WEBVTT - The Voice of Amy Landecker 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:04.280 Hi, Christie, Hey will, how are you? I'm so good? 0:00:04.800 --> 0:00:07.760 Are you centered? You seem centered? I'm glad because you 0:00:07.760 --> 0:00:09.640 don't have a green screen behind me, and we can 0:00:09.680 --> 0:00:11.920 do anything with us that we want. We could animate 0:00:12.000 --> 0:00:14.720 this background. I think we could. I like I like 0:00:14.760 --> 0:00:17.120 the inflection too. We can animate this background, which is 0:00:17.200 --> 0:00:20.000 different than animating the background, which is don't anna hate, Okay, 0:00:20.239 --> 0:00:22.640 don't anna hate on the green series? I think so. 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:24.600 But hit us up at all of our different socials, 0:00:24.640 --> 0:00:26.560 which again I don't know the addresses. I don't know 0:00:26.600 --> 0:00:29.560 social media stuff. Where what is our social stuff? It's 0:00:29.600 --> 0:00:34.159 just I hear voices, podcasts and talk. Yeah, so hit 0:00:34.240 --> 0:00:37.680 us up and let us know, um respectfully. Please what 0:00:37.880 --> 0:00:41.680 we should have on the green screen behind Christie. I 0:00:41.720 --> 0:00:43.920 think that would be great. I have a green screen 0:00:43.960 --> 0:00:45.680 as well. I always make mine look like the same 0:00:45.680 --> 0:00:50.320 booth with books in the back. Just consistency is all. Yeah, 0:00:50.440 --> 0:00:51.680 that's the best way to do it. How are you 0:00:51.680 --> 0:00:54.480 doing good? How are you? I'm good? I feel like 0:00:54.720 --> 0:00:58.680 I feel like it's really lame because we went from 0:00:58.680 --> 0:01:01.480 going to comic constant other like week after week for 0:01:01.520 --> 0:01:04.679 a good two months, and then it's now now we don't. 0:01:04.800 --> 0:01:07.240 We don't talk, we don't write, We just podcast. I 0:01:07.319 --> 0:01:13.760 know it's the best, isn't it. It's no, I like you. 0:01:11.000 --> 0:01:16.959 I did get I did get feedback from another podcast 0:01:17.000 --> 0:01:19.200 that like, um, well, my other podcast, and they were 0:01:19.240 --> 0:01:21.960 like they were like, oh, so you're like a theater 0:01:22.080 --> 0:01:24.680 kid and I was like, well, yeah, what else? Yeah, 0:01:25.120 --> 0:01:27.199 as opposed to what I don't get what that means. 0:01:27.280 --> 0:01:31.200 Oh man, we had a great show last week, um 0:01:31.680 --> 0:01:37.039 Dietrich Bader. Yeah, how good was There are so many 0:01:37.120 --> 0:01:41.720 like life lessony things, but specifically in the life of 0:01:41.720 --> 0:01:44.800 an entertainer and an actor that we're so helpful, uh 0:01:44.880 --> 0:01:48.360 that we're really pretty amazing. So uh yeah, we we've 0:01:48.920 --> 0:01:51.760 talked about and it's so funny because it seems like 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:55.960 it's so um, I don't know, it's it seems like 0:01:56.000 --> 0:01:58.880 it is so kind of like a self promoting when 0:01:59.000 --> 0:02:02.720 we have talked about our amazing, incredible contest that is 0:02:02.720 --> 0:02:05.400 coming up, the super awesome contest to become the next 0:02:05.480 --> 0:02:09.320 big Voice actor. Um, I can say I didn't even 0:02:09.320 --> 0:02:13.200 look it up. Now, I didn't write it down. But 0:02:13.320 --> 0:02:15.680 one of the things you said, which is absolutely true, 0:02:15.680 --> 0:02:17.880 which is one of the best ways to prepare for 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:19.880 the super awesome contest to become the next big voice 0:02:19.880 --> 0:02:22.960 actor is to go back and watch some of our 0:02:23.000 --> 0:02:25.160 old episodes. And again it sounds like we're kind of 0:02:25.200 --> 0:02:29.960 promoting ourselves, but some most, if not all, of the 0:02:29.960 --> 0:02:33.280 actors that we've had on have the greatest advice, the 0:02:33.320 --> 0:02:36.640 greatest different kind of exercises you can use. I mean, again, 0:02:36.639 --> 0:02:40.000 you're talking about Dietrich and just his advice on being 0:02:40.040 --> 0:02:42.440 an actor, putting yourself into it. I was mesmerized. I'm 0:02:42.440 --> 0:02:44.960 not gonna lie. I woke up that warning feeling a 0:02:45.000 --> 0:02:47.720 little disillusioned with some parts of the industry, and you 0:02:47.760 --> 0:02:49.400 always get as an actor. You always kind of go 0:02:49.440 --> 0:02:51.799 through these different things. And after we talked to him, 0:02:51.800 --> 0:02:54.280 I was like, I'm in the best business in the world. 0:02:54.360 --> 0:02:56.640 Like he just made you feel good. You know, it 0:02:56.720 --> 0:03:00.440 was great, he really did. He honestly, he was a 0:03:00.480 --> 0:03:04.520 really wonderful person with a great worldview. In my opinion, 0:03:04.680 --> 0:03:08.160 I think our business can make people jaded sometimes, but 0:03:08.200 --> 0:03:10.640 the good thing about the community of voice actors is 0:03:10.680 --> 0:03:13.799 that they are so lighthearted and they love what they do. 0:03:14.080 --> 0:03:16.600 And I mean, I don't know, I mean, I think 0:03:16.600 --> 0:03:19.080 our contest is amazing you know how many people come 0:03:19.160 --> 0:03:21.679 up to us anytime we're at a comic connor like, 0:03:21.720 --> 0:03:24.160 how can I break into this industry? And I mean, 0:03:24.200 --> 0:03:25.960 if you're gonna be famous, you might as well be 0:03:26.000 --> 0:03:30.160 famous doing something where all the people around you were happy. Yeah. 0:03:30.200 --> 0:03:32.120 I love that too. Plus I just love there's it's 0:03:33.160 --> 0:03:35.200 you know, it's not about being famous with VA, which 0:03:35.200 --> 0:03:38.360 is what's so great. It's about the joy of I 0:03:38.360 --> 0:03:40.920 mean we're talking, uh, you and I always kind of 0:03:40.960 --> 0:03:43.640 joke and talk about how, you know, as voiceover actors, 0:03:43.800 --> 0:03:46.040 and we've alway talked about children where I have been 0:03:46.240 --> 0:03:48.040 very lucky in my life not to have any kids. 0:03:48.560 --> 0:03:53.280 Umm yea. As as voiceover actors, though, we talk about 0:03:53.280 --> 0:03:55.400 like what's it like to have Eric Bowser read you 0:03:55.440 --> 0:03:58.480 a bedtime story? What's you know, what's it like to 0:03:58.480 --> 0:04:01.680 to have these actors come on and just tell a 0:04:01.720 --> 0:04:03.720 story to their children. I mean, it's just the coolest 0:04:03.720 --> 0:04:05.280 thing in the world. There's that love and that joy 0:04:05.520 --> 0:04:07.520 of the voice over industry, and it's just such a 0:04:07.560 --> 0:04:10.880 different niche for the rest from the rest of the industry. 0:04:10.960 --> 0:04:16.120 And it's just yes, exactly, it is growing, right, it is, 0:04:16.200 --> 0:04:19.560 I mean becoming more inclusive, which is what it's needed 0:04:19.600 --> 0:04:21.719 for a very long time. So that's that's a good 0:04:21.720 --> 0:04:24.800 thing in that sense, it's a very very good thing, um. 0:04:24.839 --> 0:04:26.440 And that's one that's one of the things that's been 0:04:26.480 --> 0:04:29.240 able to allow us to do this contest. What was 0:04:29.279 --> 0:04:32.119 what was the name of the contest? Again, Christie, Oh boy, 0:04:32.440 --> 0:04:34.960 you do this every time where I have my guard 0:04:35.040 --> 0:04:38.720 down and then you're like, go for it. What was it? 0:04:38.760 --> 0:04:40.960 I can't remember the name? Oh, I really don't know. 0:04:41.000 --> 0:04:42.640 I'm going to write it down next time, will and 0:04:42.680 --> 0:04:44.280 it's going to be a post it and I'm never 0:04:44.279 --> 0:04:46.960 going to make this mistake. You're gonna be crowning the 0:04:47.000 --> 0:04:49.919 winner and and you're gonna be like, thank you so 0:04:50.000 --> 0:04:53.480 much for joining the what was it called? Today? For 0:04:53.560 --> 0:04:56.640 us today it's the super awesome contest to become the 0:04:56.640 --> 0:05:00.120 next big voice actor. Super awesome contest to become the 0:05:00.200 --> 0:05:03.240 next big voice over actor, just voice actor. I thought, 0:05:03.240 --> 0:05:05.480 I don't think we added over and I think we 0:05:05.600 --> 0:05:09.640 probably should have. I don't know. I like I like it. 0:05:10.000 --> 0:05:12.720 And they can follow us and all of our announcements 0:05:12.720 --> 0:05:15.440 about the contest that are coming up, um, you know, 0:05:15.560 --> 0:05:18.000 on socials and of course, like he said, like, listen 0:05:18.040 --> 0:05:20.599 to other episodes to brush up on your skills, because 0:05:20.680 --> 0:05:23.120 big things are coming. And there's a number of reasons 0:05:23.120 --> 0:05:26.480 why we are not getting into the actual specifics of 0:05:26.520 --> 0:05:30.400 what's happening because we're working I know, but that's the 0:05:30.400 --> 0:05:32.839 thing you gotta understand. We are working out some things 0:05:32.880 --> 0:05:36.239 that are so okay, so I don't want to build 0:05:36.240 --> 0:05:39.279 it up too much, but they're so unbelievably awesome that 0:05:39.360 --> 0:05:41.839 you're gonna love it. So today we have an amazing guest. 0:05:41.839 --> 0:05:44.760 It's Amy Landecker. That's right. She plays Ugga on The 0:05:44.760 --> 0:05:47.320 Crewes Family Tree, and season two is now streaming on 0:05:47.360 --> 0:05:50.400 Peacock and Hulu. Amy Landecker, We're super excited to have 0:05:50.440 --> 0:05:52.800 you here on your voins. It's fun to be here. 0:05:53.320 --> 0:05:55.520 Thank you for joining us. Thank you so much for 0:05:55.600 --> 0:05:57.640 joining us. I don't know if you're you've been told this, 0:05:57.760 --> 0:06:00.279 but you are here for our Golden Girls. At episode 0:06:00.279 --> 0:06:03.920 where that's all we're gonna be talking about. Is the eighties? Really? No? 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:06.880 No one mentioned it to me. No, I'm kidding. That 0:06:06.920 --> 0:06:08.560 would be the worst, isn't it if you just weren't 0:06:08.560 --> 0:06:10.599 prepared to do whatever. It's like, we're gonna be talking 0:06:10.640 --> 0:06:12.920 about season three A magnum p. I are you ready? 0:06:12.960 --> 0:06:17.600 I est finished. Such an incredible coincidence, I just finished, 0:06:19.560 --> 0:06:22.560 how are you good? I meant to like dry my 0:06:22.600 --> 0:06:24.720 hair and be a little more presentable, but the day 0:06:24.760 --> 0:06:27.000 got away from me. So you're getting like, I feel 0:06:27.000 --> 0:06:30.000 like this is my detective look from your honor. But 0:06:30.480 --> 0:06:33.560 it doesn't matter. This is a voiceover, isn't it wonderful? 0:06:33.680 --> 0:06:36.240 Does it affect your performance when you know you're just 0:06:36.360 --> 0:06:38.760 doing voice over and all you have to concentrate on 0:06:38.880 --> 0:06:43.440 is pormance so free? I mean, it's weird. I'm a 0:06:43.480 --> 0:06:47.560 weird on camera actor because I actually try to do 0:06:47.640 --> 0:06:49.720 it like I'm doing voiceover. Like I go into hair 0:06:49.760 --> 0:06:52.480 and makeup, and then for the rest of the day 0:06:52.480 --> 0:06:55.960 that I shoot. I have this really strange ritual where 0:06:56.000 --> 0:06:58.279 I never look at myself the entire day, So I 0:06:58.320 --> 0:07:00.760 won't if I go to the baths, so I won't look. 0:07:01.240 --> 0:07:03.720 If I'm in my trailer, I don't look because I 0:07:03.839 --> 0:07:06.600 don't actually want to think about it, because I think 0:07:06.640 --> 0:07:10.119 I started in voice over and I learned and theater, 0:07:10.200 --> 0:07:12.040 which is a much freer form too, because you know, 0:07:12.120 --> 0:07:14.840 like a camera drilling down on you and you know, 0:07:14.840 --> 0:07:16.680 people always like you have no like you have no 0:07:16.800 --> 0:07:19.320 vanity or ego in your work. I'm like, because I'll 0:07:19.440 --> 0:07:21.960 look terrible and not care. But I really think that 0:07:22.040 --> 0:07:25.520 came from starting in voiceover in theater and wanting to 0:07:25.640 --> 0:07:29.120 keep that freedom. I don't want to like limit myself 0:07:29.680 --> 0:07:33.160 worrying about I mean, the times I'm the most dysfunctional 0:07:33.160 --> 0:07:35.240 in this business is like red carpet stuff, where I'm 0:07:35.280 --> 0:07:38.320 just like, because I do come from the tradition of 0:07:38.360 --> 0:07:41.080 like blah blah blah blah lah. You know, like just 0:07:41.280 --> 0:07:43.680 like yeah, like use your hands, use your voice, be 0:07:43.800 --> 0:07:46.840 whatever you and you have no limits. So I feel 0:07:46.880 --> 0:07:49.240 really lucky for that because I feel like it's helped 0:07:49.280 --> 0:07:51.960 me not fall into some of the traps of the 0:07:52.040 --> 0:07:55.680 on camera world. Although you know, certainly I'm susceptible like 0:07:55.720 --> 0:07:58.360 anybody else, but um, I try to remember that my 0:07:58.440 --> 0:08:02.840 roots and how much I enjoy that freedom, you know. Interesting. 0:08:02.920 --> 0:08:05.520 So it's a balance for sure, I mean, because because 0:08:05.560 --> 0:08:07.200 like you know, you do like to, you know, put 0:08:07.280 --> 0:08:09.720 some makeup on and walk the carpet now and then. 0:08:09.920 --> 0:08:13.800 But for sure, but it's like pressure. Sometimes it just 0:08:13.840 --> 0:08:17.120 feels nice to take that away completely and voiceover always 0:08:17.160 --> 0:08:21.400 takes it away, you know, I always takes Yeah, well, 0:08:21.440 --> 0:08:24.280 people always like fun. I'm like, let me ask you, 0:08:24.400 --> 0:08:27.320 let me ask do you like having your picture taken? 0:08:27.440 --> 0:08:30.200 Do you like like in most nine of people. No, 0:08:30.200 --> 0:08:31.960 nobody's like, oh my god, I love having a picture 0:08:32.000 --> 0:08:40.400 taking me. It's right, those are the same. It's a 0:08:40.559 --> 0:08:43.360 very rare person who I think enjoys all of it. 0:08:43.440 --> 0:08:45.920 But you know, I mean, it looks really good from 0:08:45.960 --> 0:08:48.360 the couch at home. That's what I realized. I was like, No, 0:08:48.480 --> 0:08:51.360 it's actually much more fun to watch than it is 0:08:51.400 --> 0:08:54.840 to do it, you know, because it's stressful. But voiceover 0:08:54.920 --> 0:08:57.320 is always it's a performance. And I you know, my 0:08:57.400 --> 0:08:58.920 dad's a diss jockey. I don't know if you guys 0:08:59.000 --> 0:09:02.760 need that in Chicago. So I very very very very 0:09:02.920 --> 0:09:06.080 very Uh. He's in the Rocketell Hall of Fame museum. 0:09:06.160 --> 0:09:11.160 He's been a ward. He's in the Hall of Fame. Uh. 0:09:11.920 --> 0:09:15.680 He was inducted let John Record Decker. So he was 0:09:15.720 --> 0:09:19.120 on w LS. Oh yeah, so like he's yeah, so 0:09:19.160 --> 0:09:21.520 I grew up around microphones as my point and kind 0:09:21.559 --> 0:09:23.920 of like, yeah, well, I mean he he had to 0:09:23.960 --> 0:09:26.440 get into that with the middle name of well I know, 0:09:26.559 --> 0:09:30.240 and that's really his middle name. But here's the creature. 0:09:30.760 --> 0:09:33.760 But the craziest thing is his first radio job. They 0:09:33.800 --> 0:09:35.920 told him to change his name to Scott Walker because 0:09:35.920 --> 0:09:38.480 they said, you'll never work in this business with John Records. 0:09:38.520 --> 0:09:40.480 Land Decker is your name, which is so weird because 0:09:40.520 --> 0:09:42.320 that's what got him into like Ripley's believe it or 0:09:42.360 --> 0:09:44.680 not at first because of his middle name, but he 0:09:44.880 --> 0:09:47.920 like not only was his middle name Records, because my 0:09:48.120 --> 0:09:50.520 great grandfather's last name was Records, so he was just 0:09:50.559 --> 0:09:54.800 given his grandfather's last names the middle name. But he 0:09:54.920 --> 0:09:57.560 also would pretend by the way, I'm so distracted by 0:09:57.559 --> 0:09:59.400 how beautiful Christie is. I'm like, well, there's an on 0:09:59.480 --> 0:10:02.559 camera and like right there at the hair, not not 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:07.880 really not it goes away, it goes away. It's just green. 0:10:08.160 --> 0:10:10.680 Is that what it is? Oh? Yes, you know that's 0:10:10.679 --> 0:10:12.959 what most people, I would say, makes them more beautiful, 0:10:13.080 --> 0:10:15.480 is like a big green screen in the back. Now, um, 0:10:16.520 --> 0:10:18.160 first of all, you're right, most most most of our 0:10:18.160 --> 0:10:20.200 guests say exactly after like, oh my god, I'm so 0:10:20.360 --> 0:10:22.920 mesmerized by Christie and Will I can see why you 0:10:23.000 --> 0:10:29.880 picked so I get that character. He's back very good 0:10:29.880 --> 0:10:37.600 looking person on a microphone. Very but I but he 0:10:37.679 --> 0:10:39.800 was he pretended he was a disc jockey at his 0:10:39.840 --> 0:10:43.120 closet as a kid, like he always wanted. So I 0:10:43.120 --> 0:10:46.960 grew up actually reading like I would literally view in 0:10:47.000 --> 0:10:49.679 the bathroom and take in a Veno bottle and be like, 0:10:50.240 --> 0:10:53.440 I would make ads like protecting hydrate sunscreen, and that's 0:10:53.440 --> 0:11:00.000 what I did. Really, so you're doing, you're starting, I don't, 0:11:00.160 --> 0:11:01.960 I'm I have know And then I mean, that's what 0:11:02.040 --> 0:11:04.959 I did before animation. For a good fifteen years in view, 0:11:05.080 --> 0:11:07.560 I was just commercial for until I move to l A. 0:11:08.200 --> 0:11:10.800 And I always wanted to do animation because of course 0:11:10.840 --> 0:11:13.880 that's the creative side of it. But I'm also not 0:11:14.000 --> 0:11:16.160 a natural, you know. It's so funny. I watched the 0:11:16.240 --> 0:11:21.199 crews and I see these like insanely gifted voiceover actors 0:11:21.200 --> 0:11:24.160 who can do like a thousand things that is not 0:11:24.280 --> 0:11:27.679 my that is not my gift. But and I'm so 0:11:27.760 --> 0:11:29.520 in awe of them. And I think that's why it 0:11:29.559 --> 0:11:31.719 took me a while to get into animation, because it's 0:11:31.720 --> 0:11:34.160 sort of off shot more from my on camera career 0:11:34.200 --> 0:11:36.480 that I started to get to shoot, which don't feel 0:11:36.480 --> 0:11:39.400 really really lucky about but no, I was always like 0:11:39.520 --> 0:11:42.920 the voice of Hallmark or Simbalta or like, you know, 0:11:43.240 --> 0:11:47.640 just very serious, like you know, very emotional. That's huge. 0:11:48.920 --> 0:11:50.960 I mean it was. It was incredible. I loved every 0:11:50.960 --> 0:11:53.319 second of it and I felt very very There's nothing 0:11:53.360 --> 0:11:55.480 that makes you feel like you don't belong in a 0:11:55.559 --> 0:11:59.640 room like standing next to Dee Brad. Yeah, exactly. You know, 0:11:59.760 --> 0:12:02.360 it's like you walk in going, oh, I think I'm 0:12:02.400 --> 0:12:04.400 pretty cool with this and you're like, oh man, I 0:12:04.880 --> 0:12:08.439 have no idea what I'm doing. Gifts are It's extraordinary. Really, 0:12:08.480 --> 0:12:11.960 it's kind of extraordinary. It's insane. It really started the 0:12:12.040 --> 0:12:16.360 crudes in COVID in Quarantine. That's when we first started recording, 0:12:16.360 --> 0:12:18.720 when you weren't leaving the house, right when we were 0:12:18.760 --> 0:12:21.679 all like afraid to open a box from Amazon. So 0:12:21.880 --> 0:12:25.199 we did like our we did this where we met 0:12:25.440 --> 0:12:29.160 on Zoom. I mean, I got to watch everybody do 0:12:29.240 --> 0:12:32.360 their performances for the first like six episodes, and it 0:12:32.400 --> 0:12:35.959 was pretty intimidating. I was like, oh my god, so 0:12:36.160 --> 0:12:39.280 so talented, so funny, and normally you don't really have 0:12:39.679 --> 0:12:42.240 access to that process at all. It's just you alone. 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:45.280 So it was cool, I have a So wait, let's 0:12:45.600 --> 0:12:48.040 I want to go back origin story time we're doing. 0:12:48.040 --> 0:12:49.920 We got to do your origin story. So you're from 0:12:50.000 --> 0:12:53.560 Chicago and you said you started on stage, so other 0:12:53.640 --> 0:12:56.120 than doing what most kids do, which is sitting in 0:12:56.160 --> 0:12:59.280 the bathroom and doing ad read too machine bottle um. 0:12:59.320 --> 0:13:02.120 Totally normal. By the way, again, to other voice over actors, 0:13:02.120 --> 0:13:06.000 it's like, yeah, okay, right, that's true. Did yeah, did 0:13:06.080 --> 0:13:09.000 you know that that entertainment was something that you always 0:13:09.000 --> 0:13:11.200 wanted to do? You know? I really I did. I did. 0:13:11.240 --> 0:13:13.640 Like I was my my sister and I used to 0:13:13.679 --> 0:13:18.439 like write plays and perform them at um at like 0:13:18.480 --> 0:13:20.079 for our parents, and we were really little. And then 0:13:20.080 --> 0:13:22.160 in high school I ended up going to this small 0:13:22.200 --> 0:13:25.720 private school in Chicago called Francis Parker, which oddly was 0:13:25.760 --> 0:13:27.640 not a performance or at school, but we had a 0:13:27.640 --> 0:13:31.200 lot of um, wonderful actors and so much so that 0:13:31.480 --> 0:13:33.680 Jeane Siskel, when he was still alive and was a 0:13:33.679 --> 0:13:36.079 big film critic, came to visit our school to find out, 0:13:36.120 --> 0:13:38.840 like what was it about this theater program because we 0:13:38.840 --> 0:13:41.720 were in a performance school, but we had like um, 0:13:41.760 --> 0:13:45.800 Billy Zane came from our school and Daryl Hannah, and 0:13:45.840 --> 0:13:48.559 this was when those movies were like huge, like splash. 0:13:49.080 --> 0:13:52.920 And then from my class alone was, um, I mean, 0:13:53.000 --> 0:13:54.960 I make a living at it. This guy Paul Adelstein 0:13:55.040 --> 0:13:58.480 who's on prison Break and who's a very you know, 0:13:58.559 --> 0:13:59.959 he's on camera all the time. I don't know what 0:14:00.000 --> 0:14:02.040 else he's been doing. But and Tim Griffin, who's another 0:14:02.080 --> 0:14:04.360 actor from Chicago that I just did a movie with 0:14:04.400 --> 0:14:08.120 Searching Too, and um r I P and H was 0:14:08.160 --> 0:14:12.280 in our class, um and just so tragically but we 0:14:12.280 --> 0:14:15.400 were a very um we we did tons of plays, 0:14:15.559 --> 0:14:18.800 all all four of us. Um I was interesting, you know, 0:14:19.240 --> 0:14:22.360 all the plays. And I went to college thinking, I 0:14:22.400 --> 0:14:26.320 will be honest with you, speaking of looks, I um, 0:14:26.360 --> 0:14:28.400 I didn't think I was like the look of an 0:14:28.640 --> 0:14:30.680 actress on camera at the time when I was in 0:14:30.760 --> 0:14:33.240 high school, and so it never really like occurred to 0:14:33.280 --> 0:14:35.680 me that I could make a living at acting. And 0:14:35.720 --> 0:14:37.840 I went to University Wisconsin and I was going to 0:14:37.880 --> 0:14:40.040 be a broadcaster. So that and I think because of 0:14:40.120 --> 0:14:42.560 my dad and I loved sports and I love Chicago sports, 0:14:42.560 --> 0:14:45.480 and I thought I'd be a female sportscaster, which I 0:14:45.480 --> 0:14:47.800 think is actually a really great idea. I think it 0:14:47.800 --> 0:14:51.040 would have amazing career path, but I did end up 0:14:51.640 --> 0:14:54.200 um getting a crush on an acting teacher in college 0:14:54.240 --> 0:14:56.880 who told me to join the acting program, so of course, 0:14:56.920 --> 0:14:59.120 to be near him, I joined the acting program and 0:14:59.120 --> 0:15:02.680 started have inadvertently falling into it. And then when I 0:15:02.720 --> 0:15:05.640 got out of college, my sister started a theater company 0:15:05.680 --> 0:15:07.040 with some friends from New York and they asked me 0:15:07.080 --> 0:15:10.840 to do a show with them, and I just got 0:15:10.880 --> 0:15:13.880 these insane reviews and I was like, oh, I guess 0:15:13.880 --> 0:15:17.760 I I like I candased. And at the same time 0:15:17.800 --> 0:15:20.520 Amy Brenneman, who now I've become friends with and I 0:15:20.520 --> 0:15:23.400 get mistaken for all the time, oddly enough, was on 0:15:23.600 --> 0:15:26.000 NYPD Blue and people started to say to me, you 0:15:26.040 --> 0:15:28.760 look just like this actress on NYPD Blue. And the 0:15:28.840 --> 0:15:31.280 irony that, like, twenty five years later, I would live 0:15:31.320 --> 0:15:33.760 in l A and many times people will come to 0:15:33.800 --> 0:15:35.680 me be like I love you on The Leftovers or 0:15:35.720 --> 0:15:38.080 they'll tell her I love you on Transparent and we're like, 0:15:38.160 --> 0:15:41.920 I'm not that Amy. So weird, so weird, But she 0:15:42.080 --> 0:15:44.040 sort of was like an inspiration, like, oh, maybe I 0:15:44.080 --> 0:15:46.560 could do that. You know, she's from our neck of 0:15:46.600 --> 0:15:49.000 the woods. Amy Brennaman, I believe is a Connecticut native. 0:15:49.280 --> 0:15:52.680 She really and I think her mom was a judge, 0:15:52.720 --> 0:15:56.280 which is why she did and both my parents are 0:15:56.320 --> 0:16:01.800 Connecticut lawyers. Are you're kidding? Yeah, she's really like brilliant, Like, yes, 0:16:02.000 --> 0:16:04.800 what is it about Chicago that is just in the 0:16:04.840 --> 0:16:08.840 water there where everyone is so freaking talented? Well, I think, 0:16:09.160 --> 0:16:11.440 I mean, it's it is weird. I was talking to 0:16:11.440 --> 0:16:14.600 someone about the theater scene there too, like nobody. I 0:16:14.600 --> 0:16:18.160 think the weather first of all, like you're locked inside 0:16:18.280 --> 0:16:21.960 like most of the year, and there's no other I 0:16:22.000 --> 0:16:25.880 think there's a real like working class attitude about acting 0:16:25.880 --> 0:16:30.280 that actually makes people like very grounded and very realistic, 0:16:30.280 --> 0:16:32.880 like step in Wold Theater was obviously like this massive 0:16:32.920 --> 0:16:35.920 influence on even the way people act now on camera 0:16:36.040 --> 0:16:41.280 in general, like that really rock and roll, like rooted naturalism. 0:16:41.600 --> 0:16:44.520 And I think because we knew, I mean it was 0:16:44.520 --> 0:16:46.560 funny because I actually so. I did a play with 0:16:46.600 --> 0:16:49.160 Michael Shannon, who has been nominated for million Oscars and 0:16:49.280 --> 0:16:51.720 is a big Chicago guy Boardwalk Empire and stuff. I 0:16:51.760 --> 0:16:53.440 did a play with him at the Red Organt Theater 0:16:53.520 --> 0:16:55.320 and an agent came and I did a bunch of 0:16:55.400 --> 0:16:58.600 voices in it, and she said, um, have you ever 0:16:58.600 --> 0:17:01.800 thought about doing voiceover? So actually got into voiceover from 0:17:01.880 --> 0:17:05.239 literally a play that I did. I didn't realize too 0:17:05.320 --> 0:17:07.080 that they really the only way to make money as 0:17:07.080 --> 0:17:10.199 an actor in Chicago, in a living wage is to 0:17:10.240 --> 0:17:13.040 either do on camera commercials or voiceover because there are 0:17:13.119 --> 0:17:15.640 no there's not enough film work, that's not enough TV work. 0:17:15.640 --> 0:17:18.440 You're never gonna be you know, it's you're not gonna 0:17:18.440 --> 0:17:20.359 make a living maybe now with all the Chicago p 0:17:20.520 --> 0:17:22.560 D shows, but maybe that's one or two people who 0:17:22.560 --> 0:17:25.520 get that contract. So there were but there are all 0:17:25.560 --> 0:17:28.240 these ad agencies. You know, there's j Walter Thompson, there's 0:17:28.280 --> 0:17:31.080 Leo Burnett. All these ad agencies are based in Chicago. 0:17:31.160 --> 0:17:33.879 So it allowed like theater people in Second City and 0:17:33.880 --> 0:17:36.480 those kinds of actors to stay. I wasn't going to 0:17:36.600 --> 0:17:38.560 leave Chicago. I left because of play took me to 0:17:38.600 --> 0:17:40.760 New York. I. I was just going to live there 0:17:40.800 --> 0:17:43.639 and do voiceover and have make a great living and 0:17:43.640 --> 0:17:47.800 do theater and be creatively fulfilled. Um so it just 0:17:47.960 --> 0:17:49.920 has it doesn't. As soon as I worked in New York, 0:17:49.920 --> 0:17:52.440 I was like, Oh, everyone's in New York is not everyone, 0:17:52.480 --> 0:17:54.280 but there's definitely a sense when you're in New York 0:17:54.280 --> 0:17:57.760 there's way more pressure because there's like way more money involved, 0:17:58.160 --> 0:18:00.680 and there's and there's a sense that you might get 0:18:00.800 --> 0:18:03.879 something from it, or you're also working on cameras, so 0:18:04.000 --> 0:18:06.560 you're you're always like one ft out the door to 0:18:06.640 --> 0:18:08.919 leave to do something. Like Chicago, there's nothing else to do, 0:18:09.240 --> 0:18:11.359 you know, you're just there to do the play. And 0:18:11.400 --> 0:18:13.200 I think that it makes for some of the best 0:18:13.240 --> 0:18:17.280 acting I've ever seen, Honestly. I also think Chicago has 0:18:17.359 --> 0:18:22.280 a real emphasis on improv Yes, that's true. And and 0:18:21.920 --> 0:18:26.400 and improv is is one of the most important facets 0:18:26.400 --> 0:18:28.520 of any style of acting. I don't care if you 0:18:28.560 --> 0:18:30.399 are a voice over actor, if you're on stage, if 0:18:30.440 --> 0:18:33.320 you're a dramatic actor, just being able to instantly think 0:18:33.320 --> 0:18:38.280 on your feet and work and reacting stuck, yeah, that 0:18:38.320 --> 0:18:42.600 you're listening, it's really It makes a huge difference. And 0:18:42.600 --> 0:18:44.560 there is such an emphasis on that with Second City 0:18:44.560 --> 0:18:47.760 and everything else. It's there and and and Stephen Wolf 0:18:47.760 --> 0:18:50.680 has like an improvisatory like you were saying, even in Trauma, 0:18:50.720 --> 0:18:53.879 there's we've all either taken classes at Second City or 0:18:53.960 --> 0:18:57.320 we've we get such a such a vibe in Chicago. 0:18:57.440 --> 0:18:59.719 You're right that that energy can be used even if 0:18:59.720 --> 0:19:02.359 you're not actually changing the words every time, but you're 0:19:02.400 --> 0:19:07.679 you're creatively improvising, like emotionally improvising. You're being open to 0:19:07.720 --> 0:19:10.639 it being different every night, and that that's not true 0:19:10.720 --> 0:19:14.040 everywhere else. I feel like people can't. And Amy, you 0:19:14.080 --> 0:19:16.200 said that you don't do like a thousand voices, but 0:19:16.320 --> 0:19:18.920 that's not I mean, I don't. I would, I would. 0:19:19.520 --> 0:19:23.520 Maybe it's not de Badley Baker like that that talent 0:19:23.600 --> 0:19:26.399 that he has, right, But I think that you're also 0:19:27.040 --> 0:19:30.719 a testament to being rooted in all of that educational 0:19:30.960 --> 0:19:34.160 you know, development and all of that beautiful technique work 0:19:34.600 --> 0:19:40.000 over those years, really though, because because I I definitely struggled, um, 0:19:40.040 --> 0:19:42.200 you know, when we were doing Kimpossible and other things 0:19:42.960 --> 0:19:45.880 where you have to enrich the voices that you do 0:19:45.920 --> 0:19:49.080 with so much subtext in the choices that you make 0:19:49.080 --> 0:19:52.000 in the voice that there's a lot more that goes 0:19:52.040 --> 0:19:55.920 into it that makes you a good voice actor rather 0:19:55.960 --> 0:19:57.280 than you know what I'm saying. So you don't need 0:19:57.359 --> 0:20:00.040 to do a thousand voices to be a good voice actor. No, 0:20:00.119 --> 0:20:02.720 I agree. That's one of the things is people think 0:20:02.760 --> 0:20:05.680 that being a great voice actor means doing a thousand voices, 0:20:05.720 --> 0:20:07.480 and then a lot of us can't. I mean that 0:20:07.560 --> 0:20:09.520 is it to to sit next to a John DiMaggio 0:20:09.640 --> 0:20:12.560