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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to fearlessly Failing Hot Seat. In this EPP, I
fire rapid questions at one of our fearlessly failing guests. PS,
I'm gonna be answ with you. I'm not so good
at the rapid part. I get too intrigued by the
awesome answers. Now a new EPP is going to drop
every Wednesday, so enjoy this shorter style episode of fearlessly

(00:23):
Failing Hot Seat. Welcome to the hot seat. What is
your full name? You don't have to give middle if
you don't want to.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
My full name is Christopher Matt Skirt Nice.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
I love it, okay? Would you say sweet or savory?

Speaker 2 (00:40):
Sweet? Terrible? Sweet? Tooth?

Speaker 1 (00:41):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (00:41):
Yeaho?

Speaker 1 (00:42):
What it's like your favorite sweet thing?

Speaker 2 (00:44):
Gummy candies? Really that's so American?

Speaker 3 (00:47):
Coke bottles, the breakfast ones from Trader Joel's, like the
eggs and the bacon.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
No, so good, that's so American.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
Oh yeah, yeah, there's a list.

Speaker 3 (00:58):
But like those little apple pies, the hostess ones in
the like waxed white paper that are fake apple pie and.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
You just where are they from?

Speaker 2 (01:08):
You get them at the Delhi They're so good?

Speaker 1 (01:13):
Oh my goodness, you're okay? Do you have a favorite
city New York. Do you have a favorite part of
New York?

Speaker 2 (01:19):
Brooklyn?

Speaker 3 (01:20):
That's where you lived, right, Yeah, we were there for
thirteen years. We lived in Parks Li.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
It was amazing. New York is home. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
Ah. Do you try to go back, like at least once.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
My family is still on the East Coast, so we
try to go back.

Speaker 3 (01:32):
But we have two dogs and boarding them is very expensive,
and one of them doesn't fly well because she's a brat.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
So got it, got it? You know what Australia, you
can't fly with animals domestically, so.

Speaker 3 (01:42):
Even if they're a quote unquote service animal, which I
can confirm nor deny that I have a service animal.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
Yeah, no, we don't have that. This row. You've got
guide dogs, but you can't you can't bring you could
fly with a guide dog, like specifically, you couldn't just be.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
Like not in the carrier with a little you can.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
Be like this is my set woo, this is my
service center.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
You couldn't do No, I don't do that either.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
Do you have a favorite nature spot?

Speaker 2 (02:08):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (02:11):
You went to Mexico Last Street didn't amazing?

Speaker 3 (02:14):
The best hotels and crystal all please, no one go
there and make it.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
Whereabout is it?

Speaker 3 (02:20):
It is in not like tulom, No, it's further kind
of south west. I think, why am I blanking on
the the best?

Speaker 1 (02:32):
Really?

Speaker 3 (02:33):
I mean that's a favorite, like vacation spot, favorite nature spot.
I do love being at the beach, but since moving
to La, like the hiking with the dogs is amazing. Anywhere,
I mean, any hike we'll do like Runyon, Yeah, bunch, Griffith,
Griffith is beautiful. We saw coyot. We almost not almost
got attacked by a coyote, but yeah, it was like

(02:54):
very close to us, and I did the whole like
raising your arms, I'm screaming, walking backwards thing. My partner
was like, what are we going to do? It's gonna come,
and like it turned the little.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
Dogs too, so the coyotes. This is what ozzies don't
know that. Listen to it. The coyotes will come and
like can grab the little.

Speaker 3 (03:10):
And turn in the corner and was like stalking really
slowly towards us, and my partner was like, what are
we gonna do?

Speaker 2 (03:15):
What are we gonna do?

Speaker 3 (03:16):
And I was like, well, TikTok has taught me many
things in life. Grab the dog walk backwards slowly, and
then I was like a really, yeah, saved us.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
So when I lived in Los Veelis for a little
while and they would walk down the streets because it's
right at the base of Griffith Park, and I'd like
get down the same level as of Cody and get
some ripper photos. And people would look at me like
I am mental because they've got rabies, do they not?
I think you got to get your raby shots if
you get bitten by a coyote. I'm pretty sure.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
Nope.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
Anyway, there's a fun fact for everybody.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
They're also in Beverly Hills now.

Speaker 1 (03:51):
Literally, I'm strolling down on a.

Speaker 2 (03:52):
Literally they come out of the backyard and be like.

Speaker 1 (03:54):
Hello, Yeah, I want to see like a fucking mountain lion.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
No, No, I would.

Speaker 1 (04:02):
Love to see yeah, yeah, we got to work. No,
I'd love to say one from a distance, love distance.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
Like if I'm hiking and I see one like further
up the hill, I'd be like, great, tick.

Speaker 2 (04:13):
I would be scared.

Speaker 1 (04:14):
Do you know one thing that I've seen here that
I'm not wrapped about. I've seen five rattlesnakes since I
everywhere they're everywhere.

Speaker 2 (04:21):
They're terrified.

Speaker 1 (04:22):
Have you seen them?

Speaker 2 (04:22):
Yes, I'm in Griffith.

Speaker 1 (04:25):
Yeah, they're everywhere. No, no, they're okay, we've definitely died. Chris,
what is a quality that you love about yourself?

Speaker 3 (04:35):
I hmmm, I think I have a fair amount of
like tenacity and grit.

Speaker 1 (04:50):
You do you feel quite adaptable too?

Speaker 2 (04:57):
I would say that's always a process.

Speaker 3 (05:00):
Can become a creature of habit, okay, and like a
little bit yeah, not insular, but like yeah, contained, I
would say tenacity, grit, and I try to be open
to people, like I think my empathy your kid's goods.

Speaker 1 (05:21):
When we both work to the Yogi studio, people come
out of your classes and be like, how does you
remember everyone's name? And I'm like, I'm not telling them.
You right some down before he.

Speaker 2 (05:28):
Goes no, I'm not telling them.

Speaker 3 (05:30):
And it's so funny when they notice it. And I
don't know if it changes things. But someone the other
day after class was like, oh, I thought you memorized
all of that.

Speaker 1 (05:37):
Everyone thinks you me like.

Speaker 3 (05:38):
I know a fair amount of them, and if you
come to my class more than twice, I will know
who you are.

Speaker 1 (05:42):
Yeah, totally. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (05:43):
But when there's thirty of you in the room. I
do want to thank you by name. I might need
to cheat.

Speaker 1 (05:49):
Do you think do you literally go thank you Lola,
thank you, Christopher, thank you Matt, like that's your thing. Yeah,
it's so cool, very cool, very cool. Okay, do you
have a pet peeve? Like?

Speaker 3 (06:02):
Personal space can sometimes like a personal awareness. If your
own awareness around your own physical and energetic being starts
to get a little whack a doo, then I'm a
little bit like, yeah, okay, come on, come on, I
can relate that. Yeah, I can be a little impatient,

(06:24):
I guess, so like those things will.

Speaker 2 (06:26):
Be yes or get to the point, get to the you.

Speaker 1 (06:30):
Know, to the listeners if they haven't listened to the
Monday episode. You're a costume designer. What is a pinch
yourself moment that you've had on a set recently or
in the last couple of years?

Speaker 2 (06:44):
This was.

Speaker 3 (06:47):
Gosh, I will choose one from working on the menu
and teaching myself how to make hats out of chocolate.
So not to spoil the film, but at the end,
they all turn into humans small do they really?

Speaker 2 (07:01):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (07:02):
And the hats are made out of real chocolate that
melted for real and then hands with special effects. But
the basis of it is all hats that I made
out of chocolate.

Speaker 1 (07:16):
It's a murder. It's a murder mystery.

Speaker 3 (07:18):
Uh, it's not a murder mystery in that there's no
mystery as to what the murder is or why they're
being murdered. But it's just a senseful like thriller leading
up to that point.

Speaker 1 (07:29):
But as soon as I get to that island or whatever,
or eat them, get to the restaurant, they're dead. Pretty much.

Speaker 3 (07:34):
Yes, they don't know it, you know it like, yeah, okay,
But and I don't know if it's funny.

Speaker 2 (07:40):
I don't know if the audience knows.

Speaker 1 (07:42):
No.

Speaker 3 (07:43):
I think, yeah, it's slowly revealed that there's no leaving.

Speaker 1 (07:47):
And so you made the hats from chocolate to the
very end and they had to melt on cue. How
honest do you do that?

Speaker 3 (07:56):
I we were in Savannah. I there was a local
chocolate chop. Yeah, Adam was the owner and maybe still
as the owner. I knew he was working with some
of the other departments in terms of like, yeah, other
chef like elements to get them accurate. And I just
got his email and said, hey, can I come and

(08:17):
learn how to make objects out of chocolate with you.
And so he taught me how to temper chocolate and
how to make a mold, and eventually that morphed its
way into hats. Kind of modeling chocolate like tots and
roll chocolate material they sell it in like buckets. Yeah,
and so rolling that out, molding them, shaping them using
like pottery tools to carve out the inside to make

(08:38):
them thinner on some areas so they can crack more easily.
Just experimenting with the different techniques. I mean, our refrigerator
in Savannah was full of these like mock up chocolate
hats while I was trying to like learn how to
make them.

Speaker 1 (08:50):
Oh that's amazing, so cool.

Speaker 2 (08:53):
I think I have it. I'll send it to you.
I have a video. I think I still have it.

Speaker 3 (08:56):
Am wearing one of the hats and testing the chocolate
ra with the FX department and covering myself in like
fake chocolate, wearing a bright yellow puntcho.

Speaker 1 (09:04):
Oh yes, please, I want to say that. We have
to say that. Okay, this isn't a fair question for
me to ask you, being a creative, do you have
a favorite movie?

Speaker 2 (09:15):
I have three that I will watch on repeat all
the time.

Speaker 1 (09:19):
Anti Meme, I haven't seen I haven't seen it.

Speaker 2 (09:23):
This is great.

Speaker 3 (09:23):
I will I will Anti Meme, Breakfast at Tiffany's and
The Devil Worstrader.

Speaker 1 (09:28):
Oh brilliant. That's a good combo from the last year.

Speaker 3 (09:30):
I know.

Speaker 2 (09:31):
I will watch them all the time. They're like my comfort.

Speaker 1 (09:33):
When you know they're doing another Devil. They're shooting it
right now.

Speaker 2 (09:36):
I'm so excited.

Speaker 1 (09:37):
I saw some of the costume photos yesterday.

Speaker 2 (09:39):
I can wait.

Speaker 1 (09:40):
Oh yeah, you're gonna beside yourself.

Speaker 2 (09:41):
I can't wait.

Speaker 1 (09:42):
Another mean, one play. Do you have a play that
you're like, hmm, or even a play right, You're like,
I just love everything they do well playwright.

Speaker 3 (09:52):
I love Shakespeare, really a lot of Americans.

Speaker 2 (09:58):
Sonnets, the plays, all of it. I love it.

Speaker 1 (10:01):
Are you like a Hamlet fan or a fellow? Is
there one that you can go back to, Lady m.

Speaker 2 (10:08):
I that's a great question. I think twelfth Night. Yeah,
it's beautiful.

Speaker 3 (10:14):
Yeah, and just I mean even just the opening yeah, text,
the if music be the Food of Love play. I
like the way it deals with loss and grief and
rebirth and life and personhood is incredible.

Speaker 1 (10:32):
Well, Shakespeare's like the whole Yeah.

Speaker 3 (10:35):
Well he's just I mean, who knows if it was
just one person or many people, or was it you know?

Speaker 2 (10:42):
But there's so many, you know.

Speaker 3 (10:44):
There's a great book called Shakespeare Are Contemporary, which looks
at Shakespeare in relationship to the politics and really of
his time, but also of like, what is so immediate
about it? Still all these centuries later, it's I would
do Yeah, if I could do nothing but Shakespeare for

(11:04):
the rest of my life, I'd be pretty happy.

Speaker 2 (11:06):
Oh my goodness, I love it. It's so fun.

Speaker 3 (11:08):
I'm trying to think of a modern no, that's more
contemporary play rate, but I'm blanking.

Speaker 1 (11:13):
No. Shakespeare's perfect. You can't beat Shakespeare.

Speaker 2 (11:16):
No.

Speaker 1 (11:18):
What advice do you have for a young creative or
someone just starting out.

Speaker 3 (11:26):
Be kind, and that is not only to the people
you work with, but to yourself, and try your best
to like still, the anxiety that comes with the idea
of having to have the next thing and that the

(11:46):
current job is the last, there is always going to
be the anxiety that I will never work again, this
is my last job ever. And that's not the truth.
You will work again, it will, it will continue and
surround yourself with people that support you, but that you
that you can support. So there's so much competition and

(12:10):
it can feel like competition. But find the people that
your wins are just as much celebrated as theirs, but
also that the losses are just as important and like
you don't have to compete with each other.

Speaker 1 (12:25):
Well, that takes me to my final question. When you
get good news, who's the first person you call?

Speaker 2 (12:31):
Ooh, my partner, yeah, and then my mom?

Speaker 1 (12:36):
Yeah? Yeah, how nice. It's so cool when you get
that exciting, like when you're like.

Speaker 2 (12:43):
Yeah, it's it's wild.

Speaker 3 (12:45):
Yeah, but my partner, I mean yeah, I mean I
wouldn't have a career without my partner. He's so supportive,
rocks the best, absolute best.

Speaker 2 (12:55):
And then Mom is just you know, I call her
every day.

Speaker 1 (12:59):
Oh oh yeah, oh you're like that super close. I
love it. Thank you, my friend, your wonderful.

Speaker 2 (13:04):
Thank you, You're wonderful. M
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