New Interviews and Imagen Award Nomination

Posted by VA on 27 Jun, 2012 under: Interviews, News & Rumours, News Bites, Video • 0 Comments

Been a little busy, but some new stuff popped up with Tyler over the past couple of days. Tyler was on Good Day LA on June 26th, where he talked about the show and his band. Watch above.

  • In an interview with Huffington Post’s Latino Voices, Tyler talked about his Mexican roots and the ethnicity of his Teen Wolf character.

    Do you speak Spanish?
    Muy poquito, muy muy poquito {Laughs}. I took Spanish in high school and I didn’t do too well in it. My Spanish teacher told me not to go on with Spanish anymore, so I was discouraged a little bit. But I have been wanting to learn it more lately. Hopefully I’ll be able to learn some more. Screw my teacher {Laughs}.

    The fact that you’re half-Mexican and the star of your own hit show on MTV, is obviously a big source of pride for the Latino community. Do you feel like you’re representing for Latinos in Hollywood?
    I definitely do. Especially with all of the attention I’m getting from Latino magazines. I also just got nominated for an Imagen Award {which aims to recognize and reward positive portrayals of Latinos in all forms of media} which I’m super stoked for! I can’t even tell you how excited I am about that. Oscar Nunez from “The Office” is going to be there and I love that show, so I’m really excited to see him. So yeah, I completely embrace the fact that I’m Latino and the lead of a show. If anything, I hope it shows that, well, don’t be discouraged if you’re ethnic {Laughs}.

    In your career, you’ve played characters from a wide range of backgrounds. Do you like the fact that you’re not typecast?
    I love it! I mean, people don’t know what race I am. They never know if I’m Hawaiian or Italian or Mexican or Spanish or White. I could play Jewish, I could play anything. I used to get typecast when I was younger…

    Your character Scott McCall is an all-American guy. He’s not Latino, right?
    Well, his mom has got a dark complexion, so I think he’s half-Latino. It never comes up in the show, but I’m pretty sure that he is Latino. I mean, look at the guy! He looks Latino, a little bit.

    Full Interview over at Huffington Post.

  • Finally Tyler has been nominated for Best TV Actor at the 27th Annual Imagen Awards!

    The Imagen Awards aims to recognize and reward positive portrayals of Latinos in all forms of media, as well as to encourage and recognize the achievements of Latinos in the entertainment and communications industries.

    Congrats Tyler! The winners will be announced at the Awards Ceremony on August 10th.

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