WEBVTT - Tricia Helfer 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:02.560 But I was I was like really trying to downplay 0:00:02.600 --> 0:00:04.920 that at the time because at the time there was 0:00:04.960 --> 0:00:07.440 no kind of crossover model turned out, you know, like 0:00:07.480 --> 0:00:09.280 model turned act. It was kind of a bad thing, 0:00:09.320 --> 0:00:11.639 and it's like you can't You're probably not going to 0:00:11.680 --> 0:00:15.160 be able to act if you're a model type thing. So, right, 0:00:15.480 --> 0:00:17.639 I really did downplay it a lot. 0:00:18.160 --> 0:00:21.480 How do you downplay I don't I mean, what like you, 0:00:22.320 --> 0:00:24.680 I don't wash your hair for a week or like 0:00:24.720 --> 0:00:26.400 what like you. 0:00:26.239 --> 0:00:28.200 I would always go in with like, well, you know 0:00:28.760 --> 0:00:29.480 it does. 0:00:29.560 --> 0:00:32.080 It has hurt me in many ways my height because 0:00:32.080 --> 0:00:33.200 I'm almost six week tall. 0:00:33.280 --> 0:00:36.840 Right, I'm five eleve so that I'm taller, don't don't 0:00:36.880 --> 0:00:38.280 get braggy, I'm taller. 0:00:44.800 --> 0:00:49.760 Hello, I'm Trisha Halfer and I am certifiably the mother 0:00:49.880 --> 0:00:53.320 of cats and goats, and I'm moonlight as an actor 0:00:53.560 --> 0:00:54.160 and a model. 0:01:02.000 --> 0:01:06.640 Hi, everybody, welcome back here to another episode of Off 0:01:06.680 --> 0:01:11.280 the Beat. I am once again your host, Brian Bumgartner. 0:01:11.720 --> 0:01:16.800 Now you've probably heard that classic Hollywood story about someone 0:01:16.880 --> 0:01:21.520 being discovered while just going about their daily life. Right, 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:24.080 They're at a grocery store and an agent comes up 0:01:24.160 --> 0:01:27.280 and says, hey, there we've got to get you to 0:01:27.600 --> 0:01:33.240 Hollywood be in the movies. My experience, this is many 0:01:33.360 --> 0:01:38.920 years of meetings and interviewing many many actors. That doesn't happen. Okay, 0:01:39.000 --> 0:01:41.480 it's just it is just not how things work. You 0:01:41.560 --> 0:01:44.880 do not get noticed at a grocery store. It's a 0:01:44.880 --> 0:01:49.400 fairy tale. It's a myth. But I guess fairy tales 0:01:49.760 --> 0:01:55.200 do come true, because it did happen for my guest today, 0:01:55.400 --> 0:02:00.760 Tricia Helfer, at a movie theater in Canada, mind you, 0:02:00.920 --> 0:02:04.000 so there you go, And whoever discovered her at that 0:02:04.080 --> 0:02:08.480 movie theater was either very perceptive or very lucky, because 0:02:08.480 --> 0:02:12.360 guess what, Tricia is a true talent. She's gone on 0:02:12.480 --> 0:02:17.640 to have a very successful modeling career on runways all 0:02:17.680 --> 0:02:20.680 over the world, then moved on to acting, where she 0:02:20.720 --> 0:02:25.800 has played favorites like Number six on Battlestar Galactica, Dracula 0:02:26.040 --> 0:02:30.440 in the sci fi series Van Helsing, and many more. So, Yes, 0:02:30.800 --> 0:02:33.680 pat Scout got lucky when they saw her at the 0:02:33.680 --> 0:02:37.040 movie theater, But now we're all lucky because we get 0:02:37.040 --> 0:02:41.760 to see her perform in all of her spectacular roles. 0:02:41.800 --> 0:02:45.200 And guess what, I feel lucky to have her here. Today. 0:02:45.280 --> 0:02:54.600 Here she is my new friend, Tricia Helfer Bubblin Squeak. 0:02:55.600 --> 0:03:01.880 I love it bubblin squea gano, bubble and squeaker, cooking 0:03:02.160 --> 0:03:04.760 every move over from the. 0:03:04.840 --> 0:03:19.080 Ninefo Hi, Tricia, Hello, how are you? 0:03:20.240 --> 0:03:23.560 I'm doing good? Thank you. I'm pleased to be here 0:03:23.680 --> 0:03:24.040 with you. 0:03:24.440 --> 0:03:27.240 Well, thank you so much for coming in and having 0:03:27.280 --> 0:03:31.000 a little chat with me today. Where are you where? Like? 0:03:31.000 --> 0:03:32.040 What city are you in? 0:03:32.639 --> 0:03:36.800 I'm I'm not in a city actually, and you're from Georgia. 0:03:36.840 --> 0:03:39.600 You're from Georgia, right, you might you might go, you 0:03:39.680 --> 0:03:41.000 might know where I am. Then? 0:03:41.040 --> 0:03:43.160 Actually I'm in Chattahoochee. 0:03:42.520 --> 0:03:50.960 Hills Chatahoochie Hills. Yeah, so I lived well that's an exaggeration. 0:03:51.200 --> 0:03:54.640 I was a like two minute walk down the hill 0:03:55.360 --> 0:04:00.320 from the Chatahoochee River. So the Chattahooche Hills. What is 0:04:00.360 --> 0:04:02.360 that like north Atlanta? North of Atlanta? 0:04:02.640 --> 0:04:03.320 That south? 0:04:03.360 --> 0:04:05.960 Actually is it's south like an hour south of city, 0:04:06.040 --> 0:04:07.800 so like twenty five minutes south of the airport. 0:04:08.160 --> 0:04:09.280 Are do you live there now? 0:04:10.040 --> 0:04:10.600 I do? 0:04:11.120 --> 0:04:13.640 I think I had a midlife crisis in twenty twenty 0:04:13.680 --> 0:04:18.080 one and just backed up and without even thinking about 0:04:18.120 --> 0:04:21.760 anything and moved. So yes, since since fall of twenty 0:04:21.800 --> 0:04:25.080 one live. I live here now, but I'm I'm hoping 0:04:25.120 --> 0:04:25.760 to come back to. 0:04:25.839 --> 0:04:28.680 La Okay, But but do you like it? 0:04:29.760 --> 0:04:30.280 I do. 0:04:30.520 --> 0:04:34.520 It's it's not to start off a fun and negative. 0:04:34.960 --> 0:04:36.560 Right, Well, no, that's fine. 0:04:36.839 --> 0:04:38.920 No, it's been a I do love it. I mean, 0:04:38.960 --> 0:04:40.960 I live out on twenty five acres. 0:04:41.000 --> 0:04:46.719 I like, I literally just changed lifestyle and and it's 0:04:46.760 --> 0:04:48.920 been you know, it's it's great. 0:04:48.960 --> 0:04:51.640 I missed my friends, I miss being you know. 0:04:51.760 --> 0:04:55.280 I moved here not knowing anyone, right, So, and then 0:04:55.480 --> 0:04:57.960 I moved here and my mom died and my dad 0:04:57.960 --> 0:05:01.240 got Alzheimer's and I uninjured my knee and was out 0:05:01.240 --> 0:05:03.960 of work for a year and hobbling around and Jesus, no, 0:05:04.120 --> 0:05:06.560 it couldn't be physical, couldn't go hiking, couldn't do anything 0:05:06.600 --> 0:05:09.159 like that. And then the strike happened, and then now 0:05:09.200 --> 0:05:09.760 here we are. 0:05:10.440 --> 0:05:14.440 It's like, you move and just your life goes to shit. 0:05:14.600 --> 0:05:17.040 I don't know, Oh I got you could say whatever 0:05:17.040 --> 0:05:19.799 you want. Oh my god, that's terrible. 0:05:20.200 --> 0:05:23.559 It's hard to not base it off of like the move, 0:05:23.880 --> 0:05:28.080 like that's what made everything go bad. Oh god, logically 0:05:28.120 --> 0:05:28.800 I know that's not. 0:05:28.800 --> 0:05:32.600 The case, but well, It's very interesting. I mean, you've 0:05:32.680 --> 0:05:35.599 kind of written a perfect transition for me, because now 0:05:35.640 --> 0:05:39.599 you're there in rural Georgia, twenty five acres sounds like 0:05:39.640 --> 0:05:42.360 a farm to me. You grew up on a farm. 0:05:42.760 --> 0:05:44.240 I did in rural. 0:05:45.160 --> 0:05:47.560 Rural, by the way, is one of the hardest words 0:05:47.560 --> 0:05:50.160 for me to say personally, and the fact that I 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:52.840 just did it twice in the same sentence is unbelievable. 0:05:53.600 --> 0:05:55.400 Uh in Canada. 0:05:55.640 --> 0:05:56.960 A I did? 0:05:57.160 --> 0:05:57.320 Yes? 0:05:57.440 --> 0:06:02.320 Get it? A get it? Yeah? Yeah? All right, So 0:06:02.800 --> 0:06:04.960 you worked on a farm when you were a kid, 0:06:05.440 --> 0:06:08.560 earned some money working on a farm, right, Yeah. 0:06:08.360 --> 0:06:09.560 I absolutely did. I was. 0:06:09.640 --> 0:06:14.719 I was actually just there visiting my family last week. 0:06:15.120 --> 0:06:17.200 Yeah. I grew up on a farm, working farm. 0:06:17.240 --> 0:06:19.880 My grand my grandparents started the farm, and my father 0:06:20.040 --> 0:06:22.600 was born and raised on a farm, and so that 0:06:22.800 --> 0:06:26.240 was my I never had an after school job aside 0:06:26.240 --> 0:06:29.200 from being a farm hand, so I grew up driving 0:06:29.240 --> 0:06:32.240 tractors and fixing farm machinery and all of that. 0:06:32.880 --> 0:06:35.800 Do you do you have animals? Now? Do you have 0:06:36.240 --> 0:06:36.839 a garden. 0:06:37.400 --> 0:06:38.320 I do have a garden. 0:06:38.560 --> 0:06:41.120 I have six cats, which I brought with me from 0:06:41.240 --> 0:06:44.080 la and I have two goats. 0:06:44.520 --> 0:06:49.480 Goats that qualifies as a farm. If you have a goat, 0:06:49.960 --> 0:06:54.880 then that equals farm. Like do you, I don't know, 0:06:54.960 --> 0:06:57.320 do you milk the goats? Like what are the goats do? 0:06:57.320 --> 0:07:00.440 Do the goats help keep the grass down? Do they 0:07:00.520 --> 0:07:02.760 do you play with them? Like? What what do you 0:07:02.800 --> 0:07:03.840 do with the goats? 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:07.400 They're boys, so milking them would be a different thing. 0:07:07.720 --> 0:07:10.760 All right, that's awkward. Okay, I took I took a gamble. 0:07:11.200 --> 0:07:14.040 I don't know. Do people milk goats if they have goats? 0:07:14.400 --> 0:07:16.120 They do. There's a neighbor's mine. 0:07:16.160 --> 0:07:17.960 She has a bunch of goats and she milks them, 0:07:17.960 --> 0:07:20.520 and she has a little farm stand and she makes okay, 0:07:20.760 --> 0:07:24.680 goat cheese and all the all the stuff that is. Yeah, 0:07:24.680 --> 0:07:26.720 that's way too much work for me. Mine are just spoiled, 0:07:26.760 --> 0:07:29.560 little you know. They get their fresh apple in the 0:07:29.560 --> 0:07:32.160 morning and carrots in the evening, and they're you know, 0:07:32.400 --> 0:07:35.080 yesterday I got the hoofs trimmed, and yeah, they're they're 0:07:35.160 --> 0:07:37.240 kind of just a little spoiled rescues. 0:07:37.640 --> 0:07:40.360 Well, now, when you go back to LA, are you 0:07:40.400 --> 0:07:41.440 going to bring the goats? 0:07:41.760 --> 0:07:42.920 That's my plan? 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:45.960 Okay, you know, I'm actually thinking of looking at places 0:07:45.960 --> 0:07:49.440 like Woodland Hills, or even carts. Mensino are zoned for 0:07:49.520 --> 0:07:51.840 farm animals, so goat friendly. 0:07:52.040 --> 0:07:52.880 Yes, that's right. 0:07:53.320 --> 0:07:56.280 Yeah, I don't think i'd be smacked at in Beverly Hills, 0:07:56.280 --> 0:07:57.200 where I was before. 0:07:57.840 --> 0:08:00.360 You know, I went from studios, I went, I'm like 0:08:00.520 --> 0:08:04.800 Laurel Canyon to Beverly Hills like a Coldwater Canyon to 0:08:04.880 --> 0:08:07.560 Sherman Oaks Canyon in my many years there, and yeah, 0:08:07.600 --> 0:08:09.560 I don't think they do very well there. 0:08:09.880 --> 0:08:14.920 No, probably not. So you were you did farm work? 0:08:14.960 --> 0:08:17.840 What were you interested in as a kid? 0:08:18.040 --> 0:08:18.120 Like? 0:08:18.200 --> 0:08:21.840 Were you watching movies? Television? I know you're in Canada, 0:08:22.400 --> 0:08:27.080 but you must have access to American shows there or 0:08:27.360 --> 0:08:28.120 not so much? 0:08:29.080 --> 0:08:32.760 Actually, no, they do. 0:08:32.920 --> 0:08:34.880 I mean it's not it is the Great White North, 0:08:34.920 --> 0:08:37.480 but it's not so far removed that it doesn't have 0:08:37.840 --> 0:08:40.080 you know, you can't get all all the American shows 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:43.120 because they do certainly limit different stations, right yea, yeah, 0:08:43.160 --> 0:08:47.280 but I had no TV growing up, so I really 0:08:47.440 --> 0:08:51.000 did not grow up with any access to movies or 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:54.000 television or anything like that. So we saw very few 0:08:54.040 --> 0:08:57.959 movies and I was I was allowed to go over 0:08:58.040 --> 0:09:02.920 and watch hockey games. My grandparents had a TV that 0:09:03.040 --> 0:09:05.719 had like four stations and I was allowed to go 0:09:05.760 --> 0:09:07.439 over and watch hockey games because I was a big 0:09:07.559 --> 0:09:08.400 Edmonton Olers fan. 0:09:08.720 --> 0:09:15.840 Last nights congratulations, Yes, very good. Yes, I'm happy for them. 0:09:16.320 --> 0:09:18.440 But yeah, I didn't really you know, I was I 0:09:18.520 --> 0:09:22.800 was interested in volleyball and school and so sports. 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:27.720 More stories. Yeah, okay, Now rumor has it that you 0:09:27.760 --> 0:09:31.960 were approached at a movie theater? Now was this in 0:09:32.080 --> 0:09:36.720 Canada about being a model? Is this right? 0:09:36.960 --> 0:09:37.920 That that is correct? 0:09:38.000 --> 0:09:42.640 Yes, I was in the nearest town that had a 0:09:42.679 --> 0:09:46.760 movie theater, like a one room theater, Stetler, Alberta. And 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:49.199 I think the town has about forty five hundred people 0:09:49.240 --> 0:09:49.839 something like that. 0:09:50.200 --> 0:09:51.400 And yeah, so I was there. 0:09:51.679 --> 0:09:54.000 And it was actually a girl that had gone to 0:09:54.000 --> 0:09:56.760 school with my older sister, and she was doing some 0:09:56.800 --> 0:10:00.199 local modeling for this agent, Kelly Strait, who was who 0:10:00.240 --> 0:10:03.439 was only twenty four himself when he started, and he 0:10:03.520 --> 0:10:05.679 used to scout for Ford models in New York and everything. 0:10:05.720 --> 0:10:08.080 And so she asked, and I said, absolutely not. You know, 0:10:08.080 --> 0:10:10.880 this is obviously pre cell phones and pre right, you know, 0:10:11.000 --> 0:10:12.480 Google and everything. 0:10:12.880 --> 0:10:15.280 But she gave him my parents' number. 0:10:15.160 --> 0:10:18.000 Because of course there's the Yellow Pages, and so he 0:10:18.080 --> 0:10:22.120 called and I was goaded on by my volleyball teammates, 0:10:22.720 --> 0:10:25.320 okay to go see him the next time I was 0:10:25.360 --> 0:10:30.480 in the city, and so I did, and like literally 0:10:30.800 --> 0:10:32.320 about a month or two later, I was in New 0:10:32.400 --> 0:10:32.880 York City. 0:10:33.640 --> 0:10:37.440 So okay, So wait a second. So I'm so this 0:10:37.520 --> 0:10:39.760 is so interesting to me because you're saying it like 0:10:39.800 --> 0:10:42.520 this is a matter of fact. But there are talent 0:10:42.760 --> 0:10:49.400 there's talent scouts in Stetler, Alberta, Canada that are like 0:10:49.640 --> 0:10:57.920 legit recruiting for like legit modeling jobs in New York City. Well, 0:10:58.240 --> 0:11:01.080 this is surprising. This would be like Atlanta back in 0:11:01.080 --> 0:11:04.080 the day. Now Atlanta is different. But if it was like, hey, 0:11:04.080 --> 0:11:05.880 do you want to be a model? I would think 0:11:06.120 --> 0:11:08.920 you know that that would that would well they wouldn't 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:11.640 ask me. But you know what I'm saying, like that 0:11:11.080 --> 0:11:13.480 that I wouldn't have thought that was legit. 0:11:14.480 --> 0:11:17.839 Well I did. Again, it wasn't him that was there. 0:11:18.160 --> 0:11:21.040 Although he is also from a small town, he lives 0:11:21.040 --> 0:11:24.080 in Calgary now, so he has just always wanted to 0:11:24.120 --> 0:11:26.679 stay in Alberta. He could have gone to any of 0:11:26.720 --> 0:11:28.480 the you know, New York, he could have been an 0:11:28.480 --> 0:11:31.319 agent anywhere, and he's just always been partial to staying 0:11:31.480 --> 0:11:32.319 where he grew up. 0:11:32.400 --> 0:11:33.079 But he did. 0:11:33.200 --> 0:11:37.760 He he really was. He's an interesting guy. He's got 0:11:37.760 --> 0:11:44.679 a very good eye for the modeling business right and 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:47.560 and what is working and everything at the time, and 0:11:47.720 --> 0:11:51.520 just but he if he had probably approached me, I 0:11:51.559 --> 0:11:55.000 would have been way too shy, and because he's quite 0:11:55.440 --> 0:11:59.199 he's quite energetic and quite quite a personality. 0:12:00.000 --> 0:12:01.920 But it was a girl that went to school with 0:12:01.920 --> 0:12:02.760 my older sister. 0:12:02.960 --> 0:12:06.640 So I knew her okay, and you know, i'd known 0:12:06.679 --> 0:12:09.319 her for years. And she said she was in Calgary 0:12:09.400 --> 0:12:11.800 doing you know, at university and had met and was 0:12:11.840 --> 0:12:13.800 doing some local modeling and that type of thing. 0:12:13.880 --> 0:12:15.959 So it might have been a different story if he 0:12:16.000 --> 0:12:16.760 had approached me. 0:12:17.360 --> 0:12:19.520 So within a couple of months, you're in You're in 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:22.920 New York City m hm, and you're so what are 0:12:23.000 --> 0:12:27.080 you doing, like you're immediately starting to get jobs. 0:12:28.040 --> 0:12:31.120 Well, this was between grade eleven and grade twelve. So 0:12:31.240 --> 0:12:31.680 I went. 0:12:31.880 --> 0:12:33.880 He set me up to go, and I actually stayed 0:12:33.920 --> 0:12:38.200 at Eileen Ford's house or her apartment, and I went 0:12:38.240 --> 0:12:41.240 to New York for five days to get some pictures 0:12:41.240 --> 0:12:43.560 so they they he had he took some pictures of 0:12:43.600 --> 0:12:45.000 me and he sent them to for New York and 0:12:45.040 --> 0:12:48.520 they said we want her, and so I went there 0:12:48.520 --> 0:12:49.480 and did some test. 0:12:49.240 --> 0:12:50.240 Shoots they had set up. 0:12:50.280 --> 0:12:52.680 You know, you have to get photos r right to 0:12:52.720 --> 0:12:56.240 be able to show. And then he had organized me 0:12:56.400 --> 0:12:58.280 to be with an agency in Montreal. So I was 0:12:58.360 --> 0:13:00.000 only in New York the first time for five days 0:13:00.559 --> 0:13:03.720 and I went from there to Montreal, where an agency 0:13:03.800 --> 0:13:07.080 started putting me out in the Montreal market for three weeks. 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:09.800 So I was gone for like for a month basically. 0:13:10.520 --> 0:13:14.800 And I remember, I just I did all these like 0:13:14.880 --> 0:13:16.000 Bridal magazines. 0:13:16.480 --> 0:13:18.679 I was six sixteen seventeen. 0:13:18.880 --> 0:13:20.960 I was gonna say, yeah, I was young for. 0:13:20.880 --> 0:13:23.880 That seventeen and just doing all these Bridal magazines and 0:13:23.920 --> 0:13:25.760 I look at them now, and my mom has them 0:13:25.760 --> 0:13:26.440 all still and. 0:13:28.120 --> 0:13:29.880 Or had them all still, and. 0:13:30.840 --> 0:13:33.960 I just it's they're so funny to see that time 0:13:34.000 --> 0:13:36.240 period and the Bridal magazines. But yeah, So I went 0:13:36.280 --> 0:13:39.240 there and with the guys of kind of just with 0:13:39.280 --> 0:13:40.800 the idea of just kind of seeing what it was, 0:13:41.000 --> 0:13:44.160 what it was like and then going back to grade twelve. 0:13:44.640 --> 0:13:49.000 So I went, and I remember specifically I made thirty 0:13:49.040 --> 0:13:52.839 six thousand dollars in three weeks. And I went back 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:55.840 to grade twelve, and then I was like, maybe I should. 0:13:55.520 --> 0:14:00.840 Give this a track. I liked it to go to Milan. 0:14:00.920 --> 0:14:02.920 They want me to go to Paris, Like, maybe I 0:14:02.960 --> 0:14:06.920 should try this, and so I did my first semester 0:14:07.240 --> 0:14:09.840 and then and then I packed up and I left. 0:14:10.160 --> 0:14:11.640 I left before graduating. 0:14:12.440 --> 0:14:16.480 And you were based then in New York or you 0:14:16.679 --> 0:14:18.360 just went wherever you had to go. 0:14:19.200 --> 0:14:21.680 Well, yeah, I went to Milan first for a couple 0:14:21.680 --> 0:14:26.160 of months, and then I went to Paris, and then 0:14:26.800 --> 0:14:28.880 very quickly moved my base, like within a year, moved 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:30.840 my base to New York. I just I'm much more 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:34.120 of a kind of New York mentality than living in Paris. 0:14:34.160 --> 0:14:34.480 I didn't. 0:14:34.480 --> 0:14:37.160 I didn't like living in Paris at that time. So okay, 0:14:37.920 --> 0:14:40.400 love it, love visiting it now, but I didn't like 0:14:40.440 --> 0:14:42.440 it as a seventeen eighteen year old. I found it 0:14:42.560 --> 0:14:45.480 very kind of difficult to get to get by in 0:14:45.480 --> 0:14:46.880 many ways. 0:14:47.320 --> 0:14:52.200 Nineteen ninety two, you won the Ford Supermodel of the 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:57.880 World contest. Supermodel of the World is I mean that's. 0:14:57.720 --> 0:14:59.200 A title, it's a statement. 0:14:59.280 --> 0:15:01.400 Yeah, it was. 0:15:01.480 --> 0:15:04.520 It was a kind of I kind of just glazed 0:15:04.600 --> 0:15:07.400 right over that. That was between Milan and Paris. 0:15:07.520 --> 0:15:11.480 They uh, oh so even before oh so, just based 0:15:11.520 --> 0:15:14.960 on your first time and then going to Milan, you're 0:15:15.000 --> 0:15:17.520 now the supermodel of the year, says Ford. 0:15:18.080 --> 0:15:21.480 Well, they hazy right back in the back in the 0:15:21.520 --> 0:15:23.760 early nineties. I think in the eighties and nineties, they 0:15:23.880 --> 0:15:27.520 had these things, these these I mean, for lack of 0:15:27.560 --> 0:15:30.120 a better word, pageant. I've never been a pageant person, 0:15:30.280 --> 0:15:33.240 but it is a modeling competition, right. It's it's a 0:15:33.760 --> 0:15:36.000 you do runway and you do photo shoots and everything. 0:15:36.400 --> 0:15:39.040 But they had these two hour specials on TV, so 0:15:39.120 --> 0:15:44.080 it was a thing, you know, and they Ford had 0:15:44.160 --> 0:15:47.000 kind of I lean forward, had just chosen me the 0:15:47.040 --> 0:15:49.280 winner of Canada instead of doing it a search, but 0:15:49.320 --> 0:15:51.400 they just chose out of a bunch of people and 0:15:51.480 --> 0:15:53.520 announced me as the Canadian winner. When I was in 0:15:53.600 --> 0:15:56.400 Milan the first time, when I first left home to 0:15:56.520 --> 0:16:00.280 really get this try, and I didn't even know like 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:04.680 I was, I didn't enter myself. So I then went 0:16:04.720 --> 0:16:07.960 to la to do the international competition and it's like 0:16:08.000 --> 0:16:10.400 a two week you tape for two weeks, you know, 0:16:10.440 --> 0:16:14.000 all this type of stuff, and I won that. So yeah, 0:16:14.040 --> 0:16:16.440 it was that title was a blessing and a curse, 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:19.840 because it definitely helped kickstart. You know, I went straight 0:16:19.880 --> 0:16:24.760 from their Paris for fashion Week, and I remember meeting 0:16:25.360 --> 0:16:29.360 Carl Lagerfeld at Chanel for the first time, and I 0:16:29.400 --> 0:16:31.440 had a camera crew with me because I had just won, 0:16:31.560 --> 0:16:33.680 so there was a you know, camera crew following me, 0:16:34.480 --> 0:16:37.520 and I'm you know, I've just turned eighteen and I'm 0:16:37.520 --> 0:16:41.280 this shy Canadian farm girl, and but I had a 0:16:41.320 --> 0:16:43.400 camera crew, which is probably the only reason he hired 0:16:43.400 --> 0:16:44.120 me for the show. 0:16:44.840 --> 0:16:47.240 But then, you know, so things like that helped. 0:16:47.280 --> 0:16:50.360 But then other times I remember meeting I can't remember 0:16:50.360 --> 0:16:52.720 who it was, but it was somebody at Vogue and 0:16:52.800 --> 0:16:55.360 I walked in and of course on your card, your 0:16:55.360 --> 0:16:57.800 composite card, it says forts new Fall of the World. 0:16:58.600 --> 0:17:00.280 And they just look at me and like, oh, so 0:17:00.400 --> 0:17:05.360 you're a supermodel, Like you have no pictures. Basically you're 0:17:05.440 --> 0:17:07.160 brand new. You're a supermodel. 0:17:07.200 --> 0:17:11.480 And I'm like, I didn't name it and. 0:17:11.440 --> 0:17:13.800 I did not get that job. So it was a 0:17:13.800 --> 0:17:14.800 blessing and accurse. 0:17:17.560 --> 0:17:23.600 I mean the I mean basically, any top fashion outlet 0:17:23.760 --> 0:17:28.320 that I have heard of you have either done shows 0:17:28.359 --> 0:17:34.120 for or ads for. How long were you intensive and 0:17:34.800 --> 0:17:40.160 more specifically, what made you begin to think about doing 0:17:40.200 --> 0:17:41.480 something else, I e. 0:17:42.280 --> 0:17:44.720 Acting at the time. 0:17:44.800 --> 0:17:48.240 I mean I probably did it for ten years, okay, 0:17:48.800 --> 0:17:51.680 seventeen to twenty seven. I think I moved to La 0:17:51.760 --> 0:17:54.639 around I have to do the math, but around twenty 0:17:54.680 --> 0:18:00.240 seven or twenty eight, and it had been a couple 0:18:00.320 --> 0:18:02.719 of years before that where I could start. I had 0:18:02.760 --> 0:18:05.199 started to see my career starting to be, like I 0:18:05.240 --> 0:18:07.639 wasn't getting booked for the top fashion shows anymore, and 0:18:07.680 --> 0:18:13.879 that there's much more diversity in all ranges, but also 0:18:14.080 --> 0:18:17.760 age in the modeling business now, not at the for 0:18:17.840 --> 0:18:20.439 the regular editorials and things, but for the campaigns, and 0:18:20.480 --> 0:18:22.480 you will see some of the older models, even older 0:18:22.520 --> 0:18:24.440 than me, having a resurgence and that type of thing. 0:18:25.119 --> 0:18:28.639 At the time, you really there really was an expiration day. 0:18:28.840 --> 0:18:31.200 Hollywood has a bit of that as well, but more 0:18:31.280 --> 0:18:35.280 so in the modeling business at the time. So it 0:18:35.320 --> 0:18:39.639 really was because it hadn't been it hadn't been a 0:18:39.720 --> 0:18:42.320 dream of mine. It turned out to be a wonderful career, 0:18:42.359 --> 0:18:47.400 an amazing opportunity that I'm really lucky, you know, fortunate 0:18:47.400 --> 0:18:50.520 to have had. But it wasn't It wasn't like I 0:18:50.520 --> 0:18:53.919 didn't grow up with reading fashion magazines and wanting to 0:18:53.920 --> 0:18:56.760 be you know, so to me, it was always a business. 0:18:56.800 --> 0:18:59.440 And maybe that's why I was able to see a 0:18:59.440 --> 0:19:02.240 little bit early on like Okay, I have to I 0:19:02.280 --> 0:19:05.199 have to figure out how to set myself up for 0:19:06.440 --> 0:19:08.320 you know, I didn't want a family. I didn't want 0:19:08.359 --> 0:19:10.800 to get married and have a family and go down 0:19:10.800 --> 0:19:11.359 that route. 0:19:11.960 --> 0:19:13.200 So I was like, Okay, I'm gonna have to figure 0:19:13.200 --> 0:19:14.040 out something else to do. 0:19:14.840 --> 0:19:19.800 Okay. I mean your math I think is pretty spot on. 0:19:20.040 --> 0:19:23.840 Because you moved to Los Angeles and you pretty much 0:19:24.000 --> 0:19:29.200 immediately begin booking some television jobs. What did you do 0:19:29.480 --> 0:19:31.400 to prepare for that? Was it just like, oh, this 0:19:31.480 --> 0:19:32.960 is something else that I want to do, or was 0:19:33.000 --> 0:19:36.400 there something specifically about acting that you wanted to give 0:19:36.440 --> 0:19:38.760 a try, and then what did you do to prepare 0:19:38.800 --> 0:19:39.520 yourself for it? 0:19:40.920 --> 0:19:41.160 Well? 0:19:41.280 --> 0:19:45.520 I I thought for a while that I was like, okay, 0:19:46.200 --> 0:19:47.960 what about like reporting. 0:19:48.000 --> 0:19:50.280 I had done some kind of correspondent report, hosting or 0:19:50.320 --> 0:19:52.280 a fashion file that type of thing. 0:19:52.400 --> 0:19:57.879 Yeah, and so I had done a few segments and things, 0:19:57.920 --> 0:20:00.600 and then I just realized, even you're in front of 0:20:00.600 --> 0:20:02.679 the camera there, I kind of like being the you know, 0:20:02.800 --> 0:20:05.240 maybe this is a little selfish or narcissistic, but I 0:20:05.320 --> 0:20:08.160 kind of like being the topic, you know. 0:20:09.440 --> 0:20:12.840 Right right, right, right right, Tell me it wasn't. 0:20:12.880 --> 0:20:16.280 And that I'm kind of making fun of myself there. 0:20:16.280 --> 0:20:18.840 I don't mean it necessarily like that, but it wasn't. 0:20:19.040 --> 0:20:19.880 I just didn't. 0:20:20.520 --> 0:20:25.600 It didn't catch me right, And so I was like, 0:20:25.600 --> 0:20:28.160 why don't I take an acting class. I had never 0:20:28.200 --> 0:20:32.400 done anything like that again, grew up without watching really anything. 0:20:32.920 --> 0:20:35.600 But I thought, even if it helps me with commercial auditions. 0:20:35.640 --> 0:20:37.960 Most of the only commercial editions I did at the 0:20:38.000 --> 0:20:41.439 time were beauty beauty commercials, right, I wasn't going out 0:20:41.480 --> 0:20:44.600 for anything else, but maybe it'll help me in that 0:20:45.000 --> 0:20:48.320 in that respect, And I got into an acting class. 0:20:48.440 --> 0:20:52.480 My my commercial agent suggested some places and I called 0:20:52.480 --> 0:20:55.199 around and nobody answered the phone. And one place answered 0:20:55.240 --> 0:20:57.440 the phone, and this was a Friday, and they said, well, 0:20:57.520 --> 0:21:01.560 we have an advanced on camera on Monday that somebody 0:21:01.640 --> 0:21:03.760