Flamin' Hot Movie - The Fire Inside - The making of “The Fire Inside” written by Diane Warren and performed by Becky G from the motion picture #FlaminHotMovie directed by Eva Longoria.
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The inspiring story of Richard Montañez, the Frito Lay janitor who channeled his Mexican American heritage and upbringing to turn the iconic Flamin’ Hot Cheetos into a snack that disrupted the food industry and became a global pop culture phenomenon.
Watch Flamin' Hot on Hulu!
ABOUT Flamin' Hot
The inspiring story of Richard Montañez, the Frito Lay janitor who channeled his Mexican American heritage and upbringing to turn the iconic Flamin’ Hot Cheetos into a snack that disrupted the food industry and became a global pop culture phenomenon.
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00:00 I had been searching for an answer and there it was.
00:10 They had been there the entire time.
00:14 As I was writing for this movie, you know, I thought about all the people that have,
00:18 you know, told me I couldn't do something or be a songwriter or this song wouldn't work.
00:21 Every possible thing is against you.
00:23 It's a spicy chip.
00:24 It's going to change everything.
00:25 It will save our factory.
00:26 And you're a janitor.
00:27 Okay, no, no, no, don't hang up.
00:28 Action!
00:29 So I met Daney Arden.
00:30 I met her because I was lucky enough.
00:33 This was luck.
00:34 My production offices were in her building.
00:36 It was like, "Hey, I want to write a song for your movie."
00:39 And I was like, "Dane, I don't have a movie."
00:43 You know, a year passed, she's like, "Hey, have you made that movie yet?
00:45 I want to do the song."
00:46 I said, "Dane, I haven't made a movie.
00:47 I don't have an idea for a movie."
00:48 Like, this went on for a couple years.
00:49 And then it was announced in the trades, Eva Longoria to direct Flaming Hot Movie.
00:54 And she calls and she goes, "I want to do the song for the movie."
00:57 I was like, "Dane, I don't even know.
00:58 We don't even have a script."
00:59 It was COVID.
01:00 I mean, we were so far away from when music even comes in.
01:04 She was like, "All right, let me know.
01:05 Let me know.
01:06 Let me know when you're done."
01:07 And so the first assembly of a movie, Diane Warren was one of the first people to watch
01:12 it.
01:13 Guys like you and me, we don't get shots like this.
01:14 You see that guy right there?
01:15 I see a chingon.
01:16 A montañez.
01:17 Yo soy montañez.
01:18 De montañez.
01:19 Get out there and be great.
01:20 Nothing can hold you back.
01:21 And in the lobby goes, "All right, I got the song."
01:22 It's called Fire Inside.
01:23 And it goes, "Nothing is no longer."
01:24 And in the lobby goes, "All right, I got the song."
01:26 It's called Fire Inside.
01:27 And it goes, "Nothing is no longer."
01:28 I didn't have it in the lobby.
01:29 "Nothing can hold you."
01:30 It's about not being held back and nobody's going to put out your flame.
01:33 It was the next day.
01:35 You are a genius.
01:36 That is your genius.
01:37 No, I'm not.
01:38 Because she took the essence of what we were trying to do in the movie and to put it in
01:42 a song.
01:43 And I've always been such a fan of soundtracks and the interpretation musically.
01:47 How it can take you back.
01:48 Yeah, and how it can take you further.
01:50 Fire, oh, oh, oh, oh.
01:56 You got the fire inside.
01:58 You got the fire inside.
02:00 It's a hero story, except our hero doesn't wear a cape.
02:03 You're either too much of this, too much of that.
02:05 That is what makes us unique.
02:06 That is who we are.
02:07 Yeah, it's a crazy dream.
02:09 All our dreams are crazy dreams.
02:10 The fact that you're sitting here, I'm sitting here, you're sitting here.
02:13 Hey, that's right.
02:14 We're like one in a billion.
02:16 The fact that we get to do what we love for a living.
02:19 Absolutely.
02:20 And you know why?
02:21 It's because we got the fire inside.
02:22 That's right.
02:23 The fire inside of us is greater than the fire outside of us.
02:26 Was your fire inside that created the song and then my fire inside to make the movie?
02:34 Because it's more than a movie, it's a movement.
02:36 And the song is going to be the anthem to this movement.
02:39 You know, when you really love something and believe in something, there's always someone
02:43 that's going to tell you, you're crazy, you can't do this, that's not going to work, it's
02:47 too strong, it burns too bright, do what you want to do.
02:50 And you know what?
02:51 It's going to work.
02:52 Because it can't put out the fire inside.
02:54 inside.