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Ricky Martin Almost Pursued Another Career · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Ricky Martin is certainly
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Speaker 1: better known as a singer than an actor, but he's
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Speaker 1: stepping into a villainous role to do a little bit
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Speaker 1: of both in Netflix's holiday musical Jingle Jangle, A Christmas Journey.
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Speaker 1: Turns out, Ricky loves acting so much it almost took
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Speaker 1: his life in a very different direction. He tells Variety.
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Speaker 1: The first time I was in front of the camera
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Speaker 1: as an actor, I was fifteen, and it was bitten
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Speaker 1: by the bug. Immediately said I'm never going to sing again.
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Speaker 1: I'm moving to New York to go to the Tisch
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Speaker 1: School of Arts. So I was accepted. Then I went
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Speaker 1: to Mexico on vacation and got a role in a
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Speaker 1: musical and stayed there. It was evident that music needed
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Speaker 1: to be part of my life then, But I have
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Speaker 1: deep respect for actors now and finally learning and studying acting.
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Speaker 1: Jingle Jangle Christmas Story arrives Netflix Friday. That's Direct from Hollywood.