Gone Before His Time: Freddie Prinze Sr. | movie | 2023 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

A deep dive into the short yet impactful life of the trailblazing Latino comic whose son also went on to a career of muc | dG1fUUJSZkNCNjFsRVU

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00:00 Any kind of media that you could imagine him being on the cover of, he was.

00:06 It did happen fast, really, really fast.

00:08 He is high on drugs, sleeping on quaaludes.

00:12 It's just a train wreck waiting to happen.

00:15 Freddie Prinze was funny, he was smart, he was handsome.

00:23 He had stage presence, charisma, he was flawless in his execution.

00:27 There was a certain kind of hit factor, whatever you want to say.

00:30 In those days, comedians were talking about their lives.

00:34 And here was this Puerto Rican kid telling you his view of the world.

00:37 He's got Johnny Carson, who's the king, basically putting a crown on him.

00:41 You're the next guy.

00:43 Freddie Prinze is only the second Latinx individual to star on a TV show.

00:49 The first one being Ricky Ricardo.

00:50 He was on every magazine, he was on my TV, he was everywhere.

00:54 Freddie Prinze to me goes, "I'm bigger than the Beatles."

00:57 We went into a little bar and he said to me, "I'm going to go out fast."

01:03 He said, "Fast, man, like James Dean."

01:05 I'm going to laugh instead of cry.

01:07 I'm going to be funny instead of sad.

01:09 It's a survival technique.

01:11 He's this working class kid, suddenly elevated to national fame.

01:16 What does a young kid growing into so much money in the 70s do?

01:20 He's taken some drugs.

01:23 It's really important to make the audience laugh.

01:25 You don't want them to know the depths of your own depression.

01:28 Freddie Prinze becomes a cautionary tale of what happens

01:32 when you spend too much time making other people laugh.

01:35 He gave us the freedom to say, "We can be funny, but we don't have to be the buffoon only."

01:41 Freddie Prinze Jr. is definitely a part of his legacy.

01:45 It's literally in his name.

01:46 I love that he lives on through that.

01:49 Freddie came, he conquered, and then he left us too soon.

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