I hate the silence in between. I don't like it. Don't like it, it's very awkward. I'm Oliver Trevena here on the Young Hollywood sofa, joined by Alberto Rosende. What's up? How are you?

I'm great, thank you.

I love your name. I want your name.

Thank you, thank you very much.

I want your name. I think I might be Oliver Rosende after this.

Oh, you know what, you can, you can have it. You can borrow it, absolutely.

And you'll be Alberto Trevena.

You know what, that actually has a nice ring to it. Yeah, yeah, let's do it. Let's switch it around. So next time I'm on IMDB, we've changed it.

We've changed it. Well, people know your name now. Uh, yeah. This is, this is happening. It's happening, it's starting.

It's starting. Yeah.

Shadowhunters. What a great entrance into the world.

Oh, yeah. I mean, it's been really exciting. I mean, and to be a part of a show that has such a fandom,

Right.

right, right. and such like a support group is actually really, really awesome.

Right. Were you familiar with the books before coming on this project or?

Uh, no, actually. I hadn't I'd heard of the movie.

Right.

But I, for some reason, couldn't see it.

Right.

And then doing research for the audition, I found out about the book series. So, I had no idea it was, you know, based on. Okay. And then, of course, after finding out, I decided just to read all of them as much as I could. And it was awesome. It's exciting.

How does that work, 'cause do you, is it, do you know what's going to happen now then? Or not?

Um, yes and no. I, I know like the basic key plot points now that, that are about like for characters' journeys and whatnot. But as far as how we're going to get to those points and what we're going to do with them after,

Right, okay, okay.

is up to like the new writers of the show, like I, and our showrunners who kinda

So, there's a little changes.

Yeah, little but I like that I know what, like what to expect.

Right. It's nice to know that you're, you're not dying any time soon.

Yes.

It's nice to know. You're gonna make it to the end. I mean, a lot of people in TV shows now, they're like, I just got the next episode and I'm dead. I'm not glad.

Yeah, we had, we had a couple of things like that. Where in there, I can't really talk about it. But different things. I can't really talk about it.

Almost. Almost. But nearly told you.

Yeah, I jumped back. Yeah.

Let's talk about Simon. Yes. Um, this is, you play Simon in the show.

I play Simon, yes.

Yeah. Um, how is that as a character?

Amazing. Um, Simon is Clary's best friend.

Right, right, right.

And he's this character that is kinda a comedic relief. He's always willing to make a joke, always trying to lighten the situation because he's always trying to do the best for everyone.

Right.

And also, he kinda enjoys making those jokes, being like that that can be there and

Right.

take a really heavy situation and kinda give it some levity.

He, um, I, I sense there's bit more than friends. He wants something more than just a friendship.

Oh, yeah, he's fully in love with Clary.

Right.

I know that feeling. It's like head on and it's at that point where she just doesn't see it because they've been friends for so long.

Right.

They've been so close that

He's passed the friend line.

Oh, he's, he's like heavy in the friend zone.

Right.

Really deep.

What's Simon gonna do about that? Can we know? Can you say? Can you tell us?

What I can say is that he, what he doesn't want to do is ruin the friendship.

Okay.

So that's the, he's always on the plank, almost. Willing to take the dive but afraid that the water underneath is going to be too cold. Yeah. So he doesn't

That's a great line.

Yeah, that was a great.

Anyone that's in this position in their world right now, I think if you delivered that line, the girl would totally go with you. You know what I'm like

Yeah, you know what, and you take the plunge but Simon's afraid to.

Right, right. That's a great one. I'm afraid to take the plunge in case the water's too cold. Yeah. Wow. I'm gonna make this phone call.

Well, good.

After, after this.

Do it. Do it.

I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna do it. Um, it shot in Toronto.

Yes, we shot in

Uh, which we're talking about cold. This cold.

We got lucky.

Oh, you got lucky.

From May to October, Toronto's probably the most beautiful place ever because it's nice and cool.

And those are the months you were there.

Yeah. And those are the months we were there. We got really lucky. As soon as November comes around, it's like, you get slapped in the face with like bitter cold.

Right. Which you're used to 'cause you're a New Yorker.

I'm used to, but I'm originally from Miami.

Okay. You just don't stop moving, do you?

I don't, I don't stop.

Are you on the run, Alberto? Are you,

you know what? I, I can't answer that.

Okay, good answer. Strong answer. And this is your third time in LA.

My third time. But my first time that I have more than three days here.

Okay. And you have to be here for more now.

Yes. This is gonna, this is gonna happen. It's, it's been, I'm spending more and more time here.

Right, right.

And I'm liking it more and more.

You should, it's a lovely place. California's a lovely place. I was born and bred here.

Really?

No.

Yeah.

Yeah. I was about to say, your voice sounds a little.

A little. I see Texas. I don't, I don't see California.

I get that all the time. Totally Texas. Totally Texas. And the cast of the show is, is amazing, amazing, like young.

Oh, that's the best thing if you ask me.

Very good-looking cast.

Yes. Yes. It's intimidating.

It is intimidating.

Yeah. One of the things I was worried about going to Toronto and showing up with a cast of people that I've seen before and like Isaiah Mustafa, the old Spice guy, oh my gosh.

I know him. I've had him on this sofa. Not literally, just interviewed him.

Yeah, yeah. Okay, okay, cool, cool.

It was, it was work-related. It was work-related. But I totally would, now.

Well, Isaiah, you know. I mean, he's a very good-looking man.

Very good-looking man. Ultimate man. He rides a horse amazingly well.

Ultimate man. Yes. He does it sometimes and he's tricked out with diamonds. Yeah. Yeah. But that will live with him forever. And he enjoys it. That's the best part. But coming into that cast, I was worried that they were gonna see me as like the new guy and not accept me. But when I walked in, it was just walking into a room of like your best friends that you hadn't met yet.

Right.

The first night, me and Dom got dinner. The second night, Dom, Em, I, and as more people got to Toronto and for set, we just, it just like fell into a group that we've kinda created like a family.

Right.

It worked out really well.

It's brilliant. Any, uh, any fun onset stories that you could share? Anything happened that that you could talk about?

Yeah, there's a couple of pranks.

Okay.

Which, I knew there'd be pranks. If Dom's on a set.

If Dom's on a set, there's gonna be pranks.

And he's the one, of course, that, you know, he kinda took me under his wing on set. He's like, this is how set kinda goes.

Right.

So, he made pranks seem kinda like a thing that happened. He was like, pranks will happen.

He's the naughty boy at school.

He's the naughty boy. Yeah. He's the one that gets me in trouble.

Right. And what was one of them?

This one time, Dom for some reason, I had just been called to set. But he was very adamant about me going to my trailer. He's like, you need to get something from your trailer. And I was like, no, no, I have to go on set. So, I went to set. And then the scene we shot ended up taking up two hours, three hours. Then I go back to my trailer and my whole door is taped shut. Um, there's like umbrellas taped on the side so it's like sticking out open so I can't really get to my door.

Okay.

I have to like close the umbrellas. And then when I opened my door after getting all of the tape off of it that said some uh, some profanity.

Okay. It wasn't like hello and welcome.

No, it was it was like welcome but in a very, uh, R-rated way.

Okay.

Yeah. And then inside was just the smelliest trash can.

Oh, no.

So, I walk up and I'm like, oh my gosh. Dom walks out and he feels terrible because he thought it was only gonna be there for like ten minutes.

Right.

So he didn't think it would stink up for the whole like set of trailers. But,

Right, right.

yeah, three hours later. Okay. Pretty, pretty dank.

It's good to know. When Dom comes in, we're gonna think of a way to get him back.

Yes. I got him back kinda. We had one really long day where I knew that he was gonna be there 'til like 4:00 in the morning. And I was done at like one.

Okay.

So, I took Nutella and I put it all on the inside of his door handle. So, at 4:00 in the morning when he finished and he's exhausted, it was like a fighting day.

Okay.

He, uh, he had to put his hand in and, of course, he got full of Nutella. So, he looked like

it doesn't sound like a prank to me. That sounds like heaven.

No, it was awful because he couldn't, he had to like get stuff off and he couldn't do anything. So, he had to have someone wash his hand for him while And it kinda looks like poo. And it that was the reason. It looked like poo so he was worried for a bit. Right. And it's not really you can't really take that chance and be like, hang on, I think it's poo or it might be Nutella. You don't want to smell it, you don't want to taste it. You just have to hope it's not either of those. And it was cold so you didn't know how long it's been there.

You're quite you're quite a naughty boy as well, young man, aren't you?

I, I like to think that I'm

You've got the angelic face that you know what's coming next.

That's what keeps me out of trouble. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I'm feeling a bit worried so, uh, I'm safe. I'm safe. Yeah. I wasn't here before. Okay. All right, yeah. So, we're good. Check him out. Shadowhunters.