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Is Brooke Shields Quitting Acting to Focus on Her New Role as Union President of Actors’ Equity? · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: Well Brooks Shields, where it's many professional hats, but she
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  Speaker 2: took on an entirely new role when she was elected
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  Speaker 2: President of Actors Equity this past spring, which is the
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  Speaker 2: union that represents theater actors similar to SAG, which represents
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  Speaker 2: TV and film performers. On top of her acting work,
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  Speaker 2: Brook is also an author and businesswoman, and while her
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  Speaker 2: new position of president is highly demanding, brook will not
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  Speaker 2: only represent actors but will continue to act herself. She
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  Speaker 2: tells The Hollywood Reporter, I am first and foremost an actress.
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  Speaker 2: It's been what I've done my whole life. It's the
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  Speaker 2: fuel that ignites me. I go to sleep thinking about it.
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  Speaker 2: And what I've learned is that it's where I begin,
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  Speaker 2: and because of it, I'm able to do these other things.
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  Speaker 2: And while I'm not acting in between projects, I'm finding
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  Speaker 2: other ways to be creative. It all works together, and
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  Speaker 2: it all is a big machine. And these are different spokes,
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  Speaker 2: but myself, as the actor, is at the center of it.
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  Speaker 2: The words of new Actors Equity President Brooks Shields, whose
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  Speaker 2: term will keep her in that position until twenty twenty eight.
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  Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood,