Michael Pena on His Family's Superstitions & Fantasy Island Movie

Michael talks about playing Mr. Roarke in the new Fantasy Island movie, growing up watching horror films, and his mom's superstitions to ward off bad spirits.
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Michael Pena on His Family's Superstitions & Fantasy Island Movie
• Michael Pena on His Fa...

[@JayTheCyborg]

I’m Surprised there wasn’t atleast one “woo” for la India Maria. That was every Mexicans childhood.

[@nanamano6551]

Pena is the man👍🏽 his character in Battle Los Angeles was really awesome 👍🏽 Nothing but love love for him 😊 🇸🇬

[@lindastonebraker2512]

I love Michael Peña! So glad to see him in a leading role!

[@Inlandempire1221]

That's true about the cleansing with the eggs!!

[@chinotorres8773]

My mom told me a story, I can't remember it though. But anyway she mentioned how an egg went black. I believe it's true because my mom saw it with her own eyes.

[@Inlandempire1221]

@@chinotorres8773 Yeah from what I'm told, it helps with bad energy or evil thoughts and hatred from other people, and even a few other things.

[@chinotorres8773]

@@Inlandempire1221 I need to ask my mom to tell me the story again.

[@NicKeLas]

What's true? That his mom used to do it? That it felt cool and refreshing? That it's believed that the egg helps against evil spirits? I have no reason to doubt any of those.

[@laf379]

Jesus Christo, we had the egg ritual too! So damn funny.

[@kayalso2722]

I love Michael Pena in the movie: Ceasar Chavez... Extremely underrated Actor. What a gem. So sorry I'm late to truly appreciate him. But, better late than never🌈

[@pokespencer23]

Really funny and entertaining interview. I love it.

[@DelightLovesMovies]

I loved his character so much in Crash.

[@davidmartin8351]

Jimmy makes fun of hispanic people that's obvious!!! (Es no bueno jimmy es mui mal compadre! Tu (you jimmy) es estupido

[@ngc6603]

Take your meds.

[@davidmartin8351]

@@ngc6603 what meds are you referring to? Why are you giving medical advice to someone you do not know? Y'all are not interesting in the least.

[@davidmartin8351]

@@ngc6603 what makes you think i'm sick or crazy? That's a pretty specific assumption.

[@davidmartin8351]

@@ngc6603how are you doing buddy!!! Do you want to debate anything besides you medical qualifications? You're not going to respond anymore huh?

[@ngc6603]

@@davidmartin8351 I'm just sayin' your comment was incredibly confusing and whatnot. I was semi-fascetious in my comment but sometimes I personally forget my meds for 48 hours so...

[@6996meow]

"La India Maria!" That's Awesome!

[@JohnSmith-su3ze]

I used to hang out with Michael before he was famous. He's funny now, but you have no idea how funny he was when he was younger He would literally just sit there and talk and everyone would be pissing themselves laughing. He could literally just make you laugh at will

[@yumegutierrez2701]

Haha my mom does the egg cleansed 😂

[@disamarie]

I love Michael Pena!!

[@carlosnavarro1607]

This guy is great! He really made it!

[@Glickse]

I think Pena is underrated. Great actor.

[@jamemann4700]

Dont forget kenny powers man the acting on the 2nd season was hilarious

[@rsanchez7111]

I totally understand what his talking about lol my mom did the same thing to me 😂😂

[@chewminem2044]

Very talented actor. Under appreciated A lister.

[@shownolove6510]

Its true about them eggs lol🇲🇽

[@sneakero1ogist]

Hispanic Mark Ruffalo?

[@playalarga5493]

No mark ruffalo is white Michael peña

[@Keneli0426]

even Guillermo has pride 0:48

[@WheresChris4]

La India Maria and the egg lol 2 very important things to every Mexican childhood hahaha

[@AaronCLB]

I get cleansed with eggs too lol

[@rodrigoesparza7676]

Dam I wanna see the movie now lol

[@aaronmartel7972]

He is such a cool dude. He hung out and drank with my cousin in an airport a few years ago for about an hour.

[@andreweaton3708]

"Somehow got bootlegged DVDs of Fantasy Island." yeah sure Jimmy haha I'm sure you forget lol

[@brandonhinrichs7815]

Scientologists have superstitions? Lol

[@jfrodriguez1987]

I'm pretty sure his parents weren't scientologists when he was growing up.

[@NicKeLas]

Well, I can say that some christians certainly do, some atheists do. So why not scientologists?

[@navyryder]

Guillermo wasn’t feeling it this time! Perhaps he didn’t get his shot of tequila. No cerveza, No trabajo!!!

[@Buenomars]

While getting pelted with eggs he should chant "I am the Eggman, I am the Eggman" and when done he should say "I am the walrus!"

[@brandonkashinsky9222]

😂

[@biznakrivera]

It's Sad Scientology got ahold of him later in life. Notice how his good stories are always from growing up in a Catholic hispanic household.. 🤔😥

[@carolinablue53]

What about peter Dinklage playing tattoo

[@FernandoMartinez-gf9sb]

I've completed my training

[@bossdaddy323]

I've seen eggs get hardboiled and bloody eggs after the rub down.

[@skilletman16]

Guillermo as Tattoo would be priceless.

[@on2wheels378]

Supersitions? He's Scientologist...

[@jennak5498]

I love him 😍 daddyyyy

[@FernandoMartinez-gf9sb]

Got baptised Easter

[@ryu3984]

Who love michael peña ? And who want to meet and great with him ? Yeahhh me too

[@justlooking3649]

Truth serum!

[@enriqueordaz5561]

He has more movies than I do nephews.

[@FernandoMartinez-gf9sb]

That's the truth

[@ripsey_muscle]

Sugar milk . 🤣😭

[@anthonylopez8072]

26th street 2 6 folk gang. right in the heart of it...

[@calvinmcgreggor1953]

I Pena!! Shooter.. he's awesome in everything ... I bet he's tatoo.. CGI body

[@deenormus1975]

I bet Peter Dinklage plays Tattoo. He played the actor Herve Villechaize...who played Tattoo and said he felt a connection to him. Pena said he had to sign confidentiality agreements that he wouldn’t tell. But who else could it be?! Lol

[@l.navarro6255]

Peña..... don't be ashamed of who you are and say it with pride!!!!! I can't be the only who cought that vibe??? Was I 🤦‍♀️😄

[@jota8193]

Es la primera vez que se habla de pasar el huevo en la TV gringa

[@HylianCheshire]

Anyone ready for a Luis Dave and Kurt movie?

[@MonsiVel]

LMAO!!!! The cleansing is a real thing!!! LMAO!!! I can’t handle it!!! Real Latinos know this story oh so very well 😂🤣

[@FernandoMartinez-gf9sb]

Where the bean dip

[@bumaddyangel]

Hey the Egg 🥚 works!

[@scottjennings2838]

Guillermo!! WTG! Saying no to Jimmy is a good thing for you

[@gallegos77pgr]

Ni de aqui. Ni de alla.😃

[@astridgalindo10]

He described the cleansing wrong. Is supposed to clean any bad vibe you pick up and of course evil eye

[@Be1smaht]

Hes so cute

[@Apeace372]

It’s called Ojo 👁 in Spanish

[@Ghostelmalo44]

alt+164= ñ it's Peña , not pena ... lol

[@yazminf7161]

so apparently he's a Scientologist, did not know that.

[@ZER0-444]

xxBODYCOUNTxx same could be said about Christianity

[@dparks3784]

Pena could play tattoo himself.

[@juniorreyes8316]

Yeah jimmy wtf its his mom

[@MissPerriwinkle]

is he really a scientologist??

[@moiseslopez8362]

Este es el hijo de Guillermo..!

[@FernandoMartinez-gf9sb]

Egg shower at a wealthy neighborhood

[@ingridmendoza6607]

Jimmy Kimmel my name is Ingrid Mendoza and I’m 13. I live in Rupert Idaho.Anyways I’m doing a biographical paper on you but, I can’t seem to find enough information about you so, i thought you could give me some facts about yourself or tell me something about your show or shows you have been in(course you don’t have to share something you don’t want to share)

[@manugulati1105]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@dianavarela3722]

LA INDIA MARIAAAA

[@FernandoMartinez-gf9sb]

Just need police acedmy

[@MexicanJesus1998]

I hope I dont get karma but we can see Michael’s hairline receding

[@anibaltv845]

Even if you’re not superstitious, it’s rude to laugh at someone’s beliefs, many people believe in that cleansing he said, it’s more of a Latino superstition, if you don’t believe/care about it, don’t mock it, I don’t believe in it (being Latino myself) but still

[@FernandoMartinez-gf9sb]

It's the people that make the hood scary not the hood

[@FernandoMartinez-gf9sb]

Evil emotion not spirit

[@54NELA]

Man how some people are Scientologists I will never be able to figure out they can join a cult.

[@bobgooglin2686]

Well I'm sure its one big circle jerk in Hollyweird

[@applehappyx-files2456]

Great actor despite of his “religious” beliefs

[@brandonkashinsky9222]

I didn’t like the film at all but it had a great twist and I thought the ending was great

[@coleshotz9948]

I was on the island when they were filming it there it’s on my insta @cole_shotz

[@tyler6003]

wow Michael Pena teaching white people "La Limpia" LOL

[@FernandoMartinez-gf9sb]

Mexicans invented popcorn

[@LLV1915]

Este wuey 26th street

[@dparks3784]

Was that really necessary for Pena to ask Guilermo to say the plane nonsence? It was disrespectful. Pena should have known better.

[@matami19]

Scientology god damn i liked him before i discovered

[@policevanposition1993]

Everyone praising Guillermo for not doing something he is paid to do.. Jimmy treats Guillermo like a God compared the sht Jimmy does to his family. Besides Jimmy didn't ask him to do the bit. It was the actor who turned to him.

[@policevanposition1993]

@Art Deco Hahaha. You are an idiot.

[@FernandoMartinez-gf9sb]

And to earn my degrees

[@FernandoMartinez-gf9sb]

I'm not supersistious

[@enriquemendez8575]

Jimmy is the funnier Carson Daly

[@ricardotriana6217]

It's called witchcraft, " the eggs".

[@FernandoMartinez-gf9sb]

?

[@FernandoMartinez-gf9sb]

That's my tattoo

[@jesguerra920]

Who else did this?🖐

[@cloutclaudiuscharles2597]

Mikey getting a little thick

[@kingralphie6857]

Scientology 🤔

[@shilohfoxden-ku5cv]

hes a scientologist

[@FernandoMartinez-gf9sb]

Meda head

[@xxbodycountxx7626]

Just what we need another unoriginal movie. Let me just take this 80's Tv show and make a movie about it. No original thoughts in Hollywood anymore. Disgusting.

[@noemirichardson3413]

Peña belittling Guillermo 👎🏼

[@noemirichardson3413]

What a disgrace

[@unchevalier777]

The racist pressure and posturing around Guillermo is horrible. I don't understand how Jimmy gets away with it 👎

[@alonsogonzalezmonsivais4963]

PeÑa PeÑÑÑÑÑÑÑa 😒

[@MrKaplanFilm]

He was such a disaster in Narcos. What a miscast. Plus the scientology thing. Dont like him.

[@adaoraelliott9254]

I wonder if Guillmero is sick of his accent being the punchline.

[@Holret]

I thought he was supposed to be the comic relief.

[@ngc6603]

I wonder how much he makes standing around doing nothing 95% of the time.

[@albertoagilar1807]

@@ngc6603Way more than me and you combined

[@gabrielv92]

Representing Chicago I love this guy

[@cmodzins]

It was John Schuck who played the irresistible man. I remember one where a lady wanted to be the most famous horsewoman in the world, so Mr. Roarke turned her into Lady Godiva. Roarke could be pretty evil sometimes.

[@jenniferhizzy6591]

Love fantasy island