WEBVTT - The Spirited Actor - Alysia Joy Powell (08/18/2020) 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:03.280 Hello, and welcome to the Spirited Actor Podcast with me 0:00:03.520 --> 0:00:06.440 Tracy Moore. I was a casting director for film and 0:00:06.480 --> 0:00:10.600 TV and commercials for over thirty years. I transitioned to 0:00:10.640 --> 0:00:14.200 a celebrity acting coach after I cast a film New 0:00:14.280 --> 0:00:19.439 Jersey Drive with executive producers Spike Lee and director Nick Domez. 0:00:20.040 --> 0:00:24.439 I auditioned every rapper from biggiees Balls to Tupac, and 0:00:24.560 --> 0:00:28.200 I realized that rappers and musical artists they needed help 0:00:28.280 --> 0:00:32.600 transitioning to acting. My clients consist of musical artists from 0:00:32.760 --> 0:00:37.400 Buster Rhymes to Eve, Missy Elliott, Angela Yee from The 0:00:37.440 --> 0:00:41.120 Breakfast Club, and Vanessa Simmons, to name a few. I 0:00:41.240 --> 0:00:45.080 also coach sports stars and host as well. I feel 0:00:45.280 --> 0:00:48.720 I have the best of both worlds. As a casting director, 0:00:48.760 --> 0:00:51.320 I know exactly what they're looking for, and as an 0:00:51.360 --> 0:00:53.800 acting coach, I can coach you to be remembered in 0:00:53.880 --> 0:00:54.440 that room. 0:00:54.720 --> 0:00:54.920 Now. 0:00:54.960 --> 0:00:57.960 I know. I know actors want to get the job. 0:00:58.120 --> 0:01:01.360 I get that, but being remembered by a casting director 0:01:01.920 --> 0:01:08.000 that is powerful. Meditation of the day. What you ought 0:01:08.000 --> 0:01:11.200 to do, you should do, and what you should do 0:01:11.760 --> 0:01:15.880 you ought to do. Oprah Winfrey one of my biggest 0:01:15.880 --> 0:01:19.680 fears was that I would be sixty something years old 0:01:20.360 --> 0:01:22.280 sitting in a rocking chair saying. 0:01:22.440 --> 0:01:23.520 I should have, would have, could have. 0:01:24.360 --> 0:01:29.080 Well, I'm not afraid of that anymore because I challenge 0:01:29.120 --> 0:01:33.240 myself in my life. I don't limit myself to what 0:01:33.360 --> 0:01:35.839 I think I can do. I try to do it all. 0:01:36.800 --> 0:01:40.840 Everyone should stretch themselves and discover the different heights that 0:01:40.920 --> 0:01:45.600 you can reach. Life is meant to live, so explore 0:01:45.600 --> 0:01:50.400 it because you never know. I will open my mind 0:01:50.560 --> 0:01:51.800 to new experiences. 0:01:51.840 --> 0:01:52.200 Today. 0:01:54.040 --> 0:01:57.680 Welcome to the Spirited Active Podcast with me Tracy Moore. 0:01:58.160 --> 0:02:03.160 I am delighted. Are you delighted today? I am so 0:02:03.280 --> 0:02:07.600 delighted to introduce you. And I know many of our 0:02:07.680 --> 0:02:11.800 listeners know who this woman is. She is one of 0:02:11.960 --> 0:02:16.840 truly one of my favorite actresses and people. Just you'll 0:02:16.960 --> 0:02:19.200 you'll hear her spirit, you'll fall in love with her. 0:02:19.200 --> 0:02:22.400 In twenty eight minutes, guaranteed, ladies and gentlemen, I want 0:02:22.440 --> 0:02:32.000 to bring to you actress extraordinary Alicia Joy How. 0:02:34.639 --> 0:02:35.399 Good morning. 0:02:35.720 --> 0:02:38.080 Thank you so much for being on the show. 0:02:40.760 --> 0:02:44.120 I couldn't wait to have you on you You are 0:02:44.200 --> 0:02:47.800 a very important guest to me because all of my guests, 0:02:47.840 --> 0:02:48.560 I don't want. 0:02:48.400 --> 0:02:50.040 To negate anybody. 0:02:50.080 --> 0:02:51.320 But you. 0:02:53.040 --> 0:02:57.280 Have such a beautiful spirit like people. 0:02:57.800 --> 0:03:03.120 I have seen people attached to you your spirit, and I. 0:03:03.080 --> 0:03:04.520 Remember my first introduction. 0:03:04.720 --> 0:03:07.120 I did not even know you, but I felt like 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:13.280 I had known you for centuries. You are a fabulous actress. 0:03:13.320 --> 0:03:16.560 I want to jump right into it. Let's talk about 0:03:16.560 --> 0:03:20.480 the beginnings Oflicia. How did this start for you? 0:03:21.360 --> 0:03:26.760 Okay, so it started before it started. My dad was 0:03:26.800 --> 0:03:30.720 an actor before me. I just lost him in the 0:03:30.760 --> 0:03:31.840 beginning of this month. 0:03:32.840 --> 0:03:33.720 Sorry to hear that. 0:03:35.480 --> 0:03:39.440 You thank you so much, but yeah, I grew up 0:03:40.120 --> 0:03:43.240 watching my dad. The funny part is is that I 0:03:43.280 --> 0:03:47.920 became my daddy's writing buddy because a child molester was 0:03:48.000 --> 0:03:50.320 stalking me when I was in the sixth grade and 0:03:50.400 --> 0:03:51.720 picking in my windows. 0:03:52.160 --> 0:03:52.920 Oh my god. 0:03:53.280 --> 0:03:56.240 Yeah, it was crazy. And so it took like three 0:03:56.360 --> 0:03:58.760 nights for me to scream and let my daddy know 0:03:58.840 --> 0:04:01.520 somebody was in my window with a flashlight, and he 0:04:01.640 --> 0:04:05.520 chased the man down and the police caught him and everything, 0:04:05.680 --> 0:04:09.120 and come to find out, he had just gotten out 0:04:09.160 --> 0:04:13.640 of jail for molesting kids and they were around my age, 0:04:13.960 --> 0:04:14.920 and I didn't. 0:04:14.640 --> 0:04:17.360 Realize that this man had been following me for a month. 0:04:17.680 --> 0:04:20.680 And I grew up in Altadna, California, and it was 0:04:20.960 --> 0:04:22.640 very very free. 0:04:22.720 --> 0:04:25.480 We didn't we didn't lock our doors or nothing like that. 0:04:25.839 --> 0:04:29.760 So I he would he would come to my elementary 0:04:29.760 --> 0:04:32.919 school and then we had a pool, but we would 0:04:32.920 --> 0:04:34.960 go swim at the park pool, you know, to be 0:04:35.080 --> 0:04:38.600 with all our friends. I remembered him there. I remember 0:04:38.680 --> 0:04:41.240 him at the store, like, I remember him like all 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:44.120 around the city like you know, and I was like, 0:04:44.160 --> 0:04:46.320 oh my god, that man was following me for like 0:04:46.400 --> 0:04:47.240 three months. 0:04:47.640 --> 0:04:48.520 But it was crazy. 0:04:48.560 --> 0:04:50.640 So after that, I think my dad felt like he 0:04:50.720 --> 0:04:52.080 needed to be attached to me a. 0:04:52.080 --> 0:04:54.560 Little bit more and kept me under his wing. 0:04:54.760 --> 0:04:57.159 And so that's when I would like go everywhere to 0:04:57.200 --> 0:05:01.479 the studio, you know, when he was shooting or you 0:05:01.520 --> 0:05:04.440 know he was doing a play, uh in the theater 0:05:04.880 --> 0:05:13.000 or even cast parties. Nice. Yeah, that's where I started. 0:05:13.080 --> 0:05:16.480 I started falling in love. And then I started writing. 0:05:17.520 --> 0:05:20.719 And making upscripts and stuff and then putting on putting 0:05:20.760 --> 0:05:21.680 them on at my school. 0:05:22.800 --> 0:05:26.800 Oh my god, so you fell in love and with 0:05:26.960 --> 0:05:27.720 the craft. 0:05:28.200 --> 0:05:32.200 But in creating that young yeah, I did. 0:05:32.520 --> 0:05:32.960 I did. 0:05:33.120 --> 0:05:36.200 It was funny. I played Dorothy. I think I sang 0:05:36.279 --> 0:05:38.200 like eight songs. I don't think nobody else name. 0:05:39.120 --> 0:05:43.760 Wow, not only did you create, but you created your 0:05:43.760 --> 0:05:48.760 old work for yourself. Yes, we had we had the 0:05:48.800 --> 0:05:55.080 pleasure of interviewing Bill to class week amazing, and Bill 0:05:55.160 --> 0:05:59.359 said that this is the perfect opportunity for us to 0:05:59.440 --> 0:06:02.040 no longer wait on anybody else to give us an 0:06:02.040 --> 0:06:04.520 opportunity we can create for ourselves. 0:06:04.560 --> 0:06:06.239 And so that was such. 0:06:06.080 --> 0:06:09.160 A strong takeaway because you know, he didn't grow up 0:06:09.320 --> 0:06:12.360 and work in a time where people look like him, 0:06:12.480 --> 0:06:16.880 and he had those opportunities, but he continued to persevere 0:06:17.320 --> 0:06:20.520 and now you know legendary he'll do. 0:06:22.200 --> 0:06:23.760 I'm a story. 0:06:24.240 --> 0:06:26.280 Oh kay, tell us a he'll do story. 0:06:26.480 --> 0:06:30.360 The only time I fanned out, I was like, okay, 0:06:30.480 --> 0:06:31.599 So in La. 0:06:33.520 --> 0:06:38.440 I pulled up to the bank to chase and I 0:06:38.520 --> 0:06:40.119 was going to go to the ATM. 0:06:40.440 --> 0:06:44.880 And Bill was walking to the ATM, and I was like, 0:06:45.200 --> 0:06:45.680 I want. 0:06:45.560 --> 0:06:47.000 To go say hi to him. 0:06:46.839 --> 0:06:49.240 So bad, but I want to think I'm robbing him 0:06:49.279 --> 0:06:53.839 at the at it's real. 0:06:53.720 --> 0:06:56.360 Easy like and I was like, hey, I don't want. 0:06:56.240 --> 0:07:02.919 Your money, I just want to see Like he's such 0:07:02.920 --> 0:07:04.920 a he's such a kind spirit. 0:07:05.080 --> 0:07:06.320 He must have embraced you. 0:07:06.560 --> 0:07:07.240 Amazing. 0:07:07.880 --> 0:07:08.120 Right. 0:07:08.760 --> 0:07:13.120 Yeah, speaking of amazing people, you have a plethora of work, 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:17.120 and I always tell my actors to go to IMDb 0:07:17.280 --> 0:07:20.280 dot com for all of our guests to see their work. 0:07:20.680 --> 0:07:24.760 What was your journey like in terms of the roles 0:07:24.840 --> 0:07:29.000 in which you know you were auditioning for or the 0:07:29.080 --> 0:07:33.280 opportunities that were out there because you know today you 0:07:33.320 --> 0:07:35.680 are one of our favorite working actresses. 0:07:36.080 --> 0:07:41.320 How did you create that for yourself? It took a while. 0:07:42.680 --> 0:07:47.440 What I always tried to do was stay close to 0:07:47.560 --> 0:07:51.800 my representation. I would ask for what in LA, you 0:07:51.800 --> 0:07:53.520 can do this? If you do this in New York, 0:07:53.680 --> 0:07:56.600 might get arrested. Okay, wow, soup, that's. 0:07:56.440 --> 0:08:00.680 A different LA. At New York. LA, you have a 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:03.960 meeting with your agent, you show up at your agents. 0:08:03.960 --> 0:08:06.160 I was in New York. You will get arrested. Okay. 0:08:06.240 --> 0:08:08.440 They do not play that. They was like, why you 0:08:08.480 --> 0:08:11.120 showed up here? I was like, I'm your client. 0:08:11.320 --> 0:08:15.840 No, no, no, we don't do that. Why you show 0:08:15.920 --> 0:08:18.760 up here? I'm your clients Okay. 0:08:21.120 --> 0:08:23.360 I had to figure out the difference between LA and 0:08:23.360 --> 0:08:24.960 New York. Came from LA. 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:27.360 But what I used to do is I used to 0:08:27.440 --> 0:08:31.920 have meetings once a year to like strategize like. 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:34.280 Who you know, who I know? These are the people 0:08:34.320 --> 0:08:35.240 I want to work with. 0:08:35.320 --> 0:08:38.680 I would do my research because back then Hollywood Reporter 0:08:38.840 --> 0:08:42.439 had the product of the production charts and you can 0:08:42.480 --> 0:08:45.400 see who the mover and shakers were in the industry. 0:08:45.440 --> 0:08:47.720 Now it's a little bit harder, but you know, you 0:08:47.840 --> 0:08:48.960 really have to do your homework. 0:08:49.000 --> 0:08:51.360 Now you could. 0:08:51.200 --> 0:08:55.360 See like who's the writer, who's the director, who's the producer. 0:08:56.200 --> 0:09:00.160 You start seeing a link that certain people were getting. 0:09:00.520 --> 0:09:02.920 So today is like Michael B. 0:09:03.160 --> 0:09:05.320 Jordan and her people like that, A is like you 0:09:05.360 --> 0:09:09.320 know movers and shakers, you like IMDb and baby he 0:09:09.360 --> 0:09:15.240 got stuff in pre Yeah. So but that's what I 0:09:15.360 --> 0:09:18.280 used to do to try and get into some of 0:09:18.320 --> 0:09:19.160 the doors. 0:09:19.559 --> 0:09:22.319 And then that's very smart, very smart. 0:09:22.640 --> 0:09:24.680 But I did start out. 0:09:24.720 --> 0:09:29.440 And Bobby's Shaw Chance's studio, the baddest white chick I 0:09:29.520 --> 0:09:36.080 know in LA and she really makes stars. And on 0:09:36.120 --> 0:09:39.360 Thursday nights she used to have a showcase and everybody 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:42.880 who's anybody in Hollywood would come through there to see 0:09:42.880 --> 0:09:43.199 what the. 0:09:43.200 --> 0:09:46.200 Town looked like. And I was there. 0:09:47.559 --> 0:09:51.400 We had a group of strong black actors that was 0:09:51.440 --> 0:09:52.199 bringing us in. 0:09:52.520 --> 0:09:56.319 You know, Skinner, Alan Maldonado. 0:09:57.120 --> 0:09:57.240 Uh. 0:09:57.800 --> 0:10:01.400 It was people like that and we were but J T. 0:10:01.679 --> 0:10:05.439 Jackson, there was some of us that was just doing 0:10:05.480 --> 0:10:08.960 it and so I got kind of known from that. 0:10:09.040 --> 0:10:11.960 People started coming in and it was like, you know, I 0:10:12.000 --> 0:10:15.720 want to see Alicia, you know. Because of my comedic timing, 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:21.600 it wasn't until recently that I was able to mold 0:10:21.760 --> 0:10:25.200 my career in the way that I wanted to. As 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:28.120 much as I love comedy, it's very off the top 0:10:28.160 --> 0:10:28.720 of my head. 0:10:29.240 --> 0:10:30.520 I love driving, you know this. 0:10:30.840 --> 0:10:35.000 I love Yeah, I love the work, and I don't 0:10:35.080 --> 0:10:37.800 usually get to exercise those muscles because I'm a cute, 0:10:37.800 --> 0:10:38.559 big black girl. 0:10:39.000 --> 0:10:40.000 You know, usually I want. 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:41.520 To you know, they put me on the funnier side 0:10:41.559 --> 0:10:44.640 of things, you know, but I can make you crazy because. 0:10:44.360 --> 0:10:47.160 I've clean the dramatic muscle in you. 0:10:47.559 --> 0:10:52.120 And that's the thing I think that are some of 0:10:52.160 --> 0:10:59.440 our best actors are the comedic actors, because you don't 0:10:59.480 --> 0:11:02.320 get a chance to work the hustle, and then when 0:11:02.320 --> 0:11:06.280 you do, what happens is that you. 0:11:07.800 --> 0:11:10.600 Tend to really put your. 0:11:10.600 --> 0:11:12.719 Tonail in it, you know what I mean. 0:11:12.840 --> 0:11:16.800 You go for the opportunities that much, and it's a 0:11:16.840 --> 0:11:21.600 blessing when you do. I belonged to the Black TV 0:11:21.720 --> 0:11:27.320 and Film Collective and so through there I was able 0:11:27.360 --> 0:11:32.480 to do a short that was incredibly dark. The character 0:11:32.760 --> 0:11:36.120 was likened to Carrie's mom, you. 0:11:36.160 --> 0:11:39.000 Know and Carrie, and they had Carrie like the blood. 0:11:40.200 --> 0:11:45.720 This character was like that, very super religious and super dark. 0:11:46.400 --> 0:11:51.320 And my son killed itself in the house. He shot 0:11:51.400 --> 0:11:53.480 herself in the house and I witnessed it. But I 0:11:53.559 --> 0:11:55.840 also had a six year old daughter at the time 0:11:55.880 --> 0:12:00.520 who witnessed it, and she ended up growing up wanting 0:12:00.559 --> 0:12:04.640 to be a lesbian, and so that turmoil that happened, 0:12:04.720 --> 0:12:07.600 and it was really really dark. 0:12:07.840 --> 0:12:11.120 So I invited my manager to the screening. 0:12:12.600 --> 0:12:15.360 I had no idea, Like some of my friends were like, 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:17.120 whose voice is that? 0:12:17.360 --> 0:12:20.840 Like who is that? Wow? I've known, Like some of 0:12:20.840 --> 0:12:23.800 my girls was like, what the hell? Who is that? 0:12:24.960 --> 0:12:29.360 And because of that, I got my manager got me 0:12:29.400 --> 0:12:35.120 an audition for the Fred Hampton projects. Ryan Couger is 0:12:35.200 --> 0:12:39.480 one of the executive producers. Daniel Kolua is the lead. 0:12:39.600 --> 0:12:45.880 He plays Fred. I got to vote in and one 0:12:45.960 --> 0:12:49.760 of the biggest joys is I looked up everybody on 0:12:49.800 --> 0:12:51.600 the set was crying, even the cameraman. 0:12:51.679 --> 0:12:54.480 I ain't never seen nothing like that. I looked up 0:12:54.520 --> 0:12:56.839 and his white man was like, yeah, he was beat 0:12:56.920 --> 0:13:01.160 with with stuff down his face in the camera, and 0:13:01.200 --> 0:13:02.600 I'm like, oh you okay. 0:13:02.600 --> 0:13:09.120 He's like yeah, right, Well, when you afect the crew 0:13:09.280 --> 0:13:12.760 like that, because you know, most crew people are totally 0:13:12.800 --> 0:13:15.320 when you deal with you know, grips and gaffers, they're 0:13:15.320 --> 0:13:19.360 totally detached. Yeah, able to pull something that says a 0:13:19.440 --> 0:13:20.760 lot about your performance. 0:13:21.640 --> 0:13:24.679 I was just so grateful to be a part of 0:13:24.720 --> 0:13:29.679 that project. And then one thing that really moved me 0:13:29.920 --> 0:13:32.280 is I had researched the character because I'm trying to 0:13:32.280 --> 0:13:35.560 figure out is this fictional or this person? 0:13:35.600 --> 0:13:37.199 Because you know, it's Fred Hampton's story. 0:13:37.200 --> 0:13:39.880 Fred Hampton is a black panther that got kicked in 0:13:39.880 --> 0:13:43.640 the seventies in Chicago the police, got assassinated by the police, 0:13:44.160 --> 0:13:46.800 and so I played the mother of one of his henchmen, 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:48.240 one of his followers. 0:13:48.679 --> 0:13:49.120 Wow. 0:13:49.640 --> 0:13:50.920 I found out. 0:13:52.360 --> 0:13:55.920 A day before I shot that he was a real person. 0:13:56.040 --> 0:13:59.200 I found this article that said everything about him. 0:14:01.120 --> 0:14:02.480 Man. I felt like I took. 0:14:02.360 --> 0:14:05.760 All the mothers that you know ever been through that, 0:14:06.120 --> 0:14:09.760 you know this time. You know, it was so funny 0:14:09.840 --> 0:14:13.600 because the day before we shot no. I think it 0:14:13.640 --> 0:14:18.160 was the day we shot the boy. 0:14:18.000 --> 0:14:21.200 That got shot by the police officer in his house. 0:14:22.440 --> 0:14:28.920 Oh oh yeah, the female police officer, the yeah, she was. 0:14:29.400 --> 0:14:32.240 I think the verdict came in that day that I 0:14:32.360 --> 0:14:37.280 was shooting. Not only that, but what I did to 0:14:37.400 --> 0:14:41.560 kind of prepare, I would tell everybody about my son. 0:14:42.960 --> 0:14:44.880 I talked to the director and I said, can I 0:14:44.880 --> 0:14:45.920 tell you about my son? 0:14:46.400 --> 0:14:47.080 Oh? 0:14:47.120 --> 0:14:50.120 And that just put me in such a space, you know, 0:14:50.760 --> 0:14:53.320 and it felt like the atmosphere had changed. 0:14:54.760 --> 0:14:56.320 It felt like the atmosphere had. 0:14:56.280 --> 0:15:01.320 Changed, and the execs were on set and I stayed through. 0:15:01.160 --> 0:15:01.880 My whole shoot. 0:15:02.120 --> 0:15:06.440 Daniel Klure like never left my side, you know, never 0:15:06.560 --> 0:15:07.960 left after that first take. 0:15:08.120 --> 0:15:10.320 It was like, let me go get my cheer, I'm 0:15:10.320 --> 0:15:12.520 gonna sitting here with you, and like never left us. 0:15:14.320 --> 0:15:14.520 It was. 0:15:14.840 --> 0:15:16.520 It was a wonderful experience. 0:15:16.680 --> 0:15:20.280 It really was so and and just to know like 0:15:20.480 --> 0:15:22.880 what your process was for that, like you know that 0:15:23.120 --> 0:15:25.960 note right there, to go and talk to everybody about 0:15:26.000 --> 0:15:31.800 your son, that's you know, that's really great. Connecting and 0:15:31.960 --> 0:15:36.760 staying present, you know, that's what really amplifies that moment. 0:15:37.240 --> 0:15:39.840 It really helped, it made it made it very real 0:15:39.960 --> 0:15:40.200 for me. 0:15:40.680 --> 0:15:42.840 Well, I want to make it real for my audience 0:15:42.920 --> 0:15:45.000 and let them know some of your credits. I'm throwing 0:15:45.040 --> 0:15:48.840 out some credits here. She's been on the Shield, the 0:15:48.960 --> 0:15:55.680 TV series NYPD Blue, we have Scrubs, Desperate Housewives. Oh 0:15:55.720 --> 0:15:58.000 my god, I really want you guys to do your 0:15:58.080 --> 0:16:02.120 due diligence on Alicia Joy how and read her credits. 0:16:02.200 --> 0:16:08.760 This woman works Cain and abel I. Remember we reconnected. 0:16:09.640 --> 0:16:15.440 Everybody hates Chris. We reconnected. On Channel four it was 0:16:15.600 --> 0:16:21.800 the Mysteries of Laura right, and oh my god, there 0:16:21.920 --> 0:16:24.800 was a promo Ladies and gentlemen. I don't know if 0:16:24.840 --> 0:16:27.360 you saw the promo. I thought it was the fiercest 0:16:27.480 --> 0:16:31.240 promo that I had ever seen in primetime TV. Right, 0:16:31.880 --> 0:16:34.680 So Alicia, I will let you give us a setup 0:16:36.080 --> 0:16:38.720 because she was. It was And when I saw the 0:16:38.800 --> 0:16:39.520 first time I saw it. 0:16:39.560 --> 0:16:42.400 I was like, is that a week, sir? It's a 0:16:42.480 --> 0:16:45.920 whole That show is a whole story. That's a whole story. 0:16:46.520 --> 0:16:50.640 I would have promo had a lot of traction on it. 0:16:51.280 --> 0:16:54.080 It did, and I've been really really blessed. Like when 0:16:54.120 --> 0:16:57.520 I just hit her, I was I mean, I didn't have. 0:16:57.640 --> 0:17:00.880 A big role in a sitter but on the hill 0:17:01.800 --> 0:17:04.440 just I guess he just loved me, and he was 0:17:04.800 --> 0:17:09.119 taking my clips and promoting all over the place. And 0:17:09.800 --> 0:17:14.280 Samarrio Wiley who was on Oranges and New Black, I 0:17:14.400 --> 0:17:16.960 love her really, she was really above me. 0:17:17.960 --> 0:17:20.320 And Jonah took me on. 0:17:20.680 --> 0:17:23.840 The Wendy Williams Show and allowed me to be on 0:17:23.920 --> 0:17:26.840 the couch with him to promote the movie. And I 0:17:27.040 --> 0:17:30.440 was like, yeah, so like I've been really blessed in 0:17:30.560 --> 0:17:33.360 some of those things like that. But misters, the lad 0:17:33.600 --> 0:17:37.159 was a whole thing. I was with an agent I 0:17:37.320 --> 0:17:41.680 wasn't really happy with. I love her, but she she's 0:17:41.680 --> 0:17:46.119 just work it for me. But I went in for 0:17:46.280 --> 0:17:51.159 two words. I went in for two words, and me 0:17:51.240 --> 0:17:53.320 and Jesus went in there and said we're gonna work 0:17:53.359 --> 0:17:57.040 this thing. So when I when I went in, I 0:17:57.160 --> 0:18:01.480 did this whole rant. And so then they called me 0:18:01.680 --> 0:18:05.920 in and when I got to set, the director said. 0:18:07.160 --> 0:18:10.000 The director said, listen, I loved your audition tape. 0:18:10.520 --> 0:18:12.719 So I said, is that what we're doing? Because one 0:18:12.800 --> 0:18:16.359 more than two words what we're doing. He said, that 0:18:16.640 --> 0:18:17.280 is what we're doing. 0:18:17.680 --> 0:18:18.520 Well, let's do this. 0:18:19.240 --> 0:18:23.119 When I looked up the extras, the guy that was 0:18:23.200 --> 0:18:24.359 on the monitor. 0:18:24.960 --> 0:18:27.800 Everybody was like cracking up and they were going crazy 0:18:28.000 --> 0:18:31.240 over They were like who are And then Debora Messing 0:18:31.400 --> 0:18:32.240 was like who are you? 0:18:32.400 --> 0:18:34.560 Where did you come from? Like what is going on 0:18:34.800 --> 0:18:35.199 right now? 0:18:35.960 --> 0:18:41.919 So fast forward, my agent gets this email. We want Alicia, 0:18:42.080 --> 0:18:45.960 but we don't know where to place her. And I said, 0:18:46.400 --> 0:18:50.879 please tell them that the boys need a nanny because 0:18:51.000 --> 0:18:51.760 on the bridge. 0:18:51.920 --> 0:18:53.800 I made him on the bridge and they're pining on 0:18:53.920 --> 0:18:54.320 each other. 0:18:54.760 --> 0:19:01.160 Right Hey, he was inta the Podesta Fountain in Central Park. 0:19:01.680 --> 0:19:04.639 Yes, it's so good, yes it was. 0:19:05.200 --> 0:19:09.120 So they was like, we want her, but we don't 0:19:09.160 --> 0:19:10.960 know where the place are. And I said, I told 0:19:11.040 --> 0:19:14.000 my agent tell him the kids don't have a nanny. 0:19:14.520 --> 0:19:17.800 She wouldn't do it. I said, are you kidding me 0:19:17.920 --> 0:19:21.680 right now? Are you? Well? No, let them kind of figure. 0:19:21.359 --> 0:19:24.320 It out and we'll just wait on them to get 0:19:24.480 --> 0:19:27.320 back to us. I said, oh no, oh no, no, no, no, 0:19:27.720 --> 0:19:32.480 it's time to take you know, my hands. I looked 0:19:32.600 --> 0:19:36.560 up mac g. Mac g was the director. Uh huh, 0:19:37.560 --> 0:19:39.000 oh my god, he's amazing. 0:19:39.640 --> 0:19:42.800 So I looked him up and I want him and 0:19:42.920 --> 0:19:46.399 I d m Tim the boy don't have a nanny. 0:19:46.880 --> 0:19:49.760 That's all I did. Next thing, you know, I got 0:19:49.880 --> 0:19:55.359 called in for wardrobe. I went to the studio and 0:19:55.640 --> 0:19:58.920 was in wardrobe. I've been in wardrobe for like an hour. 0:19:59.119 --> 0:20:02.040 All of a sudden, a group of people come, you 0:20:02.160 --> 0:20:02.439 got to. 0:20:02.400 --> 0:20:04.199 Come with us, hurry up, you got to come with us, 0:20:04.280 --> 0:20:06.440 come out, hurry up. And I'm like, well, what's going on? 0:20:06.600 --> 0:20:09.280 What's going on? So they take me to the room 0:20:09.520 --> 0:20:14.600 next door. I sit down. It's a table reading. I 0:20:14.800 --> 0:20:18.159 sit down. I didn't even know what was going on. 0:20:18.800 --> 0:20:21.440 I sit down to the script and I sit down 0:20:21.520 --> 0:20:24.680 to my name one the script and I came in 0:20:24.880 --> 0:20:27.600 right when she comes in, and I just I was like, 0:20:27.720 --> 0:20:28.280 oh my god. 0:20:28.600 --> 0:20:32.399 My agent didn't even tell me. They named her after me. 0:20:33.359 --> 0:20:40.560 Wow, Nanny Alicia, And I was like, look at Jesus, 0:20:40.800 --> 0:20:43.920 Look at Jesus. I mean, you know, that was one 0:20:43.960 --> 0:20:47.320 of those moments where I stepped out all the way 0:20:47.680 --> 0:20:49.040 and then I had to fire my agent. 0:20:49.119 --> 0:20:53.920 Bless her heart, but you know, agents and managers, unfortunately, 0:20:54.040 --> 0:20:56.080 there's a big turnaround in this industry. 0:20:56.640 --> 0:20:59.320 But I liked the fact that you. 0:20:59.520 --> 0:21:04.040 Took your own control of your career and you didn't 0:21:04.080 --> 0:21:06.960 allow fear to or any of that, or even your 0:21:07.080 --> 0:21:11.240 agents taught to stop you from doing what was instinctually 0:21:11.320 --> 0:21:15.560 in you. Because I watched the show because of you. 0:21:15.840 --> 0:21:20.680 You were the comic relief to me. You you that 0:21:20.920 --> 0:21:23.399 chromo And if you guys get a chance to go 0:21:23.560 --> 0:21:28.600 in the archives, they're on the bridge in Central Park. 0:21:28.720 --> 0:21:33.720 It's Vodesta Fountain and these two kids that they're urinating. 0:21:34.160 --> 0:21:41.240 And when I tell you, Alicia, is that Mandy no nonsense. 0:21:41.560 --> 0:21:44.639 It was more of what she did as opposed to 0:21:44.840 --> 0:21:49.600 what she said that was just hilarious and just from 0:21:49.640 --> 0:21:53.240 that problem. I just remember at that time people were 0:21:53.320 --> 0:21:55.840 talking to me about you and I was like, that's Alicia. 0:21:55.880 --> 0:21:58.560 I know, Alicia, but you know, it just felt like 0:21:58.760 --> 0:22:02.879 that gave you so much much more movement to soar 0:22:03.040 --> 0:22:05.840 even more, you know, because after that, I was like, 0:22:06.200 --> 0:22:09.800 you know, she's in la She's like you were all 0:22:09.840 --> 0:22:12.600 over the place as you are currently. So I know 0:22:12.760 --> 0:22:16.240 that we are in this isolation quarantine. We don't know 0:22:17.040 --> 0:22:20.639 what our next move is. How has it been for 0:22:20.800 --> 0:22:24.879 you in terms of you know, getting scripts or you know, 0:22:25.040 --> 0:22:28.359 how is your agent manager moving during this time for you? 0:22:29.200 --> 0:22:30.480 That's the scary part. 0:22:30.760 --> 0:22:35.280 But I have really been, you know, going to work 0:22:35.359 --> 0:22:40.200 during this time. I also want one thing is a 0:22:40.280 --> 0:22:42.399 pet project of mine. I'm also a doula. 0:22:44.119 --> 0:22:48.800 What Yeah, I was a nervous ask that. 0:22:49.119 --> 0:22:51.760 So I'm good okay, okay. 0:22:55.240 --> 0:22:57.680 And Nola and duel and a living hell. 0:23:01.119 --> 0:23:04.520