And so, as a kid, you’re taught, or maybe your awareness is raised, that there’s a possibility of evil. My mother used to get an egg and rub my body with it and my brother’s too, and then she’d put it in a glass and tip it over.
You know, in a Mexican household, they’re very Catholic and they have this thing called Brujería, which is basically about believing in witches and black magic and stuff. And we learned that, if there’s good, then what’s the balance to that? We know there’s good because we live in this world but we also know that there’s some evil and you have to sometimes explore the different kinds of evil. I don’t know why exactly, but, I mean, I grew up in the Catholic Church and I went to Catholic school. Michael Peña: I do! I gotta be honest, I do. WH: Do you believe in exorcism and possession, then? That side of things? Is that kind of what drew you to this role? It happens with some people, when you see evil, and when you have to confront evil for the first time, you either change or are submissive. Mainly in the last part of it, you know, where there’s an emotional change with this guy and he’s having to deal with this exorcism. What’s cool about it, is it gave my character somewhere to go. But the guys where I grew up were just regular guys who just had the priest thing, and so I decided to play him like that. I made him a little younger and not as holy, because in a lot of other movies, for some reason, they play the priest as the almighty, holy guy. But, he gets to experience an exorcism for the first time and he doesn’t know what he’s doing, he’s like a deer caught in headlights. I mean, this is a very generic way of explaining it, but it all starts from there. And he finds this girl who seems kind of off to him, a little bit, so he takes a video of her, he sends it to The Vatican, and they come back and say, you know, we might need to do an exorcism here. He just came back from the war and he’s trying to do some good. Michael Peña: He’s a priest who hasn’t been on the job very long. Wicked Horror: So, tell me a little bit about your character, Fr. Love Real Life Ghost Hunting Shows? CLICK HERE FOR MORE!
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