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Allow us to (re)introduce you to comedian Juan Bago. Born Michael Diaz in New Rochelle, NY, and raised in Connecticut, Diaz started off with aspirations of becoming an actor before diving into sketch comedy. His goal of one day becoming an actor led him back to Washington Heights, NY, where his parents met and many family members still lived.
"A friend of mine that I met in college wanted to be a filmmaker. I wanted to be an actor. So, the whole move was like, 'Yo, you want to go to New York?'" Diaz tells Popsugar.
His goal was to become an actor, but in his early 20s, Diaz wasn't seeing any roles coming up for people who looked like him. "At that time, the first Americanized movie that was Dominican was 'Washington Heights' with Manny Perez, and that was in 2002," Diaz says. "But before that,...
Allow us to (re)introduce you to comedian Juan Bago. Born Michael Diaz in New Rochelle, NY, and raised in Connecticut, Diaz started off with aspirations of becoming an actor before diving into sketch comedy. His goal of one day becoming an actor led him back to Washington Heights, NY, where his parents met and many family members still lived.
"A friend of mine that I met in college wanted to be a filmmaker. I wanted to be an actor. So, the whole move was like, 'Yo, you want to go to New York?'" Diaz tells Popsugar.
His goal was to become an actor, but in his early 20s, Diaz wasn't seeing any roles coming up for people who looked like him. "At that time, the first Americanized movie that was Dominican was 'Washington Heights' with Manny Perez, and that was in 2002," Diaz says. "But before that,...
- 3/20/2023
- by Priscilla Rodriguez
- Popsugar.com
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