"Nemesis" and "Platonic" star Tre Hale | The Latest With Maya

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SPEAKER_02 0:00

It's the latest over. What's we gonna fuck the door? What's we're gonna talk?

SPEAKER_01 0:13

Hi Trey, welcome to The Latest to with Maya. Trey Hale is an actor who you've seen in Platonic, Lovin' Monsters, NCIS Los Angeles, and Empire City. Currently, you can see Trey Trey in the Netflix series Nemesis. Thank you so much for being on my show. I'm so excited to be talking with you.

SPEAKER_00 0:41

Oh, thank you so much for having me. I'm excited to be talking to you too. It's gonna be a lot of fun.

SPEAKER_01 0:46

Yeah. Um, so who has had the biggest impact on you professionally?

SPEAKER_00 0:54

Hmm. Um I mean, the easy answer would be my mom. My mom was the person that has pushed me towards being an actor when I when I first said I wanted to quit football and quit working an office job and go chase the impossible dream that is trying to make it as an actor. She always was supportive of that. So um she's definitely my biggest inspiration. But in my career, I've worked with with uh some cool people up to this point. I've been fortunate. And I will say I've learned the most from Seth Rogan on Platonic. Yeah, hanging out with him for for the two seasons that we did and just picking his brain and and kind of learning how he navigates acting in the industry. It's it's uh really made a lasting impression on me.

SPEAKER_01 1:39

Oh, I love that.

SPEAKER_00 1:41

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:42

Platonic is one of my favorite shows.

SPEAKER_00 1:45

Oh, really? Yeah, that's awesome. Thank you for watching. It's a very, very fun show, and season three should be coming up here pretty soon. So I look forward to it.

SPEAKER_01 1:54

Yeah, I'm so excited for season three.

SPEAKER_00 1:57

Awesome, awesome.

SPEAKER_01 1:59

Yeah. Um, so who has had the biggest impact on you as a person?

SPEAKER_00 2:07

Um, well, I guess that's right back to to this to the first answer. My mom and just my family in general um has always kind of just instilled respect and confidence in me and showed me how to act and how to treat other people, which is very important to me, especially in this industry. I think it's very easy for for people in entertainment to become mean for some reason, and it drives me crazy because everybody should be nice, and nothing we do should ever make you a butthead. Um, but as of recent, I just had my daughter, actually, Tulula, and um she is now my new inspiration in all things. Everything I do is is for her and to try to be the best dad I can be to take care of my girl.

SPEAKER_01 2:52

Oh, I love that. Thank you, and congratulations.

SPEAKER_00 2:57

Thank you so much. She she's she's gonna be three soon. So it's funny, it's so easy for me to say like I just had her because it feels like she's still my baby, but it's been three years now, but she is uh she's my everything.

SPEAKER_01 3:08

Oh wow, yeah. When you said that you you just had her, that's yeah. Um yeah, so what uh small things bring you joy on a daily basis?

SPEAKER_00 3:26

Um I like hanging out with my girl. I like watching wrestling. I'm a big, big wrestling fan, so I really enjoyed to uh to watch the WWE. Um I've really come uh to find myself liking to cook as of recent. I've been I've been prioritizing my health, so not eating out as much and now cooking my own food, which has been a uh a nice change of pace for me. And I will say this is a funny one. I love folding my laundry. Oh yeah. That's like a very therapeutic moment for me. I just did it yesterday and I was thinking like this is I love doing this, which is I feel like a lot of people don't necessarily like folding the laundry, but yeah, that's something that gives me joy.

SPEAKER_01 4:10

Yeah, oh I love that. Thank you. Yeah, yeah. I love um finding yeah, the small things every day. That's gap, my favorite.

SPEAKER_02 4:23

Absolutely, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 4:26

So is there someone who without fail always makes you laugh?

SPEAKER_00 4:34

Uh my my lady, my uh my girlfriend Tabria Majors, she is uh my best friend, and we spend a lot of time together. And um yeah, she she truly makes me belly laugh in a way that I haven't done in a long, long time. So, yeah, between her and the now my my kid, Talua, she's an absolute comedian as well, and watching her navigate being a toddler, some of the funniest things I've ever seen in my life. Um, so yeah, my two girls for sure, they uh they keep a smile on my face.

SPEAKER_01 5:09

Oh, I love that.

SPEAKER_00 5:11

Thank you.

SPEAKER_01 5:12

Yeah, yeah. Um, yeah, so if you had a warning label, what would yours be?

SPEAKER_00 5:23

A warning label? Um that's a good one. What would my warning label be? It would say do not wake up while sleeping. That's what it would say. I'm uh I'm a pretty deep sleeper and I I don't enjoy to be waking up, woken up unless I absolutely have to. Um so yeah, maybe it would say that. Don't don't bother me while I'm sleeping.

SPEAKER_01 5:49

I like that one. Yeah, I think I'd have several warning labels.

SPEAKER_00 5:56

Sure.

SPEAKER_01 5:57

So yeah.

SPEAKER_00 5:59

We would all have the the if honestly, the more I think about it, later on in today, I'm gonna come up with 35 other warning labels that I would certainly have to go along with the sleep one.

SPEAKER_01 6:09

Yeah, yeah. I my um mom just recently pointed out to me that I kind of bring people into a conversation while I'm like already in the middle of it. So in my head, I've already had the conversation, and so whenever I start talking to my mom and I'm already kind of going through it in my head. She's like she always just stops me and tells me I wasn't a part of the first half of this conversation.

SPEAKER_00 6:42

Hey, I guess sometimes people gotta catch up, they gotta they gotta they gotta think quick. I understand.

SPEAKER_01 6:47

Yeah, I'm like, well, why couldn't you just read my mind?

SPEAKER_00 6:50

Why weren't you like exactly read my mind, make it easy on me?

SPEAKER_01 6:55

Yeah, exactly. Yeah, and then um I was recently in LA, and my best friend was my mom had mentioned that to him, and then there was one point where he was like, Okay, yeah, I see it. I feel like I've been brought in in the middle of a conversation right now.

SPEAKER_00 7:18

Sure, that's funny. So me, me and me and my my lady Tabria, we kind of have this weird telekinesis thing um where we actually do read each other's minds. So like we will kind of get into conversations that have happened previously that we'd have no context for, but just be able to get there um with our brains together. It's a very, very weird mind mold that we do sometimes. So so I do uh I get that. I'm just lucky that that she seems to get it a little bit too. We're both weird, I guess. I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 7:50

I love that. Yeah, my uh I have a twin sister, and so my uh sister and I can sometimes talk about it.

SPEAKER_00 7:58

Oh, yeah, you guys, you guys get it. You guys have superpowers for real. That's awesome.

SPEAKER_01 8:03

Yeah, yeah. Um so what has been the biggest obstacle, either personally or professionally, that you've overcome?

SPEAKER_00 8:19

Um I think my biggest obstacle is getting in my own way. I think I struggle with uh imposter syndrome a lot, which a lot of actors I imagine do. Um and yeah, even now, just kind of letting go of the insecurities and all the anxiety that comes with, you know, maybe putting yourself out there or taking a big swing and just and just embracing it and living in the moment and and having fun, letting it all go. Um, I've been navigating that currently with Nemesis a lot because it is a bigger swing for me as a character. Um, one of the bigger, if not the biggest, I've ever taken. And, you know, people are receiving it well, and we're so, so blessed to have people enjoy the show, but I'm still struggling with when I watch it, I'm like, oh, I why did I blink there? Or I should have done better. And it's just kind of uh, you know, uh just being your own worst enemy sometimes and giving yourself grace is something that I've struggled with for the longest time and I'm trying to navigate now, especially having my my daughter and seeing life through her eyes. You know, I I I don't want her to constantly be so hard on herself. It's good to to to want to be good and want to get better, but um, it's also very important to give yourself grace and just kind of smile through everything because uh life is beautiful. You just gotta take a breath and let it be beautiful sometimes, you know?

SPEAKER_01 9:42

Yeah. Yeah, definitely.

unknown 9:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 9:46

Yeah. Um, so what uh drew you to Nemesis?

SPEAKER_00 9:52

Um, I I love the idea of working with Courtney Kemp. Um, she's always been somebody that I admired. All of her work and the things that she's made um for television um and the black community at large is just she's incredible. So getting an opportunity to work with her was definitely a dream come true. And then uh once I did my chemistry read with Alan, who plays Coltrane, that was kind of when I was like, okay, I'm sold because he was the person that I was gonna have to deal with uh the most in the show, and we just hit it off immediately toward now. He's like one of my closest friends I have now. So getting an opportunity to shoot with somebody that I uh admired and respected, but also looked at like a friend almost immediately was just like, this is gonna be cool. And then you just get to you know play cops and robbers with uh with your boys, which is like that's just the little kid in me, it's a dream come true.

SPEAKER_01 10:44

Yeah. Oh, I love that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Um, so I am uh pop culture obsessed and I go on stages of shows that I cannot stop watching.

unknown 10:59

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 11:00

Is there um a show that you are currently obsessed with?

SPEAKER_00 11:06

Um I did finish The Boys. The Boys was a show that that I really, really enjoyed from uh from day one on Amazon Prime, and they just had their series finale, and and I actually felt kind of bad because I was watching Nemesis at the time, and then the boys came out, and I kind of had to portray my own show just for a quick, just for a quick hour just to watch it. Then I went right back to it. But yeah, I uh I watched that, and um funny enough, the one show that I watch on repeat, I've seen every season, I've seen every episode multiple times, is Inkmaster. It's uh like a reality competition show about tattoos that I just I'm obsessed with.

SPEAKER_01 11:47

So oh wow, I love that.

SPEAKER_00 11:50

Yeah, I'm a big tattoo fan, so like yeah, I just watch it and it's you'd think I'd remember everything, but it's funny. There's uh just enough seasons where after you you just recycle them, you end up kind of forgetting the things that happened in the old episodes. So I don't always feel like I'm watching reruns. It kind of is like a refresher. It's uh yeah, it's fun.

SPEAKER_01 12:09

Oh yeah, definitely. Yeah, I have um those shows that I sometimes I don't remember like the full plot of an episode, but I remember like certain scenes. And so I remember um one of the shows I've I think re-watched the most is uh Royal Pains.

SPEAKER_02 12:34

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_01 12:35

And it it's one of my all-time favorite shows. And so I remember I rewatched it during COVID with um my family, and there were so many episodes that we all like remembered Oh, that's fun. Yeah, that we didn't like maybe didn't fully remember like everything that happened in the episode, but we remembered like the main plot. Oh, that's awesome.

SPEAKER_00 13:03

And then it's fun because it's almost like you are watching it for the first time again, but you have a little bit of an outline, and yeah, that's awesome.

SPEAKER_01 13:09

Definitely. Yeah, I I well I've um interviewed several um actors from the show, which I feel so grateful to have talked to them. And um, so I always I remember um I was joking with one of them that it's like it feels like every four years I basically have to do a rewatch of the show since I did it in 2020, then in 2024. So I'm like, uh yeah, every four years I have to do it.

SPEAKER_00 13:42

Two more years, two more years, and you're back on it. Alright.

SPEAKER_01 13:45

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I that's definitely what one of my comfort shows. So now I just I like I bought the whole series, so I just watch it different episodes like. That's it.

SPEAKER_00 14:09

I'm gonna join you in 2028. I'm gonna join you, and we're gonna watch Royal Page, we're gonna rewatch it. I'm down.

SPEAKER_01 14:14

Yes, I can't wait. Um, so what genre of movie would your life story be told as?

SPEAKER_00 14:29

Oh. I would have to say uh probably a sports dramedy. I think, yeah, sports is is such a big part of my life and growing up playing football, and football is how I got to college, and that's where I discovered acting. So sports was always very tied um into what I wanted to do. And even now, uh the the parallels between football and acting is kind of how I manage and have learned this industry since I've been there, because I'm not a classically trained uh performer. I'm just a football player who got pretty lucky. But yeah, I would I would say a sports dramedy, because comedy is also very important to me. I live a I live, I like humor and my friends we laugh, that's what we like to do. But I think everybody's taking their lumps, and I've had some some things happen in life that are pretty dramatic, but also were important because it molded you know me and to the person I am today. So a sports dramedy, a Friday night lights kind of vibe, maybe a little bit more levity. That's what I'm thinking.

SPEAKER_01 15:36

Yeah, oh I love that. Yeah, yeah. I've I've always dreamed of my life story being uh um musical rom-com.

SPEAKER_00 15:47

Oh, that's fun. That's fun.

SPEAKER_01 15:51

Thank you. Yeah, that that's my dream.

SPEAKER_00 15:54

Okay, okay. A rom com is one of my dreams to like act in. That's like the the genre that like I really like have never done and would love the opportunity to go to go be kind of funny like that. Growing up, Vince Vaughn was always my guy, and he was a rom-com destroyer back in the day. Owen Wilson as well, and um, yeah, that would be a big dream of mine. So that's cool. Musical rom com. I like that.

SPEAKER_01 16:20

Thank you. Yeah, yeah, they're um musicals and rom-coms are both two of my favorite genres. So yeah. Um yeah, do you um since you mentioned um also rom-coms, do you have a favorite one?

SPEAKER_00 16:40

My favorite rom-com, man. I mean, wedding crashers leans a lot more to the comedy, but there is a really big romantic side to there, and that movie just meant so much to me. As I said, Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson were like my guys. So for for me, I'll say wedding crashers, but I think like an objective, like true, true rom-com from back in the day. I mean, when Harry Met Sally is pretty, pretty iconic. That's a pretty legendary one. That kind of set the precedence, I think. So I'll I'll I'll go with the OG when Harry Ment Sally.

SPEAKER_01 17:20

Oh, I love that one.

SPEAKER_00 17:22

So good. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 17:24

It is, yeah. I have so many favorites. One I think one of like my all-time favorite that I've seen, I think, like over a hundred times is um Home Again with the Sunday. Yeah, I that's yeah, one of my all-time favorites. Um, but then yeah, there's so many.

SPEAKER_00 17:50

I it's like so many, it almost gets hard to think about because it's like there was that moment through like the 90s, early 2000s where rom-coms were the movies, those were the the top ones.

SPEAKER_01 18:00

Um yeah, definitely. Yeah, I just watched um on the plane to when I went to LA, I watched Pretty Wan Woman for the first time.

SPEAKER_02 18:15

For the first time, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 18:17

I was like, how have I never seen this movie? So I've been it's been on my list that I need to watch it. So um, yeah, I watched it, and so now I'm in love with that movie.

SPEAKER_00 18:30

I know, I was about to say, I was gonna say, how'd you feel? But that's an easy question. That movie is iconic in so many ways. Yeah, yeah, Richard Gere, that's a good one.

SPEAKER_01 18:40

Yeah, yeah, I I love that movie, and I was as I was watching it, I was writing down like a lot of lines from the movie that I just I loved.

SPEAKER_02 18:52

Sure.

SPEAKER_01 18:53

Yeah. Yeah. Um so if you uh could give someone in your life a star on the walk of fame, who would it be?

SPEAKER_00 19:09

Someone in my life. My grandma Myra. Mia Auelita. She is the um, she's the greatest. I've met a lot of in I have so many greatest women in my life, but my grandma's just there's a special spot for my my grandma. She's navigated so many things from immigrating to the country from Costa Rica at an early age and and bootstrapping jobs and figuring out how to support her family of five kids and her brothers and sisters, and raise my mom who was able to raise me. And it's it's yeah, watching her still to this day at 85 work as hard as she does to sometimes where it's like, hey, take it easy, sit down, like you will do this for you. You need to chill. But she's just she's a go-getter and a worker and a true matriarch. So yeah, I think she deserves a huge uh star on the on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for just being incredible.

SPEAKER_01 20:08

Yeah, oh I love that.

SPEAKER_00 20:10

Yeah, that's what I would say. Um, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 20:14

Oh, I love that.

unknown 20:15

Thank you.

SPEAKER_01 20:17

Yeah. Um so if you had to choose someone to narrate your life, who would you choose and why?

SPEAKER_00 20:30

I mean, you gotta say Morgan Freeman, I think. Just that I mean, that's just who doesn't want Morgan Freeman to narrate their life. Um Yeah, I would I would yeah, Morgan Freeman is is the is the funny answer, I guess, and the the more obvious one. But for someone a little bit more personal to me, um I would say my friend, my friend Andrew Lopez, who stars in Platonic with me, he plays uh the character Reggie, he has also become a very, very close friend of mine. We navigated a lot of things together on that first season of Platonic, dealing with the anxieties I spoke about earlier, and you know, feeling scared. And it was kind of me and him going at it uh together. So yeah, that's my guy. And he he has a certain understanding of me as a professional and as a person, I think, that not a lot of people get. So and he's got a very interesting sounding voice. So I think he'd do a pretty good job at uh at doing an audiobook for me. He better say the same thing about me if he ever gets his question, too. I I might add.

SPEAKER_01 21:35

Yeah, I love that. Yeah, yeah. I think I there's so many people I loved. I I think I mean, going with rom coms, I think Reese Witherspoon.

SPEAKER_00 21:50

Oh so she got also a very awesome voice. Like she she absolutely kills it, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 21:58

Yeah, yeah. I think I'd want Heard in there in my life.

SPEAKER_00 22:03

Well, you'll have Reese Reese Witherspoon and Morgan Freeman. People are gonna listen to those audiobooks, let me tell you.

SPEAKER_01 22:09

Yeah, definitely.

SPEAKER_00 22:11

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 22:14

Um, so what's your uh favorite way to unwind after a hectic day?

SPEAKER_00 22:23

Oh man. Um honestly just just lay down and watch some TV. I'm pretty easy. I take a hot shower, um, come on my couch, and yeah, just throw probably some wrestling on or some TV and just kind of relax if I'm not being a dad and hanging out with uh with my kid who should be in bed by the time I get back normally. Um, so yeah, I'm I'm I'm pretty easy.

SPEAKER_01 22:51

Oh, I love that.

SPEAKER_00 22:53

It's funny because sometimes you find it where you've worked all day and you just can't wait to get home and rest and you know go to sleep because you're so tired, but then you get home and you just get this spurt of energy because your body is almost like, I'm happy to be home. Now I want to do what I want to do today, and then you end up staying up way too late and eating chocolate and it and it tends to go left. So I decided to just go straight to bed, if I'm being honest. Um, but yeah.

SPEAKER_01 23:21

Yeah, yeah. There's so many, um, there's like so many uh days that I or nights that I'm I'm really tired and I'm like I need to go to bed early, and then I'm watching the show that I get so invested in. Okay, one more episode, and then one more, and then it's that's what happens.

SPEAKER_00 23:43

We're hoping that's what we hear people are doing with Nemesis. So that's it's nice to hear that uh we have that kind of that stay awake and binge quality. That's good.

SPEAKER_01 23:52

Yeah, yeah. Um so what song, whenever you hear it, brings you back to a specific memory, and what is that memory?

SPEAKER_00 24:08

These are very good questions. What song? Um I think tying in with football and how important football was, I will say uh Guns N' Roses, Welcome to the Jungle, which is a song that I think a lot of people have memories to, I imagine. But specifically, yeah, I I I used to play that um before I would go to football camp as a kid because in my mind, like that is what I needed to hear to unlock my abilities as a ball player. And um, yeah, I just have a lot of visceral memories from hearing that song and then going to practice and being so tired and wanting to give up for years, but but always sticking with it because I wanted to be a you know an animal. So yeah, when I hear that song today, I I normally tend to work out shortly after because it just gives me a feeling of being young and and back on the team again. Um so yeah, I would say, I would say that. But then also, I also say a song for mama by Boys to Men. It's a very, very sweet song from a son to his mother that I used to play for my mom every Mother's Day. I still try to, but back when I was a kid, I would pull out all the stops and sing it for her and have the fake microphone. I need to get back and do that because that's important. But yeah, anytime I hear that song, I uh imagine being in my mom's arms and I call her shortly after, tell her I love her, whatever's going on. Cause yeah, that one's a that's a heart stringer for sure for me.

SPEAKER_01 25:42

Oh, I love that.

SPEAKER_00 25:44

Oh, thank you.

SPEAKER_01 25:46

Yeah, yeah, there's so many songs for me that just have very strong, I have very strong memories attached to them.

SPEAKER_00 25:55

Oh, yeah, yeah. Music is music is the best. It's it's one of those things that it really stays with you. And uh like you, like this question is you can hear a song and it just takes you right back to a moment and a smell and a feeling that you might have had in that time. It's uh it's a very it's a sensory thing sometimes. It's pretty cool.

SPEAKER_01 26:15

Yeah, definitely. Yeah, there's um one song that yeah, came to mind right away for me that it uh just when you were saying that, that um it it's called One Thought Away by Asher Angel and Wizard Fa. Um I remember just there were I remember it came out like right around the time the first Shazam movie came out, which is one of my favorite all-time favorite movies. So I remember watching or um listen, I just listened to it all the time, and then I listened to it um everyday when when I went through radiation in 2021, and um I listened to all of Asher Angel's music.

SPEAKER_00 27:08

Oh it gave me strength. That's that's awesome. That's really cool.

SPEAKER_01 27:15

Thank you. Yeah. Um so do you have any irrational fears?

SPEAKER_00 27:25

Um, yeah, I mean, I think I think, yeah, as a as a young father, um I find myself having irrational fears all the time about everything. Even right now, my my daughter is with my cousin, you know, who's watching her currently while I do this and stuff. And my cousin has had has three children and is an incredible mom, yet in my head I'm like, is she okay? Do I need to text her and be like, is she okay? What's wrong? Is everything fine? So yeah, I think I navigate all kinds of irrational fears from that to career to my health and well-being. Uh comes with the territory for some people. Um, and I find myself a little bit anxious, probably more than others. But again, back to what I said earlier, you just glass half full, stay in the light, stay positive. I find it that um no matter how irrational or crazy I might get, as long as I'm staying positive and manifesting just good energy and and and surrounding myself with as best energy as I can, everything seems to be okay, and I'm able to kind of overcome any irrational fear that may come up pretty quickly.

SPEAKER_01 28:32

Yeah. Oh wow.

SPEAKER_00 28:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 28:35

Yeah. Um, so I just have uh one more question for you. Um so today, what are you most grateful for?

SPEAKER_00 28:51

Um I'm grateful to be alive. I'm grateful to have a supportive family. I'm grateful to have uh a healthy, healthy daughter who is excited to, you know, grow with me and be silly. Um grateful to be on a television show that people seem to like. Um yeah, I'm grateful for everything. I'm grateful to be talking here with you and meeting you and making a new friend. And and um yeah, it's just uh life is life is life is life, but life is good. And I'm just happy to happy to be here. How to keep it going.

SPEAKER_01 29:28

Yeah, oh I love that. Well, I I'm so grateful to be talking with you.

SPEAKER_00 29:33

So thank you, Maya. This is awesome.

SPEAKER_01 29:36

Yeah, thank you. And uh thank you so much for joining me. I've had the best time talking with you.

SPEAKER_00 29:44

Oh, that's awesome. Me too. This is good. We gotta do it again.

SPEAKER_01 29:47

Yes, definitely. I would love that. Yeah, whenever you wanna come back on, I'd love to have another conversation with you.

unknown 29:56

Cool.

SPEAKER_01 29:58

Yeah, and I guess so. Thank you so much again, and um, I hope you have a great rest of your day.

SPEAKER_00 30:07

Thank you, you too.

SPEAKER_01 30:09

Thank you. Uh, and that's a wrap on today's edition of The Latest with Maya.

SPEAKER_02 30:19

It's a little