Vincent "Rocco" Vargas is an actor, writer and content creator who served on three combat deployments with the 2nd Ranger Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment
REAL ONES with Jon Bernthal
Jon Bernthal
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🗓️ 21 March 2023
⏱️ 134 minutes
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Vincent "Rocco" Vargas is an actor, producer, and writer, known for Range 15, the MBest11x YouTube channel and the Vinny Roc podcast. Rocco went on to serve three combat deployments with the 2nd Ranger Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment. Vargas also served as an infantry Drill Sergeant. He then left active duty and entered the reserves with the rank of Sergeant First Class. After leaving active duty, Vargas worked in special operations as a medic with the Arizona Department of Corrections and then the U.S. Border Patrol.
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| 0:00.0 | How does the actual tactical skills of being a soldier, of being an athlete, of being |
| 0:16.4 | an agent, how has that affected you as an actor in terms of the physicality or just |
| 0:22.8 | even the approach? |
| 0:23.8 | I've tried to tell people, I feel like I have one of the best roller dexes of emotions, |
| 0:28.7 | like just, I mean, I can pull from anything, from love, from pain, from death to, like, |
| 0:33.8 | I know what the look is and is kicking in the door of a family and them all being like, |
| 0:37.4 | oh shit, I know that look. |
| 0:39.3 | I know the look of a woman who's lost her husband. |
| 0:41.2 | I know that look. |
| 0:42.2 | I know the look of a wife who was bearing her husband. |
| 0:44.6 | I know that. |
| 0:45.6 | I know the kids. |
| 0:46.6 | I know all of that. |
| 0:47.6 | I know the faces. |
| 0:48.6 | I know the emotions. |
| 0:49.6 | I know the raw, like, pain and I've soaked it all in. |
| 0:52.0 | I know what I feel like when I see something overseas that was like fucking unfortunate and |
| 0:55.6 | you're like, fuck, I gotta live with that one too. |
| 0:58.4 | You know what I mean? |
| 0:59.4 | And so I feel like I've been able to pull from the experience, whatever I've done in |
| 1:02.5 | the military, whatever I've done in the board show, whatever I've done in a baseball, |
| 1:05.0 | like, baseball probably is the root of everything of me, right? |
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