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When I was just a 10 -year -old kid in Indianapolis, performing for my family in my living room,

I knew that I wanted to be an actor.

So I studied theater, acting, dance, and everything that I could.

And when COVID hit right in the middle of college, I still found every possible opportunity to act, to audition, and to be seen.

And before long, I was seen in incredible stories alongside some pretty iconic actors.

And I was thinking to myself, how did I get here?

But what I realized watching my incredible co -stars is that it's not about where you are.

It's about how you show up.

And I try to show up authentically, be present for the work, and stay curious.

Because I'm still that same kid who just wanted to perform, and I always will be.

I'm Chase Infinity, and I'm an actor.

Chase Infinity, woo!

No, thank you so much for being on our show.

I am an actor.

Thanks for being on I Am An Actor, Chase.

What a whirlwind of a year you had.

And you're immensely talented.

Thank you.

Yeah.

So should we start from the beginning?

Yeah, let's do it.

Okay.

When was the moment you knew you wanted to be an actor?

The spark.

I saw a national tour of Greece that had come to Indianapolis, which is where I'm from.

And there's a song that Rizzo sings called There Are Worse Things I Could Do.

And I remember sitting on the balcony watching that.

And I had like a little light bulb moment.

And I was like, this is what I want to do for the rest of my life.

And so it was that song, that performance.

Shout out to whoever was playing Rizzo that night.

I don't know who it was, but it's because of that.

So you've always been into dance, performing, singing, acting.

Singing was like my number one thing as a kid.

I was always like, it started off as, I want to be a singer.

And then I saw that and I was like, I want to be an actor.

I want to perform.

I want to be on stage.

Did you want to marry the two, like singing and acting then?

Or at that point, or were you just more like, I just know I want to be on stage or in front of the camera?

It was at first it was I just want to sing.

And then seeing that I was like, oh, I can do both things because I would like perform at home with my sister.

But I was like, oh, I didn't know I could do it on a stage and people would like watch it.

And then once I got to like be in my first show,

I was like, this feels different than it is like watching it on the stage.

What was the show?

It was like a song cycle type thing where,

like I remember I auditioned for the musical with The Climb by Miley Cyrus.

Okay.

Because like the Hamill Montana movie had like just come out.

I didn't have any solos.

I was like in the background for everything.

I was kind of like just holding props most of the time, but I was like, this is so much fun.

And then like my first role I ever had, I played a character named Crystal in Little Shop of Horrors.

Oh, nice.

That's perfect.

And how old were you then?

Oh, so you were one of, was Crystal a duop girl?

Yeah, she was one of the three.

And how old were you?

I was, I think I might have been 12.

Oh my goodness.

11, 12?

Yeah.

I love Little Shop.

Me too!

That's one of my favorite shows.

Me too!

I played the dentist.

Really?

You did?

When I was in the show.

You're so cute!

And they had to, because my voice was so low, they had to lower the register.

Okay, period.

You know what's so sad is I saw it for the first time like three years ago.

Are you serious?

When I was 40.

Wait, did you never see the movie?

Not really.

I wasn't really interested.

Musical theater was not my favorite.

Got it.

But then as I'm getting older, I'm like, wow.

Like a triple threat, a quadruple threat, being able to dance, sing, act, comedy.

I was like, these are the most talented people.

Yeah.

You know?

So I have a whole newfound appreciation.

No, they're incredible.

They're so incredible.

That I could listen to Alarm Goes Off at 7, like on repeat from Little Shop.

I love that moment so much.

It's so good.

All the songs in it are so good.

Such a good show.

Do you come from a family of performers?

No. Well, I mean, my dad played drums.

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He's a drummer.

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But none of my parents sang.

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None of them acted.

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I just grew up around the arts.

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So I grew up around music.

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My parents and my grandparents would always take me to see plays and musicals that would come into town or local shows.

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But no, they weren't actors.

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Nobody did any of that.

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It was kind of like.

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And yet they named you.

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Chase and Finney they knew what you were going to become

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or they had high hopes I think they were like we just wanted to have a cool name

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they nailed it they kind of did because they both come from movies

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and so I always joke

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because I'm like how did you predict what I'm going to do in the future

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because both my first and my middle name

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because Infinity is my middle name they come from movies

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and then my sister is into fashion and her first name is Dolce No way.

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That's incredible.

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We had a moment on the Actor Awards where we did that opening song with Christian Bell.

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And I don't think you knew about it going into it, did you?

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No, I didn't.

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And so we originally had, it was originally going to be a joke about Walton Goggins.

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Oh, I love Walton Goggins.

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Because his name is Walton Goggins.

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Like, that was the joke about, like, you're going to change your name.

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Like, Walton Goggins, change your name.

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Yeah.

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And then he ended up falling out because he was shooting a movie in Spain.

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And then we were like, oh, let's flip the script.

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Who has the most perfect name?

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And we were like, it's Chase Infinity.

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Oh, thanks.

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Ten out of ten.

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Thank you.

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No notes.

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Thank you. So good.

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Thanks.

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So you went to college for a musical theater.

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Yeah, I did. And why Chicago?

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It was close to Indianapolis.

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And I felt like it was also like a happy medium of big city, small town -ish vibes.

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I mean, it was huge coming from Indianapolis, going to Chicago.

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It was like the big city.

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Yeah, I was like, oh my gosh.

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And I also grew up going there very frequently with my family.

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So it was comfortable at the same time.

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Yeah, I was like, okay, like it's not too far.

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I've been there enough to kind of be familiar with the area a little bit.

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And then I also just really like I fell in love with the campus and the school that I went to.

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And yeah, it was kind of it was kind of just that.

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But New York felt too big.

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L .A wasn't really like even on my radar because I was like musical theater.

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It's kind of just like New York.

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Chicago is great for smaller theaters, but also they have a lot of really well -respected bigger theaters there too, like the Steffen Wolf and whatnot.

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And it just felt like a good, happy medium that also was close to home.

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And not as crazy expensive for a college student as New York.

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Did you do anything outside of college in terms of work or acting, like at local theaters?

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I did, in Chicago, I only was in one.

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I was in a production of The Little Mermaid, like my senior year.

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And that was fun because that was my first time I was ever in a dance track.

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And I got to tap on stage.

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Oh, wow, you can tap?

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Yeah.

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That's like my favorite, that was like my favorite class in school was tap.

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And I don't keep up with it as much as I wish I did, but I love tap.

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And I think it's so like,

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oh, it just like scratches a part of my brain and like of my soul that I can't even explain it.

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Um, it's so visceral.

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Yeah Tactile too.

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It's also the sound is so soothing my girlfriend

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Jenna Malone also an actress

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She would wear her tap shoes around just normally.

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Yeah, I was like give me a little dance

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Jenna She's like tapping away.

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It's just the best.

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Soothing is not a word I would use.

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I like it.

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I grew up doing tap I'd love it.

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Yeah, I mean I do love the clicking in a performance space

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Yeah, just wearing them around the house.

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I mean I will tap in sneakers clicking clacking here

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Yeah, like might as well do the tap.

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Yeah, exactly

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and then did you find

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your college experience with uh performing did

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that seem to kind of start to fulfill you in certain ways like did you find

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that going from from this stage of like you know kind of being a kid

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and kind of you know doing plays and things like

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that with your with your sister and then okay you're in college

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and you're starting to feel like this is real this is something i can really do

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I think like I had the thought of this is something I could really do from like 10.

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From that point?

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From that point, I was like, this is something I could - But I mean, putting it into practice, even.

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Yeah, I guess like it was just in a different way.

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I've started to figure out the steps to doing that, I guess.

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Because again, since I was 10, I was like, I know I'm going to do this.

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I just didn't know how I was going to get there.

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And so college kind of like filled in the, But, okay, this is like point A,

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this is point B, and you have to do these two things to get to here.

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But I think it was also so strange because musical theater is,

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there's a lot of, you have to have a strong stamina to be constantly auditioning for it,

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being in a show, while also looking for other work.

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And the same is in TV and film.

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It's just different.

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It's different.

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It's very different.

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It's also big.

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It's bigger.

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Yeah.

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And I just like, I remember when I first got to college, it was a lot of building up that stamina to be like,

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okay, I'm going to school for X amount of hours in the day.

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I'm auditioning at night or I'm going to rehearsals at night

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while auditioning for stuff on the weekend and kind of getting used to

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that schedule is that was the thing that made me go, okay, I'm getting the building blocks to pursuing musical theater.

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Yeah.

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I mean, you're really honing in on your crafts yeah i'm sure

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you're doing singing movement on stage you know um

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i feel like i just

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i see you like olivia rodrigo like on a treadmill like singing do you know what i mean

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i feel like there's something you would do like in musical theater

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i don't know um you know dance classes like what else was there um

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i think like for me personally

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i mean a lot of my my training outside of what the school would give us

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is I started to dance with my best friend doing like K -pop covers.

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And so that was like my outside of school training because that was nice because I could perform without,

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I guess, because it's hard to be cast in a show, especially in college.

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And I really didn't get cast in much in college. And so

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that was like getting to do those K -pop covers in

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public was a way for me to still get to perform and put on a costume,

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get ready, and rehearse for X amount of days or weeks, and then go out somewhere in public, put on the performance.

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If people watch it, great.

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If people literally walk by us, who cares?

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I was still getting to showcase what I had rehearsed, which was, I was like, oh, this is a nice training too,

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because I learned how to, I mean, I still get very shy and embarrassed, but like.

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You shouldn't.

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You can't tell from the videos.

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Also, who's walking by you on a frozen lake?

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I saw that.

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On a frozen lake?

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Weren't you in Chicago on a lake?

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Oh, it wasn't a lake.

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It was a blizzard.

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How brave of them.

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It was a blizzard.

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There was a blizzard in Chicago.

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It looked like the lakefront.

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I was like, what are they doing?

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Get off.

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We were shooting a cover.

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We actually shot that two days before I went to start shooting Presumed Innocent.

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And I was like, we have to film this cover before I go to LA for six months.

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Whether or not.

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Like, yeah, I was like, no matter the weather, we're doing it.

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Yeah.

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And also, like, we were like, okay, like, if it's snowing, people will probably be like, why are they out in a blizzard?

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And then we'll click the video, too.

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But people weren't walking on a lake.

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But there was a blizzard in Chicago.

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Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha.

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And they weren't walking there neither.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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It looks pretty empty.

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Okay.

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It was very, very cold.

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I think it might have been, like, being generous, like, 10 degrees outside.

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Ooh. So.

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Oh, my God.

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But it was fun.

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It looked great.

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It was fun to have snow.

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You'll do anything for your craft.

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I will.

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And I love it.

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It also sounds like you really enjoyed dancing.

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Yeah.

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And rehearsing these numbers.

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You're also really good at it.

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Yeah, you are.

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I did, like I was saying before, I did like a deep dive on the dances

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and I felt like it was something that I could just watch on a loop.

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Like they're so fun.

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Thanks.

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They're so joyful.

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Can't take your eyes off of you.

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Aw, thanks.

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The three of you in particular.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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They're so, so good.

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And it seemed like something that you really like let it all go.

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And like you said, people walking around you, you don't care.

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I'm guessing these were shot kind of guerrilla style.

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It's not like you're getting permits.

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You're just out there doing what you need to do.

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Getting permits for TikToks?

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No, listen.

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There's a whole Chicago cover culture, as there is everywhere in the world.

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Every city, you're like, okay, this is what the type of dance crew is.

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But in Chicago, there's a whole thing where people are like, you can shoot here because there won't be people

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that will.. kind of like hunt you down

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but like you can't shoot here because of x y

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and z but you can shoot like two steps down from it um

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so there's like a whole there's a lot of spots

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that are really popular for people to film at

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that like you get kicked out exactly you won't get kicked out you won't get in trouble

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and then there's only been like once

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or twice where we've shot somewhere where we're like we're not supposed to be here

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but we have to hurry up and get it done yeah

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one and done the dance group is called duple duple yeah because it started with me and my best friend

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So my best friend is the everyone always says that we look very similar.

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So it's the two of us

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And so it started off as just the two of us so we called it Duple.

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I was trying to add like a little French Duple.

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I know.

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I was trying to be bougie about it.

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I like Duple better.

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Duple meter that's why we picked it.

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I love it. So cute.

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So after college you got yourself a manager.

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I did I was very lucky to get one like literally from my senior showcase.

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Amazing. In Chicago.

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Not in Chicago.

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In New York.

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In New York.

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Oh so you went to New York, did a showcase, got a manager it was a like a digital one oh god

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so they were like

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because it was still coveted now we're old i know no it's it literally was just

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because like covet hit halfway through and so

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that was like still very peak masking and everything and

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which feels everything so long ago yeah it's just

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so long ago yeah um but it was it was online

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and then i have no idea where it went but it went onto some website that casting directors, agents, managers could watch.

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And my manager found me from that.

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And it was like, literally, I think he was like, I think I watched like a 15 second clip.

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And the video was like maybe a minute.

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And I was also the only person in my class who didn't do a monologue.

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Because I was like, I mean, like a 32 bar cut is a monologue.

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Like it's the thing that you're singing is the monologue.

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And that was my pitched

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because i was like i'd rather just sing two songs than do a song in a monologue

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because i felt more comfortable singing and so from

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that he found me

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and then reached out to me on two different emails like

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i had i was like did he slip into the dm no okay he like i had like my

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i had like the email that i put on the website for people to contact me

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from that showcase and then i had a youtube account and

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so he contacted me through both that email and my youtube email

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and i serious i thought he was a scam yeah

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i was like who is this person emailing me i was

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so nervous he was not a scam

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so i'm happy he was not a scam

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but that's how i got a manager that's incredible story i did do a little research

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and i i think i saw it like

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Like I found it.

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Oh really?

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You have a beautiful voice.

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Thanks.

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Your register is really beautiful.

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Thank you.

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And your vibrato is really beautiful.

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Thanks.

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I can see why he contacted you.

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No, like I felt that one of the songs I sang in that is like that's been one of my,

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I guess like some people call it like your money song.

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Like that's like your go -to song.

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And I sang it all throughout college.

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I sing it now for fun because I don't do as many musical theater auditions anymore.

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Do you want to?

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I would.

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I feel like you do go straight to Broadway, honey.

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Oh, no, I need some training.

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I need some training.

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Is that a dream, though?

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It is.

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Is that something you want to do?

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It's still my dream.

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Yeah.

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Because I have people now who are like, oh, did you ever think you would do TV and film?

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And I was like, that wasn't even on my radar because I was like,

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if I can have one line in a movie or a TV show, I'm like, that's a win.

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What a dream.

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That's the one nominated for an Oscar right out the gate.

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Let's go.

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Like, that's not something I was even on my radar.

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It's amazing.

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It's kind of wonderful.

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Like you said earlier, like you let it go.

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Yeah.

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And like you just put all of your work into it and like don't take the pressure off.

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And here you are.

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Yeah.

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Like that's kind of like the key to success.

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No, that mindset shift completely changed everything in college.

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I was like, I'm just not going to, I'm not going to put as much pressure on myself because I think that especially in college,

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18, 19, 20, kind of like figuring out who you are, you really pit yourself against each other.

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And I guess like the system also does that as well, being like, here's your direct competition.

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You always want to level up and like one up.

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Here's somebody that looks exactly like you that's going to an audition for the part that you want.

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Exactly.

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It's constant comparison.

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I know.

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And I think like COVID not only like shifted my mindset about acting,

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but it also made me kind of realize that I was like,

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if I guess in the sense of like everybody instilled the thing in me where everybody has something about them

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that makes them special and that's always going to be the thing

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that shines above all and so once I realized that

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and I took the pressure off of myself to be like I have to make sure

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that I'm perfect and I'm hitting every single mark

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that kind of like changed everything and I I could go into things

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and be more free with it be more free with my performance

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and also let things pass through me

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and not be as affected by them like if something bad happens

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or if like i have like a weird interaction at an audition

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or something it doesn't sit with me i kind of just like let it hit me

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and let it pass me yeah

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and i think that's great advice too like you know to not compare yourself

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i mean what what person is perfect no one's perfect no one to see the flaws on a screen

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you know we want to see you know like you're i don't want to jump

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so don't be mad i get very You're rigid about the order of things.

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Like one battle after another.

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Like your character's imperfect.

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You lied about the phone.

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You know, you're the adult in this situation with Leo.

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Obviously no one's perfect, but your character is so flawed.

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But like coming over these adversities, like coming into her own.

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She plays the parent to Leo.

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Like get your shit together, man.

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Going to school, trying to be a kid and then being taken away from the very thing that makes like, you know, core teenage memories.

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Like what a life.

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like a heart in life this person lives and like you play it

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so lovely there's so many freaking layers

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that scene with leo my god at the end how like

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you're strong say the fucking like who the fuck are you you know like it was

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so powerful and powerfully moving and then he's like it's me it's me

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and you and for a second just a second you're able to be like

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that kid again like yeah and like kind of oh god i'm gonna cry right now

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that performance was unreal thank you yeah it was fantastic to watch thank you so much

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that really means a lot I don't think Jamie has a question

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I think she just wants to talk about how great you are which also I agree

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wholeheartedly at what point did you get your SAG card what job my first job presumed innocent sick

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you got your SAG card on presumed innocent that was my first job that role

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that role was my first your first job my first job my first role

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I like I I didn't even know what a SAG card was I was like, I don't know what any of this is.

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And I remember I had to, I called Zach, and I was like, hey, what is this thing I'm supposed to join?

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And, like, I got, like, the good rundown of everything.

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Yeah, it's great, isn't it?

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And it was so great.

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What a role to get that, to get your part.

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I love that show, by the way.

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Thank you.

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I know.

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It's so good.

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How did the role come, how did you audition for, like, how did you find out about it?

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Like, where did it come from?

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It came from either my agent or manager.

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I can't remember which but Um, I got the audition.

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I want to say, so I graduated May 2022 and I had started consistently auditioning for stuff.

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I want to say July, like after I had finished a musical that I was in and I was like, no, okay.

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Like, let's go full steam ahead.

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And I would do like four to five auditions a week for just anything.

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I was like, whatever I get sent, I'll audition for a bootcamp.

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Yeah.

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I mean like with the, there was obviously things where I was like, I don't want to do this.

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So I I just won't, I guess, audition for that.

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But literally - Were you doing a lot of stuff in Chicago, or were you doing a lot of self -tapes that were going everywhere?

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It was all self -tapes.

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Yeah.

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All self -tapes.

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Okay, got it.

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All self -tapes.

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And it was for movies, for indie films, for TV shows, for plays, for musicals.

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It was like everything.

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I was like, just send me an audition.

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I will do it.

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I don't care.

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I will do anything.

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I will do anything, and I got really good at self -tapes through that.

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That is a skill.

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Yeah.

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It really is a skill.

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Very hard to like kind of figure out also like going

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from musical theater self -tape to like a TV film self -tape

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because they're very different in the way that you handle it.

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But anyways, I started auditioning for projects in July and then November, I think end of November,

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I got an audition in my email for Presumed Innocent.

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I was like, OK, I was like filtered it in with the rest.

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I was like, I'm going to give it my all, do what I got to do, send it, forget about it.

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And that's what I did.

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and then a week later

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I got a email from my manager asking me to like brush up on the scenes again

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because he was like I think you're going to get a callback

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and then I got a callback for it and they told me

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that it was going to be a zoom chemistry read

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and it was um hey those crazy crazy content why you out you know

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but it was me the casting director the director of the first two episodes and Jake Gyllenhaal.

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And so I was like, okay, cool.

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I'm meeting Jake Gyllenhaal for the first time on a Zoom meeting.

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Yeah.

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No big deal.

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Yeah, no big deal at all.

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So I did it and it was like maybe like 45 minutes, closed it.

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And I was like, okay, cool.

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Felt great about it.

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I hope that it was received well, but if not, cool.

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Forgot about it.

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And like it was right before like the industry shut down for Christmas time or like for the holiday season.

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And I think like it was like the day that everything was like, okay, we're going, we're going to be like done for the holiday season.

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It was like the 16th.

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And I found out like the 15th at like 8 p .m.

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And my manager.

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You found out that you got it.

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That I got it.

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My manager was like, can you jump on this call?

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We're going to have an end of the year, like recap and like make a plan.

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What a simple plan.

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And I was like, cool.

518

And I like jump on the Zoom and it's my manager, my agent.

519

And then the casting director joins and I was like, I think I just booked my first job.

520

That's awesome.

521

That's such a great story.

522

I mean, it was such a great cast.

523

They were all so, so great.

524

I devoured that series.

525

Thanks.

526

It was so good.

527

Thank you.

528

I mean, the ending was...

529

Surprised to me, too.

530

I don't...

531

Really?

532

Yeah, surprised to me, too.

533

I don't even know if we should talk about it.

534

I know it was a bit of time ago, but it was such a shocking ending.

535

It was surprising to me too because I didn't know, like nobody knew what the ending was going into it.

536

So until that last episode.

537

Literally, I think we were shooting episode 7 and we got this script for episode 8.

538

Ugh.

539

So like, it was probably like, I think I found out on my birthday, like May 1st is when I found out.

540

You killed her.

541

I'm joking.

542

Yeah.

543

Happy birthday.

544

Just kidding.

545

Congratulations.

546

Happy birthday.

547

You're the killer.

548

So is there anything, I know you had your technique down and you're so good at drama.

549

And you're so good at, like I said earlier, like processing and like, you can see really clear inner thoughts, which is so, so great.

550

Thank you.

551

Was there any, was it so fun?

552

We're having these amazing scene partners.

553

And did you take anything that you learned from that set to your next job?

554

For presumed innocent to one battle?

555

For your craft.

556

Oh, for like, for sure.

557

I, that was presumed innocent was literally like my film school.

558

My like, It must have been.

559

Cause you'd never really been on a set before.

560

Never been on a set i didn't even know

561

when i was supposed to say my first line like i had to ask ruth nega on the first day

562

i was like when do i say my first line

563

because i had the first did you know like what a mark no yeah

564

i didn't know anything

565

i didn't know what any like any of the department heads were i knew what a director was

566

but i didn't know what a dp was i didn't know

567

that there was like like a whole costume department like i didn't know any of that

568

so presumed innocent i went to set every day

569

it was your graduate school it literally was like went to set every day i would ask

570

Thousands of questions.

571

I would walk around with a little notebook and like and and write down like different department heads and like

572

Everyone's position so I could like make sure to remember their name

573

and exactly what they did and like what questions I would ask That's great.

574

So of all but then also you find out on at the end of the show

575

that if you turn the call sheet around it has all the names listed

576

Yeah Oh, once I found that out, it was done.

577

What a waste of time.

578

No, it's not, but I love that.

579

No, I'm kidding.

580

I love those duties.

581

It's so cool.

582

Yeah, but that whole set just taught me what it's like to film something.

583

And also how making anything, but especially making a TV show or making a movie,

584

it's not an individual thing.

585

It's not a one person job.

586

It takes a village.

587

It's an ensemble.

588

Exactly.

589

It's an ensemble.

590

I wanted to like figure out how I fit in in the machine and Presumed Innocent really made me understand like,

591

okay, this is where I fit in.

592

This is the things

593

that I need to do to also help out like help out the grips

594

and help out the camera department and also help out my scene partner that aren't difficult for me to do.

595

Yeah.

596

It really taught me about like being an ensemble member.

597

Was it also, sorry.

598

No, it's okay i was just gonna say was it also a nurturing set like

599

that i'm sure it was like i get the creme de

600

la creme people work with you i i feel very fortunate

601

to to even be of like ruth nega is like probably the one

602

that i love the one

603

i was the absolute closest to she's still like i she is one of my dearest friends closest friends

604

now even to this day um but her

605

and then there's somebody else who i met on set who

606

was the the key customer who's also one of my closest friends

607

and so that whole set really took care of me

608

because they knew I was new and they knew

609

that I was like one of the younger ones um and

610

that I had never I was like coming from Chicago didn't know what I was doing

611

and I was eager to learn and I think that

612

that was also something that they were like excited by

613

because it's fun to like teach somebody about something that you do

614

and something that you're passionate exactly yeah and

615

so I would go to set ask questions every day

616

and then they would just welcome me in with like open arms

617

and I would be like sorry I'm just gonna like sit in the corner

618

and they're like no no like come behind the camera like

619

be right next to me as i'm just gonna go here um

620

but like make sure that you're out of the way but you can watch and i think like

621

like having that

622

and having the love around it too just i had a very my entire entrance into hollywood has been

623

so incredibly privileged and so loving it's so great but especially

624

that one this feels a bit anomalous not not that every set is terrible yeah but i mean this feels really special.

625

I realize how special of an experience I had on that and on all of my projects, because it's just been, even on hard days,

626

there was never a point where I was like, this is not what I want to do.

627

I don't feel like...

628

I don't actually know if that was a coherent sentence, but you know what I mean.

629

You have doubts.

630

I had no doubts.

631

And it really was like our entire cast and crew on everything

632

that made me feel like this is what I wanna do.

633

And also made me realize, okay, this is like what I wanna do to help like my future co -stars,

634

my future like ensemble members, my future crew.

635

You gotta pay it forward.

636

You gotta think about this going forward.

637

Yeah, yeah.

638

Cause I know that this, my experience is not normal.

639

I know that it's very, very privileged in that sense.

640

So I wanna kind of help the people around me now and the people around me in the future

641

feel comfortable and kind of give them

642

that um like on the on the testament

643

so i remember one of the things that i wanted to make sure

644

that i did was make sure that all of the girls

645

because i was like one of the older girls out of everyone

646

that they all knew that i was there as like kind of

647

an ear to always listen but also to be an advocate for them

648

but i also wanted to make sure to teach them to like advocate for themselves as well

649

because it's hard to advocate for yourself in a space where like you feel so small

650

on a production that is so big.

651

And I just remember like

652

Presumed Innocent and One Battle kind of like instilled that in me.

653

And I was like, okay, I feel like I have my bearings.

654

I'm not perfect, but I have my bearings in that sense a little bit.

655

So let me help as much as I can with like

656

that knowledge for - Can I just say - I know, I know.

657

I'm just blown away by this.

658

When people leave with kindness like that, like you get the best performances is that's real like number

659

one on the call sheet behavior like you're setting the tone

660

for an entire generation yeah and that's extraordinary that you're doing

661

that at this age you're taking all these kind of life lessons

662

that you're using or that you've learned

663

and you're you're using them for this new show

664

and kind of you're you're the one

665

that these girls are sort of looking to and you're doing this with a real responsibility and weight it is so impressive

666

It's also like it just shows that you love to be there.

667

You're all there to do something and then lead with kindness.

668

It's not that hard.

669

Because it's also something that can be so isolating.

670

And the last thing I want to do is make any of them feel like they're alone.

671

Because it's easy for a massive company, a massive agency, a massive industry to make you feel like you're by yourself.

672

But this is not something that can be built alone.

673

It's not something that you can promote alone.

674

So I just was like, I just want to make sure that they know that I'm here for them, regardless of anything.

675

I hope my kids turn out like you.

676

I want to be your best friend.

677

I know.

678

Let's be bestie.

679

I know.

680

Let's do it.

681

And also, like what, like you said, what a privilege, but also a privilege to work with such gracious actors, people who care about the project.

682

People who are coming together to do one thing.

683

I love this.

684

But then also, you know, the luxury of time on a production like this.

685

Yeah.

686

It's not always like that.

687

Yeah.

688

You know what I mean?

689

To be able to like, I don't think we got it.

690

Can we talk about this scene a little bit more? can we like figure

691

this out there's something missing oh

692

there's a great discovery let's do it again yeah like that's the time to play yeah what

693

and you had

694

that too oh totally especially like one battle specific we we were we were afforded a lot of time

695

which i'm so grateful for because even like with the scene

696

that you were describing earlier i think we reshot

697

that like three times like three different different variations of it like slight slight variations

698

but would totally give it a completely different feel before we decided on what ended up in the movie

699

but like that would have not been possible

700

if we weren't afforded time i mean granted there's other things

701

that factor into it too but time is like the biggest gift yeah a lot of money

702

and crew and availability yeah

703

but you trained for four months

704

i was training with um with somebody in i can't remember what gym he worked at

705

but um his name was in la

706

and he was my trainer for about four months and I did like mixed martial arts,

707

karate, and kind of just getting my bearings on like how to protect myself on set.

708

Because all my stunts I did in the movie were me.

709

Yeah.

710

And so I was like.

711

I remember they just like put you in a car.

712

I know.

713

I had to like fight for that.

714

I hope it wasn't racial profiling.

715

But I was like, let me drive the car.

716

I was like, give me the wheel.

717

I'm a good stunt driver.

718

Put the handcuffs on me.

719

Like I just remember they were like, okay, like we can, like how, are you okay?

720

Like do you want to do like a couple practice runs with it?

721

And I was like, no, just put the cuffs on me.

722

Let's drive.

723

I got it.

724

Let's just do it.

725

Let's just do it.

726

Cuffed.

727

Never mind.

728

That's crazy.

729

Yeah, I did train for four months.

730

Were you training kind of on your own?

731

Or were you with other actors?

732

It was me and my personal trainer.

733

Got it.

734

Okay.

735

It was just the two of us.

736

My favorite is weapons training.

737

That was so fun.

738

I love it.

739

Like with all the blanks.

740

Like AK -47s and 9mm meters and swords.

741

I was going to say, like, that'd be scary.

742

It's really fun.

743

It's fun, like, once you, like, once you get into it to like the the routine of it

744

and also understand the safety around it you're like okay

745

now i feel good to like to to let myself have fun with it

746

because it is fun yeah absolutely

747

but like once you feel comfortable around like okay these are the things

748

that i need to make sure that i do these are the things

749

that i absolutely can't do

750

and this is what i can do to keep myself out of a dangerous situation

751

then you're like okay now i can play yeah

752

now i can have fun with it right it's intense

753

it is it is intense what was the one scene where like in the film where you're like holy shit

754

that was magic I'm sure all of it

755

but like one particular one was like

756

that was a crazy discovery I don't know what just happened

757

but that felt like magic like you know you pour it all out there

758

and like something unpredictable happens or you know

759

unpredictable I think well I'll say the scene

760

I was the most excited to do from the jump was the scene with me

761

and Sean Penn in that church that's what I was thinking I was like

762

That, I was so excited to do that scene, even from just reading the script for the first time, to us doing it on the day.

763

And I'm so proud of the way that it turned out.

764

So that was the scene I was the most excited for.

765

When you're talking all that shit to him, was that written in the dialogue?

766

Yeah.

767

Oh, great.

768

Love that.

769

There's a couple things that Paul had edited beforehand that he was like, this sounds like it's more in your voice.

770

That was hilarious.

771

I know.

772

It was really good.

773

Yeah, it was all written down.

774

OK, cool, cool, cool, cool.

775

Was it intimidating at all to kind of come into that set?

776

I mean, you'd obviously come from Presumably Innocent, where you already had worked with Jake Gyllenhaal and Ruth Nega.

777

But were you, I mean, we're talking Leonard DiCaprio and Tiana Taylor and Regina Hall and Sean Penn.

778

Like, did you go in, like, with a little trepidation?

779

Were you nervous?

780

I mean, yeah, like, first day of school, kind of nervous.

781

But that's it?

782

Yeah, I would say so.

783

I'd be shitting my pants.

784

I know you were you were killing me right like listen beforehand.

785

I Felt like scary

786

Sundays, you know just like that

787

It's cuz I already knew Paul like pretty comfortably

788

Beforehand cuz I've been auditioning for one battle for like six months.

789

Oh, I see

790

Yeah for six months

791

So I was already like pretty familiar with Paul to be like comfortable around him

792

and also like I trusted him completely

793

and then I got very close to Regina before we started shooting and and she's incredible, especially in the movie.

794

And I love Regina so much and I love Tiana so much, but I didn't meet Tiana until like towards the end.

795

But me and Regina got very close.

796

And so having the two of them starting, I felt very easy kind of jumping into it.

797

And also the crew that we had on the movie.

798

I want to say was honestly smaller than presumed innocent.

799

Okay.

800

So it felt, um, like a skeleton, like two camera departments there.

801

It just was like, it wasn't as, it was more condensed.

802

Okay.

803

And so everyone, you could tell that everyone also had been working together for a long time.

804

Like they had a lot of history.

805

Yeah.

806

So it felt very like a well -oiled machine.

807

And I was like, okay, I know what I need to do.

808

I know where I need to fit in.

809

And then having Paul and Regina, they're kind of worth, we're an extra comfort where I was like,

810

okay, I can, and I can do what I need to do.

811

But it really was like, it felt more like first day of school scaries as opposed to like, oh, fuck.

812

Overwhelming.

813

Yeah.

814

Oh shit.

815

I'm in with Leonardo DiCaprio.

816

Yeah.

817

Yeah, at a club I'm like, god damn Leo's here.

818

Fuck.

819

There's too many fucking girls.

820

What is this wave of people doing here?

821

Like, ugh.

822

It's called the Leo effect.

823

It's a true story.

824

It's a real thing.

825

Happened in a park too.

826

Regina plays your, it's like, what's fascinating was that Regina

827

was basically the only mother figure that you had

828

and it only lasted for like two days before she was taken away

829

but you can feel the closeness and the respect and like

830

when she you know like when parents when parents

831

and kids fight they're like okay just tell me the truth okay don't do

832

that again it's like there's a connection there you don't want to disappoint

833

but like yeah there's your trust yeah beautiful i know i love it

834

and like kind of seeing where they first meet to to where they have like their last moment together

835

you see like Willa kind of have

836

that realization of this is the closest I've ever gotten and probably will ever get to a mother figure in that way.

837

Because up until that point you had been the mother.

838

Yeah.

839

Oh, good point.

840

Thank you.

841

Thank you.

842

That's great.

843

You're like, appreciate it.

844

Thank you.

845

But that must have been for your character.

846

That must have been being able to be vulnerable with somebody,

847

being able to probably, you probably felt like you needed to be taken care of a little bit,

848

but then you also found yourself learning like exactly you had to

849

so and and that scene like what you were saying with sean penn in the church was

850

so unbelievably dynamic and compelling

851

and i could not take my eyes off it the whole time like how long did

852

that take to shoot um we did it Straight through.

853

So I wanna say takes would range from 17 minutes to 22 minutes.

854

And we would just go all the way through.

855

Straight through.

856

How many takes do you remember doing?

857

I think we did that scene over like four days.

858

So I don't remember how many takes.

859

You did that one scene over four days.

860

Okay.

861

If I wasn't married, Benicio Del Toro.

862

Tell me about it.

863

Just a few small beers.

864

I mean like, come on, guy, my guy.

865

Just a few small beers.

866

No, every time I see him a demo now like that's all I think about his What is fantastic?

867

He was also a great role model too.

868

Yeah, he was sensei, but not really father

869

But he was like the father figure to Willa to like literally D 'Andra and sensei

870

Yeah, those are her parents

871

Those are her parents in a sense and like what a repertoire

872

that you're building in terms of like the You know the type of work

873

that you have you went from doing an incredible action drama

874

You did an incredible drama show.

875

You have musical theater background.

876

You know, now you're on The Testament.

877

Yeah.

878

So, like, in a way, I'm sure you will save yourself eventually.

879

You know, I haven't caught up to all of it.

880

But what do you want to do next?

881

I don't know.

882

I don't have, like, I'm not like, I want to play this type of character next.

883

Or I want to do this genre next.

884

Or work on this skill.

885

Yeah, I mean, I do love building a skill.

886

Yeah, of course.

887

Like, I think, like, the skills part are, like, the best part.

888

You can tell.

889

You're very studied.

890

Thank you.

891

Yeah, you come off very studied in the best possible way.

892

Thank you.

893

I do want to talk about The Testaments,

894

though, because I was a big Handmaid's Tale fan and already enamored by The Testaments because of the world building.

895

You already had a reference for it, obviously, because the foundation was Handmaid's Tale.

896

But this is still different because it's four -ish years later.

897

and I want to say it's even a tighter color palette.

898

It's even a tighter production design.

899

The costumes are just so on point.

900

Everything is really beautiful to watch.

901

And I will say, you give me a model or something in miniature and I will, like, I'm in.

902

Me too.

903

And that intro into that first scene, I was like, what am I watching?

904

I want to watch this for the rest of my life

905

and then the way that you also bring a lot of joy to a role

906

and into a world that is not joyful there's a real layer to what

907

or there are layers to what you were doing that are um

908

seem unreasonable for a person of your age to have learned

909

this it's really tremendous now i'm the one that's just giving her compliments well

910

but i mean okay let's talk about testaments just

911

because like i'm a process person

912

so i want to know like like what was the audition

913

process like like how like did were you sent the script like how did how did it all come together

914

i got the first script I want to say like probably five months after I wrapped one battle

915

and we're kind of like looking for the next right thing

916

but like nothing was kind of giving me those butterflies

917

if I was like oh this is something I want to do and then I got the script in my inbox

918

but it was hidden that it was the Handmaid's Tale sequel

919

and so like all of the terminology all of the names were changed oh interesting oh

920

so it was completely almost redacted yeah yeah so you wouldn't know yeah

921

and and agnes was like named andrea

922

and the handmaids weren't called handmaids

923

they were i don't even remember what they were like it's a dystopia yeah

924

it was just like you're just like well

925

this sounds like a handmaid's tale knockoff yeah

926

i was like i was like this kind of sounds like the handmaid's tale yeah

927

but i was like okay i'll pretend it's not yeah um

928

and so i read the first script

929

and i just kind of like fell in love with the the world building of it

930

and i mean like of Of course, the first script that I've read of the Testaments was very,

931

I mean, Hamlet's Tale is very dark and it felt like it was very daunting how dark it was.

932

But I could not get over the fascination of how full the world was.

933

And also like the joy that Agnes or Andrea at the time, that she had.

934

And I found that to be the thing that was exciting.

935

Because I was like, this world is so dark and

936

so dim and really does not let these girls have any freedom at all, let alone anybody in the world have freedom, but especially these girls.

937

But yet she is still so joyful.

938

She still loves her friends.

939

She still pours into her family, into her support system.

940

And I found that to be very inspiring.

941

And that was the thing that kind of hooked me.

942

So I auditioned for it, sent in the tape, didn't think anything of it.

943

got an email that Bruce Miller, the showrunner, and the creator of the TV show wanted to meet me.

944

And I was like, cool, sounds fun.

945

So I met with him, did another audition.

946

And then I did a secondary audition with him.

947

And it was kind of just like a get to know you thing.

948

And then I want to say like maybe a week later,

949

I got an email in my inbox that they would love for me to play Hannah or Agnes.

950

Then I was like, of course I want to play Agnes.

951

And then that was like, I want to say December or January.

952

And then I went out to Toronto at the top of March to start fittings

953

because all of our dresses were custom made for us. So specific.

954

Yeah.

955

And so went out there early for that, went out there early to have like embroidery lessons, like knitting lessons.

956

Different skills.

957

Exactly.

958

Oh, right.

959

But just kind of like learn the things

960

that these girls would have grown up doing

961

and do them with uh right

962

it's some conviction like you know what you're doing yeah yeah granted

963

i could not embroider for the life of me

964

but i was like i'm gonna do it well enough to

965

be convincing on camera yeah okay none of this is surprising after uh this conversation with you at all

966

because it's a dark ish show it's a little bit lighter it's hilarious

967

It does have a lot of like, it's a bit lighter than the hammocks.

968

Yeah, definitely.

969

And you found, and again, like I go back to that kind of joy that you found in the character that really reads and,

970

and makes it makes this darkness makes this heaviness.

971

Yeah.

972

A little bit more palatable for maybe your average viewer.

973

But also for me, I think watching you and watching this world,

974

it almost makes it more real than dystopian.

975

Yeah.

976

Because there's a realism to it that, yes, I found in Handmaid's Tale had, but it felt otherworldly.

977

Yeah.

978

This feels scarily thisworldly.

979

I think also like kind of going with that, we were saying this a lot during press too,

980

while we were promoting the show before it started to come out,

981

is The Handmaid's Tale is coming from the perspective of somebody who has lost everything.

982

And The Testaments is coming from the perspective of girls who don't know any different.

983

And that's the scary part, that they don't know that they're missing out on the ability to read,

984

to write, to have any freedom of choice at all.

985

Oh, Daisy knows.

986

Daisy knows.

987

Daisy knows.

988

The Pearl girls.

989

But like Agnes or Shunammite or Becca or Holder, or any of the plums.

990

They know no different.

991

They know no different.

992

And I think that's the scary part, is how.

993

It almost feels terrifying how, I guess, complicit's not the right word,

994

but they are complicit in a system that they don't realize is hurting them.

995

Yeah.

996

They're forced to obey.

997

Yeah.

998

They know something is off, too.

999

To a degree.

1000

To a degree.

1001

To a degree.

1002

Like, their perspective of what's normal is completely different to what June would consider to be normal in The Handmaid's Tale.

1003

Or, and you're powerless.

1004

Yeah.

1005

At the same time.

1006

But the little bits of power that they do have, they know how to, I guess,

1007

use it to the strongest ability.

1008

And Agnes and Daisy, specifically those two, are people who really know how to do that.

1009

Shunammite too.

1010

Shunammite is very, very good about using the small bits of power that she has.

1011

And she understands the importance of, I'll say communication, because the girls are not allowed to gossip.

1012

Oh, right but Chino Mai understands the power of communication between everybody and I think that that's like,

1013

like they all have something that is their powerful trait

1014

that they know how to use to not only help themselves but help their friends in the system.

1015

You have something upcoming that you're working on.

1016

That I'm working, what am I working on?

1017

Well, are you working on the Julius art?

1018

Oh yeah, I already shot it.

1019

You're already done, can you talk about that at all?

1020

Yeah, well I can give you like, it was so fun.

1021

Just highlight, just highlight.

1022

I can't tell you plot line things, but i can tell you what it was like on

1023

that experience because i've been with

1024

that script since i auditioned for paul's movie oh great so i auditioned for the julia set and for one battle

1025

within the same week well like i think

1026

i i literally had sent in like the julie said audition on like a monday

1027

and then i sent in one battle on like wednesday

1028

or something like that while you're training for for one battle the julia set is

1029

so different playing a mathematician like what kind of studying did you do for your craft well

1030

i realized very quickly that the level of math that she is doing is far beyond anything I could ever understand.

1031

Is it more than business calculus?

1032

Wait, okay.

1033

I don't even know what that is.

1034

I didn't realize how many words were in that level of math.

1035

How many theories?

1036

It was crazy.

1037

So I couldn't study math in that way.

1038

No, of course not.

1039

It was something else where I was like, I have to find a connection point to mathematics in a way where it can be convincing that,

1040

that I, or enough for you to understand.

1041

Exactly enough for me to either, to understand the intention behind it was really what I was like, I'm focused on that because I was like,

1042

I know I'm not going to understand this math at all.

1043

I'm not even going to force my, my brain to try and understand it.

1044

Cause there's no way that I would.

1045

So I was like, what is, I guess like a way into it or like a understanding behind it as much as I can,

1046

as much as I can to have it come across on camera in a way that makes people be like, oh, I understand what's happening,

1047

even if you don't understand necessarily what she's writing or what you're seeing on the screen.

1048

So a lot of my prep was kind of just finding the connection points that are not math.

1049

Math related.

1050

And yeah, I really just loved the story and I felt also so grateful to be in something

1051

that I guess continues to push the narrative in a way of like giving young girls,

1052

young like girls of color, young black girls who look like me,

1053

giving them a space where they can feel seen in an environment where they're typically not seen.

1054

Like this girl is quite literally a math genius.

1055

and there's so many young girls who lose out on the opportunity of seeing their greatness with mathematics,

1056

with STEM, and anything because they don't feel the representation or they don't see the representation on screen,

1057

which is why it was such a gift to work with Gillian Anderson too as well

1058

because she kind of paved the way for women in that way.

1059

And so I felt grateful to even be doing something that's even slightly adjacent to what she did with X -Files.

1060

And so that was cool to do as well.

1061

But I love the story.

1062

I love Julia.

1063

I love her family.

1064

I love her story.

1065

And she's also somebody who has a lot of strength.

1066

And she's just figuring out her way in the world.

1067

And I loved it so much.

1068

And it also was really cool to kind of, like, escape everything and go off and shoot something for a month and a half.

1069

And then pop back in and be like, hey, guys.

1070

How's it going?

1071

I'm back.

1072

I'm back at the Golden Globes and the Oscars and the Sacre Awards.

1073

I'm killing it.

1074

And representing, which I love.

1075

Thank you.

1076

And I love that someone so kind and talented is representing for women of color.

1077

I love that.

1078

Thank you.

1079

That's cool.

1080

We have something shallow.

1081

Oh, yes.

1082

We have a game.

1083

A game?

1084

It's called Typecast.

1085

Okay.

1086

That's a great segue.

1087

That was the joke.

1088

I know.

1089

Obviously, we're going to ask you a bunch of random questions.

1090

These are all the incredible co -stars.

1091

I know.

1092

Feel very lucky.

1093

And you can add yourself to that list because you are a fantastic actor.

1094

Hey, guys.

1095

You see this list?

1096

Yeah.

1097

I love all of them.

1098

Look how long it is already.

1099

Who is most likely to in full sleep adopt a new dog?

1100

I won't say dog, but I'll say Rowan.

1101

I'll say cat because she's a cat person.

1102

So I'll say Rowan.

1103

Okay, great.

1104

Who's got the best gossip?

1105

Best gossip?

1106

Leo.

1107

Shut up.

1108

Honey.

1109

No, he does?

1110

Leo loves a tea session.

1111

Oh, that's so good.

1112

I love that.

1113

But even outside of that, I will say I'm going to group them in on this, too, because we would have our weekly debriefings.

1114

I'll say Lucy, Rowan, Amatea, while we were shooting The Testament.

1115

So we would have our little goss sesh.

1116

Yeah, a little goss sesh.

1117

Okay, how did the week go for everybody?

1118

Oh, great.

1119

Yeah.

1120

Catch up.

1121

But I'll say I'll say either we are I'll say the three of them.

1122

Okay, um who is most likely to do fire fest or drag you to fire

1123

Fest fire fest.

1124

It's the one that crash and burn.

1125

Oh It's my favorite crash and burned memories that festival that was Okay, this one is like no makes no sense,

1126

but it is like kind of funny to like picture like imagine and out like taking me to fire fest.

1127

Like, her and I'm taking me to fire fest.

1128

That would be crazy.

1129

That's hilarious.

1130

I go with her.

1131

Who's perhaps the best to pull off

1132

Gen Z slang who is not actually Gen Z?

1133

Leah.

1134

Damn.

1135

He understands it?

1136

Listen, I will explain the slang and he'll be like, he'll start to say it.

1137

And I'm like, you know what, period.

1138

Like, you're doing this.

1139

Exactly.

1140

I wish someone would just write a book.

1141

I don't understand it even my kids are doing.

1142

I'm like, what does that mean?

1143

Whose book recommendations would you actually listen to?

1144

Hmm.

1145

Whose book recommendations?

1146

Ruth Nega.

1147

Oh, yeah.

1148

Ruth reads a lot.

1149

And like, I really, I love her mind and I love the way

1150

that she thinks and I think that she's such an intelligent person.

1151

So I'll say Ruth.

1152

Who's the biggest prankster?

1153

Tyler.

1154

Oh, yeah?

1155

Yeah.

1156

Okay, that's funny.

1157

Any good ones?

1158

Yeah.

1159

That you remember?

1160

Oh, he's like a medium prankster?

1161

He's like, I'll say like he's a very like jokey person oh okay got it

1162

and so i'll say i'll say tyler i mean he didn't like pull any pranks on me yeah

1163

but he likes to mess with you a little bit

1164

i feel like he would be like the best prankster yeah okay yeah

1165

it's a wrap party who's the first one on the dance floor me

1166

i was gonna say the answer can be you yeah

1167

i was like let me go down the list let me go down the list let me go down

1168

this me me or tiana sometimes like there's been a couple where me

1169

and tiana are like the first ones is it one battle after another on the dance floor absolutely not she is winning

1170

There's no competition to the end.

1171

Yeah, exactly.

1172

I will do a little two -step.

1173

I know.

1174

As she's like bringing it down in the middle of the dance floor.

1175

But me and Tiana.

1176

I love that.

1177

I want to go to that party.

1178

That's a wrap!

1179

I know, that's a wrap on Chase Infinity!

1180

Thank you so much for being here.

1181

Thank you so much for having me.

1182

Thank you for doing this.

1183

This was so fun.

1184

Drink water.

1185

That's the note.

1186

Sorry, we can cut that.

1187

John, drink water.

1188

Your mouth is making noises.

1189

Oh my God.

1190

We all take a water break.

1191

Okay, great.

1192

Let's take a water break.

1193

My straw, because then I would have messed up my lipstick.

1194

Sorry.

1195

Thanks for tuning in to this episode of I Am An Actor, a SAG -AFTRA podcast.

1196

Hosted by John Brockett and Jamie Chung.

1197

If you liked this episode, make sure to subscribe wherever you get your podcasts and rate I Am An Actor five stars.

1198

This episode was executive produced by Sick Bird Productions, Jade Watson, Deanna DaCosta, and me, John Brockett.

1199

Produced by Sarah Stecker, talent producer Sarah Kauperthwaite, and head of PR and marketing and producer Nick Vivas.

1200

We'll see you next week.

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Этот урок разговорной практики построен на видео «Chase Infiniti». В этом видео 1199 предложений и 10865 слов для шедоуинга. Речь длится 53:59. Говорящий говорит быстро, около 201 слов в минуту, поэтому звуки часто сливаются и сокращаются. 84% слов входят в 3000 самых частых слов английского языка; остальные стоит разобрать перед занятием.

Ключевая лексика этого видео

15 слов из видео, которые стоит выучить, с произношением и значением:

Слово	Произношение	Значение
audition существительное	/ɑˈdɪʃən/	прослу́шивание, про́ба
theater существительное	/ˈθi(ə)tɚ/	теа́тр
innocent прилагательное	/ˈɪnəsənt/	неви́нный, безви́нный
presume глагол	/pɹɪˈz(j)um/	предполага́ть, предположи́ть
script существительное	/skɹɪpt/	скрипт, письмо́
tale существительное	/ˈteɪl/	расска́з, исто́рия
mathematics существительное	/mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/	матема́тика
fest существительное	/fɛst/	собра́ние
blizzard существительное	/ˈblɪz.ɚd/	бура́н, пурга́
skill существительное	/skɪl/	уме́ние, на́вык
scary прилагательное	/ˈskɛə.ɹi/	стра́шный, ужа́сный
privilege существительное	/ˈpɹɪv.(ɪ.)lɪd͡ʒ/	привиле́гия, льго́та
wrap глагол	/ɹæp/	завора́чивать, заверну́ть
showcase существительное	/ˈʃoʊˌkeɪs/	витри́на
ensemble существительное	/ˌɑnˈsɑm.bəl/	анса́мбль

Фразовые глаголы, которые вы услышите

Слово	Произношение	Значение
figure out глагол		разбира́ться, разобра́ться
grow up глагол		расти́, выраста́ть
find out глагол		узнава́ть, узна́ть
go down глагол		спуска́ться, спусти́ться
go out глагол		выходи́ть, вы́йти
come out глагол	/ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/	выходи́ть, вы́йти
kick out глагол		вышвы́ривать, вы́швырнуть
show up глагол		объявля́ться, объяви́ться

Фразы, которые стоит повторять

Короткие законченные фразы из видео, которые пригодятся в повседневном разговоре:

Wait, did you never see the movie?
Do you come from a family of performers?
Also, who's walking by you on a frozen lake?
That I'm working, what am I working on?
I'm like, what does that mean?

Грамматика в этом видео

Конструкции, которые говорящий использует чаще всего, с точными словами из видео:

Конструкция	В видео
Present Perfect have/has + причастие прошедшего времени — прошлое действие, важное сейчас	you've always been · I've been · I've started
Пассивный залог be + причастие прошедшего времени — важно, что происходит, а не кто это делает	be seen · was seen · be cast
Придаточные определительные who / which + предложение — уточнение о человеке или предмете	kid who just · Indianapolis, which is · rehearsed, which was

Произношение, на которое стоит обратить внимание

Говорящий использует 263 сокращённых и редуцированных форм, например I'm, you're, don't. Произносите их коротко, так, как слышите.

Звуки «th»: theater /ˈθi(ə)tɚ/, mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/, soothe /suːð/
Звуки «sh» и «zh»: audition /ɑˈdɪʃən/, showcase /ˈʃoʊˌkeɪs/, sheet /ʃit/, representation /ˌɹɛp.ɹə.zɛnˈteɪ.ʃən/, recommendation /ˌɹɛkəmɛnˈdeɪʃən/
Длинные слова — следите за ударением: mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/, hilarious /hɪˈlɛə.ɹi.əs/, representation /ˌɹɛp.ɹə.zɛnˈteɪ.ʃən/, recommendation /ˌɹɛkəmɛnˈdeɪʃən/, necessarily /ˌnɛs.əˈsɛɹ.ə.li/

Звуки, трудные для русскоязычных:

/w/ — губы округлены, это не /v/: wherever /(h)wɛɹˈɛvɚ/, overwhelm /ˌoʊ.vɚˈwɛlm/
/h/ — лёгкий выдох, а не русское «х»: hilarious /hɪˈlɛə.ɹi.əs/, beforehand /bɪˈfɔɹhænd/, honey /ˈhʌni/, highlight /ˈhaɪˌlaɪt/, whoever /huˈɛvɚ/
Звонкие согласные в конце слова — не оглушайте их: blizzard /ˈblɪz.ɚd/, privilege /ˈpɹɪv.(ɪ.)lɪd͡ʒ/, talented /ˈtæləntɪd/, beforehand /bɪˈfɔɹhænd/, freeze /ˈfɹiːz/

Как заниматься с этим видео

Прослушайте всё видео один раз молча и выпишите незнакомые слова.
Начните со скорости 0,75×, повторяйте предложение за предложением и вернитесь к обычной скорости, когда станет легко.
Запишите себя и сравните с оригиналом, обращая внимание на такие слова, как audition, theater, innocent.

Что такое техника Shadowing?

Shadowing — это научно обоснованная техника изучения языка, изначально разработанная для подготовки профессиональных переводчиков и популяризированная полиглотом доктором Александром Аргуэльесом. Метод прост, но эффективен: вы слушаете аудио на английском от носителей языка и немедленно повторяете вслух — как тень, следующая за говорящим с задержкой в 1–2 секунды. В отличие от пассивного прослушивания или грамматических упражнений, Shadowing заставляет мозг и мышцы рта одновременно обрабатывать и воспроизводить реальные речевые паттерны. Исследования показывают, что это значительно улучшает точность произношения, интонацию, ритм, связную речь, понимание на слух и беглость речи — что делает его одним из самых эффективных методов для подготовки к IELTS Speaking и реального общения на английском.

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Лексика и советы по произношению к этому уроку

Ключевая лексика этого видео

Фразовые глаголы, которые вы услышите

Фразы, которые стоит повторять

Грамматика в этом видео

Произношение, на которое стоит обратить внимание

Как заниматься с этим видео

Что такое техника Shadowing?