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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Late Fame Star Greta Lee on Finding Fame for Herself at 38 Years Old · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: Actress Greta Lee is on a tear this summer, starring
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  Speaker 2: in three movies total, including the Massive Toy Story five,
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  Speaker 2: where she plays the bad person or bad Toy as
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  Speaker 2: the ipaddish lily Pad. She's also in the new sci
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  Speaker 2: fi thriller At the Last House in Late Fame, which
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  Speaker 2: sees arts imitating life a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Greta was a late bloomer as far as her
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  Speaker 3: career goes, too, not landing her a breakout role in
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  Speaker 3: Past Lives until she was thirty eight, and in this
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  Speaker 3: new role Late Fame, she plays a struggling actress.
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  Speaker 4: And she tells people that it took her right back
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  Speaker 4: to the early days of her career when she was
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  Speaker 4: just starting to get her first auditions, when it really
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  Speaker 4: felt like do.
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  Speaker 1: Or Die time exactly.
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  Speaker 2: She remembers waiting tables, pulling double shifts, and sneaking away
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  Speaker 2: to secretly memorize her monologues, hoping for that big break,
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  Speaker 2: which came but not for a long time, and she.
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  Speaker 3: Sees the way it played out as kind of like
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  Speaker 3: a mixed bag. Nothing turned out the way she imagined,
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  Speaker 3: and it would have been nice and obviously less stressful
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  Speaker 3: if things had happened.
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  Speaker 4: Earlier, but Greta also stresses that waiting it out committed
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  Speaker 4: to her dreams, made everything feel so much more spectacular
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  Speaker 4: than she could have ever imagined.
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  Speaker 2: Late Fame is now playing in select theaters
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  Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood,