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I’m Not Waiting to Be Chosen | Mallory Gonyea on Self-Produced Films, Best Actress Wins, and Letting Go of Desperation
Mallory Gonyea is an actor and producer based in Nashville, and this conversation is full of the kind of golden nuggets that only come from someone who has done real inner work. A former elite athlete who majored in theater and graduated straight into the pandemic and the writers’ strike, Mallory shares what it took to start pursuing acting professionally in the last three years, and why she’d tell her younger self that the healing isn’t a detour: it’s the gateway.
We get into the realities of a long stretch without reps (three years without agents, then three more to find the right ones)…
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