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: a casting director that is powerful. And now it's time
Speaker 1: for meditation of the day. Optimism is a perfectly legitimate
Speaker 1: response to failure. Stephen King, failure is good. You don't
Speaker 1: need to stay down all the time when you fall.
Speaker 1: Les Brown has this saying where he says, when you fall,
Speaker 1: make sure you fall on your back so you can
Speaker 1: look up and get up.
Speaker 2: Something like that.
Speaker 1: In order for us and I just want to reiterate
Speaker 1: the outstanding interview with Dorian Wilson and Dorian Echoes this.
Speaker 1: You have to train, you have to work on your craft,
Speaker 1: and in doing those things, you will eventually master and
Speaker 1: be an expert in your craft. But it is imperative
Speaker 1: that you show up knowing the protocol and the verbiage.
Speaker 1: That's what gives you the security, the confidence.
Speaker 2: To do this.
Speaker 1: When you know what you're doing. Don't think of anything
Speaker 1: as a failure. There may be some hurdles, there may
Speaker 1: be some obstacles, but nothing that you can't get through
Speaker 1: or get passed. Never look at failure as something better,
Speaker 1: as something that's preventing you from getting what it is
Speaker 1: that you want. Failure is just a reminder that there's
Speaker 1: still more work to do and there's still more things
Speaker 1: to learn.
Speaker 2: Today.
Speaker 1: I will make me a priority before we get started.
Speaker 1: I'd like to remind everyone to look out for my
Speaker 1: new show, Inside the Black Box.
Speaker 2: I'll Welcome to the.
Speaker 1: Spirited Actor Podcast with Me Network by far is going
Speaker 1: to be the best show that I've ever had on
Speaker 1: this podcast, and I'm going to tell you what the
Speaker 1: best Okay, the pressure, no pressure. This our guest today.
Speaker 1: He is probably the only one that I would allow
Speaker 1: to do the authorize autobiography of Tracy Moore if he
Speaker 1: wanted to insert some things, because he truly does know me.
Speaker 2: As I have denied.
Speaker 1: In New York for years that I've ever acted in
Speaker 1: or I've ever performed. Dorian Wilson is here to expose
Speaker 1: the truth. Dorian Wilson is one of the best actors
Speaker 1: in the entertainment business, most consistent, and my favorite actor.
Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 1: When I saw dream On on HBO and I saw
Speaker 1: Dorian almost passed out because I went to school with Dorian.
Speaker 1: We go to talk about all that. I want you
Speaker 1: guys to sit back. I want you to get whatever
Speaker 1: you document information on your.
Speaker 2: Record on your phone, write it down.
Speaker 1: You are going to walk away with a treasure chest
Speaker 1: of diamonds, emeralds, and pearls. Please put your hands together
Speaker 1: for one of the most dynamic forces in this entertainment business.
Speaker 2: As an actor, Dorian, what there?
Speaker 3: Well, thank you? Thank you? Are you talking about me?
Speaker 3: All that was for me?
Speaker 2: All of it, Dorian.
Speaker 4: I wish that if I was a whole lot, you
Speaker 4: get a whole lot on that.
Speaker 3: But thank you. I appreciate I How do you. It's
Speaker 3: so good to see you.
Speaker 1: It's so good to see Dorian. I feel like it's
Speaker 1: crazy right now. You still look the same except your.
Speaker 3: You like, where's where's your dreads up?
Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, I cut him all off. I cut
Speaker 1: him off and free, so you didn't have reads back then? No, no, no,
Speaker 1: back then it was like I was messing with the
Speaker 1: perm and just coming out of high school. But and
Speaker 1: I went to school together at Pacific Conservatory of Performing
Speaker 1: Arts in Santa Maria, California. And Santa Maria was put
Speaker 1: on the map by Michael Jackson's trial, remember, right, okay, right,
Speaker 1: I think we had one cab one mall.
Speaker 2: Maybe, oh my god.
Speaker 1: But you were kind of used to it because you
Speaker 1: were from San Luis, Bisbo and I.
Speaker 3: Was Lompoke the other side. Yeah, yeah, so I was
Speaker 3: definitely used to it. So I you know, I had
Speaker 3: grew up there. My dad was in the Air Force,
Speaker 3: so we had been on Vandenberg Air Force Base for many,
Speaker 3: many years. Then we moved to Lompope, the big city,
Speaker 3: and I went to school there and graduated from Lampokai
Speaker 3: and then went on to uh PCPA. Look you, I
Speaker 3: bet you you don't know. When I was in the
Speaker 3: eleventh grade, I saw a couple of plays at PCPA
Speaker 3: and I was like, oh my god, that's that's what
Speaker 3: I want to do. I can't I can't wait, blah
Speaker 3: blah blah. So they held auditions for the upcoming year,
Speaker 3: and I'm like, let me get my admission in and
Speaker 3: whatnot and everything. I went through the whole audition process,
Speaker 3: say my little song and everything, and only to get
Speaker 3: a letter saying we don't accept anybody until they after
Speaker 3: they graduate. But here's your acceptance letter right saying when
Speaker 3: you graduate, you don't have to audition again. And you
Speaker 3: come right to us and and you're.
Speaker 2: In okay because I had to audition.
Speaker 3: Of course you did. Of course you did. I still auditioned,
Speaker 3: but it was in the eleventh grade.
Speaker 2: Though, oh my god, can I just.
Speaker 3: Huh? I said, isn't that a great story?
Speaker 2: Though? That is a great story, you know what. It
Speaker 2: kind of reminds me of a Billy Porter story. Before COVID.
Speaker 1: They had a CSA Awards ceremony here in New York
Speaker 1: at Chelsea, and Billy Porter talked about how he.
Speaker 2: Was in high school.
Speaker 1: He snuck away from home, rode the train to Chicago
Speaker 1: to audition for Meg Simon and they were like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, you're amazing. And then he was like, I'm seventeen.
Speaker 1: They were like, get out of here, go back home.
Speaker 1: You can't write.
Speaker 2: And then.
Speaker 1: Circle comes Megan has him audition and they reconnect because
Speaker 1: he thanked her for an award and it was amazing.
Speaker 1: So that's a that's a oh my god. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: what what what?
Speaker 2: You guys don't know? This was a two year program.
Speaker 1: At the second year, I got pneumonia and bronchitis at
Speaker 1: the same time. Unbeknownst to me, I found out through
Speaker 1: Dorrian that I had been cast in Greece and I
Speaker 1: was cast in the Cheeta Rivera role. But I was
Speaker 1: unable to make it back to second year. And it
Speaker 1: was the worst thing because you.
Speaker 2: Know, I felt like it was no I felt left me.
Speaker 3: I didn't love me. Do you know how many there
Speaker 3: were of us.
Speaker 2: Who Dorian Wilson and Tracy wore wore.
Speaker 3: The entire program, y'all. Is that crazy? But you know
Speaker 3: it was what it was, and we represented though.
Speaker 2: Yeah we did.
Speaker 3: We did.
Speaker 2: Because go ahead, Dorian.
Speaker 3: I was just going to say, there was like literally
Speaker 3: out of the forty fifty students whatever, five students that
Speaker 3: got cast out of our class that made it to
Speaker 3: the main stage or productions or whatever, and we were
Speaker 3: two of them.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 1: And you know what, Dorian, I have to I have
Speaker 1: to question this, like I think about this right because
Speaker 1: I'm going to piggyback off this story that Dory and
Speaker 1: I were talking about. We had a singing class and
Speaker 1: this woman Bet Miller. She was the voice of the Chipmunks,
Speaker 1: one of the chipmunks, right, But we had gotten all right,
Speaker 1: I got kicked out of class and then they sent
Speaker 1: Dorrian to keep me company.
Speaker 2: So we were sitting on the stairs.
Speaker 3: Wait, you can't negate all the other stuff that led
Speaker 3: up to.
Speaker 2: Oh no, okay, let's tell this story.
Speaker 3: Let me recap. Yeah, we have this class. It was
Speaker 3: a singing class and they partnered up with you know,
Speaker 3: each of the students and whatnot, and me and Tracy
Speaker 3: were paired together the only Yeah, so I don't know
Speaker 3: if that's the reason, but I'm pretty sure it was.
Speaker 3: But anyway, we sang.
Speaker 2: You are the sunshine of my life.
Speaker 3: Right, so Tracy can really sing. I kind of just
Speaker 3: fell behind her, but you know, I could carry it
Speaker 3: to him. But anyway, Tracy was doing all these riffs
Speaker 3: and flows and ebbs and whatnot, and so afterwards, I'll
Speaker 3: let you pick it up from there.
Speaker 1: So I don't remember the you say your question because
Speaker 1: I remember that I'm so did to that that's what
Speaker 1: got to be kicked out of class, right, Yeah, well.
Speaker 3: The question was so Beth then proceeds to ask everybody
Speaker 3: their critique in the class, and you know, it's supposed
Speaker 3: to be constructive criticians criticism, and one of the comments
Speaker 3: was that we sound too black to ethnic and why
Speaker 3: do we always have to, you know, do all the
Speaker 3: runs and whatnot.
Speaker 1: And then a white student said, she raised her hand
Speaker 1: and she said, why do you guys always sing black songs?
Speaker 1: And I said, why do you always sing white songs?
Speaker 2: And then Beth.
Speaker 1: Said, Tracy, why don't you go outside and take a
Speaker 1: moment and get some air, right, And then like two
Speaker 1: minutes later, I see Dorian next to me.
Speaker 2: I'm like, why why are you here? And I know, sorry,
Speaker 2: but I And also there were words like.
Speaker 1: Militant that were you know about absolutely, but this was
Speaker 1: my my thing was I am an actress, so look
Speaker 1: at me as an actress before you look at me
Speaker 1: as a black actress because the other thing is dory
Speaker 1: and I got cast all the obvious. In Little Abner,
Speaker 1: we were the African dancers Helen Keller.
Speaker 2: We were.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, yes, absolutely.
Speaker 2: So whatever was black, they stuck us.
Speaker 1: But they couldn't do that for the world premiere because
Speaker 1: there wasn't.
Speaker 2: A breakdown of color.
Speaker 1: It was just actors and monologues and you know, us
Speaker 1: threading stories together, so there was no color. But my
Speaker 1: question was that day that we were sitting out, Randy Miler,
Speaker 1: who was one of the teachers.
Speaker 2: Passed by.
Speaker 1: He came over and asked us what happened? So we
Speaker 1: started well, I started telling him in my militant way,
Speaker 1: and then Dorian was there with me supporting.
Speaker 2: And then right after.
Speaker 1: That we were allowed a little bit after we were
Speaker 1: allowed to audition because they said first year students, which
Speaker 1: we were. And I just want to say too, we
Speaker 1: started out at one hundred twenty five, I believe students
Speaker 1: and they Okay, well, I remember being on the main stage.
Speaker 1: Do you remember Michael and Lauren the actress. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: Lauren moved to New York. So I used to see
Speaker 1: Lauren all the time. But Michael and Lauren were feared
Speaker 1: by the students.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, they were feared.
Speaker 1: Because they had you know, they just they were divas
Speaker 1: and you know, but they told But Lauren said to me,
Speaker 1: I didn't even know Lauren, he said to me, he said,
Speaker 1: look around, look around the theater.
Speaker 2: I looked around.
Speaker 1: He said, there are one hundred and twenty five people here.
Speaker 1: Look around because they won't be here by the time,
Speaker 1: you know, we start and whatever.
Speaker 2: And it did. It wheedled down, you know right.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, we had our.
Speaker 2: Schedule was so demanding.
Speaker 3: So demanding, sun up to sundown. And then I had
Speaker 3: a like an hour drive to get back home to
Speaker 3: Longpoke from Santa Maria. It wasn't quite that long. But
Speaker 3: you know, our day was so fulfilled, filled singing, dance, acting, mind,
Speaker 3: just the whole work, the lights, you know that we
Speaker 3: had to work behind the scenes, all of that. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and so that it filled the entire day. So yeah,
Speaker 3: it was exhausting, but it made.
Speaker 1: Us well, yes, yes, it gave us great work ethic.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, it was such a great foundation. Yeah, and it's
Speaker 3: one of the things that I tell I used to
Speaker 3: teach acting through eight through eighteen year olds and people
Speaker 3: told me all the time, you know, oh, I'm I'm
Speaker 3: such a great actor, or I'm a comedian and blah
Speaker 3: blah blah and all this other stuff. And I'm like, so,
Speaker 3: where did you go to school? They're like, well, I
Speaker 3: didn't go to school, but I just know, you know,
Speaker 3: I know, and blah blah blah. And it's it's the
Speaker 3: craziest thing. It just doesn't come out of nowhere, you know.
Speaker 3: So I tell them to you know, you've got to
Speaker 3: get your training first. You know. You could be the
Speaker 3: right place at the right time. You can even get
Speaker 3: that role, you know, and have the best loop, but
Speaker 3: if you don't have anything to sustain it, if you
Speaker 3: don't have you know, your foundation laid and you know,
Speaker 3: know exactly what you're doing, you're going to be a
Speaker 3: flash in the pad, you know. So you know, people
Speaker 3: out there, get your training first, you so you are
Speaker 3: prepared when you do get that moment for you know life,
Speaker 3: camera action you're on and then you'll be going onto
Speaker 3: your next project.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, and you guys aren't ready.
Speaker 1: I always tell them Dorian to go to IMDb dot
Speaker 1: com for our guests. But it says here that in
Speaker 1: just in terms of his previous credits seventy nine and
Speaker 1: then upcoming, it says five. When I tell you, that's
Speaker 1: why I said, Like, Dorian, when I saw you on
Speaker 1: dream On, like, first of all, I got really teary
Speaker 1: because I was like, oh.
Speaker 2: My god, I was in class with him.
Speaker 3: That's my friend.
Speaker 1: Yeah was, and but Dorian was a star. Like Dorian
Speaker 1: is not just a great actor, He's an inter He
Speaker 1: knows how to entertain.
Speaker 2: And that's what I love.
Speaker 1: Again, Dorian, I love you more in drama. Yea, I
Speaker 1: know you as comedy.
Speaker 3: But yeah, yeah, well what what what had happened? Tracy
Speaker 3: was as soon as I got to LA, first of all,
Speaker 3: was doing I was still doing plays and whatnot in
Speaker 3: the Bay Area for many many years San Jose Rep
Speaker 3: Berkeley Shakespeare Children's Theater. But I was out there for years,
Speaker 3: and then finally I kept auditioning for different parts and
Speaker 3: then what have you, and doing different parts in LA
Speaker 3: and so my wife was just like, you know what,
Speaker 3: we need to move out there. And so that's what
Speaker 3: we did, packed up and moved. Didn't know anyone out here.
Speaker 3: Did the waiter bartender thing for like six months, and
Speaker 3: all of the the waiters and the bartenders and everything.
Speaker 3: Everybody was an actor. And so you know, to surround
Speaker 3: yourself with people like that who can tell you, oh,
Speaker 3: this is what you do. You know, check out this magazine,
Speaker 3: go to actors, you know, backstage and and whatnot, and
Speaker 3: and give you different auditions. So that's what I did
Speaker 3: for six months, and I landed dream On. But I
Speaker 3: did a couple of other things before that. But yeah,
Speaker 3: I was you. I was so new and green to
Speaker 3: the game that when I went in five times for
Speaker 3: uh dream On five times and what had happened? This
Speaker 3: is a great story too. I'm sorry talking so much.
Speaker 2: You today.
Speaker 3: Okay, yea, it is all about me, so okay, So
Speaker 3: this is what happened. So I get here, I'm already
Speaker 3: thinking I'm a star and you can't put me down
Speaker 3: or anything. I don't have no credits, but hey, I
Speaker 3: am a star. And so they were telling me at
Speaker 3: the restaurant to sign up for some background work, but
Speaker 3: I'm a star, really okay, So I do this and
Speaker 3: the first time I go out, I kind of sat
Speaker 3: around and they were going telling me going here there,
Speaker 3: and I'm like, this is not for me. So I
Speaker 3: tell the agency man, I'm not so then so they
Speaker 3: called me after that and say they have a role
Speaker 3: specifically for me. Am I all alright, I feel So
Speaker 3: the role that they had was this camera operator opposite
Speaker 3: of one of the lead characters. And so every scene
Speaker 3: and I have no idea why scene that they put
Speaker 3: me in, they either cut the scene or they took
Speaker 3: me out of it for one reason or another. And
Speaker 3: so at the end of the day the day, I
Speaker 3: really didn't shoot anything. And so the next day I
Speaker 3: really did have an audition for a movie, a big movie,
Speaker 3: and I'm like, I can't come back. They're like, no,
Speaker 3: you have to come back. You're established. I go, no,
Speaker 3: everything you shot I'm not in. And so we went
Speaker 3: back and forth, but I was like, I'm not coming back,
Speaker 3: and I didn't come back. So fast forward six months later,
Speaker 3: I have this audition in this warehouse and I get
Speaker 3: in and I'm like, hmm, this looks really familiar. So
Speaker 3: come to find out. It's the set of dream On
Speaker 3: and the camera operator I was playing was the camera
Speaker 3: operator for Eddie Charles, the guy that I replaced on
Speaker 3: the show Wow, that I replaced on the show five auditions,
Speaker 3: and I was like, Brian, Brian ben Ben who stars.
Speaker 3: I was like, I don't know. He goes, I'm telling you,
Speaker 3: you got this. Your life is about to change, and
Speaker 3: onenot you got this, and so sure enough they call
Speaker 3: me shortly after. But I literally replaced the guy that
Speaker 3: I was the camera operator for that character. It's so funny,
Speaker 3: so it was meant for you.
Speaker 5: It's one of Spruce his favorite shows, definitely, like I
Speaker 5: I love watching you when we went to school, but
Speaker 5: to watch you on TV, oh my god.
Speaker 1: And then just to follow right because when you talk
Speaker 1: about the Bay Area, you know Telita Smith and Terry
Speaker 1: Vaughan those of my old dogs.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yes, and Kalita.
Speaker 1: Day one of her career, she was doing a David
Speaker 1: David Talbert was doing his first film play, telling It
Speaker 1: like It Is in DC.
Speaker 2: The producer was my friend.
Speaker 1: He called me and said, I need you to replace
Speaker 1: a guy, so come see the play. I go see
Speaker 1: the play. I don't see anything but Kalita Smith. Kalita
Speaker 1: walked on that stage.
Speaker 3: Right, it was like, is that's.
Speaker 2: My new best friend. That's my new friend.
Speaker 1: And from that day on we have been inseparable. So
Speaker 1: Kalita was like, you know, she would report back to
Speaker 1: me and tell me all the goings on with Dory
Speaker 1: Wilson until.
Speaker 3: We got so funny. Me and Kalida go way way back.
Speaker 3: When first started out. We were both on Sister's Sister.
Speaker 3: I played Jacka's boyfriend and she played Tim Reid's girlfriend,
Speaker 3: and then they broke up. We all broke up, and
Speaker 3: then we kind of got together a little bit on
Speaker 3: the show. But fast forward, you know, in the cut
Speaker 3: she plays my love love interest, but then we got
Speaker 3: married on the sho show. Yeah, yeah, you.
Speaker 2: Guys created a nice platform for Bounce.
Speaker 3: Oh thank you, thank you. Yeah, we really did. They
Speaker 3: only had a couple of other shows that really kind
Speaker 3: of took off, but we got in there. We did
Speaker 3: eight seasons in the cut, so it was a beautiful thing.
Speaker 3: But it was so much work, Tracy. It was we
Speaker 3: did thirteen episodes in eleven days.
Speaker 2: I'm done.
Speaker 3: Wrapped your head around that. It's the craziest thing. Thirteen
Speaker 3: episodes in eleven days, and I was the lead of
Speaker 3: the show, so I had anywhere from fourteen to seventeen
Speaker 3: scenes a day. So this is my typical day. Would
Speaker 3: I would go to the gym at five am. I
Speaker 3: would be on set at seven am. From seven to
Speaker 3: like ten thirty, sometimes longer, sometimes less, I'm on set.
Speaker 3: And so then I ran home home and started trying
Speaker 3: to learn these lines for the next day. Around one
Speaker 3: o'clock one thirty, I'm like, At three o'clock, I'm like,
Speaker 3: oh shit, I gotta learn these lines. Three o'clock, five o'clock,
Speaker 3: I'm back at the gym, and the whole thing starts
Speaker 3: all over again. And so by the fourth day you
Speaker 3: kind of got it and you're in that rhythm. But
Speaker 3: it is it's exhausting. But you know, the one stiver
Speaker 3: lining gold lining is that I made my money for
Speaker 3: the year in those eleven days, right, that part so
Speaker 3: enabled me to do other things, other work and whatnot.
Speaker 3: But so you know, I sucked it up, and you
Speaker 3: know it was a big boy and like, you can
Speaker 3: do this. But it made it so easy to work
Speaker 3: with people like Khalitia Smith and John Marshall Jones l
Speaker 3: who you know, I have a history with on the Parkers,
Speaker 3: who my son on the show. You know, all of
Speaker 3: that that chemistry that you already bring in, it makes
Speaker 3: it so much easier. So we played off each other
Speaker 3: and we you know, just just had fun. So the
Speaker 3: writers did a great job in writing, putting those words
Speaker 3: on the page, but then we would bring them to
Speaker 3: life by just playing with each other and whatnot. A
Speaker 3: lot of stuff's improbmed.
Speaker 1: It was I thought, like, you know, you watch shows
Speaker 1: like Cheers, right and Sam and Diana chasing after each other,
Speaker 1: all these little undertones, but right to see you and Monique,
Speaker 1: I thought it was brilliant because the writers were really great,
Speaker 1: because you never got tired of her Shenanikins, because we
Speaker 1: all knew he's not taking you son, he not, I hate,
Speaker 1: but would ride every week some way and it never
Speaker 1: got boring and never got tired. I remember Rob Garr
Speaker 1: called me up and he was like, Casey, guess who
Speaker 1: I'm I'm well, it's not an understudy, Rod.
Speaker 3: I was trying to think of the word as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I forgot about it, but Rod.
Speaker 1: And so that's when I was in LA and I
Speaker 1: came to see you on set and I was like, like,
Speaker 1: everybody loved the Parkers.
Speaker 2: How many seasons did you guys go?
Speaker 3: We is six six seasons, one hundred and ten episodes.
Speaker 3: It was. It's a memorable, remarkable experience in my life
Speaker 3: that I will never forget. And I don't know if
Speaker 3: it's going to be matched by any but I've had
Speaker 3: wonderful experience on other shows. But the chemistry that we
Speaker 3: had it was it was literally lame with your friends
Speaker 3: all day and you still got a paycheck. You know,
Speaker 3: you cannot beat that, now, Yeah, you guys to do I.
Speaker 1: Watched every single episode. I was a fan. This is
Speaker 1: before remember they had the VH recording. I used to
Speaker 1: record it on the tape.
Speaker 3: Absolutely gonna all I have boxes of tapes. I'm like,
Speaker 3: what am I doing with these? You know, get them
Speaker 3: converted or something. But yeah, absolutely, But yeah, it was
Speaker 3: a really good time. And half of the stuff that
Speaker 3: you guys didn't see it was the funniest stuff ever.
Speaker 3: They had to separate me and Monique half of the time.
Speaker 3: It was just yeah.
Speaker 2: And I love her. She was so amazing.
Speaker 1: I have to I just want to spit out some
Speaker 1: credits because I love doing this.
Speaker 2: But you guys ahead ahead, I am, I am.
Speaker 1: Well, let me just say, mister and missus Smith, I
Speaker 1: coached Damon John's get Out.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, that is so funny. It's a it's
Speaker 3: a small world.
Speaker 1: And then I would love to have Damon because we
Speaker 1: have stories. But I introduced Damon. He took me out
Speaker 1: to LA to have these meetings, and I introduced him
Speaker 1: to my friend Isle Davis. You know, she was a
Speaker 1: VP of casting for ABC Primetime at the time.
Speaker 2: Okay and so sweet, and we had a meeting with her.
Speaker 1: And then years later they were putting together Shark Tank
Speaker 1: and they were Damon and the rest is history.
Speaker 3: Wow, that's amazing. That's a good story.
Speaker 1: And but this is you know, oh my god, wait
Speaker 1: till you read my book. I have to throw some
Speaker 1: stuff away. But and y'all, Home Improvement, Murphy Brown, one
Speaker 1: of my favorite shows. Seinfeld, the Fresh Prince of bel Air,
Speaker 1: marsh Sister Sister Friends, Mister.
Speaker 3: North African American on Friends.
Speaker 2: Had to be before I.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it was. I had a reoccurring role playing
Speaker 3: Chandler's boss. But the we forgot that is yeah, the
Speaker 3: way that I got the role was the executive producers
Speaker 3: are the same executive producers we had for dream On.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, Marta Kaufman, David Crane, Kevin Bright. And so
Speaker 3: they had hired an actor to play his boss and
Speaker 3: it was an older cat and it didn't quite work
Speaker 3: out or whatever. So they're like, who can we get
Speaker 3: at the last minute. Yeah, at the last minute, and
Speaker 3: so they called me up and that's how I got
Speaker 3: the role.
Speaker 2: Jerry.
Speaker 1: Can I just tell you there was so many times
Speaker 1: when I was casting that I would reach out to
Speaker 1: your people because I respect the business even with my friends,
Speaker 1: right say that, but I couldn't cast you because you
Speaker 1: were on a series or you know your name. Listen,
Speaker 1: when I was casting, like, there's certain people that I
Speaker 1: their name out because I was like, I have a relationship,
Speaker 1: I can call them up.
Speaker 2: The series kind of locked you in for a minute.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, yeah, because I was doing film, a lot of
Speaker 1: film back then. But and and when your name would
Speaker 1: come up, I'd be like, they're like, do you know
Speaker 1: Dorian Wilson.
Speaker 2: I'm like, I went to school with Dorian. I know
Speaker 2: He's like, oh my god, call him up. Call Dorian
Speaker 2: right in.
Speaker 3: I want to stuff. I want to change through the world.
Speaker 3: Though that was a great experience.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I want to go, you guys, Tyler
Speaker 1: Perry House of Pain.
Speaker 2: Step in the movie which I didn't do that when
Speaker 2: there's another step in.
Speaker 1: Oh my God, The Miller's Stop by my Neighbor, the
Speaker 1: Family Weekend, Toughler Interested, Oh my god, so much work doan?
Speaker 1: Let's talk about because less fast forward to present day.
Speaker 1: You are so established and recognized and revered in this industry,
Speaker 1: and you are so consistent. You have a body of
Speaker 1: work and continue to work. What is it? What do
Speaker 1: you feel keeps you motivated? Inspired? And now I'm pretty
Speaker 1: sure I was putting this out there. We're writing, we
Speaker 1: might be directing, producing, But what keeps you going after
Speaker 1: not seventy three you guys, that would be seventy eight
Speaker 1: so far on IMDb dot com credits.
Speaker 3: That's crazy? What keeps me motivated? Keeping a roof over
Speaker 3: my head? That part?
Speaker 2: Okay, that part.
Speaker 3: I attribute a lot of my success by my support system,
Speaker 3: surrounding myself with amazing, positive family and really really good friends.
Speaker 3: I know so many people, but the really really good
Speaker 3: friends in my life have been in my life for
Speaker 3: like over thirty years. So these are the people that
Speaker 3: when I'm starting out, and even if I did an
Speaker 3: orphan commercial like Roach commercial, they'd be like, oh my god,
Speaker 3: You're the next demsel.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: It was all that, And so you know, you're rejected
Speaker 3: so much in this business. It can beat you down,
Speaker 3: you know. But so you need people in your corner
Speaker 3: who's going to be uplifting and not be like, Okay,
Speaker 3: well you get them next time, but you know, really
Speaker 3: get in there and help you with that. So that
Speaker 3: that was a very strong foundation for my career. And
Speaker 3: also I try to keep these relationships when you go
Speaker 3: from show to show to show that your demeanor, your
Speaker 3: work ethic and everything that follows you, you know, whether
Speaker 3: you want to act like a divo or a devo
Speaker 3: or whatever. But I appreciate everybody that I work with,
Speaker 3: and so I think that has a lot to do
Speaker 3: with it as well. And you never know that little
Speaker 3: person at the bottom of the total ball where they're
Speaker 3: going to be in a couple of years. And that's
Speaker 3: happened several times where I've had pa who are executive
Speaker 3: producers now called me back and said, Hey, I remember
Speaker 3: how nice you were to me, blah blah blah. So
Speaker 3: you know, all of that place a factor in it.
Speaker 2: So well, I want to tell you.
Speaker 1: This because we only have two minutes, and I want
Speaker 1: you to give.
Speaker 2: Eight minutes. Two minutes is all we have right now.
Speaker 2: That's it, and you're going to give actors tip.
Speaker 1: But I want to say this about relationships. You are
Speaker 1: absolutely positively correct. Angela Yee when she got on The
Speaker 1: Breakfast Club, all to congratulate her, and I asked her, well,
Speaker 1: that was when she first got on, But when we
Speaker 1: got the podcast almost three years ago, I heart wanted
Speaker 1: her to be my first guest and I was like, oh, I.
Speaker 2: Know, Angela.
Speaker 1: Ever I called Angela up and I was like oh,
Speaker 1: and she was like, yeah, Tracy, I will come on
Speaker 1: the show, no problem.
Speaker 2: And I was like, thank you, Angela.
Speaker 1: She was like, Tracy, you came on Ciphersound show on
Speaker 1: serious Radio when I was a PA. You were the
Speaker 1: nicest person. You treated me like a person. I was like,
Speaker 1: why is she talking to me? I'm a PA.
Speaker 3: She said.
Speaker 1: From that day on, she was like, Tracy, whatever you want.
Speaker 1: She was my first guest on the podcast.
Speaker 3: Wow, that's such a great story. It's amazing what people remember.
Speaker 3: You know. I love I absolutely love when I meet
Speaker 3: fans or people that know me on the street and said, hey,
Speaker 3: I remember you from seven years ago or whenever we
Speaker 3: were in the grocery store blah blah blah, and you
Speaker 3: were so nice to me little daughter. You know, stories
Speaker 3: like that. It's just like, oh, okay, I be good.
Speaker 3: You know, it was a good day or whatever. But
Speaker 3: the flip side of that is, y'all, if we have
Speaker 3: a bad day, you know, we're we are humid. You
Speaker 3: know that one encounter sometimes makes all the difference in
Speaker 3: the world and your perception of that actor or whatever.
Speaker 3: But you know, it just might have been a bad day.
Speaker 3: You know, I don't ever deliberately just be like, hey,
Speaker 3: you know, I'm yeah, Simon autograss. They're taking pictures and
Speaker 3: blah blah blah blah. You know, so who you are,
Speaker 3: you're going to throw that out there, but you know
Speaker 3: it does happen, So no, it does.
Speaker 1: But I can honestly say this, like, and that's what's
Speaker 1: so beautiful is that for me, you are the same
Speaker 1: Dorian that I met in nineteen eighty. For me, in
Speaker 1: September nineteen eighty when I went to school.
Speaker 3: And you why are you dating us? Why are you
Speaker 3: putting that out there?
Speaker 1: Okay, I don't know about your I don't know about your.
Speaker 2: History and Wikipedia, but they got dates.
Speaker 3: In mine right right right? They have me a year younger,
Speaker 3: so I'll take it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm a year older than you, so you're not. Yes,
Speaker 2: I am what year were you born? Sixty two?
Speaker 3: So I said, they have me a year younger Wikipedia, right,
Speaker 3: what I was like, you don't do that? But anyway, Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well give them a tell them, tell him during whatever
Speaker 1: you feel they need to know because you drop some diamonds.
Speaker 3: Oh die, No, you know, just if this is what
Speaker 3: you want to do, if this is what you enjoyed doing,
Speaker 3: do it. You know. I think a lot of people
Speaker 3: go in for the notoriety or the money or whatever,
Speaker 3: but you have to have a passion in your heart.
Speaker 3: You know. I would do this for free. I'm glad
Speaker 3: I don't have to, but crazy, you know. Yeah, it
Speaker 3: is something I love doing, and I keep working at it.
Speaker 3: It never stops. I never stopped trying to grow, you know.
Speaker 3: I learned little things as I go along. I work
Speaker 3: with different people and I've watched them, you know, and
Speaker 3: so that's that's kind of it. I just I thank
Speaker 3: God for my longevity and to be able to work
Speaker 3: and to do what I love to do, you know,
Speaker 3: and get paid for it.
Speaker 2: Absolutely.
Speaker 1: And I just want to say this before we bring
Speaker 1: on the students, that we have two actors who are
Speaker 1: going to ask a question for you. So my next chapter,
Speaker 1: this is what I believe is directing full time.
Speaker 2: And playing with my friends. That's what I feel like
Speaker 2: my characters.
Speaker 4: And because look, look, Tracy, anyway.
Speaker 1: Get your head down because I'm saving youse up when
Speaker 1: we get off the phone anyway, because.
Speaker 2: Of the strike.
Speaker 1: But Dorian, I have to say this because I've never
Speaker 1: admitted this to anyone, and directors, I would be in
Speaker 1: casside sessions reading.
Speaker 2: I read with all the actors all the time.
Speaker 1: I love reading, right, and directors would turn around and
Speaker 1: look at me.
Speaker 2: Be like, are you an actress? And I go no, no,
Speaker 2: I'm not an actress at all, journey right.
Speaker 1: So I have to admit it on my podcast in
Speaker 1: front of Spruce Elsa and Andy.
Speaker 2: Yes I did act at Dorry knows.
Speaker 3: And a brilliant actress. That is so crazy. I don't
Speaker 3: know why you don't own that. You were so good, Tracy,
Speaker 3: just natural and you know, your personality just shines. It
Speaker 3: really does.
Speaker 1: And when I tell you, I love me some Dory
Speaker 1: and Wilson, I'm so glad that you are still in
Speaker 1: my life.
Speaker 2: And when I write this.
Speaker 1: I you know, I did write about the donut holes
Speaker 1: altho though that weed is legal down so Dorry and
Speaker 1: I you just spoke weed and go to Dugan Dodos
Speaker 1: and get a bed full of donut holes.
Speaker 2: Because it's legal now. But that was that's what we were.
Speaker 2: We were young, and that's what we were talking to
Speaker 2: you on the low. Now you could listen.
Speaker 1: I walked down the stre I live in Brooklyn and
Speaker 1: there are two spots in my in my neighborhood and like.
Speaker 2: I'm like, yo, they really so it blows me. And
Speaker 2: I just have to say this. I was in Oakland
Speaker 2: for my birthday two years ago, go by Lake Marrin
Speaker 2: and this woman had a vat of weed. I was
Speaker 2: with my mother, so you know, I had to play
Speaker 2: it off. But when I tell you, my body went
Speaker 2: into convulsions and I was like, wait, hold up, is
Speaker 2: this real? And she was like kid.
Speaker 3: I was like, oh my god, oh my god, right
Speaker 3: right right, But we had we had.
Speaker 1: The vested times and and and what I love more
Speaker 1: than anything is that we are still in communication. And
Speaker 1: when I can't even tell you, Dorian, for every person
Speaker 1: that would come and you know, Dorian, Dorian, I'd be
Speaker 1: like a trillionaire today.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, but I love it. Likewise, I love it.
Speaker 1: So I'm going to bring Elsa Lathan, our co executive
Speaker 1: producer on Spirited Actor.
Speaker 2: Elsa, who do we have some questions? Can I just
Speaker 2: say that was priceless, priceless, thank you, thank you?
Speaker 3: All right, Yeah, that was a great little memory lane
Speaker 3: trip there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was great. Yeah. So today on for our
Speaker 2: Q and A, we have two of our wonderful Spirited
Speaker 2: after alumni. We have mister Sam Bryce, you can come
Speaker 2: on camera. Sam, and we have miss Maya Bello. Hey, guys,
Speaker 2: and Maya's in l A, Dorian.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: Sam is on the East coast of US, so so
Speaker 2: Elsa always ladies first. So Maya you're up first with
Speaker 2: your question. Okay. Yeah, So I just want to say hi, oh,
Speaker 2: thank you. I was gonna say I love to your sister. Sister.
Speaker 2: That's when I was taking to you.
Speaker 3: This is really fun.
Speaker 6: So you said that, you know, training is very important
Speaker 6: I've trained with Tracy, and I just wanted to know
Speaker 6: your training actors. What were some of the things you
Speaker 6: thought were really important to like teach them for them
Speaker 6: to practice.
Speaker 3: Wow, that's a really interesting question. Definitely cold reading, which
Speaker 3: I'm not good at, but being able to pick up
Speaker 3: you know, any literature or whatever, because a lot of times,
Speaker 3: well not a lot of times, but there are some
Speaker 3: times where you go in for a feature or a
Speaker 3: role or whatever that requires you to be a certain
Speaker 3: way or whatever, and on the spot they'll ask you,
Speaker 3: you know what, I think you would be more suited
Speaker 3: for this character. So it's really important to be able
Speaker 3: to to pick that up, to grasp the you know,
Speaker 3: what the kind of root of the character is and
Speaker 3: be able to run with it. And Uh, that to
Speaker 3: me is something you keep in your pocket and you
Speaker 3: know you'll be able to pull it out. The other
Speaker 3: thing is just especially work ethic, you know, being on time, uh,
Speaker 3: knowing your your dialogue, your whatever you're you're auditioning for.
Speaker 3: Put put in the time, you know, uh, making sure
Speaker 3: you have your your head shots and put some money
Speaker 3: into your headshots. Everybody, like not everybody, but a lot
Speaker 3: of young people that have come up to me is like, oh,
Speaker 3: I got money for headshots and whatnot. No, but you
Speaker 3: got money to have a drink at the bar, you
Speaker 3: know on Saturday, Friday and Saturday. But you know you
Speaker 3: can use that money, you know. But all of these
Speaker 3: things important for your to your package, and you know,
Speaker 3: put those things in place before you do anything else.
Speaker 3: Have your resume updated. Uh, even if you you know
Speaker 3: you don't have much to put on it, just be
Speaker 3: creative enough that you're not gonna get hot. I have
Speaker 3: I put our horseback ride and blah blah blah. I
Speaker 3: got picked for the the the sidekick of the lead
Speaker 3: actor who was a cowboy. So at the end of
Speaker 3: it we run off, we go off of the.
Speaker 4: Sunset and he is this galloping and I could ride.
Speaker 3: A horse loop from that bitch anyway, So be able
Speaker 3: to back up your stuff, you know, to that point.
Speaker 3: So anyway, I hope that answered your question.
Speaker 2: No, that's excellent, excellent, Okay, okay, Elsa, thank you, thank you,
Speaker 2: and mister Sam right.
Speaker 3: Next, it's a pleasure to speak with you, mister Wilson Chevy.
Speaker 7: So question positive or negative, what would you say is
Speaker 7: the most impactful moment in your career.
Speaker 3: Oh, I still am in awe of the whole process.
Speaker 3: When I auditioned for dream On, you know, I'm a
Speaker 3: new actor to LA, didn't know anybody. I did a
Speaker 3: couple of things, but to get a series regular in
Speaker 3: six months that I had been here and I was
Speaker 3: I was so green and new to the business that
Speaker 3: I was still bartending at the time and so I'm
Speaker 3: going to the set and trying to cover my shifts
Speaker 3: at the restaurant. People were like, why the hell are
Speaker 3: you still here, and I'm like, I just I got
Speaker 3: that first check and I was like, I'm out of here.
Speaker 3: I quit. So I was doing dream On and Sister
Speaker 3: Sister at the same time, literally, and they worked around
Speaker 3: my schedule, so that that was very impactful that for
Speaker 3: my bank account and my house. But yeah, so I
Speaker 3: would say that and HBO.
Speaker 2: HBO is a beast. I used to work for HBO, so.
Speaker 3: That, oh nice. Yeah, way ahead of time. I couldn't
Speaker 3: even get it out wing. The show was way ahead
Speaker 3: of its time. So the first sex in the City,
Speaker 3: you know, it was like I get this script and
Speaker 3: I'm like these scripts and I'm like, I have to
Speaker 3: sleep with a different woman every week. But and I
Speaker 3: gotta pay trick.
Speaker 1: I'm I am in leading man right, Dorian, thank you, Elsa,
Speaker 1: thank you for thank you for the actors and the questions.
Speaker 2: We're going to come back.
Speaker 1: We're going to come back on the Spirited Actor Podcast
Speaker 1: with Class in Session where you'll see them Performancen and
Speaker 1: else is going to read the narrative.
Speaker 2: So stay tuned, don't.
Speaker 1: Go anywhere when we come back on the Spirited Actor
Speaker 1: Podcast with me Tracy Moore. You're blessed to have Dorian
Speaker 1: Wilson still with us and we'll do Class and Session.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Spirited Actor Podcast.
Speaker 2: With me, Tracy Moore.
Speaker 1: You are so blessed Dorian Wilson is still with us,
Speaker 1: and we are going to go. Yes, we are going
Speaker 1: to go into Class and Session where Elsa will introduce
Speaker 1: our Spirit Actor alumni.
Speaker 2: They will perform a scene and Dorian will be so
Speaker 2: gracious and give them feedback.
Speaker 3: Okay, so.
Speaker 2: That's another show. Okay, you a good one. So today
Speaker 2: on Class and Session we have we are welcoming back
Speaker 2: mister Sam Bryce, Welcome back, Sam, Hey Sam, how are you?
Speaker 2: And miss Maya Bell Welcome back Maya.
Speaker 3: Thank you as she is Maya.
Speaker 2: So today's scene is of all the places written by
Speaker 2: Leon Amoto. Interior Grand Lux Country Club evening. The ballroom
Speaker 2: is vibrant with purple neon strobe lights shining and beaming
Speaker 2: off the huge glass chandelier over the dance floor, which
Speaker 2: is packed. Everyone is turned up. It's that kind of
Speaker 2: wedding jacket edges. Let's get married, just drop so. Mary
Speaker 2: heads over to the dance floor to join the party.
Speaker 2: When her and Ben locked eyes again.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry I had to come over ahead and say something.
Speaker 3: All right, I'm Ben, I know who you are.
Speaker 6: Congratulations, this is beautiful.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 2: Mary's taking a back, surprised. She also realizes they're still
Speaker 2: holding hands since they greeted hello. She quickly drops her hand.
Speaker 3: Thank you. So what did you come here with?
Speaker 6: Oh, Angie's my sister. I'm her day tonight, okay, the
Speaker 6: neighbor exactly.
Speaker 2: The tension in their locked eyes towards each other is undeniable.
Speaker 2: Mary notices that his wife is looking for him as
Speaker 2: the song is appropriate. I'm gonna go grab a drink.
Speaker 2: I think your wife is looking for you. He just
Speaker 2: stares at her as if he didn't hear what she
Speaker 2: just said. Mary heads off towards the bar, but he stills.
Speaker 7: Look, I know this is so inappropriate and I would
Speaker 7: never ever do this, but I've been locked doing you
Speaker 7: since I saw you at the church. I hope I
Speaker 7: get to see you again.
Speaker 2: Ironically, Mary feels it as wrong as it is.
Speaker 3: She hesitates, but me too.
Speaker 2: Mary notices that his wife has found him and it
Speaker 2: is on her way over because she snaps out of it.
Speaker 2: Congratulations again, She smiles and heads off. He watches until
Speaker 2: he's interrupted by his new wife, who intimately surprises him
Speaker 2: from behind. She hugs on him as the DJ gets.
Speaker 3: On the mic.
Speaker 2: Can we get Ben in his beautiful new wife Shauna
Speaker 2: to the dance floor, let's go see. Oh nice job
Speaker 2: you guys. Okay, Dorian, it's you.
Speaker 3: I have nothing. No, it was really good. I really
Speaker 3: thought you were coming back. I was like, okay, we'll
Speaker 3: keep going. No, you guys did a great job. The
Speaker 3: only thing that I could think of this, Sammy, just
Speaker 3: be a little bit more aware that your wife might
Speaker 3: be somewhere close by and to kind of regurgitate him,
Speaker 3: to get all this stuff up, you know, knowing that
Speaker 3: she can be behind you at any second. But I
Speaker 3: love the approach and everything else. You were. You're great.
Speaker 3: I don't have any you know, bad things to say.
Speaker 3: You were engaged. I loved the coyness. Yeahcy, thank you.
Speaker 2: I mean I that like, I'm like you.
Speaker 1: That's a specific note that I would have given to
Speaker 1: because that would have added on a little bit to
Speaker 1: the urgency of like, let me let you know I
Speaker 1: like you and we could get together, but not in
Speaker 1: front of my wife.
Speaker 3: Exactly exactly that you did. Beautiful job.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Sam, and these Sam and Maya are speared actor.
Speaker 2: Oh gee, so thank you, say thank you, Maya, and
Speaker 2: I just want to tell you really quickly.
Speaker 1: Dorian Sam was cast in Soul Santa, which is a
Speaker 1: film that I cast with Elsa, and the character was
Speaker 1: twenty seven I believe to thirty.
Speaker 2: He was nerdy, he was tall and thin. This was
Speaker 2: the character breakdown.
Speaker 1: Wow else suggested Sam come in, and you know, if
Speaker 1: it was according to the breakdown, we're true, Sam wouldn't
Speaker 1: have come in. But I was like, Sam is talented. Yes,
Speaker 1: that's a great idea. Bottom in Sam got cast. Terry
Speaker 1: Vought love that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I love that when you can stink outside the
Speaker 3: box and and just go for it. I've been cast
Speaker 3: as an elderly white woman who was very articulate and
Speaker 3: whatnot who they sent me in anyway, and I got
Speaker 3: the role. So but I love those stories. Yeah, great job, guys, Dorian.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. I can't even begin to thank
Speaker 1: you for coming on this show. All the truths of me.
Speaker 2: I thank you. I couldn't wait because I was like, Dory,
Speaker 2: I can't wait Wilson on the show.
Speaker 3: So I've saved some nuggets though, I've saved something.
Speaker 2: Thank you for the other skeletons, like.
Speaker 3: The fact that I had the biggest crush on you
Speaker 3: and you didn't give me the time of day because
Speaker 3: you're interested in two other white guys.
Speaker 2: All right, can we talk about something else?
Speaker 3: But I.
Speaker 2: Couldn't like you.
Speaker 3: I needed Yes, what's this?
Speaker 2: It was?
Speaker 3: It was the right thing to do.
Speaker 2: It was and you told me. She was like, Dorian
Speaker 2: has a question on you. I was like, no, he
Speaker 2: doesn't do it. George, just like me.
Speaker 3: You knew I did you do well?
Speaker 2: Dorian? We loved spirited podcast and Dorian, before you leave,
Speaker 2: can you do it? I know you coming out? Yes
Speaker 2: I do.
Speaker 3: Uh, It's it's called a Wesley Christmas wedding, and it
Speaker 3: is the second part in a trilogy that we're doing
Speaker 3: to introduce the Wesleys to America, and I am having
Speaker 3: so much fun. It is done by Optic Productions, Brie
Speaker 3: and Chuck West. I don't know if you know them,
Speaker 3: but if you don't, you need to get to know
Speaker 3: them first class all the way. Just very intuitive, respectful.
Speaker 3: Brie wrote this beautiful sequel to the first one out
Speaker 3: of knowing uh us as actors and our personalities and whatnot.
Speaker 3: So she's incorporated this in our second one. So we
Speaker 3: got to play our strengths. One of the young ladies,
Speaker 3: Lauren Lott, she's she's a beautiful vocalist and she's singing
Speaker 3: in it. And TC Carson is is in it as well,
Speaker 3: who's singing. Jasmine Guy plays my wife. But I'm so
Speaker 3: proud of this work. It's a it's a Christmas movie,
Speaker 3: but there's a story behind it, and everybody's storyline is
Speaker 3: so import Horton and and you're gonna walk away and
Speaker 3: it'll make you think. But it's a great feel good movie.
Speaker 3: But we are shooting the third one in after the
Speaker 3: New Year. We usually shoot in November, but because of
Speaker 3: the strike. They pushed it to in the January beginning
Speaker 3: of February. But we're shooting in South Africa. Oh yeah,
Speaker 3: so I'm so aware of South Africa. I think Johannesburg,
Speaker 3: but I'm not positive. So they haven't gave us all
Speaker 3: the particulars. But we keep going. Yeah, so we're doing
Speaker 3: that and then hopefully, well not hopefully, it's going to
Speaker 3: become a series The Wesleys.
Speaker 1: They will the Wesleys Lady and Keleman look Out for
Speaker 1: the Wesleys starring Dory and Wilson. Look Out for Anything
Speaker 1: starring Dorian Wilson, because he is a stellar star and
Speaker 1: he is the most humble person in the industry, and.
Speaker 2: He has seventy eight credits and more.
Speaker 4: Because I love that, I'm going to get a T
Speaker 4: shirt that says that writing.
Speaker 2: It, I love you so much, feeling all the tea
Speaker 2: on me. Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1: When we come back on the Spirited Actor podcast with
Speaker 1: me Tracy Moore, I'm giving Cassidy Arkins.
Speaker 2: That woman right there.
Speaker 1: She introduced me to Spruce and that's how inside the
Speaker 1: Black Box. She is the reason why I'm here, and
Speaker 1: we'll be back and I'm going to give her and
Speaker 1: all of you guys some love, and now we are going.
Speaker 2: To celebrate in Kudos Corner. Kudos Corner is.
Speaker 1: Where we celebrate spirited actors who are performing, got booked, directing, writing.
Speaker 2: We want to give them their flowers now.
Speaker 1: So in this week's Kudos Corner, we are celebrating Audia Gunza.
Speaker 1: She is a Spirited actor alumni and actress, writer director.
Speaker 1: She recently filmed a featured film, thirty and Dating, which
Speaker 1: I coached her. The film will be released in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four, and I hear that there may be some
Speaker 1: series talk for her right now.
Speaker 2: She also starred in and assisted directing an off Broadway play.
Speaker 1: She has credits on New Amsterdam and Just Like That
Speaker 1: and a short film Rebellious. When she's not in front
Speaker 1: of the camera, Audia keeps herself tuned in and engaged
Speaker 1: by working productions and on sets like Just Like That,
Speaker 1: American horror story, New Amsterdam and Fueled. She also is
Speaker 1: currently writing her own featured film, Kudos to Audio Gonzales
Speaker 1: and now It's time to give love. People don't say
Speaker 1: what they mean, and they don't mean what they say.
Speaker 1: You have to watch them and observe their behavior. This
Speaker 1: is what I stress to actors in the acting world.
Speaker 1: But trust me when I tell you you can use
Speaker 1: it in real life too, and it will save you
Speaker 1: time and heartache. Milangelo says, when people show up, believe them.
Speaker 1: A lot of times in life we give people the
Speaker 1: benefit of the doubt, but when they tell us who
Speaker 1: they are, believe it. Don't think you can change it.
Speaker 1: Don't think it's maybe this is just a moment. Trust
Speaker 1: your instincts, trust your energy and what you feel. If
Speaker 1: it's not conducive to lifting you up and making you
Speaker 1: feel the best that you can feel, then it's not
Speaker 1: for you. Learn to be able to determine what's good
Speaker 1: for you and what it's not good for you and
Speaker 1: save yourself a lot of time and a lot of hearty,
Speaker 1: don't forget to look out for us on our new show,
Speaker 1: Inside the Black Box. My co host will be Joe
Speaker 1: the Legend Morton. It's going to be the Spirited Actor
Speaker 1: Podcast on Steroids.
Speaker 2: We'll be streaming on the Crackle network. I'll keep you posted.
Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us on the Spirited Actor Podcast
Speaker 1: with me Tracy Moore. I look forward to our next
Speaker 1: Spirited Podcast.
Speaker 2: Thank you