"Jon Huertas, who plays Espera, after he read the role, he told me we first had him read for Rudy Reyes, ‘And I read his lines, and the (bleep) he was saying about good dharma, and I thought this was the worst-written piece of (bleep) I’ve ever read! What the (bleep) is this (bleep)? And then I went to Africa and I met the real Rudy, and I’m like, it’s dead on!’ Rudy’s like a unicorn. They just don’t make ‘em like that." —