Brandon Delsid is having a moment.
It’s a specific kind of Hollywood moment that you get when you land a role opposite of Jennifer Lopez in a movie that also stars Ben Affleck. And Sofía Vergara, Jane Fonda, Keke Palmer, Trevor Noah, Post Malone and Neil deGrasse Tyson, among others.
On Tuesday night, the actor and Fresno native was at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles for the premier of “This Is Me … Now: A Love Story.” The movie (an Amazon Prime exclusive ) is a musical imagining of Lopez’s life (and love) and the counter piece to her new album.
Both are out on Friday.
“I’d like to think I’ve been dreaming this up since I was 8 years old,” Delsid told The Bee in a phone interview in advance of the premier.
That was his age when his grandmother took him to see a production of “Oliver” at Fresno’s Cynthia Merrill School of Performing Arts.
“I was so transfixed,” Delsid says.
“I wanted to do that.”
A Good Company alumni
And so he did. Delsid started on what he calls the “Fresno track” of acting; performing in (and when he was old enough directing) productions for Good Company Players and Children’s Musical Theaterworks . By 15 or 16, he was being home-schooled so he could essentially act full time, splitting time between the community theater gigs and trying to land work in Los Angeles.