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Until Grace slips out a sentence along the lines of "could you give me a little grace here" and Rocky immediately points out he used a word wrong so Grace has to explain that yeah, grace means elegance but it can also mean mercy sometimes too.

if something wants to get at your blood, and they’re, say, some kind of murdersaurus, or maybe a really big frog, that’s where the problems start to arise. a really frog is not made for removing blood, and your blood knows this, which is why it is so vehement about wanting to stay IN your body instead of coming out. 

he stepped up to live voice rocky on the spot (he and ryan gosling improvised a large portion of the scenes) before being chosen to be rocky’s final voice. he also did the scary & sexy voices they test out, and he has a cameo in the film as the tv interviewer:

he’s italian & puerto rican and openly gay. here he is with rocky himself:

The Woodsman is the backstory of the Tin Man from The Wizard of Oz, told through a mostly-wordless play set to music. Ortiz wrote and co-directed along with designing the puppets and starring. It's a really gorgeous piece, a dark fairy tale with a sad but hopeful ending - and a very sweet, awkward romance along the way.

Luckily, the Off-Broadway production was filmed! You can see it on BroadwayHD/Amazon, or as a screen recording on YouTube:

The Woodsman wouldn't be Ortiz's last time taking inspiration from Oz - according to this Playbill.com interview, Tik-Tok in Return to Oz was one of his influences for Rocky's voice.