When I moved to L.A., I had no intention of really pursuing acting. I wanted to focus on stand-up. It's crazy to me that my acting career took off much faster than my stand-up career.
— Nico Santos
Superstore' is, like, my fifth acting job.
It's really mind-boggling to me when I think about where I started and where I am now. It's kind of insane.
People with accents exist and just because they have an accent doesn't mean they're less intelligent or what-have-you.
We must work to change in our hearts and minds what it looks like to be undocumented. It is the high schooler dreaming of college who isn't aware of his status. It is the single mother working grueling hours in a warehouse just to provide for her children. It is the family that sits next to you in church. It is your neighbor.
I often get asked which 'Superstore' episode is my favorite. That's such a hard question to answer. It's like being asked: Which of your children (and by children, I mean shoes) do you like best?
I came out to one or two people in high school and then it wasn't until I was a freshman in college that I was fully out of the closet. It was like the late '90s.
My intent when I moved to L.A. was to get in good with the comedy clubs and, eventually, try to break into Comedy Central and have my half hour special.
It still baffles my brain that I actually get to portray a character on American television that's this gay, femme-y Filipino guy.
I don't think people should be afraid of portraying people with accents, especially Asian accents.
My brother joined the Army. He served multiple tours in Iraq and now lives in Texas with his family.
Femme people exist, and they are layered and they are complex and they are intelligent.
The fact that I am a Filipino actor playing a Filipino role is crazy. Filipinos are the second largest Asian minority in the United States, and we're hardly represented in the media and on television.
I didn't want to do Chekhov or Shakespeare. So I switched my major from acting to costume design. Eventually, I got a job working as a wardrobe assistant for a theater company. I would dress the actors, fix their costumes, do the quick changes for them and all that stuff.
First of all, Asian representation hardly exists to begin with.
We all need to call upon our lawmakers to create a path to citizenship for hard-working, law-abiding undocumented people and their families.
In the early '80s, my family vacationed to the United States.
I hate that femininity in a gay men is a 'stereotype.'
