Ángela Aguilar Shares How Her Grandpa Antonio Aguilar ‘Was Deported 4 or 5 Times’ | Billboard News

Ángela Aguilar takes a walk through Placita Olvera to visit her grandfather Antonio Aguilar’s statue and shares how he was able to achieve his American dream.

Ángela Aguilar: I feel like this looks like Mexico.

Griselda Flores: Yes, it does look like Mexico!

From here, look at the chapel. The same colors that they put, literally.

Down there everyone eats so well.

Yeah, right? 

My mom lives down there for six months out of the year.

How cool!

Yes, because my grandpa is still there. My grandpa, obviously, studied there many years ago, but he was also an extra in … Well your grandpa was filming.

I know, it was super cool. They told me that what my grandpa would do was talk to them through the radio like the whole world saying, “We need four men who know how to do this.” And with that, they would go. That’s what I saw. 

My grandpa showed up there just as an extra.

What’s happened to me too, now that I’m an adult, people tell me, “I was Boy No. 1 in this movie.” And I’m just like, “That’s so cool.” So we’re here in front of Union Station.

Yes.

There was a restaurant and the owner was an opera singer. My grandpa would go to the restaurant and he told him, “I’ll be your waiter, I won’t charge you anything, but give me singing classes.” That’s why he slept here, he went over there, the owner would give him classes and he would come back. My grandpa was deported, like, four or five times.

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