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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to Fearlessly Failing Hot Seat. In this app, I
fire rapid questions at one of our fearlessly failing guests.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
PS. I'm gonna be honest with you.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
I'm not so good at the rapid part. I get
too intrigued by the awesome answers. Now a new app
is going to drop every Wednesday, so enjoy this shortest
style episode of Fearlessly Failing Hot Seat. Welcome to the
Hot Seat, Lee Kilton Smith nervous, don't be, don't be.
(00:32):
You don't have to answer quick either. Okay, okay. Do
you have a favorite city?
Speaker 3 (00:40):
New York?
Speaker 2 (00:40):
I had a feeling. What do you love about it?
Speaker 3 (00:44):
I love that it's alive and demands participation. You can't
walk through New York and not participate. Yeah, you're around everything.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
I also feel like there's no bs in. You know.
Sometimes LA can feel a bit too fluffy, and you
don't always know where you stand sometimes, and New York
you know where you.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Stand, you know where you stand, and it's and it's
and it is honest. But it's also the kindest people
I've ever known in my life. And it might be
just because I'm on the street with them. I find
LA to be incredibly isolating, which is really hard on
any personality, but on my actors. You guys get in
your cars and you're alone, and you drive somewhere and
(01:29):
you get out for a moment, and then you get
back in your car and you're alone.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
You know, we were to.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
School with you then, because we've got this community, the
amount because last week, you know how I put my
scene up in the Thursday class instead of the true
it was like a reunion.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
I was the hugging everybody. It was so nice.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
And that's the community that I had. No I didn't
know these souls until I was in your glass and.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Then you get in your car and you drive.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
But in New York, you would get out of class
and you would walk on the street with them until
this this person would fail off to go to the subway.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
It's it's it just I love New York. I just
love it.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
You're me both.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Do you have a favorite nature spot?
Speaker 3 (02:08):
A favorite nature spot? That's such a good question. I
think it is a porch next to a stream and
there's either snow or rain. Any place that has rain
has my attention.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Do you ever listen to rainy mood? Have you heard
about rainy Mood. No, you just got a rainymood dot
com and it just plays rain Yeah, meditation.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
I just bought a mushroom that has water that falls
from it throughout the night and last night was my
first night with it and I slept like a baby.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Yeah, amazing.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Oh yeah, I'm going to send you rainy mood after
this as well. Do you have a pitt pave?
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Oh? So not using your blinker when you're driving, that's.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
A real la thing. I was saying, thank you, Like
if I let someone in, I'll always or if someone
that's very.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Ausy though, yeah, me too. Well that's very taxing too. Yeah,
I can't uh impatience. I'm not great with entitlement. Entitlement
that hits me wrong.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Yeah, yeah, that's entitled as hard as I turned forty
this year, and so when I see entitlement in young
like younger people as well, I'm like, oh, come on, young.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
And keep your heart open.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
What's one of the best gifts you've been given? One
of the best gifts I've been given other than Harry.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
I know, I don't want to think materialistically because I'm like, hmm,
there was that hat box.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Beautiful hat box.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
I think the greatest gift I've been given was a
sense of humor.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Oh, yeah, I do.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
I think if I couldn't laugh my way through some stuff,
I would have I don't know what I would have done. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Yeah, it's such a medicine, isn't it. And like being able.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
To being able to laugh at yourself, being able to
laugh at Yeah, it's I don't think I could survive
without it.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Thank God. My husband thinks I'm funny.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Oh and do you notice as well, like if you
find yourself just laughing with someone over like, ah, it
was so that scene that I put up last. I
would find that I'd like laugh so much and it
would hit my scene part and I completely the opposite.
And it was so much fun to be like.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
That was so much fun to watch.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
But also like I was like, oh, we experienced the
world so differently, and I think that's what made it
so fun to sit in as well. And yeah, so fascinating. Okay,
do you have any.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Regrets, Yes, any harm emotionally that I've given someone through
youthful stupidity or just careless being careless with my words.
(05:10):
I have a lot of regrets around that. I have.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
I'm not that is youthful.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
You've said youthful, stupid. I'm sure I say.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Said shitty things to people, and I've a human Yeah
it is human, isn't it. But yeah, no, by and large,
you know, any falsehoods or lies that I've told that
would affect somebody else, I suppose I have regrets around that. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Yeah, And this is a tricky one. Some people love it,
some people don't. But do you have any fear? Do
I have any fear?
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Oh? My god, the most overwhelming fear at all times,
twenty four to seven, especially in this day and age.
My gosh, there's so much fear. There's so much fear
for the world. There's so much fear for my artists
or my actors, my fear for or you know, my health,
you know, being an old bride, you've.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Got nutritionists now and I've got a nutritionist live forever.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
But yeah, my fear for the world, my fear for art,
you know. Yeah, yeah, Okay, more positive.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
On a more positive note, do you have a favorite
play or a play you've read recently or seen recently
that you just were like, oh, give me more. I
could go straight back.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
I mean musical Sunset Boulevard. Yeah, the current Jamie Lloyd
production mind blowing.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
I've heard that performance is insane.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
It's insane.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Yeah, and plays that I've read, Well, there's a play
that we did scenes from in class called Georgia Merching
is Dead that your scene was from.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
And I really like that play. I could see that
as a movie.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Yeah, yeah, with you directing it, my friend or me.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
It's such a it's such a goody you and I
can see all these books around us right now here
in your office. Is there a book that you not
that you just love? And I know where both our
eys I think might have just gone to the War
of Art.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
The War of Art is next to William Asper.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Oh my goodness, The Actor's Guide to Creating Character for me,
Do you remember you teach us one of our homeworks
is random act sorry, anonymous Acts of kind? Yes, yes,
And somebody in audition theory bought all of us anonymously
a copy of the War of Art.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
It was so crazy.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Remember, I just walked in and that was that box
of all of these books. Yeah, there was eighty There
were eighty two people in that class. So some kind
human beings who have I have my suspicions but have
never been confirmed. But yes, it's in the War of
art is.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
The Bible.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
I would say that is the most perfect book any
creative listening to this. My final question for you is
a lot of young actors listen to this pod. Oh good,
And if you had like one little nugget for them,
what do you want to go at?
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Liked my darlings, as fast as possible, wherever you go
New York, Chicago, La Sydney. Is that wherever you go,
as quickly as possible, find your community. Don't worry about
an agent, don't worry about a manager. Get your community.
And you're going to find your community in your acting class,
in the coffee shop where you get a job, in
(08:28):
the restaurant where you serve, You're going to find your community.
And your community is vital for sustenance. Sustenance because if
you don't have a community, on the nights where fear
grips you in doubt is flooding all over you, there's
nothing to keep you here. And here is where you
should be. If you've been here, this is where you
(08:48):
should be. And the other thing I say is get
some training. Get training, and start paying attention to humanity
and life. Tell those stories. You're going to be telling
them the rare rest of your life. So start making
a study of the odd balls that other people judge
that you see as possible.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Character.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Keep your mind fertile and imagining and alive, and never
misplace your beginner's mind. All things are possible, they are.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
You're the best. Oh, thank you you are. This was
so fun.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
You're wonder fun to the listener. I'm going to post
all the info about Lee in the show notes, so
if you're in LA audition theory, I love seeing study
as well.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
You're just absolutely phenomenal. Thank you, my god, Lolo, thank you.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Let's hang out more.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Let's do
Welcome to Fearlessly Failing Hot Seat. In this app, I
fire rapid questions at one of our fearlessly failing guests.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
PS. I'm gonna be honest with you.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
I'm not so good at the rapid part. I get
too intrigued by the awesome answers. Now a new app
is going to drop every Wednesday, so enjoy this shortest
style episode of Fearlessly Failing Hot Seat. Welcome to the
Hot Seat, Lee Kilton Smith nervous, don't be, don't be.
(00:32):
You don't have to answer quick either. Okay, okay. Do
you have a favorite city?
Speaker 3 (00:40):
New York?
Speaker 2 (00:40):
I had a feeling. What do you love about it?
Speaker 3 (00:44):
I love that it's alive and demands participation. You can't
walk through New York and not participate. Yeah, you're around everything.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
I also feel like there's no bs in. You know.
Sometimes LA can feel a bit too fluffy, and you
don't always know where you stand sometimes, and New York
you know where you.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Stand, you know where you stand, and it's and it's
and it is honest. But it's also the kindest people
I've ever known in my life. And it might be
just because I'm on the street with them. I find
LA to be incredibly isolating, which is really hard on
any personality, but on my actors. You guys get in
your cars and you're alone, and you drive somewhere and
(01:29):
you get out for a moment, and then you get
back in your car and you're alone.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
You know, we were to.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
School with you then, because we've got this community, the
amount because last week, you know how I put my
scene up in the Thursday class instead of the true
it was like a reunion.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
I was the hugging everybody. It was so nice.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
And that's the community that I had. No I didn't
know these souls until I was in your glass and.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Then you get in your car and you drive.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
But in New York, you would get out of class
and you would walk on the street with them until
this this person would fail off to go to the subway.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
It's it's it just I love New York. I just
love it.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
You're me both.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Do you have a favorite nature spot?
Speaker 3 (02:08):
A favorite nature spot? That's such a good question. I
think it is a porch next to a stream and
there's either snow or rain. Any place that has rain
has my attention.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Do you ever listen to rainy mood? Have you heard
about rainy Mood. No, you just got a rainymood dot
com and it just plays rain Yeah, meditation.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
I just bought a mushroom that has water that falls
from it throughout the night and last night was my
first night with it and I slept like a baby.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Yeah, amazing.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Oh yeah, I'm going to send you rainy mood after
this as well. Do you have a pitt pave?
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Oh? So not using your blinker when you're driving, that's.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
A real la thing. I was saying, thank you, Like
if I let someone in, I'll always or if someone
that's very.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Ausy though, yeah, me too. Well that's very taxing too. Yeah,
I can't uh impatience. I'm not great with entitlement. Entitlement
that hits me wrong.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Yeah, yeah, that's entitled as hard as I turned forty
this year, and so when I see entitlement in young
like younger people as well, I'm like, oh, come on, young.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
And keep your heart open.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
What's one of the best gifts you've been given? One
of the best gifts I've been given other than Harry.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
I know, I don't want to think materialistically because I'm like, hmm,
there was that hat box.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Beautiful hat box.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
I think the greatest gift I've been given was a
sense of humor.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Oh, yeah, I do.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
I think if I couldn't laugh my way through some stuff,
I would have I don't know what I would have done. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Yeah, it's such a medicine, isn't it. And like being able.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
To being able to laugh at yourself, being able to
laugh at Yeah, it's I don't think I could survive
without it.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Thank God. My husband thinks I'm funny.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Oh and do you notice as well, like if you
find yourself just laughing with someone over like, ah, it
was so that scene that I put up last. I
would find that I'd like laugh so much and it
would hit my scene part and I completely the opposite.
And it was so much fun to be like.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
That was so much fun to watch.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
But also like I was like, oh, we experienced the
world so differently, and I think that's what made it
so fun to sit in as well. And yeah, so fascinating. Okay,
do you have any.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Regrets, Yes, any harm emotionally that I've given someone through
youthful stupidity or just careless being careless with my words.
(05:10):
I have a lot of regrets around that. I have.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
I'm not that is youthful.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
You've said youthful, stupid. I'm sure I say.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Said shitty things to people, and I've a human Yeah
it is human, isn't it. But yeah, no, by and large,
you know, any falsehoods or lies that I've told that
would affect somebody else, I suppose I have regrets around that. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Yeah, And this is a tricky one. Some people love it,
some people don't. But do you have any fear? Do
I have any fear?
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Oh? My god, the most overwhelming fear at all times,
twenty four to seven, especially in this day and age.
My gosh, there's so much fear. There's so much fear
for the world. There's so much fear for my artists
or my actors, my fear for or you know, my health,
you know, being an old bride, you've.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Got nutritionists now and I've got a nutritionist live forever.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
But yeah, my fear for the world, my fear for art,
you know. Yeah, yeah, Okay, more positive.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
On a more positive note, do you have a favorite
play or a play you've read recently or seen recently
that you just were like, oh, give me more. I
could go straight back.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
I mean musical Sunset Boulevard. Yeah, the current Jamie Lloyd
production mind blowing.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
I've heard that performance is insane.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
It's insane.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Yeah, and plays that I've read, Well, there's a play
that we did scenes from in class called Georgia Merching
is Dead that your scene was from.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
And I really like that play. I could see that
as a movie.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Yeah, yeah, with you directing it, my friend or me.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
It's such a it's such a goody you and I
can see all these books around us right now here
in your office. Is there a book that you not
that you just love? And I know where both our
eys I think might have just gone to the War
of Art.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
The War of Art is next to William Asper.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Oh my goodness, The Actor's Guide to Creating Character for me,
Do you remember you teach us one of our homeworks
is random act sorry, anonymous Acts of kind? Yes, yes,
And somebody in audition theory bought all of us anonymously
a copy of the War of Art.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
It was so crazy.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Remember, I just walked in and that was that box
of all of these books. Yeah, there was eighty There
were eighty two people in that class. So some kind
human beings who have I have my suspicions but have
never been confirmed. But yes, it's in the War of
art is.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
The Bible.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
I would say that is the most perfect book any
creative listening to this. My final question for you is
a lot of young actors listen to this pod. Oh good,
And if you had like one little nugget for them,
what do you want to go at?
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Liked my darlings, as fast as possible, wherever you go
New York, Chicago, La Sydney. Is that wherever you go,
as quickly as possible, find your community. Don't worry about
an agent, don't worry about a manager. Get your community.
And you're going to find your community in your acting class,
in the coffee shop where you get a job, in
(08:28):
the restaurant where you serve, You're going to find your community.
And your community is vital for sustenance. Sustenance because if
you don't have a community, on the nights where fear
grips you in doubt is flooding all over you, there's
nothing to keep you here. And here is where you
should be. If you've been here, this is where you
(08:48):
should be. And the other thing I say is get
some training. Get training, and start paying attention to humanity
and life. Tell those stories. You're going to be telling
them the rare rest of your life. So start making
a study of the odd balls that other people judge
that you see as possible.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Character.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Keep your mind fertile and imagining and alive, and never
misplace your beginner's mind. All things are possible, they are.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
You're the best. Oh, thank you you are. This was
so fun.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
You're wonder fun to the listener. I'm going to post
all the info about Lee in the show notes, so
if you're in LA audition theory, I love seeing study
as well.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
You're just absolutely phenomenal. Thank you, my god, Lolo, thank you.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Let's hang out more.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Let's do
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