WEBVTT - Stephanie Beatriz 0:00:15.316 --> 0:00:22.756 Pushkin. I don't normally have people introduce themselves here on 0:00:22.836 --> 0:00:26.196 Backstage Pass, but I had to share this one with 0:00:26.236 --> 0:00:29.636 you because well, in a second you'll see why. My 0:00:29.716 --> 0:00:33.556 name is Stephanie Beatriz. I'm an actor. You might know 0:00:33.676 --> 0:00:36.916 me from such programs as Brooklyn nine nine. I play 0:00:36.996 --> 0:00:40.596 Rosa Diaz on there, and I also recently played Carla 0:00:40.676 --> 0:00:44.196 and In the Heights and Eric is my voice teacher. 0:00:44.356 --> 0:00:48.396 You left out one important thing. Oh what's that you said? 0:00:48.396 --> 0:00:55.116 I'm an actor and I'm a singer. Yeah, oh my god. 0:00:55.796 --> 0:00:57.756 Very hard to sort of wrap my brain around the 0:00:57.796 --> 0:01:00.916 fact that I can sing still, but you can and 0:01:01.036 --> 0:01:07.596 you've done two musicals. So yes, this is Backstage Pass 0:01:07.716 --> 0:01:11.756 with Eric Vitrop. I'm Eric Vitro. I have to say 0:01:11.956 --> 0:01:14.716 I love my job because I get to coach some 0:01:14.756 --> 0:01:18.276 of the most talented and famous singers working today. On 0:01:18.316 --> 0:01:21.356 this show, I talked to them about their lives, their craft, 0:01:21.436 --> 0:01:23.396 and what it really takes to make it big in 0:01:23.436 --> 0:01:28.356 the music business. I work with a lot of singers. 0:01:28.396 --> 0:01:31.276 But as you heard, even though Stephanie's been in musical 0:01:31.316 --> 0:01:34.916 features like In the Heights and the animated Disney musical Acanto, 0:01:35.436 --> 0:01:39.076 Stephanie didn't consider herself a singer. She didn't call herself one. 0:01:39.396 --> 0:01:42.636 To be honest, she was surprisingly apprehensive about her singing. 0:01:43.116 --> 0:01:45.796 At first. She wasn't even sure she should audition for 0:01:45.916 --> 0:01:49.996 In the Heights. I remember my friend Melissa Fumero from 0:01:49.996 --> 0:01:52.276 Brooklyn nine nine saying, you have to audition for this, 0:01:52.436 --> 0:01:54.956 you have to, And I was like, I'm not a singer. 0:01:54.996 --> 0:01:57.956 They're going to choose singers like Adam, what am I doing? 0:01:57.996 --> 0:02:00.116 I'm not a singer. Have you heard that track the 0:02:00.236 --> 0:02:03.756 Carlo things? It's not easy. She was like, get a 0:02:03.836 --> 0:02:07.556 voice lesson, get prepared, go in there and do your best. 0:02:07.876 --> 0:02:10.796 So you called me yes, And then I remember calling 0:02:10.796 --> 0:02:13.116 and being very nervous. So I was like, I don't know, 0:02:13.396 --> 0:02:17.436 I haven't taken a voiceless in college like years. You 0:02:17.476 --> 0:02:19.796 were a little like, you know, I'm not really a 0:02:19.996 --> 0:02:23.636 real singer. They probably need great singers for this and 0:02:23.676 --> 0:02:26.636 all of that, And in my head I'm thinking, if 0:02:26.676 --> 0:02:28.876 I say yes to this person, it means I'm saying 0:02:28.916 --> 0:02:32.516 no to that person, right, So I think I remember 0:02:32.636 --> 0:02:34.436 the first half of the call going, oh, should I 0:02:34.436 --> 0:02:36.876 recommend her too? Who should I tell her? She? Because 0:02:36.876 --> 0:02:41.116 I don't have time but you were so charismatic, so funny, 0:02:41.276 --> 0:02:43.516 you had such a great personality. I so enjoyed talking 0:02:43.516 --> 0:02:46.196 to you. I was like, Oh, what the hell? And 0:02:46.356 --> 0:02:49.756 then you came in and I don't get this feeling 0:02:49.836 --> 0:02:54.556 all the time, but I kind of thought, Oh, this 0:02:54.636 --> 0:02:57.476 is gonna work. She's gonna do it. Like I actually remember, 0:02:57.596 --> 0:02:59.836 and I think I said it to you too, that 0:02:59.956 --> 0:03:02.356 I have a really good feeling about this roll of 0:03:02.436 --> 0:03:08.436 Carla in the Heights you did and boom it happened. Yeah, 0:03:08.476 --> 0:03:11.476 what do you remember about that process? What I really 0:03:11.516 --> 0:03:14.396 remember about the first lesson was that you talked to 0:03:14.436 --> 0:03:16.876 me about singing the song like it was a monologue, 0:03:17.396 --> 0:03:20.636 and it was so helpful to me because I was 0:03:20.676 --> 0:03:23.716 so nervous about the sounds coming out of my mouth. 0:03:24.276 --> 0:03:26.156 I didn't have a lot of technique at the time, 0:03:26.236 --> 0:03:29.276 Like I was quickly learning from what we were covering 0:03:29.316 --> 0:03:31.916 in the hour that I spent with you that first time. 0:03:32.756 --> 0:03:36.516 But you talked about Emily Blunt and how you gave 0:03:36.556 --> 0:03:38.836 her some notes that were the same notes that you 0:03:38.836 --> 0:03:41.316 were giving me, which was like, think about what your 0:03:41.476 --> 0:03:45.956 character desires in this song and why that might connect 0:03:45.996 --> 0:03:50.196 to where the notes are going. And I was like dull, 0:03:50.436 --> 0:03:52.676 you know, like it was like someone just opened a 0:03:52.716 --> 0:03:56.276 door and was like, over here some new tools to use, 0:03:56.436 --> 0:04:00.996 and it was really extremely helpful. I remember that being like, 0:04:01.756 --> 0:04:04.756 oh my god, I'm way less worried about the sound 0:04:04.876 --> 0:04:08.356 and I'm way more invested in what I'm doing as 0:04:08.396 --> 0:04:11.716 an actor, and I think that's what got me the role. Well, 0:04:11.756 --> 0:04:14.196 I'm so happy to hear that that was helpful. You know. 0:04:14.436 --> 0:04:17.876 I say that truly everybody, because everyone's voice always sounds 0:04:17.916 --> 0:04:20.436 better when they stopped listening and thinking about it, right, 0:04:20.916 --> 0:04:23.116 and especially in your case, because I thought, well, she's 0:04:23.116 --> 0:04:25.516 a really good actress, so she's going to respond to 0:04:26.756 --> 0:04:29.236 thinking about this as an actor as opposed to as 0:04:29.236 --> 0:04:32.196 a singer. And it's funny you bring up Emily because 0:04:32.236 --> 0:04:36.916 she was even more reticent about auditioning than you. Or 0:04:36.996 --> 0:04:38.956 she was like, what a waste of time. I'm wasting 0:04:38.996 --> 0:04:41.916 your time, I'm wasting my time. And then she started singing. 0:04:41.996 --> 0:04:44.156 I was like, oh, she has a beautiful voice. Then 0:04:44.196 --> 0:04:47.236 she did Into the Woods and then became Mary Pop 0:04:47.756 --> 0:04:49.996 and with you you did Into the Heights and now 0:04:50.236 --> 0:04:54.156 are Disney Princess. I mean, it just shows you that 0:04:54.356 --> 0:04:57.476 you can't hold yourself back. You can't make those decisions. 0:04:57.516 --> 0:05:01.796 If someone sees something in you, take it in, absorb it, 0:05:01.996 --> 0:05:05.516 go with it, don't fight them on it. Yeah, your 0:05:05.636 --> 0:05:09.076 voice has been such a huge part of your career obviously, 0:05:09.836 --> 0:05:13.436 and so like when you're doing different people like Rosadeaz 0:05:13.516 --> 0:05:17.036 or Carla, what do you think about beforehand? Do you 0:05:17.076 --> 0:05:19.836 spend a lot of time thinking about what each character 0:05:19.956 --> 0:05:21.916 is going to sound like? For me, at least it 0:05:21.956 --> 0:05:24.276 comes more in the rehearsal process or like in the 0:05:24.356 --> 0:05:28.756 process of starting to work with the other actors and 0:05:28.796 --> 0:05:31.596 see like what the fit is. Sometimes I have like 0:05:31.596 --> 0:05:34.236 a really strong take on it. Like I think for 0:05:34.396 --> 0:05:36.996 Carla during in the Heights, I knew I wanted to 0:05:36.996 --> 0:05:40.436 do something like much higher higher and pitch higher in 0:05:40.516 --> 0:05:43.596 pitch yes, because she sort of lives in this place 0:05:43.636 --> 0:05:46.836 of like she lives in the top of her head, right, 0:05:46.956 --> 0:05:49.636 meaning that she kind of lives in this like floaty. 0:05:49.716 --> 0:05:52.316 I'm involved, but I'm also like half of my brain 0:05:52.476 --> 0:05:55.596 is maybe somewhere else half of this time. You know, Well, 0:05:55.636 --> 0:05:57.876 there's a funny line in the song where she doesn't 0:05:57.916 --> 0:06:00.116 get she doesn't get what's going on. Yeah, you know, 0:06:00.316 --> 0:06:03.196 she doesn't always get what's going on? Yeah, I mean 0:06:03.236 --> 0:06:07.276 that happens multiple times, right, Like it happens in the 0:06:07.276 --> 0:06:10.916 beauty salon, it happens in the lyrics. Come on, I 0:06:10.956 --> 0:06:18.436 don't think I know what you mean. And then it 0:06:18.516 --> 0:06:22.956 happens where she she's been witnessed the same as everyone 0:06:22.996 --> 0:06:25.996 else to Usnavi and Vanessa's relationship, and she has to 0:06:25.996 --> 0:06:30.876 have it directly pointed out to her. And then she's like, wow, 0:06:31.636 --> 0:06:34.996 now that you mentioned that's sexual attention, it's easy to see. 0:06:35.676 --> 0:06:37.996 I love that. The way that he wrote it is 0:06:38.036 --> 0:06:41.636 so indicative of what that character is. It's like totally 0:06:41.916 --> 0:06:43.636 do do do do do do do do do do 0:06:43.636 --> 0:06:46.876 do do? So she's like adding it. You can see 0:06:46.876 --> 0:06:48.836 her doing a math, you know, and you can hear 0:06:48.876 --> 0:06:52.196 her doing the math, which is really cool. Exactly exactly. 0:06:52.476 --> 0:06:55.196 It's so sweet. There's something very sweet about it. So 0:06:55.236 --> 0:06:57.076 for me, I was like, well, she probably lives and 0:06:57.076 --> 0:06:59.316 like got much higher. Such a good choice, such a 0:06:59.356 --> 0:07:02.356 good choice. Yeah, and for Rosa than Brooklyn ninety nine, 0:07:02.476 --> 0:07:05.836 the opposite, right, I mean, yes, she does not suffer fools. 0:07:05.876 --> 0:07:08.316 She does not. And also like side note, this is 0:07:08.476 --> 0:07:10.756 something that I don't talk about very much. But when 0:07:10.756 --> 0:07:14.196 I auditioned for the pilot, I was teaching workout classes 0:07:14.396 --> 0:07:19.516 in Hollywood, and I was yelling and using my voice 0:07:19.516 --> 0:07:22.996 a lot, and so it was raspy. When I went 0:07:23.036 --> 0:07:25.956 in for that audition, it was raspy, and I thought, 0:07:25.996 --> 0:07:28.916 how am I gonna like work with this a little bit? 0:07:29.036 --> 0:07:31.316 And so it sounded better to me if I placed 0:07:31.356 --> 0:07:33.636 it just a tiny bit lower, not as low as 0:07:33.676 --> 0:07:37.396 I eventually placed the Rosa voice, but a little bit 0:07:37.476 --> 0:07:41.036 lower in my register helped me sound stronger in the auditions, 0:07:41.196 --> 0:07:44.156 because I auditioned originally for the Amy Santiago role, and 0:07:44.156 --> 0:07:46.116 then they called me back for the Amy role and 0:07:46.236 --> 0:07:49.356 for the Rosa role, so I wanted to differentiate between 0:07:49.356 --> 0:07:52.476 those two two and so for Rosa, I just placed 0:07:52.516 --> 0:07:54.756 it a little bit lower in my register. So she 0:07:54.956 --> 0:07:57.876 talks a lot deeper than I do. She's very straightforward. 0:07:57.916 --> 0:07:59.956 She got and talks on this register, and she doesn't 0:07:59.956 --> 0:08:02.636 suffer fools. She thinks everyone's an idiot. Well, I plans 0:08:02.676 --> 0:08:05.076 on Saturday too, I'm having dinner with my parents. So 0:08:05.996 --> 0:08:08.596 you don't even like your parents. You call them smiley, 0:08:08.636 --> 0:08:11.396 moral and hug freaks. Plans or plans, I'm a badass 0:08:11.396 --> 0:08:15.036 and I'm an anarchist. So once you determined that that 0:08:15.156 --> 0:08:17.516 was Rosan, like you really go, Okay, this is who 0:08:17.556 --> 0:08:20.196 she is. I love this, this is her. Do you 0:08:20.836 --> 0:08:23.556 do anything vocally to prep for that or do you 0:08:23.636 --> 0:08:26.556 just go in and it just happens. I did not 0:08:27.196 --> 0:08:30.236 prep for it, and it caught up with me at 0:08:30.236 --> 0:08:32.756 a certain point. It caught up with me. I think 0:08:32.836 --> 0:08:36.316 like second or third season. It was like uncomfortable. Sometimes 0:08:36.916 --> 0:08:39.396 I can slide into it really easily now because I 0:08:39.436 --> 0:08:43.836 know where it lives comfortably, right, But there was a 0:08:43.836 --> 0:08:46.036 point where, and I think it was like coming back 0:08:46.076 --> 0:08:48.836 to the show after like the break, because we shoot 0:08:48.876 --> 0:08:50.396 for x amount of weeks and then we have a 0:08:50.476 --> 0:08:52.276 break while they decide whether or not they're going to 0:08:52.716 --> 0:08:56.436 kill us or not, you know, and then coming back 0:08:56.476 --> 0:08:58.076 it would be like, oh no, what is this voice? 0:08:58.116 --> 0:09:00.676 Like where is it? Over time, I'd sort of tried 0:09:00.676 --> 0:09:03.396 to like train myself to like slide back into it easily, 0:09:03.396 --> 0:09:05.836 and now it's like second nature. I don't need to 0:09:05.836 --> 0:09:07.956 do that. But there was a point where I realized, like, 0:09:08.396 --> 0:09:10.476 you have to think about this a little bit more. Yeah, 0:09:10.596 --> 0:09:12.316 I'm glad we talked about that because I do think 0:09:12.356 --> 0:09:14.596 people need to think about that, Like, if you are 0:09:14.676 --> 0:09:17.876 going to do an unusual character voice, sometimes you should 0:09:17.876 --> 0:09:21.796 really warm up your voice, do exercises, practice doing it, 0:09:21.876 --> 0:09:25.036 build up a strength and a stamina to be able 0:09:25.036 --> 0:09:29.276 to do it totally, especially with I think accents, and 0:09:29.436 --> 0:09:33.756 people don't think of accents as related to singing, but 0:09:33.876 --> 0:09:37.276 they are because it's so much about sound. Where the 0:09:37.316 --> 0:09:40.596 sound is in your mouth yea, and what sounds natural 0:09:40.596 --> 0:09:44.356 to an audience, you know, like if you don't practice that, 0:09:44.596 --> 0:09:47.236 you will say your hard are on stage when you're 0:09:47.236 --> 0:09:51.316 not supposed to. I just will. Stephanie sounds confident about 0:09:51.316 --> 0:09:53.916 her voice and her skills now, but she was insecure 0:09:53.996 --> 0:09:56.396 about singing for a long time. She told me it 0:09:56.476 --> 0:09:59.036 all started back in middle school. I went to a 0:09:59.036 --> 0:10:02.516 public school in Houston, and my school had three electives. 0:10:02.516 --> 0:10:07.196 They had acquire art and speech and debate. And art 0:10:07.236 --> 0:10:09.036 was very expensive because you had to have money for 0:10:09.116 --> 0:10:11.676 all these like supplies, So that was kind of out 0:10:11.676 --> 0:10:14.276 of the question. Choir The first day that I was 0:10:14.316 --> 0:10:16.516 in there, literally the first day that I was in there, 0:10:16.556 --> 0:10:18.356 the teacher was like, I'm not sure that you have 0:10:20.156 --> 0:10:24.916 the best voice, so I would consider switching your elective. 0:10:25.756 --> 0:10:28.996 She literally pulled me aside outside that to me, so 0:10:29.076 --> 0:10:31.116 I switched. I switched to speech and debate because I 0:10:31.156 --> 0:10:35.316 was mortified. And in speech and Debate, that was the 0:10:35.356 --> 0:10:38.916 first time that I sort of started acting. The speech 0:10:38.916 --> 0:10:41.916 and debate class would do like a play, and they 0:10:41.996 --> 0:10:46.236 did a melodrama and I was cast as the bad 0:10:46.276 --> 0:10:48.196 guy in the melodrama. So I wore like a top 0:10:48.236 --> 0:10:51.676 hat and a mustache and it was really fun. I 0:10:51.756 --> 0:10:54.436 had a blast. I had such a blast. I bet 0:10:54.716 --> 0:10:57.996 we had like three performances. You know, six and seventh 0:10:57.996 --> 0:11:00.636 and eighth graders all go to the auditorium and watched 0:11:00.676 --> 0:11:04.116 the performance. And I remember the next day at school 0:11:05.116 --> 0:11:07.156 there was a boy in my science class who had 0:11:07.196 --> 0:11:09.156 never talked to me before, and he came up to 0:11:09.196 --> 0:11:12.516 my desk and was like, Hey, your brother was really 0:11:12.516 --> 0:11:15.356 funny in that play. You gotta tell him. I was like, 0:11:16.076 --> 0:11:18.036 and I didn't know. You know, that was my first 0:11:18.076 --> 0:11:22.876 experience with like, oh, I fooled you. Wow, I really 0:11:22.916 --> 0:11:25.116 deeply fooled you. Because you've been in classes with me 0:11:25.676 --> 0:11:29.156 since sixth grade. Now we're in seventh grade. You've seen 0:11:29.236 --> 0:11:32.036 me every day in your science class, and I fooled you, 0:11:32.116 --> 0:11:34.276 and I made you laugh, and I made you come 0:11:34.396 --> 0:11:38.276 up to me to communicate to my non existent brother 0:11:38.516 --> 0:11:41.356 that you liked what I did in the play. What 0:11:41.476 --> 0:11:44.276 a light bulb moment. Yeah, it really was doing a 0:11:44.396 --> 0:11:47.036 movie like in the Heights and then becoming a latinox 0:11:47.476 --> 0:11:50.716 Disney princess. What would you say to that teacher? Now? 0:11:51.636 --> 0:11:54.236 I think I would take her a side gently and 0:11:54.516 --> 0:11:57.836 not in front of her whole class, or like send 0:11:57.876 --> 0:12:00.276 her an email or something and say I would think 0:12:00.316 --> 0:12:04.676 twice about how you pose things to students that might 0:12:04.796 --> 0:12:09.436 take them really seriously. But also thank you, because yes, 0:12:09.636 --> 0:12:12.916 you booted me out of your choir and I found 0:12:12.956 --> 0:12:15.916 my way to a theater. So yes, you probably got 0:12:15.916 --> 0:12:18.276 so much more out of it I think I did. Yeah, 0:12:18.316 --> 0:12:20.316 I'm just like thrilled you didn't let it hold you 0:12:20.356 --> 0:12:22.356 back or stop you from singing the rest of your life. 0:12:22.396 --> 0:12:24.356 Because if I could think of a few choice things 0:12:24.396 --> 0:12:26.436 to say to her, and maybe I'll hunt her down 0:12:26.476 --> 0:12:30.516 and say, well, you know, that just really struck to 0:12:30.676 --> 0:12:34.396 my core, you saying that, because my father used to 0:12:34.396 --> 0:12:36.636 always say he had heard me singing along with some 0:12:36.716 --> 0:12:39.236 TV commercial when I was three and said I was 0:12:39.556 --> 0:12:41.956 out of key, off key, I was out of tune, 0:12:42.516 --> 0:12:45.836 and he wouldn't let go of it, like he held 0:12:45.916 --> 0:12:49.716 onto that thing for years. And he did get me 0:12:49.756 --> 0:12:51.956 a piano and gave me piano lessons, so I'll give 0:12:51.996 --> 0:12:54.156 him that. But he was like, stay away from anything 0:12:54.196 --> 0:12:56.716 singing because like, you don't have an ear for it. 0:12:57.116 --> 0:13:01.596 And I don't know what inside of me got me 0:13:01.636 --> 0:13:04.516 to keep going because he was so negative. And then 0:13:04.556 --> 0:13:07.636 when I would watch people on TV sometimes because I 0:13:07.676 --> 0:13:09.996 knew right away, I say, oh, I'd love to play 0:13:10.036 --> 0:13:12.116 the piano for them, or I'd love to give them 0:13:12.196 --> 0:13:15.476 some notes, like I'm thinking, like even as a kid, 0:13:15.556 --> 0:13:17.676 I used to think that, and he go, what makes 0:13:17.756 --> 0:13:21.396 you think You're gonna get to Hollywood and meet these people? 0:13:21.996 --> 0:13:25.596 And somehow, if you have that thing inside of you, 0:13:25.596 --> 0:13:28.276 you have to listen to it. Yes, it is about 0:13:28.356 --> 0:13:30.996 honoring it and trusting it and allowing yourself to listen 0:13:30.996 --> 0:13:33.076 to it and not let other people drown it out, 0:13:33.836 --> 0:13:37.796 especially people who are these big figures in your life, 0:13:37.836 --> 0:13:40.996 like teachers, like parents, like you know, like people you 0:13:41.036 --> 0:13:43.236 look up to and say like, oh, it's not for you, 0:13:43.676 --> 0:13:46.756 right if that is painful to you to have somebody 0:13:46.756 --> 0:13:50.636 say like, that's not for you. If there's pain there, 0:13:50.956 --> 0:13:53.076 I think that that's a sign of like, oh that 0:13:53.196 --> 0:13:55.516 must be for me, because it's that it costs me 0:13:55.596 --> 0:13:59.236 something to hear that. Oh that's a great point. Well, 0:13:59.276 --> 0:14:02.796 I've observed with you that even when like the music 0:14:02.876 --> 0:14:05.516 is challenging, like when you get a new song, like 0:14:05.836 --> 0:14:09.796 for example, when Kantos songs were coming, you were always like, oh, yeah, 0:14:09.796 --> 0:14:12.876 this is can be challenging, but you never backed away 0:14:12.876 --> 0:14:14.996 from it in any way. And I thought that was 0:14:15.036 --> 0:14:17.956 such an admirable quality that you were like, Yeah, I'm 0:14:17.956 --> 0:14:19.516 gonna do the best I can. I'm gonna go for this, 0:14:19.596 --> 0:14:23.876 and I'm gonna make it happen. Thank you, stay right there. 0:14:24.156 --> 0:14:27.196 Next on Backstage Pass, Stephanie and I will talk about 0:14:27.236 --> 0:14:30.476 the biggest challenge she faced while working on Disney's and Kanto, 0:14:30.916 --> 0:14:47.836 singing with an unexpected partner. Welcome back to Backstage Pass. 0:14:48.436 --> 0:14:51.476 So Stephanie and I worked together for In the Heights 0:14:51.676 --> 0:14:54.716 and then we started working on Disney's and Kanto. In 0:14:54.756 --> 0:14:57.676 the movie, Stephanie plays the lead role of Mirabelle, a 0:14:57.716 --> 0:15:01.436 fifteen year old Colombian girl, but pretty soon after she 0:15:01.556 --> 0:15:04.796 started recording, she found out she had a new singing partner. 0:15:05.556 --> 0:15:09.196 I didn't know that I was pregnant until we I 0:15:09.196 --> 0:15:13.076 had already done dialogue and stuff before I found out, 0:15:13.156 --> 0:15:15.476 and then I found out and was like, like what 0:15:15.556 --> 0:15:18.716 do we do? And it didn't affect me for a while, 0:15:19.436 --> 0:15:21.236 at least singing wise. It didn't affect me for a 0:15:21.236 --> 0:15:24.956 while until really like this last what they called the 0:15:25.116 --> 0:15:28.076 third trimester, so like that's sort of when it started 0:15:28.076 --> 0:15:32.516 really being like, whoa, this is different? Dumb, dumb? Yeah, no, 0:15:32.676 --> 0:15:34.676 I know. You know, it's funny because I think of 0:15:34.716 --> 0:15:37.756 it as you carrying two people along with you. You've 0:15:37.756 --> 0:15:41.236 got this baby inside that you're carrying, but you've been 0:15:41.396 --> 0:15:45.516 carrying and helping Mirabelle. Yeah to you know, so it's like, 0:15:45.876 --> 0:15:48.556 how interesting that you're doing both at the same time. 0:15:48.676 --> 0:15:52.076 It is really wild. You know, we should talk about 0:15:52.436 --> 0:15:56.596 Obviously there were new challenges singing, yes, as the pregnancy 0:15:56.836 --> 0:15:59.396 went on. Yes, So would you like to talk about 0:15:59.396 --> 0:16:03.076 some of them because you felt them. I was, you know, 0:16:03.156 --> 0:16:05.316 I was trying to be empathetic. Yeah, but I'm not 0:16:05.436 --> 0:16:07.916 feeling and I don't know what it feels like. So 0:16:07.956 --> 0:16:09.596 I would try to think if I ate a lot 0:16:09.636 --> 0:16:11.796 one day and I'd be really stuff to go. Maybe 0:16:11.796 --> 0:16:14.196 this is what feels like I'm having trouble breathing. This 0:16:14.276 --> 0:16:16.596 is what it must be like very similarity to tell me. 0:16:16.876 --> 0:16:19.756 I think one of the biggest things, and that was surprising, 0:16:20.676 --> 0:16:24.236 was breath. One of the things that we work on 0:16:24.596 --> 0:16:29.396 was like diaforumatic breathing, right like inhaling and then exhaling 0:16:29.516 --> 0:16:32.636 while you're saying to allow the breath to support the sound. 0:16:33.076 --> 0:16:35.676 At a certain point, it was holding the longer notes 0:16:35.916 --> 0:16:40.796 and like very quickly, it was like I would inhale 0:16:41.076 --> 0:16:43.196 and then when I would exhale and sing the note, 0:16:43.276 --> 0:16:46.516 I could feel where the baby was inside me, which 0:16:46.596 --> 0:16:49.516 was such a trip. I don't think I've ever heard 0:16:49.516 --> 0:16:52.476 anyone say that. Because you said I feel an elbow, Yes, 0:16:52.756 --> 0:16:56.116 I could feel like, oh, that's a shoulder, Like that's 0:16:56.116 --> 0:16:59.036 a shoulder and that's an elbow. And sometimes when we 0:16:59.036 --> 0:17:01.836 were doing those exercises, when we were holding those long breasts, 0:17:01.876 --> 0:17:03.876 the baby would let me know like I don't have 0:17:04.036 --> 0:17:07.036 enough space, and it would shove into a side or 0:17:07.156 --> 0:17:09.996 move a leg. That was like please give me more space, 0:17:10.116 --> 0:17:14.756 you know. Wow. So towards the beginning of singing the songs, 0:17:14.756 --> 0:17:17.596 for in Gonto, it was really fun to sing through 0:17:17.716 --> 0:17:20.476 the entire song during the recording session. You know, we 0:17:20.516 --> 0:17:24.036 would break it up obviously, like do smaller chunks and 0:17:24.116 --> 0:17:25.916 work on the smaller chunks and see what's going to 0:17:25.996 --> 0:17:28.676 be best for storytelling. But then at the end of 0:17:28.676 --> 0:17:31.476 the session we'll go through the whole song just for fun. 0:17:32.596 --> 0:17:36.036 There's actually no way at this point in the pregnancy, 0:17:36.116 --> 0:17:39.396 which is like quite late, there's actually no physical way 0:17:39.396 --> 0:17:42.516 for me to get through the entire song because I 0:17:42.596 --> 0:17:45.556 don't have enough breath to make it through the whole 0:17:45.596 --> 0:17:49.436 song in one chunk, which is like, sorry for my language, 0:17:49.436 --> 0:17:52.036 but it's a mind fuck because like you go, oh, Noah, 0:17:52.076 --> 0:17:55.836 does that mean that I'm not good? Am I failing people? 0:17:55.956 --> 0:17:58.276 Because I can't do the thing that I want to 0:17:58.276 --> 0:18:00.276 be able to do so badly, which is like sing 0:18:00.276 --> 0:18:03.796 this song from front to end and give the performance 0:18:03.796 --> 0:18:07.036 that I want to fully give. And the answer is 0:18:07.076 --> 0:18:10.396 like somewhere in the middle, which is no, it doesn't 0:18:10.876 --> 0:18:12.676 let me speak up about Yeah, let me give you 0:18:12.716 --> 0:18:16.316 the answer. No, it's ridiculous, But I'm glad you said that, 0:18:16.356 --> 0:18:18.836 because I think people think those kind of things about 0:18:19.276 --> 0:18:22.716 various things in their life, and the truth is it's 0:18:22.756 --> 0:18:26.236 been the opposite. Everybody has been so impressed that you 0:18:26.316 --> 0:18:29.316 have done such a great job. Well, I don't want 0:18:29.316 --> 0:18:32.476 to say despite being pregnant, because that's kind of a negative, 0:18:32.516 --> 0:18:35.156 but it's true. Everyone's so impressed that you were able 0:18:35.196 --> 0:18:38.036 to do what you did do so instead of anyone 0:18:38.116 --> 0:18:40.356 going out or disappointed, she's not saying it from top 0:18:40.396 --> 0:18:44.996 to bottom, which very rarely do people record that way. Anyway, 0:18:45.196 --> 0:18:48.556 you were doing big chunks of the song and it 0:18:48.596 --> 0:18:51.676 was great, and I think everybody was so thrilled and 0:18:51.756 --> 0:18:54.076 happy that you never you never canceled. You never said 0:18:54.116 --> 0:18:56.276 I can't do this. You never said I need to 0:18:56.316 --> 0:18:58.636 get a break. Oh what was me? I need to 0:18:58.676 --> 0:19:02.516 sit down? Oh I need a break. Someone massaged my feet. 0:19:02.836 --> 0:19:05.956 I mean, there was never a diva moment or anything. 0:19:06.316 --> 0:19:10.076 If people didn't know you were pregnant, nobody would be 0:19:10.116 --> 0:19:13.596 the wiser because you saying through it so beautiful, great 0:19:13.636 --> 0:19:15.956 to hear. So yeah, so let me just put an 0:19:16.076 --> 0:19:21.036 end in that game. I was amazed because I did 0:19:21.076 --> 0:19:25.956 get to see you getting a little larger time did yeah, 0:19:25.996 --> 0:19:27.916 And I was like, how is she? That's why I 0:19:27.956 --> 0:19:30.236 would ask you, like, can you bend over on this 0:19:30.316 --> 0:19:33.276 exercise because well, the truth was like toward toward the 0:19:33.356 --> 0:19:35.116 end there like I couldn't been but I didn't want 0:19:35.116 --> 0:19:37.756 to just take anything for granted, like, oh, she'll be 0:19:37.756 --> 0:19:40.036 fine with dad. I was like, well, can you do this? 0:19:40.076 --> 0:19:43.236 And yeah, and then we just worked around everything. I 0:19:43.276 --> 0:19:48.636 think the internet is helpful sometimes you learned a lot research. Yes, 0:19:48.916 --> 0:19:51.596 I sent you a study that I found. I found 0:19:51.636 --> 0:19:55.556 some exercises, and you know, I started going to physical 0:19:55.596 --> 0:19:58.356 therapy just like on the side for the pregnancy, and 0:19:58.436 --> 0:20:01.516 I asked the physical therapist. I was like, I'm worried 0:20:01.556 --> 0:20:04.196 about She was like, no, you're fine. Like I've been 0:20:04.236 --> 0:20:07.716 watching you. We've been working on stuff. Your abdominal muscles 0:20:07.716 --> 0:20:10.596 are strong, you can handle it. Go for it. Don't 0:20:10.596 --> 0:20:13.876 worry about like someone's gonna snap or break, you know, 0:20:13.996 --> 0:20:18.076 like it's not. Your body's built to do this. You're strong, 0:20:18.436 --> 0:20:20.756 you can do it. Yeah. Well, I kept saying I 0:20:20.836 --> 0:20:23.316 was convinced it was helping you. I thought it might be, 0:20:23.596 --> 0:20:27.196 but I certainly feel like way more connected to my body. 0:20:27.236 --> 0:20:32.156 I think that's the thing about singing lessons. They connect 0:20:32.196 --> 0:20:35.116 you to yourself, you know, they really do, Like some 0:20:35.156 --> 0:20:39.316 people connect in yoga. Some people connect through sports, but singing, 0:20:39.356 --> 0:20:41.756 I think, is like there's so many parts of your 0:20:41.796 --> 0:20:45.796 body that are working together in unison to create sound, 0:20:46.436 --> 0:20:50.756 and you become really aware of what your body is doing. 0:20:51.276 --> 0:20:53.916 Why are your shoulders up by your ears? Like? What's 0:20:53.956 --> 0:20:56.156 going on with your chest? You know? Like how come 0:20:56.276 --> 0:20:59.956 your neck is all tight? Like right? You know, it's 0:20:59.956 --> 0:21:02.636 like all of it starts to make you go like, oh, 0:21:02.636 --> 0:21:05.196 why am I doing that? Wow? I'm carrying tension in 0:21:05.236 --> 0:21:08.076 a lot of places. You know. Well, By the way, 0:21:08.116 --> 0:21:10.796 if you do feel like you're going into labor, I 0:21:10.836 --> 0:21:13.116 will drive you right now to the house quid. But 0:21:13.156 --> 0:21:17.556 I'm going to keep recording because fantastic with I was 0:21:17.596 --> 0:21:19.796 thinking this point, if she goes into labor, that'd be 0:21:19.836 --> 0:21:22.396 great for the podcast. Oh my god, that's so funny. 0:21:22.516 --> 0:21:24.556 That's what I was thinking. But so I don't want 0:21:24.596 --> 0:21:26.636 you to force it, but in case, just in case. 0:21:27.236 --> 0:21:31.556 So in end Conto, you played Mirabelle. She's fifteen years old. 0:21:32.036 --> 0:21:34.756 Now in real life you're not fifteen. You're correct woman, 0:21:35.276 --> 0:21:38.636 and you're pregnant and you're married. Yes. What was it 0:21:38.756 --> 0:21:42.516 like though, channeling or going back to your inner team 0:21:42.756 --> 0:21:45.796 for her? It was really fun. I mean, I think 0:21:45.996 --> 0:21:52.196 in true Disney tradition, she is like a combination of 0:21:52.236 --> 0:21:54.716 a lot of things that I love about Disney heroines 0:21:54.916 --> 0:21:59.756