WEBVTT - The Spirited Actor - Alexis Austriaco 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:03.280 Hello, and welcome to the Spirited Actor Podcast with me 0:00:03.520 --> 0:00:06.440 Tracy Moore. I was a casting director for film and 0:00:06.480 --> 0:00:10.600 TV and commercials for over thirty years. I transitioned to 0:00:10.640 --> 0:00:14.200 a celebrity acting coach after I cast a film New 0:00:14.280 --> 0:00:19.400 Jersey Drive with executive producers Spike Lee and director Nick Domez. 0:00:20.040 --> 0:00:24.439 I auditioned every rapper from biggiees Balls to Tupac, and 0:00:24.560 --> 0:00:28.200 I realized that rappers and musical artists they needed help 0:00:28.280 --> 0:00:32.600 transitioning to acting. My clients consist of musical artists from 0:00:32.760 --> 0:00:37.400 Buster Rhymes to Eve, Missy Elliott, Angela Yee from The 0:00:37.440 --> 0:00:41.120 Breakfast Club, and Vanessa Simmons to name a few. I 0:00:41.240 --> 0:00:45.080 also coach sports stars and host as well. I feel 0:00:45.280 --> 0:00:48.720 I have the best of both worlds. As a casting director, 0:00:48.760 --> 0:00:51.320 I know exactly what they're looking for, and as an 0:00:51.360 --> 0:00:53.800 acting coach, I can coach you to be remembered in 0:00:53.880 --> 0:00:54.440 that room. 0:00:54.720 --> 0:00:55.200 Now I know. 0:00:55.520 --> 0:00:58.680 I know actors want to get the job. I get that, 0:00:59.120 --> 0:01:03.280 but being remembered by a casting director that is powerful. 0:01:04.400 --> 0:01:08.920 And now it's time for meditation of the day. Breathe then, 0:01:09.600 --> 0:01:14.160 I calm my body, breathe out, I smile. 0:01:15.560 --> 0:01:21.760 Anonymous. When is enough enough. 0:01:23.040 --> 0:01:27.400 I ask myself this every single day, not for myself, 0:01:27.800 --> 0:01:31.440 but just for the world in general. Like, if we're honest, 0:01:32.080 --> 0:01:35.880 America has a lot and we have a lot of 0:01:36.440 --> 0:01:45.440 excess of food, of products, things right. My question is, 0:01:47.319 --> 0:01:50.360 if peace and happiness and love is what you're seeking 0:01:50.440 --> 0:01:54.520 in this life, and we only know of this life, 0:01:54.720 --> 0:01:58.280 then we have to have a conversation with ourselves to 0:01:58.400 --> 0:02:00.000 let us ourselves. 0:01:59.520 --> 0:02:02.639 Know that when enough is enough, when we don't have. 0:02:02.560 --> 0:02:07.480 To strive so hard, work so hard, think so hard, 0:02:07.800 --> 0:02:11.720 live so hard. When we can just know that this 0:02:11.800 --> 0:02:16.160 amount of money is good and this house or condo, 0:02:16.320 --> 0:02:18.960 whatever it is that you have that you are blessed 0:02:19.000 --> 0:02:23.320 to live in is good, then we can seek peace. 0:02:24.200 --> 0:02:29.040 But every day is literally a rat race to where 0:02:30.840 --> 0:02:33.520 and we have to answer that question so that we 0:02:33.560 --> 0:02:36.760 can create calmness in our soul and we can live 0:02:36.840 --> 0:02:44.639 peacefully and love. Today, I will believe that love, peace 0:02:45.639 --> 0:02:50.440 and happiness truly exists when you know that enough is enough. 0:02:52.120 --> 0:02:55.200 Before we get started, I like to remind everyone to 0:02:55.280 --> 0:02:58.280 go to Crackle Network to use the Evans one and 0:02:58.440 --> 0:03:01.960 two of my show Inside the Black Box that I 0:03:02.120 --> 0:03:06.720 co host with the Great Emmy Award winning Joe Morton. 0:03:07.880 --> 0:03:12.680 Look out for news on season three soon. Welcome to 0:03:12.840 --> 0:03:18.519 the Spirited Actor Podcast with me Tracy Moore. I am 0:03:19.200 --> 0:03:26.679 beyond excited. Like you guys don't understand, when you meet 0:03:26.760 --> 0:03:31.880 people and your soul and spirit are familiar, it is 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:36.600 a confirmation that that is the energy that. 0:03:36.880 --> 0:03:41.240 You want to and need to be around. And that's 0:03:41.280 --> 0:03:43.480 what I felt when I met this woman. 0:03:44.440 --> 0:03:48.880 And I and I have to say this too because 0:03:48.880 --> 0:03:51.040 I don't know if I've ever said this to her. 0:03:51.160 --> 0:03:54.440 But like I know, when I meet actors. Does that 0:03:54.480 --> 0:03:58.600 make sense? I know when I meet actors, but I 0:03:58.600 --> 0:04:01.119 felt like I felt, I feel like I met. 0:04:01.000 --> 0:04:04.920 The person first and then I was on the set like, 0:04:04.960 --> 0:04:10.640 oh yeah, you enacted. So anyway, I'm not gonna I'm 0:04:10.640 --> 0:04:14.640 not going to delay this introduction because you are going 0:04:14.680 --> 0:04:16.880 to feel exactly the same way I do after this 0:04:17.120 --> 0:04:24.000 interview conversation. Ladies and gentlemen, Please my new friend, my actress, 0:04:24.400 --> 0:04:31.240 she was Fiefe in the Lifetime movie Abduction at NHBCU, 0:04:31.600 --> 0:04:36.159 please put chance together for Alexis Austria cup. 0:04:37.440 --> 0:04:40.320 All right ya, everybody? 0:04:40.960 --> 0:04:41.600 Can I do it? 0:04:44.200 --> 0:04:44.400 Okay? 0:04:44.480 --> 0:04:47.240 No, no, no, we have to. You know, I was 0:04:47.279 --> 0:04:47.960 going over this. 0:04:48.400 --> 0:04:53.719 Yes, yes, let's see there we go, thank you very much. 0:04:53.839 --> 0:04:54.039 Yes. 0:04:56.560 --> 0:05:02.080 So, as I said in May, they. 0:05:01.920 --> 0:05:05.960 Were shooting fifteen days in Atlanta, Georgia and so cool 0:05:06.160 --> 0:05:12.360 on you know, the Moorhouse and Spellman campuses. Historically it 0:05:12.400 --> 0:05:16.600 was beautiful. My first night, well pretty much. I think 0:05:16.640 --> 0:05:19.320 all of our days were night shoots. And so when 0:05:19.360 --> 0:05:24.839 we do night shoots, you're leaving actors around three o'clock 0:05:24.839 --> 0:05:27.680 in the afternoon and then you come back to your 0:05:27.720 --> 0:05:32.360 hotel or your space around you know, nine am in 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:37.560 the morning sometimes right, Yes, but I want to talk 0:05:37.600 --> 0:05:40.920 about because this was what my takeaway from the whole 0:05:41.120 --> 0:05:42.040 production was. 0:05:42.600 --> 0:05:46.159 Is how you shoot a featured film. 0:05:45.880 --> 0:05:51.040 Now in fifteen days? And for you, what was your 0:05:51.160 --> 0:05:56.440 process when you got casts and then the contract? Where 0:05:56.560 --> 0:06:00.760 because actors asked this, where do you start studying and working? 0:06:01.360 --> 0:06:03.880 You know? And then what is that process until you 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:04.600 get on the set. 0:06:05.960 --> 0:06:09.000 So my first concern is when I do good books, 0:06:09.040 --> 0:06:12.000 so yay and thank you Leslie Green. Shout out to 0:06:12.040 --> 0:06:18.880 Leslie Green for casting. Yes, yes, and so yeah. So 0:06:19.000 --> 0:06:21.200 the first thing I I you know, I ask for 0:06:21.400 --> 0:06:23.000 is the script because I want to read the script 0:06:23.000 --> 0:06:25.160 in its entirety. So I can understand, you know, the 0:06:25.279 --> 0:06:28.480 vibe and everything like that, because I feel like sometimes, 0:06:28.760 --> 0:06:30.359 I mean all the time, when you just read that 0:06:30.440 --> 0:06:33.560 certain part before you film, you miss a lot of 0:06:33.680 --> 0:06:36.880 how you could build a character or how you know, 0:06:36.920 --> 0:06:39.520 you could present yourself in the film. So that would 0:06:39.560 --> 0:06:42.640 be my step every time when I do. And Plus 0:06:42.640 --> 0:06:45.040 I love I love the you know, I love the scenery, 0:06:45.080 --> 0:06:46.920 and I love the you know, thinking about, oh, what's 0:06:46.920 --> 0:06:48.600 going to happen and then getting on set and be like, oh, 0:06:48.600 --> 0:06:50.080 this is a little different than what I thought. 0:06:50.120 --> 0:06:50.720 So I love that. 0:06:51.920 --> 0:06:54.880 And then in regards to like, you know, uh, contracts 0:06:54.920 --> 0:06:56.960 and stuff, Luckily I have an agent who takes care 0:06:56.960 --> 0:06:57.159 of that. 0:06:57.800 --> 0:07:01.520 So and I was gonna say to alexis that when 0:07:01.560 --> 0:07:03.919 you said the first thing I asked for is a script. 0:07:04.160 --> 0:07:06.360 I just want to make it clear actors, if you 0:07:06.440 --> 0:07:08.920 do not have an agent or a manager, it is 0:07:09.040 --> 0:07:12.160 very rare that you get to the script. So that 0:07:12.440 --> 0:07:15.840 is why she had asked us to the script, and 0:07:16.080 --> 0:07:18.760 she had someone to negotiate her contracts. 0:07:18.360 --> 0:07:22.200 Because she has an agent. Yes, So I just wanted 0:07:22.200 --> 0:07:27.520 to throw that in. Yes, shout out to say it again, 0:07:28.000 --> 0:07:28.880 I said, shout out. 0:07:28.720 --> 0:07:31.600 To Baron entertainment, my agency who got me deducted at 0:07:31.680 --> 0:07:32.600 HBCU as well. 0:07:32.680 --> 0:07:39.640 Yeah, you know, one of this is so in alignment. 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:43.800 But I was thinking to the other day and preparing 0:07:44.000 --> 0:07:47.480 for my I do give love just talking about gratitude 0:07:48.920 --> 0:07:51.120 and the way that you are giving these shout outs 0:07:51.280 --> 0:07:54.240 like this to me. You know, the energy that you 0:07:54.280 --> 0:07:57.920 put out is the energy that you give and this 0:07:58.000 --> 0:08:01.960 is your spirit. Have you found because in your you know, 0:08:02.080 --> 0:08:08.440 tell us about because my thing again is fifteen days. 0:08:08.680 --> 0:08:13.040 What was your experience? You you prep one way at home, 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:17.080 but then when you get to the set, what was different? 0:08:17.240 --> 0:08:21.000 What was you know, what did you feel you didn't 0:08:21.040 --> 0:08:24.440 have time for, like because fifteen days, like I come 0:08:24.560 --> 0:08:27.680 from I'm old school, four to six weeks if you 0:08:27.680 --> 0:08:28.800 have a good budget. 0:08:29.360 --> 0:08:33.160 Well yeah, so fifteen days. 0:08:32.679 --> 0:08:37.400 Yeah, yeah, definitely it was definitely sped up. But the 0:08:37.840 --> 0:08:40.800 you know, the thing I feel like I did also 0:08:40.880 --> 0:08:44.400 a lot of like relaxation, meditation also in addition, so 0:08:44.480 --> 0:08:47.160 I wasn't so like a little bit you know, nervous, 0:08:47.160 --> 0:08:49.360 because I was a little nervous for a second, but 0:08:49.400 --> 0:08:53.120 then I realized, Yeah, I realized that I'm just going 0:08:53.160 --> 0:08:55.640 to enjoy myself and not overthink it and just be 0:08:56.040 --> 0:08:59.640 the character. But in regards to preparation, having only fifteen days, 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:02.920 I spent most of my mornings before my shoot just 0:09:03.000 --> 0:09:06.400 restudying the lines, restudying the lines and restudying you know, 0:09:06.600 --> 0:09:09.800 the parts beforehand, and so I kind of know where 0:09:09.800 --> 0:09:12.679 my mindset will be. So it's a lot of if 0:09:12.679 --> 0:09:14.720 you don't have too much prep time, which is like 0:09:14.840 --> 0:09:17.280 luki Ley for the people who film for to six weeks, 0:09:17.280 --> 0:09:19.160 they got a lot more prep time. They can do 0:09:19.200 --> 0:09:22.080 the character more and all that stuff. You know, you 0:09:22.160 --> 0:09:24.880 just have to consistently work and you know, you just 0:09:24.960 --> 0:09:28.160 keep building yourself. But when you truly love something like this, 0:09:28.360 --> 0:09:31.559 it's like it's kind of like almost a cake walk, 0:09:31.800 --> 0:09:34.960 but not saying it like like cocky or anything, but 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:37.760 it's if you love it, here, it's gonna it's gonna 0:09:37.800 --> 0:09:39.960 be fine, and you just keep working hard and have 0:09:40.080 --> 0:09:42.640 your mind focused on it, you'll be fine. But yeah, 0:09:42.720 --> 0:09:45.719 just make sure to keep understand also when you are 0:09:45.760 --> 0:09:48.800 on set, things can be thrown differently at you. So 0:09:49.000 --> 0:09:52.719 they can change a whole thing, yes, and take out 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:54.440 a whole part of the script, and you'll have to 0:09:54.600 --> 0:09:56.960 write then and there two seconds you better catch that 0:09:57.000 --> 0:10:01.280 real quick. But no worries. Once you relax and everything, 0:10:01.280 --> 0:10:02.240 you'll get it just fine. 0:10:02.760 --> 0:10:07.360 Yes, and this is really important, really important. And talking 0:10:07.400 --> 0:10:10.240 to these actors who are listening to you now. For 0:10:10.360 --> 0:10:12.960 those of you who have not seen the film Lifetime 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:18.720 Abduction at an HVCU, I would encourage you to see 0:10:18.720 --> 0:10:24.320 this film because excuse me, Fifie, I mean, look, Fifi, 0:10:24.720 --> 0:10:31.640 I believe alexis Alexis. 0:10:32.080 --> 0:10:32.800 Yeah, that's okay. 0:10:32.880 --> 0:10:37.280 Can you tell them how you prepared for Fifi, because 0:10:37.360 --> 0:10:39.920 give them a little of your background, because that is 0:10:39.960 --> 0:10:40.320 not you. 0:10:41.360 --> 0:10:47.040 Yes, yes, I yeah. So for Fifi, it's she's such 0:10:47.040 --> 0:10:50.840 a she's she went through a lot in her past 0:10:50.960 --> 0:10:54.200 in order to get to where she is now. So 0:10:54.240 --> 0:10:56.560 she she also I don't know if I should say 0:10:56.559 --> 0:10:57.720 any spoilers or anything. 0:10:57.800 --> 0:11:02.520 Should I say spoilers? Well, but it's but but you 0:11:02.559 --> 0:11:04.800 introduced yourself like that, you know what I mean. We're 0:11:04.840 --> 0:11:05.960 not talking anything else? 0:11:06.080 --> 0:11:10.040 Yeah, gotcha, yes, definitely, So, yeah, prepare for Fife. It's 0:11:10.200 --> 0:11:13.520 just so I'm usually a goofy person, but Fefee is 0:11:13.520 --> 0:11:16.000 a little bit more serious about the business because her 0:11:16.120 --> 0:11:20.400 task is to make sure these girls are okay, and 0:11:20.480 --> 0:11:23.320 that is I mean, at moments when the task at 0:11:23.320 --> 0:11:25.080 hand me as a person, I do that as well. 0:11:25.080 --> 0:11:28.680 But otherwise I'm a very goofy person. I love you know, 0:11:28.720 --> 0:11:31.079 I love joking around. I love life, and life is 0:11:31.120 --> 0:11:33.240 amazing and fantastic and I'm so blessed to be alive. 0:11:33.760 --> 0:11:37.920 And so with Fifi, I had to just always my 0:11:38.040 --> 0:11:39.680 concern the girls in the back of my head, so 0:11:40.000 --> 0:11:42.160 serious mode was always on hand. I didn't have any 0:11:42.240 --> 0:11:44.600 joking mode. I had a task to do. I had 0:11:44.600 --> 0:11:46.640 to get, you know, help these girls, and that was 0:11:46.960 --> 0:11:48.679 one of my it. And then I had to deal 0:11:48.720 --> 0:11:51.840 with the pain of my past, which is still healing, 0:11:52.920 --> 0:11:55.560 so of the fife of the fife of the fee. 0:11:55.720 --> 0:12:00.240 Yeah, and I have to say that, you know, when 0:12:01.240 --> 0:12:03.960 we were shooting the first scene, which was really the 0:12:04.000 --> 0:12:05.319 first introduction of the. 0:12:05.320 --> 0:12:10.440 Two of you, the weight, like, I kept saying to myself, 0:12:10.480 --> 0:12:10.959 she can't. 0:12:11.040 --> 0:12:13.280 She had a camera in you guys, like just a 0:12:13.360 --> 0:12:18.959 regular Panasonic or Cannon camera, and it had a strap 0:12:19.040 --> 0:12:20.960 and she was carrying it on her shoulder, and then 0:12:21.040 --> 0:12:24.200 she had a bag, and I kept saying to myself, 0:12:25.880 --> 0:12:29.120 you look so way down, but it's not the camera 0:12:29.440 --> 0:12:32.000 and it's not the bag, it's your history. 0:12:32.559 --> 0:12:39.480 Yes, you wore to me, you wore the pain, the 0:12:39.559 --> 0:12:41.599 healing because. 0:12:41.880 --> 0:12:44.280 I'm not going I really encourage you guys to watch 0:12:44.360 --> 0:12:48.959 this because what her past entailed. 0:12:50.200 --> 0:12:51.719 You, that's not. 0:12:51.800 --> 0:12:53.920 Something that I don't know if you truly to recover 0:12:54.080 --> 0:12:57.160 from that, because it's a daily back there unless you go, 0:12:57.440 --> 0:12:59.920 you know, get hypnotized to erase that from your memory. 0:13:00.200 --> 0:13:02.800 Like I can't imagine you not not thinking about it 0:13:02.880 --> 0:13:03.840 sometime during. 0:13:03.600 --> 0:13:08.160 The day, you know. So that's the first thing I 0:13:08.160 --> 0:13:09.120 saw on you before I. 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:12.440 Met you was the weight that you were carrying, you know, 0:13:12.520 --> 0:13:13.600 your overcoat. 0:13:13.920 --> 0:13:17.640 It just everything just looked like it was just weighing 0:13:17.800 --> 0:13:19.400 on you right, right. 0:13:19.600 --> 0:13:25.800 But then when you spoke, that's when you could that's 0:13:25.880 --> 0:13:28.920 when you felt the passion and like the commitment that 0:13:28.960 --> 0:13:32.120 you made to yourself, yes, that you were going to 0:13:32.160 --> 0:13:34.520 be a part of this and save these and and 0:13:36.160 --> 0:13:39.280 you know, I mean it was lifetime, right, Alexis. So 0:13:39.360 --> 0:13:40.520 it was like it was. 0:13:40.400 --> 0:13:41.920 A little safe, right. 0:13:42.280 --> 0:13:46.160 But yes, I talked to someone who's an investigator that 0:13:46.240 --> 0:13:49.640 said to me, I said to him, don't these men 0:13:49.800 --> 0:13:55.160 have mothers, sisters, daughters, He said, Tracy, they paid them 0:13:55.320 --> 0:13:59.720 enough to forget they have mothers, sisters, daughters, aunts. 0:14:00.640 --> 0:14:01.640 That's yeah. 0:14:01.679 --> 0:14:05.000 So even if you were doing that research just to 0:14:05.000 --> 0:14:07.719 get that in your head, like where do you have 0:14:07.880 --> 0:14:11.520 to go? And not go too far because this is 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:15.480 it's sex trafficking. That's what abduction is about. Like we 0:14:15.520 --> 0:14:19.680 can tell you that. So when these girls are snatched, 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:24.600 and I can only imagine very few are saved. But 0:14:24.880 --> 0:14:27.960 when you are saying where where, like for you as 0:14:28.000 --> 0:14:30.000 an actress, where did you have to go to a 0:14:30.120 --> 0:14:32.560 dark place or create a dark place? 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:36.520 Like, because that is not alexis you guys? Yes? 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:41.400 Like well, first, you know, I would watch YouTube videos 0:14:41.440 --> 0:14:43.680 to see kind of like investigators and stuff like that. 0:14:43.720 --> 0:14:46.720 YouTube is so helpful to kind of research what you can. 0:14:48.160 --> 0:14:51.560 But of course, uh in addition to that, I just 0:14:52.320 --> 0:14:56.160 I listen to the other actor and I listen, which 0:14:56.200 --> 0:15:00.200 also helps me play off of what I'm feeling. So 0:15:01.320 --> 0:15:03.800 listening is one of the most important thing you could do. 0:15:03.840 --> 0:15:08.720 I feel as an actor, you know, and thank you, welcome, 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:12.320 thank you, and so that is very important when you 0:15:12.400 --> 0:15:13.960 listen and not worry about, oh my god, what am 0:15:13.960 --> 0:15:14.400 I going to say? 0:15:14.440 --> 0:15:15.120 What is my lines? 0:15:16.240 --> 0:15:19.800 Instead of being like know your lines? Of course, but listen, 0:15:19.880 --> 0:15:21.960 and when you listen, then you respond and you can 0:15:22.000 --> 0:15:24.560 feel it right here in the heart, you know, right 0:15:24.600 --> 0:15:26.800 here in the heart where it comes or whatever place 0:15:26.880 --> 0:15:29.680 that certain feeling you get. You know, the thing is 0:15:29.800 --> 0:15:33.000 also in life. You study life. When you study life, 0:15:33.680 --> 0:15:37.120 you can also it also pertains to when you act, 0:15:37.160 --> 0:15:39.560 because you know, you get mad in real life. So 0:15:39.640 --> 0:15:42.560 getting mad in real life for example, you know you'll 0:15:42.920 --> 0:15:45.200 know how that feeling is. So pay attention to stuff 0:15:45.200 --> 0:15:48.480 like that too. And then also when watching the YouTube videos, 0:15:48.480 --> 0:15:50.600 pay it, you know, pay attention to their mannerisms, what 0:15:50.720 --> 0:15:54.160 is happening everything like that, you know, theirs, their backstory, 0:15:54.160 --> 0:15:56.720 how are they sitting. Every I feel like every detail 0:15:56.760 --> 0:16:00.520 is very important to building your character in whatever the 0:16:00.600 --> 0:16:03.320 character is, like for example, sex trafficker or a nurse. 0:16:03.400 --> 0:16:05.800 Let's say for a nurse, for example, a hard working nurse. 0:16:06.200 --> 0:16:08.600 Research upon that nurse, what do they do? Shoot. I 0:16:08.880 --> 0:16:11.360 would even go as far to volunteering at a hospital 0:16:11.400 --> 0:16:13.960 if they allow it to kind of shadow a nurse, 0:16:14.120 --> 0:16:16.920 because then you can really get that hard you know, 0:16:16.960 --> 0:16:19.480 that view and that real feel the energy of the 0:16:19.480 --> 0:16:23.080 whole place instead of just YouTube. So yeah, that's that's 0:16:23.120 --> 0:16:25.800 that's what research you should always do as an actor. 0:16:25.920 --> 0:16:28.800 Just go above and beyond that any anybody would do, 0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:30.880 and that will really help you, you know, build your 0:16:30.920 --> 0:16:35.280 acting career, build yourself better as an actor, and then 0:16:35.320 --> 0:16:36.760 it will make you love it even more. 0:16:37.360 --> 0:16:41.040 So I just want to say, in watching the work, 0:16:41.320 --> 0:16:44.400 like I felt the work that you did, the research 0:16:44.520 --> 0:16:45.400 that you did. 0:16:45.240 --> 0:16:46.120 That's what I'm saying. 0:16:46.280 --> 0:16:49.360 Like, you know, it would have been fake to me 0:16:49.800 --> 0:16:55.800 if the character Fefee was, for instance, had makeup on, 0:16:56.520 --> 0:17:01.160 like of course, you know Alexis had makeup on, but 0:17:01.320 --> 0:17:05.800 she didn't have makeup on that looked like she had makeup. 0:17:05.840 --> 0:17:08.959 She her face looked warm, you know, she looked tired. 0:17:09.080 --> 0:17:12.199 I mean, this woman you'll see when you watch it 0:17:12.280 --> 0:17:14.800 what she does for a living. You know how she 0:17:14.960 --> 0:17:20.840 moves right right, So so that played a part in 0:17:21.080 --> 0:17:21.440 for me. 0:17:24.400 --> 0:17:27.400 And and just there was a sadness. 0:17:28.400 --> 0:17:32.399 But when I say that, there were moments where you 0:17:32.440 --> 0:17:34.840 could see there was light at the end of the tunnel, 0:17:35.000 --> 0:17:35.960 you know, because of you. 0:17:36.880 --> 0:17:39.840 So you told the for me, you told the full story. 0:17:41.680 --> 0:17:44.320 Now I was down there working with my client Natry 0:17:44.400 --> 0:17:47.680 not how was it you sees? 0:17:48.080 --> 0:17:58.280 Yeah, yes, the torri, Yes, the toy. 0:17:57.160 --> 0:17:59.160 How did you feel, I mean, how was that? 0:17:59.240 --> 0:18:06.879 You know, I know that like and I said this 0:18:07.040 --> 0:18:09.520 sanatory that I wish that you guys had time to 0:18:09.520 --> 0:18:13.359 meet each other prior, just to get some energy because like, 0:18:13.720 --> 0:18:17.479 you know, eventually you know the story, yes, so, but 0:18:17.600 --> 0:18:18.800 you guys created that. 0:18:18.880 --> 0:18:21.800 But how was it working with her, you know in 0:18:21.840 --> 0:18:22.320 this film? 0:18:23.119 --> 0:18:23.359 Oh? 0:18:23.400 --> 0:18:27.919 It was amazing. She was so kind. She when she 0:18:28.040 --> 0:18:30.520 saw there was a little she offered me advice, and 0:18:30.680 --> 0:18:33.080 which was very amazing because a lot of actors I've 0:18:33.119 --> 0:18:35.400 worked with don't do that. They only concern about themselves 0:18:35.440 --> 0:18:40.320 a lot of times. But sorry, but Notori really stepped 0:18:40.320 --> 0:18:43.040 into to kind of give me some advice. Hey, maybe 0:18:43.040 --> 0:18:45.440 you should, you know, do this this way. And I said, 0:18:45.480 --> 0:18:47.120 you know what, that is a great way. 0:18:46.920 --> 0:18:47.320 To do it. 0:18:47.400 --> 0:18:50.040 I love it. And she was, yeah, she very and 0:18:50.040 --> 0:18:54.240 she would offer suggestions that would be even better than 0:18:54.359 --> 0:18:56.639 what originally was you know, thought of. 0:18:57.640 --> 0:18:58.640 So because of her. 0:18:58.560 --> 0:19:01.280 Long experience, she's been in this industry since she was 0:19:01.280 --> 0:19:04.640 fifteen years old, I mean, she has a lot of experience, 0:19:04.680 --> 0:19:06.679 so she understands a lot of it. And whenever you 0:19:06.680 --> 0:19:08.399 are as an actor, you're dealing with you know, a 0:19:08.520 --> 0:19:12.520 very well seasoned, you know, actor and you know, take 0:19:12.560 --> 0:19:15.040 their advice. They know what they're doing. And she's just 0:19:15.680 --> 0:19:18.160 amazing energy. I really enjoyed. And there was a part 0:19:18.200 --> 0:19:20.600 we held hands in the film and I just felt 0:19:20.600 --> 0:19:23.000 the energy right through our hands and I. 0:19:22.880 --> 0:19:25.440 Just didn't go I didn't want let go of the hand. Yeah, 0:19:25.480 --> 0:19:29.400 I loved it. Yes, And she's a good mommy and yeah, 0:19:30.480 --> 0:19:32.840 very nurturing and loving. 0:19:33.119 --> 0:19:40.959 Yeah, I enjoyed. I enjoyed. I'm not gonna tell but 0:19:41.160 --> 0:19:44.040 there's two of my favorite scenes in there with you guys, 0:19:44.160 --> 0:19:49.879 and and I got a chance to see the film 0:19:49.920 --> 0:19:52.800 with her because she had a screaming and we were 0:19:52.920 --> 0:19:56.920 so happy after the film. We really enjoyed it, you know. 0:19:56.960 --> 0:20:02.760 Because you know, it's very challenging actors. 0:20:02.800 --> 0:20:05.760 And I really want you to know this because you know, 0:20:08.160 --> 0:20:11.280 to rush through things as an actor and not be 0:20:11.359 --> 0:20:14.639 able to go through the process. That's why classes and 0:20:14.760 --> 0:20:18.040 rehearsals are so important, because you have to edit back 0:20:18.720 --> 0:20:19.920 when you get on the set. 0:20:20.040 --> 0:20:22.639 You're not gonna was that challenging for you? 0:20:22.720 --> 0:20:26.160 Because there were moments where I saw and I'm gonna 0:20:26.160 --> 0:20:27.800 tell you Mother's Day. 0:20:27.880 --> 0:20:33.800 I'm gonna just say Mother's Day. We shot and there 0:20:33.920 --> 0:20:36.159 I wanted you to take a little more time with 0:20:36.240 --> 0:20:40.760 the situation. However, how was it challenging. 0:20:40.280 --> 0:20:46.120 For you as an actress because in a well, I 0:20:46.160 --> 0:20:50.159 think as an actress, a lot of things are challenging, 0:20:50.240 --> 0:20:52.880 especially if you don't take class. I feel like sometimes 0:20:52.880 --> 0:20:55.680 when you don't take a class and you don't get 0:20:55.680 --> 0:20:58.240 that outside perspective, it can make you miss some things 0:20:58.240 --> 0:20:59.879 what you should have thought of before. Like, for example, 0:21:00.040 --> 0:21:04.520 the wonderful Tracy. She helps so much. Everything she does, 0:21:04.680 --> 0:21:08.280 she offers this amazing advice that makes you completely do 0:21:08.320 --> 0:21:11.159 a one eighty in your head, you know, a one 0:21:11.280 --> 0:21:13.760 eighty to just be like, okay, this is what I need. 0:21:13.920 --> 0:21:15.680 Okay I missed this, so this is what I could 0:21:15.720 --> 0:21:17.440 do better next time, or. 0:21:17.359 --> 0:21:18.080 Stuff like that. 0:21:18.160 --> 0:21:21.520 So I feel like, you know, acting is challenging, but 0:21:21.560 --> 0:21:23.440 it also isn't because when you love it so much, 0:21:23.480 --> 0:21:25.200 it's it's really funny. 0:21:25.000 --> 0:21:25.199 You know. 0:21:25.880 --> 0:21:29.760 So and you know what, I had such a like again, 0:21:30.480 --> 0:21:35.240 I don't even think about consciously like let me help somebody. 0:21:35.320 --> 0:21:40.200 It's just it just it's it's just my DNA, right. 0:21:40.720 --> 0:21:45.359 So I on Mother's Day it was really really super 0:21:45.400 --> 0:21:48.280 important seeing you got this for her and I really 0:21:48.440 --> 0:21:51.960 wanted to be there for you in a visual way, 0:21:52.600 --> 0:21:55.520 so I would let her know what the shot was, 0:21:55.560 --> 0:21:58.240 you guys, if it was a close up on her. 0:21:58.200 --> 0:22:02.160 Face, so that Alexis. 0:22:01.600 --> 0:22:04.240 Could be aware, like you all need to know, it's 0:22:04.280 --> 0:22:07.840 so important to know what your camera angle is, you know, 0:22:08.400 --> 0:22:11.080 and how long it's on you and all of that, because, 0:22:12.040 --> 0:22:14.240 like Alexis said, that is. 0:22:14.240 --> 0:22:17.399 One thing that she does. She listens, and she listens 0:22:17.440 --> 0:22:21.480 with her eyes. Thank you, Tracy, Yo. 0:22:21.440 --> 0:22:24.840 When that camera was on you, I was watching your 0:22:24.880 --> 0:22:27.959 eyes on the monitor. It was all in your eyes, 0:22:28.119 --> 0:22:31.800 the pain, the desperation, the all of that, and it 0:22:32.000 --> 0:22:35.240 just came off right. So I'm saying that to say 0:22:36.119 --> 0:22:39.639 that I really felt great every time I got a 0:22:39.720 --> 0:22:41.360 chance to like sneak in that. 0:22:41.400 --> 0:22:47.959 Crowded room and you read the signals very well those. 0:22:49.119 --> 0:22:52.280 But I'm saying it wasn't something that I consciously thought of. 0:22:52.400 --> 0:22:56.800