched a season you'll see,
every episode, I mean, they sort of worked together,
but it's, it's telling a story,
you're focusing on one character at a time.
- Right. - Sort of.
And so I really liked them coming together as a team,
and I'm just, I can't wait to like,
just get into stuff with them and, you know,
crack codes, and solve mysteries,
save people and, when they're stuck in--
- (chuckles) - different animal butts.
- This is the day-to-day job of Doom Patrol.
- It's, you know,
- Someone's gotta do it. - Somebody's gotta do it,
we gotta get stick, we gotta get sticky.
You know?
- Let's talk the fact that this is a character that,
on the page, is not written for a Latinx actor, right,
so that's, that's important, we're making these small steps,
sometimes big steps in terms of representation.
And some would argue this kind of thing is a big step.
- It is.
- Give me a sense like, is that,
do you take a great satisfaction, in that you must?
- Absolutely, absolutely.
I mean, I of course have always wanted to see
my community represented in this space,
- Yeah.
- We're much a part of this world, as anybody else,
and so, I just think it's really encouraging,
to see characters of, sorry,
people of the Latinx community play these beloved characters
and I'd like to see more of that,
I'd like to think that I, you know, had a part in that.
- Yeah. - You know,
so it's special for me.
- And in terms of seeing the reactions to this
series, and this character, I mean,
you must have like gotten online, I would think,
you wanna see like how people are reacting.
- Totally, well that--
- Was it cool to see, sort of, how people would, uh,
just saw this first live-action version of 'Doom Patrol?'
- It was so amazing to see people's reaction,
like they really love it, and I know,
like I haven't been a part of the comic book world
for a long time, but I know that people who are,
who respect this work and this space,
are watching, and they are very critical,
and they should be, and detail-oriented,
and I was just, I wanted to do this story justice,
and I guess in terms of,
bringing it back to the Latinx thing,
I was a little worried that I would,
because the character isn't written as a Latina woman,
I was worried that I would get some of that backlash.
And, you know, obviously,
I understand that that happens,
but I was a little worried about that,
but no, I haven't had any of that.
- Really?
Online you're not seeing--
The trolls aren't coming out? - I haven't,
no, they haven't come for me. - That's great.
- Yet.
- Let's not bring that, I know.
But that has been very nice how people,
that's not even, it hasn't even been brought up,
so that's really nice. - That's awesome.