The Spirited Actor - Ty Johnston-Chavis & The Cast of 'A Taste of Betrayal'

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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 transitioned to
a celebrity acting coach after I cast a film New
Jersey Drive with executive producers Spike Lee and director Nick Domez.
I auditioned every rapper from biggiees 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 Yee from The
Breakfast Club, and Vanessa Simmons, to name a few. I
also coach sports stars and host as well. I feel

(00:45):
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.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
Now I know.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
I know actors want to get the job. I get that,
but being remembered by a casting director that is powerful.
And now it's time for meditation of the day. Some
people are so broken they get mad at you for
being whole anonymous. I just want to say that the

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quickest way to destroy your dreams or your spirit is
to compare yourself to other people, be jealous of other people,
or not champion other people for their successes. Those are
dream killers we need to and one of our guests

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setting I believe it was London who talked about during
COVID taking care of herself and learning things about herself
because she was spending time with herself during that time,
a lot of us were It's so important to champion
yourself to yourself else. It's so important to let go

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of these ideas of people being better than you, or
having more success, or this that you don't know people's
internal lives. Champion everybody, feel good about everybody's success and jealousy.
Sit in your own uniqueness. There's nobody out here that's you.

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There's nobody out there that can be you, and your
uniqueness is your greatness. And comparing yourself to someone else
and their success that's not.

Speaker 3 (02:36):
Of your business. Focus on your business. Mind your business.
Understand that we all have a purpose, we all have
a reason to be here, and we all contribute to
this world. You're special, you're unique, and you are enough,

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and more importantly, you who today I will practice self
care and making myself whole.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
Before we get started, I'd like to remind everyone to
look out for my new show, Inside the Black Box.
I'll be co hosting with the great Joe Morton.

Speaker 3 (03:19):
We'll be on Crackle Network real soon.

Speaker 1 (03:22):
I'll keep you posted. Welcome to the Spirited Actor Podcast
with me Tracy Moore. This is beyond a treat, ladies
and gentlemen, beyond a treat. Okay, there's two things going
on with our next guest that's coming off because I
need to big her up for a minute. You guys
just need to hold tight and be patient for a second.

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This is about manifesting your dreams. This is about someone
using the power of the word which we all know,
and saying that they're going to do something, and then
they come back to the show with the project that
they said they were going to do something with. Again,

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your thoughts, your words, they turn into things. I've had
the absolute pleasure of over twenty something years. I will
never forget getting a phone call at Ripley Brill Studio
in Manhattan from Ty Johnson. I did not know Ty,
and Ty said she was working with Trina the artist

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and she wanted to talk to me about private sessions
with Trina. Somehow from that led to me coming to
Atlanta to do work down there. I did an event
for Tie. I did acting sessions, whatever Tye asked me
to do, because Tie is the truth. Y'all don't understand.
This is my sole system. Number nine s ge to me,

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what bo time of old school? But I want y'all
to stand up and put your hands together for an
amazing extraordinary human being, spiritual being, but inclusive producer, writer, director, Professor,

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Ladies and gentlemen. Professor, please my sister for eternity. Hi Johnston,
Why wow?

Speaker 4 (05:28):
Thank you?

Speaker 1 (05:29):
Chase? Are you a word of that time?

Speaker 4 (05:32):
Chasey?

Speaker 5 (05:32):
You know what it's something about you, you know, get
receiving your text this morning. I was on my morning walk,
right and I was just trying to just melt down
in that grace and just trying to find myself in
the peace and listen to those birds chirping early this morning.

Speaker 4 (05:47):
And when I got that text message from you.

Speaker 5 (05:48):
And I was walking, and man, you just made my
heart just sing because you know, people like you and
all of us that are on this you know show today,
it's a chance a lifetime for us to be able
to uniquely bond and share, you know, one common goal
together and be able to reap the fruits of our

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labor and see the vision. And you know, I'm just
I'm excited to be here, all of us, to just
you know, have this moment and come on, y'all, that's
this fellowship in this bag.

Speaker 1 (06:21):
Oh my god, Well we are. I'm giving. I'm not
giving you flowers. I'm going to give you a garden,
a botanical garden. That's what you get today.

Speaker 4 (06:29):
Give me the miracle row girl.

Speaker 1 (06:30):
Yes, if you leave with a botanical garden. Because Tie
came on our show, you can check her out in
the archives of the Spirited Actor podcast. And we talked
about producing, but we talked about directing, and ladies and gentlemen,
we are here. Ty has directed her first featured film
called A Taste of Betrayal, and oh my god. She

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she invited me to the table read and I met
her stellar cast. So I want to first, I want
to talk to you about because it's a thriller, you guys,
So I don't want to give anything away. I'm gonna
let Tie in the cast talk about it. But how
was it? Because as a director comedy, drama, but thriller

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is on the whole other tip, and especially when your
character plays one person in the beginning and then they
have that whole other side that we see, that's the
chance of a lifetime for an actor. So how was
it directing your cast and just you know, what was
your process in getting the you got the script and
how to go from there?

Speaker 4 (07:39):
Man?

Speaker 5 (07:39):
You know, well, I'm so I'm so thankful that it
turned out is right.

Speaker 4 (07:44):
At first, when we received the script.

Speaker 5 (07:47):
It was a little bit of a struggle, you know,
putting together the right people to make this work, you know,
the right team and anything that we do it has to.

Speaker 4 (07:55):
Be you know, the right synergy.

Speaker 5 (07:57):
And so we had some bumps and some bruises, but
you know, like once we were able to just fine
tune what we needed boom in two weeks.

Speaker 4 (08:07):
Like we was on.

Speaker 5 (08:08):
Set, I was like, oh my god, we got London,
we got Danielle, we got Nied, we got the oh shape,
and I was just I was so excited just to
be in front of this cast. And you know, a
thriller is not easy, right, you know, of course, we
all know that films are shot out of sequence, so
It's like the first day we were shooting the end

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of the movie and everybody was like wait a minute,
wait a minute, Like we was just trying to get
together our bond, you know, and find that you know,
that that family synergy on set, and we didn't really
have that much time for prep.

Speaker 4 (08:44):
You know, we did do the table read, of.

Speaker 5 (08:47):
Course, and you know, we we had some small sessions
that you know, they all try to get together the actors,
you know, prior to and Danielle we had her on
zoom because she was in La shooting at the time,
and we was you know, patching her in and just
trying to find that vibe, you know, inside of the
story right right.

Speaker 4 (09:09):
But once we started, there was just no stopping.

Speaker 5 (09:11):
I mean, we shot this film in about ten days
and it.

Speaker 4 (09:17):
Was strenuous, you know.

Speaker 5 (09:18):
And it's because you're always faced with timing and because
a thriller just has so many particular pivotal moments.

Speaker 4 (09:27):
It's like you're up, you're down, you're up, you're down,
And we were.

Speaker 5 (09:30):
Trying to find those rhythms within our time frame during
our days of shooting, because of course, what you see
on camera you got something completely else different going on
in the background, right, So it was the balance, trying
to find the balance, and for me directing this, I
love challenges, you know, so I wanted I didn't want

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to love story.

Speaker 4 (09:53):
You know, it's like, oh that's so sweet. You know,
I wanted to like give it to me raw.

Speaker 1 (09:58):
You know.

Speaker 5 (09:59):
There was a lot of of emotions throughout all these characters.
And I mean it shows up a trailer being released.
You know, everybody's excited.

Speaker 4 (10:11):
So I don't say it's like.

Speaker 1 (10:14):
I can't wait. I mean, I'm gonna be honest with
you that you know, the title is very enticing, a
taste of betrayal that right there, I'm already engaged. And
then to know it's a thriller, I'm really super engaged.
I love thrillers. How many pages did you shoot a
day in ten days? And how many pages was the script?

Speaker 4 (10:37):
Well, the script was about eighty six pages.

Speaker 5 (10:40):
I think eighty nine pages if I'm not mistaken, right, guys,
And we were really struggling for let.

Speaker 4 (10:46):
Me say this.

Speaker 5 (10:47):
We had nine days with a I want to say
a ten day pickup right, Okay, so a tenth day
being a pickup day, and that was just a little
bit you know, stretched from the original production dates, but
we were trying to knock down at least twelve pages
a day. We were aiming for like sixteen, and we

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were not coming closed because by the time it came
to lunchtime and we had some good food and everybody
were like, oh lot, oh lon, Okay, we got to
get back to work, you know, and then it's just
like LFE Camera Action.

Speaker 4 (11:21):
We got to go get it.

Speaker 5 (11:22):
And I know when we got down to the very
last day, it was it was pretty it was pretty heavy,
you know, because you're under so much pressure, and then
that last ass shoot. You know, I didn't leave set
until five o'clock in the morning, maybe five thirty in
the morning, going over with my other producers. You know, hey,

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we still got sixteen more pages of shoot, what in
the world are we going to do? So we had
to really, you know, this is the side that people
don't see of still making the story makes sense and
what do we need to keep in story right?

Speaker 4 (12:01):
And what do we need to keep to make.

Speaker 5 (12:02):
This thing still thrive and have legs right and for
us to be able to see the wonders of the
performances of all the characters.

Speaker 4 (12:10):
So, hey, I applaud you for that. I applaud you for.

Speaker 1 (12:15):
The days that you guys shot, I applaud you for
the budget. And I just have to put a plug
in here. That's why Inside the Black Box was created
because I want we know the problems. I want the solutions,
and one of the solutions that I want is workable
budgets for people of color. I think that you know,
I came in this business which she's got to have it.
My first film, Just Another Girl on the Irt. We

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were begging for money and equipment right so today, why
are we still doing it? When we have quality directors,
quality performers, quality actors. It doesn't make any sense to me.
So that's what I'm I'm that's my I don't want
to say fight. That is my challenge that I continue
to have. And that's why Inside the Black Box was

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created to bring this away awareness. So that come on,
you guys, we're in twenty twenty three. I would love
for you to introduce your outstanding cast, and I want
to ask a general question that all of them can answer.
So a Taste of Betrayals starring, A.

Speaker 5 (13:21):
Taste of Betrayal starring we have the wonderful incredible introducing
she has She's been seen on television before, of course,
but we have London delicious Charles who plays our lead
as Max Days.

Speaker 4 (13:38):
Okay, Candice is giving it to y'all.

Speaker 5 (13:40):
I don't know what else to say, but I connected
with this character's so many parts of this film that
I watch and seeing her her performance, when I tell you,
it gives me chills still day. You know, having to
have the one on one private sessions on set, you know,
with all of them, and I love how all of

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the characters.

Speaker 4 (14:02):
You know, everybody was so in tune and hey, what
would you like? What would you like? You know, what
do you want to see? Not this is what I
want to do? You know. It was great suggestions and
it was a collective.

Speaker 5 (14:13):
Decision amongst everybody because you still want people to feel comfortable.

Speaker 4 (14:17):
Right.

Speaker 5 (14:18):
Of course, you have the opposite of her, which is
her husband and his name is Ben right, which is
oh Shay Russell and it's from the Tyler Perry TV
hit show All of the Queen's Men, So we thank you.

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Of course, we have the glorious Miss Danielle la Roach. Okay,
this is beautiful mommy to be and you have seen
her face many of times, but you probably recognize her
from b E t Zatima, right, And she is just
a phenomenal actress.

Speaker 4 (14:59):
When I tell you she's a jeb, she has it.

Speaker 5 (15:03):
She knows what she's doing. She carries it all the
way out. And I mean you just see that in
a taste of the trail, right, yeah, me, if you
watch that trailer one more time and you see.

Speaker 4 (15:13):
She is shouting for her.

Speaker 6 (15:15):
Life, like, oh my gosh, she was like her scream
is goals.

Speaker 7 (15:29):
Between the scream and her saying being that drunk saying.

Speaker 8 (15:37):
You know what.

Speaker 1 (15:39):
True story before we introduce your last lovely outstanding actress.
But Danielle, there's an actress. Her name is Ileana Douglas. Right,
She's a white actress. Ileana was looping in the studio
and her on her resume it said great screamer.

Speaker 3 (16:00):
Narrow heard her scream and she got cast.

Speaker 9 (16:04):
In Oh my God, the movie with the river. Oh God,
Kate cheek off.

Speaker 1 (16:15):
She that's how she got the job.

Speaker 4 (16:18):
She did not audition.

Speaker 1 (16:19):
He heard her in the studio. So great screamer needs
to be on your resume.

Speaker 2 (16:25):
Just paid for that one day.

Speaker 1 (16:29):
Yeah, that's a skill. Listen, don't play. You know, I'm
a casting director. You can get everything is negotiable. Hello, Sigoney,
Weaver got a million dollars from shaving her head in alien.

Speaker 8 (16:43):
Maybe having this wig I shaved mine.

Speaker 5 (16:53):
We have the most talented this young lady. She is
up and coming. I love her to death. You know,
she was right there from the very beginning when I
said it takes a special person to be in this role,
and uniquely you had to find her and one of
our producers hand picked her.

Speaker 4 (17:10):
She says, I got somebody for you. I said, oh,
and she said.

Speaker 5 (17:14):
Niji, and she's official, and I'm like, oh, Cay be official.

Speaker 8 (17:18):
Here.

Speaker 4 (17:18):
She is with me so much.

Speaker 5 (17:21):
She is so beautiful, and I'm so happy for the
entire cast.

Speaker 1 (17:24):
I'm I'm so excited for you guys. I feel like,
you know, as a casting director, I'm always at the
beginning stages, you know, the white pages, and then we
get to the screening. However, in this situation, to be
to for Tie to invite me into the reading and
to see it in the embryo stages, it was phenomenal.
And I had never met in Nieji before, so that

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was a really great treat for me. But I've seen
Danielle London and O'she's work, so my expectations were already
up here for you guys, but you all exceeded the expectations,
So I can't wait to see it for all of you,
whoever wants to jump in first and again being a thriller,
how did you prepare for your character?

Speaker 10 (18:13):
That's a good question. I don't care. I don't. Yeah,
I don't.

Speaker 4 (18:20):
I would.

Speaker 10 (18:21):
I would have to say it's the experience not necessarily
dealing with the same type of situation, but dealing with
the same type of hurt and knowing what that hurt
can feel like, and then just trying to embody that
to be able to deliver it on screen.

Speaker 1 (18:36):
Excellent.

Speaker 4 (18:37):
Yeah, are you going?

Speaker 8 (18:40):
No?

Speaker 3 (18:41):
Going ahead, Danielle London to go next, Grady?

Speaker 2 (18:44):
Okay?

Speaker 11 (18:45):
For myself, I immediately begin to journal and create the
backstory of where this girl came from.

Speaker 2 (18:51):
Who was she in high school? Was she like?

Speaker 11 (18:53):
Did she have both parents? Did she you know? Was
she talkative? Was she obnoxious? Did how did her friends
receive her?

Speaker 1 (19:00):
Is?

Speaker 2 (19:00):
I think?

Speaker 12 (19:01):
For me in the script?

Speaker 11 (19:02):
The first thing I do is I get that script
and I look at what everyone says about me right,
and that gives me that groundwork. And I think that
especially when you're doing a thriller. You know, it's easy
to just like, oh, I want to give the fear,
but the depth and the layers, for me, are what
give people that.

Speaker 2 (19:17):
Full you know, because I'm a good movie.

Speaker 11 (19:20):
You know, as much as people want to say, oh,
this is an antagonist, this is the protagonist when you
leave the end that movie and you're like, who.

Speaker 1 (19:27):
Was right and who was right?

Speaker 11 (19:29):
Like, you know, because everyone gave so many layers and
there was so much conviction behind each scene, and everyone
came from such a true place.

Speaker 2 (19:38):
So for me, it was about creating.

Speaker 11 (19:40):
Those layers and just you know, giving my character more
than what was on the page. I always say when
I get a script, the writer, you know, the editors,
they put the black on the page, the words, it's
my job to feel in all the white. So within
each letter, within each crevice, it's my job to bring
the essen of you know, and for an actor, for me,

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it's those moments when you aren't speaking, you know, those
moments where it's just sitting on you and it's resting
on you.

Speaker 2 (20:08):
So I think in this.

Speaker 11 (20:08):
Thriller where you know, I'm a great screamer, and this
and that, it's it's you know, in the blink of
an eye or just the essence of how these two
characters feel when they stand next to each other, and
just creating that depth and allowing it to just float
to the surface when you get there. Because once I
get on set, I'm not looking at my notes, I'm
not looking at the work. I've gone so deep that
when I get on set, it rises to the top

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and I can let it go.

Speaker 1 (20:32):
That's excellent, And I have to say, you know, credit
to Tie for creating a space like that, because I'm
sure all of you are working actors. You work with
a plethora of directors, and you know, not everyone is
like that. And as an I can coach, I've come
on the set because my clients have hired me because
the director has not given them anything that they need to,

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you know.

Speaker 3 (20:55):
But that's excellent. I love that London.

Speaker 12 (21:01):
I had unique preparation.

Speaker 13 (21:03):
First of all, I was in a very depressed state,
so I was able to pull my own life experiences
being hurt.

Speaker 12 (21:12):
As Meg stated up with that.

Speaker 13 (21:14):
But I think that I have to give the credit
to both Tie and the acting coach that they provided
us with Diane Lovells like, this was the most amazing
thing to have people around you who didn't just have
an expectation of you, but they also they motivated you.

Speaker 12 (21:35):
They wanted this to be.

Speaker 13 (21:36):
Awesome, not just for them and for their project, but
for you and your experience as an actress or an actor.
So they made my job much easier because they were
there on hand from beginning to end. And this was
new for me being in a thriller and being the league.
That was like a lot of pressure.

Speaker 12 (21:56):
Especially I was standing next to.

Speaker 13 (21:58):
Danielle and then Oh Shaye and even so it was
a lot of pressure.

Speaker 12 (22:04):
But I think it was a collective.

Speaker 1 (22:06):
That planner for that. It's a great a great support system,
very for sure.

Speaker 7 (22:14):
Oh Shae yo yo yo, your boy, Oh Shane the
building first.

Speaker 8 (22:20):
I joined late, So I just want to say hey
to all the.

Speaker 7 (22:22):
Ladies and anybody who's on here, all the beautiful as always.

Speaker 8 (22:28):
Oh thank you.

Speaker 7 (22:31):
Okay, I'm a I'm at work, so I'm a little rough,
you know, Sam catch me a little later on at night,
you know. But I'll say even joining the team, I
was one of the last ones to join the team
so I wasn't afforded like a great deal of time
to be able to actually settle real hard into the script.
And but I can say after meeting the cast, we

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did have that table read and where Danielle was in
l A doing what she doing because she thinks she's
better than everybody. But at that read, I was able
to fill out so many boys that I had because
I can feel the characters. I could I could actually
see the presence of everybody in that one setting.

Speaker 8 (23:13):
And then every day at work we got to meet
each other.

Speaker 7 (23:16):
And you could just feel the vibes and it just
allowed everything Like you said, that synergy that was that
was at work. It was so it was great, like
at all times, everybody's energy was great, Like the expectations
was great, Like everybody was professional, everybody was there, Like
it was almost like being on this cast reminds me

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of like when I used to watch the Power Rangers,
because you got every Power Ranger is different, but they
all hold the same value, but when they come together,
they create this massive megatron, right, And like that's why
I felt every day I came to work with this cast,
like everybody's gift was just so phenomenal. But when it
came together and like the the unselfishness that was there,

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the pleasantry that was there, like it was it was nice,
Like it was great. And then it's this is my
first movie, like to land, my first movie, and it
to be like the way that it is. And like
watching that trailer the other day, man, I was.

Speaker 1 (24:14):
Like, yeah, yeah, I'm putting the trailer on. I g
I wanted to think to guys first.

Speaker 7 (24:20):
Yeah, after after watching that trailer and I've watched myself,
you know now, millions of times in million different ways,
but like it was something. It was something about this
that it was. It was it was nice, like it
was very fulfilling to see. And I ain't talking about
just for me, but just watching that trailer period. You know,
you know, my part is one thing, but like the

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trailer threw and through was like, oh I.

Speaker 8 (24:43):
Know that, I know.

Speaker 7 (24:44):
I thought this was like I knew, I know it
was tight, but like, oh this is like this is nice.

Speaker 14 (24:49):
Oh yeah, it was a beautiful script come to ye.

Speaker 12 (24:59):
Yeah it was dope.

Speaker 13 (24:59):
And I I got to get props to my castmates because,
like I said, I was kind of dead inside. And
Osha he always got on my nerves because he was
the funny one.

Speaker 12 (25:10):
And then Niji, she babed me. She was always just
so gentle and so sweet. Danielle.

Speaker 13 (25:16):
She pushed me to the limits, like you gonna get it,
and you're gonna get it right. So she made me
like go that extra mile. So my castmates were a
part of how I prepare to because each of them
they just woke me up and they made it easier for.

Speaker 12 (25:36):
Me to do my job. And I just love y'all.
Thank y'all so much.

Speaker 1 (25:40):
And you know what, London, I have to say that
you know in my experience with all of my clients
that I really lived with Buster and Eve for like
six seven years on sets, one of the things that
I used to always do is take them out of
their trailer and have them watch the gem Free Rights

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in the Sam Jackson's and all of these because that's
where you learn also as an actor. But there's some
natural instincts that I saw in you at the reading
and I just want to say, you guys all this
this film is a mussy, but I was really surprised
when with your work London, to see another side of you.

(26:21):
And that's all I'm going to say, and you know
that that exists in you. You have a whole plethora
of characters in you, Sybil that need to be explored.
So yeah, laughed. I don't know, y'all go no, Sybil,
this was the s.

Speaker 8 (26:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (26:44):
Oh my god, I was trying to figure it out.

Speaker 1 (26:48):
I go so sil For those of you who don't know,
Sybil had thirty two personalities phrenic played by I think
was it Sally Field who play that character?

Speaker 8 (26:58):
Yeah, but I remember it.

Speaker 1 (27:01):
Yes, iconic movie, very iconic. But I want to ask
this question to all of you guys, because what I
don't want to do is lose the time. And we
usually get this five minute warning when I have to
do it, so we haven't gotten it yet. But I
do want to ask all of you. We have aspiring actors,
we have working actors who listen to our show and

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support our show. What type of advice and for you,
starting with you, Tai, because you can just give us
produce it, writing directed. There's a law de list of
your skills.

Speaker 3 (27:35):
What advice would you give people who have.

Speaker 1 (27:41):
Especially during this time, to keep that synergy up, keep
you know, stay present but looking positive into the future,
because not everybody has the resilience to get through and
be okay in the strike. What would what advice would
you give them? Tie And then you know it's open

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to you guys right now.

Speaker 5 (28:06):
What the advice that I would give everybody is to
do like a combination of several things. You know, practice,
you know is one of the things that we have
to still continue doing. I mean, if you're doing that
in the mirror, if you're doing it in the shower,
if you're doing it, you know, duel with a group or.

Speaker 4 (28:23):
Organization or a session. Practice. And then another thing I
would say, I.

Speaker 5 (28:26):
Would say is to play, like have some fun during
this time, because then you find out more about yourself
because every season we always find a different version of
ourselves that we might be recreating or we might be
tapping into. And you know, you don't know when that
time really is. Like you go back and you look
at you know, a few years ago or even a

(28:47):
few months ago, and you say, wow, I was there, okay,
but now I'm here right And then you know, look
look firmly at the future and force yourself to be
there right so you know, mentally I'm already there where I.

Speaker 4 (29:02):
Want to have my second home.

Speaker 5 (29:05):
Right, I'm already there, so I know the groundwork that
I have to lay on, what I have to do
to get my second home.

Speaker 4 (29:11):
I'm already there filming the next project.

Speaker 5 (29:14):
Right, I'm already there mentally, not only because I'm in preparation,
but because that's that's what I'm studying, that's what I'm putting.

Speaker 4 (29:20):
My mind to.

Speaker 5 (29:21):
And of course, you know, love love on those supportive
people that are going to love on you. Like right now,
there's time in my life that there's some people that
I don't ever care to see ever again, but that's
with love, right, So I surround myself around those people, right,
I want to.

Speaker 4 (29:39):
I want to fuel myself.

Speaker 5 (29:41):
With with the people that I believe that are always
going to support me. And you know I'm able to
reciprocate that. So it's like stay professional, you know, find
find your voice within all of this, have some fun
and do the groundwork.

Speaker 1 (29:58):
Beautiful, yep, I thought was saying she was.

Speaker 11 (30:05):
That was awesome time, I would say, even the show
being called the Spirited Actor, This industry, this this this
level of creativeness will push you beyond your carnal ways.
So you definitely need to be rooted grounded in a
spiritual place for when things around you don't look like
what it is like when Ty said you're trying to
put your mind in a place, you know, it's like.

Speaker 2 (30:25):
You're you're already there.

Speaker 11 (30:26):
You don't have the budget, you don't have the cast yet,
you don't have maybe you know that support of the producers,
people that believe in you, but you have the vision.
So your spirit is going to be that place where
it allows you to hold on the things that eyes
haven't seen and ears haven't heard. And you have to
really really believe in yourself. And I think for me,
when I started to flourish outside of myself because I

(30:47):
knew what I was, but I needed someone else to
see that to validate that, not for the validation of
me to feel good, but to get a paycheck to.

Speaker 2 (30:54):
Do what I love.

Speaker 11 (30:57):
And I think that that was when God really to
me and said, you believe in me, but I need
you to believe in you the way you believe in me.
And we're not always taught that in the culture, to
believe in ourselves the way we believe in God.

Speaker 2 (31:09):
And that's a big thing.

Speaker 11 (31:12):
And the belief in yourself will take you so far
and keep you grounded because you know things will look crazy.

Speaker 2 (31:19):
Right before it looks good.

Speaker 11 (31:21):
And I went through you know, like London and the
darkest places took me to a different space of depth.
And it's just about being there for yourself and staying
down for yourself, being your own best friend, being your
own best you.

Speaker 2 (31:34):
Know, and taking.

Speaker 11 (31:36):
The criticism and understanding that the people who are in
this industry who sent me to my car crying in
tears or who I couldn't get out of bed the
next day were the ones that changed my life because
they cared about me enough to speak to me in
a way that would transition me. And also pay attention
to the people and the things that allow you to
level up or to continue to transition, because those are

(31:58):
special things and special people. And also, like Taya said,
removing yourself from things that don't serve you. Because I
remember when I was in the space for I'm like,
I'm doing the work.

Speaker 2 (32:08):
I'm here, you know, I'm around the people I need
to be.

Speaker 11 (32:10):
And I had a very special black actress come to
me and she said, at this point, it's all about
who's around you. She said, it's not even about your talent,
about your tenacity. It's about what you're around and so
paying attention to that, but just believing in yourself, staying
grounded and doing the work.

Speaker 2 (32:28):
This is the time where we get to be in
the gym.

Speaker 11 (32:30):
You know, a lot of actors right now are excited
about this break because they're like, oh my gosh. You know,
for me, I'm sitting up here, like I'm writing scripts
and I'm coming up with storyboards and taking I'm having
a time to step away from what I'm doing and say,
wait a minute, how do I want to be seen
when this all comes back together?

Speaker 3 (32:48):
Right?

Speaker 11 (32:49):
I create for myself in this moment that allows me
to have this type of platform. And as a black woman,
that's why I'm so thankful for this type of script
because we don't always get this, you know, we get
type casts. We don't get to go through phases and
we play this one role, and so it's allowing us
to be much more multi faceted.

Speaker 2 (33:07):
Than we are.

Speaker 11 (33:08):
So believing in yourself, getting with good people and knowing
that some important people got some time off right now,
I hit them up, didn't I tell you?

Speaker 4 (33:19):
She challenged you.

Speaker 5 (33:21):
Yeah, she speaks, She spoke like that every day I'm like, wow,
that's beautiful.

Speaker 10 (33:27):
Yes, but I would okay, go ahead, No, no, no, because
I got quiet. I would have to concur. But you
can go ahead London for sure.

Speaker 2 (33:39):
No.

Speaker 12 (33:39):
I was agreeing with daniel.

Speaker 10 (33:44):
So this is how we want too so but no,
I would have to concur. It definitely is a spiritual walk.
I think anything that you do is most definitely a
spiritual walk.

Speaker 4 (33:52):
Right.

Speaker 10 (33:53):
It starts within you and you have to develop that
spirit man so that it can give you this the
power that you need to stand tall in front of
the career that you have told this career is you
have your ups and you have your downs, right with
the career itself, not to mention the life that you
have outside of this. You know, while I was filming,

(34:15):
I was facing a lot from eviction to that actually
happened car accident, no longer had a car to drive,
trying to figure out where I was gonna stay, how
was you gonna get your next meal? How are you
gonna figure these things out? A lot of the times
you go on set, you don't want to show that
you're going through these things. How do you continue? It's
just like Danielle said, you have to believe in you

(34:35):
more than you believe in a lot of the things
that you know are are that you're facing. That this
too shall pass. You know, you have to put yourself
in a place where you support. You have a strong
support system, like London mentioned as well. That support system
was incredible. There were so many times no one could
catch me in tears. But some situations that could have
occurred on set could have made me way more emotional

(34:57):
than I would have been because of what I was
dealing with on the oub right, but it didn't allow
me to stop because of the support system that surrounded
me on the outside. I have a prayank of sisters,
of praying women that just pray over me. There was
times where I wanted to give up. I told my
kids before the year started that hey, I want to stop,
and I think by December, if this doesn't happen, because

(35:19):
I've been doing this since twenty ten, So if this
doesn't happen for me by December, I'm stopping. I you know,
I have to do something different. I'm at an age
where I just have to do something different, and for
the life of me, God won't allow.

Speaker 8 (35:33):
Me to stop.

Speaker 10 (35:34):
He says, needs you. I have given you something that
you that I want you to touch other people with
right your experiences, you know, so you know you have
to believe in that, man, you have to believe in
that with all that you have. My children, every time
when I was telling them that I wanted to stop,
they would look me in my face and say, Mom,
you are too good. Don't give up now. And I'm like,
but I hardly have time and I'm stretched so thin.

(35:56):
They was like, no, Mom, it's gonna pay off, you know,
believe you know. So for me it's it's it's your spirit, man,
you have you know, that is your that is your core.
You know. One of the things that happened for me
on set that was just so monumental was when I
had the opportunity to speak to O'shay and his fearlessness
to talk about God, his fearlessness to say how how

(36:17):
much God means to him, and so his display of
God even on his page. I've I was raised in
the Church, you know, but you get into certain arenas
in your life, especially when you're dealing with this acting
world where it's not really talked about, it's not really
and to see that was just like, wait a minute.

Speaker 4 (36:34):
You are.

Speaker 10 (36:36):
You are absolutely right, you are. I am nothing without God,
you know. So it's because of Him that I exist.
It's because of him that I have this talent. It's
because of him that I have this desire. So because
of him, I'm going to use what He has given
me to not only bless myself and my family, my
household with like the yell said, this income, but I'm
going to bless them with the with the seas and

(36:58):
the things that I'm going to be able to support
into them about how this journey went for me, you know.
So you know this is just it's this. I am
absolutely floored at this opportunity, at this experience to be
here on here talking. You know, even with you, Tracy,
I am you. Just every day, I swear I'm smiling
more and more at each and every day at what

(37:20):
God has done. When I moved to Georgia two and
a half years ago, I did a fast for seventy days.
And when I did that fast, I was very intentional
that God, I do not want to leave the same
way the way I left Miami. I didn't come to
Georgia to play. And I met that, and I met
that on every regard. I didn't come here to play
about my children. I didn't come here to play about myself.
I didn't come here to play about my career choices.

(37:42):
And I didn't come here to play about their school
and their career choices. Right because as a mom, right,
I'm a mom of three, they tell you, hey, you
can't follow your dreams. You can't follow you have to
stop now. It's all about your children. Absolutely, not later.
That is in me, that he that is in this world. Okay,
if I got him and me, he's gonna give me
the strength, He's gonna give me the tool, he's gonna

(38:04):
give me the resources, and I'm gonna believe, without a
without a doubt, that God will make a way.

Speaker 15 (38:09):
So if.

Speaker 10 (38:11):
There are ups and downs, not only in life but
also in this career, but if this is something that
you want to do, you know, just believe in yourself,
get that spirit mind right, and surround yourself with the
people that will support you on this journey. You know,
I don't care what you want to do. It's not
going to be easy, but with God, all things are possible.
We're in twenty twenty twenty, We're in twenty twenty three.

(38:32):
I started in twenty ten.

Speaker 7 (38:34):
Okay, yeah, yeah, okay, So that is all.

Speaker 12 (38:42):
If you have the vision, God will give you the
pro vision.

Speaker 8 (38:50):
I say the same piggyback.

Speaker 7 (38:54):
But one thing I'll add, like to be real strong
on is that that the faith, the faith is real,
like yeah, knowing God, like knowing about God and actually
knowing God like on a personal level is two totally
different things. And trusting in that which in what you

(39:16):
believe that you can't see, it's a whole nother thing.
And a lot of times, even growing up, you know,
we grew up in a church, you know, but we're
just going, you know, because the music sound good and
everybody dress good, everybody's so polite, you know.

Speaker 8 (39:29):
But at the end of the day, until you really
seek out what is that.

Speaker 7 (39:32):
Purpose that you're really there for, it's you're just like
everything else you're doing, just wasting your time.

Speaker 8 (39:37):
It's like going to school.

Speaker 7 (39:39):
I didn't like school because I found out at a
young age that school did nothing from me. I couldn't
get into English, I couldn't get into social studies, and
I still can't to this day because I just can't.

Speaker 8 (39:50):
Those aren't things that I like, you know, But.

Speaker 7 (39:53):
Once I found out what control of my life, which
was God.

Speaker 8 (39:58):
I had to go re seek after all.

Speaker 7 (40:01):
Those years and years and years and years of going
to see him in the church. You know, now I
got to go and figure out, dang, what was I
missing with every chance I got to go, go go
visit God. Rather I was that church or in my
own self, or in the atmosphere, in the atmosphere.

Speaker 8 (40:15):
But once I found that, I was.

Speaker 7 (40:17):
Able to see, like man, everything that I thought mattered,
it doesn't matter. And even to this day, everything that
we think matters, it don't matter. And like even now,
like I thought myself, which with not with our movie,
because I love our movie, I love our cast. I

(40:38):
thought myself for so long, like man, am I gonna
do this premiere? Am I gonna do this? Am I
gonna do that? And now I'm thinking about this, thinking
about that, and like I thought about everything. But what
I didn't add what I know to add, which is God.
Like at the end of the day, when you just
add God to anything, you know he controls all. When

(40:58):
you do it with love and you respect everybody, you
do it, like would you have to lose nothing, Because
before you lose anything, God is the one that has
to confirm that, Hey, I'm going to relieve you of that.

Speaker 8 (41:10):
So it's not a lass. He's relieving you of that
because he's going to add. He's going to add too.

Speaker 7 (41:15):
So if I can encourage anybody on anything today, would
be like seek, Seek, seek what's greater than you, and
like God's will not your own. And as long as
you're loving yourself and you're willingly giving everybody good energy,
you're respecting everybody. You're not going to please everybody. You

(41:36):
can't lose. You cannot lose. People are going to be
opinionated about everything, but who cares. It don't matter?

Speaker 1 (41:44):
You know it does?

Speaker 8 (41:46):
It don't matter?

Speaker 3 (41:47):
Tell you what matters? You Guys matter. You guys matter.

Speaker 1 (41:53):
And I can honestly say and listening to all of you,
this is why I started The Spirited Actor twenty seven
years ago.

Speaker 3 (42:00):
And I just want to say this, Niji.

Speaker 1 (42:04):
I had the idea for Inside the Black Box for
nineteen years. Tie is a witness to that. I used
to talk to her about it all the time when
I came to Atlanta or when we were on the
phone eighteen years and there was no point in those
eighteen years that I said forget this.

Speaker 3 (42:22):
Because I'm a little older than all of you.

Speaker 1 (42:24):
What I can say is that it's not about our time,
It's about God's time, and me allowed God to have
God's time. That's where the tenfold comes in, because that's
when God said, not only am I going to give
you an opportunity, Tracy to have this show, but let's
get an Emmy Award winning Joe Morton to be interested
and want to attach himself and let's get So we're

(42:48):
going into season three where people are calling us to
be honest show and it's a blessing. So I don't
care about human beings time. I live in God's time,
always on time. So I want to thank all of
you guys for your advice, but I'm gonna ask you
guys to just hold tight because Elsa is going to

(43:08):
come on with two actors who are just going to
ask questions. We have two questions. I don't know who
they're directed to, but we're gonna take the questions and
then we have a break. Right after that, Wait a minute,
can we get.

Speaker 4 (43:21):
Oh, but don't forget When we close that, maybe we.

Speaker 5 (43:24):
Can have London say, you know, like something because we
didn't get we didn't get London real quick.

Speaker 4 (43:29):
But look, just get away from the chair, y'all ry up.
I need yeah, yeah, we need.

Speaker 5 (43:37):
I need her to give her plug for all of
those inspiring.

Speaker 1 (43:42):
Go ahead, London. Because I heard your quote. I didn't
know if that was your plug, but you know.

Speaker 12 (43:47):
Y'all took me out. I told you, that's what my
my cats have.

Speaker 13 (43:50):
Been doing this since I've met them, since the table
reading everything they said. Absolutely, i lost my niece to
a master shooting.

Speaker 1 (44:00):
I'm so sorry.

Speaker 14 (44:01):
We all heard, yes, thank you, But yeah, this was
a unique circumstance that was designed by God long ago, long.

Speaker 13 (44:15):
Before I ever met Tied or even knew that I
possessed that talent. And so I felt that from the
moment that we did our table read that I belonged
there and I was supposed to be there, and that
God was going to be there alongside me as long
as I took on the position, did the work, He
had the faith.

Speaker 2 (44:34):
And yeah, I.

Speaker 13 (44:36):
Don't want to speak too much about it because I
think that they spoke to everything that.

Speaker 2 (44:41):
I feel, and I agree, yeah to say, you've got to.

Speaker 1 (44:46):
Thank you, thank you, Okay, Elsa, who do we have
yes today?

Speaker 16 (44:53):
We have miss Nicole and Marie Hunt, and we have
mister Sean Mists with us today in our audience.

Speaker 1 (45:02):
Nicole, you can go up first week. Good question.

Speaker 15 (45:05):
All right, thank you, Hi Tracy, good to see you again.
I'm loving listening to this conversation. I'm going to need
tissues soon as well. I was wondering, and it kind
of goes with what you guys have been talking about.
When COVID we had locked down, and that whole period
of time I think is as a society, we learned

(45:27):
that we can work differently, and businesses found out that
they could still be profitable and let their employees work
from home and be with their families, and all of
these things kind of changed and allowed us to reprioritize.
And so my question is, what are some of the
things other than self tapes that you feel we've learned

(45:49):
through COVID that we should continue to implement or or not.
But what are kind of two of the lasting effects
of lessons learned from COVID.

Speaker 12 (46:01):
I got out me to learn more about myself. I
was forced to. I was stuck in the house with myself.

Speaker 13 (46:06):
Could you imagine, So I had to learn more about
me and I think pre COVID, we just existed in
the world and we moved for everybody else, like we
didn't move for ourselves or we didn't get to know ourselves.
We kind of mimicked what was happening or what was
popular or what was being done. So COVID definitely got

(46:28):
me into my creative box because you had to.

Speaker 12 (46:32):
Come up with things to do to you.

Speaker 13 (46:34):
Know, keep your tools sharp and if you were still
interested in acting or anything that had to do with
the arts or whatever. So I think that we should
do that more often. Like I love when Danielle just
spoke about people not being at work but really being
at work, because now you're at work on self self
projects and your owning your creativity and things that you've

(46:55):
always known about yourself but was either too afraid or
limited resources made it where you couldn't put it out there.

Speaker 12 (47:02):
But now you get to be creative. And I think
that the pandemic started that we used to gravitate to
famous people.

Speaker 13 (47:10):
But notice during the pandemic, because everybody was at home,
everybody was plugged into the Internet, so people became influencers
who you never.

Speaker 2 (47:19):
Knew, you never heard of.

Speaker 12 (47:20):
They didn't go to you.

Speaker 13 (47:21):
Know some school or be signed to some type of
you know, major label or box office. You know, they
everybody just became creative and if you were good, you
were good. But I think that that started with spending
time with yourself, recognizing your greatness and you know, like

(47:41):
sharpening your tube.

Speaker 12 (47:43):
So I think that we should do that more.

Speaker 13 (47:45):
Spend some time with ourselves, get to know ourselves and
be confident in it.

Speaker 12 (47:48):
And you know, I just think that we should do that.

Speaker 8 (47:52):
Yeah, dude, I agree.

Speaker 1 (47:53):
Excellent.

Speaker 2 (47:55):
If I can add on just.

Speaker 11 (47:56):
From an actors standpoint to what she said, the things
that I ad from COVID, I was a part of
a lot of test groups when acting class went virtual.
I was in a very intensive scene study class with
Kevin Benton, my amazing acting coach. But for me, I
noticed that everyone in the class hated like, right now,
how we see ourselves in this box?

Speaker 2 (48:15):
You know, and that's all we have.

Speaker 11 (48:16):
So I was used to being in class three times
a week in mastery class and creating setting up these scenes,
and I fed so much off of what the other
actor had that it took away a little bit of
my instincts of playing. So when I was put into
this box and we were doing these scenes together. You know,
I can't see your hand reaching for something I can
only see which was in this box. So it made

(48:37):
me push harder for my instincts as an actor and
not really so much on the other person, which was
when we got back to set and we were so separated,
you know what I mean, I went back to the
box that I had been learning in because I wasn't
not saying you know, we weren't playing and depending on
the other actor.

Speaker 13 (48:53):
But I was able to bring one hundred and ten,
one hundred and fifty percent.

Speaker 11 (48:57):
Without you know, being as close to that person or
being able to build as much, or being able to
go in their trailer and have lunch with them and
do those kind of things that we were just restricted
from doing.

Speaker 2 (49:05):
We went back.

Speaker 11 (49:06):
So for me acting class, going virtual it upped my instincts,
it upped the game, and it just took my acting
to another level as far as we're relying on myself more.
And you know, you have those mean actors where you
might go on set and it's time for your coverage
and they might go to their trailer and let their
stand in stand there and.

Speaker 13 (49:25):
Not give you that what you need that we depend on.
So this whole box.

Speaker 11 (49:30):
Thing, it taught me to dig deeper within myself and
to be able to give. And when we got back
to set, it was so many restrictions, and you know,
it helped me and I went back to that box.

Speaker 2 (49:39):
So I enjoyed this.

Speaker 13 (49:40):
Level of not being in class and not smelling that
other person and not being able to see that drip
of sweat on their head, and just having you go
deeper into your toolbox and just doing the work.

Speaker 1 (49:50):
Yeah, excellent. Well, we can have the next question in
tie Niejsji or Anna Sean oh Shawan okay, sorry, answer
as well? Okay, okay, so elseo who's that next question?

Speaker 2 (50:06):
Next up?

Speaker 16 (50:06):
We have mister Shawn Sean question for the cast.

Speaker 17 (50:11):
Oh okay, great, So what's up guys? Congression on your film?
That's that's super dope and cool. I'm gonna keep my
question as simple. So what's your plan and your goals
for twenty twenty four when the strike is over hopefully
and we're back at it.

Speaker 8 (50:29):
Well, I can start that one.

Speaker 7 (50:32):
First of all, if you ain't learning nothing through COVID,
don't you if you're waiting for twenty twenty four to
get get something cranked. If you're waiting on this strike
to end to get something cranked, you are already taking
a loss. You know, as far as I'm concerned, the
strike ain't never gonna end, because what if it doesn't?

Speaker 8 (50:55):
So what if the strike don't end?

Speaker 7 (50:58):
You got some people who are actually waiting on the right,
and I think it may end, But like, what if
the strike don't end?

Speaker 8 (51:05):
At what point are you point?

Speaker 7 (51:07):
At what point are you as an individual going to
have to accept that? Is it going to be in
twenty twenty four, because it's still going to be going
in And then you're gonna be thinking about what you
what you should have been thinking about now, which is
forget this strike. You only can control what you control
with and really, honestly, you can't control nothing. You know,
control your relationship with God, and you better pray that

(51:28):
you know his will connects with yours. And hey, if
I could get on another acting job regardless of what
it is me personally, because I control what I do,
I'm getting over that. Or I could get on because
nothing is promised. You know, I was an engineer then
y'ell talked about a box. That same box we COVID

(51:51):
taught me that box that I was in. I was
an engineer in twenty twenty. I was an engineer, but
when COVID came, it relieved me of having to go
to work for the man, allowed me to work for myself.
We got something, and in doing so, it allowed me
to dig deep. And look where I'm at now. I've
never acted a day in my life, but look where

(52:11):
I'm at now. So like it's these little tiny boxes
that traditionally we're just so used to being in, you know,
get up and go to school, or get up and
go to work, or get up and you know, but
we got to get outside of that. Like, why are
you thinking about twenty twenty four? Why you ain't thinking
about by next week? Because I'm thinking about our premiere.
That's about the closest I could get. But I got somebody.

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I got to hold an event tomorrow. You know what
I'm saying. I can only imagine where I'm gonna be
in twenty twenty four. But I ain't worried about the strike.
I ain't worried about man. Whatever we did in the past,
that's gone. You can't get that back. The only thing
you got right, right, now is the time and what
you're doing with it today. So I can only imagine
if God allows us to see tomorrow yet alone see

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twenty twenty four, what I could be doing there ain't no.

Speaker 1 (52:58):
Amen.

Speaker 4 (53:02):
Well, I'm gonna let need you go, but I'll just
say one thing.

Speaker 5 (53:08):
For me for twenty twenty four, I'm just you know,
staying hopeful and making sure that those seeds that I
have already sown from way back when, right, and those
that I.

Speaker 4 (53:20):
Have sown for this year and last year.

Speaker 5 (53:24):
You know, normally you don't see that harvest until a
little bit later. And I'm not talking about with the
backyard in the garden, okay, but I'm talking about you know,
futuristic and so I'm I'm sure to be checking off
some of my long term goals because you know, short
or long, you want to be able to check them off.

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You want to accomplish those things that you have been
set out to do. And it's really an assignment from God. Right,
I have a goal list and an assignment list. It's
all men together, and it's all his all is his work,
but he's asked me to do. So you know, I'm
intentionally moving into twenty twenty four because I want to

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be able to check that off for him.

Speaker 8 (54:13):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (54:14):
Amen. And last but not least, Ninja, how you feel.

Speaker 8 (54:23):
You need to driving? I think she's drove Okay.

Speaker 1 (54:26):
Well I don't want her, you know, I feel her
energy though, I really do. Before she went off, I
fell her energy. So I'm going to hold onto that.

Speaker 15 (54:34):
But I.

Speaker 10 (54:36):
Am. I am driving.

Speaker 1 (54:38):
He's saved, but I did.

Speaker 10 (54:39):
I still wanted to make sure I said my proper
goodbyes and make sure I say, you know, say something
to everyone. But just to piggyback on what Osha said,
London said, and as well as Dan Yelle. When you
know after this strike, it's just like, you know, we
don't know what it's going to end. What do you do?
They always tell you, you know, you prepare, prepare for your

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next move. What is something that you are interested in?
Maybe maybe this is your opportunity to start working on
something to get even more creative, whether that's becoming a writer,
becoming a producer, becoming a creator, whatever that is. Maybe
this is your moment to start doing that. So Women's
strike is open now, you just open yourself on a
whole new opportunity, a whole new plane for you to

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do something even greater.

Speaker 4 (55:22):
So you just never know.

Speaker 10 (55:23):
It's always about preparation, you know, when preparation means opportunities.
This is your time to write. You know, no fun attended,
but you know, yeah, I'm just gonna say, I am
so blessed to be here with you, Tracy More, thank
you so much.

Speaker 1 (55:38):
Oh You're welcome so much. Thank you about our early
I've been so please. We appreciate your time. Thank you,
gratulations again.

Speaker 10 (55:50):
Thank you so so very much. Thank you, Thank you all.
You all have a wonderful career to all of this
new upcoming actors and eating the actors that are very
continue your journey, full prottle, amen.

Speaker 1 (56:05):
And put both those hands on the wheel. Thank you. Okay,
that was great you guys, Oh my god, thank you, Sean,
thank you. Welcome question, thankful, loved it. So when we
come back to the Spirited Actor, we're gonna have Nicole

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and Sean. They're going to perform a scene. They are
Spirited Actor o gs and they have a scene for
you guys. Okay, so we'll be back on the Spirited
Action podcast speak tray More, stay tuned. We still have
a taste of Betrayal cast with the director producer Todd Johnston. Okay,

(56:49):
and we'll be right back. Welcome back to the Spirited
Actor Podcast with me Tracy Moore. And I'm so excited
because we still have two of our stars a Taste
of Betrayal that's going to be on to be August thirtieth.
We need everyone to watch on August thirtieth and support
this amazing cast. It really is a great I've been

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really blessed to sit in the table read. I'm not
going to tell you guys anything. You have to see
it on to be August thirtieth. So we still have
Danielle La Roach and O'Shea Russell with us and they're
going to give us some of their feedback. In class
in session we have a scene from a Spirited Actor
alumni and we have two of our Spirited Actor ogs.

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Elsa will introduce them and we will read the scene.

Speaker 16 (57:40):
Yeah yeah, So today in the class in session we
have miss Nicole Marie Hunt. Welcome Nicole, Hey, Nicole for
having me. And we have mister Sean Mixed.

Speaker 8 (57:51):
Welcome, Sean Hey, thank you for having me.

Speaker 1 (57:54):
Yes, thank you Sean. Okay, on you, Elsa. So today
he has an action cycles written by Leanne, a model
interior therapist Office Mourning.

Speaker 8 (58:15):
M So herebod I am again?

Speaker 15 (58:22):
Is it the same woman?

Speaker 8 (58:24):
No? But the same reason this song feels worse. Feels
like they pulled everything.

Speaker 17 (58:33):
Out of me or something, And I don't know how
I gonna come back from this.

Speaker 15 (58:36):
When it's talk, Well, start by telling me what happened.

Speaker 8 (58:45):
Right four years now, and.

Speaker 17 (58:50):
She's gonna tell me that it's her, not me, that
she needs to work on herself, she needs to find herself.
I mean it's the same I think the last one say,
and I'm trying to understand and figure out what was
wrong with me?

Speaker 8 (59:07):
Is happening again? Well?

Speaker 15 (59:10):
Did you see the same signs again that we discovered
last time?

Speaker 8 (59:16):
Yeah, some of the same signs.

Speaker 15 (59:19):
So what made you see them and choose to ignore them?

Speaker 1 (59:24):
He thinks about it.

Speaker 17 (59:27):
I guess I figured if I pull it into her
and loved her in an unconditional way, that that would
be enough. The doubt fixed was broken, then my love
will fix it.

Speaker 15 (59:40):
Well, love does heal, but you can't heal or fix
or save someone else. And like we discussed last time,
the hero complex in you, it could make someone else
feel like there's something wrong with them, and in a
relationship people want to feel equal less. Then also, real

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healing could only really come from self work. So my
question is this, why are you attracted to things that
you perceive as needing fixing, as opposed to someone who's
in an equal space of self work and healing like
you are. Do you think this possibility? Do you think

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the possibility of meeting someone who's in a good space
intimidates you? Do you not feel worthy of that?

Speaker 17 (01:00:38):
How can someone who's focused on their flaws have time
to inspect my own?

Speaker 15 (01:00:46):
How does that make you feel.

Speaker 7 (01:00:50):
Like a cop out?

Speaker 15 (01:00:53):
We often attract a reflection of ourselves. We usually want
to we want to be, but we're attracted to who
we are, So so this isn't as much about them
as it is about seeing yourself. Until then the pattern
will continue.

Speaker 17 (01:01:15):
I'm so sad right now.

Speaker 8 (01:01:18):
I can't think about anything else, and you don't have to.

Speaker 15 (01:01:22):
Good morning. It's easy on yourself.

Speaker 1 (01:01:27):
And see telling you guys, so so Danielle, Osha, whatever
you have notes feedback, This is an open form.

Speaker 3 (01:01:39):
Cool.

Speaker 11 (01:01:40):
I think it felt good for me. I immediately look
at the characters there. You know, therapist client. I felt
that I felt that there could have been a little
bit more air, a little bit more begining. I felt
that it was rushed a little bit, and there were
times where, you know, it's just you know, when your

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therapist ask you something, a lot of times, it's not
like the back and forth fantera of a friend.

Speaker 13 (01:02:06):
It's like, wait, you're asking me something that no one
else asked me. You're taking my mind to a different place.

Speaker 11 (01:02:11):
So I would have wanted to see that set in
a little bit more for your characters. But I did
feel that the essence okay was there. I do want
to say to Sean, when things do happen to you
in your scene, use that because what's so awesome is
that your character was already frustrated and disgruntled and sad.

(01:02:33):
So when that person was calling you, instead of you
saying I'm sorry to us, you could have been like, see, man,
stuff just is be messing up for me.

Speaker 8 (01:02:41):
You know what I mean here?

Speaker 11 (01:02:43):
In that way, you never take it out of the
scene because when that director, you never cut yourself.

Speaker 2 (01:02:50):
Never cut yourself.

Speaker 11 (01:02:53):
You know, you could have a bird flying too your
scene and freaking fly into your face, or you can
have a bird poop on you and you can use
that the gold Those moments that become iconic. Those are
the moments that we say, my god, that wasn't in
the script.

Speaker 13 (01:03:05):
So I just want to encourage to love inscriptions and
interactions to push that character.

Speaker 2 (01:03:11):
But I just felt it was, you know, the characters
were there, the essence was there.

Speaker 11 (01:03:15):
It felt like a first take, right, and the director
would come in and you guys get in there, and
I want to commend you, Sean on the shelters where
you are without telling us at first.

Speaker 2 (01:03:27):
I even wish that that beginning.

Speaker 13 (01:03:28):
Beat was just a bit longer, because you know, when
you sat there, you looked around, you.

Speaker 2 (01:03:33):
Know, I felt as though you'd been there before. I
felt as though you didn't want to be there.

Speaker 11 (01:03:37):
And you know, I do a little casting and director too,
and we can feel when you push yourself beyond your
natural instinct.

Speaker 2 (01:03:45):
So if you wanted to take more.

Speaker 13 (01:03:47):
Time to fill that room and you spoke sooner, that
can be felt right by a director, So we respect
your time.

Speaker 11 (01:03:54):
You never want to rush yourself. And I feel like
it was just that's all it was. It was just
it just need to be a little more time. You know,
uh space within there, because I would have loved to
see you know, Nicole, look at you in this you know,
and when you said you were sad, I felt that,

(01:04:14):
but I could see it more right, and I do
feel you have things around you, so I do encourage
you to use those distractions to push your character and
to stay in it right.

Speaker 2 (01:04:25):
Let somebody have to snatch you out of it. But
it was a beautiful scene.

Speaker 13 (01:04:28):
And thank you guys. Excited to see where we're working.
What were your faces in the future. I thought it
was awesome.

Speaker 17 (01:04:34):
Oh, thank you so much.

Speaker 1 (01:04:36):
Thank you Danielle.

Speaker 7 (01:04:38):
Oh yo yo to piggyback, but not piggyback. I definitely,
especially at the beginning. The beats were really quick between
you two. It was almost like it was premeditated, like
one thing I was taught. Because I'm still learning. I'm

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in the learning stage. I've been blessed with a wonderful
opportunity with this movie, with my role that I'm playing
on All the Queens Man.

Speaker 8 (01:05:11):
But I'm truly a student.

Speaker 7 (01:05:14):
But I've been blessed to be blessed by some of
the most like Danielle and mister Perry and Tie and
so many wonderful people that's been around me to give
give me things.

Speaker 8 (01:05:25):
And one thing that I taught me was that listening.

Speaker 7 (01:05:31):
That listening is everything, HM, like listening to your castmate
and not just with your ear, but with your soul.
And like when you do that, it's like when I
was when I was watching you guys, I was reading
you guys, I had to like stop my whole, my
whole self so I can feel and like we can

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feel like the same way Danielle can feel like it
was a little like I feel you guys were in.

Speaker 8 (01:05:58):
Your I feel like there was so much more, you know,
like it felt.

Speaker 7 (01:06:02):
Like it was, like she said, like a first take,
it did, and I can also tell like on the
back end it kind of got settled and I could
feel you guys come a little bit more to your characters. No,
you know, you know, but you yes, yeah, like you
could just you can wait, you can wait those you
can wait those beats. You know, as a therapist, you

(01:06:23):
could easily like you could settle into what he said
and you could reminisce about last week about what.

Speaker 8 (01:06:28):
He said, and like we can know that from you,
that feeling that you get. But you guys were kind
of like, Okay, my turn, your term, my term, and
it could have been.

Speaker 7 (01:06:34):
There's so much more that you guys can hold in
those beats, and just like that speaks in themselves because
you know that that that that anticipation of I wonder
if he's thinking that, because it looks like he's thinking that.
I wonder she thinking that because it looks like she's
given that, and then that confirmation comes through.

Speaker 8 (01:06:52):
DN, That's exactly what the fuck I thought it was,
you know, like.

Speaker 7 (01:06:55):
It like but like everything, like everything was, Everything you
guys did was great, Like like I have nothing, but
like we can always be better, you know, and like it's.

Speaker 8 (01:07:05):
When you're looking from the outside. We're just looking from
the outside, you know.

Speaker 7 (01:07:08):
But since we are, I'm gonna give you what I
can see from the outside, and I hope you guys
can take it and you know and use it, you know,
some somewhere down the future. But you know, definitely looking
forward to seeing you guys on the same set as
me in the near future.

Speaker 1 (01:07:25):
Thank you, Oshay ladies, and gentle with please once again,
please put your hands together for Danielle Roach and O'shay Russell,
two of the Stars for a Taste of Betrayal that
is going to be on to be August thirtieth. We
are going to shout this from the mountaintop. We're going
to play these these drops every single day. We so appreciate.

(01:07:48):
Love you guys and Sean and Nicole. Great gems that
were just dropped, and you've heard some of them before,
so that's great. Everybody put your hands together once again.
Dan Yelle wrote, and oh shit, rus So, thank you
for your diamonds, emeralds and pearls.

Speaker 8 (01:08:06):
Thank you. Thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:08:09):
Again because we have you know tis family. We are
following you guys. All right, take care Danielle and have
a successful, healthy, beautiful, beautiful delivery. Thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:08:24):
Okay, guys, thank you Elsa, Thank you Spruce.

Speaker 13 (01:08:27):
This is beautiful. The energy is amazing. I appreciate all
you guys. Tracy, thank you for never giving up.

Speaker 11 (01:08:32):
Thank you for answering the call, thank you for allowing
us to be here, thank you for your obedience, and
just thank you for all that you do for our
community that you continue to do, and thank you for
your tribe.

Speaker 13 (01:08:43):
You guys are awesome. I don't know I'm gonna hang
out with I feel like you spent time.

Speaker 1 (01:08:48):
Oh yes, if you look at the dictionary, he is
a fun time.

Speaker 2 (01:08:54):
I feel that. Thank you guys, and.

Speaker 1 (01:08:58):
You'll come back, Danielle, because you know we got to
have y'all individually and hear the stories I can't.

Speaker 8 (01:09:04):
You know, we'll do it.

Speaker 1 (01:09:06):
We'll do it in your next project or once the
strike is over. But we'll get you guys back on.
And I want to say one more thing, Oshay, can
you please tell us because we have heard about this
store and you said it has been around, Please tell
us about your store.

Speaker 8 (01:09:24):
Oh yeah, Well, we're an embroidery.

Speaker 7 (01:09:27):
We're a birdie shop, but we also do print and
we sell many different items.

Speaker 8 (01:09:32):
We could do it all.

Speaker 7 (01:09:34):
If you need something custom done, we could do it all.
We're here at Newport News, Virginia, inside of Patrick Henry Mall.
Thread Quarters is seven five to seven three quarters is
what we're called. And I'm gonna giving y'all a wrong
thing because I got two businesses. This is seven five
to seven thread Impressions. Is this one where I'm at
Adiman Patrick Patrick here Mall thread Impression seven five seven

(01:09:56):
because we're in seven cities Virginia of course, but right
to bath and bodywork, but don't go over.

Speaker 8 (01:10:01):
There, come over here, but use it as a reference.

Speaker 1 (01:10:03):
Okay, okay, we're going to support both of you guys.
Thank you so much. When we come back on the
Spirited Actor Podcast with me Tracy Moore, I'm gonna give
you guys some love, just a little bit love, and
now it's time to give love. August fifteenth, nineteen eighty three.
Forty years. I've been in New York City forty years.

(01:10:26):
I've created a life, new friendships, families. I took a
risk forty years ago, and I said, yes, I made
a choice. Am I going to go to La or
Am I going to go to New York. I decided
New York because it was three thousand miles away. It

(01:10:49):
was a totally new beginning for me, and I would
never ever change or regret anything about my journey in life.
When we choose to grow, we get out of our
comfort zone. It's important for us to get out of
our comfort zone. It's important for us to stretch. It's

(01:11:09):
important for us to grow. It's important for us to
have challenges, obstacles, and hurdles to test our character and
for us to be reintroduced to the truth of who
we really are and who we are spiritual beings with
a mighty power and a vision of creativity and manifestation,

(01:11:30):
and we know this. I want you to take five
minutes every morning and write down what it is that
you choose to manifest today, and at the end of
the day, look at that list and sit in gratitude
and also think in advance, because I guarantee you, when

(01:11:54):
you live in your truth of being a creator, you
will see thoughts turn into things. Don't forget to look
out for us on our new show, Inside the Black Box.
My co host will be Joe the Legend Morton. It's
going to be the Spirited Actor Podcast on Steroids. We'll

(01:12:15):
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.