Tales of the City's Garcia

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Guest Host Shereen Marisol Meraji, host of NPR's Code Switch, chats with actor Garcia. Garcia plays Jake Rodriguez on 'Tales of the City' on Netflix, a part-remake part-sequel to the TV miniseries you might remember from the 90's. Garcia and Shereen discuss their first breakout role, being pigeonholed as a trans character in Hollywood and how their chosen family led them to acting.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jessie Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:12.5	It's Bullseye.
0:20.5	It's Bullseye. I'm Shireen Marisol Maraji in for Jessie Thorn.
0:24.4	I open all my interviews by having my guests describe themselves.
0:28.0	So it's only fair that I do the same.
0:30.7	I'm Puerto Rican and Iranian.
0:32.4	I was born and raised in California.
0:34.8	I love Bay Area hip hop and my favorite book is An of Green Gables.
0:39.7	Still after many, many, many, many years.
0:43.7	I also host NPR's Code Switch Podcast.
0:47.2	On the podcast we discuss race, culture and identity in the United States.
0:51.8	And I'm going to bring a little bit of that Savor, a little bit of that flavor to the show today.
0:56.6	So let's get to it.
0:57.9	My guest this week is Garcia.
0:59.8	They played Jake Rodriguez in Tales of the City on Netflix.
1:03.5	It's an update to an LGBT classic.
1:06.1	You may remember from PBS in the 90s.
1:09.2	Actors, Laura Linney and Olympia Ducakis were in it back then.
1:13.2	And they're back for this one too.
1:15.0	Tales of the City first appeared as a newspaper column written by Armistad Mopin.
1:20.0	Then it evolved into a series of novels and worked its way onto the small screen.
1:25.0	And this Netflix version follows people who live at 28 Barbary Lane in San Francisco.
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