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Lizette Santiago: From Spanish Harlem to the Silver Screen · Cinema Yūgen

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G'day. That's right. It's that time again. Time for Cinema Yugen!
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Music.
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Yes, welcome back. Cinema Yugen Lizette Santiago as our special guest today,
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born and raised in Spanish Harlem in New York City.
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She was only three years old when she was discovered to have a talent for performing.
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She had her first representation at six, and she's been going ever since then,
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catching the eye of talented casting agent Vicki Rosenberg, going for readings at 20th Century Fox.
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She's done Shakespeare in the park. She's done everything. She's a very talented
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lady with many, many years' experience in the film business, in the acting trade.
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And now, Cinema Yugen is proud to welcome the multi-talented,
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the endlessly exciting, the exquisitely exotic, Lissette Santiago.
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Oh my goodness, I love that intro. Kids.
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Lisette, it's wonderful to have you with a whole lot of heart and half a voice,
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Half a voice, yes, I'm sorry For anybody tuning in, I apologize,
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Just getting over a cold, just
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getting my voice Now my cat's meowing because she wants to talk for me.
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While your voice is slightly tainted, your aura is impeccable Thank you for being with us,
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Thank you, Ken. Thank you for having me on your show. Now, you've been at this
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a very, very long time, this acting. You're just three years old.
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Three years old.
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Since a kid. Since I was a kid. I was originally born and raised in New York City.
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My mom wanted, you know, she was a stage mom. She wanted to be an actress.
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Of course, she decided that she was going to live through me.
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So she got me my first agent. And actually, my grandpa used to paint.
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Pickles, excuse me, my grandpa used to paint, my cat used to paint buildings
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in New York City, entertainment buildings.
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And one day she took me to work and they were painting. And no one's supposed
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to be in the buildings when my grandpa was painting with his company.
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And my mom worked for him, my brother worked for him. But then one day she took
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me to work and an agent came in
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and she said, who's that little girl under the table,
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you know plane or whatever like that and my my
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mom said that's my little girl is she i want her to be an actress she
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likes performing it's just that's amazing i can tell bring
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her in for an interview i liked her to meet some other
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agents in the office and that's where i got
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my first agent signed at the age of i was
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about why when she met me i was about six when
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i when i sat there yeah but uh
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i started trading at around i started
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trading at around uh wow about three three
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years old i did my first commercial training on camera
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then i booked my first play at like six seven i did beauty pageants at three
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as well you know national beauty pageants across the east coast i won a best
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commercial smile at six i was up for miss new york miss new jersey miss junior america Well,
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all by the age of 15. Wow.
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That's an incredible journey.
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It must be that I heard revision of the old saying, you know,
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the old saying that goes, you know, find something you love to do and you'll
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never work a day in your life. Yes, and I love that saying.
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An interesting revision I heard recently to that I think is also true.
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It says, find something you love to do. So you will work harder than you'll
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ever imagine, but the tools will feel light in your hands.
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Yes, yes, it's so true. And I imagine after a wealth of experiences you've had,
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that's kind of where you're at right now.
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Yeah, I mean, I've had this discussion with a lot of people in my life that
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said, you know, what did you do for your day job, you know, growing up in the business and stuff.
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So obviously I went to college, got my degree in television and radio broadcasting, minored in acting.
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But as soon as I graduated from college I um
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I went into see I
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worked at CBS in the sports department where I
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wanted to be a sports host at one point then I
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worked for them for about a year and then I booked a national
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tour so there you go out of college working one
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year at a huge production uh network and
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then I was on tour doing Manila Mancha Donkey Kong there
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about six months getting paid weekly and I
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was like 21 at the time or whatever very young and
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it might have been even 2021 yeah and you know
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I forget that I got paid every week and they said here's your paycheck after
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performing every week I was like that's right I am a working actor and you know
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I did a lot of modeling modeling when I was a kid you know beauty pageants I
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won stuff my mom saved my money and everything and yeah I but what I was telling people was excuse me
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Is that I never had to work waiting tables and stuff and not putting that down
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at all or anything like that.
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But I was blessed that all my jobs, my day jobs were in the entertainment field,
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whether it be modeling, acting, hosting, you know, working in sports.
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You know, doing musical theater, movies, commercials, print work, hand modeling work.
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I mean, every one of my jobs came from the entertainment business.
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I worked in an escape room as an actor.
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I've worked as a car show model traveling across the U.S. And again,
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all making good money, all working nonstop.
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So that has been, those have been all my day jobs, all the entertainment business. So I feel blessed.
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I feel blessed. one day my friend said
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you need to work as a waitress one day just to see what
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it's like i'm like i'm up for it i'm an actress willing
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to try anything i played a waitress but i
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said that wasn't in my universe that wasn't in my
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path you know i've been blessed i know a lot of people do that
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it's a great side hustle i did part a little
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bit and that's like acting too but yeah
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i mean i've just been lucky to have all my
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jobs come directly from entertainment so it's
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it's almost it's something that that
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people getting into the the acting profession don't
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realize sometimes how tenacious you have
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to be and you can't be snobbish in
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any way shape or form or turn your nose up but at any
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work really I mean you have to go where there's
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an audition if you can do it if you can be the voice
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of an animated dog in a commercial or a
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radio ad or Shakespeare in the park or
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whatever it is you have to jump on it right and it's
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funny I've done all of that I've done Shakespeare in the park I've trained
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as a classical actress and I've
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also recently I don't know if you know this Kent but
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I booked the voice of the female Zoltar for
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the animatronic oh okay yeah it's like
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you know the movie big where they have the zoltar well
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my clients own all the zoltars movie for
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everything and they build this female spanish zoltar.
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Who's very pretty she's hot and i
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was i after i auditioned three
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weeks of waiting an eight-month project it finally was released and i i took
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on the role of the animatronic for the for the voice of that character you said
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in another interview that that you were getting in the habit of taping yourself
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before that sort of thing was popular.
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Yeah. It seems very essential today. You can go on YouTube and certain performers
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do auditions and put themselves on there,
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you know, not just a reel of their work, the things that they have done,
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but they tend to read parts and things like that to put themselves out there
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in the hope that their tape or their video may be passed in,
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you know, into one of those magical lottery-winning sort of casting situations
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where they go, oh, we saw this tape of this kid on YouTube or we got sent this
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tape of somebody, we need to find this person.
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But you were doing that sort of thing long before it was popular. Yeah.
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Oh my god yeah i was doing self tapes when they were actually tapes like they were right,
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i'm like i even tell people i'm like why are
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they still called safe tapes self tapes they're not on tapes anymore they're
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on like mp3s and all this stuff but it's hysterical that that that self tape
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phrase has continued on even though it's no longer you know an actual tape i
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remember one time I had an audition for,
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I think it was my first time in LA for Mary Jo Slater. I auditioned for her in New York.
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I happened to be in LA. She says, drop by my office and bring me a cell tape.
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I literally can't, after I recorded myself at home, have to go into her office
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and drop off the tape in person because that was the other thing.
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I've been in this business for a long time, so you had
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to drop off stuff to the casting directors in person
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you couldn't email it you had to drop it off back an email was just starting
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to like become to be popular but some casting directors rather you go in person
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and drop it off so it gets to them you know they prefer that and now everything's
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by email everything's self-tape i mean you know.
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Everything's on actors access casting networks you know
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you upload you send it and it's so easy never step up
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front of the office but back in the days i had to
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that was making my rounds to all the cast directors
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and i always requested though i never
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would drop in unsolicited it was always you know
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they requested it they wanted to see it it's it's
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it's funny it's funny now to watch you know
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old documentaries and and movies about hollywood where
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they're sitting around with a bunch of videotapes and watching
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random random people come in
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and and and read or or seeing those old auditions
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or depictions of those old auditions where
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there'd be one guy sitting in the room and there's a camera on a tripod and
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you come in and you say your name and you
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know who represents you or if you represented at
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all and then okay go yeah no
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explanation just do it there were times i walk into the office in la particularly
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la new york too but i've had the you know opportunity of auditioning on both
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coast and you walk in every single girl looks just like you,
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you know, you're just like,
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oh God, you know, it's like really 300 girls in here and, or maybe 50,
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they all have agents if it's on an open call.
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And I'm just like, how do I stand out?
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So like, you know, how do you stand out in situations like that?
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So what I would do is I don't always consider myself a comedic actress,
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but I've done a lot of comedy in my life, improv and all that.
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So I use a little humor in my intro when I'd slate or when I introduced myself
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to a caption director, you know, I'd say something funny and then I start my scene.
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Or I, you know, be myself. Just be yourself before you start auditioning.
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Let them see your personality, smile, and then get into the character that you're doing.
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And then when you're done, break out of that character and be yourself again.
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Some people say, go in, walk in as your character.
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That can work too. I'm not against that either. But in my personal experience,
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I booked more jobs just from being myself
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the minute I walk in the room being personable to
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the casting director saying hello I've never been
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a fan of always of talking to casting directors before we
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get started you know acting usually just introduce myself my
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agent whatever smile whatever but I've learned
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some casting directors want to talk to you
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before you audition because they want to get to know
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you and they want to see sometimes I feel like if
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they can throw you off your game or if you're willing and
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you're so prepared that you can get right back into
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your character no matter what so sometimes
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I feel like in a test so I've always
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been like nervous when they do that to me but I
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feel like I've learned from that experience and said no I'm
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going to answer their questions I'm going to listen to them I'm going to respond
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and then I'm going to be prepared let me go right back into my character
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so I've trained myself how to handle interview situations practicing at home
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just to have those little moments because you never know when something's going
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to happen there was a time I walked into the room and I tripped I almost fell
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on my face and I got the part right yeah.
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Because because there's there's always a danger that that people don't realize
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is sometimes you you they've made their decision before you even get the room
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like because they've they might have seen a photo or something you've sent in already.
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And so it becomes less about acting.
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And like a lot of things in this business, it becomes about selling yourself
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because ultimately you have to work with these people for an indeterminate length of time.
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And sometimes it's got a lot to do with personality.
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Like, can I work with this person for six months, six weeks,
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six days? How long? True.
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Absolutely. And I have been very blessed and gifted that a lot of directors
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I've worked with always call me to want to work a second time in a row.
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Some people say, don't work with someone more than three times.
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Well, you need work. So work with somebody as many times as you can.
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But I've been lucky. And to me, it's really telling that they're just like, she's easy to work with.
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She did her job on set. that I want to bring her in for a second part or I want
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to bring her for something else.
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I just did a movie called Luija. It's a Spanish horror film.
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I shot it during COVID. We had all the permission, all that stuff.
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It was a short. It was all COVID, you know, rules or whatever.
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I worked with the director. At first, she didn't even know she wanted to hire me.
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The part originally was a male. It got switched to a female. She met me.
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This other director, who I worked with three times, backed me up,
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told the director, you got to see this girl.
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So she talked to me, met with me, interviewed me. She said, okay, I want to hire her.
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And we'd shot everything on set.
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Again, I felt like she still was a little reluctant at first,
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but she loved what I did on set. She was like, you did a great job. Amazing.
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She just called me in about two weeks ago to audition for a play, A Casa 101.
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And I worked on a film with her, but she called me in for theater.
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That to me is just, wow, I did something right
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that two different mediums and you
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saw that I could do theater as well you know
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yes it's it's a it's a multi-faceted business in which many things can lead
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to to many other things and like you said once in in another interview you be
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nice to everyone be nice to the secretary be nice to the person that shows you
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in the door because you never know you,
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You never know. You never know. You never know. As they used to say,
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be nice to the people you meet on the way up because you might meet them again on the way down.
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You might. You might. And then you might be best friends on the way down.
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I always say, too, not everybody in the business is going to like you.
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You're not going to like everybody in the business. But if you respect people
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and be nice to them, whether you like them or not, just show respect.
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You might start to find something you like about them. You know,
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you might start to like, oh, we have something in common.
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Oh, I didn't think I was going to like you, but you like strawberries.
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I like strawberries, too. Or you're allergic to strawberries.
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I'm actually allergic to strawberries. Or you're allergic to strawberries,
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too. You never know, you know.
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There was a time, excuse me, I was in New York City, and there was a secretary
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at the studio called TBI Studios in New York City, a place where a lot of actors go and everything.
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And I walk in and the secretary's there
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and she was a little angry sometimes
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a little like in her own world or whatever but
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I'd always go up to her like hey how are you how are you doing today
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she's like oh hey what's your name like Lizette nice to meet
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you she's like nice to meet you too let me walk into your studio because
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I'd always write a studio to work on my monologues or scenes or
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whatever always working on my you know my chops and when
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I would leave I'd say okay bye see you tomorrow she said see
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you tomorrow the next day I'll go back in there hi Kristen
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how are you doing nice to see you again she's like Lizette nice to see you again
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this would go on every day and every all the other actions like she's so tough
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bad person she's so horrible she's so rude she's so mean and you know I always
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had a good connection with her because I opened her up a little bit and I was
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just was nice to her and she reciprocated.
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Anyway, one day I went back into the studio, months had gone by,
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and she wasn't there. And I was like, where is she? Where's Kristen? Whatever.
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And I said, oh, Lizette, we don't know if you know, but she got a promotion.
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I was like, okay, that's great. Where is she working at now?
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Oh, she's a casting director. And she wanted me to give you this note.
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And I got the note. And she said, your first audition, I mean,
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the first casting call I have, you got an audition. I'm bringing you in.
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So she called me in for an audition. her first casting
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session and i got a call back i didn't
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book it but the fact that she called me and she didn't call any of the other
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actors maybe a few that she had you know got wrong with but she called me in
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and i thought that was amazing to have experienced that you know just for me
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it's it's incredibly important i remember back in the dark ages of the 20th century when i was,
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doing some acting and I was doing a screen acting class because I'd done,
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like you, a lot of theatre and was still playing to the back row.
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So I had to learn to rein that in. So I went to a screen acting class and it
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was at a casting agency and the lady who ran it, Jan Liddiard,
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I think her name, she was fantastic, always nice.
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I was not represented by her, but I would come into this class every day and
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say hello and talk to her.
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And then one day I was leaving the class and she just stood there and looked
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up at me and she said, you know, you're tall.
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And I said, yeah. She said, do you own a leather jacket and a pair of sunglasses?
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And I said, yeah. If not, I'll get them.
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And she said, listen, and she gave me a bit of paper. She said,
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show up at this address tomorrow.
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They're looking for guys over six feet with a leather jacket and sunglasses.
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She didn't tell, she didn't say anyone else. She didn't, like I said,
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she didn't represent me.
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She just said, I just know that there's this casting going on.
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They're looking for guys like you. So show up.
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Yep. At nine o'clock. Bring a leather jacket and sunglasses and just walk in.
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And yeah, she said, no matter what they say, just, just walk in and I guarantee
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you'll get something. And I did.
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Easy. So yeah, just based purely on, you know, being nice and,
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and being the right, being the right person at the right place at the right
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time. It can. At the right time.
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It can happen. And like you said too, showing up, showing up.
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That's the other part of it too. You know, you just want to work out.
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If you have all these opportunities, you show up. The rest is up to the universe and luck.
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Oh, sure. I had a Hollywood screenwriter tell me once that the success in this
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business, a lot of people see it as like being struck by lightning or winning the lotto.
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He said, I came to my success and a better understanding is that if you want
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to get struck by lightning, you have to put yourself where the lightning strikes.
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This is true. This is true.
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If you don't venture outside when it's raining, you might never get it.
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Yeah, we might need to start doing that.
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I mean, you know, which is a fancy way of saying just be ready,
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be prepared. Like Abraham Lincoln
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once said, I will prepare and one day my chance will come, you know.
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Yes, yes. And you don't want to be caught on the opposite side of that coin
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where you get the opportunity, you get a phone call out of the blue,
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can you come in, can you do this, can you put this on tape or phone or whatever
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the case may be and not be ready.
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Yeah, you have to be, I mean, there it's like today I have dealing with this
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laryngitis, little sickness.
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And obviously I was like, I got to show up, do my thing.
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But there've been times where I've auditioned and I had a casting director.
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I was doing a show and I had to drive from Anaheim to LA. This was like a callback.
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And I get in there, I was bad on cold. I almost turned down the callback because
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I didn't feel too good or whatever. But my manager at the time was like, go.
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The casting director still wants you to go. Go. I said, okay, fine.
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So I showed up and it was so cool.
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A lot of panel producers, casting directors, and the main casting director goes, this is Lizette.
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Keep in mind, she drove 45 minutes to be here with us.
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She's also battling a cold, but she is prepared and she's ready to do.
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And I was off book. I was ready to go.
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And you know I ended up doing my thing they kept
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me in the room after that for about a good 20 minutes
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asking me questions blah blah blah I didn't
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end up booking the part and I really don't know why those are the times they're
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like oh it felt like I did everything right you know I felt like was it my illness
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was it this but I didn't know the reason because I never sometimes I don't really
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like to know but I realized you know sometimes the part's just not meant for
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you or Or maybe, you know,
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they thought maybe she's too young or too old or whatever.
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So I didn't want to pressure myself. But the fact that they really wanted to
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get to know me and the cast director put me like on a high pedestal made me
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feel really good that day.
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It's just, you know, you just, I just showed up. And me showing up with all
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the stuff kind of preventing me from being there, even almost myself,
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I still pushed through, you know.
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Oh, sure, sure. and having the courage and the preparedness.
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I remember George Miller once telling a story about a very young Nicole Kidman. She was up for...
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Dead car i think it was have you seen dead yeah but she
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he said she she was of course
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seen as much too young to to play the role but she
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got the role because she was the most prepared she came in
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with props she came in with what she
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thinks her character would wear she knew
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her lines back to front so regardless of
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the fact that she was maturity was probably not you know ideal casting she was
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the one that was ready to go in the room and and it was it was you know of course
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you know you go from strength to strength after that because the more agents.
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Managers directors producers whoever it is you're working with see how committed
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you are to what it is you do it increases your value not just you know monetary
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wise but you're more likely to be hired because they can count on you. What's that?
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They can count on you. So that's more than likely a factor that's going to play
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into it, the fact that you're dependable.
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Absolutely and there are times too and good for her too because she did her part as an actor.
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Excuse me and it went in her favor there's been
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times where I was self-taming my particular my particular agent from Maryland
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one time because we had regional man uh agents but I had regional agents back
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then two at one point he told me here's the sides for this this tv show go audition
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for it. Put yourself on tape. Send it to me. Blah, blah, blah.
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I read the part. I liked it. Whatever.
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I did my thing. And I didn't get that part.
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But this is something else I wanted to add. When you make an impression,
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not only are you prepared and you show up, but when you make an impression,
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even if you're not right, you never know what can happen.
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I did my work. I worked hard and prepared for that part.
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The casting didn't think I was right for that part. But a A week later,
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my agent calls me and says, hey, what's your schedule like for the next week or so?
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I said, I don't know why. He says, because remember that audition you had?
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I said, yeah, I thought they already booked that. He's like,
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they did. But they liked you so much, they wrote another part for you. Oh, wow.
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Yeah, they want to fly you out to Virginia. They think you're perfect for this.
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And they want to book you like today. So they want to.
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So I was like, so that's the other thing, too. My manager in New York would
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tell me, always make an impression.
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Go in the room, win the room, make an impression.
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Do you get the part or not? Of course, as actors, you always want to get the part.
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But whether you get it or not, make an impression.
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Make them like you. Make them see you. And you never know what can happen.
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Yeah, that's true. That's true. I remember talking to a car salesman once,
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a very good car salesman. And I said, what's your trick?
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And he said, I'm so good that when someone comes up to me to buy a car,
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I'm trying to sell them a car today But I'm going to make such an impression
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That the next time they think about buying a car They're going to call me.
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Yep. Yep. Exactly. Like I went to a furniture store the other day because I'm
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looking to buy a new couch. I'm kind of tired of my couch.
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And the guy was so cool. I wasn't ready to buy that day, but I was looking, just getting ideas.
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And he showed me the most amazing couch, a couch and a loveseat that I can't stop thinking about.
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But attached to that was, I don't want to buy it from anybody else but him the next time I go there.
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So I said, I got your schedule. I got his card. i said
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when i'm ready you know what i want already i want to
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get this couch from you and you know what i'm ready i want
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so that's been yeah so that's a
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great example of the car car sales when you show me something i
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like i enjoyed it i wasn't ready yet to purchase it because we are a product
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actors entertainment we're all a product especially actors but they didn't buy
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that but they'll buy later on if they like you so always just do a good a good impression.
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Pixel, stop. It's a cat.
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She wants to be on the show. That's okay.
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Yes, reputation, reputation, reputation. Oh, I have lost my reputation.
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And what is left is bestial.
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Bestial. But, Alyssa, you've been a real trooper. I feel really bad for making
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you tax your voice. Oh, don't worry.
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I had another interview this morning, too.
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We got on the line. They're like, oh, God, are you okay? They're like,
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we'll come back, we'll revisit, it's fine. Okay, thanks.
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It's great. I'm just glad. I wanted to be on the show. Thank you so much, Kit, for this moment.
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It's tremendous. Do you have any films or work at the moment that you wish to
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tease the audience that you're going to got coming up or being in?
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Yes, I have plenty of things. I'm literally signed to like 12 dozen projects
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right now. Wow, there you go.
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You know, some still need financing,
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some this, that. Some are coming together. But I will tell you this.
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I did, obviously, people can go to my Instagram all about Lizette Santiago.
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You can see my stuff on Facebook.
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But I did a movie called Party Panda, the birth of a serial killer.
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I play the role of Sierra.
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And I don't want to give you too much about it. Yes, it has to do with pandas
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because everybody loves pandas.
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But it is a horror movie it's a horror comedy short
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but we officially are trying to
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get the last of our financing or majority
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of our financing now but we've got things coming in to go ahead and make the
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feature film of that and i'm attached to that project as well and you can visit
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party panda the birth of a siri keller instagram is called party panda film
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we've won over 34 awards wow there you go 16 nominations.
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We've been nominated for Best Ensemble Cast twice.
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We have a great cast, great actors. They're all working. My boyfriend actually
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wrote it, produced it, and started it.
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Our director, Uriah Hare, has one director.
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Our collaborators, producers, everybody on board has been fantastic.
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So this film hopefully will be done, we're hoping, in the next couple of months or so.
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There you go. We will put all of Elisette's links in the description. Check it out.
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I'm excited to see one on your list here, Pinocchio.
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Pinocchio. Oh, yeah, Pinocchio, yes.
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Actually, Michael came to our – we had a screening of Party Panda,
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I'm a boyfriend of a serial killer at the Silicon Film Festival and also the
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Golden State Film Festival Michael came out to the Golden State Film Festival
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to support us and my boyfriend and I are both attached to,
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Pinocchio Unmasked that's another film we'll be doing hopefully at the end of
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this year or sooner so that's another film I'm also attached to playing Josefina
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one of the leads wife in the film so yeah that's the other project Michael so.
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That's fantastic listen you're a wonderful lady again
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i feel terrible that we've uh taxed your wonderful voice
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this afternoon we've ruined
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the instrument i know it's fine a lot
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of tea a lot of honey today for the rest of the day and rest
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most important but uh i do a lot of voiceover stuff
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too this is not the first time this happens to me i'm
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like i want to cut out my tonsils but i saw
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i'm used to having the process how to take care
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of it but i again i'm glad you still have me on the
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show maybe next time we have a second
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part and i'll have my voice hear you
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in hear you in full swing in full flight in all of your majesty but until then
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listeners check out all of the links in the description lisette stantiago the
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tremendously talented exquisitely experienced.
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Delightfully debonair. A lot of years under my belt. Without giving away my eight.
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She's got so much in store. She's never a bore.
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And we look forward to everything Lisette has in store.
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Check out all the links in the description. Lisette, thank you.
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We are very honored to have you as our guest, and we look forward to having
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you back. Thank you for being on Cinema You Get.
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Thank you, Ken, so much. I had so much fun, and you're awesome,
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man. I must come visit you in Australia soon.
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Yes. Yes, please do. We'll come down. We'll have a beer. We'll throw the proverbial
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shrimp on the barbie or prawns. We'll throw the barbie.
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We'll have a prawn cocktail and a beer and a whole lot of cheer.
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But until then, Lisette, take care and all the best with everything.
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May the movie God smile on everything you've got coming out, hey?
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Thank you. Yeah, a lot coming up. Yes, Lisette Santiago. Check out all of her
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links in the description.
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Wonderful lady, super talented. We can't wait to see what she's got on the bottlenecks.
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Check out the links in the description, ladies and gentlemen.
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And as always, my little Yugenites, thank you for listening to us on Spotify
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or wherever you choose to listen to your favorite podcasts.
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I'm Kent Hill, and until next time, you've been listening to Cinema Yugen.
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Music.