The Spirited Actor - Danielle Monet Truitt

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, and welcome to the Spirited Actor Podcast with me
Tracy Moore. I was a casting director for film and
TV and commercials for over thirty years. I transition to
a celebrity acting coach after I cast a film New
Jersey Drive with executive producers Spike Lee and director Nick Thomaz.
I audition every rapper from Biggias Balls to Tupac, and

(00:24):
I realized that rappers and musical artists they needed help
transitioning to acting. My clients consist of musical artists from
Buster Rhymes to Eve, Missy Elliott, Angela Ye from The
Breakfast Club, and Vanessa Simmons, to name a few. I
also coach sports stars and host as well. I feel

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I have the best of both worlds. As a casting director,
I know exactly what they're looking for, and as an
acting coach, I can coach you to be remembered in
that room. Now I know, I know actors want to
get the job. I get that, but being remembered by
casting director that is powerful. And now it's time for
meditation of the day. It takes courage to grow up

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and turns out to be who you really are. Courage
grows when you do it anyway. Right, Growing up, I
did a lot of things that I was terrified to do,
but I acted like I wasn't. I never wanted to
be scared. I never wanted to feel like that there

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was nothing that I could accomplish. And a part of
that was growing up with two brothers and being a
middle and only girl, so you were always competitive by
doing it anyway. I grew and I learned, and I
continue to grow and learn today. I will live and learn.
Before we get started, I'd like to remind everyone to

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look out for my new show, Inside the Black Box.
I'll be co hosting with the great Joe Morton. Will
be on Crackle Network real soon. I'll keep you posted.
Welcome to the Spirited Actor Podcast with me Tracy Moore.
You guys are in for an amazing treat. I am

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so excited to have this actress on this podcast, and
I love to meet and engage with people who are
our favorite New Yorkers. Right like your Law and Order,
the brand new crime Organized Crime, Oh my god, another
part of the brilliant franchise. We have Sergeant a Yannabelle here,

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otherwise known to all of you as Danielle Monet Truette.
Thank you so much for having me. I am so
excited to have you on because, um, like I said,
there were some common denominators, specifically Sacramento, California. What I
read that, I know a lot of actors from Sacramento.

(03:05):
I know there's not a ton of us. I guess
when I think about it, Yeah, A lot of people
tell me that they're like, you're from Sacramento. I've never
met anybody in Sacramento, Like really, right, I mean we
used to say that Sacramento was like one of those
places there's a college town and then you just get
out like state, you know. But you know, I love

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that because, um, I feel like, especially now that we're
in the zoom self tape age as a casting director
that you know, we get tapes from all over the
place and Sacramento is not one of those places that
has the you know, the foundation of of you know,
acting classes and agents and so what was it like

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for you in the beginnings, like, you know, UM, to
be inspired there to say like, you know what I
want to I want to do this? Why you choose acting? Well,
I think I think I had a foundation and performance
in general, I've been singing since I was seven, I
got in drill team real young, you know, dancing and
talent shows and singing and all that. And then in

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in UM elementary school, I auditioned to play Bell in
our version of Beauty and the Beast. We were just
lipped into the to the soundtrack A but I auditioned
to play Bell. I got the part, and it was
just really fun, you know, acting out that role. So
that was like my first little, you know, introduction, I

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guess to acting. And then through high school, junior high
in high school was really just singing and performing in
that way UM. But then in high school, when I
became a junior, I took a theater class as an
elected so I got a little bit more of an
understanding of what theater was. But I still was like
focused on other stuff. I was a cheerleader, I played basketball,

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I did all this other stuff, so I don't have
time the commitments that theater. You know. I'm like, I
got to any competition. What are you talking about rehearsing,
you know. So then my senior year, I got hurt
playing basketball. Couldn't play my senior year, so I ended
up in the theater class. And then when I went
to college or my elective, I took a theater class. Um,

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I don't I don't think I even realized that, you know,
I had kind of been bitten by the bug. I
don't think I even realized that at that time. Back,
I'm like, I wonder why I didn't take a music class,
because I had been singing my whole life, so took
the theater class. My professor pulled me to the side
about two weeks into the class and asked me if
I was a theater major. I said no. She encouraged

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changed my major and I was like, wait, you're talking
about because I was a psychologist major. And when right?
And then right? Yeah? Then then she asked she told
me to audition for a play called The America Play
by Susie Laurie Parks. And I auditioned. I got the
lead in the play a and then I got to
actually go through the process of you know, from table

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read to first show to closing, you know, seeing everything
come together and the magic that is theater, and I
just fell in love with it. And when I did,
I said, you know, I'm I want to be an
actor and I'm gonna be an actor. That's on television
or film. I'm not gonna see I'm not going to

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major in theater, you know, just to come back and
be a professor. Not that there's anything wrong, right right,
I put my mind to it, I'm like, okay, I
want to learn as much as I can. I started
doing you know, community theater, and there is a community
theater in Sacramento, and there are a couple of really
good professional equity theaters. Yeah, so B Street Theater is

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the theater right after I graduated from college, company member
at that theater. That's where I got my equity card,
and I where I really started to learn more about
my craft. It went from just being like naturally talented
at it to like really understanding, you know, what acting

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is and the various ways you know to navigate, um,
learning how to act and building characters and things like that.
So Sacramento, you know, it's not one of the big places,
but there's some very talented actors, you know, rectors and
stuff in in Sacramento. California Music Circus is there. Sacramento

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Theater Company is another equity theater that's there. So, um,
after I had worked at those theaters, I was like
to go if I want to get on TV or film,
and I made my move to l A. So there's
a couple of things that I want to ask you
from what you just said. The first thing is bitten
by the bug because when I first started teaching twenty

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six years ago and I was six months pregnant with
my son Um, I had three students and I said
to them that no matter how you try to disguise it,
you know, you can act like you don't want to
do it anymore, or you go into a different direction, whatever,
you're never ever going to lose that feeling of what
it's like to be bitten by this bug about yes,

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and that's where for me and watching you and talking
to you like your confirmation. I just want to let
you know your confirmation of a conversation we have before
you got on the phone, and the confirmation that you
are is that when you when we put our mind
to something and say this is what I want to pursue,
like I don't feel like there was anything in your mind.

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It was like, you know what, I probably won't make it.
I a'n't get a rule like I don't feel like
there was anything in your d n A that says that.
So it has something to do with bitten by the bug.
There's a something, So can you explain that? I think
I think getting bitten by the bug has a lot

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to do with and access to a part of you
that you didn't know you possessed, you know. I think
that as we grow into adults, or as we experience
certain things, um, we there's a point where we're like, oh,
there's another layer to me, there's some there's like something

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underneath the stuff I've been doing my whole life that
everybody else told me that, you know, oh you're such
a great singer, Oh you're a great performer or whatever,
not even knowing that there's deeper layers to that. And
even with the acting. Once I became an actor, I
realized like, oh I love to produce, I love to direct.

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There's no way that you know about all the things,
the depth of who you are unless you try things.
You know. So me taking her word for it, I
know how I felt when I acted. When I started acting,
I'm like, Okay, this is fun, this comes natural. This
kind of comes natural to me. I I don't understand

(10:05):
all of the technique that necessarily and how to analyze
characters and I don't understand it, like I'm still learning
how to do that, but I know I feel. And
that's a big part of acting is is healing, you know.
And so I think when I was bitten by the bug,
it just I accessed a different part of my gift

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that God had given me that I didn't really know
I was there. And then it was easy. It came
easy to me. It got hard later, like you know,
but I think it's bitten by the bug. Initially it
comes easy to you. It's like fun and it's just
feeling and your that your body gets, you know, when

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you're doing it, and it prepares you for later when
stuff gets hard, because it it does like you can't
live in that in situation of you know, trying something
new forever. At some point I want to grow. You
gotta dig deeper. So yeah, confirmation after confirmation. The thing

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that I love that you said all of it. But
in terms of like these layers, right, the convenience that
you have as an actress is that you get a script,
so you get to live Sergeant Ayana Bell's life. You
get to know these things. We don't have a script
next to our bed that says Danielle, Who am I

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going to meet today? What's my dialogue? Me? Right? So
I love when you talk about which parallels as an actress.
As you are engaging and going through these layers of
a character, you're also allowing yourself to be vulnerable as
a person, to go through those layers yourself. Because if
we don't go through challenges in life, how are we

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going to grow or know our growth? Right? Right? And
that's where I think where you said, I don't stay hard,
but I stay challenging, because then after you overcome and
challenge the confidence. So when you said it gets harder,
more challenging ladies and gentlemen, that's when she's talking about
the law and orders. That's when she's talking about because

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that's the machine that works over there. Right, they have
a formula. They still said, tell him, Danielle, Tell him, Danielle.
It's completely different. It's not how you're gonna feel when
you're in college or when you're you know, getting to
do theater or whatever. Theater is my favorite. That's love

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of my life. I will always love being on stage
and the work you get to do in the time
that you get to sit at the material and you know,
you get to play every night and do it different.
Being in procedural land is it is not the same,
and you have to be. It really requires you. The
real challenge I think is to take continue to take

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ownership over your creativity and continue to take ownership over
who you are as an artist, your development, because once
you get a part like this, or you're on a
show like this, like like you said, it's a formula,
it's a machine, there's a certain skill set you have
to learn. You gotta work fast, you gotta learn lines fast.

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You gotta be able to tell a story with not
a lot of time and access certain emotions quickly. You
know you don't. You don't have the time that you
have to develop things when you're in other mediums you
know of acting, and then you gotta determine. Like on
my hiatus, I made a promise to myself that I'm

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gonna do play or a film, or I'm gonna produce something.
I'm gonna do something creative during my hiatus, and that's
how kids and I want to spend time with them
during my hiatus as well. But creativity, I cannot let
it's my development slow down. Right If I'm doing twenty

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two episodes of Law and Order. I can't restart Sail forever.
I have other I still have other streams, other things
you know that I want to do. And there's other
characters I have played and will play in the future
and be prepared for the for them. You know. I
pray that you guys are documenting this and listening to

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this because one of the things that you said in
terms of you don't want to lose your creativity when
you come like this is a franchise and as history
it is successful bottom line, where the show business not
show craft of show art. So the thing that is
really maintaining your sanity check is the fact that you
can go outside of this and continue to nurture your talent.

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Because I'm gonna tell Danielle can tell you, Danielle, there's
a certain amount of percentage of directors. We're not naming anybody,
but they are just there for the shop. Oh yeah,
setting up the shop. When I was on the set
with my clients, and I was on the road with
Buster and Eve for six years back and forth, and

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they had the luxury, you know, with all their directors
to you know, go up to the director or me
to say, are there any adjustments that need to be made?
Even if there aren't any adjustments that need to be made,
ladies and gentlemen, you still like that you did a
great job. That was a great choice, Daniel. It gives
you something. And my experience on the sets with them

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on a lot of shows that we did that they
didn't have that connection in that communication, that relationship which
really takes you as an actor above and beyond and
just having that space, very very true. I think now, um,
it seems like there's a lot of actors who are

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becoming directors, which really cool because when you get in
they call it an actor's director. When you get an
actor director, it's awesome because they played they I love
being directed. That's one of the things when I first
started acting in college that was my favorite part of
the of the process of putting on play was being
directed because I knew I was nineteen at the time,

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I didn't know anything about acting. I knew I I
kind of started late, you know, I want to learn
as much as possible. So I'm like, you know, I
can go off my own instinct, and I have great
instinct instinct, but having another person look at what you're
doing and be able to draw more out of you.
Is that's fun to me, you know? So I love

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when I get a director that's like, hey, you know,
I know you're but this is your third season on
the show, No bill. But but the crazy part is
I've lived with myself for forty one years and I
still don't all the way know me. So there's no
way I'm gonna know everything about my care Charcter either,
because I mean to evolve and Bell is continuing to

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evolve and we're doing it together. So you have to
take ownership over your role. You gotta take ownership over
your craft. You the people that you're working with on
the show. If we have if we have a director
who is all about the shot, and luckily we haven't
had that many many of those kind of directors, we

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as the actors, which is something you learned the opposite
in in theater, like don't talk to each other, don't
direct another actor. But true when you get on shows
like this, like and you have camaraderie amongst each other.
We depend on one another to be like, hey, hey,
when you do it this time, I think we should
try such because we all on the same show. Yeah,

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we want all of us. We all want to be great.
We want to shine, and I want to be able
to play with you and you give me what I
need and I give you with you need. You know
exactly that. The other way you can take care of
yourself as an act is to ask your castmates, those
that you respect. You know, me and Chris do that
all the time. I'd be like, hey, what what are

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you thinking about the scene? You know, if I could
offer such and such, I would try this and I'd
be okay, cool and I'll try it. And there's other
times he's like, oh I don't really understand blah blah blah.
I'm like, okay, well I do. Wow, you know so,
and it's great. But yeah, that's great. And you know,
the thing is is that it just becomes like like

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you said, you know, it's an ensemble show. I mean,
there are leads in it, but you all want to
shine and you want to make it a great project
for everyone. When I would be on the set, I
came with either Buster Eve right, But actors were always
pulled up by Hotel like Chasey Like, I'm just saying
side if you see something s like that, you know,

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when we did Shaft, you know, because and Busted was
so good in that and I love I'm a huge
buster runs and I got posters at him on my
wall when I was in high school. Oh my god,
I would put it out there that y'all do a
show together. I mean, I am a big cheerleader of

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his to act. He's good, you know, music is that's
his fatness, his true love. But um, and and and
the thing and and I we after we did Chaff,
we did Finding Forrester, which I thought was such an
amazing project work on guest fansand and and it also

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allowed me time to give him that character development and
understand that character because it wasn't Rashid, it was you know,
someone else. So um, um, I want to talk about
before I see five minutes because I'm gonna get real
nervous about this. Um your heart is amazing. Like you, No, seriously, Danielle, Um,

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you are why I do what I do. Thank you you?
Or why it is as casting directors also works with me,
and you know she's had these experiences and meeting actors.
But like when we know that we know, we know
you know, and the fact that like you know even
though nineteen might be late. Oh I was gonna say this, Elsa,

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We're gonna make a note you are not forty one.
I don't care what you say, Danielle. Your age range
son son is between thirty two and thirty five, so
that you ever you said forty, I felt my heart,
you're up, Like what is she talking about? I appreciate
that I did because the first thing when I told

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you about you know, the show at the beginning, right,
and the actress. I know how old she is, so
I was looking at you like, why would they go
to dandy? Right? Right? He's too young for this part?
But maybe they turned it, they rewrote it or something, right,

(21:09):
so they're like thirties whatever, thirties like you told I was,
I was living in thirty two to thirty five range
because we don't talk in your age, we're talking range,
so that's where I was living. The forty one threw
me off. I was done. I was like, wait, I
gotta ask Elsa when we get finished this. So I
don't believe it. You know, I felt you look you look,

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you look amazing. But just going back, I just I
really wanted to talk about you guys like and and
going back to your heart. Is this you and the
community and giving back to the community and being a
part of the community and you know, be eternal. The
Thriving Artist series. Please tell our audience about it. I

(21:56):
think it's wonderful. Oh yeah, so gosh, this had to
be about five years ago. I was unemployed. This is
after I did Rebel and speaking of people who like
with a big heart that see amazing things and people
I gotta always give a shout out to and rest
in peace to John Singleton. He was influence on my

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life and directed Busta and we've lived with him for
eighties five days. I love it. I love that man
so much. But yeah, yeah, after I did Rebel, only
got one season and I was back unemployed, and of course,
you know, it took me ten years to get my

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own television show, which I wasn't even expecting that at
that time, so it kind of blew me away. And
I was just excited and I didn't expect it in
so fast, you know, so I didn't know how to
navigate my emotions and not feel like it was my
fault and not feel like, oh I might not get
another opporut tunity like you know, like this has been

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like remember that girl, is that rebel? Whatever happened to her? Like,
oh my god, years you know, in my head and
was at home and I'm like, man Like actors, we
have a lot of there's a lot of opportunity to
hone your craft and work on, you know, being a
better actor. But there's a lot of and thank God

(23:26):
for your podcast. You know, there's not a lot of
outlets for actors to go to be built up emotionally,
you know, for the career choice that they've made, because
it is challenging, as you said, you know, and there's
high high highs, which which makes you want to continue on,
and it low low lows and make you want to
quit until you get another high and then you're like, wait, no,

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I can't quit because it's high. It feels so good,
you know. And I look at other artists that I
have have influenced me over the years. You know, Whitney
Houston was a USU influence. I always say her and
my mama have a seen you know, we listen listening
to her tapes because that's how old I am. Her
cassette takes learning how to sing, and you know, I

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loved Whitney, you know, and the way Whitney left us
is still heartbreaking, you know too. And Michael Jackson, I
used to he was my invisible friend, you know, when
I was in kindergarten. I like serial bold for Michael,
so we can eat breakfast together, like I loved him,
you know, to see the things that they had to endure.

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And so I'm like, artists are special, like God has
given us a very special gift to create, because that's
who he is a creator. And I think that's why
a lot of us struggle a lot with depression, anxiety,
you know, just emotional turmoil. And then you have people
you know that I want to use you for what

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you can give them, but they don't care about who
you are, you know. So I wanted to start something
to pour into artists so that they can feel, um,
like their purpose is not surrounded around what they can do,
but it's who they are, you know, It's how the being,

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not about the doing. So I kind of changed the
title to Artist Empowerment. Um. That's like, that's like the
series is be eternal. The thriving artists as like the
overarching thing. But I would do these talks called artist empowerment,
you know, and and it would talk about failure, how
it doesn't how failure doesn't exist. It's it's really just

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a catalyst, you know, for you to to grow, you know.
And it's been very It helped me, honestly to get
through that time of depression. Instead of me sitting and wadling,
wallowing in my defeat or my perceived defeat, I found

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resources to encourage me, and then I use the resources
to encourage others because it still keeps me encouraged. You know.
I was audition and testing for stuff, get you know,
getting told no while I was doing these courses for people,
and it helped me get through it, you know. So
it's definitely something I want to continue to do and

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figure out, you know, as COVID messed up a lot
of you know, stuff getting together in person, you know.
But I care. I love artists. I care about us
so much, especially black artists, and I just want to
see us thrive. I want to see it be aising
at our craft and thrive as as people. And you know,

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I came into casting and eight seven at MTV and
literally breakdowns were just black and white and other you know.
Literally that's what people and then I saw when it
added you know, um African American, Asian, um, you know,
so you know to be in two now and still

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really that's why Inside the Black Blocks was created because
we need a platform, we need a voice. And I'm
an extend invitation as well to you because what you
are creating is a blessing and you are saving lives. Um.
I I know because I touch people physically, you know,
in live auditions, encouragement and all of that. And when

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COVID came, there are a lot of people who have
never heard their own thoughts before, never listened to their
own thoughts, and for a lot of them it became frightening.
And so um, I think as are all my friends
are actors. I feel like I know all the scenarios,
all the different you know. Um, you just need that

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encouragement on the journey because you hold the vision of
you getting there or you know, I don't believe in
making it I believe when you're you're just doing you're
making it. This is all income this journey. So when
you've gotten that role that gets that acknowledgement and people
start to know your name, you know, that's where you're
gonna but on that journey you God, oh my God, yes,

(28:12):
like you know so, I want to stay in touch
with you simply for that as well, because how the
Spirited Actor can somehow marry with you or support you.
We are there because this is something that our actors
to need as well. Um, I'm so sad, but we'll
do it Daniel Part two because our interview. Yes, but

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we go to a Daniel Daniel Part two. Y'all love,
please please put put your hands together for the wonderful, lovely,
extraordinaire phenomenal actress producer Danielle Mone Truett. Thank you so much,
and we'll be back if you guys don't go away,

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because we're still blessed to have Daniel with us. We'll
be back on the spirit act poc asked with me
Tracy Moore for classes sasion. Welcome back to the Spirited
Actor Podcast with me Tracy Moore. So blessed. I am
so grateful for today. We still have actress Danielle Monae

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Truette with us, So sit tight because she used to
just dropping jewels, just dropping. I hope you've been following
with your treasure chests. I'm just saying, Okay, so we're
in class and session and this is where we have
our guests see a scene or monologue and then Danielle,
whatever feedback you want to give them fabulous. So I'm

(29:40):
gonna throw in um Elsa right now. Wonder woman Elsa
is gonna come on and introduce our Spirited Actor alumni,
and she's also doing the narrative. Okay, Elsa, Hello, Hello, everyone, Welcome, Danielle. Wonderful,
wonderful interviews, so many, so many gyms, like Tracy said,

(30:02):
thank you. Um. Today we have for our class in
session two of our Spirited Actor o g s. We
have Mrs j Lisa Caprie he and Mr Julius Reese. Hello.
And today's scene is written by Dana Kiel entitled the

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Lobby Interior Communities Center Lobby Day. Jonathan and Yolanda sit
in a chair apart on a row of connected chairs
against the wall. Jonathan's eyes are glassy and his head
is tilted up. Yolanda SOPs quietly, looking straight ahead. You've

(30:45):
been here before, my third time, it's my second these meetings,
I know, right. Maybe the trick is to become addicted
to the meetings and then we can break the other habit. Yeah,

(31:09):
which meeting do you go to an a can you? Well,
there's once for good that I go to, but oh
the new ones for fearing her? Yeah? What are you
afraid of everything? I mean failure, success, and everything in between. Yeah,

(31:37):
everyone's afraid of something. Isn't a little fear normal? Normal life?
But I don't think all of my normal? I mean,
how do you ever thought about why you predicted? Well? Uh,
I started using to party, but that at feeling, you know,

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I wanted to feel more of it, more of the time,
and then that turned into all of the time. Yeah. Yeah,
But isn't it normal to want to feel good? I
mean it is, But but taking pills or drinking to
do that can slip out from under us, and that

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that part becomes quote unquote normal, you know. I mean,
are are you afraid to feel something other than happy?
Nobody wants to feel sad? Yes, you're right, But are
you afraid to be sad? Johnathon pauses and he takes
a look at Yolanda. A tear falls from his eye. Yes,

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but how is that normal? I mean, emotions, feelings are normal.
Who don't have to fear our feelings? See? Thank you?
Thank you? Thank you, Julius. Okay, Daniel's gonna throw it
to you. Okay. First of all, fantastic job. Both of

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you guys are dynamic actors. So I'll just start I'll
just start with that. Like the scene was great. I
don't know if you guys practice rehearsed together or not
before you just did it. I make them do cold, great, great,
gret great. Um. So what I would say is, and
at the very top, um, I would allow yourself more

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time to engage with one another. So who's who starts
off the It's Julius, right, your character you start off.
So you know, when you're at a place that you've
either never been or you don't really know the people
who are there, and there's this uncomfortable like feeling you're
sitting next to somebody, but you kind of want to stay,

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you know, in your own world. I think I think Jelisa,
I think you kind of are. You might barely even
realize he's there, you know what I mean. You're you're
very much caught up in you know, what you're going through,
how you feel about, you know, being there. Julius, I
think you, like you guys talk about in the scene

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later you run away from emotion. You know you you
put on your funny you're charismatic, you know too, to
compensate for the sadness that you feel because you don't
want to feel it, you know. So I think the
more you fight, like, the more you fight your sadness,

(34:42):
the um, the more interesting. Like you're already super interesting
as an actor, Like you're very interesting to watch period,
you know. Um. But I think when you before you
actually speak to her, I kind of want to see you.
I want to see you see her like you're either
kind of up in the air or whatever. And then

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you you know, you kind of look at her, you
see her crying, you know, you look away, you decide,
you decide when you want to break the ice, when
you want to talk to her. Does that make sense? Absolutely?
Absolutely okay? And then Jelsa for you, I feel like

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the thing that would make it really really interesting to
watch is yeah, you're sad, but I want to see
you fight against your sadness. Like and it's not the
same as what I'm saying to him. He he wants
to put on put on a little bit more that
he's okay, I'm okay, Like, yeah, I'm in rehab. But
I'm okay, you're I think for you the most interesting

(35:48):
about thing about seeing someone cry. And the reason why
I can say this because I am like the I
pride myself on how well I can cry when I
like it. Don't say nothing like when I was a kid.
As soon as my Mamma says something to me, I'm
like to like, you know, so I could cry, And

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you have that. I see you have a well of
emotion inside you. So the thing that makes it even
better for the audience to watch is to see you
fight against your emotion, you know what I mean. Like
it So when those tears do come, it's not that
you work, not that you worked for it at all.

(36:34):
There's you know, relax, relax your body, relax your face,
you know what I mean, Like, just let those words
come out, and that emotion is gonna It'll come when
it's supposed to, you know what I mean. Um what
else I think too? And this is if you guys
were actually working on it, you know, together for over time,

(36:58):
you know, finding the build in the scene, you know,
find like starting off really uncomfortable with one another and
then finding that moment where it's like, oh ship, you
understand me. I understand, I understand you. I feel like
I have a I do have a friend. I'm not alone,
you know, I'm not alone in my addiction. I'm there's

(37:19):
someone who does kind of understand me and will also
challenge me and see like where they see where the
ebbs and flows and the levels are, you know, in
the scene. But I don't have any acting those for y'all.
You guys are fantastic, Like you know, you guys are great.
You know, I saw all the credits you have, but

(37:41):
we're adding director and you heard it first on the
Spirit Actor podcast with me Tracy Bore twenty three. Lookout
for it. Look, I let y'all just say it. Thank
you guys, Thank you so much. Yeah, I just want

(38:01):
to say that, you know, um, I know that it's helful.
I know both these actors very well and there be
mean right now and just on a spiritual sense, you
fed both of their souls today. Thank you that it.
That's what means the most to me. This is an
example of the works that you're out there doing. So
I just want you to know this is the manifestation

(38:23):
of what it looks like than you. So it was
a pleasure. Yes, I can't wait to come back. And
I talked to you more crazy and y'all keep doing
what you're doing. Yes, part we're definitely doing part two.
So everybody stand up, stand up. I got a back
issues dead, Yelle, but I would stand up. But everybody

(38:44):
stand up for the actors extor there, producer and now
you heard it here first director, Okay, dad, Yelle. True,
we love you, thank you. I love you guys to
have a great, great day, and now it's time to
give love. My ex husband, Steve passed twenty years ago.

(39:05):
Today we celebrate his sixty third birthday. I can honestly
say that he taught me courage. When I moved to
New York City in nine with two d dollars, the
one way ticket and a trunk, I was terrified. I

(39:25):
did it anyway. I met Steve and he was a
reflection of rock Hard. They used to call him the
Man of Steel because he was an entertainment business but
he was definitely the manifestation of courage. And it was
that courage that he taught me that I drew from

(39:49):
that helped me with our daughter, Radiance during his journey
with cancer. Courage is the fuel in your Jernie. Don't
fear it, embrace it and trust the path. Don't forget
to look out for us. On our new show Inside

(40:10):
the black Box. My co host will be Joe the
Legend Morton. It's going to be The Spirited Actor Podcast
on Steroids. Will be streaming on the Crackle network. I'll
keep you posted. Thank you for joining us on the
Spirited Actor Podcast with me Tracy Moore. I look forward
to our next Spirited Podcast. Thank you.