She's out of the big house and into our house. Jackie Cruz from Orange is the New Black, one of my favorite shows. I'm so excited that you're here.

Thank you for having me.

Flaca, in the flesh. Looking gorgeous, by the way.

Thank you. Thank you.

I love it. Um, I got to say it is really one of my favorite shows. You were talking before, this show has made me laugh, it's made me cry. What can we expect from this new season?

The same. The same. Definitely bring your, uh, tissues, bring some salt and vinegar chips, maybe some ice cream. You're going to be there all day.

What has it been like? This is one of the most streamed shows in Netflix history. What's, what's being a part of this cast been like for you?

It's definitely changed my life. Um, I've, I have a voice now. People are people actually care what I do in life, which is awesome. Yeah. Orange is the New Black gave me this amazing platform, and now I talk about things that, you know, I believe in and I'm very excited about, I don't know, this is just the beginning for me and this journey is just incredible.

What has been your favorite part about playing Flaca?

She is, oh, she's so cool. She's so, she is so cool. She's like I was a nerd in high school. Um, believe it or not, I act very cool because Flaca's so dope. She listens to The Smiths, Erasure, New Order. She's so amazing. And her style was really cool. Like when we saw her back story, me on the other hand, I was in the marching band playing the saxophone.

No, that is so cool.

With braces and a unibrow. That's That's a picture to prove it.

That's pretty cool. Yeah, you have to like TBT that's

Yeah, I definitely will.

Before you got on the show, though, you were waitressing. Which I mean, like a lot of, a lot of artists and actors, musicians do those kinds of jobs.

I have a great story. Um, I'm so thankful for my job at Lavo. And Zoe Saldana comes in, you know, and I'm serving her and I'm like, oh my God, I love you. And you're Dominican, and you're amazing. And, um, she was really nice. We couldn't really talk, but I served her and, uh, I also served Beyonce. And it was just incredible. And I took her mother to the restroom and I fixed her dress. And these are just little moments that you just remember and I was like, I want to, I'm going to be her friend one day. Hopefully. I'm not Beyonce's friend yet, but it'll get there. But Zoe, I mean, a shout out to you. She's so amazing. Zoe asked me to be in her show. Um, so I hopefully we'll make that happen. You know how the world turns and I don't I don't know if she remembers that I waited on her, but I'm going to let her know.

That is so crazy. Do you ever go back to that restaurant?

Yes, I'm very good friends.

Do you get free food?

Hell yeah. The manager makes me drinks now. And he fired me too.

You have an EP coming out?

Um, no, you know what? This is my quote. Never put a time limit on your dream. I don't know when my EP's coming out, but singing has always been my first love.

I mean, can we take advantage of your beautiful voice? I know that you

Oh my God, I was so not prepared for this. I'm sorry. Oh my God. But okay. Why not? I mean, Young Holly. She's multi-talented. Um, this is my go-to song. I'm just going to do a quick little thing. Cause I'm going down. I'm going down. Cause you ain't around, baby. My whole world up side down.

Wow. That was amazing. I'm blushing. Flaca has got some lungs. Flaca has pipes.

Oh my God. I was I'm kind of shaking.