It's a big day for Ramon Rodriguez. The actor was just named the "Padrino" or godfather of this year's Puerto Rican Day Parade in New York City and Tuesday night marks the of his hit show, "Will Trent." In the series, he plays the title character, a quirky special agent at the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.
When it comes to his career, Rodriguez is finding everything he could hope for, living the rare kind of moment most actors dream about: co-executive producing and starring as the lead in the hit ABC drama series. "How did you craft your Will Trent?" Eyewitness News Entertainment Reporter Joelle Garguilo asked. "We talked a lot about sort of the sounds that this guy might incorporate or have because of where he grew up, being from Atlanta, growing up in the foster care system.
But, because he was sort of open ended, who was an orphan, didn't know culturally where he might have come from," Rodriguez said. "And so where he grew up somewhere in the South in the city, and we found a great sort of reference that we can use and be inspired by with Andre 3000 from Outkast. We just used him as like a soundboard that we can reference with certain words and the sound of his voice and not to mimic it, but just to sort of use it as an inspiration as a model.
" It's something that the rapper himself might not even know. "I don't know if he knows that," Rodriguez said. "We took sound bites that we found online from interviews.
And, and again, we just reference it." This season saw Will .
