{"id":481290,"date":"2022-08-05T01:44:40","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T22:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/luis-gerardo-mendez-explains-those-trippy-plot-twists\/"},"modified":"2022-08-05T01:44:40","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T22:44:40","slug":"luis-gerardo-mendez-explains-those-trippy-plot-twists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/luis-gerardo-mendez-explains-those-trippy-plot-twists\/","title":{"rendered":"#Luis Gerardo M\u00e9ndez Explains Those Trippy Plot Twists"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a26bc55d5c84\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a26bc55d5c84\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/luis-gerardo-mendez-explains-those-trippy-plot-twists\/#%E2%80%9CLuis_Gerardo_Mendez_Explains_Those_Trippy_Plot_Twists%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Luis Gerardo M\u00e9ndez Explains Those Trippy Plot Twists&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CLuis_Gerardo_Mendez_Explains_Those_Trippy_Plot_Twists%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Luis Gerardo M\u00e9ndez Explains Those Trippy Plot Twists&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div> <strong>[Warning: The following contains MAJOR spoilers for <em>The Resort<\/em> Season 1 Episode 4, \u201cA History of Forgetting.\u201d]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you thought you knew <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/tvinsider.com\/show\/the-resort\/\"><em>The<\/em> <em>Resort<\/em><\/a>, Episode 4 just changed everything. It was the Baltasar and Alex show from start to finish. Viewers met the 2022 Baltasar (played by the delightful Luis Gerardo M\u00e9ndez, who carries the episode alongside Ben Sinclair\u2018s Alex) in Episode 3 when he scuffled with Emma (Cristin Milioti) and Noah (William Jackson Harper). Luckily, Emma didn\u2019t accidentally kill him, because the black sheep of the Frias family had almost all of the answers they were looking for.<\/p>\n<p>The episode is mostly told in flashback with narrations from M\u00e9ndez. He takes Emma and Noah back to the glory days of the now shut down Oceana Vista, giving much needed context behind Alex\u2019s sticky note-strewn penthouse and the seemingly meaningless mural. We see the beginnings of Baltasar, Alex, and Luna\u2019s (Gabriela Cartol) friendship during the hotel\u2019s five-year prime, which ended with the once-in-a-lifetime hurricane that left Sam (Skyler Gisondo) and Violet\u2019s (Nina Bloomgarden) fates a mystery for more than a decade. We learn of Alex\u2019s \u201cmemory leakage\u201d and see life from Alex\u2019s perspective (including a meteor falling to Earth?), and time <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a> seems to come into play in a truly mind-bending ending that permanently alters the show\u2019s trajectory.<\/p>\n<p>In the very last moments of the episode, Baltasar tells Emma and Noah he thought Alex\u2019s actions were that of a crazy person. But then, he points to a section of the mural that clearly shows Emma and Noah not far away from Sam and Violet in the painted penthouse window. The mural, mind you, was painted in 2007, and Alex died not long after finishing it. Here, M\u00e9ndez breaks down the pivotal episode.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You went from a mysterious figure to being the star of Episode 4. How fun was that?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Luis Gerardo M\u00e9ndez:<\/strong> It was fun! It was weird at the beginning, because Andy Siara reached out to me and was like, \u201cI want to offer you this role in this show, it\u2019s one of the leads.\u201d And then he sent me the first two episodes, and I was barely in those episodes, so I was like, \u201cDude, what are you talking about? I\u2019m barely in the show.\u201d And he was like, \u201cNo, no, no, you need to trust me. Everything\u2019s a setup. Episode 4 is everything about your character and the Oceana Vista and the golden days of this resort.\u201d When I received Episode 4 and I read it, that was the moment when I was like, \u201cOK, I definitely want to do this show,\u201d because I understood the relevance of this character. All of the excitement became very clear.<\/p>\n<p><strong>When did you learn about the twist at the end of Episode 4?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When I read that, I screamed. I was like, \u201cOh my God! This is incredible. I never saw that coming.\u201d And that h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ened a lot to me reading the show, even in Episodes 5 through 8. All the time, the show is transforming into something different, which is something I love as an audience member, but especially as an actor. At the beginning, I think it was just a leap of faith with Andy and the writers.<\/p>\n<p>Cristin and Will didn\u2019t know that much either. We didn\u2019t know the real ending until two weeks before shooting it, because Andy\u2019s very obsessive. He\u2019s always changing it because he wants to do the best of what\u2019s possible, which is incredible, but as an actor it can be very nerve-wracking. I like creating the arcs for my characters from the beginning, knowing where I\u2019m going to end, and then being more specific with the colors you want to show during the whole process. But when you don\u2019t have a final point clear from the beginning, it\u2019s hard and you need to be trusting in the process and having fun, which I guess is also a good creative tool you can use as a performer.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1055013\" style=\"width: 2038px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1055013\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1055013\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/the-resort-episode-4.jpg\" alt=\"Ben Sinclair as Alex, Luis Gerardo Mendez as Baltasar, Gabriela Cartol as Luna in Peacock's 'The Resort'\" width=\"2028\" height=\"1142\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/the-resort-episode-4.jpg 2028w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/the-resort-episode-4-450x253.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/the-resort-episode-4-1012x570.jpg 1012w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/the-resort-episode-4-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/the-resort-episode-4-1014x570.jpg 1014w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/the-resort-episode-4-770x433.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/the-resort-episode-4-570x321.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2028px) 100vw, 2028px\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1055013\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peacock<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Speaking of Baltasar\u2019s colors, he seems like a self-taught detective and a self-taught therapist in a way. It\u2019s like he believes he can solve a mystery by figuring out how people tick, and he can figure out how people tick by solving mysteries. Would you agree with that?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One hundred percent. That\u2019s a great way of defining this character. What I was trying to channel in portraying Baltasar was my theater teachers \u2014 acting teachers that are very intense and pushing you to find the secret of your existence, and they\u2019re super melodramatic and theatrical when they\u2019re doing these classes. This guy is really obsessed with solving this mystery, and he\u2019s treating Emma and Noah like acting students the whole time: \u201cHey, don\u2019t be stupid! You need to open your eyes! Dig. Go deeper. What do you want? What do you need?\u201d Those are the questions acting teachers are asking you.<\/p>\n<p>I had that reference pretty clear from my acting school. I even have an acting coach right now. I\u2019m 40 years old, I\u2019ve been doing this for 20 years, and I still need someone to help me build these characters and make them more complex. I really believe this work is team work. I really wanted to use all of those things when approaching Emma and Noah to be a detective of their feelings. He really believes that feelings and memory are going to open the door to this mystery. He\u2019s obsessed with that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you think he believed that before he met Alex or after?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I think that was after. He\u2019s obsessed with detective novels, so he has a lot of information about that. I played three detectives in the last year, and I asked my coach, \u201cWhat the f**k is happening? Why have I played so many detectives in the last two years?\u201d And he said that in a way, when you\u2019re in your mid-age, your 40s, you become a detective of yourself, of your experiences on this planet. When you read a lot of detective novels and you\u2019re very pressed in that world, you start asking those questions to yourself and being more aware of everything that\u2019s around you, because there are answers everywhere.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To Emma, the obvious answers point to Baltasar and Luna being responsible for Sam and Violet\u2019s deaths in some way, but Episode 4 shows nothing is what it seems. That kind of seems like the point of the show\/a metaphor for life.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Exactly. And it was a lot of fun to create these fake clues for the audience, like in the first episode when I do this [gestures sliding finger across throat], I\u2019m just talking about another iguana. But if you don\u2019t have all the information, it looks like \u201cI\u2019m gonna kill that guy.\u201d And Luna\u2019s being mysterious, but she\u2019s like, \u201cYeah, I stole whiskey from Alex.\u201d That\u2019s it.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s interesting about throwing these fake clues to the audience is that at the end of the day, they need to make sense. Because if it doesn\u2019t make sense, it\u2019s cheap. It\u2019s poorly made. I was very obsessive with Andy, because it was my job to throw all these fake clues into the show. I was like, \u201cI can do whatever you want, but at the end of the day, everything needs to make sense.\u201d And we were very specific about trying to make that work. I think we did it, and I hope people see it that way.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1055012\" style=\"width: 2038px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1055012\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1055012\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/ben-sinclair-the-resort.jpg\" alt=\"Ben Sinclair as Alex in Peacock's The Resort\" width=\"2028\" height=\"1353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/ben-sinclair-the-resort.jpg 2028w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/ben-sinclair-the-resort-433x289.jpg 433w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/ben-sinclair-the-resort-854x570.jpg 854w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/ben-sinclair-the-resort-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/ben-sinclair-the-resort-234x155.jpg 234w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/ben-sinclair-the-resort-570x380.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2028px) 100vw, 2028px\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1055012\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marisol Pesquera\/Peacock<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Memory leaking. Can you explain it?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I tried to make it as specific as I can, and the more real the better. I know people with Alzheimer\u2019s, really close people struggling with those kinds of disease. That was my approach to Alex when he was forgetting about everything.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What do you love about Baltasar and Alex\u2019s friendship?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alex is a father figure for Baltasar and his best friend. He runs away from his family, and he has a line where he says, \u201cI found this guy who saw in me, me.\u201d Alex does that for Baltasar. He sees him. When something like that happens to you, it\u2019s beautiful. It\u2019s very special. You want to stay there forever. We never talk about the sexuality of Baltasar in the show, but I one day told Andy that I think Baltasar might be in love with him a little. There\u2019s a fascination for how free he is, how crazy he is. I had a teacher who always told me, \u201cYou can never go wrong with the over-commitment with love.\u201d With Baltasar and Alex, the more Baltasar is in love with Alex, the better. As a friend, as a father figure, as a platonic love, or as a romantic love, it\u2019s going to make the whole show more devastating and special.<\/p>\n<p>I think that\u2019s one of the reasons he\u2019s so obsessed with solving what happened to Sam and Violet, for Sam and Violet but also for Alex to understand, \u201cDid he do something to them? What happened? I can\u2019t believe Alex was capable of something like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a really beautiful relationship of someone seeing this guy for the first time and giving him an incredible opportunity to become who he wants to be. It\u2019s a beautiful line, when he\u2019s like, \u201cWhat do you want to do? What do you want to be?\u201d And he\u2019s like, \u201cI want to be a detective!\u201d \u201cThen be one, you motherf***er.\u201d When you find someone who gives you the chance to do whatever you want, that\u2019s gold. I want to be that person to a lot of people.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Baltasar has an easier time accepting this crazy reality that Alex described than other characters. Why do you think that is?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I think it\u2019s a little bit of madness. He\u2019s been trying to solve this case for 15 years, and I guess he started by doing the logical things of a detective, but when the logical stuff stopped making sense, he needs to start opening up to more things. Every time, he\u2019s more open to whatever explanation he can find. He\u2019s really desperate for answers and starts trying different approaches. I never thought he was fully convinced that his methods were going to work, but he needed to try.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Resort<\/strong><\/em><strong>, Thursdays, Peacock<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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