Todd Tucker | Family Issue 2018
Todd Tucker Covers the Family issue of The Quintessential Gentleman.
Todd Tucker Covers the Family issue of The Quintessential Gentleman.
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of reminds me of me in a sense.<br />
So, when it came to black entertainment<br />
and black content, I<br />
was always watching. You know<br />
it was Martin, Wayans Brothers,<br />
Jamie Foxx Show, Fresh Prince,<br />
all those black sitcoms. When<br />
it came to movies I was always<br />
watching Fridays and all those<br />
types of movies. Then every other<br />
type of movie, but those ones<br />
really resonated with me because<br />
of the one fact, I understood the<br />
language, because it’s something<br />
like me.<br />
On the side of being Panamanian,<br />
I would say I don’t think it’s<br />
necessarily been an influence on<br />
me in my career choice and my<br />
career. That being said, it’s because<br />
I haven’t seen a lane for<br />
Afro-Latinos, too often. Usually,<br />
we have to portray black characters<br />
or mixed with something<br />
else, but I think that’s why I want<br />
to create stuff though.<br />
Moving forward in my career, I<br />
do look forward to telling those<br />
stories of Afro-Latinos and being<br />
able to create characters, and<br />
give opportunities to other actors<br />
looking for roles. I can speak on<br />
that because a lot of times when<br />
they’re looking for “Latino” they<br />
aren’t really looking for all types<br />
of Latinos. They’re just looking<br />
for Euro-Latino. It’s kind of the<br />
same fight that you would have if<br />
you’re black and white. It’s kind<br />
of the same with Latinos because<br />
when I say Latinos, they’re<br />
not being all-inclusive.<br />
I found it interesting that you<br />
used to do this cultural dance<br />
with your mom when you were<br />
young and you tried to hide it<br />
for a while. Since your success<br />
and being as busy as you are<br />
today, what was the last fun<br />
thing you actually did with your<br />
mom?<br />
Well, we do anything that has to<br />
do with any Panamanian get-togethers<br />
and gatherings. We’ll<br />
have parties and stuff like that.<br />
I will accompany her with that.<br />
Me and my baby brother will<br />
go with her. Usually, over the<br />
holidays, I have a half-sister, so<br />
sometimes we go over her side of<br />
the family’s house and it can be a<br />
good time there.<br />
How does your family feel about<br />
your success on Insecure now?<br />
They are proud. My dad’s really<br />
excited with everything that’s going<br />
on because he has three sons<br />
and he’s always been the type to<br />
just talk about his sons with his<br />
friends or keep our family members<br />
in the loop with us. So he’s<br />
always kinda proud to talk about<br />
anything we’re doing and anything<br />
good we’re doing.<br />
So this is something that’s been<br />
very exciting for him, some of the<br />
benefits I’ve been able to reap<br />
from the success. We just came<br />
back from Philadelphia, me and<br />
him, because we went to Game<br />
Three with the 76ers vs the Boston<br />
Celtics in the playoffs. You<br />
get to do fun stuff like that. We<br />
had great seats and he’s never<br />
been to a game and to have experienced<br />
it like that and meet<br />
other people; he met professional<br />
athletes from his favorite team<br />
and other actors and directors.<br />
So he’s kinda just really been<br />
having a good time with the experience.<br />
My brothers. We always kind of<br />
have expectations for each other,<br />
so everything’s kinda going according<br />
to what we planned or<br />
what we set out to do.<br />
The same thing with my baby<br />
brother, I’ll take him to some<br />
of these events or parties and<br />
he meets certain people that he<br />
looks up to and he’s like, ‘What!’<br />
They have a good time with it.<br />
My sister and my mom, they get<br />
anxious, asking “What’s next?”<br />
I‘m like, “alright, I don’t have all<br />
the answers myself, you gotta<br />
take it one step at a time.“<br />
Did your mom watch your sex<br />
scenes in Insecure? If so, how<br />
was that conversation?<br />
Yeah, it was. Funny enough<br />
my baby brother recorded her<br />
watching one of the sex scenes.<br />
You just see it was hard for her<br />
to watch it. It was kind of funny,<br />
she was just kind of making<br />
noises and stuff so she wouldn’t<br />
hear it. She stood up and turned<br />
around, and was like “Ahhh,<br />
gosh.“ It was fine at first and then<br />
after a few of the sex scenes, she<br />
thought it was kind of too much.<br />
It’s my job, though mom, it’s<br />
HBO, what you expect. (laughter).<br />
She’s handled it decent, though.<br />
Better than I expected. She<br />
handled it any way you’d think a<br />
mom would.<br />
Are you anything like your<br />
character Dro in real life, and if<br />
so, what are the similarities?<br />
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