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From Cop to Actor: A Journey of Passion, Talent and Determination A Talk with Kelly Quinn · All About The Joy

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Carmen Lezeth: So welcome everyone to All About the Joy, as always, having technical difficulties a year into this process for eight months.
0:08
Carmen Lezeth: So Rick hi always nice to see you.
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Carmen Lezeth: I want to welcome my friend, kelly.
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Carmen Lezeth: Hello Hi, kelly Woo, so nice to see you.
0:19
Carmen Lezeth: I was going to ask you a long time ago to come on the show and I never did because I was like she's so busy and everything and always out auditioning and she got her kids and her husband and her job and so I was so glad that we were able to connect and figure out a way for you to be on the show.
0:37
Carmen Lezeth: So I'm really excited.
0:39
Kelly Quinn: I'm excited too, so I'm so happy you asked me.
0:42
Kelly Quinn: I figured I wasn't going to make the cut to be on.
0:46
Carmen Lezeth: Oh, my God, Not in a million years.
0:48
Carmen Lezeth: But I do know that Tommy is not feeling well.
0:52
Carmen Lezeth: Hold on one second please.
0:55
Rick Costa: Is that Tommy?
0:55
Carmen Lezeth: Hi, this is my brother from another mother.
0:58
Carmen Lezeth: So, billy, I love you with all my heart, but I'm actually live right now.
1:02
Carmen Lezeth: You want to say hi to everyone in YouTube land.
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Rick Costa: Yes, this is live.
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Speaker 2: It is your night, that is correct and I believe it is 6pm.
1:14
Carmen Lezeth: Yeah.
1:14
Carmen Lezeth: Yeah.
1:16
Carmen Lezeth: We just went live with Kelly and Rick and we have people in the chat and they're listening to you right now because I have you on speaker.
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Speaker 2: That sounds great.
1:24
Speaker 2: I'll just let them know that I was giving you a friendly update.
1:29
Speaker 2: Let's chat and see how our lives are.
1:33
Speaker 2: I love you very much.
1:34
Carmen Lezeth: I love you.
1:34
Carmen Lezeth: And I hope your show is a great success.
1:37
Carmen Lezeth: Thank you.
1:39
Carmen Lezeth: I love you, billy.
1:39
Carmen Lezeth: I'll talk to you later.
1:40
Carmen Lezeth: I'll call you tomorrow, bye, bye, sorry, you know you got to answer all your calls from family.
1:47
Carmen Lezeth: I'm so sorry.
1:48
Carmen Lezeth: You know what I mean, sorry, Okay, so let's start with you, kelly, if you don't mind talking.
1:55
Carmen Lezeth: I know you mentioned something about our topic, but we'll talk about that later.
2:00
Carmen Lezeth: I want to talk about you and acting, if that's okay, first.
2:04
Carmen Lezeth: Okay, yeah, so, kelly, first I thought I would ask you to share with everybody how we met, because I always do that first, if that's okay, because Rick doesn't even know.
2:14
Kelly Quinn: Yeah, Well, we met in an online acting class with Howard Fine Studio and we were participants in well, it was an acting technique.
2:24
Kelly Quinn: Right, it was a long.
2:26
Carmen Lezeth: I'm turning off my phone right now, everybody, I'm so sorry.
2:28
Rick Costa: It was acting.
2:29
Carmen Lezeth: It was his.
2:30
Carmen Lezeth: It was Howard Fine Studios, who I always tell everyone he's one of the best acting coaches in the country.
2:36
Carmen Lezeth: His book is amazing and we met because it was during COVID right, we both were taking online classes and we met in his first.
2:45
Carmen Lezeth: I thought it was scene study, but you're probably right.
2:48
Kelly Quinn: And I think it was like acting technique, like the, whatever the first level was, but it lasted for a bit.
2:53
Kelly Quinn: I think we had like a good six weeks yeah.
2:58
Carmen Lezeth: And I hated you no.
2:59
Carmen Lezeth: She's tell the truth.
3:04
Kelly Quinn: We bonded over yeah, there was an incident with one of the other students that sort of and then Carmen and I I think you were being a reader for me for one of we had a self tape we've seen.
3:18
Carmen Lezeth: And you have to tell people.
3:19
Carmen Lezeth: These people are not acting people.
3:21
Carmen Lezeth: Okay so so is explain what that is.
3:24
Kelly Quinn: If she so, she's being a reader.
3:25
Kelly Quinn: So I have a script and there's two roles and I'm assigned one role and then she's being she's essentially being the voice of the other role, and then I'm using I was using my phone to tape myself doing this scene with responding to her voice, essentially cause she's off camera so nobody's seeing her, and I sort of just took a chance.
3:46
Kelly Quinn: I was like all right, but can we just talk about?
3:48
Kelly Quinn: And if we can't, that's fine.
3:53
Kelly Quinn: You know, but it would like just it was a gossip.
3:56
Kelly Quinn: Stop thinking about it and I know that sounds so terrible, but it was an interesting thing and she just completely went along and didn't touch me for whatever I said.
4:06
Kelly Quinn: No, why would I?
4:07
Carmen Lezeth: We were all feeling the same thing.
4:09
Carmen Lezeth: I mean, basically, we were all hating some somebody in the class and it's a he.
4:15
Carmen Lezeth: I think it was a he right.
4:16
Kelly Quinn: No, it was a she.
4:18
Carmen Lezeth: Oh, you know what, let me.
4:19
Carmen Lezeth: I'm so sorry I'm changing a lot of people in the class, but can I just say something?
4:25
Carmen Lezeth: What we were doing in the class cause I think this is the interesting is what happens in actual film.
4:30
Carmen Lezeth: When you see a close up of an actor and he's talking or she's talking, they're usually speaking to the camera and someone who is reading to them.
4:43
Carmen Lezeth: They're seen partner, and I don't think people understand that, because when it's done so seamlessly well, you think you're just watching these people going back and forth because the camera work is going like that.
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Carmen Lezeth: So I was acting as a reader for her.
4:56
Kelly Quinn: Yeah, and spoiler alert.
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Kelly Quinn: A lot of times the other actors not there.
5:01
Kelly Quinn: It's not the right.
5:02
Kelly Quinn: Right it's.
5:03
Kelly Quinn: You're not actually going back and forth.
5:05
Kelly Quinn: Right.
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Carmen Lezeth: The real person you're filming at different times and that's difficult because you're not actually going to be able to see the camera work, and if you're nobody like me and you have a scene with, like Tina Fey, tina Fey is not going to show up to read lines with me.
5:22
Carmen Lezeth: I'm going to be reading with whoever happens to be there and I've got to do all the emotion, all the whatever, as if it's Tina Fey.
5:31
Carmen Lezeth: You can ask me why I said.
5:33
Kelly Quinn: Tina Fey later.
5:33
Kelly Quinn: But anyways, go ahead, I just want to teach people.
5:37
Kelly Quinn: Go ahead.
5:37
Kelly Quinn: Yes, I haven't asked her to be a reader a lot, even if I had auditions after that, and we just kept in touch and sort of formed this relationship and it was all over Zoom and electronics because it was during COVID and I mean such a weird time to kind of form a friendship without actually I think it was almost a year, I want to say later before we actually saw each other.
6:03
Carmen Lezeth: So let's back up, because you actually lived in California and now you live in Chicago, right, and you live here with your husband and your kids and and as soon as we could, you came up and stay.
6:13
Carmen Lezeth: Oh, no, no, no, no, no, I had a big time audition.
6:16
Carmen Lezeth: I had a job.
6:18
Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, yeah, you had a job.
6:19
Carmen Lezeth: So I said, come stay at my place, because that's what you do as an actor you help each other out.
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Carmen Lezeth: So she came and stayed.
6:25
Carmen Lezeth: She stayed in a little bunk bed, thingamajig.
6:27
Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, I didn't give you my bed.
6:30
Carmen Lezeth: I didn't give you my bed, right.
6:32
Kelly Quinn: I wouldn't have expected that that would have been.
6:34
Kelly Quinn: I would have been like no, you're sleeping in your bed in your house.
6:37
Carmen Lezeth: Well, I, just because I mean you have a house, house, you know, I just have a one bedroom by the beach, but but we went to dinner and stuff and it was just kind of cool because, rick, it's kind of like what you talk about when I always ask you, when you meet people in person, does it change things?
6:52
Carmen Lezeth: And you say, you say no, I I.
6:56
Carmen Lezeth: This is different because we're not talking about romantic stuff, right, of course, but I actually think it just made it better.
7:02
Carmen Lezeth: I did, yeah, I mean, yeah, we became better friends, I think because of it.
7:08
Kelly Quinn: Yeah, and now we have to be far apart again.
7:14
Carmen Lezeth: But we stay in touch and you've helped me with quite a few things and I keep forgetting how much younger you are than me and Rick, I guess at this point because you started off in the green room and I was like don't talk, don't say a word, don't say anything.
7:30
Carmen Lezeth: She's like people don't hate me, but I don't really know all the shows from Norman Lear, because when you connect with somebody, you really it does.
7:42
Carmen Lezeth: Age kind of loses its meaning, you know.
7:44
Carmen Lezeth: But, rick, do you have any questions for Kelly?
7:47
Carmen Lezeth: She's an actual different from me, acting wise.
7:50
Carmen Lezeth: She is actually going out and auditioning all the time and getting jobs and work.
7:54
Carmen Lezeth: I have kind of stopped doing that because I'm doing other things.
7:58
Carmen Lezeth: But let me also just say this, and I'm going to give you some props, kelly, don't get mad at me, I don't care.
8:03
Carmen Lezeth: Don't get mad at me.
8:04
Carmen Lezeth: So I meet a lot of people in this town.
8:07
Carmen Lezeth: I do, and I meet a lot of people who know the people I work for or people that know that I have some connections or whatever.
8:13
Carmen Lezeth: And I also meet a lot of people in acting class, because I'm always trying to build my tool as well and stay on point with performance and stuff.
8:21
Carmen Lezeth: The thing about Kelly that's really cool.
8:23
Carmen Lezeth: It's not even that she's a great actress, I know.
8:26
Carmen Lezeth: Just don't react Good.
8:28
Carmen Lezeth: Good, I love that you're acting right now, good.
8:32
Carmen Lezeth: What I love about it is she changed her entire career and I'll leave it up to her whether or not she wants to talk about that from what she used to do to take this shot recently, and she's really good, naturally, but she's also obsessed with working on it and she's got that it factor thing of a jiggy and she's so down to earth and cool as shit.
8:52
Carmen Lezeth: And so I love connecting with people that I think have integrity and talent and are going to persevere no matter what, and I'm going to make sure I get my 10% when the bitch makes it large.
9:02
Carmen Lezeth: I'm just kidding, but I had to throw that out there because that's I mean.
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Carmen Lezeth: That's the other part too.
9:11
Carmen Lezeth: It was easy to gravitate towards you, you know.
9:14
Carmen Lezeth: Thank you I don't deserve it.
9:16
Kelly Quinn: I love you.
9:16
Kelly Quinn: I love you too.
9:18
Kelly Quinn: I mean, give me a break.
9:19
Carmen Lezeth: This is Carmen, I know but can you tell me about what you?
9:22
Carmen Lezeth: I mean?
9:22
Carmen Lezeth: Do you mind sharing how you made this choice to become an actor?
9:26
Kelly Quinn: No, I actually started when I was very little.
9:31
Kelly Quinn: My parents got me an agent and I was doing the kid modeling thing and I would go to auditions and we lived in San Diego at the time, so the commute is something, and I actually got some very good callbacks for films and they didn't want, they didn't want to make.
9:49
Kelly Quinn: Yeah, it was frustrating and to give them credit to.
9:54
Kelly Quinn: One of them would have had to quit work and we just didn't.
9:57
Kelly Quinn: Yeah, we financially could not do that as a fan.
10:00
Kelly Quinn: Though not, it's not like they were just like, hmm, I mean they, there was a reason.
10:03
Kelly Quinn: But I I still remember memorizing Like little paragraphs from books or whatever and then going and having to, you know, do that and I I enjoyed it and I sort of always kept the foot in.
10:17
Kelly Quinn: I got very involved with sports.
10:19
Kelly Quinn: I played basketball into college and so I couldn't ever be like, I never went out for main roles, but I would take an acting class right because I, just I would gravitated towards it.
10:32
Kelly Quinn: Um, and then after school I ended up in law enforcement.
10:37
Kelly Quinn: I was sorry say that again.
10:40
Kelly Quinn: I ended up in law enforcement.
10:42
Kelly Quinn: I was just a regular patrol officer, um, but doing all the regular you know, beat cop stuff, um, and I I looked very young, shocking.
10:52
Kelly Quinn: I did a uh, a lot of undercover work.
10:55
Kelly Quinn: So I just argue I kept trying to act, but just in a different Right.
11:00
Carmen Lezeth: Um, like I was like I'm gonna make it happen.
11:02
Carmen Lezeth: This is why but this is why I love your story so much because I Motherfucking hate cops.
11:06
Carmen Lezeth: You and I have had this conversation.
11:08
Carmen Lezeth: One of my dearest friends was a motherfucking cop.
11:11
Carmen Lezeth: I love this shit.
11:13
Kelly Quinn: Um and I, and sometimes I'm hesitant because I really understand why that's very triggering for many people and I.
11:19
Kelly Quinn: You know, you it, but I know how I acted and behaved and what I tried to do.
11:25
Kelly Quinn: But, um, unfortunately there's a lot of other people that don't you know that are right.
11:31
Kelly Quinn: It's not a great experience, but, um, so I, I was in law enforcement.
11:35
Kelly Quinn: I ended up going federal and I was.
11:38
Kelly Quinn: I did that for total.
11:40
Kelly Quinn: Being a cop said 11 years.
11:43
Carmen Lezeth: How long were you a cop for?
11:45
Carmen Lezeth: I mean all of it Like so we could just skip to the good part when you decide.
11:48
Kelly Quinn: I was.
11:48
Kelly Quinn: I was a cop for five years and then I put the feds for six for six, so 11 years.
11:54
Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, so you were a cop for 11 years.
11:55
Carmen Lezeth: And what made you?
11:57
Carmen Lezeth: I mean, I remember kind of this whole thing, but what?
12:00
Carmen Lezeth: What made you be like, yeah, I'm done.
12:02
Carmen Lezeth: Um, I mean, I was.
12:04
Kelly Quinn: I was well.
12:05
Kelly Quinn: First of all, I was just very unhappy with a lot of what was going on, and my husband who's awesome was like Well, what have you always wanted to do?
12:15
Carmen Lezeth: Yeah and uh, that's a good husband no, yeah.
12:19
Kelly Quinn: And and I was like well, what do you mean?
12:21
Kelly Quinn: He's like well, just like a, like a hobby or just what's something you want to do.
12:24
Kelly Quinn: I was like, well, I've always wanted to actually take real, you know, Acting classes and actually be able to progress.
12:30
Kelly Quinn: I've only taken just here or there.
12:33
Kelly Quinn: And so now my husband is like the total optimist and idealist, and I'm very much the pessimist and realist and like he's like, so why I love my husband.
12:42
Kelly Quinn: He's like so why don't you?
12:43
Kelly Quinn: And I'm like oh okay, you know it's so easy.
12:46
Kelly Quinn: He's like I mean, as long as you don't go to the most expensive class, um what you did, but okay, good, well, yeah well.
12:54
Kelly Quinn: You're bad Um, so Well, not my first class is my first class is Brad of somebody's house?
13:03
Carmen Lezeth: Oh, oh, I thought you talked about Um.
13:05
Carmen Lezeth: I thought you were talking about Howard.
13:06
Carmen Lezeth: Howard he's very expensive, I mean, but he's the best.
13:09
Carmen Lezeth: I think he's the best, yeah, um, so then?
13:12
Kelly Quinn: Howard was not until I got that was later.
13:15
Kelly Quinn: That was later.
13:16
Kelly Quinn: Yeah, um, so I started doing those classes and got some headshots, uh, and then, just like it happens in california, literally again, my husband On a run being the most extrovert a person in the planet sees this couple walking and they had College shirts from trinity university.
13:36
Kelly Quinn: And he's like, oh, is that what?
13:37
Kelly Quinn: Like total stranger, this is him.
13:39
Kelly Quinn: Oh, is that from you know, san Antonio?
13:41
Kelly Quinn: They're like, yeah, so he just starts talking.
13:43
Kelly Quinn: He's like, oh, and then they finds out she's an actor, director, writer and her husband's a producer and they're actually writing a film about sex trafficking, which I that was.
13:55
Kelly Quinn: I did a lot of my undercover as a cop.
13:56
Kelly Quinn: A lot of it was about underage sex trafficking.
13:58
Kelly Quinn: Um, and he goes my wife is an actress, like she did this, you know, and I was like you did not say that.
14:04
Kelly Quinn: No, everybody says that when they meet this couple.
14:07
Kelly Quinn: Please, I'm not a real actress, like I was doing that, but I just sort of classes.
14:11
Carmen Lezeth: Oh, and he was like no, I think I hate that you say yeah.
14:13
Kelly Quinn: I know, and he's like no, they want your number Whatever.
14:18
Kelly Quinn: So anyway, that led to sort of my first.
14:20
Kelly Quinn: I mean, I'm like a glorified background person in that film called wake up and uh, but I was also a consultant for the law enforcement side of it, and so I met Janet through that's Janet Her, and through that project.
14:35
Kelly Quinn: Then she turned me on to Howard and so then she's the one who turned you on.
14:39
Kelly Quinn: Oh okay, yes, she was like you have to take his classes, and then I signed up.
14:42
Kelly Quinn: Okay, then we were there.
14:44
Carmen Lezeth: Awesome, that is so cool.
14:45
Carmen Lezeth: I think there's also the uh line of humility versus Factual things.
14:52
Carmen Lezeth: You know, like I'm not a real actress, yes, you are like.
14:55
Carmen Lezeth: Well, go back and forth with it.
14:56
Kelly Quinn: Yeah, at that time too, that's how I felt.
14:58
Kelly Quinn: You know, now I wouldn't say that, but yeah, at that time I thought now she's like I'm an actress.
15:03
Kelly Quinn: No, I can just get out, I'm an actor.
15:08
Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, Do you have any questions?
15:10
Carmen Lezeth: Because I feel because Rick don't even need to be here.
15:12
Carmen Lezeth: He's like I'm gonna just jump the fuck off dude.
15:14
Rick Costa: No, like literally everything I'm thinking to ask has already been answered.
15:18
Carmen Lezeth: Oh, I'm sorry, I'm just trying.
15:19
Carmen Lezeth: You know what I'm never gonna know?
15:21
Carmen Lezeth: I don't think Tommy's coming on.
15:22
Carmen Lezeth: Tommy, we hope you're feeling better, love, yes, he wasn't feeling that great, so he said he might not make it.
15:28
Carmen Lezeth: But but do you have any?
15:28
Carmen Lezeth: Rick, you know you could interrupt at any time, but I know it's hard because you know we could go back and forth.
15:35
Rick Costa: Well, we'll talk more when we get to Norman Lear.
15:38
Carmen Lezeth: Oh, oh.
15:39
Carmen Lezeth: He don't give a shit about you, kelly.
15:41
Rick Costa: No, I do, I'm listening.
15:43
Carmen Lezeth: No, no, well, we get into spurs.
15:44
Carmen Lezeth: I mean, I think for me it's also this kind of idea that I love your spirit and that we connect and that you're so much younger than I am.
15:53
Carmen Lezeth: And I was just reminded of that because when we were in the green room, we were talking about how you've never actually seen or watched a full, yeah, show of Norman Lear, and you were like I'm so sorry.
16:06
Carmen Lezeth: I was like Shocked and then I realized you're only in your 30s, right?
16:10
Carmen Lezeth: You're like 31 or something, right.
16:13
Carmen Lezeth: So I mean, yeah, I'm working with you.
16:17
Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, you are, you're young.
16:18
Carmen Lezeth: I mean you're in your 30s, it's just, um, you know, I?
16:22
Carmen Lezeth: I mean a lot of the shows of Norman Lear were also before our time.
16:26
Carmen Lezeth: We were watching reruns when we were growing up as well.
16:29
Carmen Lezeth: So, rick, taken away with Norman Lear, since We'll need you to speak at some point in the podcast.
16:35
Kelly Quinn: But I did see the princess bride and he was a part of getting that.
16:40
Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, that's a great movie.
16:43
Rick Costa: So yeah, all these shows for us older 50 plus people.
16:48
Carmen Lezeth: Oh yeah, I'm just kidding Some of us.
16:52
Rick Costa: Um, yeah, I you know.
16:54
Rick Costa: If it wasn't for him they wouldn't exist.
16:56
Rick Costa: The Jeffersons wouldn't exist, archie Bunker wouldn't exist.
16:59
Rick Costa: All in the family.
17:00
Carmen Lezeth: Which one was your favorite?
17:03
Rick Costa: Um, you know what?
17:04
Rick Costa: Where's that list?
17:05
Rick Costa: I had a list.
17:06
Carmen Lezeth: I sent y'all a list, yeah, yeah.
17:09
Rick Costa: Actually the one that Currently even now still makes me laugh, and it was my father's favorite too.
17:14
Rick Costa: It was actually Sanford and son.
17:16
Carmen Lezeth: Oh see, and I never could watch that.
17:17
Carmen Lezeth: It just wasn't my thing.
17:19
Carmen Lezeth: I never could watch that.
17:20
Carmen Lezeth: Well, well, I, I mean, I think I really liked him a lot, but I liked him more because he was also so politically astutes, right?
17:31
Carmen Lezeth: So, kelly, I know that you didn't watch any of his shows, but I didn't watch mod either, but I didn't watch a lot of these shows because they were also before our time and, as I mentioned when we talked about I love Lucy, which he didn't have anything to do, I was also at rehearsal most of the time where I was doing other things.
17:50
Carmen Lezeth: I wasn't home watching TV all the time but, um, one of the things that he is known for is, I guess Nowadays it would be considered, I mean, really taboo subjects at back.
18:01
Carmen Lezeth: Then it was too, you know, like all in the family, the big thing there wasn't just the race issues that he would play with and make us all think about, because Archie Bunker was a racist, racist, racist, bigoted, terrible person.
18:18
Carmen Lezeth: But you loved him Because you, you, you wanted him to be better than what he was you know what I mean and you knew that he had a heart.
18:26
Carmen Lezeth: He had a heart, but he was the epitome of like just Racism.
18:32
Carmen Lezeth: You know what I mean.
18:32
Carmen Lezeth: And also he was very sexist.
18:34
Carmen Lezeth: His wife was supposed to be this, this and this eat it, you know.
18:38
Carmen Lezeth: And and also she gets raped on that show, right, I mean, we don't, we don't see that, but she gets that.
18:44
Carmen Lezeth: That was another taboo subject when she ends up.
18:48
Carmen Lezeth: That was a big deal for that show.
18:50
Carmen Lezeth: So you talk about what you talk about the 70s, you know.
18:53
Carmen Lezeth: And Sammy Davis jr Was on that show.
18:56
Carmen Lezeth: There were just so many stars that came on this show, but it was really well done.
19:01
Carmen Lezeth: And then all the spin-offs, which was, uh, good times.
19:04
Carmen Lezeth: And Jefferson.
19:06
Carmen Lezeth: Jefferson's and I mean Norman Lear every show seemed to just do a spin-off of a spin-off, of a spin-off which is also on heart of today.
19:14
Carmen Lezeth: It's not really common.
19:16
Kelly Quinn: Well, and then one of his more recent things and that was just looking at the list, but it said it was like documentary America divided, and it was, yeah, about these different issues but with some big-name actors portraying that Seems like continued that trend, you know, going forward all the way up to more, whatever the you know mid 2000s.
19:36
Carmen Lezeth: Right.
19:37
Carmen Lezeth: It seems sad to me, though, that like nothing's really changed for the better.
19:41
Carmen Lezeth: I mean, things have changed for the better, but I don't know it sort of went backwards.
19:46
Kelly Quinn: Yeah, rick, how do?
19:47
Rick Costa: you feel about it since you've seen the shows, or yeah, I mean, I was watching somebody the other day and they were like you could never get away with this today.
19:56
Rick Costa: The stuff they said, whoo, never, ever, even today.
20:01
Rick Costa: It's like Especially the archie bunker.
20:03
Rick Costa: He's like the absolute, unbelievable list of all, and that's not a word.
20:07
Rick Costa: I'm believe this, but it is now.
20:08
Rick Costa: And, oh my gosh, the stuff he said it's like what?
20:14
Rick Costa: Oh my god, I believe you said that.
20:16
Rick Costa: But the part of him that was funny to me was he didn't care.
20:20
Rick Costa: He did, he spoke his mind.
20:22
Rick Costa: He did not care what anybody thought, he just Just learned it out.
20:26
Carmen Lezeth: Well, I'll tell you guys all a little secret.
20:27
Carmen Lezeth: I never talk about people I know or name drop or whatever.
20:30
Carmen Lezeth: And I didn't really know carol o'connor, but archie bunker is actually carol o'connor, that's his name, and one of my clients had lost her son to drug addiction and so did it.
20:41
Carmen Lezeth: He and they knew each other very well.
20:45
Carmen Lezeth: So I had the blessing, in a weird way, to meet him a few times when I first came out to the Los Angeles and I was like you know, like what do you do with that?
20:57
Carmen Lezeth: Because I'm not actually meeting them, as me I was basically somebody's assistant and in the room, we don't mean, but it was always interesting to me that he is an actor.
21:09
Carmen Lezeth: He was not Archie Bunker, you know, and I think we forget that and I'm gonna bring it to a movie I just recently saw, which you all know that I wrote a blog post about it Maestro and Bradley Cooper.
21:24
Carmen Lezeth: It's like any other movie A great actor will portray someone, but it's not indicative of who they are.
21:35
Carmen Lezeth: They can bring a piece of them, like the great actors bring a piece of them to it, or they find the character within them, or whatever it is, but you have to be able to separate who the actor is from the character.
21:48
Carmen Lezeth: And I think that was what was interesting about Carol O'Connor was I didn't even see an ounce of Archie Bunker, except that he looked like him, you know, yeah, and I wonder if it was hard for him.
22:01
Carmen Lezeth: I wonder if it was hard for him to be a racist as a character, and then you know, yeah, I could see that Some people being mad at him.
22:10
Rick Costa: He's like it's just a character.
22:11
Rick Costa: That's not who I am.
22:13
Kelly Quinn: Yeah, Well, I think yeah as an actor, if you do, especially when you are talking about people who are playing villains for lack of a better, if we're just gonna overdo it.
22:21
Kelly Quinn: Right, If they do their job well, people do, they get, like you know death threats and it's like whoa, how can we talk about race unless we have the racist Like if you don't have it, you can't show it.
22:39
Kelly Quinn: We have to actually show the reality and the truth, even if it's a little, but I don't think it probably was.
22:46
Kelly Quinn: But just the point is, we have to show this, otherwise there's no way to open up the dialogue, and so somebody has to be that role and do it in an authentic way, because otherwise it doesn't work.
22:57
Carmen Lezeth: And he was still good at it because you also loved him.
23:00
Carmen Lezeth: Like, even as people of color, we loved the show.
23:04
Carmen Lezeth: We loved the show because it was talking about something and I don't want to talk for all people of color because I was way too young.
23:09
Carmen Lezeth: I was I don't know five when the show came out, whatever seven.
23:12
Carmen Lezeth: Right, we were all really young watching the show.
23:14
Carmen Lezeth: But you remember it because everybody watched it, everybody watched the show, and it was kind of like the talk of the town afterwards or the talk of the next day or whatever people would talk about it.
23:24
Carmen Lezeth: So you would hear all these adults talking about it and it was just like must see TV or whatever.
23:29
Rick Costa: I don't even know if it was on NBC Plus plus.
23:31
Rick Costa: Remember back then.
23:32
Rick Costa: It's not like today where we have hundreds of channels.
23:34
Rick Costa: We didn't.
23:35
Rick Costa: Back then it was only a few.
23:37
Carmen Lezeth: Right.
23:38
Carmen Lezeth: Is there anything that you do as an actor, kelly, that you hate doing when you prepare for a character role?
23:47
Kelly Quinn: Is that too much in the weeds to ask you, but I'm just wondering the one, the most recent one I can think of, and it really was more of an audition that I didn't actually get and, yes, in my mind I got to portray the role for the audition and then I got redirect and essentially it was portraying this mom who, of a teenager, she's seeing a mom and her daughter gets pregnant like a proportion, and she is like you can't do that and I don't want to get into politics.
24:20
Kelly Quinn: I'm just saying that was the role, yeah, and I, the way I approached it was I am a mom, I have two daughters.
24:28
Kelly Quinn: Right, you want to talk about okay.
24:31
Kelly Quinn: You know, how would I, how would I get into this headspace?
24:34
Kelly Quinn: I sort of approached more of okay, where what could have happened in my backstory to where this would seem like the worst possible thing in my world to hear my daughter saying and I still had an element of, I would argue, warmth in there and also just the conflict of loving my daughter, just feeling all these things.
24:56
Kelly Quinn: And the redirect I got was to be very cold, just, oh, that's hard.
25:03
Kelly Quinn: And I and that was I went, wow, maybe if I weren't a mom, I was just going to say I'm not a mother, so I probably could have done it pretty easily.
25:14
Kelly Quinn: And that's like in the moment in the audition room.
25:16
Kelly Quinn: So you don't have like.
25:17
Kelly Quinn: Can I have 20 minutes?
25:18
Kelly Quinn: You know, you just okay.
25:20
Rick Costa: Yeah.
25:21
Kelly Quinn: That's hard to and I, I mean I did, I think, my best version of that.
25:25
Kelly Quinn: I think, probably for what they wanted.
25:27
Kelly Quinn: It still just wasn't holding Right.
25:29
Kelly Quinn: Um.
25:30
Kelly Quinn: So I think sometimes, when it's something where you have crafted a certain thing and then they're asked to just do the complete opposite and it feels like a really big stretch, that's when you get into them and I get there and maybe, if I you know, I could argue all sorts of things, but I think that was a difficult thing for me.
25:53
Kelly Quinn: Um, I think the worst, but I don't know if I'll say that's the worst thing.
25:57
Kelly Quinn: I just think when it's something where you're starting to get into, I'm having a hard time finding the motivation to do it that way.
26:04
Kelly Quinn: But if that's what they, that's your job, you're the actor and the director wants you to do it, it doesn't really matter.
26:09
Kelly Quinn: You have to find a way.
26:10
Carmen Lezeth: You have to find a way.
26:11
Carmen Lezeth: So, oh, and I see what you've written and I'm ignoring it.
26:15
Carmen Lezeth: These are, these are people that are not important, except for Tony, cynthia and Steven.
26:23
Rick Costa: Tony Tony's in the doghouse for today, I think.
26:26
Carmen Lezeth: Oh, tony's in the doghouse, yeah, all right, why Cause he?
26:29
Carmen Lezeth: Was on one day, one earlier.
26:31
Carmen Lezeth: Whatever, hey, kelly, no no, that's not how it?
26:36
Rick Costa: works baby.
26:37
Rick Costa: When you said cold mom, I'm thinking that old movie no more wire hangers.
26:43
Carmen Lezeth: I don't know who that is.
26:44
Carmen Lezeth: What is?
26:44
Rick Costa: that, oh my gosh, it was like a.
26:46
Rick Costa: She was, I think an actress and the daughter she was just kind of.
26:51
Kelly Quinn: I know what you're referencing.
26:52
Rick Costa: Yeah, remember the title.
26:53
Rick Costa: Yeah, I can't remember either.
26:55
Carmen Lezeth: Whoo yeah.
26:56
Rick Costa: She was a cold.
26:57
Carmen Lezeth: Brian, she is married with children.
26:59
Carmen Lezeth: Mitch, okay, no, he's like.
27:02
Carmen Lezeth: Hi, kelly, I'm Brian.
27:03
Carmen Lezeth: Yeah.
27:04
Carmen Lezeth: So Kelly, he's Brian and he's in Texas.
27:08
Carmen Lezeth: That's all you need to know about me.
27:09
Rick Costa: Yeah, it's what you need.
27:11
Carmen Lezeth: Yes, mommy, yeah, that's good, yeah, mommy, yeah, that's right.
27:15
Rick Costa: Right.
27:15
Carmen Lezeth: We love Cynthia.
27:16
Carmen Lezeth: I love every single opportunity of acting I can get.
27:22
Carmen Lezeth: I mean, I know you're the same way Like if somebody wants you to play something, you'll just do it.
27:26
Carmen Lezeth: I don't think I've ever questioned anything.
27:29
Carmen Lezeth: Look at, melanie, it's all about the editing.
27:32
Carmen Lezeth: You're still right, melanie.
27:35
Carmen Lezeth: But I will say one of my heartbreaking moments was when I got a big feature film.
27:43
Carmen Lezeth: I had a small part in it, kelly, you already know about this story, but it was a huge film with big stars like Tina Fey and Bradley Whitford and all of these, and anyway, I got to do this little piece.
27:56
Carmen Lezeth: I was.
27:56
Carmen Lezeth: I was playing actually a cop who, um, a dog cop, whatever they're called, oh, and a canine yeah.
28:04
Carmen Lezeth: Whatever, I was up, whatever, and they were, and a news crew was interviewing me about a dog.
28:11
Carmen Lezeth: I forget what the whole thing was because I blanked it out, but anyways, let me just tell you what happened.
28:17
Carmen Lezeth: So I got this role all by myself.
28:19
Carmen Lezeth: I didn't have an agent.
28:20
Carmen Lezeth: It was a big time movie, it was a Ron Howard production.
28:23
Carmen Lezeth: I go on set, you know, and I get to go on it in a trailer.
28:27
Carmen Lezeth: To wait, you know, that never happens.
28:29
Carmen Lezeth: You don't get no trailer night Right.
28:31
Carmen Lezeth: So it was the end of the day shoot.
28:33
Carmen Lezeth: I got to do the shoot and we had to do it outside on Melrose, and there was all this traffic that was stopped and there were actually cops there that were hired to move the traffic along, and then there was all these crowds of people like actually people walking by who stopped to watch this filming, which freaked me out, you know they were like can you imagine, like you're so excited anyways, but you're on this big production, whatever.
29:00
Carmen Lezeth: So I do my scene and I have to cry Like I am, I am a cop.
29:06
Carmen Lezeth: But then I start crying because whatever, the dog, I don't know, whatever I'm so angry because I'm going to tell you what happened afterwards.
29:12
Carmen Lezeth: I do the scene and the director was like excellent, cut, great.
29:17
Carmen Lezeth: And they start watching the daily, like they watch it back Right and my label or whatever it was, my badge or whatever it was, was no, there was like a you know the end plate.
29:30
Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, it had fallen while I was talking.
29:33
Carmen Lezeth: It wasn't secure.
29:33
Carmen Lezeth: So I had to do it again and you know I had to cry and everything and I was like okay, I got it, I can do this.
29:41
Carmen Lezeth: He's like you sure I'm like, I'm good, I'm like can I just have some water?
29:44
Carmen Lezeth: And like five people come with water, thank you.
29:47
Carmen Lezeth: We take a minute.
29:51
Carmen Lezeth: I do the scene again and it was even better.
29:54
Carmen Lezeth: It was awesome, it was great.
29:56
Carmen Lezeth: I leave people clap because they know I'd been waiting all day, they know I'm a nobody actor, they know how stressful it was.
30:03
Carmen Lezeth: We did the first take.
30:04
Carmen Lezeth: It was great.
30:05
Carmen Lezeth: The second take was better.
30:07
Carmen Lezeth: That doesn't normally happen, right.
30:09
Carmen Lezeth: Like nobody actor, I felt so good about myself.
30:13
Carmen Lezeth: I was like I am on point my life.
30:17
Carmen Lezeth: I knew all this time in Hollywood.
30:21
Carmen Lezeth: Here it is I got cut from the fucking movie.
30:24
Carmen Lezeth: I got paid for the motherfucking day A lot of money, but I mean like a day of work.
30:30
Carmen Lezeth: I forget it was like 1500 bucks or something.
30:32
Carmen Lezeth: I had no agent or whatever.
30:34
Carmen Lezeth: So it was amazing money, right, because I was a I am a SAG actor, but I knew I reached out to the producer because no one had reached out to me and usually wait within like two or three weeks.
30:47
Carmen Lezeth: You kind of know when they start doing the editing.
30:50
Carmen Lezeth: Oh, brian, please, you know you'll hear about it.
30:54
Carmen Lezeth: So it was like six months, seven months later, whatever.
30:56
Carmen Lezeth: And you know they told me that I got cut and they were like it's not you, I'm like it doesn't matter, like well my scene was supposed to be.
31:08
Carmen Lezeth: I don't know if it was Tina Fey or Bradley Whitford or who it was, but they were supposed to be walking into their hotel room and they were going to catch the news and they would see this spot and then move on.
31:18
Carmen Lezeth: You know what I mean, and it would have something to do with their next scene.
31:20
Carmen Lezeth: So it wasn't like a big part, but it was to me.
31:25
Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, of course you get cut for a lot of reasons.
31:28
Carmen Lezeth: I mean, I edit now this little YouTube thing that we do and I edit shit all the time for the audio that Rick pride is a like or whoever doesn't like, or whatever.
31:38
Carmen Lezeth: You know well, you know what I'm saying.
31:40
Carmen Lezeth: Like, you edit things for a reason, because you need to make it tighter or whatever.
31:44
Carmen Lezeth: But I went and saw that movie by myself because I wasn't even invited to the crew show and nothing which I thought was mean.
31:52
Carmen Lezeth: I thought they should have invited me to the premiere or whatever.
31:54
Carmen Lezeth: You know what I mean.
31:55
Carmen Lezeth: Like, cause they do.
31:55
Carmen Lezeth: The crew it's a guy and they thanked me in the movie, whatever you know.
32:00
Carmen Lezeth: Like in the credit in the movie.
32:02
Carmen Lezeth: But I went and watched that movie, which was the stupidest thing for me to do because I cried the whole time.
32:07
Carmen Lezeth: I was sitting in the theater alone, I know, because I was so sad.
32:11
Carmen Lezeth: But let me tell you something.
32:12
Carmen Lezeth: That's the life of an actor, yeah.
32:15
Rick Costa: And it's not like today where they have you can get the DVD with all the deleted parts.
32:19
Rick Costa: You know probably have that back then, did they?
32:23
Carmen Lezeth: I mean.
32:23
Carmen Lezeth: I'm sure somebody has that and something like you make it big, they're gonna come out with it and everything.
32:27
Carmen Lezeth: But I Mean I think they get rid of all that.
32:30
Carmen Lezeth: But you know, I mean, why would they keep it?
32:32
Carmen Lezeth: I guess I could have asked for it, and that's something I did because I was so in my feelings about it, I was so upset about it and I waited too long because I thought it would be in the movie.
32:42
Carmen Lezeth: So it was a mistake I made, but yeah, that will always be my most heartbreaking, heartbreaking Moment in LA.
32:51
Carmen Lezeth: Yeah it's.
32:53
Kelly Quinn: It's really hard.
32:54
Kelly Quinn: It is, it is very strange, going hard business.
32:56
Kelly Quinn: Yeah, you have to a, you have to actually enjoy Acting, the craft of acting.
33:04
Kelly Quinn: I mean.
33:05
Kelly Quinn: I know we can talk about people who just got famous to be famous and they've had success.
33:09
Kelly Quinn: But the when you think of the actors who are the really good actors, right, none of them got into it because they're like I'm gonna win an Oscar.
33:16
Kelly Quinn: They Love acting.
33:18
Kelly Quinn: And if you don't because it is the weirdest thing to do, if you don't love it, okay, I would say you know, howard finds us this.
33:26
Kelly Quinn: Do anything else you have to love acting is you have to love acting, which I I genuinely do.
33:32
Carmen Lezeth: I've read, and especially I love acting, but I don't like auditioning.
33:35
Carmen Lezeth: Why, yeah, I like auditioning live.
33:39
Kelly Quinn: The zoom stuff is difficult for me and I think I'm you know it's you are.
33:44
Carmen Lezeth: That's newer.
33:45
Kelly Quinn: Now it's a skill and you have to, we have to do it and I I booked jobs with the zoom callback so, like I, you know been able.
33:54
Kelly Quinn: But Even if you have the most, you know blank reader, you know like they're giving you nothing in the room, which is fine right, it's still.
34:04
Kelly Quinn: Easier for me to give something to that than just I, because even when I'm doing zoom, like I can't, if I look at right at the camera, I'm not looking at Carmen, I'm looking at a little hole in my camera, you know like.
34:16
Kelly Quinn: So you want to connect with somebody Right and and go off whatever, and it's sort of difficult.
34:22
Kelly Quinn: So auditioning is really hard but I do really enjoy it.
34:26
Carmen Lezeth: I love being able to try acting, but I like theater, you like film acting I do, but I love theater too.
34:33
Kelly Quinn: I just right now I'm trying to yeah, he'd be in film more and I don't have a lot of theater training.
34:41
Carmen Lezeth: But, rick, you love acting I.
34:44
Rick Costa: Mean, I don't have never done it, but I mean you want to enjoy the all whole process of it.
34:48
Rick Costa: I've actually listened to a bunch of them lately that said, like we guys were just talking about now, it's all on zoom, it's all on video and they're like, it's just not the same.
34:56
Rick Costa: You know, and like you know, you trading the the nervousness, and they don't like me, that it on me, surrounded by people, being they, by being in the comfort of your home, but again, you can't see somebody, you can't play off of nobody.
35:09
Rick Costa: It's just, you know, it's just a bunch of looking for because, yeah, brian, I'll ask.
35:14
Carmen Lezeth: I'll answer your question in a minute.
35:15
Carmen Lezeth: I think the difference that's really great about it being on zoom or whatever, on camera Recorded or whatever is you do get to see what somebody looks like on camera, which is actually what they're looking for when you're doing a film or TV show you know, I mean, of course, everything changes with lighting or whatever, and it's a lot for an actor to have to have all that.
35:35
Carmen Lezeth: But, sag, just part of what they put in this new contract was provisions that people don't have to have an elaborate setup in order to audition, because that's been costing actors a lot of money and also a lot of Jobs.
35:50
Carmen Lezeth: You know, yeah, and Cynthia asked.
35:53
Carmen Lezeth: I used Cynthia once to read that's right, because I was having a tough time finding someone and she read with me so I could audition Brian.
36:02
Carmen Lezeth: I.
36:08
Rick Costa: That face said everything.
36:11
Carmen Lezeth: For some reason it wasn't.
36:13
Carmen Lezeth: I don't think it was about that.
36:14
Carmen Lezeth: I don't think it was a.
36:15
Carmen Lezeth: I don't.
36:17
Carmen Lezeth: I would have called you, but it wasn't a you thing.
36:19
Carmen Lezeth: It wasn't something I could have you do.
36:21
Carmen Lezeth: I Forget what it was.
36:23
Carmen Lezeth: It's totally.
36:24
Carmen Lezeth: I would have called you, but it wasn't that.
36:27
Carmen Lezeth: Um, brian asked being on location is better than the stage, and I think what he means is is filming Television, studio or on set versus being on stage?
36:38
Carmen Lezeth: Let me tell you my, I love being on stage.
36:41
Carmen Lezeth: I've done both film, television, and I've also done stage work theater, live theater.
36:47
Carmen Lezeth: Here's why I love theater more.
36:50
Carmen Lezeth: It's not because I think acting is better.
36:51
Carmen Lezeth: You know, there's this snooty thing about if you're a theater actor, you'll bet that's not true, because I would give anyone Quarms to go up against Viola Davis or Meryl Streep or you know what I mean.
37:03
Carmen Lezeth: Like, that's not how it is for me.
37:05
Carmen Lezeth: What I believe is I'm really good when I get on stage and I have no choice but to perform Right.
37:14
Carmen Lezeth: You do not get to do a do-do over whether a phone rings or whether Somebody trips accidentally or you mess up a line or you're seen, but you just have to go with it and I'm really good and I love that.
37:27
Carmen Lezeth: I love the butterflies and the nervousness for me and Kelly will have a different experience and we'll share it when I'm doing film.
37:35
Carmen Lezeth: I haven't done a lot of television, but I've done quite a few films.
37:39
Carmen Lezeth: Um, I don't like the repetitiveness of film acting.
37:45
Carmen Lezeth: So you go back and forth, will do a scene, like me, and Kelly will do a scene here, and then we'll have to then do the same scene again because Rick has to come in and walk by, so we'll have to do the scene again with the camera here.
37:59
Carmen Lezeth: Then we'll have to do Kelly speaking, doing the scene again without me being in the shot so the camera can do her, and then we'll have to do the scene again with the camera pointing at me, and so I have a really hard time being fresh every time and being Alive in the moment.
38:20
Carmen Lezeth: It takes such skill and such brilliance and when you're working with so many people.
38:25
Carmen Lezeth: By the way, that's just the problems with the camera.
38:28
Carmen Lezeth: There's lighting issues, sound actors fuck up their lines.
38:33
Carmen Lezeth: I mean, you see scenes in a movie and they've probably been shot what?
38:38
Carmen Lezeth: At least ten times.
38:40
Kelly Quinn: Yeah, I mean at least and that and then.
38:42
Kelly Quinn: And then you have to reset, like depending on what happens.
38:48
Kelly Quinn: If it's bad enough, it's like, well, there go 30 minutes and it's it's sort of a and you could be in the middle of like your monologue, you know like you're crying and they're like Cut and just Makeup comes over and she.
39:10
Rick Costa: And that's multiple takes right where there is no multiple takes, big emotional cathartic.
39:17
Kelly Quinn: You know, and when you're like me and you're not a big name actor Okay, it's takes six I'm like I don't know if I have tears left for you.
39:23
Kelly Quinn: You know, to like this is a lot of emoting over and over.
39:29
Kelly Quinn: And, like you're saying, like Getting because, as the actor.
39:32
Kelly Quinn: Of course we have the whole script.
39:33
Kelly Quinn: We know what's gonna happen, right, but the whole point of that moment that you're filming or that scene is that your character doesn't, so you have to be just as heartbroken, or whatever, and let it surprise you, and then you might not get exactly emotional.
39:48
Kelly Quinn: I mean, if you think you're doing it right, it's not quite in the same spot every time, because, unless you're a robot, you could just make yourself go, which I know some people can, I can't, I have to be really connected with it, right for that to come out.
40:01
Carmen Lezeth: That's what you take acting classes to, so that we yeah, but that doesn't work for me.
40:03
Carmen Lezeth: Yeah but, I also admit.
40:06
Carmen Lezeth: Let's also admit, people don't know this.
40:08
Carmen Lezeth: Films are not done in order, so that's the other reason why yeah?
40:12
Carmen Lezeth: theater like theater you have beginning, middle and end and you start the play and you go to the middle of the play and you go to the end of the play.
40:20
Carmen Lezeth: Films are filmed in out of order.
40:24
Carmen Lezeth: They're never in order.
40:26
Carmen Lezeth: So Kelly might have this horrible scene at the end where where her partner in business has died and she has to cry about that, and then she has to go and figure out how to tell you know the staff.
40:40
Carmen Lezeth: And that's the first shot of the movie, the whole story.
40:46
Carmen Lezeth: Yet it might be the end of the film or whatever.
40:51
Kelly Quinn: And the only and I'll just say this little time, because I've had a little tiny bit of experience with theater when I was in high school and what I loved about it is you had rehearsals and you're with this group of people and you're going through it and you form this like bond and connection and, like you said, you're going through an order and then you're going through an order and it becomes like a living thing almost with the people that you're on.
41:12
Kelly Quinn: You know you're on the stage with even if you're in the ensemble, you're not one of the main roles.
41:16
Kelly Quinn: And then, yeah, there's this excitement and then you get out on stage and it's so exciting to put it all together and you've gone on this journey together.
41:25
Kelly Quinn: Now, that's not always on TV and film acting especially TV if you're like a day player under five, which is hello, kind of my deal right now, I'm not bonding with these people.
41:40
Kelly Quinn: I have to come in.
41:41
Kelly Quinn: I get two seconds and a lot of times the rehearsal is literally while they're shooting, like they do one take and they're like, alright, do this for this take, and it's like, okay, and that's literally the rehearsal.
41:53
Kelly Quinn: You don't get all this time, so you gotta be ready to go and you're taking that from the audition room and now you have a set.
41:59
Kelly Quinn: The answer Brian's question of is on location.
42:03
Kelly Quinn: I think it's better because, of course, when I'm in my little room here pretending that I'm looking at a waterfall, I really gotta go into my head, obviously, because I'm not looking at a waterfall, I'm looking at my box, like when you're on the location.
42:17
Kelly Quinn: Yes, it makes it a lot easier in some ways to really get the vibe of I'm here and I believe it in my bones.
42:25
Kelly Quinn: I might not have to do quite as much work before I turn that.
42:28
Kelly Quinn: You know the camera gets turned on because you're there.
42:30
Kelly Quinn: But that that was my brief experience with theater and partially why I loved it, because I loved feeling like I was with, like this band of people.
42:40
Kelly Quinn: Michael Bubbles.
42:42
Rick Costa: Michael Bubbles hello.
42:43
Carmen Lezeth: Hi Michael Bubbles, who's he?
42:46
Rick Costa: calling.
42:46
Carmen Lezeth: Spider-Man.
42:47
Carmen Lezeth: Oh, I do Spider-Man back here.
42:49
Rick Costa: Some of you have.
42:49
Carmen Lezeth: Spider-Man in the back.
42:51
Rick Costa: You know it was funny.
42:51
Rick Costa: I have a game at the end of my broadcast.
42:53
Rick Costa: I do every day, and today the question was who's the person that whispers the lines on the side in the theater for people that forget their lines?
43:00
Rick Costa: And I was like, oh, I didn't even think about that and it was Promptor.
43:04
Rick Costa: Yeah, promptor.
43:05
Rick Costa: I was like where's Carmen?
43:06
Rick Costa: We needed her today.
43:09
Carmen Lezeth: But well, okay, sometimes you forget your lines, but not when you're a professional.
43:13
Carmen Lezeth: Here's the thing I always tell actors who come to LA.
43:17
Carmen Lezeth: You know, because so many come and then they leave.
43:19
Carmen Lezeth: If your biggest problem is you can't memorize your lines, you cannot be an actor like I don't even play the game, like oh you know what here a different way?
43:28
Carmen Lezeth: No, that is like thing number one.
43:31
Rick Costa: It's like a surgeon fates for seeing blood.
43:34
Rick Costa: I mean yeah.
43:37
Carmen Lezeth: You kind of have to know how to memorize your lines.
43:39
Carmen Lezeth: You got to just figure that out.
43:40
Carmen Lezeth: If you could pick a character in a movie that you wished you could play, rick, who would it be?
43:47
Carmen Lezeth: Is there a favorite character?
43:49
Rick Costa: I was going to be funny and say, jack O'Neill, just because of you.
43:53
Carmen Lezeth: Stargate is the one.
43:54
Carmen Lezeth: Oh my god, we're sci-fi buffs, kelly, if you haven't figured it out, with his whole thing in the background.
44:00
Rick Costa: If we were to go with that show, I'd rather be.
44:02
Rick Costa: Daniel Jackson, be honest with you.
44:04
Carmen Lezeth: Really OK, I know.
44:06
Carmen Lezeth: It's not your favorite, but I like Michael Jackson, dr Daniel Jackson I like the geekiness, but yet super smart, but yet kind of awkward.
44:16
Carmen Lezeth: So you would like to play that role, like in that show.
44:21
Carmen Lezeth: It's like Star Trek, but not Star Trek, it's Stargate, like the movie.
44:25
Carmen Lezeth: Ok, so you would want to play that role for all 10 seasons.
44:30
Rick Costa: I should be Vin Diesel.
44:31
Rick Costa: He said Rick should be Vin Diesel.
44:33
Rick Costa: I need a lot deeper voice role.
44:37
Carmen Lezeth: Kelly, what role would you want to play?
44:39
Carmen Lezeth: If you could have played any role that's already been done?
44:43
Carmen Lezeth: Ugh Wow.
44:46
Kelly Quinn: It could be film or television.
44:47
Kelly Quinn: Well, tv role that I can think of, and when I say I grew up watching this, when I realized that I was like I don't think it should have been allowed to watch that at that age, but I would be Scully.
44:59
Kelly Quinn: Oh, x-files, x-files.
45:02
Kelly Quinn: I used to watch that one when I was like 10.
45:05
Kelly Quinn: And my mom used to be like Rick, don't let her watch that.
45:07
Kelly Quinn: But I love that show.
45:10
Rick Costa: Yes, we love that show too.
45:12
Rick Costa: We love that show too.
45:14
Kelly Quinn: I mean, you know, Jelene Anderson is amazing.
45:17
Carmen Lezeth: She's an amazing actress.
45:18
Carmen Lezeth: She's amazing.
45:20
Kelly Quinn: And she's just like not that she was bad before.
45:22
Kelly Quinn: Obviously she was amazing before, and then she just keeps doing amazing things.
45:27
Carmen Lezeth: Well, because she's grown as an actress.
45:29
Carmen Lezeth: I mean, she's just an incredible, an incredible presence.
45:32
Carmen Lezeth: But you could see it even like, if you watch the pilot because you know I watch that every once in a while too, because it's free on Karmic or free on Pluto She'll just like lay up at night, we'll watch it, whatever.
45:43
Carmen Lezeth: And they had the pilot on and I was like, oh my god, they were so young.
45:47
Carmen Lezeth: Yes, I know.
45:50
Kelly Quinn: Yeah, I say that, but yeah, it's so amazing, I mean I'm trying to think of.
45:55
Kelly Quinn: I feel like there's so many that I just go oh.
45:58
Kelly Quinn: Now.
45:59
Kelly Quinn: So my brain goes blank because there's too many that I would want to play.
46:01
Kelly Quinn: But that one came to my mom when I was thinking of TV because, yeah, that's a great one.
46:07
Carmen Lezeth: I love it.
46:07
Carmen Lezeth: I'm jealous.
46:07
Carmen Lezeth: I didn't think of that Investigated the scientific element of it.
46:10
Kelly Quinn: I love that, and especially her to mold her.
46:13
Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, that's where I would have failed, because I would have not been able to say all the words that she says.
46:18
Carmen Lezeth: But yeah, no, I actually was thinking about I wish this is going to be weird, but I loved the movie, even though it should not have been better than Color Purple back then.
46:30
Carmen Lezeth: But out of Africa, I wish I could have played the Bell Streep role with Robert Redford.
46:37
Carmen Lezeth: I'm just saying y'all have no reasons.
46:40
Carmen Lezeth: No, but I mean any role that Meryl Streep does, and now I look at Viola Davis kind of the same way, the ability to take on any role and make it so exquisitely brilliant.
46:54
Carmen Lezeth: And every time I think of her I mean I don't know if I could have ever.
46:57
Carmen Lezeth: Even I wouldn't even touch Sophie's Choice, right, meryl Streep and Sophie's Choice is crazy, amazing.
47:03
Kelly Quinn: I mean she's amazing.
47:05
Carmen Lezeth: She's amazing.
47:05
Carmen Lezeth: But I think I could have done some damage on Out of Africa.
47:09
Carmen Lezeth: I don't know if it worked because you know skin color thing and everything, but I'm just saying if we could be out there playing, you know, and the love interest.
47:17
Carmen Lezeth: But yeah, what, rick?
47:20
Carmen Lezeth: I know you're trying to say something.
47:22
Rick Costa: No, I was just going to say maybe in the future they'll do like a sci-fi version of Out of Africa, and then you could be hit.
47:27
Carmen Lezeth: Oh, not a sci-fi version.
47:28
Carmen Lezeth: Did you ever even see Out of Africa?
47:31
Rick Costa: Yes, we talked about this movie.
47:33
Rick Costa: I was mad because Color Purple didn't win the wars.
47:35
Rick Costa: Because of that.
47:36
Carmen Lezeth: I know Color Purple coming out though.
47:38
Carmen Lezeth: Yes, I'm a 20-gif.
47:41
Kelly Quinn: I know I would also and this is probably going to sound funny, but because I know my type, which is always like procedural, which I get, but I would also like to play.
47:51
Kelly Quinn: I'm thinking of, well, there's two roles in the help that I would like to play Jessica Chastain's role.
47:58
Carmen Lezeth: In the help.
47:58
Kelly Quinn: Yeah.
47:59
Kelly Quinn: In the help.
47:59
Kelly Quinn: I can't remember her character's name.
48:01
Kelly Quinn: Yeah.
48:01
Kelly Quinn: But I mean in that movie it's just the acting across the board is amazing, and obviously Viola Davis isn't it.
48:10
Carmen Lezeth: But that's what she won.
48:11
Carmen Lezeth: She didn't show, no, she didn't win for that Not for that one.
48:14
Carmen Lezeth: No, no, no.
48:15
Carmen Lezeth: She won for the movie with Meryl Streep and the Nun.
48:17
Carmen Lezeth: That's where she won her Oscar.
48:20
Kelly Quinn: That was so good.
48:21
Carmen Lezeth: And see her screen time was like two minutes.
48:24
Carmen Lezeth: It was like ridiculous.
48:25
Carmen Lezeth: It wasn't that much at all.
48:26
Carmen Lezeth: And that thing is when you see somebody you go.
48:29
Kelly Quinn: she was barely on the screen and you remember it just impacted on you.
48:36
Kelly Quinn: You know what I mean and I was just like why is this one not in everything?
48:39
Kelly Quinn: She is now Well yeah, now she is, I mean obviously.
48:43
Kelly Quinn: But at that time I don't know that she was as well known as she is now.
48:49
Carmen Lezeth: No, she wasn't.
48:49
Carmen Lezeth: That's when she first started.
48:50
Carmen Lezeth: I mean, that's when we were starting to get to know her.
48:52
Carmen Lezeth: But OK, here's my question Is there a role you'd never want to play?
48:56
Carmen Lezeth: Rick, I would play anything In my perfect world I think I've told both of you this In my perfect world, if I could work as an actor and never audition ever again because I don't ever want to, I'm not going to audition anymore.
49:11
Carmen Lezeth: That's why I'm creating my own space.
49:13
Carmen Lezeth: I mean, I hate auditioning, but I would want to be like a Klingon in Star Trek and only like the cult, to know who I really am.
49:24
Carmen Lezeth: Like I've always thought that if I were going to be an actor, it would be as with amazing makeup or whatever, and in a way, not hidden, but only real people who know the show or the movie would know it was me.
49:37
Carmen Lezeth: That would have been my favorite, because the idea of being unable to walk the street because you're so famous, that would make me nauseous.
49:49
Carmen Lezeth: Like I've seen it.
49:50
Carmen Lezeth: I've seen people I mean, I've worked for people who have to deal with that.
49:54
Carmen Lezeth: I used to have to really deal with it.
49:55
Carmen Lezeth: I wouldn't even want that.
49:57
Carmen Lezeth: Brian just said I'd love to play a villain or a villain's right-hand man yeah, that I could see.
50:01
Carmen Lezeth: Or Jim Holden.
50:03
Carmen Lezeth: Who's Jim Holden?
50:04
Rick Costa: I was talking about the expanse, the pre-look of the previous.
50:06
Rick Costa: Oh, I've never seen the expanse.
50:08
Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, a role that you guys would not want to play, if any at all?
50:13
Carmen Lezeth: I don't know that.
50:14
Kelly Quinn: I have one that I wouldn't.
50:15
Kelly Quinn: I feel like it's such an active thing I want to try.
50:18
Speaker 2: I want to try everything.
50:20
Speaker 2: Just give it to me, let me see what I can do that.
50:22
Kelly Quinn: I have to say villain, would be really interesting especially if you had a lot of a really great story where you had an act like a three-dimensional villain.
50:33
Kelly Quinn: You know what I mean.
50:34
Kelly Quinn: Somebody that's got all this going on and there's a reason why they kind of got into and became the way they did.
50:38
Kelly Quinn: I would love to do that Right, but that's what I'm telling you.
50:42
Carmen Lezeth: The first time I had an issue when I did, I didn't have an issue, but they asked me.
50:46
Carmen Lezeth: I did a short film and it was about.
50:49
Carmen Lezeth: It was in the beginning.
50:50
Carmen Lezeth: This was years ago, in the beginning of when we were starting to talk about transgender and I played the aunt of the person the lead who is transgender, and that was a big deal in the audition.
51:05
Carmen Lezeth: Would we have a problem?
51:06
Carmen Lezeth: And I was, like I'm a problem of?
51:08
Carmen Lezeth: I was confused as to what the problem was.
51:11
Carmen Lezeth: We had read the script.
51:12
Carmen Lezeth: Why would I be here?
51:14
Carmen Lezeth: But I remember that being an interesting, because short films are a little bit different.
51:18
Carmen Lezeth: When people are doing independent films, they want to make sure everyone's comfortable with the subject.
51:21
Carmen Lezeth: But I thought it was weird that they asked after they gave us the script and the sides If you didn't figure it out, you know what I mean.
51:29
Carmen Lezeth: I remember when I met with an agent they were like would you do a nude scene, would you do a lesbian scene or whatever?
51:36
Carmen Lezeth: I'm like are you paying me and it's tasteful?
51:38
Carmen Lezeth: Yes, if Steven Spielberg asked me to do a nude scene, yes, but if it's a porn thing, no, yeah.
51:48
Kelly Quinn: I think if it makes sense within the framework in the story of the character and the whole story as a whole, ok.
51:56
Kelly Quinn: But if it's just I mean gratuitous, just so that we can get the shot of some blonde right?
52:02
Kelly Quinn: No, no, you know what would be the thing.
52:07
Carmen Lezeth: Ricky, are you going to answer the question or not?
52:09
Rick Costa: All I could think of is, if I mean not that I might mind trying to play a villain, but if it's something where it's a murderer and you're seeing me actually murdering somebody, like really violating rules, it's a character though I know.
52:22
Rick Costa: But then, like I don't want, there are some of my life people like, oh, I remember you killed that girl, like they would just be weird for me.
52:28
Carmen Lezeth: You would be.
52:29
Carmen Lezeth: That would mean you're a great actor, because they remember you.
52:31
Carmen Lezeth: It's oh, I would play a murderer and a heartbeat.
52:34
Carmen Lezeth: What would be the most challenging role to play?
52:36
Carmen Lezeth: Well, that's a great go, brian, that's a good question.
52:41
Rick Costa: I guess it would have to be something that is completely opposite of who you are.
52:45
Kelly Quinn: I think for me, which I've thought about.
52:48
Kelly Quinn: This definitely agree with what Rick just touched on, something that's very opposite you in a nor like in whatever your sort of baseline personality is.
52:58
Kelly Quinn: But I've found that you can usually find that if you access.
53:04
Kelly Quinn: But when I'm with my kids I'm like this, or when I'm buzzed I'm like that.
53:09
Kelly Quinn: So how do I tap into that energy?
53:12
Kelly Quinn: But not because I'm buzzed, but because I'm using it for the character.
53:16
Kelly Quinn: But I do agree with that.
53:18
Kelly Quinn: I know for me, yeah, if I was playing a influencer you know, if you're doing the stereotypical Gen Z influencer that would be hard for me because I'm not.
53:29
Kelly Quinn: That's hard for me to access and I'd have to figure that out.
53:32
Kelly Quinn: You know I love you said Gen Z.
53:33
Carmen Lezeth: Are you Gen Z?
53:34
Carmen Lezeth: No, no, no, no, I don't think I could, but I'm totally messing.
53:44
Carmen Lezeth: I was messing with.
53:47
Kelly Quinn: I.
53:49
Carmen Lezeth: Cynthia said I would love to play any character Zoe Ceylon, another great actress he played, because she is amazing.
53:54
Carmen Lezeth: She is amazing.
53:55
Carmen Lezeth: And then Brian said meeting Kane hotter was awesome childhood dream come.
54:00
Carmen Lezeth: I don't know who that is.
54:01
Carmen Lezeth: Should I know who Kane hotter is?
54:04
Carmen Lezeth: Okay, um.
54:06
Carmen Lezeth: So I remember another great Acting coach I had, who was not Howard.
54:12
Carmen Lezeth: Fine, I Never promote this place because I think it was one of the most horrible places I took acting classes at, but this one instructor made this great point.
54:23
Carmen Lezeth: He's like we've all murdered before and of course, the whole class was like Hell's he talking about.
54:30
Carmen Lezeth: You know what I mean.
54:30
Carmen Lezeth: I was like whenever a mosquito bites you and you go like that or you get rid of a roach or whatever it is.
54:37
Carmen Lezeth: That is exactly the same type of.
54:41
Carmen Lezeth: That's a morsel of what it is to play that character Right.
54:46
Carmen Lezeth: That's where you would take some of that from this.
54:48
Carmen Lezeth: Most murderers, when they do all the psychological Background information, they don't think that they're murderers.
54:56
Carmen Lezeth: They're justified in doing what they think they're doing right.
55:00
Carmen Lezeth: So I mean, that's the thing about acting is Anyone who plays a villain or plays a bad person or a killer or a serial killer, whatever.
55:08
Carmen Lezeth: The reason why we end up sometimes sharing for them or the abuser or whatever it is, is Because you put some humanity in them, because you realize they think, from their point of view, they're doing the right thing or they're doing it for a reason.
55:25
Carmen Lezeth: So you can't look at it as a murderer.
55:27
Carmen Lezeth: You have to look at it as a person who thinks he has a reason or right to kill, and then it becomes a much more interesting Character.
55:36
Carmen Lezeth: Right that I would play a murderer in a heartbeat.
55:39
Carmen Lezeth: In a heartbeat, I would do it.
55:40
Carmen Lezeth: You kidding me.
55:41
Carmen Lezeth: I would love the real game.
55:43
Carmen Lezeth: This is what I love about acting.
55:44
Carmen Lezeth: I love the research.
55:45
Carmen Lezeth: Baby, give me the role.
55:47
Carmen Lezeth: I'm a research.
55:48
Carmen Lezeth: That shit, I'm a beyond point.
55:50
Carmen Lezeth: I had to do a play Called I forget the mirror, clean house, I forget what it was, but I had to do a Portuguese action.
55:57
Carmen Lezeth: I told you this, rick.
55:58
Carmen Lezeth: I did the research.
56:00
Carmen Lezeth: I did.
56:01
Carmen Lezeth: I was so good.
56:02
Carmen Lezeth: I met with people who were Portuguese, got the accent down.
56:08
Rick Costa: I was thinking about.
56:08
Rick Costa: There was a show, tom Holland did it, the one that did spider-man.
56:11
Rick Costa: And it was was on Netflix, I forget, but he played a character that was multiple personalities.
56:18
Rick Costa: Oh yeah, there was a really, really good show.
56:21
Rick Costa: I forgot what it's called, but, um, that I think would be challenging, but I think that would be fun.
56:26
Rick Costa: Like remember I told you, carmen, when Daniel Jackson was inhabited by that would be fun.
56:32
Rick Costa: I think that would be a fun.
56:34
Carmen Lezeth: Such a skill of acting.
56:36
Carmen Lezeth: That's what people don't understand.
56:37
Carmen Lezeth: So in Stargate SG one, daniel Jackson, the character walks into a ship and he inhabits the souls of people on the ship.
56:49
Carmen Lezeth: His body consumes the souls and he starts.
56:54
Carmen Lezeth: Each soul comes forward in his body and starts speaking.
56:58
Carmen Lezeth: So he's like a, like a eight-year-old kid.
57:01
Carmen Lezeth: He's a captain, he's a crew member, he's a woman, whatever, and he goes in and out of it.
57:09
Carmen Lezeth: It is a spectacular episode.
57:12
Carmen Lezeth: Just to watch his ability.
57:14
Carmen Lezeth: I don't know why people don't love sci-fi.
57:16
Carmen Lezeth: I mean, his Level is on point.
57:20
Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, yeah, I would not want to do that because it would be too hard for me.
57:24
Carmen Lezeth: I will be honest about that.
57:26
Carmen Lezeth: I think that would be hard.
57:27
Rick Costa: We did, he did.
57:28
Carmen Lezeth: I'm not that good.
57:29
Rick Costa: He did say challenging, so that's why yeah challenging.
57:32
Carmen Lezeth: Chris Hemsworth actually is a much better actor than people give him credit for.
57:36
Carmen Lezeth: I amazing in extraction and extraction too, and those are not usually my genre, but you know I'm gonna see that boy.
57:42
Carmen Lezeth: You mean anything, anything, okay, but he was really good.
57:47
Carmen Lezeth: He's a great actor.
57:48
Carmen Lezeth: I think he's a great actor.
57:50
Kelly Quinn: I think sometimes too, because he's been in, you know, in these more action things, but people Don't realize that how good that person and I think maybe like Bradley Cooper too, like he was kind of A pretty boy right, if we're gonna label somebody but he's an amazing actor.
58:07
Rick Costa: What's that word?
58:08
Rick Costa: Typecasting?
58:09
Kelly Quinn: Yeah, typecasting, you know, and so sometimes it's like these people are incredible actors and you're sort of Trying to get like.
58:17
Kelly Quinn: I remember they did.
58:18
Kelly Quinn: I think it was on the Graham Norton show when he did um ghost busters.
58:21
Kelly Quinn: Chris Hemsworth did the first ghost busters.
58:24
Carmen Lezeth: Oh, that's right with the women.
58:25
Kelly Quinn: He's like yeah, cast and they were all talking about how they're like.
58:28
Kelly Quinn: We never rooted so hard for somebody to be a complete Like a hole and he was not, you know.
58:35
Kelly Quinn: And then they're like he was so funny, it's not hilarious he is very funny.
58:40
Kelly Quinn: Yeah, and they were like he was amazing and it was just so funny to hear them all be like we really wanted to.
58:45
Kelly Quinn: Not like you know, not like him and then Incredible sweetheart.
58:50
Carmen Lezeth: He's a sweetheart.
58:50
Carmen Lezeth: He just seems like a sweetheart.
58:51
Carmen Lezeth: I don't want to hear nothing bad about him either.
58:53
Carmen Lezeth: I don't come to me with no nothing.
58:56
Carmen Lezeth: I don't want him getting divorced.
58:57
Carmen Lezeth: I don't hand none about Chris Hemsworth.
58:58
Carmen Lezeth: He is like we're gonna package him and leave him alone.
59:00
Carmen Lezeth: Who's James McAvoy?
59:02
Carmen Lezeth: Should I know who that is?
59:03
Carmen Lezeth: He was he did.
59:05
Rick Costa: Xavier in the younger X-Men.
59:07
Carmen Lezeth: Oh, yeah, yeah, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
59:10
Rick Costa: That was glass, that was wow.
59:11
Rick Costa: Yeah, he was that.
59:12
Kelly Quinn: Yeah, glass is what I was thinking.
59:14
Kelly Quinn: Yeah, and he was in atonement.
59:16
Kelly Quinn: He's been in a lot of stuff.
59:18
Rick Costa: Yeah.
59:19
Carmen Lezeth: So look at, I'm gonna wrap this up.
59:21
Carmen Lezeth: I just want to say a few things.
59:23
Carmen Lezeth: Number one I want to wish Our friends, all of our Jewish friends, or anyone who celebrates, I want to say, happy Hanukkah.
59:31
Carmen Lezeth: I guess happy Hanukkah is probably not the best way to say it right now, with everything that's going on, but I want to wish our Jewish Friends and anyone who celebrates a a wonderful and beautiful holiday season.
59:42
Carmen Lezeth: Today is the first evening of Hanukkah.
59:44
Carmen Lezeth: That's number one.
59:46
Carmen Lezeth: I do want to give love and joy to Norman Lear and you know we talk a lot about allies, you know we we kind of throw that word around, but he actually was somebody who took all these risks at a time back then when you really shouldn't been able to, and I just hope we can all be more like that, taking risks to do the right thing, no matter what you know, to showcase people who are marginalized or Treated badly just for being who they are and exist like um gene Ronberry, do you mean interrupt you?
1:00:23
Rick Costa: But yes, no.
1:00:24
Carmen Lezeth: That's.
1:00:24
Carmen Lezeth: That's a great point, just like gene Ronberry, I mean.
1:00:27
Carmen Lezeth: So I just wanted to say those things.
1:00:29
Carmen Lezeth: And then the other thing I'm going to say, which I always say, is Facebook people have been adding on the page rick, I think in the past, like I don't know week.
1:00:37
Carmen Lezeth: We now have like 80 people.
1:00:39
Carmen Lezeth: I had like five people on facebook and now we have like 80.
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Carmen Lezeth: So thank you, thank you, thank you, linkedin, people love you so much.
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Carmen Lezeth: Youtube we can have some more youtube followers please.
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Carmen Lezeth: I would appreciate some more youtube followers.
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Carmen Lezeth: But you know what?
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Carmen Lezeth: We're just really grateful that you guys come, kelly, thank you so?
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Carmen Lezeth: much for coming on the show.
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Carmen Lezeth: I hope you'll come again, yes.
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Kelly Quinn: I will.
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Kelly Quinn: I I mean thank you so much for having me and nice to meet you.
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Carmen Lezeth: I'm will you come on when, when, when you get your first nomination and everything.
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Carmen Lezeth: I just want that recorded.
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Kelly Quinn: Yes, I will.
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Rick Costa: I want to thank Carmen for reading with me.
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Carmen Lezeth: Her people gonna call me and be like um.
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Carmen Lezeth: We have changed our number and I'll say no.
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Kelly Quinn: She don't know what you're talking about.
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Kelly Quinn: You know, she knows that's not how I mean.
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Kelly Quinn: I think that's one of the things that I'm grateful for about getting into at this point, because I just I actually want to do it and I feel like I have some type of grounding.
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Carmen Lezeth: No, you have people who support you because we believe in your talent and and you know we're not gonna bullshit you and you know what I mean.
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Carmen Lezeth: Like I think that's the hard part is people.
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Carmen Lezeth: Whatever it is you want to do in your life, you have to get the right people around you to support you, not just anybody, not just everybody.
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Carmen Lezeth: You got to get the right people who're going to tell you the truth and who's gonna say to you we love you, we think this is good, we think this is bad, but we're gonna be here no matter what, and and I and I that's the only kind of people I want in my life.
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Carmen Lezeth: I don't know why rick's here, but he got something.
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Carmen Lezeth: Thank you, michael.
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Carmen Lezeth: I appreciate you stopping by and we will keep shining our light.
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Carmen Lezeth: I don't know how powerful it is, but thank you.
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Carmen Lezeth: Um, good night everyone.
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Carmen Lezeth: Thank you and remember it's always all about the joy.
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Carmen Lezeth: Bye, thanks for stopping by.
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Carmen Lezeth: All about the joy.
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Carmen Lezeth: Be better and stay beautiful folks, have a sweet day.