Shawn Mendes an 'Intern?' Out Filmmaker Julio Torres Thought So

Out filmmaker and comedian Julio Torres opened up about the science experiments in his fridge, all the colors in the rainbow, and that time on "SNL" when he mistook Shawn Mendes for an intern.

The moment happened "when I worked at 'Saturday Night Live,'" the "Fantasmas" writer and star told UK newspaper the Guardian in a quiz-style interview. "No one cringed, no one was harmed," the "Problemista" director added, "but.... I was like, what is this intern doing just like strolling the halls?"

Added Torres: "I just looked at him and hesitated a little bit. I think I was confused by his very confident presence. And my mind went to, like, 'God, these NYU kids just think they own the place.'"

Mendes, of course, is the singer of "The Mountain," an anthem that declares his liberation from worries about how people perceive his sexuality – a personal matter that, Mendes said last year, he is "still figuring it out."

Torres told the Guardian that he only put the pieces together "when I saw him through the monitors rehearsing his musical performance."

Torres' humor and sensibilities are decidedly off-the-wall. In talking with the Guardian, the funnyman explained that, to him, letters of the alphabet have personal characteristics; some are pretty boring, but others have riz.

"I like Ss and I like Vs and I like Zs and I like Ys and I like Is," Torres listed. "I like Qs. I don't like Ps.... Like if the letter P were a Pokémon, it'd be a normal type. It's basic and in a way that's not even like comforting."

"It's not like the letter A – that's also basic, but it's the best-case scenario for basic," the "Los Espookys" creator went on to add. "A is like leading-man vibes."

Torres talked about the "forbidden closet in my apartment," his love for the Luc Besson sci-fi epic "Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets," and the molding takeout food in his refrigerator creating "beautiful, strange patterns." He celebrated "The life, the ecosystem, the beings I have created, the life I have given."

Noting that Torres has a new comedy show called "Color Theories," which he will perform at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, the Guardian asked if he'd want to delete any particular shades from the spectrum.

"I wouldn't remove any of them," Torres answered. "But if I could add one color to the rainbow, I would add clear."

In "Fantasmas," Torres' character (he seemingly plays a version of himself) attempts to sell a company on the idea of "clear" as a crayon color.

The omission seems to be a sticking point: "It's just not there," Torres lamented of the non-hue's absence.