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 biggiees Balls 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.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: I know. I know actors want to get the job.
Speaker 1: I get that, but being remembered by a casting director
Speaker 1: that is powerful. Meditation of the day. What you ought
Speaker 1: to do, you should do, and what you should do
Speaker 1: you ought to do. Oprah Winfrey one of my biggest
Speaker 1: fears was that I would be sixty something years old
Speaker 1: sitting in a rocking chair saying.
Speaker 3: I should have, would have, could have.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm not afraid of that anymore because I challenge
Speaker 1: myself in my life. I don't limit myself to what
Speaker 1: I think I can do. I try to do it all.
Speaker 1: Everyone should stretch themselves and discover the different heights that
Speaker 1: you can reach. Life is meant to live, so explore
Speaker 1: it because you never know. I will open my mind
Speaker 1: to new experiences.
Speaker 4: Today.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the Spirited Active Podcast with me Tracy Moore.
Speaker 1: I am delighted. Are you delighted today? I am so
Speaker 1: delighted to introduce you. And I know many of our
Speaker 1: listeners know who this woman is. She is one of
Speaker 1: truly one of my favorite actresses and people. Just you'll
Speaker 1: you'll hear her spirit, you'll fall in love with her.
Speaker 1: In twenty eight minutes, guaranteed, ladies and gentlemen, I want
Speaker 1: to bring to you actress extraordinary Alicia Joy How.
Speaker 4: Good morning.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much for being on the show.
Speaker 1: I couldn't wait to have you on you You are
Speaker 1: a very important guest to me because all of my guests,
Speaker 1: I don't want.
Speaker 4: To negate anybody.
Speaker 2: But you.
Speaker 3: Have such a beautiful spirit like people.
Speaker 1: I have seen people attached to you your spirit, and I.
Speaker 3: Remember my first introduction.
Speaker 1: I did not even know you, but I felt like
Speaker 1: I had known you for centuries. You are a fabulous actress.
Speaker 1: I want to jump right into it. Let's talk about
Speaker 1: the beginnings Oflicia. How did this start for you?
Speaker 5: Okay, so it started before it started. My dad was
Speaker 5: an actor before me. I just lost him in the
Speaker 5: beginning of this month.
Speaker 3: Sorry to hear that.
Speaker 5: You thank you so much, but yeah, I grew up
Speaker 5: watching my dad. The funny part is is that I
Speaker 5: became my daddy's writing buddy because a child molester was
Speaker 5: stalking me when I was in the sixth grade and
Speaker 5: picking in my windows.
Speaker 3: Oh my god.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was crazy. And so it took like three
Speaker 5: nights for me to scream and let my daddy know
Speaker 5: somebody was in my window with a flashlight, and he
Speaker 5: chased the man down and the police caught him and everything,
Speaker 5: and come to find out, he had just gotten out
Speaker 5: of jail for molesting kids and they were around my age,
Speaker 5: and I didn't.
Speaker 4: Realize that this man had been following me for a month.
Speaker 5: And I grew up in Altadna, California, and it was
Speaker 5: very very free.
Speaker 4: We didn't we didn't lock our doors or nothing like that.
Speaker 5: So I he would he would come to my elementary
Speaker 5: school and then we had a pool, but we would
Speaker 5: go swim at the park pool, you know, to be
Speaker 5: with all our friends. I remembered him there. I remember
Speaker 5: him at the store, like, I remember him like all
Speaker 5: around the city like you know, and I was like,
Speaker 5: oh my god, that man was following me for like
Speaker 5: three months.
Speaker 4: But it was crazy.
Speaker 5: So after that, I think my dad felt like he
Speaker 5: needed to be attached to me a.
Speaker 4: Little bit more and kept me under his wing.
Speaker 5: And so that's when I would like go everywhere to
Speaker 5: the studio, you know, when he was shooting or you
Speaker 5: know he was doing a play, uh in the theater
Speaker 5: or even cast parties. Nice. Yeah, that's where I started.
Speaker 5: I started falling in love. And then I started writing.
Speaker 6: And making upscripts and stuff and then putting on putting
Speaker 6: them on at my school.
Speaker 7: Oh my god, so you fell in love and with
Speaker 7: the craft.
Speaker 3: But in creating that young yeah, I did.
Speaker 4: I did.
Speaker 5: It was funny. I played Dorothy. I think I sang
Speaker 5: like eight songs. I don't think nobody else name.
Speaker 1: Wow, not only did you create, but you created your
Speaker 1: old work for yourself. Yes, we had we had the
Speaker 1: pleasure of interviewing Bill to class week amazing, and Bill
Speaker 1: said that this is the perfect opportunity for us to
Speaker 1: no longer wait on anybody else to give us an
Speaker 1: opportunity we can create for ourselves.
Speaker 3: And so that was such.
Speaker 1: A strong takeaway because you know, he didn't grow up
Speaker 1: and work in a time where people look like him,
Speaker 1: and he had those opportunities, but he continued to persevere
Speaker 1: and now you know legendary he'll do.
Speaker 4: I'm a story.
Speaker 3: Oh kay, tell us a he'll do story.
Speaker 4: The only time I fanned out, I was like, okay,
Speaker 4: So in La.
Speaker 5: I pulled up to the bank to chase and I
Speaker 5: was going to go to the ATM.
Speaker 6: And Bill was walking to the ATM, and I was like,
Speaker 6: I want.
Speaker 4: To go say hi to him.
Speaker 5: So bad, but I want to think I'm robbing him
Speaker 5: at the at it's real.
Speaker 4: Easy like and I was like, hey, I don't want.
Speaker 6: Your money, I just want to see Like he's such
Speaker 6: a he's such a kind spirit.
Speaker 3: He must have embraced you.
Speaker 4: Amazing.
Speaker 8: Right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, speaking of amazing people, you have a plethora of work,
Speaker 1: and I always tell my actors to go to IMDb
Speaker 1: dot com for all of our guests to see their work.
Speaker 1: What was your journey like in terms of the roles
Speaker 1: in which you know you were auditioning for or the
Speaker 1: opportunities that were out there because you know today you
Speaker 1: are one of our favorite working actresses.
Speaker 3: How did you create that for yourself? It took a while.
Speaker 5: What I always tried to do was stay close to
Speaker 5: my representation. I would ask for what in LA, you
Speaker 5: can do this? If you do this in New York,
Speaker 5: might get arrested. Okay, wow, soup, that's.
Speaker 4: A different LA. At New York. LA, you have a
Speaker 4: meeting with your agent, you show up at your agents.
Speaker 4: I was in New York. You will get arrested. Okay.
Speaker 4: They do not play that. They was like, why you
Speaker 4: showed up here? I was like, I'm your client.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, we don't do that. Why you show
Speaker 3: up here? I'm your clients Okay.
Speaker 4: I had to figure out the difference between LA and
Speaker 4: New York. Came from LA.
Speaker 5: But what I used to do is I used to
Speaker 5: have meetings once a year to like strategize like.
Speaker 4: Who you know, who I know? These are the people
Speaker 4: I want to work with.
Speaker 5: I would do my research because back then Hollywood Reporter
Speaker 5: had the product of the production charts and you can
Speaker 5: see who the mover and shakers were in the industry.
Speaker 5: Now it's a little bit harder, but you know, you
Speaker 5: really have to do your homework.
Speaker 4: Now you could.
Speaker 6: See like who's the writer, who's the director, who's the producer.
Speaker 5: You start seeing a link that certain people were getting.
Speaker 4: So today is like Michael B.
Speaker 5: Jordan and her people like that, A is like you
Speaker 5: know movers and shakers, you like IMDb and baby he
Speaker 5: got stuff in pre Yeah. So but that's what I
Speaker 5: used to do to try and get into some of
Speaker 5: the doors.
Speaker 3: And then that's very smart, very smart.
Speaker 4: But I did start out.
Speaker 5: And Bobby's Shaw Chance's studio, the baddest white chick I
Speaker 5: know in LA and she really makes stars. And on
Speaker 5: Thursday nights she used to have a showcase and everybody
Speaker 5: who's anybody in Hollywood would come through there to see
Speaker 5: what the.
Speaker 4: Town looked like. And I was there.
Speaker 6: We had a group of strong black actors that was
Speaker 6: bringing us in.
Speaker 4: You know, Skinner, Alan Maldonado.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 4: It was people like that and we were but J T.
Speaker 5: Jackson, there was some of us that was just doing
Speaker 5: it and so I got kind of known from that.
Speaker 5: People started coming in and it was like, you know, I
Speaker 5: want to see Alicia, you know. Because of my comedic timing,
Speaker 5: it wasn't until recently that I was able to mold
Speaker 5: my career in the way that I wanted to. As
Speaker 5: much as I love comedy, it's very off the top
Speaker 5: of my head.
Speaker 4: I love driving, you know this.
Speaker 5: I love Yeah, I love the work, and I don't
Speaker 5: usually get to exercise those muscles because I'm a cute,
Speaker 5: big black girl.
Speaker 4: You know, usually I want.
Speaker 5: To you know, they put me on the funnier side
Speaker 5: of things, you know, but I can make you crazy because.
Speaker 3: I've clean the dramatic muscle in you.
Speaker 1: And that's the thing I think that are some of
Speaker 1: our best actors are the comedic actors, because you don't
Speaker 1: get a chance to work the hustle, and then when
Speaker 1: you do, what happens is that you.
Speaker 3: Tend to really put your.
Speaker 4: Tonail in it, you know what I mean.
Speaker 5: You go for the opportunities that much, and it's a
Speaker 5: blessing when you do. I belonged to the Black TV
Speaker 5: and Film Collective and so through there I was able
Speaker 5: to do a short that was incredibly dark. The character
Speaker 5: was likened to Carrie's mom, you.
Speaker 4: Know and Carrie, and they had Carrie like the blood.
Speaker 5: This character was like that, very super religious and super dark.
Speaker 5: And my son killed itself in the house. He shot
Speaker 5: herself in the house and I witnessed it. But I
Speaker 5: also had a six year old daughter at the time
Speaker 5: who witnessed it, and she ended up growing up wanting
Speaker 5: to be a lesbian, and so that turmoil that happened,
Speaker 5: and it was really really dark.
Speaker 4: So I invited my manager to the screening.
Speaker 5: I had no idea, Like some of my friends were like,
Speaker 5: whose voice is that?
Speaker 4: Like who is that? Wow? I've known, Like some of
Speaker 4: my girls was like, what the hell? Who is that?
Speaker 5: And because of that, I got my manager got me
Speaker 5: an audition for the Fred Hampton projects. Ryan Couger is
Speaker 5: one of the executive producers. Daniel Kolua is the lead.
Speaker 5: He plays Fred. I got to vote in and one
Speaker 5: of the biggest joys is I looked up everybody on
Speaker 5: the set was crying, even the cameraman.
Speaker 4: I ain't never seen nothing like that. I looked up
Speaker 4: and his white man was like, yeah, he was beat
Speaker 4: with with stuff down his face in the camera, and
Speaker 4: I'm like, oh you okay.
Speaker 1: He's like yeah, right, Well, when you afect the crew
Speaker 1: like that, because you know, most crew people are totally
Speaker 1: when you deal with you know, grips and gaffers, they're
Speaker 1: totally detached. Yeah, able to pull something that says a
Speaker 1: lot about your performance.
Speaker 5: I was just so grateful to be a part of
Speaker 5: that project. And then one thing that really moved me
Speaker 5: is I had researched the character because I'm trying to
Speaker 5: figure out is this fictional or this person?
Speaker 4: Because you know, it's Fred Hampton's story.
Speaker 5: Fred Hampton is a black panther that got kicked in
Speaker 5: the seventies in Chicago the police, got assassinated by the police,
Speaker 5: and so I played the mother of one of his henchmen,
Speaker 5: one of his followers.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 4: I found out.
Speaker 5: A day before I shot that he was a real person.
Speaker 5: I found this article that said everything about him.
Speaker 4: Man. I felt like I took.
Speaker 5: All the mothers that you know ever been through that,
Speaker 5: you know this time. You know, it was so funny
Speaker 5: because the day before we shot no. I think it
Speaker 5: was the day we shot the boy.
Speaker 4: That got shot by the police officer in his house.
Speaker 1: Oh oh yeah, the female police officer, the yeah, she was.
Speaker 5: I think the verdict came in that day that I
Speaker 5: was shooting. Not only that, but what I did to
Speaker 5: kind of prepare, I would tell everybody about my son.
Speaker 5: I talked to the director and I said, can I
Speaker 5: tell you about my son?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 5: And that just put me in such a space, you know,
Speaker 5: and it felt like the atmosphere had changed.
Speaker 4: It felt like the atmosphere had.
Speaker 5: Changed, and the execs were on set and I stayed through.
Speaker 4: My whole shoot.
Speaker 5: Daniel Klure like never left my side, you know, never
Speaker 5: left after that first take.
Speaker 4: It was like, let me go get my cheer, I'm
Speaker 4: gonna sitting here with you, and like never left us.
Speaker 5: It was.
Speaker 4: It was a wonderful experience.
Speaker 1: It really was so and and just to know like
Speaker 1: what your process was for that, like you know that
Speaker 1: note right there, to go and talk to everybody about
Speaker 1: your son, that's you know, that's really great. Connecting and
Speaker 1: staying present, you know, that's what really amplifies that moment.
Speaker 4: It really helped, it made it made it very real
Speaker 4: for me.
Speaker 1: Well, I want to make it real for my audience
Speaker 1: and let them know some of your credits. I'm throwing
Speaker 1: out some credits here. She's been on the Shield, the
Speaker 1: TV series NYPD Blue, we have Scrubs, Desperate Housewives. Oh
Speaker 1: my god, I really want you guys to do your
Speaker 1: due diligence on Alicia Joy how and read her credits.
Speaker 1: This woman works Cain and abel I. Remember we reconnected.
Speaker 1: Everybody hates Chris. We reconnected. On Channel four it was
Speaker 1: the Mysteries of Laura right, and oh my god, there
Speaker 1: was a promo Ladies and gentlemen. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you saw the promo. I thought it was the fiercest
Speaker 1: promo that I had ever seen in primetime TV. Right,
Speaker 1: So Alicia, I will let you give us a setup
Speaker 1: because she was. It was And when I saw the
Speaker 1: first time I saw it.
Speaker 4: I was like, is that a week, sir? It's a
Speaker 4: whole That show is a whole story. That's a whole story.
Speaker 4: I would have promo had a lot of traction on it.
Speaker 4: It did, and I've been really really blessed. Like when
Speaker 4: I just hit her, I was I mean, I didn't have.
Speaker 5: A big role in a sitter but on the hill
Speaker 5: just I guess he just loved me, and he was
Speaker 5: taking my clips and promoting all over the place. And
Speaker 5: Samarrio Wiley who was on Oranges and New Black, I
Speaker 5: love her really, she was really above me.
Speaker 4: And Jonah took me on.
Speaker 5: The Wendy Williams Show and allowed me to be on
Speaker 5: the couch with him to promote the movie. And I
Speaker 5: was like, yeah, so like I've been really blessed in
Speaker 5: some of those things like that. But misters, the lad
Speaker 5: was a whole thing. I was with an agent I
Speaker 5: wasn't really happy with. I love her, but she she's
Speaker 5: just work it for me. But I went in for
Speaker 5: two words. I went in for two words, and me
Speaker 5: and Jesus went in there and said we're gonna work
Speaker 5: this thing. So when I when I went in, I
Speaker 5: did this whole rant. And so then they called me
Speaker 5: in and when I got to set, the director said.
Speaker 5: The director said, listen, I loved your audition tape.
Speaker 4: So I said, is that what we're doing? Because one
Speaker 4: more than two words what we're doing. He said, that
Speaker 4: is what we're doing.
Speaker 1: Well, let's do this.
Speaker 4: When I looked up the extras, the guy that was
Speaker 4: on the monitor.
Speaker 5: Everybody was like cracking up and they were going crazy
Speaker 5: over They were like who are And then Debora Messing
Speaker 5: was like who are you?
Speaker 4: Where did you come from? Like what is going on
Speaker 4: right now?
Speaker 5: So fast forward, my agent gets this email. We want Alicia,
Speaker 5: but we don't know where to place her. And I said,
Speaker 5: please tell them that the boys need a nanny because
Speaker 5: on the bridge.
Speaker 4: I made him on the bridge and they're pining on
Speaker 4: each other.
Speaker 1: Right Hey, he was inta the Podesta Fountain in Central Park.
Speaker 4: Yes, it's so good, yes it was.
Speaker 5: So they was like, we want her, but we don't
Speaker 5: know where the place are. And I said, I told
Speaker 5: my agent tell him the kids don't have a nanny.
Speaker 4: She wouldn't do it. I said, are you kidding me
Speaker 4: right now? Are you? Well? No, let them kind of figure.
Speaker 5: It out and we'll just wait on them to get
Speaker 5: back to us. I said, oh no, oh no, no, no, no,
Speaker 5: it's time to take you know, my hands. I looked
Speaker 5: up mac g. Mac g was the director. Uh huh,
Speaker 5: oh my god, he's amazing.
Speaker 4: So I looked him up and I want him and
Speaker 4: I d m Tim the boy don't have a nanny.
Speaker 5: That's all I did. Next thing, you know, I got
Speaker 5: called in for wardrobe. I went to the studio and
Speaker 5: was in wardrobe. I've been in wardrobe for like an hour.
Speaker 5: All of a sudden, a group of people come, you
Speaker 5: got to.
Speaker 4: Come with us, hurry up, you got to come with us,
Speaker 4: come out, hurry up. And I'm like, well, what's going on?
Speaker 4: What's going on? So they take me to the room
Speaker 4: next door. I sit down. It's a table reading. I
Speaker 4: sit down. I didn't even know what was going on.
Speaker 5: I sit down to the script and I sit down
Speaker 5: to my name one the script and I came in
Speaker 5: right when she comes in, and I just I was like,
Speaker 5: oh my god.
Speaker 4: My agent didn't even tell me. They named her after me.
Speaker 5: Wow, Nanny Alicia, And I was like, look at Jesus,
Speaker 5: Look at Jesus. I mean, you know, that was one
Speaker 5: of those moments where I stepped out all the way
Speaker 5: and then I had to fire my agent.
Speaker 1: Bless her heart, but you know, agents and managers, unfortunately,
Speaker 1: there's a big turnaround in this industry.
Speaker 3: But I liked the fact that you.
Speaker 1: Took your own control of your career and you didn't
Speaker 1: allow fear to or any of that, or even your
Speaker 1: agents taught to stop you from doing what was instinctually
Speaker 1: in you. Because I watched the show because of you.
Speaker 1: You were the comic relief to me. You you that
Speaker 1: chromo And if you guys get a chance to go
Speaker 1: in the archives, they're on the bridge in Central Park.
Speaker 1: It's Vodesta Fountain and these two kids that they're urinating.
Speaker 3: And when I tell you, Alicia, is that Mandy no nonsense.
Speaker 1: It was more of what she did as opposed to
Speaker 1: what she said that was just hilarious and just from
Speaker 1: that problem. I just remember at that time people were
Speaker 1: talking to me about you and I was like, that's Alicia.
Speaker 1: I know, Alicia, but you know, it just felt like
Speaker 1: that gave you so much much more movement to soar
Speaker 1: even more, you know, because after that, I was like,
Speaker 1: you know, she's in la She's like you were all
Speaker 1: over the place as you are currently. So I know
Speaker 1: that we are in this isolation quarantine. We don't know
Speaker 1: what our next move is. How has it been for
Speaker 1: you in terms of you know, getting scripts or you know,
Speaker 1: how is your agent manager moving during this time for you?
Speaker 4: That's the scary part.
Speaker 5: But I have really been, you know, going to work
Speaker 5: during this time. I also want one thing is a
Speaker 5: pet project of mine. I'm also a doula.
Speaker 4: What Yeah, I was a nervous ask that.
Speaker 3: So I'm good okay, okay.
Speaker 4: And Nola and duel and a living hell.
Speaker 5: I was a nurse for twenty five years, so as
Speaker 5: long as I've been in the industry, I was an
Speaker 5: LPN and has some real interesting stories about that. But
Speaker 5: when I got Mysteries of Laura, I had to make
Speaker 5: a decision, and so I was trying to do things
Speaker 5: the right way and like go part time or whatever.
Speaker 5: And my super The thing is that acting has always
Speaker 5: been my number one job. Yes, and whenever I worked,
Speaker 5: they understood that, Look, this is.
Speaker 4: My number one job. But I'm here.
Speaker 5: While I'm here, I will do I was super nurse
Speaker 5: when I was working, right. I still have clients, some
Speaker 5: of my patients that still keep in touch with me.
Speaker 5: But I told my supervisor, listen, I got this show.
Speaker 5: I would like to go part time, but this is
Speaker 5: what it is. She told me I was never gonna
Speaker 5: be nothing, that this wasn't gonna pan out.
Speaker 3: I was stupid.
Speaker 5: She gave me a job, and now I'm choosing this
Speaker 5: over that. It's frivolous, I said, baby, I got to go.
Speaker 5: M Especially after that, Okay, I got so you go,
Speaker 5: you know, manage your feelings. But I got to go,
Speaker 5: you know, And that's when I had to make a decision.
Speaker 5: It was the first time in my in my career,
Speaker 5: in my life that I had to make a decision
Speaker 5: between the two, and I had to choose my first
Speaker 5: my first love.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So during this time, what I've.
Speaker 5: Been doing is I became a duela because of Judge
Speaker 5: Hatchet's story with her her Judge Hatchet, her daughter in
Speaker 5: law died in childbirth being neglected at one of the
Speaker 5: best hospitals in Beverly Hills.
Speaker 4: They left by herself to bleed out for eight hours.
Speaker 5: She and the attending doctor snuck out the back door
Speaker 5: and had residents.
Speaker 4: Go tell the family that she was no longer here.
Speaker 4: And because of that, I wanted.
Speaker 5: To get back into mommy's and babies because that's where
Speaker 5: I spent most of our time at obig I M
Speaker 5: So I found about doulas and I became a due.
Speaker 5: I was just a posed part of Dulah because I
Speaker 5: love babies. And then recently during this Corona time, right
Speaker 5: my birth, my birthday certificate. I just am going through
Speaker 5: my lactation certification. I take the test on Thursday for that,
Speaker 5: and I built a studio in my second bedroom so
Speaker 5: I can do voiceovers and podcasts because.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna be acting somewhere.
Speaker 1: Okay, Yes you are, Yes you are, and we feel
Speaker 1: we feel blessed to even have you on the show
Speaker 1: because I feel like, you know, once this is over,
Speaker 1: I don't know if I'll be able to catch up
Speaker 1: with you. There's going to be so much work available. Yes,
Speaker 1: we're going to have to make adjustments, but there is
Speaker 1: still going to be work out there. As Bruce said,
Speaker 1: this twenty minute, twenty eight minutes is gonna fly by,
Speaker 1: and it is flown.
Speaker 3: It's so sad.
Speaker 1: Oh No, listen, you will have enough because you are
Speaker 1: a great storyteller and they need to hear your stories.
Speaker 1: I do before we leave, which is so painful. I
Speaker 1: want you to bless us. I always ask my guests
Speaker 1: to leave us with some diamonds, jewels, whatever pearls you
Speaker 1: want to drop on these actors, whatever you feel like
Speaker 1: they need to know right now, let them know, because
Speaker 1: you've got nothing but wisdom coming out of you this moment.
Speaker 5: Right here the testament to how valuable relationships are in
Speaker 5: this business.
Speaker 4: People negate relationships.
Speaker 5: And it's so funny because most of the time that
Speaker 5: I been on a set, I have not been real
Speaker 5: close to other actors, but I've been really, really close
Speaker 5: to show runners. One of my favorite people right now
Speaker 5: is Child's Ki. I am in love man.
Speaker 3: I mean, he always up since he was at William Morris.
Speaker 4: He's the best that Hollywood has to offer. Y he
Speaker 4: does genuinely. He loves his family, is a great family man.
Speaker 4: But Nat dude, you know, just ate dude, great energy.
Speaker 4: My relationship with you that we've built, and no matter
Speaker 4: when we see each.
Speaker 3: Other, it's love. Stop loging her love.
Speaker 4: I just reconnected with a good friend of mine.
Speaker 5: I mean we always see each other, but we don't
Speaker 5: have time, and we're gonna be collaborating on some fashion
Speaker 5: stuff together. See Kelly, Who's an amazing actress. She is
Speaker 5: the amazing stage actress. But I have been surrounded by
Speaker 5: some amazing people who have loved me through this process.
Speaker 5: And I tell you, when I look on Facebook and
Speaker 5: somebody that I started out this whole ride with twenty
Speaker 5: five years ago is saying we are watching you.
Speaker 3: We are proud of you.
Speaker 4: You know what you're doing. We are watching you.
Speaker 5: Know. Relationships are everything, and please hold dear to them
Speaker 5: because you will meet these people over and over again.
Speaker 4: Some will champion you.
Speaker 5: Someoneill be praying for you, someone just be showing you love,
Speaker 5: and some just be beaming at home because of your progress.
Speaker 3: So you are a joy.
Speaker 9: Yes she is.
Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, I want you to put your hands
Speaker 1: together for miss Alicia joy Pal. She is a genuine
Speaker 1: one's spirit of brilliant actress and just such a giving spirit,
Speaker 1: just such a giving spirit. So we're going to have
Speaker 1: you back, Alicia, because we need to laugh some more too,
Speaker 1: and you are a bundle of literally joy.
Speaker 3: Her name, she is her name.
Speaker 4: So I love you. I adore you.
Speaker 3: You know that I love you too.
Speaker 10: Man.
Speaker 1: You are my you are my favorite. We're going to
Speaker 1: work together and I can't wait. That's my dream and
Speaker 1: I'm going to manifest that. So we are still blessed
Speaker 1: to have Alicia is going to hang out with us
Speaker 1: for class in session. I just want to thank her
Speaker 1: for being on the show and we are going to
Speaker 1: extend another invitation so we can laugh some more with her.
Speaker 1: All right, so, and we'll be back on the Spirited
Speaker 1: Actor Podcast with me Tracy Moore with class in session.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Spirited Actor Podcast with me Tracey More.
Speaker 1: And we're still blessed to have miss Alicia joy How
Speaker 1: with us and I'm very excited to have her here. So, yes,
Speaker 1: we have our spirit actor.
Speaker 3: Loumni lean A Moato.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Alisa Capril, I'm.
Speaker 3: Doo walker hello, and I better put Junior on that too.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, So Alicia, we are going to read a
Speaker 1: scene called The Jokes On You, written by miss Leanna Motto,
Speaker 1: and these actors are going to put their toenail in it.
Speaker 1: No no pressure' all, no pressure, sorry. And then Alicia
Speaker 1: is going to be so gracious and give you guys
Speaker 1: some constructive feedback or whatever she feels that she needs
Speaker 1: to let you all know. Okay, all right, so you
Speaker 1: guys ready, yes, all right, The Joke's On You by
Speaker 1: leaenn Almado Interior, Brooklyn apartment evening. Seated around their living room,
Speaker 1: Orlando called for a meeting with his roommates Ivy and Jackie.
Speaker 2: Oh Lando, this better not be about your family coming again.
Speaker 3: Because sun last No, no, this is serious the girls
Speaker 3: wait for it. Wow, say it?
Speaker 10: So I.
Speaker 4: Mess on one Orlando.
Speaker 3: Now we know you didn't meant nobody.
Speaker 2: I know you didn't just make me cancel a whole
Speaker 2: free mail.
Speaker 3: To see and sing the ship.
Speaker 4: Guys, I'm serious.
Speaker 2: Remember remember the time you swear a girl from Jamaicans?
Speaker 5: I like you?
Speaker 3: Oh my god, no, no, no, how about what? He
Speaker 3: started to catch feelings for Fabion, the cleaning lady.
Speaker 4: Wait, the worst.
Speaker 3: The worst was when that girl didn't show up.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, nothing where his mom's came.
Speaker 4: And say all you want. But she's on her way here,
Speaker 4: and I really want to make a good impression, so
Speaker 4: please help me.
Speaker 3: Would you like us to put on in tex He's upset.
Speaker 3: Jackie notices, all right, sorry, Oland, we hear you and
Speaker 3: we'll do what you need.
Speaker 1: Thank you, The girls quickly tiding him up. Jackie tucks
Speaker 1: in his shirt while Ivy sprays fresh mint in his mouth.
Speaker 9: I'm really nervous about her, but she's different.
Speaker 4: Ding doom. Oh shit, I ain't ready.
Speaker 3: You got this, champ.
Speaker 1: Ivy smacks him on the asses. Jackie sprays him back
Speaker 1: with coloone. The girls lost to each other in anticipation
Speaker 1: as he opens the door, and my god, in comes
Speaker 1: a five eleven voluptious fat from straight out of magazine.
Speaker 3: The girls faces are stunned. Well damn because winning now
Speaker 3: and see, Okay, you're.
Speaker 1: An active love guys, A cute seen Okay, miss Alicia,
Speaker 1: so on you.
Speaker 4: Okay, So can Delisa tell me what's your relationship? What
Speaker 4: is between you guys?
Speaker 2: So I've known him for a long time. We went
Speaker 2: to school together, and I know.
Speaker 3: Ivy.
Speaker 10: We grew up in the same neighborhood. So I've known
Speaker 10: them for a while, and we're all roommates.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 10: And then this whole time that I've been in, this
Speaker 10: whole time that I've known him, it's always been something
Speaker 10: when it comes to a girl that's around.
Speaker 2: And so that's why, like we never believed it.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 5: So you guys didn't take him seriously at all. Okay,
Speaker 5: Just so you guys could just have like a different level,
Speaker 5: if you and Leamana, if you guys can have like
Speaker 5: a you guys were like on.
Speaker 4: The same level. If somebody can take like a different
Speaker 4: just to give a little level, give a little balance.
Speaker 4: I'll let you guys make that choice. I don't want
Speaker 4: to make that choice.
Speaker 5: For you, but try not to come in at the
Speaker 5: exact same attitude because I couldn't tell what the relationship
Speaker 5: was about how you guys really felt about it, only
Speaker 5: because you guys were like at the same level.
Speaker 1: Ok great, note, is that clear you guys exactly? M hm,
Speaker 1: that's clear, Lisa, Yeah, okay, you see then when you
Speaker 1: do sit right in, it's like a bigger reaction.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: Comedy is her expertise, one of them. Okay, so I'm
Speaker 1: not going to read any of the acts, and you
Speaker 1: guys can just go with the lines.
Speaker 2: Okay, we do the.
Speaker 1: Trace.
Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, excus.
Speaker 3: Okay, and action.
Speaker 10: Orlando just better not be about your family coming again,
Speaker 10: because son, that was some point.
Speaker 1: No no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, this
Speaker 1: this is serious.
Speaker 4: Well say something, so.
Speaker 3: I mess someone, Orlando. Now we know you didn't mean nobody.
Speaker 2: I know you didn't make me cancel a whole female
Speaker 2: of the city and say the ship.
Speaker 4: Yeo, guys, I'm serious.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm not gonna tell me you swort a girl
Speaker 2: from a Jamaica spout like you.
Speaker 8: Oh wait, hold on, how about when he started to
Speaker 8: catch feelings for Fabiola the cleaning lady.
Speaker 3: The worst is when that girl did to show up.
Speaker 4: My gosh, his face was so sad.
Speaker 10: Nothing beats when his moms came and she was all right,
Speaker 10: say all you want, she on her way.
Speaker 9: So when I'm really trying to make a good impression,
Speaker 9: so can y'all please just help me.
Speaker 3: We can put our name tags or you know, whatever
Speaker 3: you need.
Speaker 2: Okay, all bad Orlando, We hear you and we'll do
Speaker 2: what you need.
Speaker 4: Thank you. I'm really nervous about her, y'all.
Speaker 3: She's a little different, ding dumb.
Speaker 1: I ain't ready yet.
Speaker 3: Got this chair h m hm ivy and see wow,
Speaker 3: much better. See you're note was great.
Speaker 10: That was a lot younger.
Speaker 4: And then you guys started tag tingment a little bit more.
Speaker 5: It's like the chemistry kind of came out a little
Speaker 5: bit more. You guys are fabulous actors. Y'all need a
Speaker 5: whole lot for me.
Speaker 3: But oh we listen.
Speaker 1: We are so grateful when we have guests on. And
Speaker 1: I love the fact that you know, LeAnn and Alfonso
Speaker 1: are just meeting you. But for you to give them
Speaker 1: that type of feedback that means the world, like it
Speaker 1: really does mean the world for them. I'm not going
Speaker 1: to speak for you guys, but if you have something quickly,
Speaker 1: you guys want to say you can go ahead and
Speaker 1: jump in.
Speaker 5: No, it does.
Speaker 10: That's great, and like to think about the chemistry and
Speaker 10: things like that and like the balance and the juxtaposition
Speaker 10: like so that that was amazing feedback because it was like, yes,
Speaker 10: you have to think of the different energy levels that
Speaker 10: we have in life, that we have in scene work
Speaker 10: that we're supposed to be able to have.
Speaker 4: That ride and art and it's not just like this
Speaker 4: one level planes.
Speaker 2: I really appreciate that.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I like double team and me, oh sorry Leanne, no, no,
Speaker 9: go ahead. I felt like you're both were like double
Speaker 9: team me after a while, like y'all to do this
Speaker 9: when I'm not there, like remember that time he had
Speaker 9: her or he did this and he did that and
Speaker 9: it's like all right, guys, I'm still in the room still, Yeah, okay,
Speaker 9: I exist.
Speaker 3: So definitely I felt that yeah good, yeah, And.
Speaker 8: I was just going to add that like when I
Speaker 8: wrote it, I wrote it with like like two peas
Speaker 8: in a pod, like that was my mindset.
Speaker 4: But when I think about like any sitcom, like no
Speaker 4: character is the theme.
Speaker 8: So that was a really good note as an actor
Speaker 8: and like to be able to react off each other
Speaker 8: and and not be the same, like not mirroring each other.
Speaker 4: And then also like as a writer that like every character,
Speaker 4: every character stands on their own. So it was great
Speaker 4: all around. Thank you. You have like twins.
Speaker 5: If you notice twins usually on a show, they're addressed alike,
Speaker 5: but they're nothing alike. Usually different, you know, that different
Speaker 5: take on them. You know, one's really nice when one
Speaker 5: is kind of you know, mischievous always even if they
Speaker 5: are mirrored like that, you know, and it it gives
Speaker 5: them more interest because we have to both watch you guys,
Speaker 5: and both of you guys are like at the same level,
Speaker 5: then it's not interesting.
Speaker 4: But it just popped as soon as you guys got it,
Speaker 4: it popped.
Speaker 3: Yeah I did. That was a great note And that
Speaker 3: was great to watch the transition from all of you guys.
Speaker 3: So giving up you guys from miss Alicia Joy.
Speaker 1: Oh you were wonderful and I'm so glad that I
Speaker 1: was able to share you with everybody else because she
Speaker 1: is a true joy And I'm not playing on words
Speaker 1: on her name.
Speaker 3: Her parents knew what.
Speaker 7: They were doing, they knew what they were doing with
Speaker 7: their name, so all right, ladies and gentlemen, we had
Speaker 7: a wonderful time in classes session and we just want
Speaker 7: to thank you again, Alicia for being with us and
Speaker 7: sharing with us.
Speaker 3: You are amazing.
Speaker 4: Thank you for having me and trusting me with your
Speaker 4: precious ones. I know you, I know you so well.
Speaker 1: Thanks again, and we'll be back on the Spirited Actor
Speaker 1: Podcast with me Tracy Moore. We are giving love and
Speaker 1: now it's time forgive love. Don't take anything personal. One
Speaker 1: of my favorite books is the Four Agreements by Don Ruez.
Speaker 1: One of the agreements is don't take anything personal. For instance, actors,
Speaker 1: when your family members or your significant other or your
Speaker 1: loved one is saying to you you should get a
Speaker 1: real job, don't take it personal. They are trying to
Speaker 1: encourage you.
Speaker 4: In their way.
Speaker 1: That's them knowing their love and protection because they may
Speaker 1: not believe that this is the career for you. Regardless,
Speaker 1: don't take it personal. Understand where they're coming from and
Speaker 1: stay true to where you're going. Stay true to your craft,
Speaker 1: stay true to your passion and your belief, and never
Speaker 1: ever take anything personal in this business. Thank you for
Speaker 1: joining us on the Spirited Actor Podcast with me Tracy Moore.
Speaker 1: I look forward to our next Spirited podcast. Thank you,