Eiza González (Ash, Baby Driver, 3 Body Problem) is an actor and singer. Eiza joins the Armchair Expert to discuss whether there is human DNA in hotdogs, how she wanted braces because all the cool girls had them, and being a patriotic Mexican. Eiza and Dax talk about her father’s priority always being for her to learn as many languages as possible, why her dad passing away suddenly influenced her to pursue acting full time, and experiencing insecurity when she started working in America. Eiza explains why she rides so hard for those who first gave her a shot, seeing her new “Substance-in-space” horror film Ash in theaters, and how she learned the lesson that really horrific things can give way to the most beautiful, life-changing opportunities.Follow Armchair Expert on the Wondery App or wherever you get your podcasts. Watch new content on YouTube or listen to Armchair Expert early and ad-free by joining Wondery+ in the Wondery App, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify. Start your free trial by visiting wondery.com/links/armchair-expert-with-dax-shepard/ now.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Chapter 1: Who is Eiza Gonzalez and what are her notable works?
Today we have Aza Gonzalez-San.
Yes.
Aza is an actor. She is a singer. Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, Baby Driver, Three-Body Problem, Ambulance, Bloodshot, and a new movie out that I quite enjoyed.
Yeah.
Very moon-like, as I say in the episode, if anyone remembers that great Sam Rockwell movie called Ash.
Yeah.
Yes, Ash.
Yeah, I just saw something about Ash on maybe Instagram. Some friends had seen it and they were raving about it. They were raving, yeah.
It's an intense, it's got that, as I think I said in the episode, it's got that kind of substance-y, tenchy.
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Chapter 2: Is there human DNA in hotdogs?
She has bad news. I love bad news.
I have amazing, life-changing information for you. For me specifically? Yeah, this is what started it.
Okay. I'm nervous. Don't tell me anything negative about hot dogs.
I fear it will be happening. Are you traumatized by this?
And this was the day that I stopped eating hot dogs. This is a good example of how if you care about something, you can twist it.
Because, well, tell him the fact and then I'll tell you how I twisted it.
Yeah, because we were talking about your pictures and your paintings. Celebs on sandwiches. I said, wow, who would pick a hot dog as their favorite sandwich? Is that a sandwich? That's the big question. I used to be obsessed with hot dogs.
What were your favorites before we ruin it?
Well, I'm not American, so I would just settle for a regular whatever.
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Chapter 3: How did Eiza Gonzalez's father's death influence her career?
It's interesting. So I went half my life to an American school.
Does that just mean English school?
Yes. People that flew from America, all their kids were there. Or people that worked for the embassies and stuff like that. And then my other half of my education, I went to a British school. American meant it was full English all day long, no Spanish. So I had geography, math, chemistry, everything in English. So I was fully fluent in English since I was a baby.
I don't even remember learning another language.
And your parents put in that effort because they just wanted the whole world to be open to you. Did they specifically see you going to the U.S. ?
That was never thought. My dad had like fixation with languages. So he really was hyper focused on me speaking multiple languages. And I do. I was his only daughter and his only kid. My dad really didn't want any artistic sort of influence in my life in the sense of like music. And my mom was a naughty one who would take me to dance or singing.
And he was like, stop distracting her from 17 different languages.
You went to Italy at 10 for a minute to learn Italian?
Yes. So my family lives in Italy.
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Chapter 4: What challenges did Eiza face in her early career?
But I should because I do know that I have a little bit of everything.
Yeah. What do you think you have? Because mind you, what I thought I had didn't prove out in the data.
Have you done it? Yeah, we had to do it. And I'm 100% Indian. Pure. That is incredible. I'm so pure.
By the way, that's so funny to me because when I moved to the U.S., when I would ask people, where are you from? They'd be like, yeah, yeah, I'm American, Italian, Spanish, with a quarter Cherokee. And I was like, what?
Oh, God, yeah.
That is, with all due respect, such an American thing.
Yeah, tell us. You guys don't do that in Mexico.
I'd be like, I'm from Defe. You'd be like, I'm from Rome. Like, I've never in my life thought of this.
So I would be so wrong. I would have thought it would have been even perhaps more fetishized there because you have this mestizo population and then this European influence. And there has been some kind of status hierarchy, a little bit derived from that now.
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