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 producers 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: casting director that is powerful.
Speaker 2: And now it's time for meditation of the day.
Speaker 1: The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes
Speaker 1: home happy and life lovely. Louisa may Alcott. So, I
Speaker 1: grew up in San Francisco in the late sixties early
Speaker 1: seventies around a lot of my elders.
Speaker 2: I like hanging around them.
Speaker 1: I like hanging around my grandparents and her friends because
Speaker 1: I learned a lot. There was a lot of wisdom.
Speaker 1: And one of the things that my grandmother used to
Speaker 1: say is to always keep learning, keep growing, because when
Speaker 1: you stop, that's pretty much probably.
Speaker 3: The end for you.
Speaker 1: And as long as you're breathing, learn something new, try
Speaker 1: something new. And I feel like sometimes that we get comfortable,
Speaker 1: and when we get comfortable, we get stuck, and then
Speaker 1: we don't.
Speaker 2: Know how to unstuck.
Speaker 1: And sometimes motivation can be walking into an art gallery,
Speaker 1: or motivation.
Speaker 2: Can be you know, watching one of your.
Speaker 1: Favorite TV shows. Whatever, your motivation is. To allow yourself
Speaker 1: to be open to something new. Not only do you
Speaker 1: grow as a person, but your spirit is excited. Your
Speaker 1: soul is excited, your mind is exciting because you're giving
Speaker 1: it something new, something.
Speaker 2: Fresh, and it makes you feel new.
Speaker 1: Today, will be open to learning and discovering something new.
Speaker 1: Before we get started, I'd like to remind everyone to
Speaker 1: look out for my new show, Inside the Black Box.
Speaker 1: I'll be co hosting with the great Joe Morton. We'll
Speaker 1: be on Crackle Network real soon. I'll keep you posted.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the Spirited Actor Podcast with me tracing More.
Speaker 1: I love all of my guests, and I'm so grateful
Speaker 1: to all of my guests from the bottom of my heart.
Speaker 1: What I have come to realize as I continue to
Speaker 1: get wiser in this industry and in life in general,
Speaker 1: is that you always want to keep people that you
Speaker 1: truly love near you, and even if you don't talk
Speaker 1: every day, when you see each other, you pick up
Speaker 1: where you left off. And that's a bond that's unbreakable,
Speaker 1: and it's a bond that you don't want to break.
Speaker 1: Because there's very few people in this industry that I
Speaker 1: can genuinely from my souls speak about that my guest today,
Speaker 1: as I get teary thinking about how.
Speaker 2: Long I have known her, I have known her she
Speaker 2: was still in her teens. They may have been her late.
Speaker 1: Ones, but she was or I'm gonna say, because you know,
Speaker 1: we don't know age you guys as a casside director,
Speaker 1: we don't ask you, so in my opinion, she.
Speaker 2: Was in her teens. Okay, However, she was a little
Speaker 2: old enough.
Speaker 1: But when I met her, and very early in my
Speaker 1: career where I was learning to trust my instinct and
Speaker 1: trust my own opinion, I was like, man, yes, here
Speaker 1: it is. When I met her she auditioned, I was like, yes, yes.
Speaker 2: Yes, Oh my god.
Speaker 1: And when I tell you, because she doesn't know that
Speaker 1: I'm transitioning to direct, and oh yeah, I'm listen when
Speaker 1: I tell you, I reach it back because I know.
Speaker 2: That, I know that, I know that, I know this woman.
Speaker 1: Were going to talk about what she's doing now, what
Speaker 1: she's created, because she's so talented and I'm so blessed
Speaker 1: to be able to share that with you. However, I
Speaker 1: met her as an actress, one of the fistest actresses
Speaker 1: I know, ladies and gentlemen, one of my dear sister
Speaker 1: friends and family, and I love her husband a d
Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, please stand up and put your hands
Speaker 1: together for Andrea fair Weather.
Speaker 4: Oh my goodness, Tracy, wo my system. What an intro.
Speaker 4: Thank you so much for receiving and more than you know.
Speaker 4: I need it right now. So look, I just have
Speaker 4: not you.
Speaker 2: Know, because we spirited.
Speaker 1: I just asked God to just take away and my
Speaker 1: thoughts and put your words in there.
Speaker 4: Well, you know, as as everyone, we're aria systems, so
Speaker 4: we connected on that level very deeply, and we're always
Speaker 4: in sync. It's very interesting how we roll. We don't
Speaker 4: see each other or speak all the time, but when
Speaker 4: we do, it's always this. It's always amazing. So thank
Speaker 4: you for having me, Tracy. I'm very honored to be here.
Speaker 2: I'm honored for you to be here because.
Speaker 1: We are at a very interesting time in this business.
Speaker 1: And for eighteen years I carry this idea, this platform
Speaker 1: up inside the black Box, and at that time it
Speaker 1: was just the black Box. And after eighteen years of
Speaker 1: seeing it come to fruition, it's like it's this platform
Speaker 1: of like we know the problems because and this is
Speaker 1: why I'm saying this audience, we know the problems. We
Speaker 1: need to be talking about solutions right now. That's what
Speaker 1: we need to be talking about because we had challenging
Speaker 1: challenges when I met Andrea.
Speaker 2: Okay, and.
Speaker 1: When I met her there, in my opinion, there was
Speaker 1: no callback.
Speaker 2: It was like, Okay, you got the job, all right,
Speaker 2: You're available these.
Speaker 1: Dates that I'm telling you guys, when you meet a
Speaker 1: fierce tellent like her, you do not forget how the
Speaker 1: hair stood up on your arms, and then you started
Speaker 1: thinking I need to write something for her.
Speaker 2: I need to do it. Like you get excited. I'm
Speaker 2: telling you know this. You know this because that's how
Speaker 2: we became cool.
Speaker 4: I know, I believe.
Speaker 2: You do.
Speaker 4: Okay, let me say what I'm what I okay, okay,
Speaker 4: I know because you told me. But let me let
Speaker 4: everyone know my point of view that because I still remember, yes,
Speaker 4: I did look young, but at that time I think
Speaker 4: I was like maybe twenty one, twenty two, yes, and
Speaker 4: I was still photographing very very young sixteen yes, easily sixteen.
Speaker 4: And my manager at the time was like, now I
Speaker 4: was on the cusp of giving up, literally on the
Speaker 4: cusp of giving up. I was like, God, this thing
Speaker 4: ain't working for me. I don't know what I'm doing wrong.
Speaker 4: I was internalizing heavily, and I said I need to
Speaker 4: pull out and start going another direction. The call comes through.
Speaker 4: She goes, Andrea, I know you're saying that you're giving up,
Speaker 4: but there's something that's come across my desk, and I
Speaker 4: was like, I don't even want to hear about it.
Speaker 4: She was like, if there was ever a part that
Speaker 4: was written it's got everything that you are. It's about dance,
Speaker 4: it's about acting, it's your age range. You can do this.
Speaker 4: And I was like, and she just I did it
Speaker 4: as a really to appease her. I didn't want to
Speaker 4: go in because I just was tired of being disappointed.
Speaker 4: So when I went in, there was it was kis
Speaker 4: meth it was, it was, it was. It was godly
Speaker 4: in that space, so much so that I could not
Speaker 4: because I'm a big energy reader, and so I felt
Speaker 4: I was vulnerable, but then at the same time surprisingly safe.
Speaker 4: And I never felt safe in an audition space like
Speaker 4: ever and except maybe one other time once and that
Speaker 4: was about it. But with you, Tracy. When I walked in,
Speaker 4: all I saw with these big brown, gorgeous, vibrant eyes
Speaker 4: which stated me. But I couldn't connect. I didn't I
Speaker 4: could not connect to because I was so busy in
Speaker 4: the space of you shouldn't be here, give this. You
Speaker 4: know this is not for you anymore than that. I
Speaker 4: couldn't connect to what the scene was, what.
Speaker 2: The character was.
Speaker 4: And for the first time ever in my life, someone
Speaker 4: said to me, you, hey, come back, study it. I
Speaker 4: want to see you come back tomorrow because I see
Speaker 4: something here, see something here. In my head, I'm going, huh,
Speaker 4: she sees what she should be kicking me out? And
Speaker 4: for the little bit that I did, I was like,
Speaker 4: what is this lady saying like come back tomorrow? So
Speaker 4: I said, Okay, if she's given me an opportunity, I'm
Speaker 4: going to do my best. And then it just kept
Speaker 4: rolling and rolling, and as it we connected even deeply
Speaker 4: within the audition, I was I felt like there was
Speaker 4: an angel on my shoulder, like there was finally someone
Speaker 4: within the casting space that was rooting for me, and
Speaker 4: that was you, and I just I don't know, like
Speaker 4: it's never I've never experienced that again, but I was
Speaker 4: grateful to God that I did at least have it once.
Speaker 4: I had it twice with someone else, but with you,
Speaker 4: it was so intense the audition process, but knowing that
Speaker 4: you know, still you weren't holding my hand, I had
Speaker 4: to do the work. I did it that night and
Speaker 4: then the light bulb clicked and then after that it
Speaker 4: was just by the grace of God that it kept rolling.
Speaker 4: But at the same time, I realized very quickly that
Speaker 4: you're a beast like you, and I think it has
Speaker 4: that aries thing to do with it, like when you
Speaker 4: see injustice, you speak up, like you it doesn't sit
Speaker 4: well with us, and something happened and we informed you,
Speaker 4: and I've I've never seen anything like that with someone
Speaker 4: so quickly standing up and not and believing us and
Speaker 4: not you know, double backing around and saying y'all take
Speaker 4: care of it and not doing anything. You know, Tracy,
Speaker 4: it was. It was memorable and I really still remember
Speaker 4: it was summer while my care was felt with.
Speaker 2: The girls, like the fields smelled.
Speaker 4: Like everything and I'm fifty four, I'm about to be
Speaker 4: fifty five and back.
Speaker 2: There I was.
Speaker 4: So that just lets you know how instrumental you were
Speaker 4: in and easing me out, bringing me back in my
Speaker 4: spirit back into acting, but also blessing me when I
Speaker 4: was coming out because there's a story behind that that
Speaker 4: includes you on that and that was big for me.
Speaker 2: So you were.
Speaker 4: Instrumental in my transitions within the industry.
Speaker 2: I graciously accept that.
Speaker 1: And I'm you know, when people say, do you regret
Speaker 1: anything in your career, I'm like, absolutely not. But this,
Speaker 1: this part of my career with you was the darkest
Speaker 1: part of my career that I had ever experienced. And
Speaker 1: I was very new in that art. I never had
Speaker 1: that experience. And ladies and gentlemen. Ladies and gentlemen, let
Speaker 1: me just, without disclosing everything, just say that there was
Speaker 1: a film that I was working on that involved several
Speaker 1: young women the story and unfortunately the director this was
Speaker 1: way before me too.
Speaker 2: We were talking like this was like ninety early.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, it was in the nineties, and we were
Speaker 4: early in the early nineties.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because we had I hadn't done New York Finds,
Speaker 1: like I hadn't done any of the things that I
Speaker 1: was doing after that. And this was an independent film,
Speaker 1: and they had done an independent film that had acquired
Speaker 1: some acclaim. You know, this was very much during the
Speaker 1: independent age.
Speaker 2: And that's why I got called to cast.
Speaker 1: And I just remember because there were women involved, and
Speaker 1: young women. I don't know why the spirit pushed me
Speaker 1: to coming to rehearsal, which I never would do, and honestly,
Speaker 1: as a casting director, that's really none of my business,
Speaker 1: you know, unless I don't know. I just I was drawn,
Speaker 1: and I just remember seeing Andrea's face and I knew
Speaker 1: something and I couldn't put my finger on it. It
Speaker 1: felt familiar, it felt uncomfortable, and it felt like I
Speaker 1: had to do something.
Speaker 2: And out of all the women you guys, and I want.
Speaker 1: To say it had to be at least five to
Speaker 1: six of them, because it was a group of them.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I reached out to you.
Speaker 1: Or you reached out to me, because we didn't have
Speaker 1: Instagram and all of other stuff.
Speaker 2: We just had a phone.
Speaker 1: I mean, just your experience, you know, being harassed in
Speaker 1: this industry when you want to be creative and get
Speaker 1: a job and everybody else got other agendas or whatever, Like,
Speaker 1: what are your thoughts on it?
Speaker 4: Well, the unfortunate part for that is is a memory
Speaker 4: connected to that project that we were working on that
Speaker 4: actually stunted it. And it also showed me and I'll
Speaker 4: share it in a second, but it also showed me
Speaker 4: that you as a fierce protector because we as aries.
Speaker 4: There's something about aries that if you see an injustice happening,
Speaker 4: you pounce on it. It's like you really like it
Speaker 4: doesn't sit well with us to just harp on it.
Speaker 4: It's like we speak up about it. And what happened
Speaker 4: back then was the person that was the director that
Speaker 4: being the director of the project started It was a
Speaker 4: cast of young female women. I think it was about
Speaker 4: four of us and pretty much all three of them
Speaker 4: except for me because I had already I pulled out
Speaker 4: after I really broke out, I think after that. But
Speaker 4: the three of them made it like they went on
Speaker 4: and they were doing you know, they did, they've done
Speaker 4: quite well.
Speaker 2: But I unfortunately, like.
Speaker 4: The director did before me too movement some sexual harassment stuff,
Speaker 4: I'll just say that. And the girls we all got together,
Speaker 4: and for some reason, I kept it was me that
Speaker 4: they said you should be the one. You're closer to her,
Speaker 4: why don't you say it? And I was like, yeah, okay,
Speaker 4: I'll do it, because you know, I was also a
Speaker 4: people pleaser and I didn't want to disappoint you or
Speaker 4: you know, I didn't know, like I just didn't know,
Speaker 4: and I was still very young, but I said, okay,
Speaker 4: you know what, I will at least bring it to
Speaker 4: her attention and then we'll see what happens.
Speaker 2: And I remember.
Speaker 4: Telling you this over the phone and you went silent
Speaker 4: when I told you, and I didn't know what that meant.
Speaker 4: And then next day you're up there and then all
Speaker 4: I saw was like this lionesss like literally you pace
Speaker 4: him back and forth you had us in front of
Speaker 4: you and you were laying down the law, and I'm like, oh,
Speaker 4: my goodness, I've never witnessed this, to be able to
Speaker 4: actually have a safe space to speak up about something,
Speaker 4: but also to be believed and not have to prove
Speaker 4: it as if you're an attorney and coming in with
Speaker 4: all this evidence and you knew that we would speaking
Speaker 4: the truth, and you actually did something about it, and
Speaker 4: you know it was unfortunate, but you know, we never
Speaker 4: did complete the project because it literally got shut down
Speaker 4: right then and there, right And so I thank you
Speaker 4: again for that because I in my career and we'll
Speaker 4: talk about the different transitions that I've had. Yeah, I
Speaker 4: find what to answer. I think the second part of
Speaker 4: your question was I find like, to me, the industry
Speaker 4: is just not a safe space. And it's not just
Speaker 4: the industry, but it's the aspects of the industry. Because
Speaker 4: you can be in front of the camera, you can
Speaker 4: be behind I'm not behind the ca it's just different.
Speaker 4: But it's still not safe. And there are a myriad
Speaker 4: of categories in which that falls in of it not
Speaker 4: being safe. It's not just you know, sexual. I think
Speaker 4: most times, a lot of times it's sexual for the
Speaker 4: for the actors, but for me it's a bit different now.
Speaker 4: But the thing that's really triggered me as of late
Speaker 4: is seeing that video of that interview with Taraji speaking
Speaker 4: up about the financial injustice right. And it's weird because
Speaker 4: I hear people having these various conversations. I figured everyone
Speaker 4: will be on board with her, and it's surprising that
Speaker 4: that some aren't. Where you know, a narrative can have
Speaker 4: all these different spins, but still the undergirding of it
Speaker 4: is unfair payment right, and the undergirding of that also
Speaker 4: it could be within all community, it could be outside
Speaker 4: of it, but a lot of that is racism and sexism.
Speaker 4: And I find that what happens with me when I
Speaker 4: see Taraji bust out with those tears of I'm sorry
Speaker 4: and hide in her face. I know what that is.
Speaker 4: I recognize that instantly. I don't have to read into
Speaker 4: that too hard to understand that that's the fear. This
Speaker 4: is how I'm taking it is. I'm speaking for myself.
Speaker 4: I look at them the fear speaking of having a
Speaker 4: moment of am I going to break this and speak
Speaker 4: the truth or will I continue to suffer in silence
Speaker 4: and just go on just to get along. Comes a
Speaker 4: time when everyone has their breaking point, yes, and they
Speaker 4: have to and then they speak however it comes out.
Speaker 4: And I think for Taraji, she opened a floodgate for
Speaker 4: all women yep across the board that I have ever
Speaker 4: felt unseen over work, looked over passed over in position,
Speaker 4: having to start negotiating from the bottom all the way up,
Speaker 4: this constant bottom all the way up. And most people,
Speaker 4: unless they've gone through this, don't understand what that really
Speaker 4: means exactly, because it hits you in a number of ways.
Speaker 4: And if I could just quickly say yes, the most
Speaker 4: obvious is well for me, I think it is mentally
Speaker 4: what that does to a person. And I just had
Speaker 4: this conversation with Eddie the other night. I said, do
Speaker 4: you understand what it does to a person. Everyone thinks
Speaker 4: that acting is so easy, like, oh, you just get
Speaker 4: up in front of a camera, learn someone lines. No,
Speaker 4: acting is literally a service where you are channeling energy
Speaker 4: through you to live forevermore on a screen. If a
Speaker 4: person is having some heartbreaking the debt or breakup, you
Speaker 4: still have to channel and deliver and your work will
Speaker 4: be etched in stone forevermore and you will remember what
Speaker 4: you went through to deliver that performance. It is not
Speaker 4: an easy thing to do. If someone is mentally feeling
Speaker 4: that I'm underpaid, I'm not safe. I'm constantly having to
Speaker 4: renegotiate or prove myself over and over and over. And
Speaker 4: this woman has been in the industry for twenty poss
Speaker 4: It doesn't Twelve million dollars in the bank is a
Speaker 4: great thing, but it does not match even for the
Speaker 4: amount of time that she's been working. It doesn't add up.
Speaker 4: And anyone that's not in this industry, those are the
Speaker 4: most ignorant ones because they'll think their comments will be, well,
Speaker 4: twelve million is great, she.
Speaker 2: Should be happy.
Speaker 4: Reallywel Taraji in one film alone, she could have made
Speaker 4: I'm not saying that she would have at some point
Speaker 4: she would make this, but I'm sure she would at
Speaker 4: twelve million would have been one check for her.
Speaker 1: And to everyone else. Academy Award nominated.
Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 4: That has to stand for something. It doesn't mean that
Speaker 4: she has to keep starting from the bottom to negotiate.
Speaker 4: Those things are exhausting, and she still continues to deliver.
Speaker 4: So yes, I completely agree with her that you know,
Speaker 4: the math is not math. Adding up is not mathing.
Speaker 4: And that's a storyline that can hit every single aspect
Speaker 4: of this industry, definitely, but every single industry, and people
Speaker 4: need to start speaking the truth about that. What does
Speaker 4: that look like? Especially for black women and black men,
Speaker 4: This constant having to renegotiate, prove yourself over and over
Speaker 4: where every other person does not have to do that
Speaker 4: is protected, is heard, their feelings are validated, and to
Speaker 4: have that in your face and then everyone just acts like, well,
Speaker 4: what's the problem means that, j'ldon, you're the problem that
Speaker 4: this is continuing on all these decades.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's a couple of things that you pointed out,
Speaker 1: and one like, there is.
Speaker 2: A fear and this is a thing and you know this.
Speaker 1: You know, we celebrate in our aries early off, but
Speaker 1: as an aries, there is we are not comfortable being uncomfortable.
Speaker 2: So we have to speak out about that.
Speaker 1: And so the thing is, as a casting director, my
Speaker 1: job is to see these deal memos. So if I'm
Speaker 1: negotiating an actress and.
Speaker 2: Taraji opened the gates.
Speaker 1: But a black actress and a white actress and they
Speaker 1: pretty much much have like let's say, same day player
Speaker 1: or a little higher will bump it up. Sean Ringold,
Speaker 1: who stars on BT plus Family Business, he came into
Speaker 1: my class the other night, the Zoom class, and he said,
Speaker 1: you have to have the right team around you, because
Speaker 1: if you don't have a team that is not afraid
Speaker 1: to negotiate five hundred K, you're not gonna get five
Speaker 1: hundred k. And the truth is, you're not going to
Speaker 1: come in and ask for five hundred k and expect it.
Speaker 1: You're gonna ask for seven fifty and negotiate. So that
Speaker 1: is a part of it.
Speaker 2: However, it's been going on since Matthew.
Speaker 4: Oh it's a story. Yeah see, and I feel at
Speaker 4: this point in time and I'm very proud of her
Speaker 4: for speaking up me too. So you also have these
Speaker 4: other videos coming out saying that, oh, you know, this
Speaker 4: went too far, this is not how it went Okay,
Speaker 4: even if that's the scenario and that's not what it
Speaker 4: actually was, it's still opened the floodgates for the conversation
Speaker 4: to be had right about the in payment. And that's
Speaker 4: a big one because again, there will always be an
Speaker 4: elephant in the room for us and no one and
Speaker 4: no one else will acknowledge the pain that we are
Speaker 4: going through because because everything is fine for them, but
Speaker 4: if their pockets were hit the same way we were,
Speaker 4: they would be in an uproar and then the changes
Speaker 4: will come.
Speaker 2: Right. So this story is.
Speaker 4: Beyond over right, right, it really is. And I think,
Speaker 4: like I just the beginnings of it. I think a
Speaker 4: solution really is it has to be undergirded politically. Can't
Speaker 4: just be where you know, the actors strike is one thing,
Speaker 4: and I'm very proud for doing that, and that had
Speaker 4: to happen, right, It has to go even further than that,
Speaker 4: where at some point you've got to get politicians and
Speaker 4: the government involved in the term in terms of paid disparities.
Speaker 2: And also.
Speaker 4: I think Jeffrey Wright I heard him not too long
Speaker 4: ago speak about that in that direction, right, and I said, yeah,
Speaker 4: that's the way to go, because it just can't be
Speaker 4: where you know, here we go again with possibly another
Speaker 4: strike for that. It's not that it's got to go
Speaker 4: to the next level exactly. Just like affirmative Affirmative action
Speaker 4: went into place because of certain things that were happening,
Speaker 4: and it wasn't just black people and people of color
Speaker 4: that really were able to take advantage of affirmative action,
Speaker 4: but so far affirmative action really benefited white women. In
Speaker 4: the end, it did, and when you have the government
Speaker 4: behind you to protect you, you benefit from it. But
Speaker 4: we didn't benefit, and I'm not going to get you know,
Speaker 4: too political about it. We didn't benefit in all the
Speaker 4: ways that we should have from that. The others did.
Speaker 4: And so what I'm saying is that once again the
Speaker 4: government really does need to step in on this right
Speaker 4: and come in and lay down some kind of ground
Speaker 4: rules or something when it comes to payment, where it
Speaker 4: levels the playing field, because if you have to keep
Speaker 4: starting all over again building up to she has twenty
Speaker 4: plus years her in her craft, and if she let's say,
Speaker 4: even if she got a million dollars each for each
Speaker 4: year that she's been working, it's still not really where
Speaker 4: she is supposed to be. So what that then does
Speaker 4: It messes with her mentally Spiritually she is having to
Speaker 4: get the strength up to go in and deliver because
Speaker 4: she has these responsibilities she's got to take care of
Speaker 4: and physically and mentally it's exhausting. Yep. Besides, it'll break
Speaker 4: your spirit.
Speaker 2: But on the other.
Speaker 4: Side of that is how many times can.
Speaker 2: A person she's gonna run.
Speaker 4: Everyone runs out of time. At some point, she's in
Speaker 4: her I think she's a little younger than me. I
Speaker 4: don't she didn't hit fifty it or maybe she did
Speaker 4: where she is in age, But at some point, if
Speaker 4: you're not making the money that you're supposed to on
Speaker 4: the front end, you lose time on the back end,
Speaker 4: and then that affects your lineage. What are you going
Speaker 4: to pass down to your family? You see what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: So exactly just affecting on the front right.
Speaker 4: You know she's trying to flaw us out. It's a
Speaker 4: investment in her career. When she kept saying I've got
Speaker 4: to pay my team, I have to pay the team,
Speaker 4: and those teams are expensive, I can just say straight
Speaker 4: out that she's got to cover her hair, I'm gonna
Speaker 4: make up her wardrobe, she's got to fly them in,
Speaker 4: she's got to cover them for food. And that's just
Speaker 4: the basics. That's a big ticket.
Speaker 1: And let me throw this in because I got to
Speaker 1: have you back because there's still other stuff that we
Speaker 1: need to talk about.
Speaker 2: But you guys, I do want to let you know in.
Speaker 1: Transitioning and you can tell them Andria, how you transition.
Speaker 1: But she has her own makeup, her own company, makeup
Speaker 1: artists company called fair Weather Faces, and it's she travels,
Speaker 1: she has celebrity clients. But I'm not into me personally.
Speaker 1: I love makeup, but you know, I had to wear
Speaker 1: makeup on the Sizzle, and you know, she bought comfort
Speaker 1: and a safe place for me, because sitting, if you're
Speaker 1: not used to sitting for a while and having people
Speaker 1: in your space that close and touching your face, it
Speaker 1: could get a little I don't know, I get a
Speaker 1: little freaky, and I don't.
Speaker 2: Know how to explain it. It just feels like claustrophobia.
Speaker 1: But knowing you were doing like I probably fell asleep,
Speaker 1: you guys while she was doing my makeup, and I
Speaker 1: really believe I.
Speaker 2: Did because I failed her hold it up black.
Speaker 4: It's a sweetheart.
Speaker 2: So but how was that transition? What happened after that?
Speaker 4: Okay, so the last breaking point for the project that
Speaker 4: we were about to work on. Once that shut down,
Speaker 4: that became my exit, my actual physical mental exit from acting.
Speaker 4: And once I put something down, I really put it
Speaker 4: all the way down. And so I looked at it like, Okay, God,
Speaker 4: you really don't want me to do this, Well, what
Speaker 4: am I going to do next? And I had already
Speaker 4: started a couple of years before that, thinking of well
Speaker 4: what can I do that won't make me bored and
Speaker 4: will make me of service and you know, we'll just
Speaker 4: help people. And I was always doing makeup anyway when
Speaker 4: I was dancing, because I started off as first and
Speaker 4: then I moved into the acting, so I was always
Speaker 4: doing my own face anyway. But I ended up having
Speaker 4: a vision, is what happened. I started dreaming, and through
Speaker 4: my prayers, I started having his vision of what ended
Speaker 4: up in a nutshell fair with a face as Traveling
Speaker 4: beauty Services was the blueprint of what the mobile beauty
Speaker 4: industry is right now.
Speaker 2: We started.
Speaker 4: We incorporated back in nineteen ninety seven, but I was
Speaker 4: sitting on the idea seven years before that because there
Speaker 4: was nothing for me, no one for me to go
Speaker 4: to as a mentor about it. It just didn't exist.
Speaker 4: But in my mind, what came to me was you
Speaker 4: can provide mobile services makeup, hair, makeup, nails, hair styling,
Speaker 4: and massage therapy services to the client's location. People thought
Speaker 4: I was bananas. They're like, that'll never work because you
Speaker 4: have salons and I'm like, no, it'll work, and it did,
Speaker 4: and so we just moved into our twenty six year anniversary. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and I'm just thank you, Tracy, and I'm just really
Speaker 4: proud to say that. You know, the transition wasn't easy
Speaker 4: in the sense of when you leave a dream behind,
Speaker 4: it's heartbreaking. But at the same time, God's grace USh
Speaker 4: me in to this thing that was monumental for me
Speaker 4: because I was literally moving on faith and not by sight,
Speaker 4: because there was nothing for me to emulate but literally
Speaker 4: create it. But now when I look around me and
Speaker 4: I see, you know, all these different companies that are
Speaker 4: reflective of it, I can't wait for the story to
Speaker 4: come out. And Eddie's working out because he's editing it
Speaker 4: right now. Oh yeah, oh yeah. We have to because
Speaker 4: the world needs to know where it started. And you know,
Speaker 4: we have the receipts, we have everything to prove that,
Speaker 4: you know, we did it, you know, from back then
Speaker 4: legit as a team of artists and as a legit business.
Speaker 4: And so that's where what Fairweather Face is Traveling Traveling
Speaker 4: Beauty Services has done for the industry and for everyday
Speaker 4: clients is to bring our beauty services to you and
Speaker 4: the sister company that came from that of the Traveling
Speaker 4: Beauty Kits. And that came because I had clients like
Speaker 4: you that kept on me about, well, how can I put.
Speaker 2: You in my pocket?
Speaker 4: Can I travel with you? Can I this? And I'm like,
Speaker 4: let's figure something out. So I created a step by
Speaker 4: step product. It's a phase chart and color coded makeup
Speaker 4: brushes and they have since become patented, so it's a
Speaker 4: patented color coded system. It's like a paint buying numbers
Speaker 4: for your face that follow it is very simple to follow,
Speaker 4: and it's all of my makeup designs from all the
Speaker 4: years past, so it's like fifty something plus makeup charts
Speaker 4: that you can choose from. And we also brought in
Speaker 4: the makeup that matches it, and it's all universal designed
Speaker 4: for sensitive skin as a way to simplify a professional
Speaker 4: makeup application. You can do it for yourself at home
Speaker 4: or on the go. That's it.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, we need all the information because I love
Speaker 1: her lipstick, I love all her products, but we need
Speaker 1: you tell us where tell the audience of billion listeners
Speaker 1: where they can find us.
Speaker 4: Okay, so you can find us both the Traveling Beauty
Speaker 4: Services and the color coded patented products have Fairweatherfaces dot com.
Speaker 1: Fairweatherfaces dot com. You guys, Oh my god, I'm so excited.
Speaker 2: I'm going to have you.
Speaker 1: Say it again and we definitely have to have you back.
Speaker 1: So you guys, this is part one. I want you
Speaker 1: guys to sit back and embrace that because I need
Speaker 1: to talk from skincare from the inside to the outside
Speaker 1: of what these actresses need to preserve their skin or
Speaker 1: instead of making a choice of botox, how.
Speaker 2: Can we all of that.
Speaker 1: I want to incorporate and skincare.
Speaker 2: I've just been doing a lot of.
Speaker 1: Seams and just notice see you know how yeah how Oh,
Speaker 1: it's just such a difference, and just see elasticity of
Speaker 1: it all.
Speaker 4: Yes, and I don't know, yes, yeah, from the inside.
Speaker 4: That's right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, So we're gonna so we're gonna have
Speaker 1: you back because because they're part.
Speaker 2: Two of that.
Speaker 1: Okay that you guys heard it. She's committed. We're not
Speaker 1: going anywhere. Elsa Lathan, the co executive producer of the
Speaker 1: Spirited Actor podcast, has her crew with her and they've
Speaker 1: got to ask them questions.
Speaker 2: Y'all.
Speaker 5: Hey, Elsa, Hello, Hello, thank you, Andrea. That was wonderful.
Speaker 5: That was wonderful. Thank you. So today we have two
Speaker 5: spirited actors, one veteran and one new B Tracy. We
Speaker 5: have mister Joson Robinson you can come on camera, and
Speaker 5: we have mister Kenya Banks. Come on in Kenya.
Speaker 1: Josn is O G y mm hmm and to Kenya
Speaker 1: about to be og.
Speaker 5: Yes, Kenyon is about to be o G. Can you
Speaker 5: come on cam ra Kenya?
Speaker 3: Yes, as soon as it decides to there we go by.
Speaker 2: How are you?
Speaker 3: I'm wonderful. How are you?
Speaker 4: Ladies great?
Speaker 5: Thank you. So we always do ladies first here, so
Speaker 5: to Kenya you are up first with your question.
Speaker 3: Absolutely.
Speaker 6: I first want to thank you for this space, thank
Speaker 6: you both for who you are just yeah, for sure
Speaker 6: and just listening to you Miss Andria, like I can
Speaker 6: see why you're here. Why Ms Tracy asked you to
Speaker 6: speak so thank you for your contribution to the industry
Speaker 6: and for sharing your journey but more specifically vulnerable about
Speaker 6: an unfortunate part of it. And I wanted to speak
Speaker 6: to that and ask what is your best piece of
Speaker 6: advice that you can give not only after but the
Speaker 6: secifically women of color as we navigate in this industry
Speaker 6: because you know, we have to network a lot, we
Speaker 6: have to try to build these relationships and we it
Speaker 6: seems I'm a solid person. I was raised by my grandmother, truthful,
Speaker 6: and it seems we live in a world of facade.
Speaker 6: You know a lot of people have these errors and
Speaker 6: egos and we have to try to navigate that as
Speaker 6: we try to be successful in this.
Speaker 3: Business but still staying true to yourself.
Speaker 6: So how would you advise us in navigating these relationships
Speaker 6: or even going.
Speaker 3: For those type of relationships to build that rapport.
Speaker 4: Okay, So just to make sure I understand your question,
Speaker 4: are you speaking of when you're presenting or trying to
Speaker 4: create a relationship with those that are going to possibly
Speaker 4: give you a job. Is that what you mean or
Speaker 4: is that the direction just in in the.
Speaker 6: Industry, because you know, we go to a lot of
Speaker 6: networking events and there are a lot of people there.
Speaker 6: There may be people in positions that could place you
Speaker 6: in positions.
Speaker 3: But for me, I want everything to be genuine.
Speaker 6: But I know you need to try to go for it,
Speaker 6: and then some people when you come across, specifically in
Speaker 6: my position, you know you'll come across the men we're
Speaker 6: trying to cross that line, and that's not what I'm
Speaker 6: here for.
Speaker 4: Yeah, right, work, okay, you know what I mean, right right, Okay.
Speaker 4: So let's say, for example, you are going to one
Speaker 4: of those networking events. I always would recommend for you
Speaker 4: to never go alone because you always want and even
Speaker 4: if you are there alone, you have to create some
Speaker 4: kind of aura about you that you have folks in
Speaker 4: the room looking out for you, even if you actually don't.
Speaker 4: So you have to, like you have to use I
Speaker 4: would suggest using language like oh, I have to meet
Speaker 4: my friends over there, or I have to as a
Speaker 4: way to segue in case you need a safety net
Speaker 4: to get out of that conversation. I hate to say
Speaker 4: it that way, but you do, just for safety. The
Speaker 4: other thing that I think is a really wonderful thing
Speaker 4: or remote connections. So not everyone likes to be in
Speaker 4: a space where there especially because of COVID, and you
Speaker 4: could always say for safety reasons, oh, I'd rather take
Speaker 4: the remote connection instead the remote interview. I think that's
Speaker 4: a great way because then you're really in control of
Speaker 4: your space, and it gives you more of an opportunity
Speaker 4: to have that one on one and to be able
Speaker 4: to read through of what's actually going on with the
Speaker 4: person while you still feel safe because you are in
Speaker 4: your own space. I think it's really important now, even
Speaker 4: if you're not an actual established artist, it's a start
Speaker 4: to build your team early. It's really imperative, and the
Speaker 4: team all the way from top to bottom, in terms
Speaker 4: of your agent you're working with, having trade see as
Speaker 4: your coach, having your hair and your makeup team. Just
Speaker 4: to start to build your team because once the sledgehammer hits,
Speaker 4: and at some point it will hit where you'll make it.
Speaker 4: I don't think that that's the best time to start
Speaker 4: scrambling for folks to start filling your head. Well, you
Speaker 4: need to work with this one and you need to
Speaker 4: work with that one. You have to have, I think,
Speaker 4: an opportunity to make the choice for yourself, and a
Speaker 4: lot of times artists are in a state of bewilderment
Speaker 4: when the door opens for them, that everything comes in
Speaker 4: so quickly that they really don't have a chance to
Speaker 4: even process what's happening. So me personally, I just think
Speaker 4: that if you're prepared on the forefront and you just
Speaker 4: have your essential team ready to go, that you will
Speaker 4: alleviate all the anxiety and the additional stress that comes
Speaker 4: with trying to make a decision to build up on,
Speaker 4: to build your team on what they're advising you to do,
Speaker 4: versus you taking control from the beginning. And hopefully i've
Speaker 4: I've answered.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, that is great, that's great.
Speaker 5: Yes, absolutely, thank you jo Son. You are up next
Speaker 5: with your question.
Speaker 7: Hopefully everyone can hear me. Yes, good, good. Thank you
Speaker 7: for having me on mis fair. Whether it is amazing
Speaker 7: to finally get a chance to meet you, of course
Speaker 7: some of your some of the projects that you worked on.
Speaker 7: Be course, I kind of did my little research and
Speaker 7: stuff like that. I'm a huge power fan, so thank
Speaker 7: you for you know, tuning in on that and also
Speaker 7: kudos and everybody knows I love to get flowers. I
Speaker 7: understand that. You know, you were the first African American
Speaker 7: woman to step in as the key makeup artists for
Speaker 7: a Good Morning America.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, to be That's why I have her back,
Speaker 2: definitely to be celebrated. So again, I love.
Speaker 7: Thank you and everyone that has done some amazing things.
Speaker 7: So with that, I want to ask the fot question.
Speaker 7: I was doing some stuff down so allow me to
Speaker 7: read it. Being an actress, a celebrity makeup artists and
Speaker 7: more importantly a black woman. And now, of course, speaking
Speaker 7: of you know what's going on with Taji and how
Speaker 7: she's kind of given everyone a voice and how to
Speaker 7: use it. What would you want other people of color,
Speaker 7: you know, men and women actors to know about their voice,
Speaker 7: having a voice and speaking up and how to make
Speaker 7: sure they represent it correctly on camera, because, as you know,
Speaker 7: having individuals that can do people of color justice. You know,
Speaker 7: our hair, our makeup, you know how we're supposed, you know,
Speaker 7: to be represented and so forth. I've heard stories about
Speaker 7: how people are kind of come with their own teams
Speaker 7: and stuff like that to set and so forth. There's
Speaker 7: so few people in the industry today that can do
Speaker 7: people of color justice in those regards. Who would you
Speaker 7: want your fellow actors and actresses to know about their
Speaker 7: rights and how to navigate that part of the industry
Speaker 7: to make sure that we are speaking up and saying, hey,
Speaker 7: this is how I want to be viewed. You know,
Speaker 7: I want to wear my natural hair, I want to
Speaker 7: blah blah blah. You know what do you you know,
Speaker 7: suggest all the steps in order to go about that
Speaker 7: correctly because so many of us were novice are.
Speaker 8: Kind of afraid too, you know, to poach on that
Speaker 8: on that topic.
Speaker 4: Oh no, I totally understand that. Yeah, it's it's just
Speaker 4: staying quiet to get along, and I totally get that,
Speaker 4: and a lot of artists still have that mentality. But
Speaker 4: the thing is this, I think a couple of years ago,
Speaker 4: if I remember correctly, it was just prior to COVID,
Speaker 4: there was an incident that happened on I think it
Speaker 4: was a within a trailer in la There was a
Speaker 4: film and I believe it was Gabrielle Union that was
Speaker 4: a part of it, and a few other actresses that
Speaker 4: finally spoke up and said that, you know, when they
Speaker 4: go to set that there's no one there that understands
Speaker 4: how to do their and they were feeling that, you know,
Speaker 4: it was kind of like shuck aside, but they really
Speaker 4: spoke up about that, and they came together and did it.
Speaker 4: So it wasn't just one person, but it was a
Speaker 4: unified effort. And so I always find that the times
Speaker 4: when they will listen to you is when you do
Speaker 4: come as a collective. But in moments when you have
Speaker 4: to stand alone as an artist, you do have the
Speaker 4: right to bring to the table that you have a
Speaker 4: comfort level and you would like this person to be
Speaker 4: your groomer. You would like that person to be your
Speaker 4: your hairstylist. You have that space. They may not tell you,
Speaker 4: and most times they won't tell you because it's an
Speaker 4: extra ticket for them, coming out of their pocket, out
Speaker 4: of the production budget. But you do have the right
Speaker 4: to ask for it for your comfort. So it's not
Speaker 4: that you're doing an ill will to production, but for
Speaker 4: your parents, your comfort level and for you to be
Speaker 4: able to deliver for them. You can request a certain
Speaker 4: artist to be able to provide services for you. There's
Speaker 4: nothing wrong with that, and it's not being a diva either.
Speaker 4: It's just being sensible because you need it. It's a
Speaker 4: part of your unit and hear and makeup is just
Speaker 4: as important as wardrobe to be able to deliver for
Speaker 4: that character. So you have every right to ask for it. Now,
Speaker 4: sometimes they may push back and say to you, well,
Speaker 4: just try this person out. You can, and I would
Speaker 4: say to get along with production at least once. Yes
Speaker 4: you should. But if you do see that from the
Speaker 4: very first time, that the person is not comfortable working
Speaker 4: with you and you're not comfortable working with them. You
Speaker 4: have to speak up on it, even if it's not
Speaker 4: a collective, if it's one on one, you must. And
Speaker 4: I think the hierarchy through that is you standing with
Speaker 4: your manager or your agent, not you having to go
Speaker 4: directly to production, but your person, whomever your rep is,
Speaker 4: is the person that has to lead that conversation. And
Speaker 4: then they come to you and say why do you
Speaker 4: feel this way? And then you chime in and give
Speaker 4: and not a vague overview of what it is that
Speaker 4: you feel, but really tell your story and your truth
Speaker 4: of what it's doing to you psychologically, why it's stammering
Speaker 4: you from being able to deliver. You have that right
Speaker 4: to do that, so I think those are the steps
Speaker 4: that will help you. But never I think the good
Speaker 4: thing about what's happening right now is that folks are
Speaker 4: speaking up and speaking their truth so that it's not
Speaker 4: it's no longer it's still a quiet, silent suffering in
Speaker 4: a sense. Yeah, but I think that you know, as
Speaker 4: more people open up and speak about what their experiences are,
Speaker 4: then it has to open. The floodgate will open at
Speaker 4: some point and everyone will have a story to tell
Speaker 4: about having to suffer just to get along for that
Speaker 4: production and you know, so yeah, I employee right now
Speaker 4: to start thinking you have a space if you were
Speaker 4: hired for that job. In order to be able to deliver,
Speaker 4: you need your people around you.
Speaker 8: Thank you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, wow, great question, Delsa, great questions.
Speaker 2: I feel riveted.
Speaker 5: They both absolutely thank thank you.
Speaker 1: Okay, so thank you to Kenya and Jason.
Speaker 2: Well we're going to to do now. You guys, were
Speaker 2: still blessed because Andrea is actual one anywhere.
Speaker 1: We are going to come back with class and sessions,
Speaker 1: so just sit tight. She's dropping a lot of gyms,
Speaker 1: you guys, so make sure you have your treasure chest
Speaker 1: following her and we'll be back on the Spirited Actor
Speaker 1: Podcast with me Tracy Moore, and we're going to do
Speaker 1: class and session. Welcome back to the Spirited Actor Podcast
Speaker 1: with me Tracy Moore, and you are still blessed to have.
Speaker 2: Andrea fair Weather with us.
Speaker 1: And she's coming back too because this is part one,
Speaker 1: so we're going to have a part two, you guys,
Speaker 1: so stay put for that. Right now, I'm going to
Speaker 1: throw it over to Elsa, who's going to introduce our
Speaker 1: Spirited Actor alumni who are going to do a scene
Speaker 1: where afterwards, Andrew, whatever.
Speaker 2: You know, feedback, you want to give them.
Speaker 1: Whatever you want to give them, It's up to you,
Speaker 1: because you keep dropping them and there I'm catching them
Speaker 1: with them.
Speaker 2: So y'all have fun, all right.
Speaker 5: I SA yep, we need those Tiffany bags worth the
Speaker 5: gems that you were giving Andrea. So today on class
Speaker 5: in session, we have back mister Joson Robinson. Welcome back
Speaker 5: to Joson.
Speaker 2: Thank you. It's always a pleasure to be here with
Speaker 2: you guys.
Speaker 7: Thank you for putting me.
Speaker 5: Back absolutely, and we are welcoming into the class in
Speaker 5: session Alumni class mess to Kenya Banks. Welcome to Kenya,
Speaker 5: thank you.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 5: So today's scene is entitled Oh Brother, written by Reggie
Speaker 5: Pittman Interior Monroe Residents Evening. A young woman, Cassandra Monroe
Speaker 5: is sitting in the kitchen of an old log cabin
Speaker 5: going through the mail. She throws it down frustrated as
Speaker 5: a skinny man. Darrel Monroe walks in. He's carrying fishing
Speaker 5: gear and is extremely filthy from a hard day's work.
Speaker 3: I didn't know you let it get this bad, realm.
Speaker 5: Darrell stops in his tracks and rolls his eyes at Cassandra.
Speaker 7: Wow, well, how Durell, how you doing? No, you've been
Speaker 7: up since like two o'clock in the morning. Would you
Speaker 7: work like two jobs?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you gotta be tired.
Speaker 2: You're hungry. Can I fix you something?
Speaker 5: The dwell?
Speaker 2: How about that?
Speaker 5: The signer grabs a piece of mail and throws it
Speaker 5: at the rail, but he catches it. Darel looks at
Speaker 5: the mail and sees it says, bill passed due in
Speaker 5: big red letters.
Speaker 4: You want food?
Speaker 2: Huh? With what money?
Speaker 6: You know what if you hadn't been spending mom social
Speaker 6: Security chain down at the casino every other weekend, you
Speaker 6: wouldn't need to work two jobs and we can go.
Speaker 3: Eat at a damned steakhouse tonight. They're gonna turn the
Speaker 3: lights off in here, Darrel.
Speaker 5: Darrel drops all his fishing gear with the loud thud.
Speaker 2: Stop.
Speaker 4: Hey, hey, got that out.
Speaker 3: You know you're gonna wake up mom.
Speaker 5: Darrel scoffs and goes to pour a glass of water.
Speaker 5: He takes a sip, then sits down to the table,
Speaker 5: staring at the veil.
Speaker 2: You know, cause.
Speaker 7: Now I know I made my mistakes, but I don't
Speaker 7: spend the past half decade trying to make up for
Speaker 7: him while you use him as an excuse to going
Speaker 7: on to the big city and just totally forget about
Speaker 7: me and Mama.
Speaker 5: The sign just snacks her lips and walks across to
Speaker 5: Darrell and sits across from me.
Speaker 6: You know what, real, I didn't leave because you had
Speaker 6: a gambling problem, and I didn't give up.
Speaker 3: On you or Mom.
Speaker 6: I I just I took that death hard. He was
Speaker 6: invincible to me.
Speaker 5: Darrell sits up and his body language softens, and.
Speaker 6: As silly as I know it may sound, mh, I
Speaker 6: didn't think he can die, and when he did, it
Speaker 6: made me think of my own life.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, me too.
Speaker 6: I didn't want to die in this backwater town. I
Speaker 6: haven't taken any chances with my life.
Speaker 9: M you're talking about him, pops. I guess he never
Speaker 9: did really realize his dream of becoming a professional competitive
Speaker 9: What else he say? Street magician? Like what the.
Speaker 5: They both chuckle. It's Notindra's size. Then Darrell reaches his
Speaker 5: hand across the table and they hold hands.
Speaker 10: Look past it.
Speaker 8: I get it, you gotta you gotta see your dream.
Speaker 3: I understand that Mama missed you.
Speaker 10: Hell, I'm listening, and we do remember you got a
Speaker 10: family back here, right.
Speaker 4: Listen, I'm.
Speaker 8: Legitimation real, yeah, I listen, trust me when I tell
Speaker 8: me we're proud of you.
Speaker 10: We are.
Speaker 7: I mean you can't believe it. But it's tough out there,
Speaker 7: all right, and it could be years before you start
Speaker 7: making some real money. And to be honest, we honestly
Speaker 7: don't know how much longer she got.
Speaker 2: And these Social Security.
Speaker 7: Checks that is coming in the middle, please you know,
Speaker 7: goodwill they not taking care of no real buildings, They're
Speaker 7: not enough for child. I mean, just just care that
Speaker 7: we've given her. Why do you think I had to
Speaker 7: run out to get two jobs?
Speaker 10: Huh?
Speaker 7: And look, I know I made my mistakes, like I
Speaker 7: said before, but I'm a change man. Mama misses, you
Speaker 7: see me, you.
Speaker 10: I need.
Speaker 5: Cassandra pulls away from Drel and lowers her head. She
Speaker 5: sighs and pulls out her wallet and starts flipping through cash.
Speaker 5: Darrell's eyes widened.
Speaker 6: But this is this is all I have right now, Darrell?
Speaker 6: All right, it's four hundred dollars.
Speaker 5: Darrell perks up, excited.
Speaker 7: Oh okay, hey listen, okay, hey, look it's something I'm
Speaker 7: I'm not I'm not gonna complain.
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna complain.
Speaker 5: Thank you. Cassandra hands to Rail the money and kisses
Speaker 5: him on the cheek.
Speaker 3: Look, all right, I'm silly, I am. I gotta go,
Speaker 3: all right, I gotta get back to the city. It's
Speaker 3: a long drive. I love you.
Speaker 5: Dreel nods at her and walks her to the door.
Speaker 5: As soon as she leaves, he smiles sneakingly and pulls
Speaker 5: out his phone to call a friend.
Speaker 7: Hey, yeah, Zimbo, just me. Look, I got four hundred
Speaker 7: put on a game. They put all over it on
Speaker 7: the Lakers. Lakers, Bulls.
Speaker 2: Get that game.
Speaker 7: I gotta be a good feeling about this one.
Speaker 5: Okay, bye, see.
Speaker 1: Wow, okay, okay, all right, I'm gonna throw them to you.
Speaker 2: Andrea.
Speaker 4: Oh wow, who first. Thank you for allowing me to
Speaker 4: witness your artistry. I'm impressed. Okay, So let me just ask.
Speaker 4: So clearly they're brother and sister. Who is the older
Speaker 4: of the two.
Speaker 7: I'm the older m he's the more responsible one.
Speaker 4: H m hmm. Okay. So I saw and felt some
Speaker 4: really nice beats. There are there are some points that
Speaker 4: I think can be developed a bit further, and I
Speaker 4: think that's from the brother's point of view, I think
Speaker 4: you can take your time a little bit and just
Speaker 4: experience what it is that she's saying to you. That
Speaker 4: it's going to give you a deeper reaction to what's
Speaker 4: going on. You know what I mean by that? Yes,
Speaker 4: even when even when something is written specifically in a
Speaker 4: script where it says, take a sip of water, that's
Speaker 4: like one of your break points. Although it's in activity,
Speaker 4: it's not a throwaway, and I'm not saying that you
Speaker 4: threw it away at all. But what I am saying
Speaker 4: is when it's specifically written in that way, it means
Speaker 4: that you're having some sort of reaction while drinking that water.
Speaker 4: So the next thing that comes out is because you
Speaker 4: took that time to take that sip and really take
Speaker 4: that sip before you hit the next line.
Speaker 2: Does that make sense that?
Speaker 4: Yeah, So if you try it that way and you
Speaker 4: just and don't worry about time, don't worry about us
Speaker 4: as the audience. We're writing on you. So we're writing
Speaker 4: on your every breath, so you control it. You don't
Speaker 4: have to breeze through that simple water. Really take that
Speaker 4: sip of water and think about what she just said
Speaker 4: to you. That makes you take a sip of water,
Speaker 4: because humanly, whenever someone is trying to get out of
Speaker 4: something and they take a simple water, that's because they're
Speaker 4: trying to think of what the next thing is to
Speaker 4: say to that person. That's really human nature. When someone
Speaker 4: is getting busted on something and they take a simple
Speaker 4: water is because they need a moment to breathe, to
Speaker 4: throw person off the track. So the water then becomes
Speaker 4: the symbol as an escape route. Yeah, you're like, well, okay,
Speaker 4: let me just sip this water real quick and then
Speaker 4: maybe they'll get off of it. You know, it's a tool.
Speaker 4: It's a tool. So whenever you do your scene again,
Speaker 4: that water really is monumental for your character to try
Speaker 4: to throw your sister off the scent to give you
Speaker 4: a moment to think of what the next thing is
Speaker 4: you need to say to her, because she's onto you,
Speaker 4: you know what I mean?
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I love it.
Speaker 4: Thank you Yeah yeah yeah no no, no, go go go no.
Speaker 4: I really I really liked your beats. And also I
Speaker 4: think what was really impressive was that the fact that
Speaker 4: you two did it remotely was really impressive because I
Speaker 4: still felt the connection M and I and I really
Speaker 4: felt the connection for the brother as you started to console.
Speaker 4: Maybe it's not console, but it's connect with your sister
Speaker 4: by speaking about the father. Then I saw your eyes
Speaker 4: lock in. I saw you steady a bit more, and
Speaker 4: I felt like, yeah, he's really he's really dropping in now.
Speaker 4: And I was like, is he a sister? Though, like underneath,
Speaker 4: I was like, is he? Like you know what which
Speaker 4: brother is?
Speaker 7: This?
Speaker 4: Is he younger? Is he?
Speaker 2: And I felt like you were older.
Speaker 4: But I wanted you to tell me I had a feeling,
Speaker 4: but I just wanted to you say it. But I
Speaker 4: really saw you drop in and lock in on your
Speaker 4: sister and steady when you spoke about the connection with
Speaker 4: your dad, which lets me know that you were you
Speaker 4: made up some backstory. You both are clear about whatever
Speaker 4: that backstory is about who the father is. I saw it. Yeah, Wow,
Speaker 4: I saw it then. And that's a great thing, especially remotely.
Speaker 4: That's a great thing. Awesome work.
Speaker 3: Thank you, definitely appreciate it.
Speaker 2: So I huh, I was just saying thank you too.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, I was gonna say, this is the same
Speaker 1: Andrea that I know when I first met her when
Speaker 1: she was in her twenties, where she's given you now
Speaker 1: that's what she was given. Then that's why I said,
Speaker 1: take this material, stop playing with me, go through what
Speaker 1: you know you could do, and then come back and
Speaker 1: we can have a conversation. And then the next thing
Speaker 1: I'm writing out her deal memo, and I just want
Speaker 1: to say, I'm not going to say names because then
Speaker 1: people will put together the project. However, I will say
Speaker 1: the actresses that she spoke of that she was on
Speaker 1: the same building with, they are all they have working careers,
Speaker 1: and you all know all of them. So I you know,
Speaker 1: we all have different paths. And I'm not mad like
Speaker 1: you know, because I'm so happy you recognize that choice
Speaker 1: in you and knowing you had choices and it wasn't
Speaker 1: a bad.
Speaker 2: Thing or the wrong thing or anything. It just wasn't
Speaker 2: that thing for you.
Speaker 1: But I'm just here to say that when I call
Speaker 1: action on her, remember that. Remember I'm just saying that
Speaker 1: knowledge she just dropped on y'all. She was twenty twenty
Speaker 1: one when she told.
Speaker 2: This is what I'm saying. That's why I was she yo.
Speaker 1: Anyways, So being specific, I love that about and in
Speaker 1: just in a general note, we always say, like every
Speaker 1: time you go to you know, a store, Hey, how
Speaker 1: you doing? I'm fine. Good people hear, but they don't listen.
Speaker 1: And when you I love throwing people off from the
Speaker 1: hey how you doing?
Speaker 2: Excellence?
Speaker 1: We tacking oh wow, because I feel like I cut
Speaker 1: the rhythm of this robotic energy. And so listening is
Speaker 1: so important because that helps in the reaction as well.
Speaker 2: So you say you hear, but what does that look
Speaker 2: like to?
Speaker 4: I hear you.
Speaker 1: And really resonate with that, and I love the details
Speaker 1: with her, Ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 2: This is what I'm saying, Like the intro was the
Speaker 2: intro stand up.
Speaker 1: You need to put your hands together because y'all were
Speaker 1: truly blessed on so many levels, and you're going to
Speaker 1: be blessed us again because she's coming back.
Speaker 2: Put your hairs together, please.
Speaker 1: And fair Weather of fair Weather Faces.
Speaker 4: Thank you, thank you, crazy, thank you, actors, thank you family,
Speaker 4: thank you so much.
Speaker 1: And when we come back with the Spirited Actor Podcast
Speaker 1: with me Tracy Moore, I'm going to give you some love.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Spirited Actor Podcast with me Tracy Moore,
Speaker 1: and we are at Kudos Corner. Kudos Corner is where
Speaker 1: we put a spotlight and celebrate spirited actor alumni on
Speaker 1: works that they're doing, work that they've booked, just giving
Speaker 1: them a platform to say we continue to support you
Speaker 1: and we want other people to know who you.
Speaker 2: Are as well.
Speaker 1: This week's Kudos corner, it's a spotlight on Amber Jine.
Speaker 1: Amber is a spirited actor alumni.
Speaker 4: And she is one to watch.
Speaker 1: She stars in the recent Andy Flickman horror film Blue Light,
Speaker 1: which recently premiered at FrightFest in London, and Best Wall
Speaker 1: feature Baby Ruby. Both films are available on demand and
Speaker 1: you can also see her in a Predator returns on Lifetime,
Speaker 1: as well as episodes of Law and Order, Special Victims
Speaker 1: Unit and New Amsterdam.
Speaker 2: Kudos to Amber Jena and now it's time to give up.
Speaker 1: I really love my life, through the good times, through
Speaker 1: the gooder times, the times that don't seem as good
Speaker 1: as that. I love the parts of my life because
Speaker 1: that is my life. I will say that one of
Speaker 1: the most powerful moments in my life was when my
Speaker 1: dad taught me to be present.
Speaker 2: And I've shared this story with you before, but I wanted.
Speaker 1: To share it again because I feel like we live
Speaker 1: in these moments now where we're just moving through life
Speaker 1: real quick. Get into the next boy, Get into the
Speaker 1: next boy, chase it running. And one of the things
Speaker 1: that can settle your soul and alleviate less anxiety is
Speaker 1: to be and stay present.
Speaker 2: And when my dad was right before he passed, my.
Speaker 1: Dad told me in a conversation that he had cancer
Speaker 1: and he had ten months to live.
Speaker 2: I lost my mind. I'm the only girl, I cried.
Speaker 1: I was like, in my head, I don't know how
Speaker 1: I'm going to live without my dad. And my dad
Speaker 1: allowed me to space, to just be dramatic because some
Speaker 1: moments were dramatic. And when I finally stopped, which seemed
Speaker 1: like eternity, my dad said, Tracy, I'm not dead yet.
Speaker 1: And that realization of wasting a lot of time and
Speaker 1: thinking how am I going to live without him when
Speaker 1: he's right here. Every moment, every minute of those ten
Speaker 1: months that my dad was here on this earth, I
Speaker 1: stayed present. I learned what presence was. I listened presently,
Speaker 1: I engage presently. Most powerful, powerful lesson in my life.
Speaker 2: Stay present.
Speaker 1: The future is not here, and these present moments helped
Speaker 1: create that for you.
Speaker 2: And the past is done. There are no do overs.
Speaker 2: Let's learn from it and stay present.
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.