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You know, 0:01:03.120 --> 0:01:05.160 my life is really a cool life and I get 0:01:05.160 --> 0:01:07.800 the experience and talk to many different people and no 0:01:07.920 --> 0:01:10.440 different than the day. And on this episode, Welcome to 0:01:10.480 --> 0:01:13.399 Money Making Conversation. I'm your host, ro Sean McDonald. Each 0:01:13.440 --> 0:01:17.440 Money Making Conversation talk shows about entrepreneurship and entertainment. I 0:01:17.520 --> 0:01:22.160 provide the consumer and business owner access to interviews with celebrities, CEOs, 0:01:22.319 --> 0:01:25.960 entrepreneurs and industry decision makers. It is important to understand 0:01:25.959 --> 0:01:29.520 that everybody travels a different path to success. That's because 0:01:29.520 --> 0:01:31.880 your brand is different. The challenges you face in your 0:01:31.920 --> 0:01:34.959 life are different. So stop reading other people's success stories 0:01:35.000 --> 0:01:37.680 and start writing your own. Now you can be motivated 0:01:37.720 --> 0:01:40.520 by their success. Don't get me wrong, because your story 0:01:40.600 --> 0:01:44.160 their stories are allow amazing and can offer direction to 0:01:44.200 --> 0:01:46.800 help you reach your goal through your planning and your 0:01:46.840 --> 0:01:51.120 committed effort. The Money Making Conversation interview provide relatable information 0:01:51.160 --> 0:01:56.160 to listen about career and financial planning, entrepreneurship, motivation, leadership, 0:01:56.240 --> 0:01:58.880 overcoming the arts, and how to live a balanced life. 0:01:58.880 --> 0:02:01.760 That's what my show is all about. My next guests, 0:02:01.880 --> 0:02:05.360 um It's an Australian Streuss. She has made her mark 0:02:05.440 --> 0:02:08.240 in film and television and both Australia and Hollywood. I 0:02:08.280 --> 0:02:10.880 personally fell in love with her talents from watching her 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:13.799 and three of my favorite movies Pitch Black starring Vin 0:02:13.840 --> 0:02:18.079 diesel Man on Fire starr In Denzel Washington and Dakota Fannie, 0:02:18.080 --> 0:02:21.640 and the horror movie Silent Hill. She's on the show 0:02:21.680 --> 0:02:25.200 today discuss the upcoming new movie Dream Catcher. I think 0:02:25.480 --> 0:02:27.040 that you can catch on right now. You can catch 0:02:27.040 --> 0:02:29.000 it right now on video on demand. Please welcome to 0:02:29.080 --> 0:02:34.320 Money Making Conversations, Roda Mitchell. How are you doing? Hey good? 0:02:34.360 --> 0:02:37.200 Hell are you? I'm doing pretty good? You know, I'm excited. 0:02:37.600 --> 0:02:40.360 It's really interesting that every week I sit out with 0:02:40.360 --> 0:02:43.440 my staff and and we go over potential guests for 0:02:43.480 --> 0:02:46.040 the show. And because my show is my entrepreneurship and 0:02:46.160 --> 0:02:49.480 entertainment and so basically the looking at my life. I've 0:02:49.520 --> 0:02:53.320 been in management and corporate uh, corporate marketing and branding, 0:02:53.520 --> 0:02:55.480 and I try to bring interviews on the show that 0:02:55.520 --> 0:02:58.200 shows a different lifestyle at different point of view, and 0:02:58.400 --> 0:03:00.160 I try to get them to tell their story. In 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:02.359 your Story, I always felt it was a compelling one 0:03:02.360 --> 0:03:06.600 because of the fact that you you Australia, Hollywood. That's 0:03:06.639 --> 0:03:08.720 a that's a major move, that's a transition, so you 0:03:08.760 --> 0:03:10.320 have to follow your dream. You had to believe in 0:03:10.360 --> 0:03:13.560 your dream. Can you tell us about the whole aspect 0:03:13.600 --> 0:03:16.640 of wanting to be Did you want to be a 0:03:16.639 --> 0:03:18.560 movie star? Did you want to be an actress all 0:03:18.600 --> 0:03:23.960 your life? Rada? I mean as a kid, I had 0:03:24.000 --> 0:03:26.480 a few fantasies, and one of them certainly was to 0:03:26.480 --> 0:03:29.520 be a Hollywood actress. You know. I think that's every 0:03:29.560 --> 0:03:32.440 little girl's kind of um idea at some point in 0:03:32.480 --> 0:03:36.160 their life, um, and then pursuing it. I think by 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:40.000 the time I finished high school, I kind of knew 0:03:40.040 --> 0:03:41.880 that I wanted to be an actress, but I kind 0:03:41.880 --> 0:03:45.000 of wanted to just travel the world and I wanted 0:03:45.040 --> 0:03:49.320 to be a photographer for a while, um national geographic photographers. 0:03:49.600 --> 0:03:52.160 I really wanted to keep an open mind. You still 0:03:52.200 --> 0:03:55.240 have that steal these stills talent that the desire to 0:03:55.360 --> 0:03:57.520 but do you still have to scale with the camera 0:03:57.680 --> 0:03:59.840 they want to take those take photos? Yea. I was 0:04:00.000 --> 0:04:03.160 starting photography in school and I was like doing really well. 0:04:03.200 --> 0:04:05.120 But then I didn't get into this course that I 0:04:05.160 --> 0:04:06.920 wanted to get into, and so I was a bit 0:04:07.760 --> 0:04:10.560 put off by that. But I am went to Indonesia 0:04:10.640 --> 0:04:14.800 for months and read this book An Actor Prepares Stanislavski 0:04:14.920 --> 0:04:17.400 and that sort of it was kind of a serious 0:04:17.440 --> 0:04:20.280 book about you know, serious acting that it got me motivated. 0:04:20.880 --> 0:04:23.640 And when I was a little kid, i'd done a 0:04:23.680 --> 0:04:27.320 TV show, so I had an agent from this time 0:04:27.520 --> 0:04:30.279 when I was twelve doing this TV show for six months. 0:04:31.120 --> 0:04:33.760 So I went back to this agent and I said, Hi, 0:04:33.880 --> 0:04:37.640 you know, I finished school now and can you get 0:04:37.680 --> 0:04:42.560 me a job? It? Hey, can you give me a job? 0:04:42.600 --> 0:04:44.719 We're back to an agent for Joe that you did 0:04:44.760 --> 0:04:48.080 one time, only right, Well, it was a six months 0:04:48.120 --> 0:04:50.880 show and it was like we were kids. But I 0:04:50.960 --> 0:04:52.680 was not really into it. When I was a kid, 0:04:52.680 --> 0:04:54.159 I was a bit shy, so I wanted to just 0:04:54.200 --> 0:04:57.880 finish school, so I did. Then I wanted to like 0:04:58.040 --> 0:05:00.640 travel the world and you know, take year and just 0:05:00.720 --> 0:05:03.880 see everything. And my mom was not into it and 0:05:03.960 --> 0:05:07.520 she wanted me to go to university. So I ended 0:05:07.600 --> 0:05:12.000 up starting studying media and literature at this university in 0:05:12.040 --> 0:05:17.440 Melbourne and sort of, uh doing the odd acting job 0:05:17.480 --> 0:05:20.279 that I was getting through this agent. So you know, 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:22.800 I got really weird because my mom decided to go 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:29.720 to university the same university as mecom right, mom, at 0:05:29.720 --> 0:05:32.279 the same school you went, right, mom, at the same school. 0:05:32.320 --> 0:05:35.200 That was really narrating anyway. So I started doing the 0:05:35.320 --> 0:05:38.640 night classes and sometimes I'll be acting during the day 0:05:38.640 --> 0:05:41.360 on this a couple of TV series and stuff at 0:05:41.400 --> 0:05:44.080 around the time and finishing the degree is arts degree. 0:05:44.279 --> 0:05:48.680 A film that a friend of mine. Um, it's very 0:05:48.720 --> 0:05:53.800 little like film and somebody's father put money into it. 0:05:54.279 --> 0:05:56.279 That it was coming out of this film school in 0:05:56.320 --> 0:05:59.200 Melbourne and it had like a young director who was 0:05:59.240 --> 0:06:02.880 just finishing up her her film school degree. And we're 0:06:02.880 --> 0:06:04.960 all a bunch of us were living in a sharehouse 0:06:05.000 --> 0:06:09.520 and we ended up making this film and the film 0:06:09.640 --> 0:06:14.640 ended up getting sold to Fox Searchlight. So a few 0:06:14.680 --> 0:06:16.600 of us who were in the film were like invited 0:06:16.640 --> 0:06:20.240 to go to the can Film Festival. So you know 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:22.279 when we've never been to I've never been to any 0:06:22.320 --> 0:06:24.960 film festival, not even the one of the top Dollars. 0:06:25.480 --> 0:06:30.919 I've been the can that's really nice. Everywhere beautiful you 0:06:31.040 --> 0:06:35.039 look at fabulous, I'm sure fabulous. Well, we had a 0:06:35.040 --> 0:06:37.640 great time. There's three girls and we're all like sort 0:06:37.640 --> 0:06:40.720 of starring in this movie, and um and the director 0:06:40.839 --> 0:06:44.760 and the producer and so I think It was Anthony Lapolio, 0:06:44.839 --> 0:06:49.640 this Australian actor who introduced me to my manager or 0:06:49.680 --> 0:06:53.320 to a manager who I think he was actually leaving. 0:06:56.279 --> 0:06:58.320 That's right, that's right, that's how you do it now. Okay, 0:06:58.360 --> 0:07:00.160 look I'm about to go. But I got somebody as 0:07:01.160 --> 0:07:04.120 for me. It was great. So I met this manager 0:07:04.360 --> 0:07:08.600 in kan and I think we were there. We were 0:07:08.640 --> 0:07:10.720 there for like a week, and then I had a 0:07:10.760 --> 0:07:14.760 ticket around the world ticket, um, so I got to 0:07:14.800 --> 0:07:17.040 go from there to London and I was invited to 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:20.440 audition for something in London which didn't pan out, and 0:07:20.480 --> 0:07:23.680 then I had the ticket, went to New York and 0:07:23.720 --> 0:07:25.880 in l A. And then I had a grandmother at 0:07:25.920 --> 0:07:27.600 the time who was living in l A. Like I've 0:07:27.600 --> 0:07:29.920 never been to in America. But I had a few 0:07:29.920 --> 0:07:32.400 phone numbers now from this film festival to like meet 0:07:32.480 --> 0:07:35.080 people in New York. So you have you have some 0:07:35.160 --> 0:07:37.600 numbers now, so now you can come at least call somebody, 0:07:37.880 --> 0:07:41.400 right yeah. Yeah, So I had some phone numbers, um, 0:07:41.680 --> 0:07:43.840 people that were somewhat related to the film industry, and 0:07:43.840 --> 0:07:46.360 then just people who were friends with my friends from Melbourne. 0:07:46.520 --> 0:07:48.360 I stayed at this actually I stayed in this girl's 0:07:48.400 --> 0:07:51.200 apartment in Harlem for like a week or two in 0:07:51.280 --> 0:07:56.680 New York. UM, and then I went to l A. 0:07:57.200 --> 0:08:01.720 UM and that's where I sort of stayed with my mother, UM, 0:08:01.760 --> 0:08:06.120 who was a bit sort of grumpy butt um said. 0:08:06.120 --> 0:08:07.760 They got to know each other. We didn't really know 0:08:07.800 --> 0:08:11.680 each other very well. UM. And and then so that 0:08:11.800 --> 0:08:13.400 was sort of the trip, and then it was time 0:08:13.440 --> 0:08:17.880 to go back to Melbourne. The reality of where it 0:08:18.000 --> 0:08:21.280 comes from. Um. But I had from all of that 0:08:21.520 --> 0:08:24.120 just this idea. Oh, because I had met Danny Boyle, 0:08:24.200 --> 0:08:27.600 who was one of my favorite directors in the l 0:08:27.680 --> 0:08:31.240 A trip, and there was a tasting agent from from 0:08:31.240 --> 0:08:33.720 here from l A who had sort of contacted the 0:08:33.760 --> 0:08:36.720 Australian agent. So there was something of an introduction to 0:08:36.760 --> 0:08:40.760 meet somebody in l A. And that's how I met um, 0:08:40.960 --> 0:08:43.079 Danny Boyle. So then by the time I got back 0:08:43.120 --> 0:08:47.360 to Melbourne, I realized, you know, everything was happening over here. 0:08:47.840 --> 0:08:51.880 If I could just get back right, that's frustrating, right, 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:54.080 you know, you know, you know you're back, but it's 0:08:54.120 --> 0:08:55.880 not back where you need to be. You need to 0:08:55.880 --> 0:08:58.440 get back to the other back right, which was all 0:08:58.520 --> 0:09:00.679 a yeah, so that I needed my need. I haven't 0:09:00.679 --> 0:09:02.280 gonna get there. You know. It was like, you know, 0:09:02.280 --> 0:09:06.560 I just out of school. So I told this agent, look, 0:09:06.559 --> 0:09:08.400 I just want to do a soap because I knew 0:09:08.440 --> 0:09:12.040 that you could. There's this television soap in Melbourne called Neighbors, 0:09:12.040 --> 0:09:15.320 and it's been known for years or something just never 0:09:15.440 --> 0:09:21.800 ends and they keep recycling characters. So I, um, I 0:09:21.960 --> 0:09:24.360 gone on to the show and I had a part 0:09:24.440 --> 0:09:29.479 for like six months, so that allowed me to, um, 0:09:29.720 --> 0:09:32.480 come back. And also at that point, this little film 0:09:32.480 --> 0:09:34.280 that I was telling you about was now going to 0:09:34.320 --> 0:09:37.840 go to the Sundance Film Festival, so I had to 0:09:37.960 --> 0:09:40.720 have something to come back to talk about at that time. 0:09:40.960 --> 0:09:42.760 And so that's sort of how it all began. But 0:09:43.040 --> 0:09:46.960 you know, the money in your pocket, the Sundance Festival, 0:09:47.000 --> 0:09:53.880 You're looking good, feeling good. Okay, good, No, Grandma, it 0:09:54.000 --> 0:09:56.720 was all good of an adventure, you know, um, and 0:09:56.800 --> 0:09:58.959 most of it just would have planned out of the suitcase. 0:09:59.080 --> 0:10:01.440 But I didn't really the care whether it worked or didn't. 0:10:01.440 --> 0:10:03.120 I was sort of you know, it was an adventure 0:10:03.160 --> 0:10:05.480 in any case. Well, you're the thing about it is 0:10:05.520 --> 0:10:08.079 that when I hear your story, I just hear just 0:10:08.440 --> 0:10:11.720 you know, no, you just you just trusted yourself, you 0:10:11.800 --> 0:10:14.320 wanted to follow your dreams, and a lot of people 0:10:14.320 --> 0:10:16.920 get caught up in one Yeah, okay, let your mom said, 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:19.320 I want you to go to school. Okay, you know 0:10:20.000 --> 0:10:22.080 my degree is a mathematic I like that and I'm 0:10:22.120 --> 0:10:26.160 glad I did it because, Um, even as an actor, 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:28.800 I think it's interesting to have a more sort of 0:10:29.000 --> 0:10:31.920 have a broad sort of source of knowledge. You know, 0:10:32.080 --> 0:10:35.920 you can having studied archaeology and or just obscure things 0:10:35.920 --> 0:10:38.839 that I studied for this degree. Um, just give me 0:10:38.880 --> 0:10:40.959 a certain perspective that I might not have had if 0:10:41.000 --> 0:10:45.319 I had it just focused only on acting. Um. So 0:10:45.360 --> 0:10:47.839 that's good. 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You're another ghost like daughter apperiod in front 0:13:08.160 --> 0:13:09.960 of your car. Your car went into a span and 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:12.520 then you stop, you open the door that your daughter's gone, 0:13:12.559 --> 0:13:15.520 your real daughter's gone, and so you you ventured into 0:13:15.559 --> 0:13:18.200 this town called solid Here. So the reason I bring 0:13:18.200 --> 0:13:22.400 it up because it's basically it's basically a movie that's uh, 0:13:22.480 --> 0:13:27.280 it's carried on your single emotion and your interaction. And 0:13:27.679 --> 0:13:31.800 that's what made me scary to me because you your 0:13:31.880 --> 0:13:34.319 quest was to find your daughter, but you were in 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:40.240 an environment that you couldn't control. How do you get 0:13:40.240 --> 0:13:42.440 there emotionally for a role like that, When you're talking 0:13:42.440 --> 0:13:45.800 about horror, you're talking about characters that don't exist. How 0:13:45.840 --> 0:13:51.000 do you get there? Right? How do we do that? 0:13:51.240 --> 0:13:53.320 I mean, yeah, a lot of times we were acting 0:13:53.360 --> 0:14:01.520 with Cannith Ball there were some amazing um prop, Like 0:14:01.559 --> 0:14:04.960 there was some amazing monsters were on set and people. Yeah, 0:14:05.080 --> 0:14:07.320 there was like I don't know if you remember the 0:14:07.400 --> 0:14:10.040 child monster in the attack sing on the fences, there 0:14:10.120 --> 0:14:13.080 was a wan who was very small and she was 0:14:13.120 --> 0:14:16.840 wearing that suit so she had a little hole in 0:14:16.880 --> 0:14:19.480 the suit to breathe through. So then they multiplied that 0:14:19.520 --> 0:14:21.720 in special effects. But there was really one of those 0:14:21.760 --> 0:14:26.080 great children for real, and she this patient woman who 0:14:26.080 --> 0:14:28.280 sat in that suit all day long for that part 0:14:28.280 --> 0:14:31.400 of the shoot. So some of it you had to imagine. 0:14:31.400 --> 0:14:34.280 In other parts of the nightmare were you know, very 0:14:34.360 --> 0:14:38.440 much visually present um. So it was kind of a 0:14:38.520 --> 0:14:40.880 mix um. But how to how to get into that 0:14:40.960 --> 0:14:44.960 frame of mind? I don't know. I think we've all 0:14:45.000 --> 0:14:47.480 had nightmares. Well, I think that did. You did a 0:14:47.480 --> 0:14:50.200 good job that you're scared me. You're scared of grown 0:14:50.240 --> 0:14:52.600 man here? Okay, because I felt sorry for I thought 0:14:52.600 --> 0:14:54.880 they're gonna snatch you up there, right? You know, you 0:14:54.880 --> 0:14:57.040 know what they did do there was a technique like 0:14:58.240 --> 0:15:01.560 for that active surprise and a really hard to fake that. 0:15:01.680 --> 0:15:04.160 You know. Still we like make loud noises and we 0:15:04.200 --> 0:15:06.120 get someone on set to like, I don't think they 0:15:06.160 --> 0:15:08.960 were firing guns, but they were like snacking things together 0:15:09.040 --> 0:15:11.520 so that we get a real shock. I mean, that's 0:15:11.680 --> 0:15:13.800 the something you do to create a journal and quickly. 0:15:13.840 --> 0:15:19.760 But it's really hard to act surprised shocked without having 0:15:19.800 --> 0:15:22.920 something to trigger it. Okay, now this this new movie, 0:15:23.120 --> 0:15:26.000 Dream Catcher. You know your your character is forced to 0:15:26.000 --> 0:15:28.640 come return with your new steps on at a remote 0:15:28.680 --> 0:15:31.880 country home. Right, there's the dot. Do you know the 0:15:32.320 --> 0:15:36.560 scary part Remote? Everything you do in scary movies rather 0:15:36.800 --> 0:15:38.880 is remote. You know when you did when you did 0:15:39.120 --> 0:15:43.080 Pitch Black, remote, You're just a remote acting person. When 0:15:43.120 --> 0:15:46.040 you did you know, Land on Fire, you were in Mexico, 0:15:46.080 --> 0:15:48.360 which was a remote You were captured in a mansion, 0:15:48.560 --> 0:15:52.200 So you just a remote When I saw you, when 0:15:52.240 --> 0:15:54.880 I yeah, when I saw you do the Romans, when 0:15:54.920 --> 0:15:57.120 I saw the episode of Ramoofs that you and you 0:15:57.160 --> 0:15:58.880 know that when you was what I think your son 0:15:59.040 --> 0:16:04.800 was was sickly and why right right? That was your 0:16:04.880 --> 0:16:09.400 character there was isolated. You play those isolated roles very well, 0:16:09.480 --> 0:16:14.720 rot farewell. Interesting. Yeah, I've never really thought about that. Yeah, 0:16:17.800 --> 0:16:20.880 that's this is my question to you. This is my 0:16:20.960 --> 0:16:23.800 question because the movie Dream Catching with just out right now. 0:16:24.120 --> 0:16:26.600 You can catch it from Lion's Gate Home Entertainment, you 0:16:26.640 --> 0:16:28.280 can catch it on video on demand. When I look 0:16:28.320 --> 0:16:31.360 at the talent like you, and because you make it real, 0:16:31.680 --> 0:16:34.000 I will tell you when Man on Fire, when you 0:16:34.080 --> 0:16:37.200 realize that Mark Anthony, who played your husband in the movie, 0:16:37.720 --> 0:16:41.359 was the reason your daughter, he was behind the kidnapping, 0:16:41.840 --> 0:16:43.840 That moment, for me is one of my favorite moments 0:16:43.880 --> 0:16:46.000 in the movie because you win. It was that oh 0:16:46.040 --> 0:16:48.840 my god moment. You know, that was an oh my 0:16:48.920 --> 0:16:51.400 god moment. You didn't kill if he lived or diet 0:16:51.440 --> 0:16:53.920 at that point, you know you have been suffering the 0:16:53.960 --> 0:16:56.880 whole time for your daughter, you know, got lost in 0:16:56.920 --> 0:17:02.160 the box or Ransom and this fool over here had 0:17:02.480 --> 0:17:07.200 peddle off your daughter. Well faith Ransom demand that moment 0:17:07.280 --> 0:17:10.159 right there, I became a fan okay, and then in 0:17:10.280 --> 0:17:13.399 Pitch Black. With a pitch Black, I always want you 0:17:13.440 --> 0:17:15.879 to know, here's a script where when you get the script, 0:17:15.920 --> 0:17:21.600 you know you're gonna die in that script. Correct, yeah, okay? 0:17:22.440 --> 0:17:25.360 How do you react? Will you know what? You get 0:17:25.359 --> 0:17:29.800 the script in your hand and debates about this, who's 0:17:29.800 --> 0:17:33.880 gonna die? Are they gonna die? You want to die? 0:17:33.920 --> 0:17:35.920 You know you're not gonna make the sequel if it's 0:17:35.920 --> 0:17:41.720 a blockbuster, you can't. In that movie, I was excited 0:17:41.760 --> 0:17:45.040 to die. I thought it was cool in retrospect that 0:17:45.119 --> 0:17:50.159 she just loved to live. But at the time I 0:17:50.160 --> 0:17:51.760 thought it was cool. I didn't know they were going 0:17:51.800 --> 0:17:56.840 to make more and more and more because it was 0:17:56.880 --> 0:17:58.399 so funny. It was so funny. It was just so 0:17:58.400 --> 0:18:00.520 funny because I was when I out to you know, 0:18:00.560 --> 0:18:03.040 when when you got confirmed from my show. I went 0:18:03.080 --> 0:18:05.320 home and I was just going through and then what 0:18:05.760 --> 0:18:08.399 happened Pitch Black was on. That's why I got to 0:18:08.440 --> 0:18:10.399 see you first. My remember the first of my member 0:18:10.720 --> 0:18:13.760 and so and and then God forgotten that you died 0:18:13.800 --> 0:18:16.040 in the end of that movie and the way you 0:18:16.080 --> 0:18:18.480 die because because if that movie you you know, you're 0:18:18.600 --> 0:18:21.840 you're grabbed inn diesel. Get up, Soldier, get up. You're 0:18:21.840 --> 0:18:24.200 gonna make it. You're not gonna die. You're not gonna die. 0:18:24.400 --> 0:18:27.600 You know, you know, you're you're, you're, you're tough en up. 0:18:27.600 --> 0:18:30.040 In the end, you have their fearless leader, and all 0:18:30.040 --> 0:18:32.520 of a sudden you got snatched up. I went, oh 0:18:32.520 --> 0:18:36.000 my god, I forgot she died and so and I 0:18:36.000 --> 0:18:38.480 wanted to ask that question. When you get a script 0:18:38.480 --> 0:18:40.800 and you know you're gonna die, do you lobby to 0:18:40.880 --> 0:18:44.560 stick around or you just play out the role? Well, 0:18:44.560 --> 0:18:58.080 it depends on the project. I don't want to go back. Yeah, 0:18:58.200 --> 0:19:01.480 if you think that has you know, from in retrospect, 0:19:01.520 --> 0:19:03.760 if you think the thing is legs, you don't want 0:19:03.760 --> 0:19:09.280 to die. But yeah, if you know, you know, sometimes 0:19:09.320 --> 0:19:12.360 it's such a dramatic it's such as from an acting 0:19:12.680 --> 0:19:16.919 um perspective, it's great, like it's this amazing kind of 0:19:16.960 --> 0:19:20.440 rehearsal for the inevitable that you know, most of us are, 0:19:20.760 --> 0:19:22.680 you know, unable to even to talk about. So to 0:19:22.800 --> 0:19:26.879 like practice your own death is like an amazing experience. 0:19:26.880 --> 0:19:28.879 I know, it really is. And I think that's that. 0:19:29.280 --> 0:19:31.280 Here's my whole thing is that and and and in 0:19:31.280 --> 0:19:33.119 this interview, I just want to get across to you 0:19:33.320 --> 0:19:36.360 that you obviously you know, you're very talented because you're 0:19:36.440 --> 0:19:39.680 you're acting resume says that people book you and you 0:19:39.680 --> 0:19:43.879 you deliver, uh, you know, deliver from the romantic side 0:19:43.920 --> 0:19:47.879 to the to the to the grieving mom, to the scary, 0:19:48.160 --> 0:19:51.280 scary mom, to the you know, to the passionate and 0:19:51.480 --> 0:19:55.159 empowered mom to just a young lady who wants to 0:19:55.200 --> 0:19:57.600 make a difference in the world today. That's that's the 0:19:57.680 --> 0:20:01.080 characters you play throughout your career. But what has always 0:20:01.080 --> 0:20:04.240 been dynamic for me watching you is that you can 0:20:04.400 --> 0:20:07.240 you know, how to take that isolated moment and make 0:20:07.280 --> 0:20:12.840 it relatable and whether it's fear, whether it's uh, you know, 0:20:13.480 --> 0:20:17.560 the unknown, or just the decision making process you know, 0:20:17.600 --> 0:20:20.800 whether you're you know, Olympus has fallen and all that. 0:20:21.119 --> 0:20:23.560 There's just so many different projects. So when you when 0:20:24.240 --> 0:20:26.480 what's what's your what? What what's when you go into 0:20:26.520 --> 0:20:28.800 a movie when the script is giving to you, is 0:20:28.840 --> 0:20:31.280 there are there are in particular goals you're trying to achieve, 0:20:31.400 --> 0:20:33.480 either that role or it's just hey, thank you for 0:20:33.520 --> 0:20:35.679 the opportunity to act in this movie and do the 0:20:35.680 --> 0:20:42.919 best job that you can do well. I mean generally, 0:20:43.000 --> 0:20:47.639 there's that. Yeah, I just want to show up. You know, 0:20:48.880 --> 0:20:52.280 the circumstances, don't you know, an't perfect? Like I recently 0:20:52.280 --> 0:20:55.520 did a job right, Yes, ma'am read the script. I 0:20:55.600 --> 0:20:57.679 was on one side of the world reading a script 0:20:57.680 --> 0:21:00.280 on the plane, landing on set and starting the warman, 0:21:00.920 --> 0:21:03.920 you know, with no preparation time and totally jet lagged. 0:21:04.080 --> 0:21:08.199 And that's not ideal. But in those situations you just 0:21:08.400 --> 0:21:10.440 have to bring it the best you can what you've got. 0:21:10.440 --> 0:21:13.520 To accept the secumstances and not use them as an excuse, 0:21:13.600 --> 0:21:15.879 but just bring it the best you can and trust 0:21:15.920 --> 0:21:17.800 that what everything inside of you is going to inform 0:21:17.880 --> 0:21:22.520 the performance, especially after having acted for so long that 0:21:22.640 --> 0:21:24.879 you just want to Yeah, you want to bring the 0:21:24.880 --> 0:21:27.440 best to the story, just whatever you have in you 0:21:28.000 --> 0:21:31.919 and then also have it it's so collaborative that, you know, 0:21:32.160 --> 0:21:35.000 have a vibe where everybody is bringing the best together, 0:21:35.040 --> 0:21:38.040 that there's an energy and excitement behind it. Well, you 0:21:38.080 --> 0:21:40.520 have disappointed me. You have disappointed me. Tell us about 0:21:40.600 --> 0:21:45.119 dream Catching. Tell us about that. Well, dream Catch you 0:21:45.280 --> 0:21:47.720 with a movie that a friend of mine, Well, it 0:21:47.760 --> 0:21:49.600 sort of amount of super close friend at the time 0:21:49.760 --> 0:21:54.199