Teresa Hui Has Performed Next To Justin Timberlake Among Others
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Hamming it up since before she could even talk, Teresa Hui has always wanted to perform!
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Growing up and having a regular job just wasn’t in the cards for her, even if her mom tried to push her towards that path. It took many years and money to find the courage to set out on her own path. What was a sad story about losing her job with the Walt Disney Company was exactly what she needed to be pushed over the edge to jump start her acting career.
Soon after, Teresa Hui found herself getting gigs on many big time films as extras. Though it wouldn’t be long before she found her way into the screen actor’s guild, getting speaking roles in films.
Teresa Hui’s dream is filled with road blocks, but her hustle and drive has proven to out last all of the doubt. She not only believes this is what she is supposed to do with her life, she is making it happen!
I’m really happy that Teresa Hui was able to take some time out of her super busy NYC acting life style. Seriously, this girl works her butt off to make her dreams come true, and she definitely deserves the success that is coming her way!
Episode 45
Transcription
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this is the dreamers podcast where
dreamers shared their stories to inspire
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you
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now join host Joe Pardo as he interviews
a dreamer who is living their dreams
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welcome to the dreamers podcast I’m your
host Joe Pardo and today I’m
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interviewing Teresa we get that right
yes you could get it right was living
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her dream by being an entertainer
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welcome to the show Teresa well thank
you for having me I’d really appreciate
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you coming on I know you have a
super-busy new york-style life style
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style style thing going on and I really
appreciate you taking the time to come
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and be on the show of course it’d be fun
i figured you know you’re cool and why
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not
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well thank you well what let’s start by
giving the audience some background
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about yourself
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alright well I basically have loved
performing or entertaining people since
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i was about 12 used to dance on
restaurant tables when i was about one
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you’re like a one-year-old and I would
saying I saying before i could actually
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speak like that’s just always been
something I wanted to do my entire life
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and when I was in elementary school I
always fantasized about being a rock
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star
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I won’t always wanted to be like gem
because she was really cool and now
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they’re making a gem movie which is
really cool it’s already been cast but
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now I’m Way too old to play germany
whale or any of her peeps like her
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entourage but so i started performing
when I was young and I took piano
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lessons when I was seven
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unfortunately like growing up in New
York like I was never like my family was
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never very well off so it was either
chinese chinese school or Canada lessons
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in my mom figured like chinese school
sounds more like more than a reasonable
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for this young one and i ended up
actually failing chinese school twice so
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I actually didn’t do very well I’m so I
really wish I took kept on taking piano
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lessons but I’m you know I just kept on
you know doing my best to you know keep
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the music in my heart and you know like
I’ve always been a hand ever since I was
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little like like baby pictures of me
I’ve always been like hanging up and I
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would I was doing plays in in elementary
school and then when i was $DAY
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in in high school I started doing like
the bigger productions like I went to
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and what r morrow high school and a lot
of famous people want their like Marissa
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Tomei was a Academy award-winner darren
aronofsky went there
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mca from the Beastie Boys and countless
other celebrities so why was at school I
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really felt like I belong because
everybody loves the arts and I was like
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oh my god i can really you know major in
this like you know it’s just not
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something that you know is a hobby you
know so then ever since high school
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really I’ve just been you know doing my
thing to you know just just living the
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dream i have and i worked actually
worked for the walt disney company for
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five years immediately after college I
went to Weston’s require college for
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school and I majored in voice
performance classical so I was studied
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opera and i minored in musical theater
and in in piano like that was like Anna
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was a requirement so if you majored in
voice you had too many minor piano but I
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had always always loved performing and
I’ve always loved seeing and I don’t
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really sing opera as much anymore but i
really do miss that kind of singing but
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I once in awhile do show i was in the
New York Fringe Festival last year and
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got a lot of good press that made it
into the New York Times the cover of The
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New York Times art section last year
which was really really cool to see my
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face on there and just like random stuff
throughout so when I but I go back go
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off on tangents before like I did work
at the the world of disney for 45 years
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and i was making dreams come true
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over there and not as a performer
actually but oh yeah so what during the
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time that I was working at the world of
disney new york i would do cabarets on
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the side just to keep up with the
Performing and I actually did one with
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my fiancé who actually met while I was
working at the world of disney and Jerry
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skids we actually did a cabaret together
the city so that was really really fun
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unfortunately the store ended up closing
because of high rent and stuff so that I
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was unemployed but immediately after I
was unemployed that week friend of mine
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who was working for a fashion designer
actually said hey I work for this
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designer and they’re looking for models
for their print campaign and I’ve never
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thought of myself of the model and I was
like model the hell you’re talking about
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and she’s like just just submit your
headshot and resume anyway so I was like
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okay so i submitted my head on a resume
and I got called in for casting and I
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was like okay this is weird and i just
remembered i went in i’d try on
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different types of shirts was this
company called Rebecca Andrew
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manufacturing and I’m we was actually at
the location i tried on a bunch of
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different shirts and whichever one fits
me best it was it was a company that
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creates shirts based on bra sizes
instead of like a regular like it like
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sizes so i was in there I just remember
being in there in the fitting room with
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this girl who was also at the casting
this gorgeous like five foot nine like
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perfect like sighs your oversized to
model was like oh my god why am I here
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this girl is beautiful and i’m here in
the same room as this girl and I was
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like whatever so then I went in in front
of the two designers your back and Drew
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and drew he took the photos and Rebecca
was their kind of like watching to see
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like you know like just kind of serving
to see who she liked and then she said
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to me that trick that you perfectly and
it didn’t occur to me like oh that’s a
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good thing I was just like oh my god I
can’t believe i was at this audition
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with this really beautiful girl and I’m
there you know like non-model and so I
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don’t think anything of it and then
later on that night I got an email from
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Rebecca and reducing congratulations we
would love to have you as part of our
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print campaign and I was just completely
floored and I could not believe that I
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just booked my very first modeling gig
like just one
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a week after losing my job at the world
of disney so ever since then like you
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know like everything’s basically took
off right before then a few days after
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my job and did I bought a ukulele and I
was like well I have all this time might
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as well learn how to play an instrument
so i decided to play the ukulele and I
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mean I have to thank that magical
ukulele for basically being the catalyst
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to my I guess my started my career in
the entertainment industry like my you
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know my legit start to them to my career
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that’s really great that you found
inspiration in a ukulele what ukulele
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did you get actually got some cheapy $42
ukulele at the guitar center on it was
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actually really was only ukulele they
actually had at that time but I was like
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I am determined to get a ukulele or
maybe was the cheapest one that was 40
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bucks i was like 40 bucks like I don’t
have a job that’s ok like I’m going on .
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unemployment or something like that so i
bought it and I just learned something
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and like I like now I have a lot of Chi
actually upgraded after after learning
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but you know I just needed something
cheap to learn on
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so that’s why i started off with so what
does entertaining mean to you making
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people feel something you know whether
you make them laugh and cry make them
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feel funny like whatever you know just
like you like making others feel
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something because you’re doing something
you know you’re creating art like gum
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and that’s that for me is what
entertaining is just like making people
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feel so what would you say inspires you
other than your awesome ukulele
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well what inspires me is my dad like he
passed away like over 16 years ago and i
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remember when i first started learning
guitar i started learning guitar when I
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was in junior high school actually have
kind of a sad story when I was in
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elementary school my dream my alternate
dreamlike during the time i wanted to be
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a rock star
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I wanted to be in the glee club and I I
got a callback and I was like oh my god
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i got a call back the glee club you know
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and you know I just thought they were so
cool like you know they got seeing like
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show tunes claim is and I was like oh my
goodness i want to be part of it so
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badly and on the day of callbacks I got
sick so I had no range and i ended up
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not getting in and I was absolutely
devastated just like oh yeah and I guess
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I can’t sing and a singer you know I
should never ever sing again and
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sometimes like I would go like request
to go on like a bathroom break but i
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would just really walk by the course
room just to listen to the glee club
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singing and wish that I was part of that
and I was just always really like
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upsetting i was like oh well as part
about you know but I’m obviously you
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know not good enough to be a singer when
I was in junior high school I took up
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the guitar and I remember my teacher
back then mr. Brennan like he like you
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know he really inspired me to like want
to play and you know like like yeah he
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was he was really awesome and also like
he was a big to be crushed into so then
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like I learned how to play guitar and
I’m i think that up really quick and
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then I remembered what I started playing
my dad he was a really big Elvis fan so
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I mean one day like you saw me
practicing he’s like do you know rock
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and roll
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I’m like yeah he’s like you know Elvis’s
again oh well this is and he’s like oh
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you know that’s good
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my dad passed away i’m over 16 years ago
he had fortunately had cancer but i
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remembered like one of the during like
his last year’s key was so happy to see
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that i was playing guitar and that
actually inspired me to keep going i
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actually ended up winning the
instrumental like the top
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instrumentalist award in my junior high
school because like my dad was so proud
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of me i was like you know what my dad’s
proud of me i’m going to keep going and
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so I was the top instrumentalist and my
school that’s what you know my dad like
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he wanted to be a rock star like that he
really wasn’t good at it like there’s
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this great photo of him that I have that
from when he was 17 and he’s like he’s
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looking like he’s rocking guitar
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but he didn’t actually know how to play
it but he just thought it was so cool
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and you know any time like I get to
perform like you know what my dad would
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be so proud of me that took me all the
way to the Apollo Theater where I ended
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up all actually placing third and
amateur night for showtime at the apollo
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and that was when I i bought my new
ukulele my lanikai tenor ukulele that
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upgraded to and so you know and like
every performance like any victory
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you know I dedicate that to my dad I’m
really sorry to hear about that
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bye dad but it’s nice to hear that he
was very inspiring to you and supportive
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of you how did the rest of your family
receive your dream of being an
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entertainer
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well when I went to college on my winter
very expensive music school I went to
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westminster choir college which was
unbelievable and I mean I don’t regret
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it at all because i had some amazing
amazing opportunities but before then my
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mom i love my mom but she was like you
know you could probably make more money
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from singing on the subway and I’ve been
i graduated 10 years ago and she’s right
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because I own tons of money like you
know music education is very very very
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expensive and you basically get like no
money like almost no money when you you
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know when you perform or when you start
performing but you know like I just love
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being around all these passionate
individuals my sisters like you know
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they always supported me like my mom the
thing is my mom she always was supported
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she would come to see me and all my
shows and my plays musicals and my
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grandma who’s no longer here like she
also would go so ever any time I did a
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show like me like my little sisters my
mom my grandma they would all like slept
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over to wherever I was performing and
come see me play like perform so
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obviously you know they were always very
supportive
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so how did your recent dreams of being
an entertainer come about versus you
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know when you grew up being a kid and
you just kind of naturally wanted to him
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everything up it was losing it was
losing my job losing my job really was
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the best thing that ever happened to me
i mean i was with the company I was with
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the walt disney company for over five
years
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which is great because i ended up
getting my five-year pin and I was like
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you know I accomplished something here
but the one thing was because i was
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working full-time job and you know had
benefits and stuff like that i didn’t
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want to leave and so the thing is if the
store was still here i would still be
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there now and I would have gotten my
10-year plaque this year which would
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have been great but the thing is five
whole years have gone by in addition and
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i would not be anywhere
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performance-wise and that had always
been a dream of mine ever since I was
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like a little like you know a little kid
but I really do think whatever company
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that ended up like shutting down the
store because of the high rent because
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like that really helped me out and I was
like you know what I call that ukulele
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and after that you know I was just like
you know what I have all this free time
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let’s do it let’s just go all out and
let’s do it let’s be a performer so what
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steps did you take to get started when i
first started i put that modeling gig
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that’s the first thing i did and then I
decided to go and learn more about TV
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and film so I did some extra work
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i sided extra work on my first time
going back in extra work because I did
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after work once have a few years before
then but i did get to work for gossip
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girl that was a pretty awful experience
but I mean I got paid
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I got to watch the principal actors work
and anytime I would do extra work
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I mean which is its or you know as
background talent as the savvy extras in
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new york college just to make it sound
2020 and stuff like the thing is even
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though it’s not the most glamorous job
you know it was always learning
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experience anytime I would step foot on
set I would watch the principal actors i
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would see what they would do and i just
did a lot of learning my first year
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doing this like after like read like you
know realizing my dream like i did a lot
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of extra work and I learned so much and
i met such amazing people throughout the
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time i did it and it was because of the
extra work you know like making contacts
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i was able to book some principle stuff
after that but you know it was
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like I did a lot of a lot of that was
just being on set and getting like
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hands-on experience and stuff like that
and just watching people and learning so
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after doing some extra stuff i was
submitting myself for four principal
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work i signed up for all the the casting
websites that all my my fellow
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background friends were telling me about
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so I ended up looking some pretty big
things even on my first year actually
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got this macy’s gig from macys.com with
Clinton Kelly and that was really cool
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because basically was like makeover
thing like how he does or how he did on
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what not to wear
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honestly I really didn’t know too much
about him but I was like oh cool I get
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to be on the macy’s website and look to
other like morph more things and I was
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non-union i was working as a non-union
actor at that time and with all the
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background work I did
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there’s this thing in order to become a
member of the Screen Actors Guild you
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would need to get three sag waivers
which means that basically you get hired
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as a union worker that day you’re
basically working as union and also back
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then now with the unions the
entertainment unions the test film
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television unions you have sag Screen
Actors Guild and after american
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federation television and radio artists
those were two separate unions so at
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that point within my actually within the
first two months of me looking stuff i
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got my first principle audition was
actually a singing audition for the
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onion news network
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I ended up not booking it but they
booked me for like basically like a like
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a featured background show like with
something with involving Oprah or
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something like that so that was my first
union waiver that was for after and it’s
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a cool like you know i’m working as
union then within eight months of doing
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film and television stuff i ended up
booking my my sag waivers my screen
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actors guild waivers the first 1i booked
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from going online to one of the casting
websites casting networks and if they
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were looking for asians for this for the
film premium rush and would be willing
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to get rained on they had movie ranging
like I submitted and I get caught I
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called my goodness i got my first i
waver and it was it like it it’s just
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such a good feeling like when you’re
working as on union and then you get the
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opportunity to you know do you
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union work it’s pretty awesome so that I
got that couple months after they had
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this this festival kind of like almost
like conventions like a convention for
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actors and it’s called active fest and
they had all these different casting
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directors there there are opportunities
to audition casting directors grant
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movie casting the casting people who had
booked me for premium rush they were
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there so I decided all I don’t wait in
line and update my file and I can thank
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them for booking me for for sag work so
i got up there and the two casting
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directors there to casting directors
there i went up there and said hey like
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you know I you gave me my first side
waiver that’s awesome thank you and I go
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okay that’s cool so you’re not union and
as i get i’m not union and they’re like
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oh did you hear about this other film
because we’re looking for people for it
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was like for safe that film with jason
statham and the other one the sitter
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with Jonah health and cycle i didn’t
know about them that and basically they
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had put me down to be considered for
safe to get a sag waiver for safe and
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for the sitter so I ended up getting
boom boom like sag waiver number to sag
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waiver number three and then I got to
work like the next couple months after
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that like I was a not even like I ended
up working on those two films i got my
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three sag waivers within basically like
like not even a year of doing this whole
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TV and film thing so I became sag
eligible within my first year of doing
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TV and film which a lot of people like
actually met a woman who had been doing
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this for 10
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years and she never became eligible for
sag and I was like wow it’s like I mean
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it’s either i’m really lucky your work
really hard but I wasn’t quite sure but
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whatever was I was very grateful i
became eligible but I held onto that
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eligibility for actually 18 months and
i’ll explain the reason uh but during
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the time that when I was doing the steps
to get to where I am now I kept on
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looking more principled work actually
stopped really doing any background work
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because i want to focus on like really
acting and looking principal roles so I
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had done some off-broadway shows during
that time and taking some classes just
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learn more met casting directors met
agents actually got i started
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freelancing with the with a manager and
an agent within a year with in one
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year’s time as well so i got break i
mean i’m a i-i-i worked my butt off but
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you know it paid off because within one
year already had representation like it
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was freelance but you know I had
somebody like who was able to send me at
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for stuff so during that time before
fast-forward 18 months they merged the
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two actor unions they merged um sag and
emerged after so they made it sag-aftra
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I didn’t want to join sad yet i joined
after because I ended up booking a
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principle for a commercial it was a PSA
and it started Jane Lynch from Glee and
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it was actually through i got called
indirectly by the director because
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during the time that I was still
learning in my whole life working
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background work and stuff like that the
director who booked me on my first
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non-union non-paid commercial within the
first couple of weeks which I started
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doing background stuff it was actually
commercial in spanish he was on smash
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television he called me in for this
because i worked with him about like
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three times on no paying or low paying
gigs but I was just honestly really
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happy to be there so when I first got my
check from doing the my first unit
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in principle job i was as happy as I was
when I worked the first time for him not
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getting paid at all so you know like one
during that time like I had to join the
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union after a because it was a man after
gig the merger happens so I became a
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member of screen actors guild as well
the reason why I didn’t want to join
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screen actors guild yet this because
there was a lot of non-union work
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especially in commercials in New York
City there are so many commercials that
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are non-union that is the reason why so
I just didn’t want to lose out on work
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and right now I am Union I’m half
sag-aftra and I mean it’s tough but I
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mean I’ve still been able like you know
I’m working my way up and I’ve gotten
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some really good auditions
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you know like it took about like two
years for me to get to like a full Union
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status with the two major TV and film
unions but i ended up doing it and Here
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I am now that’s quite a journey
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huh yeah it’s it’s a lot like you know
that that’s what we do here you know
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we’re still you know that this journey
is still continuing because I’m Union
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there’s a not quite as much union work
as there is non-union work but you know
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now because i am sad after i’m eligible
to audition for these pigs are i booked
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my first lead in Sag indie film a couple
years ago which I was just floored like
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I could not believe that because it was
my first lead audition and I just went
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in thinking of not going to get this
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what are you talking about like and then
I end up getting it and I just couldn’t
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believe it you know I taking all these
classes and you know it like everything
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just paid off and my manager Kim junior
with cael j good talent she actually got
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me that and I was just really really
happy I got him and Fabio who’s on her
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assistant like they both like the
co-owner are welcome as the owner and he
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is the I guess the cold manager of the
whole thing they got me the audition and
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I’m just so grateful and I had such a
blast filming that we ended up flying
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to chicago and to Arizona to do the
speaker film and I got to play a
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physicist with two teenage boys it’s
very very artistic film called the unity
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of all things and it’s in a bunch of
different languages throughout the film
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because there’s Cantonese spoken in
there there’s Japanese spoken there is
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English in their spanish it prevent had
its us premiere at the brooklyn academy
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of music which was sold out it was
actually sold out that uh some people
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were willing to stand in the back of the
theater to watch it which was pretty
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cool to see my first feature film my
first feature film his lead get that
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kind of reception and eventually made
its world premiere and Switzerland
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couple years back which I didn’t get to
attend but you know that was really
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really cool and that was that and before
during the time that uh when I was that
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eligible before i became an actual union
member i was working as a featured
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background actor on this this film
called that’s what she said
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starring and hache alia Shawkat from
arrested development and Carrie Preston
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who is one of the stars of true blood
she was the director and honestly I
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really didn’t know who she was at that
time people like oh you know she liked
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the director for this you know she’s
famous unlike cable so I I didn’t know
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she was she was really cool and we were
on set one day and I was supposed to be
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a hairdresser i guess like I was
supposed to be a hairdresser who’s like
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sweeping up and closing up while and his
character is basically like begging to
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come in with like her best friend or
whatever her character’s best friend
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like played by marcia bonus who’s
amazing she’s was also casting director
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and I’m supposed to kick them out like
in a hotel like HR accept a bribe is
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what I was supposed to be like the
character was supposed to play however
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like somehow i don’t know what happened
but one of the production assistants
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came up to me and said oh shit we’re
gonna switch things up switch things
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around we’re actually going to have you
cut the hair meaning that was going to
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be now
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hairdresser who gets the hair of one of
the principal get a principal actors I
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was like oh my goodness out of hair
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he was Marcia bonuses hair that I’ve cut
but it wasn’t really her hair was a
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herpes
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so then I did a few takes and I got you
know like like real like a lot of screen
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time and then during the shoot
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Carrie president asked us ok who’s sag
and none of us were sad because this was
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a non non union job for us we were cast
because we were non-union she was
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basically going to give somebody a line
which means that that would
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automatically make us principal and then
we would end up getting paid the
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principal rate and one of the writers
Kelly over the she was also one of the
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stars of the film she was like oh you’re
rushing Carey was asked asking which one
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of us spoke Chinese and we’ll all three
of us did was all supposed to be like
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chinese a hairdressers and then Kelly
Kelly said to the karaoke Teresa speaks
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Chinese and it’s like all three of us
raise our hands when he asked us like
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when Carrie ask this of any of us spoke
Chinese so i ended up getting a line my
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first speaking like this basically
became my first speaking role in a sag
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feature film with all these stars in it
and i went from like getting paid zero
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dollars as a featured background actor
to getting upgraded to a principal cast
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member like all with hook up like an a
couple hours time I was like I was just
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on cloud died like it was it was just
incredible i just could not believe it
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so like that was my first sad credit the
film ended up going to the sundance film
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festival and it’s green here at a some
film festivals including the soho
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international film festival and I was
really really cool to get the go there
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and see all these stars there i got
invited to the the cast and crew
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screening and that was incredible
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it was so so cool and like when I got
there I just thought when I see Carrie
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I’m just gonna say hey I’m Theresa you
know I was in your film but you know
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when I was there I saw her and she said
oh hi Teresa and I was like oh my god
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Carrie Preston like you know this that
she ended up winning an Emmy Award this
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year by the way your last year so this
now mu
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award winner knew me by first name
because I was like wait I was in her
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film she invited me
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hippo is a like everybody was like
basically she hand-picked to attend the
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the cast and crew screening and carry
Preston’s husband is actually Emmy Award
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winner Michael Emerson who was one of
the stars of lost my my favorite show
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ever and so during the screening I got
to sit between Michael Emerson and the
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director of photography bill Claire who
worked on the film and I was like oh I
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got somebody please pinch me I cannot
believe where I am right now you know so
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that was like that was just unreal and
it’s that was unbelievable and that was
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all within like one year’s time so like
like if you if you work really hard and
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you just like take every opportunity
opportunity that you can take sometimes
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you might end up sitting next to an Emmy
Award winter at a screening to watch
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yourself on the big screen while you’re
on the topic why don’t you tell us what
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other movies you’ve been in AI was in a
film called 10 buck baton and that’s an
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indie film and that end up going to all
these different film festivals and it
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actually won a bunch of awards like for
best narrative in like the New York LA
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Film Festival and like lots of other
festivals now is really really cool the
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other film that I was in the unity of
all things that the one where I was the
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lead and that went all over the world to
Switzerland to Vancouver to New York
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California like everywhere and I was
really really awesome and I’ve just been
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like a bunch of other things i was in
the flash mob for friends with benefits
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and I got the dance right behind justin
timberlake which was kinda cool and I
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got to be in the the NC and also in the
Grand Central Station i actually had to
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go in they had an open call for that and
they were looking for people to dance
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and like basically like you’re just like
freestyle dance with this hip-hop song
393
00:31:08,9 –> 00:31:10,769
they play and I was like oh I can’t be
answered but I was like you know what
394
00:31:10,769 –> 00:31:16,300
I’m just gonna go for it and even though
i am not a dancer at all
395
00:31:16,300 –> 00:31:21,340
I just went for it and they ended up
calling me and I got the dance behind
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crib dead
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00:31:22,300 –> 00:31:26,950
justin timberlake and that was really
really cool and then another lie Keller
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00:31:26,950 –> 00:31:31,480
other random things I can’t quite
remember parade now but there was only
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like basically the big ones that I’ve
done I’ve done some college huber
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00:31:37,390 –> 00:31:44,470
sketches and I have a web series that
I’m working on right now called these
401
00:31:44,470 –> 00:31:49,990
three girls and I’m working and I’m one
of the three girls along with two other
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00:31:49,990 –> 00:31:55,930
very talented actresses Joyce low ball
low god she’s gonna kill me for
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00:31:55,930 –> 00:32:03,160
betraying her last name lankan a login
login oh my god she’s gonna kill me and
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00:32:03,160 –> 00:32:10,150
maciel Hernandez so those are like you
know and then a my fiancé Jerry skid he
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00:32:10,150 –> 00:32:16,780
actually directed the first minisodes
and he also edited the minisodes so he
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will be our editor for the remainder of
the series which is really sweet and
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it’s been like a bunch of a bunch of
things i would probably have to check my
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IMDB if you want me to check my IMDb
know about that’s fine we can that we
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can include that in the show notes
410
00:32:32,440 –> 00:32:37,450
ok so what roblox have you hit along the
way basically when I became sag after
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00:32:37,450 –> 00:32:43,120
there was just all there weren’t as many
opportunities for for Union actors and
412
00:32:43,120 –> 00:32:45,580
also the competition is fierce
413
00:32:45,580 –> 00:32:50,590
I mean one of the auditions I went to
one of the actors i was reading with he
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00:32:50,590 –> 00:32:57,280
was in platoon so I mean that was like
that’s the caliber of factors and talent
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00:32:57,280 –> 00:33:03,910
that i am working with nowadays and I
just any time that I have these big
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00:33:03,910 –> 00:33:07,990
auditions and I see all this person was
underway and we are at the same audition
417
00:33:07,990 –> 00:33:14,230
or this person was in a big Hollywood
blockbuster and they’re the same edition
418
00:33:14,230 –> 00:33:15,130
is me
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00:33:15,130 –> 00:33:20,260
I mean it’s like a lot of like okay like
calm down you’re here for a reason
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00:33:20,800 –> 00:33:25,360
you belong here so it’s a lot of like
that whole like that like a mental game
421
00:33:25,360 –> 00:33:28,449
basically just believing ok
422
00:33:28,450 –> 00:33:33,10
you were meant to do this you are meant
to be here and you should not be
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00:33:33,10 –> 00:33:40,750
intimidated by somebody who was in a an
academy award-winning film because you
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00:33:40,750 –> 00:33:43,120
know what you’re just as awesome as they
are
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00:33:43,120 –> 00:33:47,229
that’s a really great way of looking at
it and a and a humbling way to look at
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00:33:47,230 –> 00:33:53,170
it and I’m sure that they for the most
of them probably feel the same way that
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00:33:53,170 –> 00:33:56,770
you know it’s just an award and day it
just as easily could have been anybody
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00:33:56,770 –> 00:34:01,389
else that started in some movie that
that got that award because there’s so
429
00:34:01,390 –> 00:34:05,920
much more that goes into it than just be
actor themselves it’s it’s the writing
430
00:34:05,920 –> 00:34:09,670
you know that’s the editing it’s
everything from soup to nuts
431
00:34:10,330 –> 00:34:13,449
it could have just been it could’ve been
anybody just happened to be them and
432
00:34:13,449 –> 00:34:18,129
they happen to to do their part really
well but it you know if the if bad
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00:34:18,130 –> 00:34:19,480
editing is in a movie
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00:34:19,480 –> 00:34:24,550
it shines through pretty pretty quickly
oh yeah definitely like now I just watch
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00:34:24,550 –> 00:34:29,410
films while being engaged to an editor I
just view films in a much different way
436
00:34:29,409 –> 00:34:34,60
than I did and just like seeing
behind-the-scenes stuff like I know what
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00:34:34,60 –> 00:34:37,900
makes a good film a good film now and
before I would just watch things and be
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00:34:37,900 –> 00:34:41,50
like oh you know this is entertaining
but now it’s like I look at it with the
439
00:34:41,50 –> 00:34:44,920
much more critical I than I did back in
$YEAR back then so could you share
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00:34:44,920 –> 00:34:52,30
favorite memory favorite memory of mine
would be packing up my bags and getting
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00:34:52,30 –> 00:35:00,370
on the plane to go to chicago knowing
that i was i was flying to the film a
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00:35:00,370 –> 00:35:05,49
movie and I was like oh my god this is
really happening to me this is happening
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00:35:05,50 –> 00:35:05,500
to me
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00:35:05,500 –> 00:35:09,670
this is awesome but you know like we got
to do it again like when we went to
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00:35:09,670 –> 00:35:14,950
Arizona to film with the same film and I
was like wow this is pretty sweet and
446
00:35:14,950 –> 00:35:19,210
you know like getting to see the the
finished product on the big screen
447
00:35:19,210 –> 00:35:23,500
getting to see my role you know what I
we had worked so hard on for over a year
448
00:35:23,500 –> 00:35:28,420
we worked on this film like filming it
and just see the finished product was
449
00:35:28,420 –> 00:35:32,830
just unbelievable and just the reception
we got was great i mean a sold-out
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00:35:32,830 –> 00:35:37,900
audience at the brooklyn academy of
music that was amazing and my mom was
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00:35:37,900 –> 00:35:42,730
there my fiancée was there my sisters
were there and just getting to share
452
00:35:42,730 –> 00:35:44,950
that moment with my family
453
00:35:44,950 –> 00:35:47,980
it was incredible was priceless
454
00:35:47,980 –> 00:35:51,40
so is there any part of your dream that
haven’t quite worked out yeah you right
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00:35:51,40 –> 00:36:00,160
now I still with loved book in episodic
TV show so I’ve had quite like a few
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00:36:00,160 –> 00:36:03,970
auditions for some big shows and I
haven’t booked any of them yet but
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00:36:03,970 –> 00:36:10,959
hopefully i will soon i haven’t booked
any big Hollywood blockbusters though i
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00:36:10,960 –> 00:36:16,570
did get called in to audition for iron
man 3 as a supporting role and that was
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00:36:16,570 –> 00:36:18,520
amazing
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00:36:18,520 –> 00:36:23,110
I didn’t book it but you know knowing
that they wanted me in their casting
461
00:36:23,110 –> 00:36:26,860
office because basically what these
casting directors they are seeing
462
00:36:26,860 –> 00:36:33,640
thousands of headshots and resumes and
they’re only picking maybe maybe 12
463
00:36:33,640 –> 00:36:39,910
people to be seen to get the chance to
audition for the role so to be part of
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00:36:39,910 –> 00:36:41,680
that to get called in
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00:36:41,680 –> 00:36:49,270
that’s I mean that already is is the
victory however you know like the next
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00:36:49,270 –> 00:36:54,670
step is booking those big roles and i’m
still working and still working at it so
467
00:36:54,670 –> 00:36:59,380
hopefully within the next year i’ll get
i’ll put my first episodic so what are
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00:36:59,380 –> 00:37:03,760
your dreams for the future looks like
continue to to work on my craft been
469
00:37:03,760 –> 00:37:09,280
taking some on-camera classes again and
just kind of fine tune everything just
470
00:37:09,280 –> 00:37:13,750
because you should always always be
training because it’s a muscle and you
471
00:37:13,750 –> 00:37:20,80
have to keep on working it out to keep
it keep it in shape so I want to
472
00:37:20,80 –> 00:37:26,259
continue to study with really good
acting features on camera teachers and i
473
00:37:26,260 –> 00:37:31,780
would love to you know book a major
feature film or television show and
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00:37:31,780 –> 00:37:37,900
Miami my ultimate goal though one day is
to be on Broadway that’s been a goal of
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00:37:37,900 –> 00:37:41,800
mine since I was a little girl and I
think once you make it on Broadway you
476
00:37:41,800 –> 00:37:47,320
know that you’ve really made it but
nowadays it’s instead of how back in the
477
00:37:47,320 –> 00:37:53,20
day you had to be legit Broadway actor
before you hit film TV now you have to
478
00:37:53,20 –> 00:37:53,200
be
479
00:37:53,200 –> 00:37:58,359
established within the film and TV world
because you know you have to be able to
480
00:37:58,360 –> 00:38:03,130
sell tickets and you have to have the
kind of fan base so they’re not just
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00:38:03,130 –> 00:38:09,250
casting an unknown you know gone are the
days of you know the unknowns taking
482
00:38:09,250 –> 00:38:13,480
over Broadway and off-broadway you have
to be a name now if you want to end up
483
00:38:13,480 –> 00:38:19,900
making it on Broadway so one day I
intend on being on a Broadway stage
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00:38:19,900 –> 00:38:25,000
singing my heart out for acting my heart
that are both you want to talk about how
485
00:38:25,000 –> 00:38:29,620
hard you have to work just to be able to
keep these dreams going as far as you
486
00:38:29,620 –> 00:38:34,509
know keeping the bills that day it’s
really not easy to be an actor I
487
00:38:34,510 –> 00:38:41,350
currently work two jobs and I have two
more that are basically on the way i’m
488
00:38:41,350 –> 00:38:47,20
basically I work the actor survival jobs
i work as a street promoter in times
489
00:38:47,20 –> 00:38:52,000
square so I promote Broadway and
off-broadway wishes to patrons in times
490
00:38:52,000 –> 00:38:59,680
square the deceased area in all of New
York City and i also work as a clue
491
00:38:59,680 –> 00:39:04,839
master for this really popular
interactive escape game experience
492
00:39:04,840 –> 00:39:10,360
called escape the room NYC so that’s
like and I work those two jobs and those
493
00:39:10,360 –> 00:39:15,190
are both actor friendly and everybody
else is an actor so in case i have any
494
00:39:15,190 –> 00:39:19,720
auditions come up any bookings is
everybody understands like people are
495
00:39:19,720 –> 00:39:23,109
more than willing to help you out it’s
like oh you know I have this audition
496
00:39:23,110 –> 00:39:26,740
can you please cover for me and then I
call you know that’s fine and you know
497
00:39:26,740 –> 00:39:30,700
if anybody else has that like I would
return the favor and stuff like that so
498
00:39:30,700 –> 00:39:36,9
I my work multiple jobs and I’m also
currently training to be a tour guide in
499
00:39:36,10 –> 00:39:42,280
New York City so to be a beneficial York
City expert so i’m studying on up on
500
00:39:42,280 –> 00:39:47,470
that have to get my tour guide license
which is basically the equivalent of be
501
00:39:47,470 –> 00:39:51,490
getting your real estate license so
there’s a lot that goes like you know
502
00:39:51,490 –> 00:39:56,350
that goes into that it’s not very easy
to become a tour guide but i’m planning
503
00:39:56,350 –> 00:39:59,380
on doing an accidental end up having for
jobs because they’re two different
504
00:39:59,380 –> 00:40:04,60
companies that want to work with me in
the tour guide industry so and those are
505
00:40:04,60 –> 00:40:06,308
also active friendly jobs as well
506
00:40:06,309 –> 00:40:10,209
and I’m nothing like you know when
you’re an actor you anywhere performer
507
00:40:10,209 –> 00:40:15,189
you cannot work a nine-to-five because
there’s no way unless you have like a
508
00:40:15,189 –> 00:40:20,410
really really cool boss who’s willing to
let you leave in the middle of the day
509
00:40:20,410 –> 00:40:24,910
to go to an audition and whenever you
look something like a TV show or like
510
00:40:24,910 –> 00:40:29,558
you know like a film and it’s like oh
you know i can’t i can’t work today
511
00:40:29,559 –> 00:40:32,799
you know they’re like okay that’s cool i
mean it’s really rare that happens with
512
00:40:32,799 –> 00:40:36,969
a nine-to-fiver but you know with my
current jobs if I’m like oh I have a
513
00:40:36,969 –> 00:40:41,79
commercial audition today like you know
is I cool if I take off they’re like oh
514
00:40:41,79 –> 00:40:43,569
yeah like will like and I’ll cover you
515
00:40:43,569 –> 00:40:48,699
so that’s how I keep my bills paid by
working multiple jobs so is there any
516
00:40:48,699 –> 00:40:50,49
last thoughts you’d like to share
517
00:40:50,49 –> 00:40:55,269
basically if if you’re doing something
that you don’t love like I mean we have
518
00:40:55,269 –> 00:41:00,788
one life you know like why do it you
know if you feel so passionately about
519
00:41:00,789 –> 00:41:04,539
something like you will do everything
you can to make it work
520
00:41:05,380 –> 00:41:10,809
you know being a performer is not easy
at all and you know some jobs like I
521
00:41:10,809 –> 00:41:14,709
might end up getting a gig that pays me
nothing or I might have a job that pays
522
00:41:14,709 –> 00:41:16,209
me a lot
523
00:41:16,209 –> 00:41:21,249
you have to do what you need to do and I
know that I’ve never financially stable
524
00:41:21,249 –> 00:41:26,678
like I live paycheck to paycheck but the
one thing that like you know a
525
00:41:26,679 –> 00:41:30,369
nine-to-five job like if i were to work
one like that that would not give me
526
00:41:30,369 –> 00:41:34,809
happiness and right now I’m living my
dreams out i’m getting to go to these
527
00:41:34,809 –> 00:41:36,369
amazing auditions
528
00:41:36,369 –> 00:41:42,670
I’ve gotten to work with amazing
directors not even got a chance to work
529
00:41:42,670 –> 00:41:47,769
on music video for the band breaking
benjamin and the director for it he
530
00:41:47,769 –> 00:41:52,598
actually directed budget like britney
spears music videos and like the worked
531
00:41:52,599 –> 00:41:57,309
with paul mccartney and all these people
and that barely paid me anything but you
532
00:41:57,309 –> 00:42:02,49
know i got this amazing opportunity to
work with this like very very famous
533
00:42:02,49 –> 00:42:07,89
director and you know like it’s tough
it’s sometimes you will never get called
534
00:42:07,89 –> 00:42:13,89
you might not get called for like a
month or months and you just got to keep
535
00:42:13,89 –> 00:42:17,259
on plugging away at it you know you got
to keep on hustling and this is
536
00:42:17,259 –> 00:42:19,869
definitely not a career for those who
can
537
00:42:19,869 –> 00:42:24,819
not handle rejection because basically
as a performer you go into an audition
538
00:42:24,819 –> 00:42:29,589
expecting the cap rejected I mean that’s
horrible like you know that’s the nature
539
00:42:29,589 –> 00:42:35,349
of the business but the thing is like
you go in you do your thing and then you
540
00:42:35,349 –> 00:42:39,819
when you walk out the door you just
forget about it and think about about
541
00:42:39,819 –> 00:42:43,960
impressing some other folks you know you
just keep on living your life that way
542
00:42:43,960 –> 00:42:49,329
like we’re just like forget about your
audition and you just go ahead and do
543
00:42:49,329 –> 00:42:52,749
your best and you just keep on plugging
away plugging away
544
00:42:52,749 –> 00:42:58,58
I mean this is the happiest I’ve I’ve
ever been and more happy than when I had
545
00:42:58,59 –> 00:43:02,230
a full-time job with health benefits
because you know one day it will end up
546
00:43:02,230 –> 00:43:03,99
paying off
547
00:43:03,99 –> 00:43:07,809
I’ve already gotten some amazing amazing
opportunities and I would not trade any
548
00:43:07,809 –> 00:43:09,609
of this for the world
549
00:43:09,609 –> 00:43:13,450
I mean it’s tough it’s definitely not
for the faint of heart and not for those
550
00:43:13,450 –> 00:43:19,58
who can’t handle it but if you believe
in something if you have a dream just go
551
00:43:19,59 –> 00:43:23,170
for it you know we have one life just
over just do it you’re gonna end up
552
00:43:23,170 –> 00:43:25,539
being a much happier person in the end
553
00:43:25,539 –> 00:43:29,109
well thank you very much for coming on
the show tree so I really appreciate it
554
00:43:29,109 –> 00:43:33,819
you definitely had some inspiring stuff
to share and i hope to have you on the
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00:43:33,819 –> 00:43:37,808
show again in about a year.more will
check up and see how you’re doing with
556
00:43:37,809 –> 00:43:40,869
your career would love to well thank you
for having me
557
00:43:40,869 –> 00:43:44,19
these are any Facebook Twitter’s
websites like the plug
558
00:43:44,19 –> 00:43:54,910
oh yeah you can check out my website at
a www.taringa.net and you can also check
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00:43:54,910 –> 00:44:03,970
out my IMDB have an IMDB page so that’s
IMDb . and II what is it
560
00:44:03,970 –> 00:44:11,140
backslash I don’t know internets slogan
logos love dogging I don’t know you can
561
00:44:11,140 –> 00:44:13,89
find on IMDb as well
562
00:44:13,89 –> 00:44:18,130
also I’m check out my web series that is
currently in the making on these three
563
00:44:18,130 –> 00:44:23,619
girls which is on the YouTube these
three girls TV they’ll find on youtube
564
00:44:23,619 –> 00:44:29,230
and i also have a youtube channel as
well so you can find me just text my
565
00:44:29,230 –> 00:44:30,570
name on youtube and
566
00:44:30,570 –> 00:44:33,990
popped right up i’ll put them all in the
show notes
567
00:44:33,990 –> 00:44:37,319
alright well thank you very much again
for coming on the show and i hope to
568
00:44:37,320 –> 00:44:41,850
talk to you soon all right we’ll talk to
you soon thank you thank you for joining
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00:44:41,850 –> 00:44:47,250
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571
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