Speaker 1: Hello guys, and welcome back to this week's episode of
Speaker 1: the Let's Be Real Podcast. This week, I got to
Speaker 1: sit down with my good friend, actually, Molly Jackson. Now
Speaker 1: you may know her as an actress or as an activist,
Speaker 1: but she is one of the sweetest humans and I
Speaker 1: am so honored that I get to call her my friend.
Speaker 1: I'm very grateful for her. We talked about literally everything.
Speaker 1: This episode is basically a steak peek into what our
Speaker 1: friendship is like, and I hope you guys enjoy it. Molly,
Speaker 1: I'm so excited to hear my podcast. This is so
Speaker 1: exciting because we've been talking about this for a minute.
Speaker 1: We have For those who don't know, I want to
Speaker 1: give a list set of how we met because I
Speaker 1: think it's really funny and I kind of unexpected that
Speaker 1: we became friends. Absolutely. Well. We met in the middle
Speaker 1: of a pandemic, too, which is always on Instagram Live.
Speaker 1: So it was during the election. You're both trying to
Speaker 1: get the word out, get the vote, get people to
Speaker 1: register from the vote, all the way. Yeah, and so
Speaker 1: we didn't Instagram live and I remember it was like, man,
Speaker 1: this girl we did how long? It like thirty minutes?
Speaker 1: Like a thirty minute. Well. It was funny about it too,
Speaker 1: was you were supposed to be interviewing me then and
Speaker 1: then they flipped it last minute, so I interviewed you
Speaker 1: jury I've never interviewed anyone before. It was so weird
Speaker 1: for me too, because I was like, so do I
Speaker 1: just answer? You did a great job, by the way,
Speaker 1: thank you. But I we just talked to us, like
Speaker 1: why though it wasn't about like anything personal was take
Speaker 1: it the about. I was like, we have a lot
Speaker 1: in common, like we just clicked, if you will know,
Speaker 1: even like our pacing and our tones and like a
Speaker 1: kind of like sense of humor. It, Yeah, it was
Speaker 1: really fun. And then so we didn't you followed each
Speaker 1: other on social media. And then I went out to
Speaker 1: California and I think it was February, and I did
Speaker 1: this big trip, first time flying by myself. Stayed here
Speaker 1: for a month supposed to be five days, and it
Speaker 1: was a big chip in where I just accomplished a lot.
Speaker 1: I got over a bunch of my anxiety and I,
Speaker 1: dam do. I was like, you know, let me reach
Speaker 1: out to her. And then we got coffee and then
Speaker 1: we realized we were literally the same person. Yes, No,
Speaker 1: we had I mean even like our dad's share a
Speaker 1: name and our moms have the same like area depression.
Speaker 1: It was very weird. No, I mean we had very
Speaker 1: like similar life parallels with our anxiety and like our
Speaker 1: careers and like school and just kind of everything. And
Speaker 1: then I just remember being like, man, this is a
Speaker 1: girl that I want to stay friends with. I'm so
Speaker 1: glad that you're on the podcast because now everyone get
Speaker 1: to know more about you, you know, the incredible Molly
Speaker 1: that you are. Well, I mean, I I've loved getting
Speaker 1: to know you. And then I mean we reconnected all
Speaker 1: we got really close. I think when I went to
Speaker 1: New York. Yeah, yeah, then um, and now I'm officially
Speaker 1: out in California and I know you moved. Welcome. You're
Speaker 1: an official Callie girl. I think I've always been one
Speaker 1: at heart. I think I think you've always been a
Speaker 1: New York girl. Yes, and someday I'll make that move.
Speaker 1: We're just gonna switch places. It's gonna we're gonna end
Speaker 1: up in New York. I just know it. Hopefully, I'm
Speaker 1: hoping next summer. Well, we'll see, we'll see that. I
Speaker 1: want to be here for the first year year here
Speaker 1: because you have to experience all the California stuff, but
Speaker 1: the beach would do all the fun stuff. Um. We've
Speaker 1: talked a lot about your career and stuff, just as
Speaker 1: in itself. But I'm curious, do you remember when you
Speaker 1: first started acting? I do, yeah, I UM. I was
Speaker 1: four years old and my parents were looking for like
Speaker 1: summer camps for me, and the only one I showed
Speaker 1: any interest in was a theater camp. And they called
Speaker 1: and they were like, no, you have to be five,
Speaker 1: Like the kid has to be five. So for the
Speaker 1: difference of four to five and huge dramatic um. So
Speaker 1: I waited like an entire year, I guess according to
Speaker 1: my parents, I didn't bring it up once and then
Speaker 1: like on my fifth birthday, I was like, okay, so
Speaker 1: I can go to the acting camp now, and they
Speaker 1: were like wow, like she still remembers that. So they
Speaker 1: signed me up, and quite like significantly, I the very
Speaker 1: first day, I just jumped out of the car and
Speaker 1: I walked inside. And up until that point I had
Speaker 1: debilitating separation anxiety from my mom. So for the fact
Speaker 1: that for something was the very first time I ever
Speaker 1: walked away from my mom ever, and from that moment
Speaker 1: my parents were like, Okay, she has to do this
Speaker 1: for the rest of her life. So yeah. So after
Speaker 1: that first camp, the first play was we did No
Speaker 1: White and the Seven Little Piggies. So I was like
Speaker 1: a little pig. I was the littlest pig of them all,
Speaker 1: and I had like pink paint on my nose and
Speaker 1: it was so much fun. And then I literally just
Speaker 1: went from summer camp to summer camp to summer camp.
Speaker 1: Like I did not stop doing plays at this theater
Speaker 1: for two and a half years. Did you do anything
Speaker 1: during the school year or was it just like, yes,
Speaker 1: I did stuff doing during the school year, they had
Speaker 1: a little like weekend programs or a little like weekend uh,
Speaker 1: I don't know, like just training and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: And then over winter break we had like our winter play,
Speaker 1: and then the spring there was like a medley and
Speaker 1: I was definitely the youngest one. They're the smallest one.
Speaker 1: There was itty bitty as a kid. Um. But I
Speaker 1: mean just the moment, I've just felt the presence of
Speaker 1: this little theater. It's called Kids and Co and Alpaso,
Speaker 1: Texas shout out to them. They're wonderful. Um. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: just felt like home and I felt safe, and I
Speaker 1: felt like I could be myself, and my anxiety literally
Speaker 1: was left at the door every time. Man, that's crazy,
Speaker 1: especially like I know what you're talking about. When I
Speaker 1: do these conversations. It's one of the times where like
Speaker 1: anxiety is in there. If you're an anxious person, you know,
Speaker 1: he finds something you love that doesn't make you anxious.
Speaker 1: That is so huge. No, you know that then you
Speaker 1: have to be doing that thing if you're stupid to
Speaker 1: walk away from it because it's so rare. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: I mean during that exact same period that I was
Speaker 1: at this children's theater, I would go to school on
Speaker 1: you know, off days, and I would cry and cry
Speaker 1: the entire school day until mom picked me up. So
Speaker 1: I knew it was specifically that it was literally we
Speaker 1: have these know when the teachers would really reassure my
Speaker 1: mom like, oh, she'll stop crying in like ten minutes.
Speaker 1: By the time she picked me up, I was still sobbing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was me. I used to have my mom, so
Speaker 1: I us have really best separation anxiety from my mom too.
Speaker 1: That's other peril um. And I used to make her
Speaker 1: walk up the stairs with me into the classroom like
Speaker 1: I couldn't walk up the stairs with everybody by myself.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. Yeah, my mom had to park in
Speaker 1: the parking lot instead of just like the little like
Speaker 1: loopy do drop off, she had to like park walk
Speaker 1: me in. Just crazy. I look back and it feels
Speaker 1: like a different person. But I'm proud of her. And
Speaker 1: then I was about seven and a half when manager
Speaker 1: came to the theater and was like, oh, like me
Speaker 1: and one other kid, like, I'm gonna bring him out
Speaker 1: to l A and let's see how this goes. Um
Speaker 1: So I kind of did like a boot camp there
Speaker 1: and I met an agent and I got some headshots
Speaker 1: and I was seven, just having the time of my life. Tea. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I think, exactly, I'll Passo Texas, like right in
Speaker 1: the little tip there, big military town, because my family
Speaker 1: is also a military family. Um, So we were out
Speaker 1: there in Los Angeles. My parents were pretty worried about
Speaker 1: how that transition would be from my little theater to
Speaker 1: said they thought maybe it was just the theater that
Speaker 1: like didn't cause me anxiety, and then being on set
Speaker 1: the same thing happened. I just didn't. I mean I
Speaker 1: had to legally then have my mom on set with me,
Speaker 1: you know, child laws, but I don't think I checked
Speaker 1: in with her like once throughout the day, I was
Speaker 1: just having I would just have the time. It was
Speaker 1: my favorite. It's still my favorite place in the world
Speaker 1: is being on set or acting in any cuacity. Something
Speaker 1: people don't realize that, like being on set. It's not
Speaker 1: as glamorous as people. It's just a lot of hurry
Speaker 1: up and wait. It is and first reason, like I
Speaker 1: still love that, Like I get tempted to read, and
Speaker 1: like I love talking to people and like just learning
Speaker 1: people's stories, like I can always be instead of I mean,
Speaker 1: I feel like a lot of actors like eat their
Speaker 1: lunch and like their trailers and stuff like that, and
Speaker 1: I don't know the lat I don't know when I've
Speaker 1: ever done that. I think I can remember one time
Speaker 1: when I was kind of sick on set and they
Speaker 1: needed to keep me isolated. But like I'm always like
Speaker 1: with everybody else eating, Like I just it's every moment
Speaker 1: of It's not glamorous, but I love it every moment.
Speaker 1: It's just there's so much to learn and so much
Speaker 1: like stimulations, you know. I so when I was working
Speaker 1: with Radio Disney R I p Radio Disney. Um, I
Speaker 1: did a bunch of like backstage with these Disney shows,
Speaker 1: and I really experienced for the first time, like what
Speaker 1: set life was, and it has nothing that I expected.
Speaker 1: Like what people don't realize doing one scene can take hours? Yes, yeah, hours?
Speaker 1: What was the longest it took you to finish one scene?
Speaker 1: Funny enough, Um, this is like kind of one of
Speaker 1: my favorite stories. But funny enough, the longest scene I
Speaker 1: ever had to shoot was like a kiss scene. Um,
Speaker 1: this is Andy Mack with Josh rush Um. So this
Speaker 1: was our We had a kiss twice in the show,
Speaker 1: which is kind of unusual for Disney. Um. But so
Speaker 1: this was the second time we were kissing in the show,
Speaker 1: and we did probably I think like we had both
Speaker 1: been keeping count. I think we ended up doing like
Speaker 1: thirty four takes of it. There was no reason we
Speaker 1: needed thirty four takes of a kiss scene. And we
Speaker 1: were both like fifteen, and we were auntsy and we
Speaker 1: were starting to get like, oh gosh, this is just
Speaker 1: getting worse and worse and worse. It's something that we
Speaker 1: can like we always bring it up when we're together,
Speaker 1: which is like it's a great memory to laugh about.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean I think we probably shot that
Speaker 1: scene for like six hours, like we took lunch and
Speaker 1: went back to it. It was the longest scene of
Speaker 1: my life. And my parents were on side with who
Speaker 1: my nana took me. So my nana's there like with
Speaker 1: her book, like just watching me, like kiss this boy
Speaker 1: over and over and over and over again. And was
Speaker 1: this like your first kiss? So the first time we
Speaker 1: kissed on the show, Yes, it was my first kiss.
Speaker 1: So I had my first kiss on Disney Channel when
Speaker 1: I was fifteen, which is iconic, but also when I
Speaker 1: was Yes, now, I think it's amazing and I'm glad
Speaker 1: that happened because like what a story. But at the
Speaker 1: time and I was fifteen, Oh, I was so upset.
Speaker 1: I was like I wanted my first kiss like a
Speaker 1: school dance, like, but no, Josh and I mean we
Speaker 1: we were really close and we were good friends before
Speaker 1: we did it on set. It's also like a Disney kiss,
Speaker 1: it's like a it's just a pack and it was
Speaker 1: really fun. But the first time that we kissed in
Speaker 1: an episode of both his dad and my mom were
Speaker 1: like there with their iPhones, like recording it in our faces.
Speaker 1: So we had like the camera and it was like
Speaker 1: fifty adults just as two kids, hormonal fifteen year old
Speaker 1: and your parents are filming. Y, so my parents like
Speaker 1: have it on video because they're like, the first one
Speaker 1: is not going to make the cut of the episode,
Speaker 1: so like we'll have it. That is okay. Yeah, Like
Speaker 1: those are the things people don't realize. Yeah, it's so
Speaker 1: I mean, I think I get a lot of um.
Speaker 1: I mean, I have a lot of friends outside of
Speaker 1: the industry too. I think, like you know, just my
Speaker 1: military friends and stuff like that. Um, and it's always
Speaker 1: like a lot of concern that I missed out on things.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, but I don't ever feel that way
Speaker 1: because I got so many other weird experiences like that
Speaker 1: that are cool and like unique and also you love Yes,
Speaker 1: I absolutely love it. I will say you are one
Speaker 1: of the few people where you love every process of it.
Speaker 1: When you tat when I'm texting, You're like, I'm doing
Speaker 1: a self tape. I'm so excited. I'm like, yes, girl.
Speaker 1: Like people don't realize when you're an actor, your main
Speaker 1: job is auditioning. That is a full time job in itself,
Speaker 1: and I want to talk about that for a second,
Speaker 1: because that isn't talked about. And I think you've heard
Speaker 1: me about this to you, like in our friendship. But
Speaker 1: so I'm glad you bring you brought this up. Um, No,
Speaker 1: auditioning is your main job. That is the job. When
Speaker 1: I get a self tape, I'm like, Okay, this is
Speaker 1: my job. Like booking, it's just the extra perk, and
Speaker 1: that means you get to continue with the character. You know,
Speaker 1: everyone has their own process. It baffles me when other
Speaker 1: actors like complain about self tapes. I'm like, what do
Speaker 1: you mean, Like, how are you not loving this? Like
Speaker 1: this is a new character and you need to work
Speaker 1: on it and put it on camera and like people
Speaker 1: are gonna watch and laugh or cry. Like every audition
Speaker 1: is a performance in itself. And that's why I just
Speaker 1: I love class. I love auditions. Like I was texting
Speaker 1: you last night. It was in a six hour acting class.
Speaker 1: How long is this class going for? It's my Thursday
Speaker 1: night class and it's just a group of actors who
Speaker 1: just absolutely love every step of the process as well.
Speaker 1: I'm the youngest one in the class. Um, and it's
Speaker 1: only supposed to be four hours, but we usually go
Speaker 1: till midnight. Man, It's like I always call it like
Speaker 1: my second therapy every week, because like I have therapy
Speaker 1: and then this is my other thing. Would you say
Speaker 1: being an actor, because you're going into different mindsets in
Speaker 1: different perspectives, help you with just putting your anxiety into
Speaker 1: perspective sometimes or do you keep those separate? I I
Speaker 1: do tend to keep those separate, and I hope somebody
Speaker 1: I don't have to, but I think that, like right now,
Speaker 1: I'm still working through my anxiety at like a high
Speaker 1: enough level that I'm not quite ready to like merge
Speaker 1: the two. So I do have to keep this pretty separate,
Speaker 1: which I'm excited for that day I don't have to
Speaker 1: because then I can kind of merge that disc like
Speaker 1: get rid of the disconnect there. But what does help
Speaker 1: me with characters? It's I'm also like a psych major
Speaker 1: in school, so I think like kind of all three though,
Speaker 1: like my anxiety, psych major, and then acting, they all
Speaker 1: come together. They really do. Yeah, they make they help
Speaker 1: with my empathy and just like my interactions with other people,
Speaker 1: And how do you balance school and your career Because
Speaker 1: I know something that I've struggled with and it's a challenge.
Speaker 1: It really is it is? Yeah, I mean I don't
Speaker 1: know that. For the last couple of years of school,
Speaker 1: I was nearly as busy as you were with school.
Speaker 1: Like I don't even I don't know how you do it,
Speaker 1: Like I talked to you about it, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: something's not making sense, Like when did you sleep? I
Speaker 1: don't know how I did it either. That's a question
Speaker 1: that I need to ask myself to That was just
Speaker 1: subconsciously I went through. And now you're going to be
Speaker 1: a full time college student doing it as well a
Speaker 1: new challenge. Wow, you baffle us all. But I'm not
Speaker 1: on set for hours and hours and hours like acting
Speaker 1: is a full like time Yeah, it's definitely the only
Speaker 1: thing with acting though two is like you definitely have
Speaker 1: like your breaks though, So I think that like the
Speaker 1: main thing is finding a school that will work with
Speaker 1: you on that. So that like maybe if you're working
Speaker 1: for a month straight and you're working twelve hour days
Speaker 1: every day for a month, um, you're not gonna have
Speaker 1: any time for school. Then if you still want to
Speaker 1: sleep and have like somewhat of a social life, which
Speaker 1: that unfortunately is probably the thing that takes the biggest
Speaker 1: back burner for me is like my social life when
Speaker 1: I'm working. Um, but I've had schools that will be
Speaker 1: like Okay, like this month you won't do any school,
Speaker 1: but next month you gotta double up. So it's like
Speaker 1: kind of I've been very lucky with my teachers and
Speaker 1: like my principles and stuff who have worked with me
Speaker 1: on more making it like a year round school. I
Speaker 1: think it's one of the things like being a child actor,
Speaker 1: especially you probably you do school on set too, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you do school with the people you're working with. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: I think that that's an interesting about that school though,
Speaker 1: is for me personally, when I was doing set on school,
Speaker 1: which is technically you need three hours a day and
Speaker 1: you need like a certain number of breaks. But the
Speaker 1: only issue is is that like they would be like, okay,
Speaker 1: we have ten minutes like go to some school and
Speaker 1: then clock like that, it takes me five minutes to
Speaker 1: log into my online school program. So unfortunately I never
Speaker 1: got to the place where I could figure out how
Speaker 1: to really get that much school done. So for me,
Speaker 1: more so, it was being on set, maybe doing a
Speaker 1: little bit here and there, um, and then coming home
Speaker 1: and just doing school for five hours straight and then
Speaker 1: going to bed. So that was like very I think
Speaker 1: from like thirteen to fifteen, that was like I was
Speaker 1: busiest with work then and that was probably like the
Speaker 1: most tactic time when you and Mac. Yeah, that's when
Speaker 1: I was on Andy Mack and Game Shakers, Nikki, Ricky, Dickie,
Speaker 1: and Don so I was kind of like rotating guest
Speaker 1: stars on all those shows. Um So, yeah, so it
Speaker 1: was pretty and then with auditions and stuff like that
Speaker 1: as well. Um So that was a very like stressful
Speaker 1: time where I really don't remember having too many friendships.
Speaker 1: Like I said, like unfortunately these between school and work
Speaker 1: and then you do want to have somewhat of a
Speaker 1: social life, but then you also have responsibilities like interviews
Speaker 1: and press and events and stuff like that. So it
Speaker 1: was definitely kind of it was overwhelming. And now I'm
Speaker 1: figuring out what I want to do with college, and
Speaker 1: I just don't want to go back to that place
Speaker 1: because that was a very stressful place. One of the
Speaker 1: good things though, from being on Disney is that you're
Speaker 1: with people your own age. It's not like you were
Speaker 1: just with much younger people all the time or months
Speaker 1: least you had at least you were able to socialize
Speaker 1: with people your age. Absolutely, no, I got to socialize
Speaker 1: with because that's kind of where you did get like
Speaker 1: your friend time on set in those shows. It was
Speaker 1: so like compounded though. I think it was really fun
Speaker 1: because Anti Max shot in Utah, so I would like
Speaker 1: be in l A and then I'd fly out to
Speaker 1: shoot an episode or two in Utah and that come
Speaker 1: back and you know, back and forth where like the
Speaker 1: series regulars on that show were there in Utah for
Speaker 1: the entire year. It was fun. It was like sweethell,
Speaker 1: Like they got so excited when like the guest starts
Speaker 1: would come out or whatever, because I mean I I
Speaker 1: thought of them in their situation. There's just four of
Speaker 1: them together NonStop for a year. So like it was
Speaker 1: kind of fun coming because then you kind of felt
Speaker 1: like the superstar on Sex because everyone was so excited.
Speaker 1: How blood to talk to exactly? Just so I can
Speaker 1: get a better sense, let's use Andy Mac as an example.
Speaker 1: How long did it take to film an episode? What
Speaker 1: were your hours? Like? Well, I mean Anti Max a
Speaker 1: really unique example of a Disney show. Granite, like more
Speaker 1: Disney Plus shows now we're doing what Andy Mac did. Um,
Speaker 1: but Anti Mac was like a single camp, so it
Speaker 1: wasn't multi cam like the other shows Disney Nick. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so single cam, so it took a little bit longer, um,
Speaker 1: a lot more like discipline. Like that's why it was
Speaker 1: more grounded performance, um because single cam doesn't want big
Speaker 1: animated performance like a multi cam does. Um. But no,
Speaker 1: I mean pretty much like call time is usually around
Speaker 1: like six am every day, so like getting up, you'd
Speaker 1: take like the bus would pick you up to set,
Speaker 1: like you'd get in the van, you'd go to set.
Speaker 1: Um you were there, like going to set doing school,
Speaker 1: going to set doing school, kind of back and forth,
Speaker 1: and then lunch was about an hour. Um, they had
Speaker 1: great food on the set of Andy Maack too. That
Speaker 1: was like amazing craft services. I will always remember, um
Speaker 1: then know so, I mean then we'd have lunch and
Speaker 1: then we go back to set and then kind of
Speaker 1: depending on like when you got called and stuff, you'd
Speaker 1: wrap and people were also coming and going because some
Speaker 1: people just had like a scene for two hours of
Speaker 1: the day and then they'd leave. And then afterwards, I
Speaker 1: mean we usually like went out and did something too
Speaker 1: after a set, which was super fun because that was
Speaker 1: like our social life. So we'd go to get dinner,
Speaker 1: go bowling, or go roller skating, and yeah, so it
Speaker 1: was really fun. I want to go roller skating. That
Speaker 1: sounds so much fun. There's a really good rink in
Speaker 1: Glendale here and we go. Absolutely, it's super fun, very
Speaker 1: affordable too. I used to love what was it, um rollerblading?
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I yes, I My sister and I
Speaker 1: were obsessed from eight. I was like, there, my rollerblades
Speaker 1: were grand purple. Mine were purple. Another parallel. Look at that.
Speaker 1: It's so odd how much we have in common. I know,
Speaker 1: we've talked about this. It's really weird when you like
Speaker 1: think about it. It is, no, it is weird. It's
Speaker 1: like and also like living on kind of two different
Speaker 1: coasts and wanting to live where each other are. Kind
Speaker 1: of like we should have done like a parent trap
Speaker 1: or something like that. I think I could have worked.
Speaker 1: I think it could have just I would have dyed
Speaker 1: my hair more. Well, you were brunettes, so I was brunette.
Speaker 1: Where you go bond you could pull up blonde. Maybe
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know. I feel like I get
Speaker 1: a little too like dark in the summer. Or maybe
Speaker 1: bond wouldn't have worked. You could. Maybe I've never ever
Speaker 1: varied from my hair color. Would you ever for work? Yes?
Speaker 1: I don't think not for works? So like a job
Speaker 1: is like shave your head. Absolutely, I want to shave
Speaker 1: my head at one point in my life. Joey King said,
Speaker 1: I think every woven should shave their head at least
Speaker 1: once once in their life. She shaved her head, like
Speaker 1: what three times for work? It like nobody's business. She
Speaker 1: is my favorite. She is my favorite, like my favorite
Speaker 1: career example. Like I think she's such like a well
Speaker 1: rounded person, Like I love her social media, like everything
Speaker 1: she does she just does it right. And I want
Speaker 1: to live exactly like she does want us. Then I
Speaker 1: remember that movie, Yes, that was one of my favorite movies.
Speaker 1: I couldn't watch the scene that when she ran away.
Speaker 1: That just made me too sad. Oh yeah, that was
Speaker 1: really stumble. I thought I was funny enough, so with
Speaker 1: such separation anxiety, you think I wouldn't, But that seem
Speaker 1: like inspired me to be dramatic and runaway. When I
Speaker 1: was ten, You ran away, but I ran away to
Speaker 1: my garage. We had a detached garage, and I packed
Speaker 1: up my stuff and dramatically stormed the fat yard I didn't.
Speaker 1: Once I was I'm leaving, and I just packed my
Speaker 1: bad and I went down the hallway and then I
Speaker 1: went back into that department because I missed my mom. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: because it's so sad. I wish I was rebellious some time. No,
Speaker 1: I know, same here and it will. Even in the garage,
Speaker 1: I was just sobbing because of how much I missed
Speaker 1: my mom, and like she came and got me and
Speaker 1: she's like, I know you're crying about me, and I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: like I want to come back in. Sometimes I just
Speaker 1: wish I could just like not care and I could
Speaker 1: just like wouldn't that just be free and just like
Speaker 1: not because it's not just like just not that like
Speaker 1: we care. It's not just like caring what people think
Speaker 1: about us. It's it's caring about what's gonna Like it's
Speaker 1: your rational fears, like what's going to happen to the
Speaker 1: people around us, what's gonna happen to us? Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: like did I mess with the fabric of the universe
Speaker 1: and something bad is going to happen. It's just like
Speaker 1: all these very we can like rationally know they're irrational,
Speaker 1: but at the same time they just keep us from
Speaker 1: doing things exactly. Okay, Molly, we have to take a
Speaker 1: quick break, but when we come back, I want to
Speaker 1: talk more about acting, specifically the audition process, your activism,
Speaker 1: and so much more. We'll be right back, and we're
Speaker 1: back some of the things that I've been trying to
Speaker 1: not let's stop me. But something that's been like really
Speaker 1: hard that I've noticed is just like rejection. And your
Speaker 1: job is a big part of it is rejection. What's
Speaker 1: your general reacho of like how many self tapes per
Speaker 1: job do you get? Um? That's so funny too that
Speaker 1: now it's like called self tapes per job because he
Speaker 1: used just be like in first auditions. It's just like
Speaker 1: I had a moment of realizing. I was like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, it's not in person anymore. That's so sad.
Speaker 1: Um you miss in person, yeah, big time. Wouldn't the
Speaker 1: people though? Yeah, But it's those nerves that I think
Speaker 1: like making good though, you know, because you can turn
Speaker 1: that nervousness into the excitement and like the hyper focus
Speaker 1: of it. Yeah. Yeah, I mean I don't I miss
Speaker 1: in person because I like interacting with people too, versus
Speaker 1: just like being pent up in shooting your room yeah,
Speaker 1: in my garage with my mom, and I'm like, this
Speaker 1: is how many auditions would you say you do per year? Um?
Speaker 1: Because there are some weeks that you're like per day,
Speaker 1: You're just knocking them out. Yeah. I mean it's been
Speaker 1: a fluctuating like balance kind of throughout my life. It's
Speaker 1: it's kind of hard for me to ballpark it because
Speaker 1: I've been doing it now for like professionally twelve years.
Speaker 1: Twelve or thirteen years was just pandemic. Let's just go pandemic, uh,
Speaker 1: because it's been harder to book. Yeah, I mean, okay,
Speaker 1: it's like the beginning of the pandemic nothing because everything
Speaker 1: shut down. And then I'd say since October when things
Speaker 1: were starting to open up. Um, I've maybe had like
Speaker 1: thirty to forty, which is pretty low compared to business,
Speaker 1: compared to my peers, I think because I had been
Speaker 1: between representation as well, so I'm trying to like find
Speaker 1: my happy balance with that. Um. Yeah, i'd say about
Speaker 1: thirty and from those, I've booked three, so that's a
Speaker 1: really good ratio and I'm super duper grateful for that.
Speaker 1: I mean, I kind of went through the balance of
Speaker 1: when I was really young, I would book maybe like
Speaker 1: one out of twenty, which was pretty like unheard of.
Speaker 1: And I think it was only because I could play
Speaker 1: so young. I was like seven, but I was playing
Speaker 1: four years old, so like what what actual four year
Speaker 1: old can read? So that was like that's how little
Speaker 1: I was. As I got older, it like went less
Speaker 1: and less, which also like took a huge hit on
Speaker 1: like and that's also when I was going through puberty
Speaker 1: and so so you know, that takes another hit on
Speaker 1: the ego and like self confidence is having a lesson.
Speaker 1: But that's natural, Like more people enter the industry every year,
Speaker 1: so you have more competition as you go along. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I know a lot of your peers also, you
Speaker 1: compete with two auditions, So how do you like find
Speaker 1: a balance where you don't think of them as your
Speaker 1: competition your friends with them, but also no, it is
Speaker 1: a competition at the same time. Yeah, I mean I
Speaker 1: had a really like weird realization I think right before
Speaker 1: the pandemic of just kind of putting it into perspective
Speaker 1: because I think that I did get caught up in
Speaker 1: the competition of it, because of course there are it's
Speaker 1: some people who egg on the competition of it as well.
Speaker 1: Which is unfortunate. Um I, Well, one thing you have
Speaker 1: to like kind of settle with is if the job's
Speaker 1: meant for you, it's meant for you. And at the
Speaker 1: end of the day too, it's the writer's baby and
Speaker 1: it's the writer's project. And also you want them to
Speaker 1: have the best persons. So one thing that I started
Speaker 1: to do, which is unusual, and people have told me
Speaker 1: that's unusual. I do this, and my team won't like
Speaker 1: hearing this. But when I get an audition, if I
Speaker 1: I send it out to all my friends who I
Speaker 1: think are right for it, so I will share with
Speaker 1: them because I just for me for some reason, that helps.
Speaker 1: That helped me big time feel like it just it
Speaker 1: completely acts out any competition because I'm like, okay, well,
Speaker 1: like I'm sharing the information and then that way it's
Speaker 1: completely like everyone has a chance at it. So then
Speaker 1: if I get it, then I know I was the
Speaker 1: best for it. I won't lie like I was super
Speaker 1: competitive about it before, like it was almost when I
Speaker 1: was younger, Like I almost had a hard time being
Speaker 1: friends with girls who were my direct competition because it
Speaker 1: felt toxic and there was so much jealousy involved, and
Speaker 1: of course there's still jealousy involved, Like, of course there's things.
Speaker 1: So I'm like, I really wanted that, and like now
Speaker 1: my friends getting to shoot in New York for a
Speaker 1: month with it, you know what I mean. But at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, it's like, if you stick
Speaker 1: with it, it will come around for you eventually. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I saw this master class with Bryan Cranston and he
Speaker 1: was like, I every time I go into audition, to
Speaker 1: make sure I don't get jealous or compare myself, I
Speaker 1: just go, this wasn't on this audition. It's not mine, like,
Speaker 1: it's not I role. It's yeah, I've just got to
Speaker 1: do the best performance I can do, and whatever happens happens.
Speaker 1: It's just not mine to be upset about. I love
Speaker 1: that because it isn't yours. It's the writers and the
Speaker 1: directors and the team behind it. Like you're all you're
Speaker 1: doing is portraying it. And I think that, Yeah, as
Speaker 1: soon as I had that realization that it didn't belong
Speaker 1: to me, it never belongs to even I think even
Speaker 1: after you look at it doesn't belong to you because
Speaker 1: then it belongs to the audience who's getting to enjoy it.
Speaker 1: So I think as soon as you kind of let
Speaker 1: go of the ownership and the possessiveness, there's really no
Speaker 1: reason to feel like you're in competition with anybody. And
Speaker 1: I know it's hard because unfortunately we are living in
Speaker 1: a place where everything is so dictated by how many
Speaker 1: followers you have, which can be really frustrating, especially when
Speaker 1: it's not necessarily always about the art and the chapter,
Speaker 1: how many years you're putting the work into do it.
Speaker 1: So how do you deal with that? Just like maintaining
Speaker 1: your sanity and mental heal because again you're ninety like me,
Speaker 1: social media can be pretty shitty being our age comparsolutely,
Speaker 1: but also thinking me as a business, like how do
Speaker 1: you compartmentalize it? Because I go back and forth on
Speaker 1: my opinions on it every day, like you can ask
Speaker 1: my mom. I think one day I'm like I really
Speaker 1: like social media, like I need to embrace it, like
Speaker 1: I need to like work it better, And then the
Speaker 1: very next day, I'm like, I hate it. I want
Speaker 1: them all gone, like you didn go trumble, Like I'm
Speaker 1: just it's so night or day for me when yeah,
Speaker 1: I've done that. So I go back and forth at that.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'll always remember my very first role that
Speaker 1: I didn't get based on followers. I was twelve years old,
Speaker 1: and that was the first time I was realizing that,
Speaker 1: like the industry was changing in that direction, and like
Speaker 1: I'll always remember that. Yeah, it was kind of it
Speaker 1: was a crazy realization where I was like I felt,
Speaker 1: you know, I did a good audition and that didn't matter.
Speaker 1: That's such a helpless feeling. Yeah, it felt hopeless. That
Speaker 1: was really hard to come to terms with. And then
Speaker 1: I think to compensate for that, I went like crazy
Speaker 1: for a while, wanting to be like, Okay, well I'm
Speaker 1: gonna build my following and like I'm going to do
Speaker 1: influencery things, and like I started like a YouTube channel
Speaker 1: and I was like hanging out with the influencer crowd,
Speaker 1: and I think that that was something that I was like, Okay, well,
Speaker 1: this is going to fix it. And then I realized, well,
Speaker 1: like I'm living everything just to share it on social media,
Speaker 1: and like then that's not fulfilling life wise. I might
Speaker 1: think that's going to help my career, but that's not
Speaker 1: fulfilling life wise at all. So I definitely like pulled
Speaker 1: back from all of that, and I mean, now it's
Speaker 1: more just that day to day thing, Like right now
Speaker 1: I'm posting on my social media more than I have
Speaker 1: in the past year because I think I like I
Speaker 1: was like, okay, like I'm gonna try again, Like I'm
Speaker 1: gonna put in the effort, but then I have those
Speaker 1: day to day breakdowns, So who knows. I mean, you're
Speaker 1: also posting a lot of informative stuff yea, yeah, I
Speaker 1: try to. Yeah, And it's really important And something that
Speaker 1: I just respect about you so much is that with
Speaker 1: your platform, you're using it to educate people and to
Speaker 1: get people involved in activism, which is so important. What
Speaker 1: made you get into activism in the first place. Was
Speaker 1: there a certain issue or was it just something that
Speaker 1: kind of came up naturally? My mom has always been
Speaker 1: like super duper active, um and just socially aware and
Speaker 1: like she allowed to watch the news from a young
Speaker 1: age and UM, so I've always had that encouragement for
Speaker 1: my parents. And then funny enough, I was actually listening
Speaker 1: to um an interview or a speech by Miley Cyrus
Speaker 1: and she had like this one quote that stood out
Speaker 1: to me that was like having a platform and not
Speaker 1: using it as the biggest crime that like we could
Speaker 1: commit in the modern day, and I just like that.
Speaker 1: I sat with that and I was like, wow, Like
Speaker 1: I have a platform, Like I have a couple hundred
Speaker 1: thousand followers, Like it might not be as much as
Speaker 1: the people I know with millions, but I can still
Speaker 1: do something. And I have this and people will listen
Speaker 1: to me, like they're buying the clothes I'm wearing and stuff,
Speaker 1: So why can't they, you know, make the calls to
Speaker 1: the governors that like could be more impactful. And I
Speaker 1: think I just kind of put two and two together.
Speaker 1: So I started kind of posting when I was like
Speaker 1: volunteering at dog shelters or if I was doing like
Speaker 1: a beach clean up, and I started posting like when
Speaker 1: I was being active, and like then I was attaching
Speaker 1: links to like how other people could get involved. And
Speaker 1: then eventually, I mean, I just like organizations started reaching
Speaker 1: out to collaborate or to work together. And then I
Speaker 1: got really invested when I flew up to Sacramento, the
Speaker 1: California state capital, for the first time, and uh, I
Speaker 1: lobbied with are Assembly members and then I spoke at
Speaker 1: an Assembly hearing for women's rights to abortion access, and
Speaker 1: so yeah, it was I didn't know that. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean I haven't done it in a while because of
Speaker 1: the pandemic, so I was doing it early. Um, and
Speaker 1: I think that moment it was probably the most emotional
Speaker 1: twenty four hours of my life, because, um, you had
Speaker 1: to hear the opposing side and their argument to it,
Speaker 1: and I just felt like it was I think women's
Speaker 1: rights were the first thing that I was super passionate
Speaker 1: about because I in that moment, I was like, how like,
Speaker 1: people just really don't care what happens to me. They
Speaker 1: care about this idea of like cells growing inside of
Speaker 1: my body right now more than anything else. And that
Speaker 1: just kind of I don't know, that struck me. That
Speaker 1: made me very sad, and I was like, I want
Speaker 1: to advocate for this. And then that kind of fed into, um,
Speaker 1: a lot of different paths. I mean, environmentalism, like and
Speaker 1: my whole family's vegan, so, um, we're focused on that.
Speaker 1: And then back in twenty nineteen, right before the pandemic,
Speaker 1: my sister's school had a school shooting, and then we
Speaker 1: became very focused on going control in our family. And
Speaker 1: then military yes, I mean military family, which was a
Speaker 1: huge contrast. And um, when I was younger, too, like
Speaker 1: we always had guns in the house, like that was
Speaker 1: very normal. There was nothing unusual about that. And I
Speaker 1: think we all kind of came to the realization like wow,
Speaker 1: like that's not that's not necessary, and like, look at
Speaker 1: the pain that's causing the people in our community and
Speaker 1: my sister. That's been an interesting contrast too, is we
Speaker 1: have so many military friends and our closest family friends
Speaker 1: and family are military personnel, and so we have great
Speaker 1: respect for them. And I idolized my dad. My dad
Speaker 1: was in the army for twenty seven years. So that
Speaker 1: is a contrast which is interesting. And I think seeing
Speaker 1: him balance that has been helpful. So like he he's
Speaker 1: like very liberal and active as well, but he's military,
Speaker 1: and I think how he balances that is very graceful.
Speaker 1: And I look up to that. We're in a place
Speaker 1: where everything is so divided. Our country is divided on everything,
Speaker 1: and I think if we can all just hear each
Speaker 1: other out. I think if you hear both perspectives and
Speaker 1: actually listen, it's not about talking about listening, That's how
Speaker 1: we make the biggest change. All Right, Molly, we have
Speaker 1: to take one more quick break, but when we come back,
Speaker 1: I'm going to talk more about your activism and dive
Speaker 1: into that. I also want to talk about dating and
Speaker 1: cancel culture. We'll be right back. I remember when you
Speaker 1: were in New York. It was I think this Memorial
Speaker 1: Day's Memorial Day, and you went an hour outside the city,
Speaker 1: tire yourself transportation to go to a cemetery to pay
Speaker 1: respects for those who gave their lives. And I remember
Speaker 1: I commented, I was like, this is incredible, Like this
Speaker 1: is so important that you're just acknowledging it. I remember
Speaker 1: you telling me that you lost like a thousand followers
Speaker 1: for that. Yeah, no, I did, and I had, um
Speaker 1: not everything has to be political, and I feel like no,
Speaker 1: and they, um, that was my thing because I am
Speaker 1: a military kid. I have great respect for the military
Speaker 1: and my dad and I I mean they people, so
Speaker 1: many people died for us and are I mean, everything
Speaker 1: we do, just the way we protest would not be
Speaker 1: safe in another country, even which is which is crazy.
Speaker 1: And I don't think we realized that enough like the
Speaker 1: positives of what the military has done. So I wanted
Speaker 1: to go pay my respects and I thought that that
Speaker 1: was important. Um, and I had some friends even texting
Speaker 1: me who are who I've worked with on other campaigns,
Speaker 1: and they're like, that was really disappointing, like seeing you
Speaker 1: supporting the military, and I like that. I didn't have
Speaker 1: to be a political thing though at all. That's just
Speaker 1: paying respects for like our fallen like I remember very
Speaker 1: I think a couple of Fourth of July is ago.
Speaker 1: Um I had seen some people online like burning the
Speaker 1: flag for Fourth of July, which really made me really
Speaker 1: upset and worked up about it. And I talked to
Speaker 1: my dad about it and he made he was not
Speaker 1: upset at all about it, which surprised me. I thought
Speaker 1: he would be, like he's Mr. Military, and he brought
Speaker 1: up a really good point. He's like, well, he's like
Speaker 1: you know, he's like even he's like, there's He's like,
Speaker 1: most of the country is still like you could face
Speaker 1: years in prison for that and the death Penalty's like,
Speaker 1: but that's part of what we fight for. He's like,
Speaker 1: we did laid on our lives even for the right
Speaker 1: to burn the flag. He's like, and that's sad, He's like,
Speaker 1: but that's part of it. He's like, when I see
Speaker 1: people burning the flag, I'm like, oh, well, they're exercising
Speaker 1: the right, And I was like, that's so like a
Speaker 1: casual like that was so it's so not attached that
Speaker 1: he looks at that as some freedom, which exactly which
Speaker 1: if you think about its contradictory it is. At the
Speaker 1: same time, everything has become so political, every environment, the
Speaker 1: environment is now political, no, even though we shop like
Speaker 1: every everything. And I think with cancel, culture really magnifies that, um.
Speaker 1: And I hope that everybody can just take away from
Speaker 1: his conversation, if anything, like use your voice and actually
Speaker 1: have conversations and people do research for yourself and don't
Speaker 1: just listen, don't just listen. And I think that that
Speaker 1: was the thing too. And people saw me posting something
Speaker 1: out of respect for the military, um, because that isn't
Speaker 1: I mean most of them. I'm very very liberal on
Speaker 1: my social media, and I guess maybe that was a
Speaker 1: little less liberal, like that doesn't align with what you
Speaker 1: think liberal is supporting the military just because of the
Speaker 1: media and what they've built it out to be, like
Speaker 1: the military seems like very like far right ideal, which
Speaker 1: isn't how it is. Um. But that's the thing too,
Speaker 1: that's exactly like if you listen and you can also
Speaker 1: have opinions from varying places as well. Your opinions don't
Speaker 1: need to align on one side. That's not democratic either,
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, exactly. It's about forming your own opinions
Speaker 1: and what you believe and not listening to just because
Speaker 1: someone tells you to. And I think the fact that
Speaker 1: also we're able to do that, and it's so yes,
Speaker 1: I think of how many countries aren't able to do that. No,
Speaker 1: I know it's so easy to feel helpless in this world,
Speaker 1: especially right now, but to be we have the power
Speaker 1: to take control back in ways we do. We do absolutely,
Speaker 1: like you were saying, like we can take action into
Speaker 1: our own hands. And I'm just gonna use veganism as
Speaker 1: an example, um or kind of like the environment as
Speaker 1: an example. So we have all these great protests all
Speaker 1: over the world of young kids protesting for the environment
Speaker 1: and getting policy change, and that's amazing and like policy
Speaker 1: change is going to change it. But also we all
Speaker 1: know how slow government moves and how slow things move
Speaker 1: through government when we can take so much of the
Speaker 1: only the power in our own hands. I have been
Speaker 1: to multiple climate marches, like especially two summers ago, I
Speaker 1: was like the one every single Friday and um, and
Speaker 1: then I'd see people walking around with like McDonald's burgers,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, well, do you know how much like
Speaker 1: animal agriculture is contributing to carbon dioxide emissions? Like it
Speaker 1: just was. It was very contradictory. And I think that
Speaker 1: we're so focused on our policymakers is like making the
Speaker 1: change when there we have the power. We have the
Speaker 1: power by doing that by thrift ng like we were
Speaker 1: just talking about that how awesome thrifting is, and by
Speaker 1: you know, encouraging like to save up for like maybe
Speaker 1: a little bit more for a hybrid car instead of
Speaker 1: gas guzzler, you know what I mean, Like we have
Speaker 1: more of the power with so many different things versus
Speaker 1: having to wait around for change to happen. How do
Speaker 1: you use that that your knowledge that you have on
Speaker 1: a bunch of issues that you keep learning about in
Speaker 1: your work. Do you take some of the knowledge that
Speaker 1: you learn into your character? If that makes any sense?
Speaker 1: I mean I think definitely. Um, I wouldn't necessarily say
Speaker 1: always about political activism stuff, but I think that I'm
Speaker 1: like a psych major, and I think studying the human
Speaker 1: psyches and how different people interact and how society is interact.
Speaker 1: I think that definitely comes into play when I'm like
Speaker 1: building up a character and breaking them down and figuring
Speaker 1: out like what makes them tick and who they are
Speaker 1: and what they've been through, And that really helps bringing
Speaker 1: that into it. And I think also, like you've done
Speaker 1: so many different roles in so many different mediums, You've
Speaker 1: done voiceovers, you've been acting, which are very different, Yes,
Speaker 1: very different. When you're doing a voiceover, do you speak differently?
Speaker 1: Do you exaggerate more versus when you're on camera? Um?
Speaker 1: With voiceovers, I think the biggest thing is like annunciation,
Speaker 1: which is funny because I'm not a very nunciated person,
Speaker 1: like in just how I speak casually, um, But in
Speaker 1: voiceovers it's like a lot about annunciation and more energy too.
Speaker 1: But it also depends on a voice over you're doing.
Speaker 1: If you're doing, uh, like a blind Light video game,
Speaker 1: you're gonna be like more mellow and like you're at
Speaker 1: the battlefield and you're talking like this. And then if
Speaker 1: you're doing a Nickelodeon animated cartoon, you're gonna raise your
Speaker 1: energy like this and talk a lot faster and add
Speaker 1: like quirky voices. So god, I love that. So it's
Speaker 1: gonna like change dramatically to I like what you're doing.
Speaker 1: But I mean voiceovers are fun too because it's just
Speaker 1: you and you're in a booth and like people can't
Speaker 1: really see you, and you can make weird faces and
Speaker 1: do weird things just to get into your body. So
Speaker 1: I mean I love voiceovers as well. It's um like
Speaker 1: over live action and voiceover live action. I mean I
Speaker 1: think that as like, Yeah, I mean I think like
Speaker 1: acting in the physicality of it though too, and putting
Speaker 1: all of it together. And also with live action you
Speaker 1: work a little bit more with the team like with
Speaker 1: voice over year recording by yourself most of the time.
Speaker 1: I mean, I love the getting to work as a
Speaker 1: artist team and feed off of other people's energy. So
Speaker 1: I do prefer that, but I think voiceover, especially during
Speaker 1: the pandemic, was like the perfect thing. Yeah, and you're
Speaker 1: a very lorobbly person with your dream role, is it
Speaker 1: someone that's similar to you or is it someone that's
Speaker 1: completely opposite. Oh, so my dream role for a long
Speaker 1: time would not be like roles about like you know,
Speaker 1: just people playing people on the spectrum or like playing
Speaker 1: autistic individuals. For a long time, I was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: like that's my dream role. But like now I've like
Speaker 1: you know, done some of about self refraction and I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: well that's like not appropriate, Like that's not my role
Speaker 1: to play. So that's changed. I mean, that's another example
Speaker 1: of how we change and critically think and like evolve
Speaker 1: as humans. Um So I think my dream role has
Speaker 1: changed now to like Leonardo DiCaprio and The Basketball Diaries,
Speaker 1: that is my dream role. I don't know. It's a
Speaker 1: very very dramatic. He's super drug addicted and like going
Speaker 1: through rehab throughout the entire movie and keep slipping up,
Speaker 1: and it's a very like charactery grunge role. And I
Speaker 1: think that would be ideal because you do not see
Speaker 1: when you don't see many women and roles like that.
Speaker 1: You see a lot of men going through rules like that.
Speaker 1: You know, too many women portrayed. And then another type
Speaker 1: of dreamer would be like a very charactery role, like
Speaker 1: something Tim Burton wise, And once again there's not too
Speaker 1: many women playing very charactery types. So I think that
Speaker 1: one of those two would be like dream rolls for me,
Speaker 1: something just very extreme fest girl. Let's put it out
Speaker 1: in the universe. Do you believe in manifestation. I go
Speaker 1: back and forth. I um, I mean you know, you know, cricket.
Speaker 1: She always like teasing me about this, like I will,
Speaker 1: I'm don't manifest intentionally, but I like, I'm a big
Speaker 1: daydreamercial just like daydream about things again and again and again,
Speaker 1: and then it happens. And She's like, everything you want
Speaker 1: like happens like in regards to I'm accidentally like manifest
Speaker 1: just by thinking of I'm gon overthinker two so overthink
Speaker 1: about things like again and again and again and again,
Speaker 1: and then it kind of happens to be a manifestation.
Speaker 1: I guess, So I don't believe in it intentionally. Um.
Speaker 1: Something that I've also been like struggling with his finding
Speaker 1: a balance between work, school, and social life and dating
Speaker 1: in this day and age is so hard. Let alone
Speaker 1: a pandemic. Let's forget about the pandemic. I can only
Speaker 1: speak to my experiences. It is hard to date, especially
Speaker 1: in this industry. Oh my goodness. Yeah, no, I mean,
Speaker 1: I how do you have a mental sanity like just
Speaker 1: dealing with it? Letting like what comes with cup? I mean,
Speaker 1: I'll say, like I was pretty late to wanting to
Speaker 1: date um. Yeah. I was pretty late to wanting to
Speaker 1: have like a boyfriend or a relationship, um until I
Speaker 1: was about like set, like almost eighteen, and then I
Speaker 1: was like very like obsessed on the idea of like
Speaker 1: I need a relationship, but I need a relationship like
Speaker 1: all my friends were in what I needed on. Um.
Speaker 1: So I got in a relationship and that we dated
Speaker 1: over the pandemic, which made it, um, which made the
Speaker 1: pandemic like easier. Feeling like that like yeah somebody, yeah exactly. Um.
Speaker 1: But now that we we've been broken up throughout a
Speaker 1: year now, wow, time like really flies. Um, I felix.
Speaker 1: I was just like telling you, like, oh yeah, I
Speaker 1: just got out of a relationship like that feels like
Speaker 1: that was just yesterday. Um. But yeah, now that I've
Speaker 1: had like a year of kind of figuring this is
Speaker 1: like the first year I've been figuring out like how
Speaker 1: to date in this industry, which is it's tough, it's
Speaker 1: sticky too. And then I get a little hesitant to
Speaker 1: date outside of the industry because I mean we've talked
Speaker 1: about it plenty, like people kind of wanting you for
Speaker 1: the motives. Yes, um yeah, I mean I think I've
Speaker 1: found like to be honest, the like the best luck
Speaker 1: still dating outside of the industry, but just like filtering
Speaker 1: people out properly. I guess they're like really like trusting
Speaker 1: when my parents are like, like, I don't get the
Speaker 1: right like they are into you for the right reasons. Yeah,
Speaker 1: how do you find the balance between filtering out the
Speaker 1: fake people? There's quite a few, not to characterize, but
Speaker 1: from my time in California New York, I've noticed more
Speaker 1: big people in California. Yes, yes, but you filter that out.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think the biggest thing, too, is not
Speaker 1: letting it affect you too much. I think I used
Speaker 1: to be like very like offended. If I was like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, they were fake and they wanted like
Speaker 1: I would like very I would take it very personally. Um.
Speaker 1: And I've gotten a lot better at not taking things
Speaker 1: as personally. UM. But I think that once you're out
Speaker 1: here long enough, you just kind of see it from
Speaker 1: a mile away. It's just it's not that hard. You
Speaker 1: just get in the hang of it, and then it's
Speaker 1: just kind of like you just don't. You just don't
Speaker 1: pursue anything closer with those people. They're always gonna be there,
Speaker 1: They're always going to be at the parties, like you
Speaker 1: will always interact with them, but you don't need to
Speaker 1: make anything deeper with them. I mean it's a process. Yeah. No,
Speaker 1: I mean I think like the my bigger thing is
Speaker 1: like I have a hard time with like mean or
Speaker 1: entitled people out here, Like that's frustrating and like you
Speaker 1: literally were with me as I was going through my
Speaker 1: first ever i mean girl experience. So shout out to Sammy.
Speaker 1: That's like kind of how we really want was the
Speaker 1: most real and there for me. Um. So yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean I think like it's more that that kind of
Speaker 1: will bug me as that people who aren't fake but
Speaker 1: are like intentional and how they're manipulative and stuff like that,
Speaker 1: and call it out and they just like are okay
Speaker 1: with them being in that way. It's not even like
Speaker 1: them being like subtle about it. No, they're quite bold
Speaker 1: about it. The people who do that. Yeah, I still
Speaker 1: can't profit that. Yeah, but I mean, I mean I
Speaker 1: think that like you've met so many people out here already,
Speaker 1: like as you're living out here too, you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: it just becomes easier and easier not to get caught
Speaker 1: up with those people. I think the biggest thing is
Speaker 1: you're not taking it personally like they're going through their
Speaker 1: thing and just kind of let them be on their own.
Speaker 1: I mean, I love my alone time too, So that's
Speaker 1: how I reset after interacting with people who maybe don't
Speaker 1: align with my morals. Is I love alone time. I
Speaker 1: love just going to the beach all day by myself
Speaker 1: and reading a book and meditating, and like, yeah, I
Speaker 1: definitely prioritize alone time kind of above when when I
Speaker 1: have free time, I mean, I definitely make sure I
Speaker 1: get my alone time done first. That's how you recharge. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that is how I recharge. So I'm definitely an introvert
Speaker 1: um and that's how I recharge. But I think also
Speaker 1: that's important too, if you deal with fake people and
Speaker 1: you're getting worn down by them, it's just kind of
Speaker 1: touch and with like who you are and realize, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm not fake at all, Like I'm I'm a real one.
Speaker 1: You're a real one, and that's important and I'm just
Speaker 1: I just want to say, I am so glad that
Speaker 1: we've met and become friends same because it's so rare
Speaker 1: to find genuine people, but people that you're so similar to. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know people that it's like they're genuine, but also
Speaker 1: you have stuff in common with and you can have
Speaker 1: deep conversations with and that. Yeah, I mean, we felt
Speaker 1: some like we have been kind of a long distance
Speaker 1: friendship and fortunately we're still living on two different sides
Speaker 1: of floss ange s, which sucks um. But I feel
Speaker 1: like when we do see each other, like it's very
Speaker 1: quality and I leave feeling very content and I feel
Speaker 1: like I'm excited to continue. And I am so honored
Speaker 1: that you came on. Everyone go follow Molly Jackson on Instagram,
Speaker 1: Go check out her stuff. She is just the most incredible,
Speaker 1: genuine person. Molly, thank you for coming on the podcast.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for having me. It was an
Speaker 1: amazing time. I had so much fun. I could talk
Speaker 1: to you for hours more. So we will, We will exactly.
Speaker 1: Thank you guys so much for listening to this week's
Speaker 1: episode of the Let's Be Real Podcast. Molly, thank you
Speaker 1: so much for coming on. I love her so much.
Speaker 1: If you want to follow her on Instagram, you absolutely should.
Speaker 1: Her instagram is Molly Jackson, and also follow her film account.
Speaker 1: She takes awesome picks on film and you should just
Speaker 1: follow her account. Also subscribe to the let's be real
Speaker 1: podcasts if you haven't already, and follow me on Instagram
Speaker 1: if you want my instagrams, it's Sammy J. That's I
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Speaker 1: I hope you guys like this week's episode and I
Speaker 1: will see you next week. Bye.