WEBVTT - Belissa Is A Beauty 0:00:00.920 --> 0:00:04.200 This is he said a yadjo with Eric Winter and 0:00:04.280 --> 0:00:05.240 Rodlin fantag. 0:00:08.680 --> 0:00:12.080 Oh let me, he said, Yeah, I'm so excited to 0:00:12.200 --> 0:00:15.520 have this guest with us today. She is a new 0:00:15.560 --> 0:00:18.520 generation of Latin representation in Hollywood. 0:00:18.840 --> 0:00:21.000 She got her big break on ABC's The Baker in 0:00:21.040 --> 0:00:22.880 the Beauty Show that we watched. We had a little 0:00:22.920 --> 0:00:25.840 friends in that show. She starred in the highly anticipated 0:00:25.960 --> 0:00:29.880 hocus Pocus Too and played milagro Reyes in Blue Beetle. 0:00:30.040 --> 0:00:33.159 And she's currently starring with Riba McIntyre on the ABC's 0:00:33.240 --> 0:00:34.360 hit show Happy. 0:00:34.120 --> 0:00:36.879 So on ABC, Stay there again, you said, oh, And. 0:00:36.840 --> 0:00:40.320 She's currently starring with Riba McIntyre on the NBC's hit 0:00:40.400 --> 0:00:48.440 show Happiest Place. Please Welcome to the show. Belisa Escobedo Hello, Hello, Hey, Hi, 0:00:49.360 --> 0:00:49.960 how are you. 0:00:50.560 --> 0:00:52.280 I'm good? How are you guys? 0:00:52.440 --> 0:00:54.840 We're so good, so good on. 0:00:55.200 --> 0:00:57.600 Thank you so much for having me. This is awesome. 0:00:57.800 --> 0:00:59.840 We're saying we're fans of yours in from Baker in 0:00:59.880 --> 0:01:02.840 the Beauty We loved that show. We had Lisa that 0:01:02.920 --> 0:01:04.240 was a very close friend of ours. 0:01:04.560 --> 0:01:08.640 Yes, Lisa, I love her so much. Lisa is such 0:01:08.680 --> 0:01:09.160 a good show. 0:01:09.319 --> 0:01:12.880 I know. Lisa is like my sister I love. I 0:01:13.040 --> 0:01:18.120 love Lisa so much and even Carlos Card. Yeah, the 0:01:18.160 --> 0:01:19.720 show was so great and you and you showed this 0:01:19.800 --> 0:01:22.440 in Puerto Rico, which was so dear to me. 0:01:22.600 --> 0:01:26.840 Oh my gosh, always Puerto Rico. I've had two projects 0:01:26.840 --> 0:01:29.479 now that shot there. Blue Beetle, we shot a little 0:01:29.480 --> 0:01:33.400 bit of it there. Oh yes, yeah, so it's so crazy. 0:01:33.480 --> 0:01:35.840 I just you know, I'm not I'm Mexican, I'm not 0:01:35.840 --> 0:01:39.399 Puerto Rican, but I have such this like huge connection 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:42.840 to Puerto Rico because all of my like most pivotal 0:01:42.840 --> 0:01:44.280 projects have been shot out there. 0:01:44.400 --> 0:01:45.560 So yeah, I. 0:01:45.520 --> 0:01:46.080 Love it there. 0:01:47.040 --> 0:01:48.960 I love that you're an La native as well. I 0:01:48.960 --> 0:01:51.880 grew up in La myself. I know you're South Pasadena. 0:01:51.920 --> 0:01:54.800 My my dad grew up in Pasadena. Oh my god, 0:01:55.000 --> 0:01:58.440 family Altadina. I grew up in La Pente, City of Industry, 0:01:58.440 --> 0:01:59.120 if you know that area. 0:01:59.160 --> 0:02:03.600 But yeah, yeah, I actually went to uh grew up 0:02:03.640 --> 0:02:06.200 in South past for a bit, and then I moved 0:02:06.200 --> 0:02:08.360 to Whittier and so that's where I went to like 0:02:08.480 --> 0:02:12.840 middle school and finish out my high school years out there. 0:02:13.040 --> 0:02:16.400 High school, well, I didn't go to high school out there. 0:02:16.600 --> 0:02:20.640 I actually I auditioned for Loxa, La County High School 0:02:20.680 --> 0:02:24.080 for the Arts. It's a public school out here, and 0:02:24.160 --> 0:02:27.440 so I ended up commuting there every day, but went 0:02:27.480 --> 0:02:29.760 to Hillview Middle School in Whittier. 0:02:30.120 --> 0:02:32.600 So you always knew you wanted to be in entertainment 0:02:32.639 --> 0:02:34.440 as an actress. That's what that's what the focus was 0:02:34.440 --> 0:02:35.480 in your performing. 0:02:35.200 --> 0:02:39.440 Arts pretty much. Yeah. I think in like fifth grade, 0:02:39.560 --> 0:02:41.880 I got to do a school play and that was 0:02:41.919 --> 0:02:45.720 the first time I kind of channeled all this energy 0:02:45.800 --> 0:02:49.760 I had inside of me, and standing on that stage, 0:02:49.840 --> 0:02:53.040 I was like, Oh, this is this is the feeling 0:02:53.080 --> 0:02:56.840 I've been looking for, and it was just It's so 0:02:57.040 --> 0:03:00.000 I'm sure all of you remember your first time before 0:03:00.320 --> 0:03:03.000 and that feeling of being like, oh, this is what 0:03:03.040 --> 0:03:04.840 I want to do. This is the feeling I'm going 0:03:04.880 --> 0:03:07.120 to chase forever like I. 0:03:07.000 --> 0:03:08.160 Had the opposite. 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:12.919 Like for me, she's you completely like I wanted to 0:03:12.960 --> 0:03:16.240 be an actress, performer her whole life. I was, so 0:03:16.560 --> 0:03:18.679 I got approach to being in the business. When I 0:03:18.720 --> 0:03:22.440 was in junior high I was so afraid. I was like, 0:03:22.720 --> 0:03:25.200 in front of my peers, I could be big, loud, 0:03:25.240 --> 0:03:28.239 have fun, be myself, but public speaking or being in 0:03:28.280 --> 0:03:30.520 front of people watching me. I would be so nervous, 0:03:30.760 --> 0:03:34.000 freaked out. Tried a couple things in classes. I was like, Nope, 0:03:34.120 --> 0:03:36.000 not for me, he can't do it. It wasn't until 0:03:36.040 --> 0:03:39.800 my twenties that I actually resurfaced back into the entertainment 0:03:39.840 --> 0:03:43.040 space and took a drama class in college and was like, Okay, 0:03:43.080 --> 0:03:45.320 this is kind of fun. I've shed some of my 0:03:45.360 --> 0:03:48.560 insecurities of being nervous. Still took a while for that 0:03:48.640 --> 0:03:51.240 to fully fade throughout my career, where I was just like, 0:03:51.280 --> 0:03:51.920 I don't care anymore. 0:03:51.920 --> 0:03:52.920 I'm gonna do whatever I need to do. 0:03:53.760 --> 0:03:56.360 Before me, even when I met you, you didn't love 0:03:56.400 --> 0:03:59.880 a public speaking at all. Still you'll be petrified about 0:04:00.000 --> 0:04:01.600 well I have to speak in public. No, I'm going 0:04:01.600 --> 0:04:03.160 you've you're actually very good at it. 0:04:03.280 --> 0:04:05.560 No, you're more comfortable, more comfortable, but not I was. 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:09.480 I've always been more then. I think acting has become 0:04:09.560 --> 0:04:11.640 easier for me in that sense that you're not looking right. 0:04:11.760 --> 0:04:15.040 I mean, I'm looking at my partner, acting opposite somebody 0:04:15.120 --> 0:04:17.279 or a group, but I'm not speaking to a crowd 0:04:17.320 --> 0:04:21.080 that's just staring at me. That is a whole different beast. 0:04:21.120 --> 0:04:23.080 Like great public speakers, but I'm getting better at that. 0:04:23.160 --> 0:04:24.400 I was the opposite. It would be like, do you 0:04:24.440 --> 0:04:26.280 want me to perform from you? I can dance, I can. 0:04:27.800 --> 0:04:29.360 Give me a microphone, I'll do anything. 0:04:29.600 --> 0:04:30.119 I'm ready. 0:04:30.160 --> 0:04:30.640 I'm ready. 0:04:30.680 --> 0:04:33.360 I what was your first you know gig that sort 0:04:33.360 --> 0:04:36.040 of set the path where you're going. Your parents are going, Okay, 0:04:36.080 --> 0:04:38.080 this is uh, it's working, this is what she wants 0:04:38.120 --> 0:04:41.400 to wants to do, and it's happening, I'd. 0:04:41.160 --> 0:04:46.120 Say, because I didn't start auditioning for anything. My parents 0:04:46.160 --> 0:04:48.719 were like, we love you, we support you, but we 0:04:48.800 --> 0:04:51.479 have no way, Like, we don't know how to get 0:04:51.520 --> 0:04:54.360 you in there, we don't know what classes to take. 0:04:54.920 --> 0:04:57.880 So I kind of just sought it out all online. 0:04:58.120 --> 0:05:01.720 And it wasn't until I dropped out of college and 0:05:01.839 --> 0:05:03.719 moved back home. I went to the New School for 0:05:03.800 --> 0:05:07.359 Drama in New York, moved back home, moved back in 0:05:07.400 --> 0:05:12.840 with my mom, and started doing community theater GASA and 0:05:12.880 --> 0:05:18.279 Boyle Heights. Josefina Lopez runs that theater and she's you know, 0:05:18.400 --> 0:05:23.440 so pivotal to the Latino Arts and anyway, that was 0:05:23.440 --> 0:05:27.560 my first time kind of like booking something. It was, 0:05:28.080 --> 0:05:32.440 you know, first theater production and then they actually helped 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:36.560 me get the ABC Discovered showcase and that's how I 0:05:36.640 --> 0:05:41.440 first got my agent and my manager. So they've been 0:05:41.480 --> 0:05:44.720 such a blessing and I'm such a like community theater advocate. 0:05:45.600 --> 0:05:46.240 That's incredible. 0:05:46.240 --> 0:05:48.080 And we have a lot of listeners that ask questions 0:05:48.080 --> 0:05:49.600 like that all the time, like how do I get in? 0:05:49.640 --> 0:05:50.200 What do I do? 0:05:50.279 --> 0:05:53.560 And right, everybody's got a different journey to getting to 0:05:53.600 --> 0:05:55.560 that place of getting to break whatever it is, whether 0:05:55.680 --> 0:05:57.800 like the ABC program is huge, A lot of people 0:05:57.880 --> 0:05:59.880 come out of that because it opens a lot of opportunity. 0:06:00.760 --> 0:06:03.640 So for the Baker on the Beauty, they they saw 0:06:03.680 --> 0:06:07.000 I'm assuming they saw you at this showcase, so they okay, 0:06:07.000 --> 0:06:08.640 so they were familiar with your work and then you 0:06:08.680 --> 0:06:10.159 auditioned for the Baker on the Beauty. 0:06:10.680 --> 0:06:14.320 Yes, Baker in the Beauty was actually my third audition 0:06:14.480 --> 0:06:17.040 that I had ever been on with my agencies, and 0:06:17.640 --> 0:06:21.960 so it was nerve wracking and I was just like 0:06:22.040 --> 0:06:24.200 going along with it. I was like, Okay, we've got 0:06:24.240 --> 0:06:26.800 the callback. Okay, cool, and you know, mind you my 0:06:26.880 --> 0:06:33.520 agents are like dang like this. But they were so 0:06:33.640 --> 0:06:36.880 great and kind of just like not freaking me out 0:06:36.880 --> 0:06:39.359 in the beginning, but also being like this is really good, 0:06:39.600 --> 0:06:44.040 like keep you know. So they were great. They were 0:06:44.040 --> 0:06:46.599 great kind of easing me into it while. 0:06:46.440 --> 0:06:49.520 You were working to get that opportunity where you did 0:06:49.560 --> 0:06:51.560 you have another job on the side that you were 0:06:51.560 --> 0:06:53.679 helping to navigate through. 0:06:54.360 --> 0:06:59.160 Yes, I've actually off and on up until twenty twenty three, 0:06:59.320 --> 0:07:02.760 I've been a briefsta cocktail waitress, just kind of going 0:07:02.839 --> 0:07:08.159 back and forth. Really yeah, yeah, and I appreciate that 0:07:08.360 --> 0:07:10.560 so much. I feel like it truly has shaped me 0:07:11.400 --> 0:07:13.480 into the type of person and the type of artist 0:07:13.560 --> 0:07:17.440 I am. You know, it's very humbling to be serving 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:19.120 someone a coffee and they're like, didn't I just see 0:07:19.160 --> 0:07:20.560 you in a movie? 0:07:20.640 --> 0:07:22.880 So so way, So after the BA, after the Baker 0:07:22.960 --> 0:07:24.680 on the Beauty, when it didn't come back from a 0:07:24.680 --> 0:07:26.840 second season, you went back to being a barista. 0:07:27.360 --> 0:07:32.720 I did went back to being a barista after before 0:07:32.760 --> 0:07:35.320 I did Blue Beetle, I was bristaying. And then after 0:07:35.360 --> 0:07:37.680 Blue Beetle, you know the strike kids, So I was 0:07:38.520 --> 0:07:42.120 I was back in the barista. I went to bartending 0:07:42.160 --> 0:07:44.240 for a bit for like a solid year. 0:07:45.360 --> 0:07:46.520 Yeah amazing. 0:07:46.680 --> 0:07:48.680 I mean I love this kind of stuff because this 0:07:48.760 --> 0:07:51.520 is what people need to hear when it comes to 0:07:51.560 --> 0:07:54.560 our business, like, there's absolutely again, there's no linear path 0:07:54.760 --> 0:07:58.960 to success. You can be rocking on you know, some program. 0:07:59.120 --> 0:08:00.520 First of all, it's hard to get a show that 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:02.280 even gets on the air. Then you get a show 0:08:02.280 --> 0:08:03.920 that gets on the air, show gets. 0:08:03.680 --> 0:08:06.560 Canceled, fun show. You're like, oh, this could go another season. Nope. 0:08:06.800 --> 0:08:08.640 Now I want to go back to working to make 0:08:08.640 --> 0:08:10.600 some money to do my passion and get my other 0:08:10.680 --> 0:08:13.400 career going that I really want. You get a huge movie, 0:08:14.160 --> 0:08:17.600 strike hits. People don't understand how it affects everybody. You 0:08:17.640 --> 0:08:20.200 know different, and everybody thinks if you're in Hollywood, you're 0:08:20.240 --> 0:08:22.120 on a big movie, you're on a big show. You 0:08:22.120 --> 0:08:23.920 don't have to do anything. You just have everything at 0:08:23.920 --> 0:08:27.080 your fingertips. And it's like, no, our business is very finicky. 0:08:27.560 --> 0:08:31.280 It's tricky to navigate, and yes, you still need to 0:08:31.280 --> 0:08:33.839 make money to pay your bills to then pursue the 0:08:33.960 --> 0:08:36.800 dream of getting something that's stable and ongoing. 0:08:45.679 --> 0:08:47.800 Oh my god, well, Lisan, you came out of stage 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:51.240 in the business that is so unpredictable, and he's so unstable, 0:08:51.360 --> 0:08:55.439 you know, because my god, because your first big gig 0:08:55.640 --> 0:09:00.559 was the Bacon and the beauty and then pandemic and 0:09:01.080 --> 0:09:03.360 those two things have been brutal for the business. You know, 0:09:03.400 --> 0:09:05.840 it's never been it's never been the same. Yeah, it's 0:09:05.880 --> 0:09:08.040 never been the same. And we're hoping and hoping. It's 0:09:08.040 --> 0:09:11.240 funny because I keep hearing my team, right, my manager, 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:13.959 my agent, they're always like, it's gonna start picking up. Oh, 0:09:13.960 --> 0:09:16.160 it's gonna get better. Oh it's gonna start picking up. 0:09:16.160 --> 0:09:18.520 And I'm going saying that for two years. It's like, 0:09:18.600 --> 0:09:21.520 what the heck is going on? It's really it's pretty brutal. 0:09:21.640 --> 0:09:25.200 So any work that we get it is indeed a 0:09:25.200 --> 0:09:27.240 blessing because you you just never know. 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:30.800 It absolutely is and that it is such a big 0:09:30.960 --> 0:09:33.840 misconception and it's you know, one that I had to 0:09:33.920 --> 0:09:37.560 kind of realize as well after my first show of like, Okay, 0:09:37.600 --> 0:09:40.360 this isn't that's it. I never have to work again. 0:09:41.040 --> 0:09:44.920 You know. It's rough, and I think the biggest thing 0:09:45.000 --> 0:09:47.960 with this industry is you just have to have like 0:09:48.880 --> 0:09:51.400 a solid backbone and just feel like I'm going to 0:09:51.480 --> 0:09:54.720 keep going because there are so many no's and even 0:09:54.760 --> 0:09:58.200 from the yes's, like there's still a no coming and 0:09:58.240 --> 0:10:01.360 that's it's gonna hurt, and it's like, you know, you 0:10:01.400 --> 0:10:03.640 get beat down and you just have to keep you 0:10:03.679 --> 0:10:06.600 have to go back again, and that's hard. I won't 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:09.240 say that that's an easy thing to keep getting up. 0:10:09.320 --> 0:10:09.800 It's hard. 0:10:10.040 --> 0:10:12.560 Listen, and I'm sure you know that I've been doing 0:10:12.559 --> 0:10:15.320 this for a long time. Right before, right before I 0:10:15.360 --> 0:10:18.040 came to record this podcast with you, I get this 0:10:18.040 --> 0:10:21.160 phone call from my agent and this is Ross and 0:10:21.200 --> 0:10:24.199 they sent me the email maybe a couple of weeks back. 0:10:24.280 --> 0:10:26.280 I didn't really pay attention to it because it shoots 0:10:26.280 --> 0:10:28.440 in Miami, and I love Miami, but it means that 0:10:28.480 --> 0:10:30.880 I will have to once again leave my family for 0:10:30.920 --> 0:10:33.600 like six months at a time. But it's really interesting. 0:10:33.600 --> 0:10:35.440 But you know what, agents they keep pushing, you know, 0:10:35.480 --> 0:10:38.440 because their main focus is for you to do a job. 0:10:38.960 --> 0:10:41.080 And so he calls me again, says Ross. You know 0:10:41.120 --> 0:10:43.240 they call it again. It's for Peacock. Is this thing 0:10:43.440 --> 0:10:47.640 is straight to series? This is the name. It shoots 0:10:47.640 --> 0:10:50.160 in Miami. I know because of your lifestyle and your 0:10:50.200 --> 0:10:52.360 kids and you, it's going to be a no. But 0:10:53.280 --> 0:10:55.559 I think you should read it. You should read it. 0:10:56.000 --> 0:10:58.800 And the character is not on the pilot, but they're 0:10:58.880 --> 0:11:03.520 sending only you the scenes of the second and third 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:07.040 episode that the character is in for you for you 0:11:07.080 --> 0:11:09.480 to please read it to see if you're interested. Now 0:11:11.080 --> 0:11:13.120 they don't want to They're not ready for an offer, 0:11:13.320 --> 0:11:15.920 so they don't they don't want to send you an offer. 0:11:16.120 --> 0:11:20.280 They might want you to read with the director. And 0:11:20.360 --> 0:11:26.679 I was like, very just pass you know what i mean, 0:11:26.760 --> 0:11:29.800 I'm going if you know already that this is something 0:11:29.800 --> 0:11:32.240 that I'm going to say no, And now you're telling 0:11:32.280 --> 0:11:34.480 me that they want me to read for something that 0:11:34.520 --> 0:11:36.880 I'm like the third lead. Are they out of their minds? 0:11:38.520 --> 0:11:42.320 It's like really, and it puts it puts everything into 0:11:42.360 --> 0:11:45.760 perspective when it shows you things are so difficult. It 0:11:45.760 --> 0:11:49.600 doesn't really matter at what level you are at. You 0:11:49.679 --> 0:11:52.079 have to fight for things like you just started. 0:11:52.679 --> 0:12:00.320 Always just limited the amount of programming. Every so every 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:02.840 movie starting the planet is doing TV. So it just 0:12:02.880 --> 0:12:04.840 taking away more jobs from people that are coming up 0:12:05.000 --> 0:12:07.400 or just TV people that have worked in TV for years, 0:12:07.760 --> 0:12:10.360 because it's just all a big mess as far as 0:12:10.520 --> 0:12:13.320 it's all crossover mess, you know, as far as opportunity goes. 0:12:13.679 --> 0:12:15.840 Yeah, And I feel like right now such a big 0:12:15.880 --> 0:12:20.040 thing that's like kind of hitting the surface? Is everything 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:23.600 shooting in crazy places? I know, Like I heard about this. 0:12:24.440 --> 0:12:26.559 I don't know which network it was, but it kind 0:12:26.559 --> 0:12:29.880 of like a sitcom and it was shooting in like Scotland. 0:12:30.200 --> 0:12:30.960 Is it for Fox? 0:12:31.640 --> 0:12:34.079 I think it might be, yes, because Fox. 0:12:33.760 --> 0:12:38.160 Is doing most content overseas. Scotland's become a huge hub, 0:12:38.200 --> 0:12:41.120 even for comedy and a lot of their comedies. Even 0:12:41.280 --> 0:12:42.960 for sure in Canada, it used to be if you 0:12:42.960 --> 0:12:45.520 were doing a comedy it was la comedies were always 0:12:45.520 --> 0:12:47.800 going to be la. Dramas you could have to relocate, 0:12:47.800 --> 0:12:50.400 but there was still a lot of dramas here. Now 0:12:50.520 --> 0:12:52.160 I know for a fact that Fox is doing a 0:12:52.200 --> 0:12:55.800 lot overseas, and I've heard Scotland Lana Parilla. 0:12:56.360 --> 0:12:57.000 Is that for Fox? 0:12:57.000 --> 0:12:58.480 I don't know, but she's doing a show and it's 0:12:58.520 --> 0:13:01.160 in Scotland. In Scotland, I think it might be for Fox. 0:13:01.640 --> 0:13:03.599 Is it? It might be that she went all the 0:13:03.640 --> 0:13:04.199 way there. 0:13:04.240 --> 0:13:07.120 For drama that I don't think it has to be set. 0:13:07.160 --> 0:13:07.680 I don't know if it does. 0:13:08.000 --> 0:13:10.800 I am about to leave to go to Budapest, Hungary 0:13:11.080 --> 0:13:13.920 for five weeks for a movie that is a home 0:13:13.960 --> 0:13:20.559 invasion and the house is supposed to be in Georgia. 0:13:21.440 --> 0:13:25.880 Why are we going to even Atlanta doesn't work anymore. 0:13:26.840 --> 0:13:33.720 I was gonna say, this could be a stage. 0:13:33.080 --> 0:13:36.400 And I love traveling. That's amazing. I'm going to go 0:13:36.440 --> 0:13:40.960 to Budapest, but I'm going a home invasion out of Georgia. 0:13:41.400 --> 0:13:47.920 I'm like, it's very confusing, I know. Anyways, so it's well, 0:13:48.360 --> 0:13:50.520 talk to us about the sitcom now that you because 0:13:50.559 --> 0:13:51.439 you are working. 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:51.720 You're working. 0:13:54.000 --> 0:13:57.520 Yes, you got Reba McIntyre, who's who's I hear I've 0:13:57.559 --> 0:14:00.400 never worked with her here She's amazing, and you're angel. 0:14:02.520 --> 0:14:05.319 Talk to us about the show Happy, happiest place. 0:14:05.360 --> 0:14:08.400 Happiest place. Yes, we just got picked up for a 0:14:08.440 --> 0:14:14.120 second season, which is amazing, and yeah, happiest place. It's me. 0:14:14.440 --> 0:14:18.000 I play Reba McIntyre's half sister, which makes total sense 0:14:18.000 --> 0:14:20.200 because we look exactly alike. I've been told out my 0:14:20.240 --> 0:14:25.160 whole life. But it's just such a I you know, 0:14:25.800 --> 0:14:29.080 I think right now, so much content we make. It 0:14:29.120 --> 0:14:32.520 can be really intense and it can be emotionally taxing 0:14:32.560 --> 0:14:37.240 as the actor. And I just love this project because 0:14:37.680 --> 0:14:40.000 I mean not to be say happy so much, but 0:14:40.040 --> 0:14:42.960 it really is just a happy show. And you know 0:14:43.640 --> 0:14:46.120 it feels like I'm back in theater because we perform 0:14:46.160 --> 0:14:50.560 in front of a live audience. And I've gotten so 0:14:50.680 --> 0:14:52.800 lucky with the casts that I've been a part of. 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:56.000 This one included of just being surrounded by great people, 0:14:56.600 --> 0:15:01.400 people that I enjoy being around and who I learned 0:15:01.480 --> 0:15:05.880 from every day. You know, Riba, Melissa Peterman, and Rex 0:15:05.960 --> 0:15:10.280 Lynn are like legends in the industry, especially Melissa and 0:15:10.360 --> 0:15:13.600 Riba their sitcom queens, and so being able to watch 0:15:13.680 --> 0:15:17.840 them do what they're known for is like such an 0:15:17.840 --> 0:15:20.240 awesome feeling. And you know, you're just like, oh, of 0:15:20.280 --> 0:15:22.520 course you of course you're the queen of this, Like 0:15:22.800 --> 0:15:27.840 it's so easy. So it's such a fun experience. We 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:31.000 have Pablo Castel Blanco and to call A Black Alk 0:15:31.200 --> 0:15:34.520 as well on the show, and they bring in such 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:38.800 like just things I've never seen, just so different, and 0:15:38.840 --> 0:15:41.120 I'm just so happy that, you know, we're getting another 0:15:41.200 --> 0:15:42.760 chance to keep going with the story. 0:15:43.280 --> 0:15:46.240 It's huge, that's amazing. And listen, doing sitcom is not 0:15:46.480 --> 0:15:48.800 is not easy. I don't I don't do a lot 0:15:48.840 --> 0:15:49.400 of sitcoms. 0:15:49.400 --> 0:15:49.600 And the. 0:15:51.680 --> 0:15:55.880 What is the coach that I love? Oh my good goodness, Leslie, 0:15:56.280 --> 0:15:58.360 Leslie can I'm sure you've heard of Leslie Can. She 0:15:58.520 --> 0:16:01.160 deals with all the sitcom people. So every time that 0:16:01.640 --> 0:16:05.600 I'm tackling trying to do something like a three camp Leslie, 0:16:05.640 --> 0:16:10.320 it's very specific the timing, the one, two, three's the jokes, 0:16:10.800 --> 0:16:12.440 which gives me a little bit of a of a 0:16:12.480 --> 0:16:13.880 hard time because I'm going but I don't see it 0:16:13.920 --> 0:16:14.200 that way. 0:16:14.280 --> 0:16:14.440 You know. 0:16:14.480 --> 0:16:16.800 My rhythm is a little different. And to be able 0:16:16.840 --> 0:16:19.640 to do sitcom is a very very specific and special skill. 0:16:20.120 --> 0:16:26.240 And it's incredible how usually sitcom actors they go from 0:16:26.240 --> 0:16:28.800 one sitcom to the next and they have the casting 0:16:28.880 --> 0:16:31.840 directors and producers and networks. They have their group that 0:16:31.880 --> 0:16:34.000 they believe can tackle sitcom, you know, because it's a 0:16:34.040 --> 0:16:37.160 very different animal. So it's an incredible thing that right 0:16:37.200 --> 0:16:39.720 off the bat, you know, boom, you got a sitcom, 0:16:39.760 --> 0:16:42.040 which is it's not easy. It's not easy. 0:16:42.800 --> 0:16:48.280 Yeah, no, it definitely going into it learning how to 0:16:48.360 --> 0:16:52.560 work with that many you know, cameras and just totally different. 0:16:52.600 --> 0:16:54.960 I've been lucky where I've worked on a lot of 0:16:55.000 --> 0:16:59.160 films and coming off of like Focus Pocus and Blue Beetle, 0:16:59.600 --> 0:17:04.639 such different just ways of creating the art. You know, 0:17:05.160 --> 0:17:08.320 it's different process, the different things you have to think about. 0:17:09.600 --> 0:17:13.120 So it is a switch, and I think sometimes there 0:17:13.119 --> 0:17:16.159 can be this misconception as well that sitcoms are like easy, 0:17:16.600 --> 0:17:18.399 Like it's like, ah, you're just being up there and 0:17:18.400 --> 0:17:21.960 being silly at all. No, there's actually so much you're 0:17:22.000 --> 0:17:25.720 thinking about. You're trying not to get in your other 0:17:25.760 --> 0:17:30.320 persons shots, so you're like weirdly standing like this. And 0:17:30.440 --> 0:17:33.520 one thing is we can get a new scene thrown 0:17:33.560 --> 0:17:36.080 down and be like, hey, we got to film this, 0:17:36.440 --> 0:17:40.240 and it's you get five minutes and you're like, okay, okay, cool, 0:17:40.320 --> 0:17:43.880 let's go yes, And that's thrilling to me. I think 0:17:43.920 --> 0:17:47.400 it's like an adrenaline rush. But it's definitely something that 0:17:47.440 --> 0:17:51.520 I didn't expect going into it. It is a different 0:17:51.520 --> 0:17:54.879 beast to tackle and it's been fun learning. 0:17:55.720 --> 0:17:58.400 Yeah, is there a specific thing that you're looking forward 0:17:58.440 --> 0:18:04.120 to doing brought away or musical or like a fool 0:18:04.160 --> 0:18:06.840 on drama? Indeed, like what is your north? 0:18:07.920 --> 0:18:11.280 I would love to go back to theater just because 0:18:11.320 --> 0:18:14.240 that's that's where I first fell in love with acting, 0:18:15.000 --> 0:18:18.000 and being on a sitcom has given me like a 0:18:18.040 --> 0:18:21.960 taste of that, like live audience, feel again and Yeah. 0:18:21.960 --> 0:18:25.199 I think I'm really ready to just be on a 0:18:25.240 --> 0:18:28.280 stage again and be putting in the work and see 0:18:28.320 --> 0:18:31.160 it come from like this little baby to this huge production. 0:18:33.119 --> 0:18:37.400 And I always find that in any any project you're 0:18:37.400 --> 0:18:39.320 a part of you like bond with the cast, but 0:18:39.400 --> 0:18:43.240 with theater it's such like a blood in tears and sweat, 0:18:43.640 --> 0:18:45.199 and you come out of it and you're like, we 0:18:45.240 --> 0:18:47.080 did that, We did it. 0:18:47.040 --> 0:18:49.600 Beautiful, that's beautiful. Did you have one sibling? 0:18:50.800 --> 0:18:53.320 I do. I have an older brother that is. 0:18:53.240 --> 0:18:54.360 Not part of the arts at all. 0:18:55.080 --> 0:18:58.880 No. No, I'm the only one in my family so far. 0:18:58.920 --> 0:19:01.800 I've got a lot of younger cous but so far 0:19:01.920 --> 0:19:06.600 that has entered this industry, and so it's fun bringing 0:19:06.640 --> 0:19:07.760 them along for the ride too. 0:19:08.240 --> 0:19:10.760 I'm assuming they're so so proud and so happy, right, 0:19:10.800 --> 0:19:11.760 did they support? 0:19:13.000 --> 0:19:16.440 Yeah? They are. I think I think they've just kind 0:19:16.440 --> 0:19:19.560 of been rolling with it as well, like cheering me 0:19:19.640 --> 0:19:22.840 on every time. But I know sometimes they have moments 0:19:22.880 --> 0:19:24.679 where they're like, oh my gosh, I can't you know, 0:19:25.160 --> 0:19:27.479 I can't believe you're doing this. So it's awesome. 0:19:27.680 --> 0:19:31.200 You're on TV every week, right, Yeah. 0:19:31.080 --> 0:19:34.320 On a network show, which is incredible. Yes, And you're 0:19:34.359 --> 0:19:35.600 not in Scotland. 0:19:35.680 --> 0:19:37.600 And I'm not in Scotland. I get to shoot here. 0:19:38.440 --> 0:19:42.440 Yeah, that Scotland wouldn't be bad. It'd be amazing to gore. 0:19:42.600 --> 0:19:45.560 You're so lucky, like you go lucky too. He's been 0:19:45.560 --> 0:19:47.720 on a show for seven years that shoots like ten 0:19:47.720 --> 0:19:48.560 minutes from the house. 0:19:48.680 --> 0:19:49.879 Is unbelievable. 0:19:50.000 --> 0:19:52.480 It's beautiful. I'm going on, when is it going to 0:19:52.520 --> 0:19:53.520 be me? Everything? In God? 0:19:53.600 --> 0:19:53.919 Please? 0:19:54.040 --> 0:19:54.520 Please? 0:19:54.600 --> 0:19:55.280 I want to shoot it. 0:19:55.480 --> 0:19:57.840 I was manifesting it for years. I was passing on things. 0:19:57.880 --> 0:19:59.480 I was like, nope, I'm not gonna go, not gonna go. 0:19:59.480 --> 0:20:03.399 When you have kids, it becomes very complicated as far 0:20:03.440 --> 0:20:06.000 as coming and going and just at any moment. I 0:20:06.040 --> 0:20:08.600 think that's why it's been hard even for us now, 0:20:08.720 --> 0:20:11.920 is that because I'm here until my show is done, 0:20:12.200 --> 0:20:14.360 we have to kind of decide, all right, how long 0:20:14.400 --> 0:20:16.879 can you go? You know, kids aren't going to go 0:20:16.920 --> 0:20:18.639 there fully in school, so you got to pick and 0:20:18.720 --> 0:20:20.119