When I would take naps people would tell me I was twitching.” He soon started participating in dance competitions, aiming to become a backup dancer for an artist like Justin Timberlake, but eventually grew disenchanted with the industry. “I was 19, the point where most sane people would be like: what the heck are you doing with your life? But I couldn’t help but move. He had never done anything remotely similar before, and is well aware of how strange his sudden obsession must have seemed. Having moved from the Philippines to Canada as a young child, he studied engineering at the University of British Columbia, where he developed a passion for hip-hop dance. That said, it took a while for Jacinto to see himself as an actor at all. “When I got The Good Place, my agents were like, are you sure they got the right guy?” Did he always see himself as a funny man? “Absolutely not,” he insists, albeit with perfect comic timing.
Some of the cast would joke that they didn’t actually meet Nicole until they wrapped.”ĭespite the bizarreness both on- and off-screen, Nine Perfect Strangers is essentially a serious drama, and quiet, dignified Yao is the polar opposite of Jacinto’s most famous role, the exuberant and perennially clueless Mendoza (think Joey Tribbiani but far, far slower on the uptake).
“Sometimes I’d be talking to Masha and maybe I might get a glimpse of Nicole but I wasn’t sure, it was a weird line. “I didn’t necessarily know who I was speaking to whenever Nicole and I were working together,” says Jacinto. In fact, in Nine Perfect Strangers few things are immediately clear, and it seems the set was a similarly confusing place – largely because Kidman rarely broke character. Jacinto plays resort worker Yao, who, for reasons not immediately clear, is utterly dedicated to Masha’s vision. Kidman plays Masha, the mysterious Russian leader of a wellness retreat called Tranquillum House, with Melissa McCarthy, Regina Hall and Michael Shannon among the troubled guests. Nine Perfect Strangers is the latest star-studded collaboration between Nicole Kidman and writer David E Kelley, who previously worked together on Big Little Lies.
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Now, Jacinto is set to appear in another twist-laden TV show. Jacinto with Kidman in Nine Perfect Strangers. Winning the role of nice-but-ridiculously-dim DJ Jason Mendoza sent shockwaves through his entire life, catapulting the 33-year-old from relative obscurity to the kind of stardom that invariably accompanies a Netflix success story.
Yet for Jacinto the show did far more than pull the rug from under him. “It was incredible.” Fans of the heaven-set sitcom will know what he means: the revelation was up there with the best plot twists of all time (spoiling it would be a crime). “I wish I could bottle up that feeling and have everybody experience it,” says Jacinto wistfully, five years later. Jacinto jerks his head around frantically, as if trying to make sense of this astonishing development purely through the power of repetitive neck movement.
Castmate Jameela Jamil covers her face with her hands. During a break from filming, the stars of The Good Place are informed of the smash-hit comedy’s mind-boggling plot twist. On YouTube, you can see Manny Jacinto getting the surprise of his life.
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