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Benjamin Bratt: Hey, Jessica. How are you?
Glamour: I’m good, Ben…well, here’s my first question actually: I just want to say “Hello, Benjamin Bratt,” your full name, always together. What do you prefer? Benjamin? Ben?
Benjamin Bratt: I prefer Benjamin, but I answer to Ben. It’s always very unsettling to introduce or say my name in full. I was just on Loot episode four, season two, and part of it was a riff on kind of sending up myself. When I come in, I introduce myself to Maya [Rudolph’s] character, Molly, and say, “Hi, I’m Benjamin Bratt.” It feels so weird, I can’t even begin to describe it. It’s not normal.
We’re going to get to more of that in a minute, because it’s so good I’m predicting a guest Emmy nomination for you. But first, I hear congrats are in order because you’re getting an honorary doctorate at San Francisco State University.
Wow. I don’t know how you learned that, but yes, that is correct. It was a total surprise to me. I didn’t even know there was such a thing as a DFA, a Doctorate of Fine Arts, but apparently there is. It’s in my hometown, though I never attended San Francisco State. My father did for a semester or two way back in the day, and my sister graduated from there. So it’s a real honor to return to my hometown and be recognized for a career in the arts. I’m going to bring my family. It takes place where my favorite baseball team, the San Francisco Giants, play. So it’ll be fun.
My mother always wanted to have a doctor in the family. She’s a retired nurse, and I remember when I was a kid she said, “I would always want to hear as I’m walking down Nine Long at UC,” which is one of the wings in the hospital, “Dr. Bratt, Dr. Bratt to OR.” And now I can tell her, “Just call me Doctor.”
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