An intense workout, boba at the park and pork belly lechon at Lasita in Chinatown are on the agenda for the “Freakier Friday” star.
Among the herd of aspiring actors who move to Los Angeles to pursue their Hollywood dreams, Manny Jacinto was sure to set modest expectations for himself.
“In my head, I was going to come here a few times,” says Jacinto, who grew up in Richmond, Canada. “I was going to try pilot [season] once, fail, come back next year, fail again, and I was going to repeat that pattern probably for the next five years until hopefully, fingers crossed, I landed something.”
But just a few months after relocating to L.A. in 2016, he nabbed a starring role in NBC’s “The Good Place,” alongside Ted Danson and Kristen Bell, and “it just changed my life,” says Jacinto, who played