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Erin Myers · Mommywood

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Mom. Hey, I'm your host.
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Emily V. I'm an actor teacher, and a new
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mom. Once my daughter arrived, I went
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on the hunt for answers to all my questions about being a
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working actor. Mom, and what did I find?
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Well practically nothing. So here I am asking all the
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questions to try to figure out how people do it, how our
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mothers balancing and not balancing Parenthood in this
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crazy. Tree.
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Join me and my amazing guess. As a, we take a real look into
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the life of a working entertainment industry moms
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everywhere. On this episode, I'm talking
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with Aaron Ross. Oh, Aaron is just the sweetest.
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We met a million years ago, she actually did my first headshots
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in Allah, you guys. It's wild because now she is
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married. She has three beautiful
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daughters and she's living in Atlanta.
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We talked about how she moved with two kids during the Endemic
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without ever having been to Italy, and to, before they
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really took a leap of faith and it is working out for them.
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We talk about the pros and cons of being in Atlanta.
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Let me tell you, she's really selling me on Atlanta.
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You guys, we talked about getting rep in Atlanta.
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We talked about how they're also raped in LA and how that works
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to go back and forth and choosing roles that are worth
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going back for. We also talked about not being
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unable to work while she was pregnant at all because she was
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so sick. And how now that she's had her
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third and she's done, and she's really starting to get back into
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it now and how it's a little bit different now than it was,
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especially with self tapes, we talked about self taping with
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her and her husband. Her husband is also an actor and
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the struggle of self tape, as always with three children, we
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also talked about how her husband is working on.
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Tyler Perry shows and how different the Tyler Perry world
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is from regular shooting, it's pretty crazy.
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We talked about so much. It was so so good to catch up
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with her and I really hope you guys enjoy this episode with
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Aaron Ross. I'm so happy that you're here.
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It's been being a million years. You did my first headshots, when
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I moved to LA, Ha, was it your first if my first ones in La?
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I think I did it once in New York but my first actual good
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headshot because we get a, we didn't twice at least twice.
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Yeah, maybe degree. Yeah.
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Um, are you are you still doing head shots?
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No, I gave that up a while ago, but that was such a great side
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gig for so long. And I really love doing And
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especially, like, Workman, I met so many great people, you.
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I mean, it was awesome. There was just, it was a good
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side gig. Yeah.
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I love those headshots, but now looking back on it because it
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was like, almost ten years ago. Really?
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Yeah, or maybe about, yeah, I've been in La for 10 years now.
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So that's why I say that is a lot longer for me, actually.
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So that's crazy. Yeah.
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How long were you? And I like because now you're in
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Atlanta Atlanta. Yes I was in LA for a long, long
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long time, my brother back in you I was there for a long time
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and yeah and I you know did all the side hustles and the the
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bartending Forever Jones Hollywood, whoo-hoo.
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I know I love it, I love it. I haven't been back in two
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years. I'm so sad.
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I want to get back there and see everybody eat all the yummy
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food. But yeah.
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So we so I start and I did the headshots and which was great
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because I actually, I would was able to do my own because I
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would just set it up the same way that I would shoot everybody
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else. And my now husband, I would just
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have him get behind the camera and shoot my head shot.
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So we shot each other side job. It was great.
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You guys. Oh, I need this.
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Look at my cute. Just shoot it like that day.
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Like, whatever look at was or, you know?
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Oh, that's crazy. Yeah, that works out.
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No, there's your husband's an actor too.
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Yeah. He's an actor to we had though
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the best setup for lighting, like it was the best like,
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natural light. And since then I just like me,
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even just shooting pictures of my girls and stuff.
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For whatever reason, I have this like big house now, like first
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time, living in a house as an adult.
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How weird is that? Yeah, but the Doesn't come in
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well anywhere like everybody just like it's weird I don't
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know why it's just like it's the direction.
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You know like a perfect be went over the house or the apartment
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building like a cyclist like perfectly filtered and came in
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so nice and yeah here I am. I trying to figure it out but um
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because you know you gotta shoot all the pictures of babies of
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course. Yeah.
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I mean, I'm pros and cons. I mean that's so exciting that
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you have a house. I know which I don't know how
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How people do in l.a.? Do you think so how long have
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you been in Atlanta now? So we moved here in March of
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last year, so year and a half. Oh so not too long.
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Yeah, I love you have three girls.
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I have two older sisters. You do this.
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It's just three of you. Oh my gosh.
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I love the BOGO. Great.
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I just stand there. So, the two older ones that just
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been best friends from the start.
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There were so close in age that I know.
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Yeah, that's funny months. Yeah, there there am I right?
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My oldest sister is six years older, which is about the same
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almost as yours, I guess. Yeah blows.
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Yeah, we're all like best friends.
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I love that so much. I know I'm like it's interesting
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because they are just so close and it's awesome and I really
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find it. I'm sure they will.
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Okay. So anyway by the end of that
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year we had just left LA because, you know, nothing was
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happening and we went and stayed with my family for a few months
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and then we went save his family.
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And everything was going virtual.
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So we were, we decided at that time, you know, we had
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considered moving to Atlanta prior to that.
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We had just thought about it just because we yeah, just as
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far as like buying a house and having land and you know,
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everything being a little bit more geared towards families and
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they have a huge. No entertainment industry here.
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Like it's huge. Huge market.
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So We had thought about it but I don't think it would have ever.
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I mean maybe but I don't know if it would have ever happened.
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Had the pandemic that happened first.
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Yeah so that made it possible because all of a sudden we could
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do our Ela auditions from wherever we were we didn't have
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to be in l.a. anymore and now though well the self tapes I
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don't hate. Yeah I know we were like gosh we
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could live anywhere else like move to Bahamas on.
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Oh yeah. We were like let's let's get
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this Atlanta thing. A try.
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And by the way He had never been to Atlanta.
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Oh wow. But the weird thing is is in my
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head. I was so convinced it was the
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right thing to do and I remember being I was period Delaware with
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his family and I was on a like a zoom happy hour with them.
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Some friends back home in l.a. all actresses.
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Yeah. And I was telling them I said
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like Atlanta, this is you guys, I'm telling you this is where
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it's at like we're all moving to Atlanta.
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We're gonna poof, there it is. At the time you actually could
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you can't anymore. But you could buy like a mansion
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for like three hundred. $10. Oh my God, I was like, removing
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their you guys, the it's so busy.
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We're going to be like the big fish in the small pond.
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Or what is it? Whatever.
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Yeah, and the funny thing is, is one of my friends husbands was
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listening to me, you know, to give this whole Spiel.
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Yeah, and I got him, he was he was sold.
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So he he starts looking into it and he's like, she's not wrong,
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she's not wrong because he's not actually an actor.
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She Years as my friend and but he can, he can live anywhere and
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he was kind of ready to get out of La.
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So they moved to Atlanta the same week we did.
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Oh my God. Yeah, so funny, so crazy.
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So anyway, we came down in January of last year.
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First time to Atlanta ever. We were just we, you know, we
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got as much as Vice we could before we went and we started
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driving The Burbs and looking you know, see where we could
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live and And honestly, we didn't go about it the best way.
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I think we left our being. Like, I don't think we learned
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much, like, I don't know what, I don't know what we're gonna do
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and so then we decided that we were going to come.
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So I came down by myself, for three days, and I found us a
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place like a house and we came down to March and I'm, they,
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they were, actually were much more committed than we were
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there box. They like, got out here.
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Not like, we're buying nothing but house.
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Wow. You're like, we're gonna friends
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and like, you know, test the waters.
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And now we have Regret is something so much our life,
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because if we had bought, when we came in March last year, it
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would have been half the price of the house is now God?
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Well, you never know. I mean, yeah, I'd have done
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what? Yeah, I probably would have done
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this the same thing, it's like no.
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Yeah, I mean, and there's a lot of different places you can live
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here, you know, like yeah there's a million different ways
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to do this. So we just kind of wanted to
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feel it out first and we've been filling it out now, hurry or
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not. But yeah, we actually are
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starting to look to buy. Cuz we this is we're going to
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say, oh my God, that's so exciting.
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So to hear how did that logistically work?
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Did you just like, have all your stuff in storage while you were
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staying with family for that time?
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Well, so, okay, so still in March June, we left, we went to
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Utah. July, and August, we were in
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society and that we were in Delaware and that was when we
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decided we said, you know, we're going to give this a try,
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anything a try I think and because anyway, we did, we went
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back in September and we, for that month, we packed everything
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up. We put it all in storage and we
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left in October and then when we moved down here in March we went
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back and got everything and Kate brought it across.
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Gotcha. So sorry.
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So it was all still in because we were like on the off-campus.
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I'd go back to LA. We're like maybe we're gonna
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just so hard but yeah. I'm able to buy something.
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We weren't going to stay in the same place.
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Basically, we were, we knew we weren't going to go back to LA
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for at least. A few months.
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So we just decided to put everything in storage and stuff.
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So yeah, so we brought it all over here and and then we got
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our, I got my agent, I got a chair before that was the other
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funny thing. We you know, like I said we've
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never lived here. We didn't know that much about
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it just from you know talking to people especially couldn't stuff
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but people were saying you know they're just so fewer actors
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here that it's much easier to get an agent.
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It's much easier to get And yeah we gotta an act be yes and no
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actually I was gonna say do you find that still true?
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Because I feel like yeah I feel like everyone's moving everyone
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because of that. Yeah it really.
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Is that a production already hooked here.
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It actually was a little trickier than we thought to you
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know but we got people from. It's not it's not we were like,
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wait a minute that said we did Get a great agent, both my
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husband and I and he has had his best year yet.
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That's for sure. Thing greasing do, share an
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agent. You have the same agent, you do.
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So yeah. My husband and I do too.
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It's really funny to do a little unsure about it at first but I'm
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sure you guys will. We are thinking, I don't know.
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I mean I guess there's pros and cons for sure but I mean, no,
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we're both. Happy there and it's worked out
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really great. Yeah.
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But then we were also trying to get pregnant throughout the
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whole pandemic. And and so it was kind of for
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me, I'm not the type that liked can get pregnant and work up
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until like 7 months or what. I'm so sick from day one, my
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pregnancies are so hard, so I'm basically like out the second I
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get pregnant. Like, see ya?
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Yeah, don't forget a year and a half?
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Yeah. Like I can't, I die that stinks.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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So for me, I'm like, I don't know, I it's hard, it's hard to
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kind of get momentum going start to get momentum going.
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Anyway, but for me once I kind of start having kids, which is,
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you know, basically she's going to be 6 in January and then you
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know, I was pregnant with her for that and I must prior.
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So it's been a it's been a few years where I just kind of feel
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like I'm I'm out of the game a lot, but commercially, I was
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always in the game and commercially it was so.
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Great for me. And Allah and that's been the
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weirdest thing is, they don't really have the same commercial
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situation here. So they do they do shoot
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National commercials Rocky actually shot one here, but it's
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not the way in La where you can just go on like a million
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commercial auditions and I'm yeah, not.
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So that was kind of a bummer knowing I was giving that up,
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but at the same time super worth it I mean worth it as far as the
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other opportunities that have come up from I'm being here and
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just you know and there are still like I said, you still do
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get commercial auditions. Here is just a little different
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also. I do miss going in the room for
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commercial auditions though, there's something to be said for
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like walking in and kind of developing those relationships
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or having that interaction with the you know director and the
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guy goes for herschel's are more, just whoo.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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So I'm like I feel like they're just going to pick one of those.
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Out of a hat. Yeah, because it's always like
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tell me something about you and I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah,
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yeah. Like, I have the cutest kids
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ever seen. So how do you think Atlanta has
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been what? What are like the main
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differences and like how Between here and Atlanta.
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Because I mean, you're making, you're acting, you're making it
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sound a lot. My, am I selling you on it?
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I mean, I've only been to Atlanta once I have my uncle
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lives like, not in Atlanta, but like, right outside, I guess.
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Um, but yeah, I mean, it does seem nice as I'm talking to you
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from my two-bedroom apartment. What's up?
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That was my life for a million years.
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Yeah, besides like auditioning a book, like the commercial
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auditioning and stuff like family, life and acting.
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How do you find that it? Yeah, has been different.
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I mean, I know you said it's definitely worth it and it's
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been a great right. But what's the?
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Um, they'll like the space. And yeah, I mean Room that I'm
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in right now is I mean it's Rockies office, / are taping
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room. So it's just like a room that we
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just keep the different backdrops up and yeah I mean we
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have a taping room like there we would be like you know wait
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until the girls got a bed in the living room we like even a Glee
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and like the backdrop up on the thing and on the hooks and then
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trying to set the lighting and then doing this madness not and
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this is just like been a much easier setup.
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But I mean, when we were living in apartment, most of our
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auditions at the time were in Person like kind of a about
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touch and I do miss that, I do miss like kind of get in your
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audition preparing going in and just side giving it that one
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shot. And then you walked away, there
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is now you're like take 74 and you're like editing through the
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night and I don't know, it feels like a little more drawn out now
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and I'm not always, you know, but obviously it's just like,
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sometimes you have you have but you have the ability to do that
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because you're the one taking the They take some yeah.
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Yeah. So you're like, well, I might as
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well do one more. Um, I can do it.
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Yeah. We're like, they all the same.
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They're all your than you watching backing like something
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different. But okay, so first of all, we
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have a yard, we have a big house, we have plenty of space.
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It's amazing. It's so much more affordable.
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We're paying way less for our house and we were paying for our
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two bedroom apartment. Yeah, that's crazy.
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People here are super duper nice, Southern Hospitality is
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real friendly and there's so nice, it's crazy.
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The humidity is insane. There are bugs everywhere.
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Oh my God, backed by a cicada the other day so pros and cons
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you know there's but I mean it's awesome like a Playgrounds for
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the kids, you know, we're at the aquarium.
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We're at the zoo. There's the fair's coming here
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next week and it's like, 10 minutes down the road.
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There's just I don't know. As far as like raising kids,
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it's pretty amazing. And then I got into tennis
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because if you move to Atlanta you kind of have to apparently
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that's just that's just the thing they do here.
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Every like in the suburbs that all the neighborhoods are these
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swim tennis neighborhoods and the you swam all summer and you
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buy dinner. This.
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And so I'm playing tennis, which is super fun, so that's been
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happening. And then You do feel a little
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removed from the business in a good way and a bad way.
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So in La, I feel like everyone's an actor.
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So everywhere you go, it's all about acting, Everyone's an
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actor. We all have the same job which
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is actually kind of nice. Like you all can relate.
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You can you know, tell your stories to each other and you
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know commiserate and yada yada but here, nobody's nectar.
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Nobody knows anything about it. They're very curious also, like,
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we're kind of like these weird exotic creatures are here.
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They're like factors. Huh?
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And they can see, we're like home a lot and it's very
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confusing to them. Yeah.
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Probably. Like, where are you going to
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work rice? Not have jobs.
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What is going on? Um, but then again, like Rocky,
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I'll be like, I mean, our lives are bizarre.
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I mean because honestly Raphael be here, you know, for weeks.
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And then I'll soon as I can. Hey, I just booked a movie.
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I'm going to Europe for 12 weeks and I'm like, oh, okay.
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And he's like, and I'm leaving tomorrow and be like, yeah,
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that's just how this business goes.
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Like you're just like a happy I need, he went to Ukraine, which
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is crazy. Went to Ukraine for all this
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happen when I was pregnant with Bailey for nine weeks, and like,
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it was that he said, you know, I'm leaving, but this movies was
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so exciting. It was very like, amazing thing
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and you can cons again and it was leaving and we cap.
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So it is great because he Here a lot like we get to like family
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time is, you know, real like we're together a lot then.
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And then we have these weird sudden separations are kind of
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bizarre. That's our work for you because
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that was quite a show. You had a baby and you are
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pregnant and he had the go and you couldn't go with him
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obviously because that's well, technically, I know what else.
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But I, when I'm pregnant. Like I said, I'm dying.
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So I couldn't go like II. Think if I'd had them the two
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kids, I would have probably gone for at least a little while.
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Yeah, traveling. I mean I'm telling you my
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friends, the rough. Um, but so he just like
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resemble. He just shot a commercial back
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in LA and he was gone for two weeks because he had to go back
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for like the fitting first and then, you know.
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Oh man. Yeah yeah.
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So he was like, and again, you know, that's the fall.
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We booked it and it's like, start shooting and couple days.
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Yeah. So we're crying out.
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We kind of and I still I still Like, I would take that over him
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having a 9:00 to 5:00 every day because he is around a lot.
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Like Korea is like it's it's great like we don't know.
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And then if I booked up then he he's under can be understanding
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that to, you know, like we was kind of great that we would.
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You guys. Both, you know, or accuracy.
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You kind of know it's like tag team attack.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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It's crazy. And my mom's retired.
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So I'll just call her and be like, when he leaves.
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I'm just like, Mom, what are you doing tomorrow through?
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Through the next 12 weeks. Yes.
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You want to come out and stay and she's always like.
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Yeah, my mom is here for a couple of weeks right now.
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I love it. Nice just to visit though, not
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for, I'm impressed. We're both here.
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So well, the thing in La I thought does he when he, when
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persons book jobs, are they usually local?
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Yeah, for the most part, I was gonna say it's weird.
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It just depends on kind of where your career and if they all are,
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so Different. Some people who look more
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commercials. Some people book, More film.
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Some people book more TV, I feel like I in the past.
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I've I've been a TV and Commercial all the way, I'm not
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movies. So I've been in l.a. every job.
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I booked for the most part was in LA.
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I mean I did book some random here and there like I did a
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pilot for this. This pilot called Drew right
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before I got pregnant with McKinsey, maybe I want to say
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and that was in New York. But for the most part, I book
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commercials for a day in La, for Rockne does a lot of movies and
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they're always out of l.a. It's like so crazy.
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We just have put such different paths that we are careers at
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taken so far. Yeah.
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How do you decide which like which jobs to take?
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Because I assume obviously the one like a film or something
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that's taking. You know, a few weeks or
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something has to really be worth it for him too late.
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Not like I mean I assume I assume you but you both are
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union. Yeah.
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Oh yeah. And yeah cuz that yeah, you're
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not gonna go for like 195, add a label positive, all like yeah
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they've all financially made sense.
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So now I think that, you know, a lot of times you'll know that
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like with the audition and he'll be like this in the worth
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auditioning for X. If I got this, I wouldn't take
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it. You know what I mean?
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Like, yeah. So I think yeah, definitely.
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You have to ask to be worthwhile to be leaving for that long.
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Yeah, I feel like that's a little hmm.
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Maybe not quite catch 22. But being out here I'm
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definitely more selective and like I don't really, I don't
23:37
self submit any more or anything and right, husband dies and
23:41
he'll get no audition for things or book things and It's great
23:48
credit but in the name because we're both must join right now.
23:53
So he's like trying to get as many non-union and I'm like, you
23:55
have so many right now but like credits, right?
24:00
But in my opinion I be like not worth it to me but some were
24:03
worth it to him and I'm like, okay yeah, but yeah that's but
24:08
luckily again like being being here is, you know, he doesn't
24:12
have to travel for it. So it wouldn't wouldn't make the
24:15
difference anyway. Well, he Rocky Brooks.
24:20
A Tyler Perry show and Tyler. The Tyler Perry shows are crazy
24:25
here. Tyler Perry's amazing.
24:26
Like, owns Atlanta, right? He owns it Lana.
24:29
He is mr. Atlanta.
24:31
He's the mayor of Atlanta. Yeah, he is awesome.
24:36
Like Rocky booking a job with him was the best thing that's
24:39
happened. So far here in Atlanta but he's
24:42
awesome. But the way he shoots is really
24:45
interesting, he shoots so you know how they'll shoot an
24:48
episode in a week. Weak, that's kind of standard.
24:53
He will shoot 24 episodes in two weeks.
25:01
I can't even think of how that wrap your head around that would
25:03
work Rocky, I'm 22. I think those are 20 episodes of
25:10
a show that was sitting in a tree stand, right?
25:12
When I was about to give birth to my child.
25:15
Oh my God, that is like amazing terrible timing.
25:21
Wow. The things all the things we
25:23
were we were just like, okay, I, you know, I said my mom was
25:27
here. I said, Mommy.
25:28
I be in the room with me. You might be at home with the
25:30
kids will just see how this goes, how he ended up being
25:34
there for the delivery, like he was there.
25:36
He was running. He was running down to the city,
25:40
to do like covid, testing, like, while we were in the hospital in
25:44
South, but his shoot days, does not conflict with the baby,
25:47
which is great and it worked out great.
25:48
Honestly, worked out so great. Yeah, so we've wild that's I
25:53
know it's so different too because I think like you know
25:57
I've only ever worked on shows where you kind of shoot the
25:59
standard way. So it was very different and
26:02
kind of liberating he said in a way because it's pretty much you
26:06
get that one one take. So you can't like dwell on
26:09
anything. You just got them in your gotta
26:10
move your on to the next. So it's like be prepared.
26:13
Like, you know, prepares you can and like, did their time to even
26:19
Oh my God, I hate that to memory.
26:21
I your people to walk around with them and run their lines
26:24
with them like on set. Oh, this because there's so much
26:27
they have to know so much and in a day, you know what I mean?
26:30
Like, oh, that's like worse than I've heard about, like, soap
26:33
operas. I know, I think it's actually
26:35
pretty. I think it's kind of similar to
26:37
soaps, but yeah, I think it might even be more than a so
26:43
yeah, but it was my good ideas, awesome.
26:46
He is such a cool experience and it was great.
26:49
Don't think he shoots like his movies and stuff like that just
26:51
for whatever reason he he's figured out this way of shooting
26:54
with his shows were he can because I guess he has a bunch
26:58
of different ones and he can kind of knock them all out and
27:02
it's working for him. I'm so good job.
27:06
Well, that's exciting. That's and you weren't you
27:10
didn't have like a plan. You weren't being like induced
27:14
or anything. He just happened.
27:16
It just worked out TimeWise or were you or I know.
27:20
So I wasn't being induced although I guess I kind of did
27:24
get so I kind of just like yeah, they induce me because I was two
27:28
days late. We were kind of just like
27:32
waiting happened and there was like a four-day window where the
27:36
baby needed to come. Yeah.
27:39
And she did good girl and that was the youngest The baby, this
27:49
example. Yeah.
27:52
Well now that you've been through quite a bit of Ages with
27:58
your girls. What do you?
28:01
I always enjoy asking what what so far do you think?
28:05
And I'm sure each of them is different but is like the
28:11
hardest. Easiest, I know they all all
28:13
ages have pros and cons, but like, and I'm sure it's
28:17
different having three and has it been different each time
28:23
because I hear, sorry. I'm asking, like five questions
28:25
at 10 but I know you need. It is, first of all, it's so
28:28
different with his child and not because each child is different,
28:32
which they are, but because you are different as a mom each
28:35
time. So your first, baby, you're just
28:37
like, I don't know. And honestly Watching your
28:40
Instagram and we have like, uh, he's the like calmness.
28:44
You seem like first of all, first of all, you were like,
28:47
meant to be a mother like everything you post.
28:49
I'm just like, I wish I had been that like had it together the
28:53
way you did because with my first baby for.
28:55
So she was colicky. And I was just, you know, I was
28:58
reading all the baby book saying, like, what do I do?
29:01
What do I do? This is a, got an answer and
29:03
this book was like, you never wake a sleeping baby.
29:06
This was like, always, we could be back after 3 hours to feed
29:09
them and this one. And I'm like it's like moving my
29:13
mind it's it's really glad Instagram.
29:17
Makes me look calm eye but no she she screams all the time to
29:22
its I mean, she's she's great. She's sleeping.
29:25
Yeah, she's good. But um yeah it's I mean I also
29:30
have been nannying for like 20 years that's like pretty girl.
29:34
I had a need it's so wild because now she's three and a
29:38
half months now and I look Look back before.
29:40
Right, before I moved out here, I need a need twin boys.
29:46
That were from the ages from three to nine months.
29:51
And I nanny them and I was like and there were two.
29:53
Wow. And I was like totally fine and
29:55
like but now that she's through I'm like I cannot imagine doing
30:01
that out it and everything Nanny wise, just like went out the
30:06
window, all we even took like the class has it all And out the
30:10
window because once it's like, even your own, like you said the
30:14
books and like logistically or yeah, logically.
30:18
I know like the baby will stop eating when she's full, like
30:21
things that I would say or like just know instinctively while
30:26
nannying. And then now that she's here, I
30:29
would be like, but is she going to stop?
30:32
Like I know. Wait do, I don't know why you
30:35
said in a second. First, second guessing
30:37
everything, when you're right, if it's someone that I feel,
30:40
Feel like it was someone else's kid.
30:41
I feel like I would have this confidence for some reason.
30:43
I don't know why with your own child.
30:45
I know I'm in a mess this up. Somehow.
30:47
I don't know, I don't know. I still with the first baby,
30:50
that was how it was and then with the second so I was, I was,
30:53
I did breastfeed all three for a few months.
30:57
So the first one breastfeeding to me was just like, oh my gosh.
31:00
I just like, felt like. I was breastfeeding 24/7 and it
31:03
was it was really hard for me. I just felt very kind of Trapped
31:07
and it was just such a new Variants and I, you know, I'd
31:11
gone from walking out the door to go.
31:14
I remember, I've had the baby home for like two days or
31:16
something and my husband was like, all right, let me go the
31:18
gym and I like also, I felt the whole apartment, which is like
31:22
closing music. You're going to go to the gym.
31:24
I was like, I'm never going to just say, I'm gonna go to the
31:27
gym again. I'm never even go anywhere and
31:30
I'm eyeballing he's like, okay, I'm going to stay here.
31:32
We're just going to stay here. I'm not, I don't need those gym
31:34
like I lost it. I was freaking out.
31:37
So then by baby too, I Loved breastfeeding.
31:41
I'd like, hey, I got it. Breastfeed the baby.
31:42
I'd be like in the back room. Like shutting the door and
31:44
locked unit like watching TV shows and like, breastfeeding
31:47
the bit like a dream girl, I do think and I think that was based
31:52
on just the experience that I already had a baby.
31:55
I knew she survived. All those nights of knots.
32:00
You know, sleeping are crazy. You know, like I just I knew
32:03
it's all gonna be okay. Yeah, so it's kind of a peace of
32:06
mind with the second one and the third one.
32:08
She's like a dream baby honestly.
32:10
I like and she's just easy peasy.
32:12
So happy like, although she gets sick so much because she's got
32:16
these older siblings bringing home, all the germs.
32:18
Yeah School. That'll that'll do it.
32:25
Yeah, I think it I do. I'll well I don't love that.
32:30
You said that you had to go through it but I like I'm happy
32:33
that you bring it up that it's like The husband.
32:37
Yeah, it's like you your partner gets to leave.
32:41
If you're if you're breastfeeding, even if you're
32:43
not, I mean it's no matter what it's different, what different
32:46
being the mother. Because you have this emotional
32:49
tie to that child, that, I mean, the dads can sleep through the
32:52
baby, crying the moms. Can't that just the, we
32:55
physically, I can't do it. And I mean, I remember like,
32:59
when I first debut against like I said, she was colicky.
33:02
I had, I had some postpartum anxiety, really bad.
33:05
And So, there was like, the first, I mean, I would wake up
33:08
to every little sound and I, so finally, he's like, why don't
33:11
you go sleep in the guest bedroom?
33:13
I'll keep the baby here. When she wakes up, I'll bring
33:15
her to you to feed. I was like, oh, that's great.
33:17
And so, there's one time I woke up and had been like, you know,
33:20
she'd always been waking up like every three hours women and at
33:22
what been like 7 hours and I go running in freaking out, I'm
33:26
like really okay. So I guess she's been sleeping
33:28
on my butt. Has she become like you wouldn't
33:32
like I mean there was this one night I was having like back
33:34
spasms, all of a sudden and I was And wake them up so bad to
33:37
be like rub my back or help me. And I was Rocky Rocky likes, so
33:41
does Never by the way, never woke him up so I'm sure the baby
33:46
crying did not exist. They're so lucky.
33:50
I'm like, I'm coming back as a dad next side.
33:52
It's, you know, it's soda. Dream job.
33:54
I just want to be a dad. Oh, great.
33:57
That's that's buddy. Yeah, it is, it's different.
34:00
It's funny because Preston a pretty much well, he'll wear
34:03
earplugs because he's a very sensitive sleeper.
34:06
So he wakes up every time, she's like, oh like you does he'll
34:11
wake up. Like he can't sleep.
34:13
So he'll wear earplugs and she's next to me still.
34:17
But I don't wake up for those little things but somehow,
34:24
because she doesn't wake up crying usually.
34:26
But like, once she's awake, I'll just turn over and she'll be
34:29
like hi. Thank you.
34:33
Luckily. I mean I've just like a happened
34:36
to Wake up at the same time as her I started setting my alarm
34:41
earlier to be like is she waking up before?
34:44
Just laying there. Okay, somehow you're actually my
34:47
husband. I don't know.
34:48
You are like the calmest. I love it.
34:50
You are. I'm going to be the mom next
34:54
time. That's the goal.
34:56
Oh well, thank you. Well, that's good to know that
35:02
there's like yeah, once you've been through it.
35:07
Yeah, I'm so like chills out a little more.
35:10
You sound like, you sound a bit like a second, baby mom.
35:14
And I think maybe that's from all your nanny.
35:17
I think you kind of got some of that stuff out of the way.
35:20
Yeah, cuz I'm like, I don't listen, I think every mom's
35:25
different to I think there's some moms that like I mean I
35:28
know friends like some that I have are just it's really
35:31
nerve-racking and they're so anxious about first baby and
35:34
some that aren't so it just kind of depends on.
35:37
Yeah yeah. It's like a back-and-forth of,
35:40
you know, Common Sense and well I wouldn't maybe not common
35:44
sense but like trusting your instinct Instinct Earth is the
35:49
books. It's like yeah.
35:51
My advice would be like Just don't don't II.
35:54
That is 100%. My advice.
35:56
There should be baby books. So that's the hard thing where
36:10
it's like and even during like pregnancy, like I feel like
36:14
there shouldn't be pregnancy books either because everything
36:17
is everything is nickel. Yeah, it's normal.
36:22
And you're like, but is it and then it's like and the same with
36:26
babies. It's like, this is normal like
36:29
it. Yeah.
36:29
It's it's wild and even doctors will say different things and
36:35
that's kind of where we were like because we were still
36:40
waking her up to feed her throughout the night.
36:44
And we're just, I mean I'm pumping in nursing but like we
36:49
would be waking her up every like, you know, Three hours.
36:53
And finally, my girl friends from back home.
36:55
We're like, you don't, why are you so?
36:58
And I was like, my doctor said and then I, you know, called the
37:02
doctor and was like, do I still need?
37:04
And he was like no one she wants.
37:05
She hits her birth weight. And I was like well that was
37:08
that 10 weeks ago? Like, that would have been very
37:13
helpful. Yeah.
37:16
So when you like I know you said you had tough pregnancy.
37:22
So you weren't like auditioning during then it did you have a
37:26
hard time with like the idea with like, your husband still
37:32
auditioning? Was that hard?
37:34
Because I was able to still audition, but even afterwards,
37:38
like, I know, we're on the same team and what's good for one is
37:42
good for both but like, Did you get a little fomo at all?
37:49
Because I know I did what I be like, I'm helping you with these
37:52
auditions. I want more, whatever.
37:56
I don't know if I got fomo with the actual auditions, I was more
37:59
like the booking of the job. We're gonna go and like, being a
38:05
hotel by yourself. That's sounds magical.
38:11
What? I, that's correct.
38:14
But I don't know for It's hard to explain because audition is
38:19
interesting right now what would last as we have three little
38:23
kids and we don't live my family so we don't have, we're not like
38:26
Mom come over and take the kids for a couple hours or whatever.
38:30
So a lot of times we're trying to knock out auditions.
38:33
Like after the kids go to bed, which I am a morning person.
38:37
So second those kids go to bed. I is very hard for me.
38:41
Not to also go to bed like I want to have it.
38:45
So Doing it at night. We're doing it.
38:48
There's like a couple Windows during the week where they're
38:51
both the older girls are both in school but now we've got baby.
38:54
So she's here if you're like okay we got to do it during the
38:56
nap and a double school days which is a very small window.
39:01
So we're, you know, we're trying to it's just, it's just or we're
39:04
like, okay, this is going to be we're going to give them, you
39:07
know, some screen time and put the baby down and for a nap, and
39:11
then we'll try and shoot. It's just feels a little bit
39:14
like, Kamikaze like that. Yeah.
39:16
Yeah, I figure it out. So I don't know, I don't know
39:22
how to say it. Like I feel like I haven't had
39:23
too much fomo yet now that I know we're not getting pregnant
39:27
again because we're done or three is were this is complete,
39:30
we love it. How do you think now?
39:33
I'm starting to like, okay now I can Really kind of go for this
39:38
again because after each of my other two babies at we knew we
39:43
wanted to have another one. So it's kind of like there's
39:45
like looming pregnancy and you know like just knowing I'd be
39:50
out again. I don't know it's a little
39:52
tricky for a few years but again with commercials that's what's
39:54
so great about commercials is that it didn't matter how kind
39:58
of small my window was I like go out for a bunch of auditions and
40:02
I did shoot. I shot a commercial and I was
40:03
five months pregnant with McKinsey my And I was shooting a
40:09
movie when I found out. I was pregnant with her so I
40:12
have shot while pregnant but even the audition while pregnant
40:15
so hard for me, so I didn't even audition.
40:18
Basically this whole pregnancy with Roxy and I'm just starting
40:22
to audition again now which is it is it's great.
40:24
I I have missed it and I'm so excited to be doing it again.
40:29
Oh, that's what I can tell you about atlantis.oh.
40:32
I think what's kind of been cool is.
40:33
I think I felt like I was not as much in the theatrical game for
40:40
a while because of, you know, all the babies inside.
40:42
But like I said, the commercial stuff, I could just kind of keep
40:44
it going. So here I've been able to kind
40:46
of jump back into the theatrical side which is just so much more
40:49
fun as far as auditions and all that stuff so great but you
40:54
can't such cool auditions here you really do.
40:57
Like I remember that was one of the things I heard is like they
41:00
fail they want to cast low. Locally.
41:02
A lot of I kind of smaller parts and huge movies.
41:05
So you're editing for like insane projects, like with just
41:09
like the best directors in like huge, huge movie stars and it's
41:14
cool. Like the opportunities are
41:16
really great. Yes.
41:18
When they probably want local, yeah, people do those.
41:23
Yes, then you're still in. Yeah, that's great.
41:27
But also they're shooting a ton of TV shows here, too.
41:29
So like they'll even want Goes for like guest stars on those
41:33
and stuff. So you're getting kind of
41:34
opportunities that haven't been opened up to the whole, La
41:37
Market to, you know, which is it, does make it a little bit
41:42
more, you know, feasible, that, you know, that these jobs are
41:47
going to get booked. I don't know.
41:49
Yeah, it's still, you're still competing with, you know, bunch
41:52
of other great actors out here, but it just does feel a little
41:54
bit more attainable. I think, and it's based on Rocky
41:58
success here, I mean, he's, it's been great.
42:01
He's a Great auditions and great bookings and worked on really
42:05
cool projects and some great that's awesome.
42:08
I'll talk to you guys. Did you say wait?
42:12
I know you have rep in Atlanta. Now when you do you still did
42:18
you like all of your rep and ale or do you still have?
42:21
So I'm not rep through l.a. anymore.
42:24
My commercial agent they kind of were like they just didn't feel
42:29
comfortable sending me out knowing that I wouldn't because
42:31
they were saying Some callbacks and stuff are in the room or
42:34
they just, you know, they asked specifically, make sure it's a
42:36
local, so they knew I was in Atlanta, you know, so they kind
42:40
of weren't comfortable sending me out.
42:41
So that kind of just seemed to fizzle out, I guess.
42:46
But Rockies, agent is still some, Sophia might see if we can
42:52
maybe take my stuff over there and see if they'd be interested
42:56
because I have had, you know, quite a few commercials and that
43:01
Is something I definitely would want to keep doing so yeah.
43:05
And again if it's worth it, you can come out.
43:11
Yeah. That'd be, that'd be great.
43:13
Yeah, I'm to book a job acting La.
43:15
I'm dying to come back to LA. We haven't we left and I guess,
43:20
October 2. So 2 years ago, exactly.
43:24
Is when we were back in. Okay, we're still here.
43:26
It's the same. I know.
43:31
Yeah, I um. So how did you get your rep in
43:37
Atlanta? I did.
43:38
You just like, do the emailing? Was it like referral or just
43:44
like, how did you tell? So in my mind I will because
43:47
actually, I don't know how you've always gotten your reps
43:50
and LA but a lot of times we've done it through the blind
43:52
emails. Yeah.
43:54
And so I just assumed. Yeah.
43:57
I kind of thought like and we've done some through like reps or
44:00
referral since up. I just assumed we'd get out here
44:02
to see Mel get, you know, be like I Choose You Like That,
44:08
quite quite like that. So, but actually what we end up
44:12
doing before I did, any submissions, A girlfriend of
44:17
mine, had a friend who lives in Atlanta.
44:21
She works here as an actress. She also had been in La for a
44:25
few years, but she's from Atlanta, she went to LA for a
44:28
few years, came back and she's done really, really Well, she's
44:31
great. So my friend was like, why don't
44:35
you reach out to her kind of get her advice about, you know,
44:38
because we were this is kind of more we're looking about like
44:40
where to live and all that stuff.
44:42
So I reached out to her and she was really awesome and helpful
44:46
and no just answered so many questions for me and and I told
44:49
her you know that I was going to try and get an agent and she
44:52
said she would send myself along to a couple agents owner to and
44:57
she did. And that's how I got my agent.
44:59
Oh that's awesome. Yeah So, it's great.
45:02
So what was that? Once you were not.
45:04
Once you were already there, we were just about to move our.
45:08
We actually quite weren't quite here yet when she going these.
45:11
Yeah. So I got some really awesome
45:14
awesome auditions before I got pregnant.
45:17
So I have like a couple. Yeah it wasn't very long that I
45:22
wasn't pregnant but I did get some amazing auditions.
45:28
They've done such a great job and they and then Rocky got with
45:30
them and Like killed it for him, he's mad.
45:33
Yeah, so then it sounds like, luckily, like you were saying in
45:38
La, back in the day you had a lot of like, you know, the side
45:42
hustles that that everyone has. Yeah.
45:44
It sounds like it's been like, it's been a good road and like,
45:49
you don't have to do all your like.
45:52
Well, I know I was gonna happen. Had to knock on wood.
45:56
Yeah. Yeah.
45:57
I was like, I don't want to say it.
45:59
I know. Well done.
46:01
He is when I quit Jones, I worked at Jones forever.
46:05
I probably could have quit a couple years before I did but I
46:09
was only working on Friday. I was like working on Friday and
46:11
Saturday night though to know. If it was like, it was fun.
46:14
It was like, social, I loved her very much, but also it was like
46:17
this, like I just knew I could go make some money, you know,
46:20
anytime I need to. And but what I would do is I'd
46:24
get off my shift covered and then like every four months, my
46:27
manager would call me and say Aaron, if you're going to work
46:29
here, you actually have to Here. So then I'd go like work a shift
46:33
and then I kind of got them all covered again but I couldn't
46:39
give it up. And then finally Rockies like
46:40
you can do this. Aaron like you you you can let
46:43
it go and I was so scared. I was like no it's if I if I let
46:46
this go somehow like it's all going to dry up and, you know,
46:49
yeah, Anna. I think I put in my notice and I
46:53
booked a commercial the next day and I was like, okay, it's gonna
46:55
be it's gonna be fine, but I know I booked this.
47:01
One commercial six years ago that has paid me for 6 years and
47:08
hasn't. It hasn't been running
47:09
domestically for a long time but they just keep renewing it every
47:14
year in like different countries and stuff.
47:16
But this is the first year, it's now finally done.
47:20
And this is the first year where Rockies career is really like,
47:23
kind of Gone just make like taking off.
47:27
So it was like again the timing was just like perfect like
47:30
because when I did I was like, wait a minute and then and then
47:36
it was like totally fine. Like it was great.
47:38
But I mean it was it was I don't know if he ever saw my Eminem's
47:41
commercial but maybe I was just gonna get.
47:42
I was like, I was like it was at the oven M1 dot.
47:45
Yeah. It was like the job of all jobs
47:50
but and it was so fun. Yeah.
47:52
So I just keep thinking like maybe As kid doesn't have to be
47:55
dead yet. Maybe it's going to make it at
47:57
all. That's happened.
47:58
Aang, I assume you got like a good contract with that.
48:02
It wasn't like a just a single by out and be done if they kept
48:06
if it kills me, that's amazing. Yeah, they did a like a new by
48:10
out each year and it was different.
48:13
It was different each year because it was like different
48:14
places like I don't know. But yeah it was it was good so
48:18
that was helpful and that was also amazing because I shot that
48:22
right before I had Mackenzie, so basically it kind of just was
48:26
like, hey, here's this gonna like to like put your mind at
48:30
ease while you have children for the next six years ago.
48:32
Yeah, I really did. It was like, you know, how you
48:35
definitely do have to wear tender shoot a headshot.
48:38
So just take it. Easy, have those babies?
48:40
Oh, man, that's amazing. Did you?
48:42
So obviously, before your first one, you didn't know, if you're
48:46
pregnant like that your pregnancy was gonna write you.
48:49
So difficult, did you? And I think you said you guys
48:55
were trying. Yeah, you know, so obviously you
49:01
made the decision. What how did you decide?
49:05
Because I know a lot of people are like, you know, why might
49:09
not work for this long or whatever.
49:12
How did you make that decision? Because a lot of times for me, I
49:17
mean, my age was just a factor where I was like if I want kids
49:21
I should probably get Started I guess yeah, okay, because I was
49:25
like my career is not where I want it to be for having kids,
49:29
and but I guess it was just like, well, I gotta I shot a
49:33
movie when I was 23 in Bulgaria, it was called alien Siege, don't
49:40
look that up that out this. So but the the guy who played my
49:48
dad, Brad Johnson, he actually just passed away this year from
49:52
Complications, which is so pricking because he was so young
49:57
had five children only way. But he was such a great guy and
50:03
I remember him asking me if I was 23, we're shooting this
50:05
movie. He said, to me, he said, do you
50:08
want to get married have kids someday and he was at that time.
50:10
He already was married had kids. He think he lived on like a
50:13
ranch in New Mexico somewhere. And I was like, yes, definitely.
50:17
And he's like, don't wait then he's like, I know so many
50:22
Actresses that like they don't they don't feel ready, their
50:25
career isn't where they want it. And so they just, you know, they
50:28
keep waiting and then kind of that window closes and and I
50:32
remember being 23 and be like, okay, first of all, I'm gonna be
50:37
like on a TV show within the next year.
50:40
Obviously, I work going to meet my future husband, like the next
50:46
year and I'm like, whatever got to go to be young again.
50:53
What do a little while longer? So I just knew I always wanted
50:58
to get married have kids and I knew that was something that I
51:01
wouldn't ever give up no matter what and I don't know.
51:04
I don't know if I want to come. I kind of have like a faith in
51:07
things working out the way they should.
51:09
And I feel like I've had a lot of great opportunities and
51:14
Bunnell do a lot of amazing things.
51:15
I've been so fun and been able to, you know, book launch jobs
51:18
and you know, obviously there are things that Feel like I
51:22
haven't done yet and there's so much more I want to do, but the
51:27
kids thing was, was a definite that was not something I was
51:31
willing to give up. So when I met Rocky and, you
51:35
know, we got married, you both were on the same page that we
51:39
wanted to have kids. So we were like, well, we're not
51:41
the, we're going to have multiple to, we got to get
51:43
going. Yeah.
51:44
And so that was kind of we got right to it.
51:47
And and so and I think, at that point to eye I was okay with
51:53
taking a break, you know, it's a long time to be doing the Hustle
51:57
by was I was like, you know, that's okay why I can put a pin
52:01
in it and we'll come back and I'm and that's what we're doing.
52:04
So yeah. And you're so now, you know,
52:08
your youngest is six months and you're ready to, you're getting
52:12
back into it and that makes like you said, it's because you know,
52:17
you're done, you're not having any work done.
52:20
Oh yeah. That's so exciting to get back
52:25
into it and like, I and your timing has worked out perfectly.
52:32
I feel like having the faith in in all of that is really hard
52:38
though, so I'm, that's, that's kind of where I'm struggling.
52:42
So it's nice to hear like people being like, it'll work out and
52:47
and the timing, whatever is meant to be, is meant to be And
52:53
you know, like I I mean there are things that obviously didn't
53:00
work out the way I wanted to them too and they could have led
53:04
me in such a different way like I'm million years ago tested for
53:07
the TV show Psych and that ran for seven seasons and I tested
53:12
for the lead girl and I like signed a contract that day and
53:14
like that could have been I could have moved to Canada in
53:18
you know, that that month or whatever been there for years
53:22
now. Have, you know, that would have
53:23
been a very different trajectory and different career and
53:29
probably been great, you know, and so many ways, but at the
53:31
same time I'm like I wouldn't give up anything that I have
53:36
right now, for that. And and I do feel like, you
53:42
know, so many things. It's funny because I do think
53:46
there were times that like quitting the bartending job.
53:49
That was so hard for me because I just it was so hard to just
53:53
know, like know you can do this. Like you can you can you're
53:56
going to book more commercials. Like you're gonna be fine.
53:58
Like and I did and it was and it's just like, someone's just
54:02
kind of have to take that leap. And I think that was, like, with
54:04
Atlanta to like, you know, like we could move here and not be
54:06
able to get agents, and it's, we could great house, but we never
54:11
work again as actors that I think.
54:13
Yeah. Let's go.
54:15
See. Yeah, you gotta take those those
54:17
leaps of faith and look, what I was gonna see.
54:20
Honestly, it's been amazing. And the cool thing is too, is he
54:23
still has his reps back in La. So they sometimes stuff too.
54:25
So he he hasn't I mean honestly, if we were still in Delaware
54:29
with his family, he'd still be getting a bunch of auditions
54:31
from doesn't matter. So it's kind of worked out in
54:35
that sense to like we did know that we had that kind of like
54:37
safety net. Like we know we're going to have
54:39
auditions because you know, throughout released but no LA's.
54:44
Or Ellen has been awesome, it's been great.
54:46
So you really on our Point Park. Well, if I was looking at
54:53
Atlanta what are because I don't know anything about Elena but
54:58
like what are some of the like I guess you don't have to say what
55:01
neighborhood you live in? But like what are some of the?
55:04
I mean you can but what are some hoods that that you would look
55:09
at? It's so going to depend on the
55:12
situation so you having a little baby girl and if you're thinking
55:16
like so if you were like okay we're going to move to Atlanta,
55:18
we're going to move their long-term so we have to think
55:20
about school. So that makes a difference
55:21
because then in my opinion you want to be up in the suburbs
55:24
like north of is actually one suburb South, it's called
55:28
Peachtree City, that's awesome. But I am that you want to be
55:31
north of this city and it's like, there's like Marietta,
55:35
there's Roswell, there's offer at others Johns Creek, there's
55:38
coming. There's and there's all these
55:40
Different neighborhoods and then you just kind of keep getting
55:42
further and further away. So just depends on how close you
55:44
want to be the city. We're not super close to the
55:47
city were like 45 minutes away, which we we had originally
55:52
thought, we'd be a lot closer than that.
55:54
But as we look, this is just what we found that we liked.
55:56
And we thought, you know, let's rent here for a while and then
55:59
we can move closer and I will kind of where we're at trying to
56:01
get that out but you can get more bang for your buck up here.
56:04
It's different and then my friends I told you that moved
56:06
here the same week we did they bought right down in the city.
56:09
So So so yeah, we're having a very different like they're
56:14
there, but they're still in the neighborhood and they live in an
56:16
amazing house in amazing neighborhood.
56:18
She's very different because like they don't have any kids.
56:21
So they don't have to think about schools because I don't
56:23
think the schools in their area are good.
56:26
So just kind of depends on it really is going to be dipped
56:29
like depend on each individual situation but for you guys I
56:32
would say you're kinda like us. So I would say like suburbs
56:36
north of the city. Yeah.
56:38
Unless you want to just go right into the city for a while.
56:40
Well I mean, I don't know. I mean because down in the city,
56:42
there's places you can go tape auditions.
56:44
There's acting classes. There's kind of all the things
56:46
that you get in l.a. up here. No, that's okay.
56:51
Well, I mean, it could take me if I had an in-person audition,
56:55
could take 45 minutes to get there anyway so did we?
56:58
That's true. That is very dead, LA traffic,
57:01
that back to normal. I am great.
57:08
Not that. I enjoyed the pandemic but the
57:11
traffic was not. I mean not that I was going
57:13
anywhere during the pandemic either.
57:14
But traffic is yeah. Back to normal.
57:20
All right, well my final question for you which I love to
57:23
ask is what has been a lifesaver for you throughout.
57:27
I guess the past 56 years. As a mom, as an actor, it could
57:34
be a product a mantra anything. What's just been like something
57:41
that's helped you? like either just like put the
57:44
babies to sleep or like well I mean listen for the last six
57:54
years I just have to say Eminem was the thinking that got us
58:00
through all this but um, gosh. I don't know as an actress, I
58:09
think just that, you know, knowing that It's tricky
58:13
because, you know, there is a sphere of like aging out, you
58:17
know, of like the project you want and not being the aunjanue
58:22
anymore. So I think just kind of keeping
58:26
like, just reminding myself that there are all different kinds of
58:32
roles. We are going to have
58:33
opportunities for as long as we want them.
58:35
And And then yeah. And then Eminem's that so I
58:42
should just keep eating Eminem's and just save your life.
58:49
Yeah, that's amazing. Oh my gosh, your husband so good
58:53
to talk to you. I appreciate you taking your
58:56
time. Especially I know.
58:57
Time is limited darling. Three, beautiful, beautiful
59:03
girls, thank you, right back at you.
59:05
She is so, Herbal my gosh. Yeah.
59:08
They're they're so so they're just like, scrumptious.
59:12
Oh my gosh. I'm so excited that.
59:13
You're just starting this journey to because that's such a
59:15
fun place to be. And I'll make things ahead of
59:18
you. It's so awesome.
59:20
Yeah, I'm excited. Well, thank you again.
59:22
Oh my gosh, you're great. I wish you the continued
59:26
success. It's so good.
59:29
Seeing your beautiful face and talking to you too, and I will
59:34
hopefully talk to you soon. And Is a look into mommy would
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