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Felix Angel Solis Live on Game Changers With Vicki Abelson

If a good man is hard to find, a great one’s murder. Felix Solis, currently killing it in The Rookie: Feds, and who killed, literally, as Omar Navarro in Ozark, the role which broke him out of actors actor/working actor to famous actor. Deserved. All over the place. Felix’s stunning performance in the Pulitzer-winning, The Cost of Living, is forever seared in my soul. As is his Navarro. How the hell did he make that unconscionable murderer likable and even at times… sympathetic! Chilling and thrilling.

We talked about fame, which first found him mid-pandemic when he and we were masked. Here he was on the most talked about show on television, with the most talked about part, and he was hiding in his house avoiding people and life, invisible walking amongst us when he wasn’t. 

Felix’s reentry into living includes being recognized daily, which he views with humility and recognition, citing an example of his own stargazing awe. His return to “normal,” has been gradual, aided greatly by resumed work where strict protocols allowed for a certain feeling of safety, and at the time forced his willingness to take risks. 

Felix details why he began the pandemic in abject terror and how now, he’s replaced fear with respect.

We talked about the current writers’ strike, its impact on the industry, and on actors, many of whom can’t afford to lose work, yet, looking ahead at the bigger picture. Felix argued both sides, clearly torn.

Success has shockingly had little effect so far on the work on offer, yet, the man’s been busy just wrapping the last of 22 episodes of The Rookie: Feds. 

Cultivating ideas for his Subway Token Films (with his partner in this and in life), just today he reached out to Pulitzer Prize Winning Playwright, Martyna Majok, who penned Cost of Living. I’ve been manifesting this “marriage” for 5 years. 🤞

Readying for a trip to New York, we talked the current scary weather/air quality due to the Canadian fires, to whether to mask in the jazz clubs, to what pizza rules. Felix had a somewhat existential good every man answer, but we both know, it’s Joe’s!

I noted earlier today that the first time we sat down in 2018, Felix, with a long, deep resume already to his credit, was soft-spoken to a fault. I had to turn my volume up to 11. Our next sit-down, 4 yrs later, post-filming the final season of Ozark, and portraying Navarro for 2 seasons, Felix sat up straighter, spoke louder, and took up more air in the room. This visit, a year later still, Felix fills the screen. In part, no doubt, we know each other better, staying in touch here and there between these conversations, but more than that, this man is shining into his well-deserved and earned, star.

Philanthropic, a generous, warm-hearted, art-affirming humanist, Felix is sizzling hot and downright lovely. I adore spending time in his razor-sharp, thought-provoking, mind-bending, company.  Can’t wait to watch whatever he’s got coming up next. For tonight, going back to the Solis archive - gonna watch Man on a Ledge. I need more Felix! 

Felix Angel Solis Live on Game Changers With Vicki Abelson

Wed, June 7th, 5 pm PT, 8 pm ET

Streamed Live on The Facebook

Replay here: 

Today Live! Omar Navarro, the baddest of the bad guys, one of the greatest performances, from one of the greatest shows, Ozark… actually, Felix Solis, who plays him… who is the sweetest of the sweet, and one of the greatest actors I've ever witnessed on stage and on screen.

How excited am I? I LOVE this man. Felix, a Nuyorican, is an actors actor, an evolved thinker, an advanced doer, and a stellar, entertaining human. He's one of a kind. 

Some years ago, thanks to Candy Clark, I was treated to a night of theatre I'll not forget. From the moment the Pulitzer Prize-winning, The Cost of Living, began, with Felix's unforgettable monologue, delivered directly to me (it was, wasn't it - how you know how effective Felix is, everyone in the theatre felt the same way)... I was forever changed. It was one of those kinds of experiences. He is one of those kinds of actors. I never, not for one second caught him acting. The entire play, with its miraculous cast of four, two wheelchair-bound, was life-changing and affirming. We waited at the stage door like schoolgirls to have a moment, and it took barely a moment for me to track Felix down here on The Facebook as soon as I got home to invite him to sit down in conversation with me... what a Game Changers that was... and he came to the living room and performed that very monologue for Women Who Write. STELLAR! 

From Ozark to Seal Team, Felix's regular series work also includes Ten Days in the Valley, Hawaii Five-O, The Family, Colony, The Good Wife, The Following, Made in Jersey, NYC 22, and Law & Order, with guest appearances on Mindhunter, Nurse Jackie, Criminal Minds, and The Sopranos, History of Them, and most recently, The Rookie, The Rookie: Feds, and City on Fire, to name but some. His film work includes Man on a Ledge, The Forgotten, and most recently, Allswell. 

Whatever Felix does, I look forward to it all––almost as much as having this additional opportunity to share his journey, his thoughts, and his beautiful heart. He’s become a cherished friend. What a blessing. 

Felix Solis Live on Game Changers With Vicki Abelson

Wed, June 7th, 5 pm PT, 8 pm ET

Streaming Live on The Facebook