Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to the Spirited Actor Podcast with me
Speaker 1: Tracy Moore. I was a casting director for film and
Speaker 1: TV and commercials for over thirty years. I transitioned to
Speaker 1: a celebrity acting coach after I cast a film New
Speaker 1: Jersey Drive with executive producer Spike Lee and director Nick Domez.
Speaker 1: I auditioned every rapper from Biggie Smalls to Tupac, and
Speaker 1: I realized that rappers and musical artists they needed help
Speaker 1: transitioning to acting. My clients consist of musical artists from
Speaker 1: Buster Rhymes to Eve, Missy Elliott, Angela Yee from The
Speaker 1: Breakfast Club, and Vanessa Simmons, to name a few. I
Speaker 1: also coach sports stars and host as well. I feel
Speaker 1: I have the best of both worlds. As a casting director,
Speaker 1: I know exactly what they're looking for, and as an
Speaker 1: acting coach, I can coach you to be remembered in
Speaker 1: that room. Now I know, I know actors want to
Speaker 1: get the job. I get that, but being remembered by
Speaker 1: casting director that is powerful. And now it's time for
Speaker 1: meditation of the day. If you think education is expensive,
Speaker 1: try ignorance. When I was a kid, I used to
Speaker 1: question the subjects I had to take. I couldnot understand
Speaker 1: the relevance of algebra. I hated the subject. One day,
Speaker 1: I was in class and it came to me. I
Speaker 1: used my brains and solved a problem right there. In
Speaker 1: that very moment, I understood why I needed algebra in
Speaker 1: my life. Whether you understand it now, know that in
Speaker 1: some way everything you learn is soon to be applied
Speaker 1: in your life. Today I will grasp all the knowledge
Speaker 1: and cherish it. Welcome to the Spirited Actor Podcast with
Speaker 1: me Tracy Moore. Need you guys to sit back you are.
Speaker 1: I can't even tell you the blessing that is before
Speaker 1: you right now. Not only is she an outstanding, award
Speaker 1: winning casting director, but she is a blessing as a beautiful,
Speaker 1: spiritual human being. Ladies and gentlemen, I want you to
Speaker 1: stand up. I want you to put your hands together.
Speaker 1: For casting director extraordinaire Robbie Reeve.
Speaker 2: Oh, thank you, thank you, sys. I appreciate you so much.
Speaker 2: And that was a beautiful intro.
Speaker 1: Who is truth? Who is that? It is the truth?
Speaker 1: I have admired Robbie. There were two mentors in my
Speaker 1: head right when I first started casting. And please, audience,
Speaker 1: I want you to listen they wear in my hand.
Speaker 1: They didn't know this at the time, but it was
Speaker 1: Robbie Reid and Ruben Cannon. And I have the pleasure
Speaker 1: of telling Robbie because she blessed me with the gig
Speaker 1: and I've known her for years, So grateful to know
Speaker 1: her and just to know that we're going to go through.
Speaker 1: And I want you guys to go to IMDb dot
Speaker 1: com right now, and I want you to put in
Speaker 1: Robbie's name, and I want you to see the credits
Speaker 1: because you have to do your due diligence on people
Speaker 1: that are on the show and know who's on the show.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 1: We're going to start at the beginning. Robbie, how did
Speaker 1: you get started as a casting director? What led you
Speaker 1: into casting? And you are a legend in casting.
Speaker 2: Well, let's see you when I was but a mere
Speaker 2: five year old when I started a business. Yes, she was,
Speaker 2: I'm really I knew so I wanted to cast at
Speaker 2: the age of fifteen, and I was exposed to it,
Speaker 2: you know, with my brother being a child actor, and
Speaker 2: so I would a company my parents on his auditions
Speaker 2: and while they were parking the car, I would go
Speaker 2: inside with him to check him in and one day
Speaker 2: I asked the reception is who is he going to
Speaker 2: see behind that door? And they said, well, that's the
Speaker 2: casting director. And I was like, oh, well, what does
Speaker 2: the casting director do? And that was the first explanation
Speaker 2: and exposure and that just was a light bulb that
Speaker 2: went off. I was like, oh, that sounds like something
Speaker 2: I would love to do too. So that's where it
Speaker 2: was birthed. And then from there. I was always an
Speaker 2: avid reader, and I was reading a book, I couldn't
Speaker 2: start it without putting attaching actors to the characters, not
Speaker 2: even realizing I was casting.
Speaker 3: And that's where it began.
Speaker 2: After college, I went to Hampton HBCU shout out.
Speaker 1: And then my daughter went to the other HU Howard.
Speaker 1: Oh Hu, Yes, you.
Speaker 3: Guys did advice and I love it.
Speaker 2: But so right after Hampton, you know, I just pursued
Speaker 2: it and had, you know, kind of just went you know,
Speaker 2: when you really do believe in yourself, the lead that
Speaker 2: you're doing something your purpose to do was just like,
Speaker 2: you're fearless.
Speaker 3: And I was that, you know, I wish I had
Speaker 3: some of that fearlessness.
Speaker 2: Now really, you know, so caused it to the wind
Speaker 2: and I called everybody. I didn't know until somebody answered me,
Speaker 2: and that was Jackie Brown Carmen.
Speaker 1: Oh love Jackie Brown.
Speaker 2: Yes, and she gave me just really inspiration, you know.
Speaker 2: From mayor, I met Rubin who was also my mentor. Wow,
Speaker 2: and I turned with him for a short while and
Speaker 2: when it ended, you know, I just from there I
Speaker 2: became a production assistant movie called The Falcon and the Snowman.
Speaker 2: Oh I believe I said that I was fine though.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Then from there I met the casting director of the
Speaker 2: next film, Ellen Channel With who didn't have an assistant,
Speaker 2: and she hired me and that movie was called Sweet
Speaker 2: Dreams that starred Jessica Layne and Ed Harris. Wow, and
Speaker 2: I have been working since then. I met Spike soon
Speaker 2: there after, I went to at a casting company called
Speaker 2: McClinton Mail, where I got a lot of experience and
Speaker 2: right sort of in the middle of that two.
Speaker 3: Year stint wasn't quite two years.
Speaker 2: Actually, my best friend from Hampton, Ray Dowell, was in
Speaker 2: the She's Got a Habit and.
Speaker 3: When she got she was given the script. I was
Speaker 3: the only person kind of in the business that.
Speaker 2: She knew, right, so she called me and we were
Speaker 2: going over the contract and Spike was like, who is
Speaker 2: that that you're talking to, Well, that's my friend Robbie Reid,
Speaker 2: and one day you need to meet her.
Speaker 3: And wow, they came, you know, and he.
Speaker 2: Was in La for the La Film Festival, which for
Speaker 2: some reason was canceled that year. I don't remember why,
Speaker 2: but it was just a buying order because it really
Speaker 2: was us, you know, purpose to meet in that moment, right,
Speaker 2: and spent a fateful day together and you know, by
Speaker 2: the end of the evening he was like, one day,
Speaker 2: who knows you're going to cast one of my movies?
Speaker 2: And he wrote down his address and said keep in touch.
Speaker 2: And within a few months I had the script for
Speaker 2: School Days.
Speaker 1: Wow. So you know, I worked with Spike in the
Speaker 1: later part, but in the beginning because I think I
Speaker 1: was one of the first people to see She's got
Speaker 1: to have it as an audience because it was there
Speaker 1: was a theater on twelfth Street between sixth Avenue and
Speaker 1: Fifth Avenue, I believe it was, and there were and
Speaker 1: they had like the film had just there was buzz
Speaker 1: on it and they were like, oh, you know, I
Speaker 1: was affiliated with the music business at that point, and
Speaker 1: so a lot of like uh Russell Simmons and Andre
Speaker 1: Herrels and Guy rest Is Soul. All of those people
Speaker 1: were there, Nelson George's and that's when I saw it
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh my god, Like what Spike
Speaker 1: made me feel like in that moment was that he
Speaker 1: broke all of the rules in filmmaking. And I was like,
Speaker 1: you could do that, you could do that. So and
Speaker 1: I am And I always think of Spike as the
Speaker 1: Midas touch. I feel like he knows he has the
Speaker 1: sensibility of discovering talent and then also breathing life and
Speaker 1: reinvention of talent. And so how was that in the beginning,
Speaker 1: like those early days school days? Because just from that film,
Speaker 1: we can list all of the people the working actors
Speaker 1: from there in terms of because he was a little
Speaker 1: unconventional in terms of you telling him ideas about you know, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, different actors that you wanted to submit to him.
Speaker 1: How open was he for that?
Speaker 3: Oh my god.
Speaker 2: I love working with Spike because of that openness was
Speaker 2: so collaboratives, so interesting.
Speaker 3: I just did this.
Speaker 2: Interview with Kim Coleman American Cinematigue where you know, they're
Speaker 2: honoring him, and we were just talking about our individual experiences.
Speaker 2: You know, I was the early part and she is
Speaker 2: now and he's the same. He's the same spike. He
Speaker 2: loves the process, which is amazing to find a co
Speaker 2: creator that loves casting as much as you do. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we were laughing at how you have to be on
Speaker 2: your toes because you knows actors, you know, and it'd.
Speaker 3: Be like have you know, you know, have you seen? Yeah,
Speaker 3: but always open.
Speaker 2: And the thing that I love, which is what he
Speaker 2: loves too, is and the part about the job that
Speaker 2: I love is being able to give people opportunities you know,
Speaker 2: and get and giving.
Speaker 3: Them a path way that gets.
Speaker 2: The closer to their dream, you know, and that casting
Speaker 2: does that and always open for looking, you know, for
Speaker 2: the raw talent or giving people their first breaks, you know,
Speaker 2: a history of it.
Speaker 3: So it's great working with him.
Speaker 1: I also love the fact that again and if you
Speaker 1: all go back to IMDb dot com and just reference
Speaker 1: some of the credit in terms of do the right
Speaker 1: thing and mo better Blues, Oh my god, I fellow
Speaker 1: love we Bad Blues.
Speaker 3: Again.
Speaker 1: A lot of these actors this was maybe their first
Speaker 1: job or you know, this was definitely the momentum into
Speaker 1: their career. As a working actor, what's that thing that
Speaker 1: stands out to you? Unfortunately we don't have live auditions
Speaker 1: anymore so the self tape world. But you know what,
Speaker 1: what are some things that actors really need to know
Speaker 1: about what is going to in the self tape world.
Speaker 1: What's going to make them stand out? Because on a
Speaker 1: job that you know I just finished, we got like
Speaker 1: anywhere from nine hundred and twenty seven to fifteen hundred
Speaker 1: submissions per character. That's not humanly possible for Elsa and
Speaker 1: I to look at all of that. What's that thing
Speaker 1: that they need to do?
Speaker 2: Oh wow, that's a good question. Well, first of all,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna believe God that we get back to some
Speaker 2: form of what it was, because to me, there's nothing like.
Speaker 3: Being in the room. You know, old school. I don't care.
Speaker 1: I'm old school too, Robbie. I'm with you.
Speaker 4: I mean.
Speaker 2: And even though I love, as many people know, open
Speaker 2: casting calls, you know, I was still doing them every
Speaker 2: year and just had done one this past time, well
Speaker 2: for the Uptown mini series got rest Andre and we
Speaker 2: were just in Dallas together in January.
Speaker 3: Yeah, hundreds upon hundreds of people. But anyway, I think
Speaker 3: the best thing that anyone can do now with.
Speaker 2: The self tape is to give no reason for us
Speaker 2: to look at anything in the tape.
Speaker 3: But you you know, so.
Speaker 2: Having your setup, you know, because it is like the.
Speaker 3: Way of the way of things now, they are not
Speaker 3: as many.
Speaker 2: Excuses for it to not be perfect. So clost the
Speaker 2: perfect as you can get. And we know how the
Speaker 2: internet can be, you know, spotty, yanky or whatever on
Speaker 2: any day. But at least have your your lighting, your background,
Speaker 2: your sound. Those are the things you want to have
Speaker 2: perfect it, you know, if it means you got to
Speaker 2: shut up and just practice it every day, so you know,
Speaker 2: wherever in your house, yeah, you know, wherever you might be,
Speaker 2: it's a spot.
Speaker 3: And if the sound is weird, put some egg cartons
Speaker 3: on the wall. Whatever you do. Invest in you. It's
Speaker 3: what you have and preparation, you know. So and because
Speaker 3: again it's a camera and it's like this, you know,
Speaker 3: reading sites or whatever.
Speaker 2: It's going to be hard for us to always get
Speaker 2: you know, the best look at you.
Speaker 3: It's okay, but try to be off book.
Speaker 2: And work out whoever is your seeing partner, you know,
Speaker 2: whether you've recorded it, you know, or that person's on
Speaker 2: the phone or just as long as the sound is
Speaker 2: as good as it can be, because if it's not,
Speaker 2: those things really are distracting and it takes.
Speaker 3: Away from you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I have to concur because one of the
Speaker 1: challenges that I had was because being old school, I'm
Speaker 1: used to reading. I love reading with actors, that's my saying.
Speaker 1: But the readers and these self tapes, I just have
Speaker 1: to stress they have to get people who can read
Speaker 1: it's it's I had three different scenarios. I have the
Speaker 1: reader who could not read, which was extremely distracting from
Speaker 1: your performance. And then I had the reader who was upstaging. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the person who was audition and I was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: who's is this? And you know, and then the parent,
Speaker 1: you know, who doesn't have any clue and they're just
Speaker 1: you know, trying the best that they can. And I
Speaker 1: just highly recommend that people, like you said, either tape
Speaker 1: it or get a fellow actor to come in and
Speaker 1: read with you, you know, because you're you're jeopardizing our
Speaker 1: eyes on you and now we're all over the place.
Speaker 1: Like you said, do you find because I think that
Speaker 1: classes teach actors the craft. But this is also a
Speaker 1: business too. How important is it for actors to understand
Speaker 1: the terminology the job, like what your job as a
Speaker 1: casting director? What an agent? How important is it for
Speaker 1: them to know the business of show business.
Speaker 2: It's called show business for a reason, right, It is
Speaker 2: of the utmost importance that you know everything about this business.
Speaker 3: You know who?
Speaker 2: You know what executives mean at a studio as opposed
Speaker 2: to what executives mean at a network.
Speaker 3: You know where I used to say, no, who's in
Speaker 3: the room, it's still now who's in your zoom room?
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 3: Who are you reading for? What can you find out
Speaker 3: about them? What credits? You know?
Speaker 2: So you if you're given an opportunity to have a conversation,
Speaker 2: then you might have you know, something real interesting and
Speaker 2: unexpected to talk about, you know.
Speaker 3: But it is business.
Speaker 2: So knowing you know where you are where you make
Speaker 2: the investment. So you know, right now everything's virtual, so
Speaker 2: you can literally be anywhere and work right from anywhere.
Speaker 3: But just really think.
Speaker 2: About how invested are you and then you know again,
Speaker 2: like just getting the proper equipment for your self tape,
Speaker 2: that's an investment, you know, And so if it means
Speaker 2: you've got to put some money aside, you know, and
Speaker 2: not do something else to do it.
Speaker 3: It's worth it. It's your livelihood.
Speaker 2: You know, and investing in your your craft and studying
Speaker 2: and just keeping your tools as sharpened as they can be,
Speaker 2: you know. And then there are all kinds of classes
Speaker 2: online that will teach you the business about the business
Speaker 2: of show, you know, and it's really worth it, you know,
Speaker 2: and knowing just really what everyone's role is.
Speaker 3: It's important people who just kind of wake up and
Speaker 3: decide this.
Speaker 2: Is what they want to do, you know, they're they're
Speaker 2: just not ready, you know, And when opportunity nots, you
Speaker 2: want to be ready. And having all that information will
Speaker 2: be helpful. It might not seem like it at the beginning,
Speaker 2: but it is. You can't know too much.
Speaker 1: I want to talk to the parents. I got so
Speaker 1: many questions, but I want to talk to the parents
Speaker 1: right now because the challenge that I have right in
Speaker 1: coaching some children or teenagers. The parents will say to me, oh,
Speaker 1: you know, I want my child to make it. Oh
Speaker 1: I need my child. Meanwhile, I'll say to them when
Speaker 1: they send me the information, did you read the breakdown?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 1: Did you read who the executive producer, the writer, the director,
Speaker 1: the casting director are and they'll say no, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: this is the thing you want your child to make it,
Speaker 1: you want your child to move their career long, but
Speaker 1: you don't even do the due diligence on who your
Speaker 1: child is in front of. That's a blessing, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. It's they're standing in front of Robbie
Speaker 1: Reid and they're like, oh, I got to get things moving,
Speaker 1: my god, know who Robbie Reid is?
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: So I suggest to parents all the time to take
Speaker 1: classes to understand the business for their child because if
Speaker 1: they're if they have anxiety, they're passing that into their child.
Speaker 1: What are some things that you would say to parents
Speaker 1: who are you know, desperately seeking stardom for their children?
Speaker 2: You know, well, I think first know that your child
Speaker 2: really does want to do it, and you are not
Speaker 2: forcing them, as.
Speaker 3: I see that a lot. You know they're and you know,
Speaker 3: you know immediately they're different.
Speaker 2: Ye. So, and I think when when kids are really interested,
Speaker 2: they ask, you know, they ask for it, and then
Speaker 2: you'll see too where they just you know, kind of
Speaker 2: are you know, they're inclined you know, on to it,
Speaker 2: and I can I also tell parents to just let
Speaker 2: kids be kids. So they've got a lot of natural,
Speaker 2: really great natural raw instincts, and sometimes parents can over reheards,
Speaker 2: you know, in preparation for an audition, and that kills it.
Speaker 2: As you know, when when we cast kids, we want
Speaker 2: the kids to be kids and be yeah.
Speaker 3: You know as it can. Right, So there's that, and uh, what.
Speaker 2: Else if i'm again, I think just continuing to check
Speaker 2: in with your child to make sure it's something, to
Speaker 2: make sure it's something that they want to do and
Speaker 2: not something that the parent is on them, I.
Speaker 1: Think said as actors, you know, and especially looking at
Speaker 1: a lot of self tapes recently, can you tell actors
Speaker 1: that listening and reacting is a part of the whole
Speaker 1: process as well? How does that play into their performance?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, you've got to be in the
Speaker 2: scene so so you know, acting it should be as
Speaker 2: natural as it can be.
Speaker 3: So it's like you're having a conversation.
Speaker 2: If you are listening and really in a conversation and
Speaker 2: actively listening, you're waiting to hear what the person has
Speaker 2: say before you can answer them right and non anticipate
Speaker 2: what they're saying, right, No, immediately when that happens, and
Speaker 2: we know it in a scene when an actor anticipates
Speaker 2: the line because it's not connected, you know that the
Speaker 2: reaction isn't real or it's not natural, right, it just
Speaker 2: feels like interacting, right, So yes, listening and then reacting
Speaker 2: is really important.
Speaker 1: Excellent. So while we're doing this self tape for now,
Speaker 1: how do you in this zoom sort of age, how
Speaker 1: are you discovering quote unquote talent? You know, I know,
Speaker 1: maybe through self tape, but are there other ways? Like
Speaker 1: is there an email that actors or is there some
Speaker 1: actors can follow you somewhere and submit to you.
Speaker 3: Oh, for sure, I have an email.
Speaker 2: It's b ET Casting and b et.
Speaker 1: Com dot com.
Speaker 2: Okay, e T Casting at b e T dot com.
Speaker 2: And then also they can send me info at casting
Speaker 2: by Robbie read at gmail dot com.
Speaker 1: Okay. I want to emphasize these things for the actors
Speaker 1: because you know, I mean, we're there's it's a different world. Now.
Speaker 1: You can go on YouTube and scan that if you
Speaker 1: have time and side.
Speaker 2: I want to say, one more thing to do is
Speaker 2: post a monologue and tag me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, post monologue and tag me.
Speaker 2: At I am Robbie Reid on that on Instagram.
Speaker 3: And Twitter I am you read, don't you know a minute?
Speaker 1: One minute? Yeah, because when we were in real life,
Speaker 1: two minutes saves log right, But on it's.
Speaker 2: Great, I mean, oh my god, yeah, I mean you
Speaker 2: really can see it all of my open casting calls
Speaker 2: that have done in the last five years. You know,
Speaker 2: some people coming, they get one minute to show whatever
Speaker 2: talent they have.
Speaker 3: You want to show me you can sing?
Speaker 2: Use your people did singing, acting and dancing in a minute.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, No, you're right, You're absolutely right. I want
Speaker 1: to acknowledge to our audience that Robbie has an Emmy award,
Speaker 1: you guys like it's somewhere in her house. She got
Speaker 1: an Emmy, Okay, And and is are you the first
Speaker 1: African American Robbie.
Speaker 2: Yes, I am the first African American to being nominated
Speaker 2: and win an Emmy for casting.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's major, that's just I mean when you were
Speaker 1: the year you were nominated for HBO to Skeigee Airman,
Speaker 1: I was, you know, just indirectly, just you know, I
Speaker 1: was rooting you on, and I just remember it being
Speaker 1: such a huge deal in our community. Casting Tracy Villar,
Speaker 1: Tracy Runcy Wins Sinclair, we were all like Robbie right,
Speaker 1: such a great accomplishment and an amazing project. Amazing project
Speaker 1: and how timely in a way where I heard last
Speaker 1: night on CNN one of the uhmen, but they were
Speaker 1: speaking of the Cuskegee Airmen and they were saying, how
Speaker 1: this is why black people are skeptical about vaccinations because
Speaker 1: of what you did. Yeah, so last night I was like, wow,
Speaker 1: Robbie cast that it got to Ivy looking crazy, and
Speaker 1: that's where we are today, you know, trying to trust
Speaker 1: the government and giving us a accipen. So you know,
Speaker 1: but you guys, I think that for me, it was
Speaker 1: groundbreaking when you won the award. It just felt like, wow,
Speaker 1: we could get awards, you know, so proud, thank you,
Speaker 1: so proud that you have that award there. Also, I
Speaker 1: did want to acknowledge the spiritual side, since you know
Speaker 1: this is the spiritual actor. But I have tapped in
Speaker 1: with you and Devon Franklin, my lord actors, and I
Speaker 1: always say actors need to be able to retreat somewhere
Speaker 1: for peace, and can you tell us how that started?
Speaker 1: And you know what led you to do that?
Speaker 3: Wow?
Speaker 2: Well, let's see it's doctor Holly Carter and I who's
Speaker 2: you know, Holly is a producer.
Speaker 3: Been doing amazing work lately.
Speaker 2: God, it's just really blowing her all the way up
Speaker 2: and all the way live. Clay and I have been
Speaker 2: friends for over twenty years and we managed Kirk Franklin together. Actually, yeah,
Speaker 2: over twenty years ago. She was the agent, I was
Speaker 2: the manager and.
Speaker 3: It was awesome and we're all still friends. Kirk Kirk
Speaker 3: is our brother.
Speaker 2: So Holly and I were on a retreat, a women's
Speaker 2: retreat spiritual and both of us was in the mountains
Speaker 2: and we both were, you know, given a word and
Speaker 2: it was put on our heart to start a Bible
Speaker 2: study for people in the industry. And you know, we
Speaker 2: were burdened with that, you know, because it was truly
Speaker 2: heaven sent, and we attempted.
Speaker 3: We were like, okay, all right, God, this is how
Speaker 3: we'll do it. We'll just do it at lunchtime.
Speaker 2: And we see a few people at lunch and we
Speaker 2: tried to bring other people in, and of course that
Speaker 2: didn't work because God was like.
Speaker 3: Now what I did, you didn't do We On June no.
Speaker 2: May twelfth, two thousand and seven, I opened the doors
Speaker 2: of my house and we had our first Bible study
Speaker 2: and send.
Speaker 3: God gave me the name of Sin exclamation point VI.
Speaker 2: And you know, people just came to my house every fourth,
Speaker 2: every fourth Tuesday of the month.
Speaker 3: It was just beautiful.
Speaker 2: Lives were saved, change, people got married, industry, and we
Speaker 2: had a wonderful woman pastor out Via Sims, who was
Speaker 2: the speaker and teacher for the first several years, seven years,
Speaker 2: and then she, you know, something happened in her schedule.
Speaker 2: She wasn't as available and pastor to Ray Roberts and
Speaker 2: Devon Franklin then became our speakers and it just you know,
Speaker 2: just had a natural progression. You know, it was de
Speaker 2: Vaughn and we've been going strong. I mean, so twenty
Speaker 2: two thousand and seven, what are we at?
Speaker 1: This is thirteen Wow, you know.
Speaker 2: It to be out through my house and you know,
Speaker 2: because we knew we had to open the doors wind up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, now you know.
Speaker 3: It's virtually everywhere.
Speaker 2: In fact, we have we'll be sitting out in a
Speaker 2: flyer because we're going to do it next Tuesday.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm going to put it on the Instagram and
Speaker 1: I want to put it on my because it's just
Speaker 1: a blessing. Like I just think that that's the part
Speaker 1: for me, that is the human connection and just your
Speaker 1: love and generosity, because especially now you know what I
Speaker 1: think about the Broadway actors, and I just think about
Speaker 1: just people in general. You know, people need a hug,
Speaker 1: and this feels like the first time I went in,
Speaker 1: I just felt like a hug. I felt like, oh man,
Speaker 1: this feels good for your spirits. So kudos to you
Speaker 1: guys and all of you actors and just people in
Speaker 1: general who are listening. You should really check on my
Speaker 1: Instagram the Spirited Actor, because I'm going to be posting
Speaker 1: it and we're posting it everywhere. So, Asbrus said, twenty
Speaker 1: eight minutes flew by, and we are at the end,
Speaker 1: and I'm so sad because I never get to see Robbie.
Speaker 1: Only in September now when we have Urban World.
Speaker 3: Oh gosh, that was.
Speaker 1: That's okay, we're coming back. I know we're coming back.
Speaker 3: They are and it's a big year, right yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: I believe that if you could just leave our audience
Speaker 1: with some diamonds and pearls, because you gave us a lot,
Speaker 1: but if you could give us a few more that
Speaker 1: they need on this journey towards their dreams.
Speaker 2: Well, I think the main thing I love to leave
Speaker 2: people with is this, and it really is my mantra
Speaker 2: because it truly is the truth, and that is whoever
Speaker 2: is supposed to be in the movie will end up
Speaker 2: with the movie.
Speaker 3: Whoever is supposed to have the role.
Speaker 2: Will end up with the role, which means what's for
Speaker 2: you is for you. So the best thing you can do,
Speaker 2: when given opportunities is to win the room, not the role.
Speaker 3: Leave an impression.
Speaker 2: So when your moment comes, you will get it because
Speaker 2: if it's yours and your name is on it, that
Speaker 2: means nobody else will have it.
Speaker 3: You, guys, believe that it's the God's truth.
Speaker 5: For you.
Speaker 1: That's I mean, that's for actors. But I receive that
Speaker 1: and I know everybody on this podcast received it as well. Amen.
Speaker 1: I told you, guys, I told you that this was
Speaker 1: going to be it. I told you. Now you can
Speaker 1: levitate through your day because this is all you need.
Speaker 1: This is all you need right now. Robbie, when I say,
Speaker 1: I am grateful and I feel so blessed to know
Speaker 1: you all these DearS and to be you are my
Speaker 1: soul sister for real, my soul sister. And we go
Speaker 1: have that book sued, right, Robbie.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, I'll come back and talk about it.
Speaker 1: Robbie, I got an agent for you. I already have
Speaker 1: a literary agent for you and everything set up.
Speaker 3: I'm telling you, okay, okay, that's comprehended it.
Speaker 1: I'm just going to email you that's it, and then
Speaker 1: I'm going to allow God to work in God's ways.
Speaker 3: Look at him, he's already working.
Speaker 1: Okay. Amen, Amen, ladies and gentlemen, once again, put your
Speaker 1: hands together for casting director Spiritual be extraordinariy Robbie Reed.
Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you so much.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Robbie, thank you, And we will be back
Speaker 1: on the Spirited Actor Podcast with you know my favorite segment,
Speaker 1: Class in Session. Welcome back to the Spirited Actor Podcast
Speaker 1: with me Trey see More. And we are at class
Speaker 1: in session and class and session is where we play.
Speaker 1: And we are still blessed and you are still blessed
Speaker 1: to have guesting director Robbie read on. And so we
Speaker 1: have our two spirit Actor alumni. We have Lian Amato,
Speaker 1: who is also Robbie. I call her our writer in
Speaker 1: residence because she writes all the scenes. Lian and we
Speaker 1: have to Melissa Capri. Heay, and thank you Elsa for
Speaker 1: reading the direction. So we're going to start by reading
Speaker 1: the scene, and then after Robbie, whatever feedback criticism, you
Speaker 1: can just jump in and give it to him. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, everybody ready, Okay, else it's on you.
Speaker 6: He's for everybody. Written by Lean A Model exterior Keith
Speaker 6: South's front door day. Lisa rings the doorbell, surprised to
Speaker 6: see Michelle answer the door.
Speaker 3: Hi, I'm gonna say to get the rest of my stuff.
Speaker 6: Michelle opens the door and steps out the way for her.
Speaker 6: Lisa obviously knows where she's going.
Speaker 3: You don't have anything you want to say to me?
Speaker 4: Do you expect me to have something to say to you?
Speaker 3: No, I'm shocked that you could even face me right now.
Speaker 3: But I realized the character of who is that I'm talking.
Speaker 5: To, Blert. It's not like you wanted to be here, Lisa, Great.
Speaker 5: I mean, how could you be mad at the next
Speaker 5: one for stepping up someone was going to do it.
Speaker 3: When the next one was the one who knew what
Speaker 3: was going on all along. That's foul as hell.
Speaker 7: Michelle, you knew everything that I was dealing with. How
Speaker 7: could you use that against me and then slide your
Speaker 7: way in. That's some thirsty ass shit looking for a
Speaker 7: come up. Lisa proceeds to get her stuff. Michelle grabs
Speaker 7: her arm to stop her. Lisa pulls back.
Speaker 5: Let's say what you want, Lisa, but this it's not
Speaker 5: place now, So please get your stuff and step out.
Speaker 5: Respect me.
Speaker 7: Oh my god, I think that you're forgetting who did
Speaker 7: Who's wrong here?
Speaker 3: He could go please and you're gonna see that figure
Speaker 3: damn self.
Speaker 7: But when someone that I consider closer than family betrays
Speaker 7: me like this and you're making me feel wrong about it,
Speaker 7: it's really fucked up, Michelle.
Speaker 4: So it wasn't meant to go this way. I mean,
Speaker 4: you know me better than that. It a'll just it happened.
Speaker 3: What happened to God doesn't like ugly Mama.
Speaker 4: She deserves a hell of a lot more than what
Speaker 4: you have to give me, more than you wanted to get.
Speaker 5: He was just so concerned with getting yourself together this
Speaker 5: whole time.
Speaker 4: Let's be honest. Most of all, she deserved kids, and
Speaker 4: you knew that. Who come at me like that?
Speaker 5: It's really low, Michelle Slow.
Speaker 7: She does deserve it, but he didn't need it from
Speaker 7: my best friend, it's all good.
Speaker 3: You'll see, Sis has asked time.
Speaker 6: They both noticed Keith pulled into the driveway. Lisa walks
Speaker 6: out with her stuff, passing him, both playing like they
Speaker 6: don't care. He walks into greet Michelle, who's smiling at
Speaker 6: him as he proceeds in on the phone, distracted yet
Speaker 6: confused at what he just saw.
Speaker 1: And good ladies, Okay, all right, good scene. Okay, So
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna throw it to you, Robbie, and whatever
Speaker 1: you feel, it is great.
Speaker 3: And I believe both of you.
Speaker 2: The thing that for me, I'm always looking for someone
Speaker 2: to make me forget that I'm watching them act right.
Speaker 2: So you guys immediately drew me in, you know, because
Speaker 2: you approached it from a very truthful, honest place.
Speaker 3: This is hard.
Speaker 2: So it was, you know, it was believable.
Speaker 3: You're you know, I could hear you your projection.
Speaker 2: Like you did everything right, and then the characters.
Speaker 3: You were believable in those characters.
Speaker 2: So do you know as a from from a casting,
Speaker 2: you know, point of view, I could see where you
Speaker 2: would be cast in that role, and you would be
Speaker 2: cast in that role, she Lisa.
Speaker 3: So that's also an important thing, So thank you.
Speaker 1: Thanks, Wow, yeah, and I have to say with because
Speaker 1: I've known both of them, but they both are so
Speaker 1: they do their due diligence and their craft. And one
Speaker 1: thing I wrote down and put exclamations they invest in themselves.
Speaker 1: So thank you Robbie, because when you said that, I
Speaker 1: was like, that is what so I always like to
Speaker 1: they have all the information, right, ladies, you took down
Speaker 1: Robbie Reid, BT casting all of that right, and.
Speaker 3: You leave photos sen it to me.
Speaker 1: Yay, all right, well, once again I want my audience
Speaker 1: to put their hands together and again you guys had
Speaker 1: a tremendous blessing. So I just blow sprinkle dust and
Speaker 1: pray that you take it with you because these are
Speaker 1: the nuggets that you need on your journey, and especially
Speaker 1: from someone like casting director Robbie Reid and producer. Thank
Speaker 1: you so much for Robby. Once to you, Thank you
Speaker 1: and thank you, and we'll be back on the Spirited
Speaker 1: Actor podcast with me Tracy Moore and we're going to
Speaker 1: give love. And now it's time to give love. You
Speaker 1: guys need to get fired up. I need people to
Speaker 1: get fired up. I need you to jump out of
Speaker 1: your bed in the morning, be grateful that you're standing
Speaker 1: on your own two feet. I need you to get
Speaker 1: fired up by your life. I need you to get
Speaker 1: fired up by the possibilities. I need you to get
Speaker 1: fired up with your dreams and dream big. If you're
Speaker 1: going to do it, dream big. Don't edit your dreams.
Speaker 1: Don't even get yourself involved in how it's going to
Speaker 1: happen or when it's going to happen. Just be fired
Speaker 1: up that it can happen. I need you to be
Speaker 1: fired up about twenty twenty one. Yes, we've all had challenges,
Speaker 1: and it's been long, and it's been dark, and there
Speaker 1: have been moments of doubt and fear. But it's a
Speaker 1: brand new day. It's a brand new time. And if
Speaker 1: we focus all our thoughts into getting fired up about
Speaker 1: this new year, embracing it with new hope, new vision,
Speaker 1: and new possibilities, we can live a very peaceful, abundant
Speaker 1: and happy life. Get fired up because it's not promised
Speaker 1: to us, and what is promised, You need to live
Speaker 1: your life with fire. Thank you for joining us on
Speaker 1: the Spirited Actor Podcast with me Tracy Moore. I look
Speaker 1: forward to our next Spirited podcast. Thank you,