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 Themez.
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: a casting director that is powerful. Meditation of the day,
Speaker 1: that's it, baby, when you got it, flaunted Mail Brooks,
Speaker 1: Nobody is perfect. My favorite commercial is where Michael Jordans
Speaker 1: slowly gets out of the car and describes his failures
Speaker 1: and how they helped him achieve success. This is a
Speaker 1: great example of how failure is a part of success.
Speaker 1: The important thing that you should remember is that faults
Speaker 1: are okay. It doesn't mean we're bad people. It just
Speaker 1: means we're working on getting better. As I learned to
Speaker 1: recognize my faults, I learned to embrace them and know
Speaker 1: that there is room for improvement. Before we get started,
Speaker 1: I'd like to remind everyone to look out for my
Speaker 1: new show, Inside the Black Box. I'll be co hosting
Speaker 1: with the great Joe Morton. We'll be on Crackle Network
Speaker 1: real soon. I'll keep you posted. Welcome to the Spirit
Speaker 1: Actor Podcast with me Tracy Moore. You are in for
Speaker 1: beyond a treat. It's not even a treat. I last
Speaker 1: night I thought about this introduction, and first I got
Speaker 1: a little emotional, and then I said, I.
Speaker 2: Was just about to say to you, and I'm not
Speaker 2: supposed to interrupt.
Speaker 1: I was like, why am I getting emotional? My side
Speaker 1: hurt because sorry, sorry, Okay, there she is ladies and jealous.
Speaker 1: I just want to say. What I did come up
Speaker 1: with was she is one of my favorite human beings
Speaker 1: on this planet, and two has spent the time with
Speaker 1: her on the road on different projects and then full
Speaker 1: circle come back around is beyond a blessing. So I
Speaker 1: just want to say, ladies, and Jaila was stand up
Speaker 1: and put your hands together for the legendary. I mean,
Speaker 1: I am a professional. Did not mean to to rut
Speaker 1: where I do know who we are.
Speaker 2: Doing a podcast, but I am so excited.
Speaker 1: To be here because we've been talking about trying to
Speaker 1: do this for a while. So I'm so.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm here, and I'm like, why do I have
Speaker 2: actual like little tears in the corner.
Speaker 1: My glasses started to plug up and I started because
Speaker 1: I was like, I got it out this morning. But
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm going to introduce you, just introduce her.
Speaker 1: But you know what eve one day I was, I
Speaker 1: was with one of my assistants, old assistants, and I
Speaker 1: was just talking about like I have the best moments
Speaker 1: with you, the best we have had. Listen, listen many
Speaker 1: many many stories many I had to. I remember there
Speaker 1: was a time when you know, I had a different name,
Speaker 1: and I remember I would leave like every time I
Speaker 1: got the call to you know, we're going to barbershop,
Speaker 1: We're going to Woodsman, right, and I would the setup
Speaker 1: would be Eve has another project, I'm going to have
Speaker 1: to keep it on for it, right, And then I
Speaker 1: get in the car and I'd be like.
Speaker 2: Because we had honestly, we had such a good time.
Speaker 2: You honestly are the person that made me love acting seriously,
Speaker 2: and that is really.
Speaker 1: Real because before you.
Speaker 2: I definitely was like, no, I don't want to act,
Speaker 2: and I don't I don't understand what this is.
Speaker 1: And my first is my very first session with you,
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, okay, like and.
Speaker 2: You opened something up that was just like all right,
Speaker 2: and I think you said to me. I don't know
Speaker 2: if you remember this, but I think you did say
Speaker 2: to me, and it might not be verbatim, but because
Speaker 2: I think I was talking about how at the time,
Speaker 2: Troy obviously really wanted me to get into acting and
Speaker 2: I was just and you were.
Speaker 1: Like uh, And I was like, well, I'm not really
Speaker 1: into it.
Speaker 2: I don't know anything about it, and you were like, well,
Speaker 2: you know, when you do videos, that's kind of like
Speaker 2: you're telling a story.
Speaker 1: And I was like, duh, I remember what I said
Speaker 1: that to you? Because I was working with so many men.
Speaker 1: At the time, I was really on us with Buster
Speaker 1: and then like a bunch of rapper.
Speaker 2: Mail and yeah exactly, yeah, yeah, yeah, no, and I
Speaker 2: love blind.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yep, And that just tugged at my heart
Speaker 1: strings and I was like, she needs to act and
Speaker 1: I swear on everything because Ayana, my assistant, was with me.
Speaker 1: Three days later, Tory Carter calls me and he's like,
Speaker 1: I want to introduce you, Eve, and I'm like, what
Speaker 1: love is blindy? Because your performance in there, then that's
Speaker 1: that video was drivening to me. And if you can
Speaker 1: channel those type of emotions in a video, which I
Speaker 1: think is like a small short film, yeah, let's get
Speaker 1: a script. And I have to say this, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 1: Worked on her craft first, yes, or she auditioned for anything? Yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: you make that decision.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because I feel like I do respect the craft
Speaker 2: of acting and I do know that there are you know, actors,
Speaker 2: people who have wanted to act since they were babies
Speaker 2: and have gone through all the training and going.
Speaker 1: To the schools and take classes all the time.
Speaker 2: And I never wanted to be I never wanted to
Speaker 2: just show up and be like oh yeah, you know,
Speaker 2: especially at that time, my time in my career, I
Speaker 2: was getting a lot of things sent to me. But
Speaker 2: I never wanted to be that person that showed up
Speaker 2: on set like just because I could, just because they
Speaker 2: offered me the job doesn't mean I actually do the job.
Speaker 2: So I wanted to really, you know, really study. And
Speaker 2: until this day, I still get super nervous. I'm still
Speaker 2: nervous on sets. I get so nervous because I never
Speaker 2: want to be the person I don't want to be
Speaker 2: the fuck up?
Speaker 1: Can I say? Can you curse? You can? Oh? Thank you?
Speaker 1: Thank you? Well, that's because for me, you took the
Speaker 1: craft so seriously and you did the work, and you
Speaker 1: really worked on your craft, and you wanted to have
Speaker 1: that comfort. You also had. The other side to you
Speaker 1: was the business woman that I saw evolving, and I
Speaker 1: was like, she's going to produce, She's gonna produce. Yes,
Speaker 1: you always said that to me, and I you know,
Speaker 1: the way I look at.
Speaker 2: Stuff now, I'm I'm still I want to I hope
Speaker 2: and hope. I'm sure it'll happen at some point when
Speaker 2: it's right. It is to find it a right project,
Speaker 2: Yeah it.
Speaker 1: Is, and it's going to be you know, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be your like respect, you know, I feel like it's
Speaker 1: portraying someone. That's what I feel, you know, that's what
Speaker 1: I feel like I do because one of one of
Speaker 1: my moments was in barbershop when you had to go
Speaker 1: up for the well, let me tell, let me see
Speaker 1: if you remember this, because this was crazy. You had
Speaker 1: a callback in LA, but I wasn't with you. I
Speaker 1: was on Fifth Avenue in thirty fourth Street, rush hour
Speaker 1: on a payphone talking to you, yes, coaching you on
Speaker 1: the phone, and I was just like, oh, dear God God.
Speaker 1: And then you got a call back, another callback, and
Speaker 1: we were both in LA. But when we walked in
Speaker 1: that room, Eve, everybody in your age range who had
Speaker 1: been on TV or starting in films was in that room. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was right, Yes, that is hardcore. That is hardcore.
Speaker 2: I still that process of going Yeah, I remember that.
Speaker 1: It was literally like everyone and literally they.
Speaker 2: Had gone out to all the people, all the girls, right,
Speaker 2: like all of them.
Speaker 1: It's so true. But the thing that's great, and like
Speaker 1: you guys don't know this from the casting perspective, but
Speaker 1: everybody in that room you have that idea of this
Speaker 1: is who I'm competing against or they were on this
Speaker 1: series or whatever, and then you realize you know that
Speaker 1: room as a casting director. Not everybody comes in shining.
Speaker 1: Not everybody is great. And I felt like you wanted
Speaker 1: this role. I felt I wanted it at own Terry,
Speaker 1: what was when? And this is another like it was
Speaker 1: a boys club in a sense, but what was the experience?
Speaker 1: Because I do Barbarshaw, Oh my god, you know what?
Speaker 2: Yes, one, I have to say, I fell in love
Speaker 2: with Terry. It was the first time I think I
Speaker 2: read a script really, even though I had done my
Speaker 2: TV show before, but this was different, Like it was
Speaker 2: the first time I read a script and I was like,
Speaker 2: I know this girl, like I know her, I know
Speaker 2: this girl, I can do this. I know I could
Speaker 2: do it. And thankfully, yes, I did get the role.
Speaker 2: And I was saying I was definitely intimidating. I think
Speaker 2: I was right most intimidated by Bye c Man c.
Speaker 1: Yo.
Speaker 2: His so intimidating, but once you get to know him
Speaker 2: one he is literally the nicest.
Speaker 1: He gave me so much cool advice, like but I
Speaker 1: think also be coming from rough.
Speaker 2: Riders definitely prepared me to be around all them dudes.
Speaker 1: That was like Okay, yeah, I know what this is like.
Speaker 2: But as far as the acting part of it was,
Speaker 2: it was scary, but I had you, so it was great,
Speaker 2: like seriously because you was to be behind that confidence
Speaker 2: like you you always help me find that confidence and
Speaker 2: knowing like no, you got this, like you really, like
Speaker 2: for real, like you got this.
Speaker 1: So that always always helped me well because I think
Speaker 1: that I always have this idea in my head that
Speaker 1: when you excel in one entity, all you need is
Speaker 1: like the foundation and like you know, the protocol and verbage,
Speaker 1: and then you're gonna because you have the talent, you're
Speaker 1: going to sore. And for me, I love Barbishop one,
Speaker 1: Barbishop two was great coming back to like this reunion
Speaker 1: huge cast. Yeah, but when you did Woodspan, oh my god,
Speaker 1: I was so scared. I was so scared.
Speaker 2: That was another one that was like how am I
Speaker 2: sitting across the table from Kevin Bacon.
Speaker 1: Like how how is this my life right now?
Speaker 2: And I remember to this day and I've said this
Speaker 2: to him before I had the chance to say this
Speaker 2: to him. Every time they called action, his his pupils dilated.
Speaker 2: Like me, it was like he went straight in and
Speaker 2: so we could be literally busting it up in between
Speaker 2: takes and as soon as the action was called, he
Speaker 2: was there and it was like, wow, that's amazing.
Speaker 1: That was something I was just learning and he was amazing.
Speaker 1: And he's from Philly, so it was cool.
Speaker 2: And we got to do it in Philly and it
Speaker 2: was like, yeah, that was that was incredible, But it
Speaker 2: was that was a scary, scary scar It was I mean,
Speaker 2: I'm always scared. I always scared, but that fear pushes
Speaker 2: you into it and you do it anyway and then
Speaker 2: it just what What was was great for me on
Speaker 2: Woodsman is that we were experimenting with wigs.
Speaker 1: Because we were talking about, remember, you should have a
Speaker 1: different look so that people don't even recognize you. And
Speaker 1: it's not until the credits come up. And when I
Speaker 1: saw Woodsman, I was around a group of people that
Speaker 1: I didn't know, but I could hear them like is
Speaker 1: that Eve? Is that? Oh? Yes? I ran before jet.
Speaker 2: That was a transformation. I was still that wig always
Speaker 2: run reminded me of my aunt Karen.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I said that then, but it's like,
Speaker 1: this is not that Karen right now, Like yes, but
Speaker 1: that was her for sure. Yeah, And It's little things
Speaker 1: like that, a costume, a prop or something that just
Speaker 1: makes an adjustment like that in the scene. I want
Speaker 1: to get to two more things because I definitely want
Speaker 1: to talk about Queens. I can't. I can't stopped turning
Speaker 1: up the TV with Queens host. However, your television show,
Speaker 1: Eve Man, I worked on the pilot, and I have
Speaker 1: to say the most challenging thing besides childbirths was having
Speaker 1: to tell Eve that I was not going to be
Speaker 1: a part of the show. Yeah. And I just remember
Speaker 1: when when we were like and I was like, who
Speaker 1: you like, Tasey, what's wrong? Oh? Lord lord? And I
Speaker 1: was like, nothing, woo, you got a series. And I
Speaker 1: literally had a cramp in my neck, went to the
Speaker 1: doctor and they said stress kills. Whatever you're stressing about,
Speaker 1: you need to talk about it. And that's when I
Speaker 1: had to talk to you and Troy. But had an
Speaker 1: amazing time working with you and Stanley and the whole cast.
Speaker 1: It was impressible, was the series. Man. So from film
Speaker 1: Now jumping into this tight schedule Monday through Friday rehearsal,
Speaker 1: blocking live audience, Yeah, what was actuallyransitioning like for you? Hard?
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie. It was I ain't even gonna lie.
Speaker 1: I can't eat a sugarcoat it, you know what?
Speaker 2: Because I had been on the road for so long, right,
Speaker 2: and when I had gotten the show, I was so excited.
Speaker 1: Of course I was really excited.
Speaker 2: That was another thing which I'm happy Troy talked me into,
Speaker 2: not really talked me into. I was ready for it,
Speaker 2: but you were the transition of going from being on
Speaker 2: the road kind of doing my thing whatever it is
Speaker 2: I wanted to that it became to me and.
Speaker 1: Ant it was monotonous.
Speaker 2: It was getting up at the same time, getting in
Speaker 2: the car, driving the same way, parking in the same spot.
Speaker 1: I was also the youngest at the time.
Speaker 2: Everybody was either just getting married, just having their first kid,
Speaker 2: buying their first house. Like it's settling in a way
Speaker 2: that I just wasn't there yet. I still was like
Speaker 2: that first season, I was still trying to go to
Speaker 2: the club and then make it for table reads, like
Speaker 2: getting it at floor, trying to get the table reads
Speaker 2: at nine on Fridays, like I do not recommend this
Speaker 2: because it does not work me either, Yeah, I do not.
Speaker 1: It does not work.
Speaker 2: But trying to figure out how do I keep some
Speaker 2: semblance of what I knew and what I was going into.
Speaker 2: It wasn't probably until the second or THURSD season, once
Speaker 2: we had really become a family, really because we did,
Speaker 2: and once we had like found that group, and I
Speaker 2: even found that that sweet spot of like, oh man,
Speaker 2: this is actually really nice.
Speaker 1: It's an anchor.
Speaker 2: I don't have to pack a bag and be on
Speaker 2: a bus or on a plane. And that's when I
Speaker 2: think it was too late. And it's one of the
Speaker 2: things I've said before. I do I don't believe in regrets.
Speaker 2: But if I could have a do over to a
Speaker 2: certain extent, I would have taken.
Speaker 1: It a little more seriously.
Speaker 2: I would have understood the seriousness quicker, if that means right.
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna tell you. I'm gonna tell you what
Speaker 1: you did understand, Son, you understood co executive producer credit
Speaker 1: Son Song. I did understand that. I did understand that.
Speaker 2: I was just like, yeah, I did understand that, Yes,
Speaker 2: that was nice, that was nice.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 1: And I learned a lot. I learned a lot. I
Speaker 1: learned about myself, about being being an actor, like being
Speaker 1: in an ensemble. I learned a lot. And I learned
Speaker 1: I learned that.
Speaker 2: I mean, comedy is hard, man, it's not easy, challenging,
Speaker 2: it's not it's not easy.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, I remember your agent during the pilots said
Speaker 1: that if you want a nine to five, do you
Speaker 1: do television. If you want you know that freedom, you
Speaker 1: do film. And so I felt like, Okay, now you're
Speaker 1: finally going to be settled in your place and this.
Speaker 1: But that's the thing that was challenging for me because
Speaker 1: I felt like at the time, I was on the
Speaker 1: road with um Buster at the same time, and so
Speaker 1: I felt like, you know what, I encourage you guys
Speaker 1: to follow your dreams. And I wanted to direct, and
Speaker 1: I had some opportunity to do this play and I
Speaker 1: was like, I just you know, but it killed me.
Speaker 1: Killed it killed it. I know, I know. When I
Speaker 1: got the phone call, they were like, Tassy, would you
Speaker 1: like to recommend another acting coach who for you?
Speaker 3: I was like, a.
Speaker 1: People, I don't want the show to be mad, but
Speaker 1: I was so proud of you. You would watch that
Speaker 1: show and be like yo, like you could you could.
Speaker 1: For me, I saw when you found your sweet spot.
Speaker 1: I saw when you finally happened.
Speaker 2: At some point, it finally happened because it was. You
Speaker 2: know what's funny too about you know, you know how
Speaker 2: it is there's so many people on the set.
Speaker 1: That writers as well as you're doing.
Speaker 2: It, and if something doesn't land and they go in
Speaker 2: and rewrite, that kind of stuff is so intimidating but
Speaker 2: also amazing, also amazing once you learn that, like, okay,
Speaker 2: you know what, I can't even think about it.
Speaker 1: I just got to shift and do it. It was,
Speaker 1: it was, it was. It was a cool It was
Speaker 1: a cool experience, definitely. I just remember because Bumper was
Speaker 1: the first boyfriend and then and then I'm so sorry,
Speaker 1: and then Jason came in. But the thing is that
Speaker 1: what was so amazing was the fact that, like there
Speaker 1: was this connection with the two of you guys in
Speaker 1: the beginning, and then you never lost that connection when
Speaker 1: Jason George came on, which was so great, Like you
Speaker 1: stay within that energy. Yes, and and and it's grueling.
Speaker 1: The schedule is grueling because like you said, I mean,
Speaker 1: you have a dual career. You're a kee and when
Speaker 1: you got off the set you were eve. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: people wanted to see you at the Mandren or you know,
Speaker 1: out So I understand that I when I found out
Speaker 1: that you were doing the talk I thought that that
Speaker 1: was such a great transition, Like I don't think initially
Speaker 1: people understood like, well, you're an actress, why are you
Speaker 1: doing a talk show? I thought it was a brilliant decision.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 1: It was, you know what it was.
Speaker 2: It was one of those things that kind of happened
Speaker 2: out of nowhere as well, because right before I got
Speaker 2: the call for it, I had said to my agents, like,
Speaker 2: I just I want to do something that's a different
Speaker 2: platform that that shows me.
Speaker 1: As an adult, like as a woman. Now that's not
Speaker 1: just my music or acting or you know.
Speaker 2: And in this I mean, it was months before this
Speaker 2: came up, and I was living in London full time,
Speaker 2: really really living, which I am now still. I go
Speaker 2: back and forth. But when they called me, they were like,
Speaker 2: you're probably not going to do it because it's in
Speaker 2: LA and you'd have to be either moved back to
Speaker 2: LA or go back and forth.
Speaker 1: And I was like, you know what, let me just
Speaker 1: try it. If I hate it or if they hate me.
Speaker 2: That's fine, because you know, they kind of just tested us.
Speaker 1: Out for like a week or whatever.
Speaker 2: So I was like, listen, if I suck, I sucked
Speaker 2: and I never have to come back. But then I
Speaker 2: got home and I had a feeling. I was like,
Speaker 2: I said to my husband, like, Babe, what if this
Speaker 2: actually happens? And he was like, well, let's talk about
Speaker 2: it when it happens. And the next day, the next day,
Speaker 2: we got the call like, so, would.
Speaker 1: You be willing to come? And I was like, you
Speaker 1: know what, Yeah, let's try it. And I mean, I
Speaker 1: flew back.
Speaker 2: For three years, I was flying back and forth to
Speaker 2: London to la which was us. But I'm so happy
Speaker 2: that I had a chance to do it because that's
Speaker 2: another I grew again as a person, as a woman.
Speaker 2: You know, those ladies regardless of and it sucks to
Speaker 2: see what's happening with everything right now, but those ladies
Speaker 2: really were for real, genuine when they put their hearts
Speaker 2: on the table, when they talked about the things that
Speaker 2: were going on in their lives.
Speaker 1: I had to show up, and there.
Speaker 2: Was a lot of things that I said that came
Speaker 2: out of me that I'd never talked about before. But
Speaker 2: I feel like I've healed some stuff because of being
Speaker 2: on that show, which is weird because it's a freaking
Speaker 2: talk show. But but yeah, I'm happy I had the experience.
Speaker 2: I'm very thankful for that experience. Yeah, I am too.
Speaker 2: Like you said, you know, it's great when you do well.
Speaker 1: It's like, you know, when you did Barbershop, you you know,
Speaker 1: there's a certain uh you know, I don't want to
Speaker 1: say like certain certain casting directors want to keep you
Speaker 1: in a certain mold. Yes, But when you did Woodsman,
Speaker 1: I thought that was the beginning of broadening you because
Speaker 1: as an artist, you're abroad artists, and so I wanted
Speaker 1: to see the same thing for your artistry as an actress.
Speaker 1: And I just felt like it was grounding and the
Speaker 1: things that you shared, the healing those type of shows,
Speaker 1: there is a healing effect to it, you know, because
Speaker 1: even though, for instance, if it's like the Me Too movement,
Speaker 1: a lot of women don't talk about their experiences, but
Speaker 1: because women have come forward, it's allowed other women a
Speaker 1: platform and to be able to heal. So that's what
Speaker 1: I felt like. I just thought, that's such a brilliant, brilliant,
Speaker 1: brilliant move to you. And then we come present day
Speaker 1: to Abcit lot people ain't ready for this shows. It's
Speaker 1: crazy in the best way.
Speaker 2: It's the first of all the music, it's Swiss Beats,
Speaker 2: so the oh yeah.
Speaker 1: He's executive. Oh yeah, he's the executive music producer. So
Speaker 1: the music already bananas.
Speaker 2: But even beyond the music, the storylines of these women,
Speaker 2: these four women, and you know, because we've worked on
Speaker 2: the script, they're really intricate and they're really real. They
Speaker 2: these girls are separately excuse me, going through their own things,
Speaker 2: but there's stuff there that every person will be able
Speaker 2: to relate to. But then also it's dope, because I mean,
Speaker 2: I come from this era like this. You know, this
Speaker 2: comperence is about this group of girls who are group
Speaker 2: of women who were the shit in the nineties and
Speaker 2: two thousands, and they were the biggest girl group ever.
Speaker 1: And they have a blow up and break up, and.
Speaker 2: You kind of see them now in their lives, coming
Speaker 2: back to friendship, coming back to who they are separately
Speaker 2: as women in those you know, my name's professor sex, Like,
Speaker 2: I'm trying to find that back.
Speaker 1: I got five kids, i'd have.
Speaker 2: Been married, and I kind of forgot about I forgot about,
Speaker 2: not even forgot about.
Speaker 1: So I'm happy in my.
Speaker 2: Life now, so like you, but you find her trying
Speaker 2: to get back to that fierceness of her faster sex,
Speaker 2: and that's what all the women are going through.
Speaker 1: It's it's honestly, it's so.
Speaker 2: Funny and dramatic and the music is crazy, Our outfits
Speaker 2: are amazing.
Speaker 1: It's so much there. People are gonna love it. So
Speaker 1: how now you know? It's one thing right like when
Speaker 1: Braco did Escape that series and those girls you know
Speaker 1: they've been together forever. That was it with you and
Speaker 1: the girl you know, Notori non Brandy Macy. How is
Speaker 1: it all for you guys to come together and actually
Speaker 1: form that a group.
Speaker 2: It's it, honestly, weirdly, seriously, our first dance for her,
Speaker 2: so we were like, oh my god. We really know
Speaker 2: each other mostly myself Brandy and they first in the
Speaker 2: sense that you know, we know of each other because
Speaker 2: of careers. We've passed each other for years, and Notory
Speaker 2: and I actually did the TRL tour when she was in.
Speaker 1: Real w together.
Speaker 2: Brandy and I obviously passed each other for years, and
Speaker 2: obviously we all have love and respect for each other
Speaker 2: as craft you know from from our craft, but as women.
Speaker 1: With Nadine, it was an instant fit as well.
Speaker 2: And Nadine, I have to say, I have to give
Speaker 2: her props because she has never danced, rapped, sang ever
Speaker 2: ever in her life, and she is killing it like
Speaker 2: she really and if it was like I would be
Speaker 2: so intimidating to.
Speaker 1: Be like with these three women.
Speaker 2: She brings it so hard and weirdly, it works amazingly.
Speaker 2: I won't say, I mean amazingly it works. And we
Speaker 2: really do have moments.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie. We have.
Speaker 2: We have real serious moments when we're like, wait a minute, y'all,
Speaker 2: why we acting like we're really in a group.
Speaker 1: Like like it commits should just be like do we
Speaker 1: should we have a meeting? Should we have a meeting?
Speaker 1: Should we talk? It's like, wait, what's happening?
Speaker 2: But it's really nice because you know, it could could
Speaker 2: have gone on a whole different way, and thank god
Speaker 2: that we really do have an actual like we have
Speaker 2: actual chemistry.
Speaker 1: Definitely, if I were to say, right, like, the most
Speaker 1: anticipated show of twenty twenty one on TV is Queen's.
Speaker 1: If I don't hear it in my Instagram, people call me.
Speaker 1: There's a new trailer out now. People in Holly woar
Speaker 1: and kudos to director Tim's story. Tim's story, I know
Speaker 1: it's so crazy.
Speaker 2: When I think about that, like when you think about
Speaker 2: my first barbershop, like when you think about you know,
Speaker 2: just even with you and tim story coming back to this, well,
Speaker 2: it's just crazy, Like it's amazing. It's honestly amazing, and
Speaker 2: I really do think people are going to.
Speaker 1: Be blown away, and really really blown away. Seriously. I
Speaker 1: just have to give a shout out to Kiyata Dancy
Speaker 1: because because Kiyata was like, Tracy Eve, it's looking for you.
Speaker 1: It's the streets like that. I was like, the streets.
Speaker 1: She's so funny, like you, I was trying to track
Speaker 1: you down. I was like, you should, Yes, he's looking
Speaker 1: for Tracy. I was like yes, yes. I was like
Speaker 1: so happy. I was like you you haven't a police
Speaker 1: and me a number. Yeah. I got to see and
Speaker 1: I've been trying to see Kanada. The schedule is so crazy.
Speaker 2: I'm like, girl, I swear to god, it's and it's
Speaker 2: not like she can come on the set right.
Speaker 1: And it sucks. I'm like, I'm sad. I wish people could,
Speaker 1: like I really do wish people could come.
Speaker 2: And just hang out and but you know, right now,
Speaker 2: it's just it's a challenging time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I mean blow sprinkled us that we can
Speaker 1: get through it. Well, I'm gonna tell you, Eve, twenty
Speaker 1: eight minutes is gone. You have three minutes. I told
Speaker 1: you it was gonna go by fast. You got three
Speaker 1: minutes to drop some jewels. I always ask my guests,
Speaker 1: whatever you want to give our audience of actors who
Speaker 1: are inspired and motivated by you, I'm giving you the mic.
Speaker 2: I mean, honestly, I would say, always, always, always work
Speaker 2: on your craft. I think never please walk into anything
Speaker 2: blindly or cocky or arrogant. While you might be talented,
Speaker 2: you could always like polish it. And that's what you
Speaker 2: did for me, Tracy, and always do for me, and
Speaker 2: always like please find that person people class, whatever it is,
Speaker 2: it can only help you get further and also believe it,
Speaker 2: believe in yourself because you got it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm would just say, like in my lifetime, I'm
Speaker 1: so grateful for all my experiences, but I had the
Speaker 1: best time in my life and continue and feel blessed
Speaker 1: with you. Yeah, Eve moments, That's all I'm gonna say. Like,
Speaker 1: just you are phenomenal and every time like when people
Speaker 1: say how does the work with Eve? Also that gets
Speaker 1: something by throw what if that come?
Speaker 3: But because it's funny, how emotional, it gets emotional.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree, I feel exactly the same. It gets emotional. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I have mad, mad love, respect and just constantly blowing
Speaker 1: sprinkle dusts on you and your life and thank you.
Speaker 1: Just continue inspiring us and showing us your work, because
Speaker 1: we are all gonna be on September twenty first, no
Speaker 1: October October nineteen.
Speaker 2: Well we need to figure that out because it's yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: all right, well you need to you need to let
Speaker 2: me know to day, let you know.
Speaker 1: I'll let you know. Yeah, because thank you?
Speaker 2: All right, wit flip flopped, So okay, Well I.
Speaker 1: Want everybody once to get get up, get up and
Speaker 1: put your hands together. Put your hands together for me,
Speaker 1: legendary Eve, yessy, and listen, Eve, It's gonna bless us,
Speaker 1: So don't leave. We'll be back with the Spirit Actor
Speaker 1: Podcast with me Tracy Moore for Class in Session. Welcome
Speaker 1: back to the Spirited Actor Podcast with me Tracy Moore.
Speaker 1: You are still blessed. We still have Eve here and
Speaker 1: we're going to do class in session. And you know
Speaker 1: this class in session is when we have Spirit Actor
Speaker 1: alumnis read for our guests and whatever jewels or feedback
Speaker 1: or construct criticism that you want to offer to them. Perfect.
Speaker 1: So today we have our spirit actor alumni, Julisa Capri Hey,
Speaker 1: and we have Julius Griese. Hey. Everyone, So Elsa is
Speaker 1: going to read the stage direction. And this was written
Speaker 1: by our spirit actor alumni. OG shout out to Lianne Almada.
Speaker 1: All right, so you guys ready, sure? Okay?
Speaker 4: On action quota written by Lea Amato. Exterior Josh's Porch
Speaker 4: Day the sun is shining. Josh eighteen is sitting in
Speaker 4: on his front porch admiring a YouTube video as he
Speaker 4: waves goodbye to his big bro who's pulling away. A
Speaker 4: moment later, Tonise twenty six pops up from behind him
Speaker 4: and slaps him upside his head.
Speaker 1: Would you do that for? You're gonna let your brother
Speaker 1: pull up and pull away with another woman? What are
Speaker 1: you talking about? I saw it. I know know what
Speaker 1: your brother thinks. He gets so cute.
Speaker 3: I mean he did a boomerang with his dumbass sneakers wiggling,
Speaker 3: and I noticed a new call on the street, so
Speaker 3: I took a screenshot of that bitch zoomed in got
Speaker 3: the plate number call my connect ran the plate and boom.
Speaker 4: He jumped from her vibrant storytelling skills. As she lands
Speaker 4: on Boom.
Speaker 1: It's that hole from Terrence Bark. Don't play with me, Josh.
Speaker 3: Tell me that he just left with her, because I
Speaker 3: saw that shit with my own eyes.
Speaker 1: Tea, I really don't know what you're talking about. He
Speaker 1: said he was on his way to a gig. A gig.
Speaker 1: Now we both know damn well that that boy ain't
Speaker 1: got no job.
Speaker 4: He pass, trying to conjure up her.
Speaker 1: Next.
Speaker 3: Okay, so you need to tell me that your brother's
Speaker 3: just left here all by herself.
Speaker 4: Okay, She snaps and over to him on I just need.
Speaker 1: You to tell me. Look what your brother. It is
Speaker 1: all about the evidence. I got nothing for you. But
Speaker 1: if you don't trust him, maybe you should just leave him.
Speaker 1: He tries, Okay, like you were missing the whole damn boy.
Speaker 4: Okay, Okay, he's beside himself and gives up. He throws
Speaker 4: into town.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm gonna go, but don't let me find out
Speaker 3: that she was a part of this when I get back.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 4: She shake munches at him. Mid sentence to my pressure,
Speaker 4: he jumps and watches her walk off the porch and
Speaker 4: around to the back of the house. Where is she going?
Speaker 4: She yells from afar, like nothing had happened.
Speaker 1: By Josh, scene could tell you, guys, okay, whatever you
Speaker 1: want to get them so into it, I'm like, yes,
Speaker 1: where did he go? And where is he? Hey? Do
Speaker 1: you know Josh for real? You is you lying for
Speaker 1: your brother? I seriously, I was so into it, she believed. Really.
Speaker 2: I was like, yes, Josh, I don't know though, you're
Speaker 2: probably lying for your brother. Hey, Brod, No, honestly, I
Speaker 2: really I was into it.
Speaker 1: From the start. I don't really have nothing to say.
Speaker 1: It was good. It's juicy, like I want to hear more,
Speaker 1: like I need to know what happens. Well, we have
Speaker 1: to let lean know so she could write the rest
Speaker 1: of the story. But yeah, Leanne is she does a
Speaker 1: great job with the writing. And I'm so happy for
Speaker 1: the actors. You can't get any feedback, so that's good.
Speaker 1: She enjoyed it and she believed. Yes, Thank you, Thank
Speaker 1: you so much, Thank you guys and Eve. Once again,
Speaker 1: I gotta stay by now bye, but thank you, thank
Speaker 1: you for having me this. Thank you so much for
Speaker 1: taking out a time out because I know you're busy.
Speaker 1: I know you're working on the show and you guys,
Speaker 1: we have a date. Yes, we have a date. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: Octobly nineteen nineteen. Yes, yes, yes, and we will all
Speaker 1: be tuning in and I'm just excited for you, mad
Speaker 1: love love me always, yes always, sister man. So I'll
Speaker 1: see you soon. Yes, thank you again, ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 1: put together the crew stand up for me. Thank you.
Speaker 1: I like that one. Thank you so much. And we
Speaker 1: will be back on the Spirited Action Podcast with me
Speaker 1: Tracy Moore, and I'm going to give you love. Today's
Speaker 1: give love Building Confidence. So I always wanted to learn
Speaker 1: how to swim, except I was terrified of the water.
Speaker 1: What had happened was I got pushed in the water
Speaker 1: at a summer camp and that traumatized me for the
Speaker 1: rest of my life. So I had joined the YMCA
Speaker 1: and I was in the Senior citizens class of the
Speaker 1: aerobics because I was afraid to do anything else. And
Speaker 1: one day I was talking to the instructor and I said,
Speaker 1: you know, I really want to learn how to swim.
Speaker 1: And he said, okay, Tracy, I'll teach you. And I said, okay,
Speaker 1: and he said put your head in the water right now.
Speaker 1: And I was like, I didn't mean right now, and
Speaker 1: he said put your head in the water, and I
Speaker 1: ducked my head in the water. I was terrified, but
Speaker 1: I trusted him. He was a retired fireman and we
Speaker 1: called him Coach, and Coach Richard taught me how to
Speaker 1: swim from three feet to eleven feet and encourage me
Speaker 1: to join the Senior Citizens. I wasn't a Senior Citizen
Speaker 1: at the time, but join their team. And every year
Speaker 1: they would sponsor the kids for the summer camp, and
Speaker 1: so you would go out and you would get pledges
Speaker 1: and from your friends. And my first year, I swam
Speaker 1: seventy laps in an hour, and my son was in
Speaker 1: the stands and my daughter was in the stands, and
Speaker 1: they were cheering me on. And I remember saying to myself,
Speaker 1: I was terrified. I couldn't believe that I had swam
Speaker 1: those mini laps, and I wasn't afraid to let go
Speaker 1: of the ledge. But what I walked away with was
Speaker 1: power in knowing that I could accomplish anything if I
Speaker 1: put my mind to it, and even if I was afraid,
Speaker 1: I was going to do it. Anyway, and I did it,
Speaker 1: and I walked out of that pool, and I was like, hmm,
Speaker 1: maybe I could skydive now, maybe I could climb a mountain,
Speaker 1: maybe I could run a race. Whatever it was. By
Speaker 1: confidence level had soared because I saw myself go from
Speaker 1: senior citizens water aerobics to Michael Phelps seventy laps. Effortlessly,
Speaker 1: build your confidence and see yourself grow. Don't forget to
Speaker 1: look out for us on our new show, Inside the
Speaker 1: black Box. My co host will be Joe the Legend Morton.
Speaker 1: It's going to be the Spirited Actor Podcast on Steroids.
Speaker 1: 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. Thank you,