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My dad was working for a company in Germany, but was in the Middle East at the time. She got sponsored to work at a hospital in the Middle East with a bunch of friends.

My mom was a nurse, who just retired this year. My mom and dad essentially grew up in the Manila area. They immigrated from the Philippines to the Middle East. My dad’s name is Roger and my mom’s name is Adelfa. Josh (center), Blue (left) and their pals in “Blue’s Clues & You” Our Q&A with Josh: Can you talk about your Filipino roots? So, we’d go over her house, switch the channel to Nickelodeon, and watch ‘Blue’s Clues’ with my cousin Gabby.” “I still remember my Tita’s (aunt’s) pink rug, because she was the only one with cable. “My little sister was 4 at the time, so that would put me around 7 years old when I watched it with her,” Josh recalled, smiling. The Dubai-born son of homegrown Filipino expats said he has vivid recollections of watching “Blue’s Clues” as a child. Suddenly, it’s like, anything is possible!” Just looking back at where I came from-my family immigrated to the States when I was 2 years old-and now, this. “So, when I came into this opportunity, I felt so honored. “But it didn’t cross my mind that I could be a television actor because I never saw characters who looked like me on TV! It was always caricature- as a villain or a foreigner. I became a theater actor because I saw people onstage like Lea Salonga and BD Wong, so that’s why I thought, ‘OK, I could be a theater actor.’ “I studied theater (he has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Montclair State University).

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Let’s just move on.’ Then, my agent sent me an email about a final callback, and they said, ‘Oh, by the way, they had just auditioned over 3,000 people.’ So I got really excited-I was like, ‘OK, looks like I’m doing well!’ But then, I was terrified because I never thought I’d ever become a TV actor! I didn’t hear back from them for a month, so I thought, ‘Oh, it’s over. “I found out in the middle of my auditions that they saw so many people for this. I got this audition from my agent, and I was like, ‘This is amazing! The show’s coming back on its 25th anniversary!’ I used to watch this with my little sister!

“The opportunity to represent Asians, Filipino Americans and Filipinos around the world is so special to me,” Josh admitted to us. And so I’m just really honored that I get to be here to be able to use the skills that I learned to get to Broadway and then to use them in a completely different but very similar capacity to be there for kids and for families.And it couldn’t have started better than seeing a beaming Josh greeting us with “Hello, Kuya (older brother)!”-instantly demonstrating how Pinoy tradition has been heartwarmingly instilled in the value system of this handsome new face in children’s entertainment! Rogers, that was the person that was my Steve, before Steve and before Joe. “And this show is extremely personal to me because, and I imagine for you too, Donovan, because we bring so much of who we are to the role, even though it’s a fictional character, the what we find funny, how we deal with situations, like it’s impossible not to bring yourself into this role. “I feel really honored because I know from experience just like you, I know what it feels like to watch the show as a kid and to watch it with my little sister and then with my cousin,” he said.

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Josh Dela Cruz has an energy in this movie that is so exciting to see and having him have a Broadway edge to him was delightful! But I told Dela Cruz that, like Patton and Burns are for me, there is going to be an entire generation who look up to him in the same way. It’s enjoyable.”Īnd to Patton’s credit, he’s right. It was tons of fun to make and yes, you will maybe at some point possibly show up for me and for Steve, but you will stay for Josh. And it’s not just us, although that is a whole ton of fun.You got BD Wong, Ali Stroker, Alex Winter, Phillipa Soo, Steven Pasquale, my friend Max Darwin, like tons of people in this movie. Because this movie is enjoyable for people who were familiar with Blue’s Clues or if you just happen upon this movie, I think you’re gonna stick with it because just watching what Josh is capable of and hearing some of the songs, it’s got a magnetism to it. So yeah, anytime I can do that is great,” he joked. So I asked what it was like to know that he made a bunch of adults cry (along with Steve Burns) as they watched this kid’s movie?

I told Patton that I was growing out of the show a bit but still kept watching for Joe and that when I saw him in the movie I cried.

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