The Raúl E. Esparza "Spread the Love" Thread, Part Four- Page 19

[LePetiteFromage]

Posted: 5/13/08 at 4:31pm

Updated On: 1/23/09 at 04:31 PM

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 5/13/08 at 4:33pm

[Ariella]

Posted: 5/13/08 at 5:57pm

Hah.

This is excellent.

[humbugfoto]

Posted: 5/13/08 at 7:11pm

Gee....looks just like my yard....

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 5/13/08 at 9:45pm

Raul Esparza
Best Featured Actor in a Play Nominee for The Homecoming
"I just finished a run-through of a workshop of [the new musical] Leap of Faith, so I've been working today. My manager called me and woke me up [with news of the nomination], and I said, 'You're kidding!' I really didn't expect this one. With some [nominations], you kind of feel it in the water; I didn't feel that with this one. When a show's closed, it's 'out of sight, out of mind,' I always figure. But I'm overjoyed. I actually dreamt I hadn't gotten nominated. You try not to care about it too much, but that's ridiculous because it's a really big deal. Company was truly a dream come true, and then I followed that with The Homecoming, which may be the happiest professional experience I've had in New York. It was the kind of show where you went to work and you just felt a peace; there was a real sense of doing a job and doing it well. It's a show where my performance and [nominee] Eve [Best's] performance were entirely supported by, colored by and shaped by the other actors onstage. I've never felt so much like a member of an ensemble in New York where each actor onstage always had your back. It was very special to me."

Heh, I love that he didn't even wake up for them.

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 5/13/08 at 9:50pm

All those late nights at South Pacific. :-X

[ElphieDefiesGravity]

Posted: 5/14/08 at 12:07am

Yay! Congrats Raul!

[bestinshow2]

Posted: 5/14/08 at 1:50am

Awww, ditto on The Homecoming company love, they were a phenomenal ensemble. <33

[keen on kean]

Posted: 5/14/08 at 9:23am

Love that picture! Eve Best looks like she is 14 years old.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 5/14/08 at 12:52pm

She's so pretty.

lol at Raul's "who are you and where am I?" look.

[misschung]

Posted: 5/14/08 at 1:47pm

Eve looks gorgeous. Cute picture, even if Raul looks a little confused

[LePetiteFromage]

Posted: 5/14/08 at 1:50pm

Updated On: 1/23/09 at 01:50 PM

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 5/14/08 at 1:51pm

And of course the sideburns. I think I had forgotten how insane they actually were.

[bestinshow2]

Posted: 5/14/08 at 3:07pm

It really looks like he didn't know they were about to take a picture, he just saw everyone together and went over to them just as it was taken.


"Hey guys, wazzup? Oh look, a camera!"

LOL! Seriously, I can't picture Raúl having 'wazzup' in his vocabulary but I love the idea!!

[MotorTink]

Posted: 5/14/08 at 6:05pm

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/117741.html

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 5/14/08 at 6:08pm

Wow, they got those up fast!

[LePetiteFromage]

Posted: 5/14/08 at 6:22pm

Updated On: 1/23/09 at 06:22 PM

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 5/14/08 at 6:26pm

Patti made me lol. I love it.

[sweetestsiren]

Posted: 5/14/08 at 6:33pm

Hah! Her shirt is awesome.

[keen on kean]

Posted: 5/14/08 at 6:55pm

I assume the lapel pins are their nominee pins since all seem to have them.

If Raul gets any thinner, he is going to have to get new headshots.

[humbugfoto]

Posted: 5/14/08 at 8:01pm

October 2007 vs May 2008



Does anyone else find the difference....disconcerting?

[LePetiteFromage]

Posted: 5/14/08 at 8:06pm

Updated On: 1/23/09 at 08:06 PM

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 5/14/08 at 8:07pm

... not really.

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 5/14/08 at 8:08pm

His hairline is receding? Not sure what the concern is; he looks fine in both.

Oh. Weight. Meh. He's yo-yoed for years; not worth obsessing over. Look a pictures from before Chitty; he was a chunker then too.

Updated On: 5/14/08 at 08:08 PM

[humbugfoto]

Posted: 5/14/08 at 8:31pm

OK. Comment withdrawn. I guess I'm cranky because I just spent two and a half hours fighting gridlocked Los Angeles traffic.

Actually, the hairline didn't bother me at all, because it's not receding, it's an optical illusion caused by the longer hair he's sporting now (I draw the line at calling it "fluffier" ).

But he really cannot afford to lose any more weight.