1 00:00:01,520 --> 00:00:04,920 Speaker 1: Welcome to your Diary episode. Here's the thing. 2 00:00:05,120 --> 00:00:08,479 Speaker 2: I'm a bit of a nomad, so these episodes come 3 00:00:08,520 --> 00:00:12,119 Speaker 2: to from wherever I'm living or traveling to at the time, 4 00:00:12,960 --> 00:00:15,760 Speaker 2: so I'll share with you what's going on in my world, 5 00:00:15,840 --> 00:00:21,480 Speaker 2: from book tours, animal encounters, delish meals, nature adventures, health 6 00:00:21,520 --> 00:00:25,680 Speaker 2: discoveries to swimming in Hidden Byron Bay beaches. Come with 7 00:00:25,800 --> 00:00:32,760 Speaker 2: me as I share my adventures with you. Well, hello there, 8 00:00:33,120 --> 00:00:38,159 Speaker 2: and welcome to your Friday Diary podcast, Week seventeen in 9 00:00:38,280 --> 00:00:39,200 Speaker 2: Los Angeles. 10 00:00:39,800 --> 00:00:42,280 Speaker 1: So I think this will be I was just thinking 11 00:00:42,280 --> 00:00:43,000 Speaker 1: about this morning. 12 00:00:43,040 --> 00:00:45,040 Speaker 2: This will be the longest I've ever spent away from 13 00:00:45,040 --> 00:00:48,360 Speaker 2: the Boss, because we will. I think we spent four 14 00:00:48,360 --> 00:00:50,640 Speaker 2: and a half months apart from each other last year, 15 00:00:51,200 --> 00:00:55,640 Speaker 2: and it'll be six months apart by the time i 16 00:00:55,720 --> 00:00:59,120 Speaker 2: end up back in Australia. So I'm really starting I mean, 17 00:00:59,160 --> 00:01:01,680 Speaker 2: I always miss it, but I'm really starting to be like, 18 00:01:01,760 --> 00:01:06,720 Speaker 2: oh oh oh, some miss Yeah. 19 00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:07,200 Speaker 1: Okay. 20 00:01:07,280 --> 00:01:09,520 Speaker 2: So in the Diary ep it's the week that was, 21 00:01:09,600 --> 00:01:11,960 Speaker 2: So I'll take you through everything that happened has happened 22 00:01:11,959 --> 00:01:17,920 Speaker 2: in the past week. Been some wins, mainly failures this 23 00:01:17,959 --> 00:01:20,120 Speaker 2: week if I'm honest, but there have been some wins, 24 00:01:20,240 --> 00:01:21,160 Speaker 2: some lovely wins. 25 00:01:21,720 --> 00:01:22,280 Speaker 1: Just quickly. 26 00:01:22,880 --> 00:01:26,000 Speaker 2: Monday's EP with minaj dieas really cool if you're into 27 00:01:26,319 --> 00:01:30,560 Speaker 2: breath work, meditation and mindfulness. So a bit of a 28 00:01:30,600 --> 00:01:32,720 Speaker 2: health EP every now and then people write to me 29 00:01:32,760 --> 00:01:36,120 Speaker 2: and go, we're getting so much of the actor and 30 00:01:36,200 --> 00:01:39,800 Speaker 2: the directors and the creatives every now and then people 31 00:01:39,840 --> 00:01:41,319 Speaker 2: want a bit of health. So I'm trying to find 32 00:01:41,319 --> 00:01:45,040 Speaker 2: this like really nice balance between health and wellness and 33 00:01:45,160 --> 00:01:48,160 Speaker 2: super creatives. So you've got a health and wellness one 34 00:01:48,200 --> 00:01:52,160 Speaker 2: today on Monday, should I say, with menage, and then 35 00:01:52,360 --> 00:01:55,320 Speaker 2: next week coming out kind of another health and wellness one. 36 00:01:55,680 --> 00:01:59,040 Speaker 2: I recorded that EP in Byron Bay. I call the 37 00:01:59,080 --> 00:02:03,080 Speaker 2: guest Oliver's Hand because that's his company name. He crowd 38 00:02:03,280 --> 00:02:07,840 Speaker 2: funded at like sixteen, his own company, and he's all 39 00:02:07,880 --> 00:02:12,440 Speaker 2: about pasturays, Happy happy hens and his hens are actually 40 00:02:12,480 --> 00:02:15,040 Speaker 2: at the farm in Byron Bay. So we recorded it 41 00:02:15,240 --> 00:02:18,480 Speaker 2: right before I flew over here. So that's an interesting one, 42 00:02:18,560 --> 00:02:22,440 Speaker 2: another really health based one where it's all about like 43 00:02:22,480 --> 00:02:24,760 Speaker 2: the difference between us, Like break it down for you, mate, 44 00:02:24,760 --> 00:02:29,720 Speaker 2: what's the difference between pasturaised organic, biodynamic, free range. So 45 00:02:29,800 --> 00:02:35,200 Speaker 2: he really re educated me on all things egos. So yeah, 46 00:02:35,360 --> 00:02:38,200 Speaker 2: that's Monday, that's Monday coming out. So the week that 47 00:02:38,480 --> 00:02:42,400 Speaker 2: was I have officially signed on to this amazing health 48 00:02:42,440 --> 00:02:46,920 Speaker 2: and wellness company called kay Lo. I am speaking at 49 00:02:46,960 --> 00:02:50,120 Speaker 2: a summit for them in Brisbane on the twentieth of October, 50 00:02:50,240 --> 00:02:53,880 Speaker 2: so that's when I'll be back in Australia. And we 51 00:02:53,960 --> 00:02:58,760 Speaker 2: met the founder was in Los Angeles or is in 52 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:01,360 Speaker 2: Los Angeles, and so we met at the iconic Ivy. 53 00:03:01,400 --> 00:03:03,440 Speaker 2: Have you ever had at the Ivy? It's like this 54 00:03:03,760 --> 00:03:07,960 Speaker 2: like in the two thousands. It was kind of like 55 00:03:08,080 --> 00:03:12,080 Speaker 2: the not two thousands, but like it's been it's been around. Actually, 56 00:03:12,080 --> 00:03:15,799 Speaker 2: it's been around forever, like I think, like I want 57 00:03:15,840 --> 00:03:18,519 Speaker 2: to say, like the eighties or the seventies. 58 00:03:20,040 --> 00:03:24,320 Speaker 1: Let me look it up. It's like this iconic Ivy 59 00:03:24,360 --> 00:03:26,760 Speaker 1: cafe story. 60 00:03:26,919 --> 00:03:35,440 Speaker 2: It's this iconic restaurant on Robinson in Beverly Hills. Okay, 61 00:03:36,320 --> 00:03:42,320 Speaker 2: nineteen seventeen. No oh no, that's the British restaurant the Ivy. 62 00:03:43,960 --> 00:03:47,480 Speaker 2: Oh anyway, oh Ivy Los Angeles. Celebrities comes up straight away. 63 00:03:50,520 --> 00:03:52,760 Speaker 2: So it used to be a place where people would 64 00:03:52,760 --> 00:03:55,720 Speaker 2: go to get papped, like it was like the there 65 00:03:55,760 --> 00:03:58,240 Speaker 2: you go in the early nineties, Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, 66 00:03:58,320 --> 00:04:01,240 Speaker 2: Jack Nicholson, Brad Pitt, which some of the many stars 67 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:04,280 Speaker 2: who ate there. Since then, the IVY has changed hands. 68 00:04:05,520 --> 00:04:08,720 Speaker 2: Richard Carring took over in two thousand and five, but 69 00:04:08,800 --> 00:04:14,240 Speaker 2: has maintained its pre eminence among stars stage and screen. 70 00:04:14,680 --> 00:04:16,640 Speaker 2: I didn't see these libs there. I also wasn't on 71 00:04:16,640 --> 00:04:19,080 Speaker 2: a look at us kind of in like, oh my goodness, 72 00:04:19,120 --> 00:04:22,240 Speaker 2: this place is amazing. It's really bright and colorful, all 73 00:04:22,279 --> 00:04:26,480 Speaker 2: different colored roses everywhere, and then like festival lights, like 74 00:04:26,520 --> 00:04:28,960 Speaker 2: you know, those really bright colored like kind of chili lights, 75 00:04:29,040 --> 00:04:32,560 Speaker 2: and then all the drinks filled them with fruit like 76 00:04:32,600 --> 00:04:36,040 Speaker 2: it feels very bright, and each. 77 00:04:35,920 --> 00:04:37,200 Speaker 1: Room kind of has a theme. 78 00:04:37,520 --> 00:04:40,800 Speaker 2: Anyway, that was a lot of fun, and I'm wrapped 79 00:04:40,800 --> 00:04:44,080 Speaker 2: to be signing on to an amazing Australian company as well, 80 00:04:44,200 --> 00:04:48,360 Speaker 2: so watch out for more of that. I also, can 81 00:04:48,360 --> 00:04:53,960 Speaker 2: you hear this? Save this for you? It's my movie stub. 82 00:04:54,120 --> 00:04:56,680 Speaker 2: On the day it came out the eighth of July, 83 00:04:57,200 --> 00:05:00,240 Speaker 2: my friend Sarah and I went to see Thor. I 84 00:05:00,240 --> 00:05:02,240 Speaker 2: think it's called Thor, Love and Thunder, So it's the 85 00:05:03,240 --> 00:05:07,480 Speaker 2: follow up to Thor Ragnarok, same director obviously, HEMI is 86 00:05:07,520 --> 00:05:07,880 Speaker 2: in it. 87 00:05:08,560 --> 00:05:09,480 Speaker 1: Cool fact. 88 00:05:10,160 --> 00:05:13,400 Speaker 2: And Chris Hamsworth posted this on his Instagram this week. 89 00:05:13,760 --> 00:05:17,240 Speaker 2: He said, eleven years ago, there's a photo of him 90 00:05:17,240 --> 00:05:19,560 Speaker 2: on the set of Thor with his little bambino. I 91 00:05:19,560 --> 00:05:23,160 Speaker 2: think her name is India Rose, tiny bambino like less 92 00:05:23,200 --> 00:05:26,200 Speaker 2: than I know. It's probably like six eight months old 93 00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:29,200 Speaker 2: on the set with him, and then cut to eleven 94 00:05:29,279 --> 00:05:32,880 Speaker 2: years later and he's cast her as one of the characters. 95 00:05:33,839 --> 00:05:36,599 Speaker 2: And Yeah, I kind of wish I knew it going 96 00:05:36,640 --> 00:05:38,080 Speaker 2: in because I would have been like, oh my god. 97 00:05:38,480 --> 00:05:42,440 Speaker 2: And there's like a lot of like celebs in it, 98 00:05:42,640 --> 00:05:46,800 Speaker 2: and I think it was all shot in lockdown maybe 99 00:05:46,839 --> 00:05:50,200 Speaker 2: in Australia. His bro Luke Emsworth is in it and 100 00:05:50,200 --> 00:05:54,000 Speaker 2: plays his kind of double Matt Damon's in it. You 101 00:05:54,040 --> 00:05:55,880 Speaker 2: get a few nods at the start to that. Some 102 00:05:55,920 --> 00:05:59,359 Speaker 2: of the Guardians of the Galaxy characters too. Anyway, my 103 00:05:59,440 --> 00:06:02,600 Speaker 2: advice is go enjoy it. It's light, it's fun, it's 104 00:06:02,640 --> 00:06:06,760 Speaker 2: silly fun, you know what I mean. Okay, so that 105 00:06:06,920 --> 00:06:10,880 Speaker 2: was awesome. Oh I've had a couple of food experiences, 106 00:06:10,920 --> 00:06:13,159 Speaker 2: not the healthy kind, but the fun kind. If I 107 00:06:13,240 --> 00:06:16,279 Speaker 2: told you about my little American la obsession with mochi 108 00:06:16,600 --> 00:06:20,880 Speaker 2: or mochi. They're those Japanese desserts that are like rice 109 00:06:21,040 --> 00:06:24,080 Speaker 2: dough on the outside with ice cream on the inside. Anyway, 110 00:06:24,360 --> 00:06:27,080 Speaker 2: Traded Jos do these really yummy strawberry ones. Their hands 111 00:06:27,080 --> 00:06:29,520 Speaker 2: down the best, although I've only tried strawberry and green tea. 112 00:06:29,600 --> 00:06:32,039 Speaker 2: But I was at Target the other day trying to 113 00:06:32,040 --> 00:06:34,640 Speaker 2: get like tea and all this kind of stuff, and 114 00:06:35,400 --> 00:06:39,160 Speaker 2: I was like, oh my goodness, mango sorbet, Oh my god, 115 00:06:39,200 --> 00:06:42,760 Speaker 2: they were insane. And I did have one other food 116 00:06:42,800 --> 00:06:46,800 Speaker 2: experiences like iconic alay, again not the health cinme but 117 00:06:46,880 --> 00:06:47,479 Speaker 2: fun kind. 118 00:06:47,680 --> 00:06:50,880 Speaker 1: I went to shake Shack. Do you know why. I 119 00:06:50,920 --> 00:06:52,280 Speaker 1: actually blamed Minaje who was. 120 00:06:52,200 --> 00:06:54,200 Speaker 2: Monday's guess, because he was going on about this vanilla 121 00:06:54,279 --> 00:06:57,320 Speaker 2: malt thick shake. Because people there is a big divide 122 00:06:57,320 --> 00:06:59,920 Speaker 2: about what is better in and Out or shake Shack. 123 00:07:00,160 --> 00:07:01,359 Speaker 1: Anyway, I went Shakeshack. 124 00:07:01,400 --> 00:07:04,360 Speaker 2: I got the vanilla malt thick shake like Minas recommended, 125 00:07:04,400 --> 00:07:08,320 Speaker 2: and then the girl said try the chicken shaq burger. 126 00:07:08,520 --> 00:07:10,640 Speaker 2: It was ten out of ten. And the bacon cheese 127 00:07:10,680 --> 00:07:14,080 Speaker 2: fries also amazing. Their fries are much bigger than in 128 00:07:14,080 --> 00:07:15,840 Speaker 2: and Out. They're kind of like crinkly cut anyway, so 129 00:07:16,520 --> 00:07:21,400 Speaker 2: I've done all the like la food experience like things 130 00:07:21,440 --> 00:07:23,440 Speaker 2: that you just got to tick off your bucket list. 131 00:07:23,800 --> 00:07:23,960 Speaker 1: Oh. 132 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:26,320 Speaker 2: I also went to a yummy Italian place with my 133 00:07:26,360 --> 00:07:30,440 Speaker 2: mate Alex on Montana Ave in Santa Monica. It was 134 00:07:30,520 --> 00:07:37,040 Speaker 2: called Locanda port Dolfino but it was really yummy, so 135 00:07:37,080 --> 00:07:39,960 Speaker 2: many gluten free options too. I got a gluten free bolonnaise, 136 00:07:40,160 --> 00:07:42,440 Speaker 2: really really yummy. Then we just hung out with her 137 00:07:42,440 --> 00:07:46,400 Speaker 2: pappuccino called frank You know how usually I try to 138 00:07:46,400 --> 00:07:49,960 Speaker 2: give you a like a book review, a movie review 139 00:07:50,040 --> 00:07:53,679 Speaker 2: or something like that. I'm almost finished my mate Reese's book, 140 00:07:53,680 --> 00:07:56,960 Speaker 2: which is incredible, but I've probably got about fifty pages 141 00:07:57,000 --> 00:07:59,120 Speaker 2: to go, so i'll review that for you next week. 142 00:07:59,440 --> 00:08:01,520 Speaker 2: And I don't think it's officially out yet anyway, I 143 00:08:01,520 --> 00:08:03,320 Speaker 2: think it'll it's on pre order. 144 00:08:03,760 --> 00:08:04,480 Speaker 1: It's really fun. 145 00:08:04,560 --> 00:08:07,120 Speaker 2: It's a kids it's like a young adult kids kind 146 00:08:07,120 --> 00:08:11,560 Speaker 2: of like fiction adventure styles, all about a little ghost, 147 00:08:11,840 --> 00:08:13,600 Speaker 2: A lot of fun to read. I'm having so, so 148 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:17,040 Speaker 2: so much fun doing it. But I've been getting into 149 00:08:17,080 --> 00:08:19,920 Speaker 2: a TV show. I know I'm very late to this bandwagon, 150 00:08:20,080 --> 00:08:23,640 Speaker 2: but it is Grace and Frankie with Jane Fonda and 151 00:08:23,680 --> 00:08:24,440 Speaker 2: Lily is. 152 00:08:24,400 --> 00:08:27,520 Speaker 1: It, Tolum Tulham. 153 00:08:27,720 --> 00:08:31,160 Speaker 2: Amazing comedians. The whole cast is phenomenal. But it's just 154 00:08:31,200 --> 00:08:33,400 Speaker 2: a lot of fun. It's on Netflix. I know you 155 00:08:33,440 --> 00:08:36,080 Speaker 2: already would know it, but it's just like really easy 156 00:08:36,120 --> 00:08:39,880 Speaker 2: to watch when you're winding down and yeah, just want 157 00:08:39,880 --> 00:08:42,679 Speaker 2: to like let go of the day. So that's my 158 00:08:42,920 --> 00:08:49,120 Speaker 2: like just stuff from the week that was. I want 159 00:08:49,120 --> 00:08:52,680 Speaker 2: to be really honest and open with you as well 160 00:08:52,840 --> 00:08:57,040 Speaker 2: about like life in la It is amazing and it 161 00:08:57,080 --> 00:09:01,439 Speaker 2: is full of opportunity, but ninety percent is probably a rejection. 162 00:09:02,280 --> 00:09:06,120 Speaker 2: And so I've booked three commercials and all three of 163 00:09:06,160 --> 00:09:08,640 Speaker 2: them paid, and all three of them dropped me twenty 164 00:09:08,640 --> 00:09:11,120 Speaker 2: four hours before the shoot or just don't send any 165 00:09:11,400 --> 00:09:13,960 Speaker 2: information about it. So you can't even get there because 166 00:09:14,400 --> 00:09:17,600 Speaker 2: the way it's designed is that the casting director can 167 00:09:17,640 --> 00:09:21,280 Speaker 2: only contact you through these online portals, like these actor 168 00:09:21,320 --> 00:09:22,439 Speaker 2: profile portals. 169 00:09:24,280 --> 00:09:25,880 Speaker 1: I got a call at. 170 00:09:25,720 --> 00:09:28,120 Speaker 2: Like five pm one night and they're like, hey, we 171 00:09:28,200 --> 00:09:30,960 Speaker 2: really want to cast you as this role in our 172 00:09:31,040 --> 00:09:33,520 Speaker 2: short film. And I was like, okay, Now I have 173 00:09:33,679 --> 00:09:36,640 Speaker 2: self submitted to over eight hundred auditions online since I've 174 00:09:36,679 --> 00:09:39,280 Speaker 2: been here, So I was like okay talking about the 175 00:09:39,280 --> 00:09:41,120 Speaker 2: short film. I had no idea what one he was 176 00:09:41,160 --> 00:09:46,120 Speaker 2: talking about. And it's like, oh, okay, we really want 177 00:09:46,120 --> 00:09:48,120 Speaker 2: you to play Sarah. We really want you to play 178 00:09:48,160 --> 00:09:50,600 Speaker 2: this like lead. And I was like, sounds great. Is 179 00:09:50,600 --> 00:09:53,439 Speaker 2: there a script or is it improv? Like what's the planning? 180 00:09:53,520 --> 00:09:55,600 Speaker 2: Is like, oh no, no, one hundred percent of script. 181 00:09:55,760 --> 00:09:57,120 Speaker 2: I've just emailed it through to you, and I was 182 00:09:57,200 --> 00:09:59,360 Speaker 2: like awesome, and I'm like scanning the script, I was like, 183 00:09:59,400 --> 00:10:00,840 Speaker 2: oh cool, like lots of dialogue. 184 00:10:00,840 --> 00:10:02,240 Speaker 1: This is going to be great for my show real. 185 00:10:02,880 --> 00:10:04,880 Speaker 2: And then he's like, so we're shooting at ten am 186 00:10:04,920 --> 00:10:08,000 Speaker 2: tomorrow and I'm like, okay, well, I'd have to pull 187 00:10:08,080 --> 00:10:10,319 Speaker 2: more than an all nighter to get these lines down. 188 00:10:10,360 --> 00:10:12,880 Speaker 2: But I was like okay, and what's the pay and 189 00:10:12,920 --> 00:10:15,720 Speaker 2: he's like, oh, fifty dollars And I'm like, so you 190 00:10:15,760 --> 00:10:18,920 Speaker 2: want me to cancel all of my plans tomorrow, whether 191 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:22,080 Speaker 2: it be podcasting, whether it be a meeting, whether it 192 00:10:22,120 --> 00:10:24,520 Speaker 2: be catch up with a mate for hike or something like, 193 00:10:24,600 --> 00:10:29,360 Speaker 2: cancel all of that and be in Hollywood at ten 194 00:10:29,400 --> 00:10:32,200 Speaker 2: am tomorrow for a twelve hour shoot. And you're going 195 00:10:32,280 --> 00:10:34,520 Speaker 2: to throw me a pineapple at the end of that shoot, 196 00:10:34,600 --> 00:10:37,360 Speaker 2: and I have to be not only know all my lines, 197 00:10:37,400 --> 00:10:40,640 Speaker 2: but on American dialect as well. So usually if something 198 00:10:40,679 --> 00:10:42,440 Speaker 2: like that came along, i'd book him with my dialect 199 00:10:42,520 --> 00:10:44,720 Speaker 2: coach to make sure I wasn't stumbling on any of 200 00:10:44,720 --> 00:10:45,240 Speaker 2: the words. 201 00:10:46,440 --> 00:10:47,640 Speaker 1: And he's like, yep, that's right. 202 00:10:47,480 --> 00:10:49,880 Speaker 2: And I'm like ah, and I just said, I actually said, 203 00:10:49,880 --> 00:10:51,880 Speaker 2: give me an hour to think about it, and he 204 00:10:51,880 --> 00:10:53,880 Speaker 2: goes no worries, And I just shot him in an 205 00:10:53,920 --> 00:10:55,200 Speaker 2: email and said, thank you so much. 206 00:10:55,200 --> 00:10:58,120 Speaker 1: I'm not available. So I know. And you might think, oh, 207 00:10:58,160 --> 00:11:00,000 Speaker 1: why don't you jump at that, like I've jumped. 208 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:02,840 Speaker 2: I've done so many things and I've done two shorts now, 209 00:11:03,040 --> 00:11:06,800 Speaker 2: so short films you famously really get paid for. And 210 00:11:07,160 --> 00:11:09,680 Speaker 2: I've learned a lot about being on like a working 211 00:11:09,720 --> 00:11:14,040 Speaker 2: set and whatnot. But in order to grow, like I 212 00:11:14,080 --> 00:11:16,200 Speaker 2: believe that, I also need to learn the lesson of 213 00:11:16,240 --> 00:11:18,079 Speaker 2: saying no to the stuff that isn't actually going to 214 00:11:18,120 --> 00:11:18,840 Speaker 2: help my career. 215 00:11:19,240 --> 00:11:21,120 Speaker 1: And I know that sounds really ruthless, but. 216 00:11:21,320 --> 00:11:23,480 Speaker 2: I think it would be really easy here to get 217 00:11:23,480 --> 00:11:24,400 Speaker 2: taken advantage of. 218 00:11:24,600 --> 00:11:30,960 Speaker 1: And I just I don't want that to happen to me. 219 00:11:31,400 --> 00:11:33,760 Speaker 2: And you know, like I'm thirty six, I'm a little 220 00:11:33,760 --> 00:11:35,440 Speaker 2: bit older, and so I can kind of read the 221 00:11:35,440 --> 00:11:36,199 Speaker 2: play a little bit. 222 00:11:36,679 --> 00:11:39,160 Speaker 1: But yeah, I just kind of noticed. 223 00:11:39,200 --> 00:11:41,760 Speaker 2: I was like, shit, I like it's so easy to 224 00:11:41,800 --> 00:11:45,560 Speaker 2: get taken advantage of here, and like even yesterday I 225 00:11:45,600 --> 00:11:48,960 Speaker 2: had a Zoom audition. I tried to log in. It 226 00:11:48,960 --> 00:11:51,320 Speaker 2: wasn't letting me log in. I contacted my agents over 227 00:11:51,360 --> 00:11:52,840 Speaker 2: here and I was like, I can't log into this 228 00:11:53,040 --> 00:11:55,120 Speaker 2: Zoom audition and they're like, it's not even coming up 229 00:11:55,160 --> 00:11:58,400 Speaker 2: on our file, so basically, don't worry. And then I 230 00:11:58,440 --> 00:12:01,320 Speaker 2: get an email from the casting director and it was 231 00:12:01,360 --> 00:12:03,560 Speaker 2: for a student films that would also have been unpaid, 232 00:12:03,640 --> 00:12:06,120 Speaker 2: but the role again was potentially a meaty one. 233 00:12:06,679 --> 00:12:09,120 Speaker 1: And anyway, I. 234 00:12:09,080 --> 00:12:12,920 Speaker 2: Said I can't get on, and I had a meeting, 235 00:12:13,520 --> 00:12:15,240 Speaker 2: you know, an hour later, so I knew that my 236 00:12:15,280 --> 00:12:18,280 Speaker 2: window was short, and they just said send me another 237 00:12:18,320 --> 00:12:20,560 Speaker 2: link expecting me to jump on an hour later, and 238 00:12:20,600 --> 00:12:21,960 Speaker 2: then another link for Saturday, when. 239 00:12:21,880 --> 00:12:24,120 Speaker 1: I'll be in full voice school all day, and so 240 00:12:24,200 --> 00:12:25,199 Speaker 1: I just thought. 241 00:12:26,640 --> 00:12:29,120 Speaker 2: Again, like let's send this one to the gatekeeper. So 242 00:12:29,160 --> 00:12:31,160 Speaker 2: I just when the new link came, I said, thank 243 00:12:31,200 --> 00:12:33,679 Speaker 2: you so so much. I'm actually in voice school all 244 00:12:33,720 --> 00:12:35,760 Speaker 2: day Saturday, which I am, which is fully true, but 245 00:12:35,800 --> 00:12:37,840 Speaker 2: I said thanks, I was thinking of me. But yeah, 246 00:12:37,880 --> 00:12:42,920 Speaker 2: there's this real expectation that you can drop everything like 247 00:12:43,200 --> 00:12:45,560 Speaker 2: with no notice and make no money from it. So 248 00:12:45,600 --> 00:12:48,440 Speaker 2: I can understand the struggling actor thing. I think my 249 00:12:48,640 --> 00:12:51,240 Speaker 2: brain is like because I've got probably more of a 250 00:12:51,280 --> 00:12:54,120 Speaker 2: producer's brain and a bit more of a business brain. 251 00:12:54,240 --> 00:12:56,600 Speaker 1: And I think that I said, this is my dialect coach. 252 00:12:56,640 --> 00:12:58,800 Speaker 1: I don't know that. 253 00:13:00,400 --> 00:13:03,720 Speaker 2: They teach us business at act like I did a 254 00:13:03,720 --> 00:13:06,040 Speaker 2: lot of act I've portrayed now for the last five 255 00:13:06,120 --> 00:13:09,800 Speaker 2: or six years, but I've done full blown acting courses 256 00:13:09,840 --> 00:13:10,520 Speaker 2: in Australia. 257 00:13:11,040 --> 00:13:12,360 Speaker 1: No one teaches you the business. 258 00:13:12,400 --> 00:13:15,560 Speaker 2: They just teach you like, you know, work on your craft, 259 00:13:15,679 --> 00:13:19,120 Speaker 2: work really hard, understand your dialect, understand your character's motive, 260 00:13:19,480 --> 00:13:22,240 Speaker 2: what you know? What is what is your character's obstacle? 261 00:13:22,280 --> 00:13:24,440 Speaker 2: What is your character draft? Is there any pain here? 262 00:13:24,480 --> 00:13:26,240 Speaker 1: Like? Can you draw upon that from real life? 263 00:13:26,280 --> 00:13:29,439 Speaker 2: Like there's all this amazing stuff, but it's like, but 264 00:13:29,640 --> 00:13:31,720 Speaker 2: how do you put that into practice? Like how do 265 00:13:31,760 --> 00:13:36,160 Speaker 2: you like as an audition or how do you like 266 00:13:36,600 --> 00:13:40,240 Speaker 2: survive for making no money for massive chunks of time? 267 00:13:41,080 --> 00:13:43,440 Speaker 2: You know, and I just think it's like I had 268 00:13:43,480 --> 00:13:47,480 Speaker 2: a really rude awakening this week. Like Boss and I 269 00:13:47,520 --> 00:13:50,040 Speaker 2: have just been you know, thinking about our lives together, 270 00:13:50,160 --> 00:13:53,240 Speaker 2: and he's the best obviously, and we want to you know, 271 00:13:53,840 --> 00:13:55,960 Speaker 2: start to be at our future together, and we were 272 00:13:56,440 --> 00:13:59,199 Speaker 2: started to like we've started to toy with the idea. 273 00:13:58,920 --> 00:14:02,000 Speaker 1: Of like Preyer Prove and houses and stuff like that. 274 00:14:02,200 --> 00:14:07,040 Speaker 2: And because I didn't realize this, because I put money 275 00:14:07,040 --> 00:14:10,880 Speaker 2: aside to come to America, so I always know, Okay, 276 00:14:10,880 --> 00:14:13,760 Speaker 2: you're not going to make much money when you're in America, right, 277 00:14:14,240 --> 00:14:16,960 Speaker 2: So when I'm in Australia, I work my butt off 278 00:14:17,080 --> 00:14:18,880 Speaker 2: so that I've got this little chunk of money to 279 00:14:18,920 --> 00:14:21,800 Speaker 2: kind of see me through in America, because la is expensive, 280 00:14:22,320 --> 00:14:25,040 Speaker 2: even if you're doing it on the lean and shopping 281 00:14:25,080 --> 00:14:27,320 Speaker 2: at traded Joe's like I do. Like, even if you're 282 00:14:27,320 --> 00:14:29,120 Speaker 2: doing it my way, it still catches up with you. 283 00:14:29,160 --> 00:14:32,000 Speaker 2: Whether it's gas, whether it's rent, whether it's car rental, 284 00:14:32,200 --> 00:14:34,680 Speaker 2: like it just really really adds up. And obviously, as 285 00:14:34,720 --> 00:14:37,400 Speaker 2: you all know, the Australian dollar is not as strong as. 286 00:14:37,240 --> 00:14:39,040 Speaker 1: The American one anyway. 287 00:14:39,080 --> 00:14:41,640 Speaker 2: And you know, Matt and I've kind of been jumping 288 00:14:41,640 --> 00:14:44,760 Speaker 2: through hoots with pre approval stuff, and it came back 289 00:14:44,800 --> 00:14:47,240 Speaker 2: that like they needed to know how much I'd made 290 00:14:47,320 --> 00:14:51,360 Speaker 2: this first quarter and it was like not much at all, 291 00:14:52,120 --> 00:14:53,440 Speaker 2: and they're like, well you. 292 00:14:53,840 --> 00:14:57,440 Speaker 1: Can't get alone, and I was like shiver me timbers. 293 00:14:57,520 --> 00:14:57,880 Speaker 1: And so. 294 00:14:59,840 --> 00:15:01,440 Speaker 2: It it's been like a week of like a lot 295 00:15:01,440 --> 00:15:03,720 Speaker 2: of rude awakenings like I've come here and not made 296 00:15:03,880 --> 00:15:05,400 Speaker 2: much money, which. 297 00:15:05,880 --> 00:15:07,520 Speaker 1: Is to be expected. 298 00:15:07,680 --> 00:15:10,280 Speaker 2: Like on all the forums, everyone that's got a green 299 00:15:10,320 --> 00:15:13,240 Speaker 2: card is like it takes eighteen months to start like 300 00:15:13,280 --> 00:15:16,760 Speaker 2: flicking over to making some really great us muller. But 301 00:15:16,920 --> 00:15:20,320 Speaker 2: like it's really confronting and it's a hard pill to swallow, 302 00:15:20,360 --> 00:15:22,800 Speaker 2: and I think I want to be really honest about 303 00:15:22,800 --> 00:15:25,600 Speaker 2: that on this pod because I know a lot of 304 00:15:25,680 --> 00:15:29,080 Speaker 2: like aspiring actors come over here and it's freaking amazing, 305 00:15:29,200 --> 00:15:32,240 Speaker 2: Like it's the best training. Like the training that I'm doing, 306 00:15:32,320 --> 00:15:37,480 Speaker 2: Like I've been doing multicam sitcom training, I'm doing this weekend. 307 00:15:37,480 --> 00:15:40,560 Speaker 2: I'm doing a special one off voice acting course in 308 00:15:40,920 --> 00:15:45,760 Speaker 2: just video games. I'm then doing an intensive voice acting 309 00:15:46,040 --> 00:15:47,720 Speaker 2: like all stuff that is really hard to kind of 310 00:15:47,760 --> 00:15:49,400 Speaker 2: like get your hands on in Australia. 311 00:15:49,840 --> 00:15:52,760 Speaker 1: So the training is like none other. 312 00:15:52,960 --> 00:15:56,280 Speaker 2: And also even though I'm facing all this rejection, it 313 00:15:56,400 --> 00:16:01,040 Speaker 2: is a brilliant lesson in building resilience, in building tenacity, 314 00:16:01,080 --> 00:16:03,160 Speaker 2: in building all these things that you need to succeed. 315 00:16:03,880 --> 00:16:06,200 Speaker 2: But it still sucks when you're in it, Like you're 316 00:16:06,200 --> 00:16:09,880 Speaker 2: in the mud, and it feels freaking terrible when you're 317 00:16:09,920 --> 00:16:13,160 Speaker 2: in it. That said, like, and I can't talk about 318 00:16:13,160 --> 00:16:15,800 Speaker 2: it because I've signed an NDA, but I'm shooting a 319 00:16:15,880 --> 00:16:19,400 Speaker 2: show really soon and it's just a one day like 320 00:16:19,400 --> 00:16:21,160 Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure I'm just a day player. And it's 321 00:16:21,160 --> 00:16:22,960 Speaker 2: really awesome and it looks really good and if it 322 00:16:22,960 --> 00:16:25,080 Speaker 2: gets picked up, that could be really. 323 00:16:24,920 --> 00:16:25,600 Speaker 1: Massive for me. 324 00:16:25,720 --> 00:16:29,920 Speaker 2: But like, because I've had so many failures here, it's 325 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:33,840 Speaker 2: really hard to kind of like until it actually airs 326 00:16:33,880 --> 00:16:36,760 Speaker 2: on a television or on a streaming site, I don't 327 00:16:36,800 --> 00:16:41,840 Speaker 2: want to get excited about it because like I'm just 328 00:16:41,920 --> 00:16:44,960 Speaker 2: so aware of like all these kind of false starts here. 329 00:16:45,440 --> 00:16:46,880 Speaker 2: So yeah, I just want to be and I'm not 330 00:16:46,880 --> 00:16:48,280 Speaker 2: trying to be Debbie Down. I just want to be 331 00:16:48,360 --> 00:16:51,800 Speaker 2: really honest. And I freaking love it here. It's amazing, 332 00:16:51,840 --> 00:16:55,040 Speaker 2: And I know, like sometimes you don't realize how good 333 00:16:55,040 --> 00:16:57,320 Speaker 2: the lesson is until you're out the other side of it. 334 00:16:57,880 --> 00:17:01,200 Speaker 2: But yeah, I would say that to like any Aussies 335 00:17:01,240 --> 00:17:04,600 Speaker 2: that are wanting to come over, like have money in 336 00:17:04,640 --> 00:17:08,159 Speaker 2: the can, like have some savings, like to be able 337 00:17:08,240 --> 00:17:11,840 Speaker 2: to sustain you over here, because I'll label eat you 338 00:17:11,880 --> 00:17:16,400 Speaker 2: alive and absolutely spit you out. And it's almost like again, 339 00:17:17,080 --> 00:17:20,919 Speaker 2: but it is almost designed to make you fail and 340 00:17:20,960 --> 00:17:23,800 Speaker 2: it's inevitable, like you are going to fail here. But 341 00:17:25,560 --> 00:17:29,600 Speaker 2: like I said, the training, the resilience, the tenacity, it 342 00:17:29,640 --> 00:17:32,960 Speaker 2: gets you so ready that when you do get that opportunity, 343 00:17:33,440 --> 00:17:36,200 Speaker 2: you just spread those wings and fly. You know, it's 344 00:17:36,200 --> 00:17:38,280 Speaker 2: not like you need to cut your teeth and pound 345 00:17:38,320 --> 00:17:40,800 Speaker 2: the pavement and do it tough. You've done it, like 346 00:17:41,160 --> 00:17:44,119 Speaker 2: you've done it. But what people don't realize is the 347 00:17:44,160 --> 00:17:46,479 Speaker 2: greats that we look up to. Your Margo, Robbie's, You're 348 00:17:46,520 --> 00:17:50,320 Speaker 2: Chris Hemsworth. It's like all these amazing big Aussies that 349 00:17:50,359 --> 00:17:53,399 Speaker 2: have made it. You don't really hear their struggle story. 350 00:17:53,440 --> 00:17:55,760 Speaker 2: Like I've heard interviews with Chris Hemsworth, who's sleeping in 351 00:17:55,800 --> 00:17:59,000 Speaker 2: a car in la at one stage fed stories of 352 00:17:59,040 --> 00:18:03,399 Speaker 2: like lim like his visa was nearly expired when he 353 00:18:03,680 --> 00:18:06,359 Speaker 2: was cast in the role opposite Miley. 354 00:18:06,520 --> 00:18:08,000 Speaker 1: That was his breakthrough role. 355 00:18:09,480 --> 00:18:12,320 Speaker 2: You know, Margo came here with all the neighbors' money 356 00:18:13,640 --> 00:18:15,160 Speaker 2: to sustain herself for three years. 357 00:18:15,280 --> 00:18:16,200 Speaker 1: So I think. 358 00:18:18,920 --> 00:18:21,480 Speaker 2: I want to share this phase, like I want to 359 00:18:21,480 --> 00:18:24,520 Speaker 2: share the Struggle Street phase with you, because it is 360 00:18:24,560 --> 00:18:27,280 Speaker 2: a struggle and it is hard and it is tough. 361 00:18:28,480 --> 00:18:28,920 Speaker 1: There you go. 362 00:18:29,119 --> 00:18:32,919 Speaker 2: There's my two cents about how alais going right now, 363 00:18:33,359 --> 00:18:36,400 Speaker 2: and you just got to keep going though. I've had 364 00:18:36,440 --> 00:18:41,880 Speaker 2: two amazing pods that I've recorded this week too. They're 365 00:18:41,880 --> 00:18:45,760 Speaker 2: not coming out for a couple of weeks, but oh, 366 00:18:45,800 --> 00:18:48,200 Speaker 2: I'm so excited both. 367 00:18:49,040 --> 00:18:51,959 Speaker 1: One as an American. One is an Australian that is 368 00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:56,960 Speaker 1: going so so so so so so well here and 369 00:18:57,000 --> 00:18:57,959 Speaker 1: I'm so proud of her. 370 00:18:57,960 --> 00:19:00,680 Speaker 2: And I'm actually going to her movie premiere on Friday night, 371 00:19:00,760 --> 00:19:03,720 Speaker 2: so I might tell you all about. 372 00:19:03,400 --> 00:19:07,679 Speaker 1: That in next week's catch up. But yeah, that's me. 373 00:19:08,480 --> 00:19:09,919 Speaker 1: That's that's that's me. 374 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:11,840 Speaker 2: I always get you a quote, don't I at the 375 00:19:11,920 --> 00:19:16,680 Speaker 2: end took my screen grabs. Here we go, got it. 376 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:21,080 Speaker 2: This one is by Stilvester Stallone. Sylvester Stallone. I feel 377 00:19:21,080 --> 00:19:27,960 Speaker 2: like I just said Stilvester Sylvester Stallone aka Rocky. I 378 00:19:27,960 --> 00:19:30,760 Speaker 2: think his nickname is Slick. I think people call him slick. 379 00:19:30,760 --> 00:19:33,879 Speaker 2: Correct me if I'm wrong. I believe there's an inner 380 00:19:33,960 --> 00:19:38,199 Speaker 2: power that makes winners or losers, and the winners are 381 00:19:38,240 --> 00:19:41,440 Speaker 2: the ones who really listen to the truth. 382 00:19:41,240 --> 00:19:42,120 Speaker 1: Of their hearts. 383 00:19:42,760 --> 00:19:44,879 Speaker 2: Now, I don't know if you know his story, but 384 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:48,399 Speaker 2: like he was so poor, like broke, actor had to 385 00:19:48,440 --> 00:19:51,280 Speaker 2: sell his dog to live, Like he literally saw his 386 00:19:51,280 --> 00:19:55,679 Speaker 2: dog for thirty dollars, and then he took the He 387 00:19:55,720 --> 00:19:58,119 Speaker 2: wrote Rocky in three days after going to see a 388 00:19:58,119 --> 00:20:01,680 Speaker 2: fight and would say I went to met with the studios, 389 00:20:01,720 --> 00:20:04,520 Speaker 2: met with like production houses all that, and they're like, yeah, 390 00:20:04,560 --> 00:20:06,639 Speaker 2: well buy the script off you, but you can't be 391 00:20:06,680 --> 00:20:08,320 Speaker 2: in it. He's like, you don't get it unless I'm 392 00:20:08,359 --> 00:20:11,119 Speaker 2: in it. He's like, I've got nothing. Now, what's the difference. 393 00:20:11,160 --> 00:20:13,159 Speaker 2: I think they after him thirty six thousand or something, 394 00:20:13,560 --> 00:20:16,720 Speaker 2: is that what's the difference? Like, you either put me 395 00:20:16,760 --> 00:20:18,800 Speaker 2: in it or and you can have the script, or 396 00:20:18,880 --> 00:20:20,119 Speaker 2: you don't put me in it and you can't have 397 00:20:20,160 --> 00:20:22,680 Speaker 2: the script. And it paid off for him. Obviously, Rocky 398 00:20:22,840 --> 00:20:25,920 Speaker 2: was like again his breakout. So yeah, I. 399 00:20:25,840 --> 00:20:27,520 Speaker 1: Love that quote. What a good eat. 400 00:20:27,520 --> 00:20:29,040 Speaker 2: I'm going to read it one more time, and that 401 00:20:29,119 --> 00:20:33,680 Speaker 2: will be the end for our EP Today, Sylvester Stallone, 402 00:20:34,400 --> 00:20:38,920 Speaker 2: I believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers, 403 00:20:39,680 --> 00:20:43,040 Speaker 2: and the winners are the ones who really listen. 404 00:20:43,040 --> 00:20:46,480 Speaker 1: To the truth of their hearts. 405 00:20:47,320 --> 00:20:50,919 Speaker 2: There you go, big love, Go do that thing that 406 00:20:50,960 --> 00:20:57,200 Speaker 2: you love, even if it's scary and tough and uncomfortable. 407 00:20:58,240 --> 00:21:00,120 Speaker 1: Bye.