Episode #123: Feeney Talks with Stefania Sassano

#BeAGoodFriend and check out episode #123 of #FeeneyTalksWithFriends featuring Stefania Sassano. 

It was great to talk with my #friend, Stefania! 

Stefania is a Production Associate for Directline Media and a Cosplay Content Creator. 

We talked about:

Being a Content Creator (minute 1)

Cosplay (minute 3)

Creator Fund on TikTok (minute 5)

Being a YouTuber (minute 9)

Attending The University of New Haven (minute 10)

Acting (minute 15)

Stefania’s X-Men 97 shirt (minute 17)

Icon Series Airbnb (minute 19

Feeney’s AC Automotive shirt (minute 22)

Feeney’s dancing video (minute 25)

Stefania’s resume (minute 29)

Podcast sponsors (minute 34)

3 Keys (sponsored by West Hartford Lock) to being a Content Creator (minute 35)

“Rogue talks with Carol” TikTok video (minute 39)

Stefania’s favorite restaurant and 4 superhero guests (minute 42)

Content: First, Last, Best, Worst (minute 46)

Favorite Teacher in Rogue voice (minute 49)

Favorite moment with a friend in a British accent (minute 51)

Cosplay questions (minute 52)

Comic Cons (minute 55)

X-Men Trivia (minute 57)

Marvel movie quotes (minute 59)

Feeney dressed as Spiderman (minute 1.05)

Closing remarks (minute 1.06)

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Episode Transcript

(00:00):
All right, all right.
Feeney talks with friends, episode 123.
I got a great guesthere, Stefania Sassano.
How are you doing? I'm doing good.How are you?
You may hear merefer to Stefania during the podcast.
She is the production associatefor Direct Line Media.
But today she's our special guest.
How are you doing, Stefania? Doingpretty good.
How are you?
It snowed where I was.

(00:20):
It's like all snow over there when I left.
And then I came up hereand there was nothing.
So I was like very shocked.
All right.
Because there's only southern.
Like you say, snow to a teacher. I'm like.
No school. Yeah. All right.
My name is Eric Feeney, founderand president of Friends of Feeney.
Our mission is to helpchildren and families
that need assistanceafter heartbreak or tragedy.
And I use this podcast.
Feeney talks with friends,and I talk to wonderful guests

(00:42):
that are doing great things.
And Stefania, you are in.
You're your internet personality.
Yeah, I that's the first timeI was referenced as that.
Actually,I've never heard that prior to this day.
We're dropping an exclusive here.
You're an actress.
You're a cosplayer.
You're a contentcreator. Yeah. How's that?

(01:02):
Well, Istarted with content creating all kind of.
I started with actingbecause I did theater in college.
But then towards graduation or more
so like January of 2021 iswhen I graduated in May.
I started to do content creating,
because I needed to figure out what to doafter college.
And I went through collegelast two years at least with Covid.

(01:25):
So I didn't really have, like,much experience
or an internship to really solidifymy career after college.
So I had, like, this, like, crazy
mental breakdown, and I was like,I gotta, I gotta figure stuff out.
So eventually I was like an ideain my head where I was like,
oh, maybe I could do some content creatingbecause I saw people doing a drink.
Covid and I, ever since I was a kidwho loves dressing up and doing theater.

(01:47):
So I was like, maybe I could dosome cosplay and see where that goes.
And that's how I got here.
Wow. No. It's great.
You have TikTok,you have Instagram, you have Twitter.
How many followers do you.
I know how many followers. I looked it up.
Yeah.
How many followers do you have on TikTok?

(02:08):
I don't know if it's that, like 170.
172.6 thousand.
Yeah.
Thousand on TikTok is at leastthe followers are greater
on there than on Instagram,which I was surprised.
Instagram 137,000. Yeah.
Twitter 9000.
As expected. Right. Yeah.

(02:29):
TikTok pages. Hilarious.
And I mean not hilariousbut well put together.
Interesting.
Engaging.
You know you you cosplay. Yeah.
So to our listeners at homewhat is cosplay.
So cosplaying is basically
it's it started in Japaneseculture cosplaying.

(02:51):
That's why you see a lot of like animecosplays is really where it started.
But it ventured off to like,
comic book cosplays and like, moviecosplays.
Basically, you dress up as charactersfrom any pop culture thing,
whether it's film or comics or anime.
And there are comic conventionsthat you can go to where you can dress

(03:11):
up and meet voiceactors or actors or comic book creators.
Either as the character or you can,
you know, just go in anything you want,
but it's, it's a safe space for peopleto express themselves and dress up and,
not really, because it used to be where
you'd get bullied for stuff like this,like years ago, and now it's become

(03:34):
so popular and just like a regular thingthat anybody does it.
Yeah.
Larp, live action role playing
kids would be in the park like swordfighting and pretending to be like
a knight,
or on a mutant or an ogre and cosplaying.
That's what I thought of when I was a kid,you know, 20, 40, 30.

(03:55):
A long time ago anyway.
But now it's more developedinto creating content
because you have a lot of cool videos.
Rogue is rogue, your your favorite showyou go to.
So Rogue is Marvel, so you'll have a roguetalking to another character.
But you're playing both characters.Yeah, right.
So sometimes I'll have both cosplay,sometimes I won't,
and I'll just like kind of finesse itwhere I'll be like,

(04:18):
I'll just put the name of the character,at least if I don't have the costume.
But most of the time I try to docharacters I have the costumes for,
so that way it's like cool or funny or,you know, interesting.
So I'm interested.
I know a lot of people listening are to
what does a content creatorhow does how do you acquire funds?
How do you get paid?
How well does it pay?

(04:40):
Where's the pay? Come inwith the content creator.
So, with TikTok they have what's called,
Oh, I forgot the name for.
Basically, TikTok pays you, creative fun.
That's what it is.
So they have this creator fundwhere you can sign up for it.
I think you have to meetcertain requirements.
And based on your,

(05:03):
views or like, engagementyou get on your videos, they have to be
at least a minute long for TikTok,for Instagram, it can be any, amount.
But it depends on how well,your videos interacted.
And based off that,they'll give you, like, a rate
and they'll do that per
the rate per view,I believe it is on the video.

(05:24):
So you can make
a lot of people make like
thousands of dollars on TikTokif they have like a great amount
of following and, are consistent withtheir videos and have great engagement.
You can make thousands or likethere are people that make millions
sometimes, but that could be throughoutTikTok and Instagram.

(05:45):
You know, between
both of those with Instagram,they have what's called like bonus reels.
So or like it doesn't do reels anymore.
It does like post as well.But reels do better.
So it could be any length of videothat you post
and that's based off of also engagementI think more so views and engagement.
And then based off that you get paid.
It's not you have to be pretty

(06:08):
I guess consistent with your work.
Because yousometimes can make and it's only monthly,
so you get paid out monthlyso you can make like maybe
a thousand bucks one month and then likejust 500 the next, or like less.
So it depends. It's not a lot of pay.
Like if you havea great amount of following
and you have like brand sponsorships,that's also another way to get paid.

(06:31):
Then you can make thislike a living kind of work life for you.
But brand versus a.
Question I've got a brand deals.
Brand iswhere like you can make good money
because they usually payinstead of like paying their employees
or whatever,which, you know, sucks for like,
social media people that they hirethat cost a lot more.
They look out for content creatorsand influencers and, ask them to do

(06:55):
like ads or reels, and they'll pay themwhatever fee they have.
Sometimes it's cheaper than like, hiring,you know, somebody for the business.
Some like professional, I guess. Well.
How well have you been paidif you want to give us a range.
What video?
I mean, a couple of your videos.
Your X-Men intro.

(07:16):
Do not
listeners out there, if the X-Men 97intro comes on, you never skip it.
Never say never. No.
One of the best intros of all time.
And you have a great video on thatwhich has 2.4 million views.
Yeah.
So I'm guessing that got paid.
Yeah. So a video like that,
I don't rememberhow much I got paid for that, but it was

(07:39):
I know one monthI got paid like over $700.
And I posted it was a few videos
that like got a couple million,
or maybe likeI think it was one of those videos, like,
I like over a millionand then a few that got like thousands.
So you keep hitting like the million spot,then you're going to be getting paid

(07:59):
like, well, every month.
But yeah, that's prettythat's about the amount.
Or maybe
if so, I guess if somebody
because I've seen people get likemillions of views on videos and then
their page is probably like more popular,more engagement
toward it, and they get paid a lot more.
It just depends on the rates,because everyone's rate is different

(08:19):
based on the engagementon TikTok, at least.
I know it's funny that I'm a teacher,so I've been teaching for 21 years.
Last year was the first time in my
whole career is like,what do you want to be when you grow up?
A kid, said YouTuber in third grade.
And I was like, wow,
so it's out there like, yeah,YouTube is a profession in a career now.
Yeah. What you're doing was like,

(08:40):
I would have to say agreebecause YouTube, being a
YouTuber was a huge thing inlike when YouTube came out.
That's when it really all started,because I've been seeing, I,
I have friends that grew upwatching people on YouTube,
and I've grown upwatching people on YouTube
that were very popular in the earlyto like mid 2000
to like 20 tens, but now like you don'tsee them as much anymore.

(09:01):
People, other people have taken over.
But being a YouTuber has been a thingfor years now isn't like just now.
I think that has morphedinto being an influencer.
Yeah, content creator right? YouTuber.
Same thing. Pretty much.
You know, Jake Paul started off a YouTuberand now he's a boxer.
Yeah.
He's KimKardashian's obvious an influencer.
Yeah.

(09:22):
I think her TikTokand Instagram pays are pretty well.
Yeah.
Who's the who's got the best TikTok page?
Who gets paid the most from their TikTokto, you know, like, do you have a content
creator that, you know, like,oh, Zach King, he's like a magician.
You ever see him? Sounds familiar,but I don't think I've seen his videos.
It's I'm on like a different algorithmon TikTok than like others might be.

(09:43):
Everyone's is custom to them basically.
So you're getting all cosplay Marvel.
I get a lot of like comic bookMarvel stuff.
Yeah. Oh,interesting. Or like movie stuff to
nice.
Yeah. You went to University of New Haven.
I went to, I went to SouthernConnecticut State University in New Haven.
Yeah. So shout out to New Haven.
Did you have a favorite pizza spot?

(10:06):
I didn't really go out for pizzawhen I was in college over there.
But we, my family and I would go to likeModern Pizza or Pepe's between those two.
But it wasn't like constant thatI would go with my friends or anything.
And then you got your,
communications and and theater?
Yeah. I majored in communications,

(10:26):
concentrating in film production,then minored in theater.
I wanted to doso I went is undecided in college?
Actually, in high school,I told my guidance counselor
I was scouting these schoolsfor, like, music programs.
And I told my guidance counselor, like,because I went to U and H,
at least to scout itbecause of their music program.
And it was very good.
And they went to, like, Tennesseeand stuff for their internship. And,

(10:49):
I told my guidance
counselor in school,I was like, I want to study music.
And then when I sent that,she kind of gave me this, like, look like,
I don't know if that's somethingyou should do.
And I'm like, well, I mean, I took classesfor it, but and I was naive.
I was listening to my guidance counselor.Right.
They were no best for me.

(11:10):
And she said,why don't you go as undecided?
I was like, okay.
So I went as undecided andthen I was like, I don't know what to do.
Maybe I was interested in architecture.
And so I was like,let me take an architectural design class.
And then I really wanted to do theaterbecause I did theater
my last year of high school,even though I've always wanted to do it.
I was always very a shy kid, though.

(11:30):
So I didn't do it till my senior year.
And then I took the class,
the architectural class,and I was doing theater at the same time.
And then I found outI really wanted to minor in theater.
And then when I found outwhat the credit requirements were for,
architectural design,it was too much where I couldn't
do a minor for, like, freeor like part of the, tuition.

(11:53):
I don't have to pay extra for it,and I don't want to pay extra.
Yeah. So, and that meant a lot more time.
You have yet to devote a lot more timeto architecture
than, like, anything else, basically,because I think it was a five year,
major instead of a four year.
So I was like,I talked to my best friend one day.
I was like, I don't know what to do.
Like, I don't know if I should stickwith theater or stick with this.

(12:14):
And, we were talking aboutbecause I loved film.
I grew up, you know, watching filmswith my family and my brother really
got me into all of that, into comic booksas well, into Marvel and DC.
So she was like, why don't you, like,study film?
And then minor in theater? Because thosereally go really well together.
And I was like, that's a good idea.
So I decided to do that.

(12:35):
And it was funny because I had alreadytold the architectural design,
teacher or head of the departmentthat I was going to major in architecture.
And one day, like, came inand he had my paper ready and signed.
I was like, actually,I'm not going to do this anymore.
And you can like, just see in his facethat he was like kind of disappointed.

(12:56):
I was like, yeah, becauseI was really good at at that class.
Like, I my sketches were not bad.
They were really good.They even on like the wall outside.
So I waslike, yeah, I'm not doing this anymore.
And then I decided to film in theater,and I was happy that I did that
because I really focused,at least towards the second
half of my college career on theater,a lot more than film,

(13:19):
just because it was a lot more enjoyablefor me.
And also, I didn't knowas many people I'd studied film.
I didn't knowas many people in the department
or close with themas I were with people in theater,
and I found myselfalways hanging out in the theater,
even when I wasn't there for rehearsal.
Like, even if I was in the lobby,
just like working on homework or whatever,I would always be there.

(13:40):
So I felt comfortable if used to be.
Yeah, I know Doctor Short.
In high school,
I took two drafting classesand I'm like, architecture is very cool.
You know, you're the triangleand the T square and being precise.
I really liked. It.
Yeah, I still have the supplies too.
I have like maybe a few of them.
I have my sketchbooks still,and they're pretty cool.

(14:02):
I mean,I sometimes I look through them like this
could have been a careerthat I could done.
But it's funny because the, head of
the film department was like,oh, you did architecture.
I was like, yeah, I did a class.
And he was like,
that's funny, because a lot of people,or most of the time sometimes,
in the film industry,there are people that will go into it
and then decide they want to like, workin architecture from that.

(14:24):
And I was like,oh, that's kind of interesting,
I guess, with like set building and stuff,which is what I did in theater, too.
I helped, whenever I couldif I wasn't performing or rehearsing,
I was always like in the shop helpingwith building the sets for the shows.
Nice.
So, yeah, you did a couples film.
And theater and university in New Haven.
Unh unh. Chargers.

(14:45):
Aren't you the Chargers? Yeah.
It's funny,because there's also, New Hampshire.
That's confusing.
Yeah, but they have the right to say youand we don't. You.
And we would always joke like, oh, no,that's the good you in.
We were New Haven.
Whenever people like asked.
Winter's Tale, The Wolves, Mr.
Byrne, cabaret,almost Maine, the chorus line.

(15:08):
Yeah, chorus line was my freshman year.
So that was like going into theatermy freshman year.
I was like,still very nervous and scared, and
I my audition, like, I didn't thinkI was going to make the cut,
but I did, but I made it as,like one of the cut dancers.
So it's,

(15:28):
you know, chorus line is like, dancersauditioning to be on a Chorus Line.
So there's like,cut dancers at the beginning
that are only there for that,and then they leave.
But my friends and I,who were the cut dancers,
we stood behind the these panels on stagethat turned throughout the show.
So like we had stuff to do during it.
But that was basically my endto the theater department,

(15:50):
because after getting this, like very,very small part,
I became more comfortable with peoplearound me, which helped me get,
one of the supporting roles in cabaret,which is like
my favorite show, one of my favorite showswe did there, mice.
I did something rotten
just two years ago.
I, I had came out as an old ladyand I went

(16:10):
top ins, top ins for sale,and it was a fundraiser.
It was collaboration with Summer Academyin West Hartford.
My former student Penny was in it.
Her mom, Sarah, ran the showand they put me in a little cameo.
It was really cool. So I like acting.
Yeah, it's it's fun.
It's it's, a way to kind ofget out of your comfort zone.

(16:33):
Yeah.
Even if it's like something small,
it's very easyto just kind of lose yourself in it.
Cool shirt X-Men.
We're going to get into the X-Men.
Where'd you get the shirt?
Tell us about it. X-Men 97 on the side.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah. Show that.
Why is that 97 on there?
Never skip the. Intro.
Never. Oh,it's also like these coordinates on here.

(16:55):
I haven't looked them up yet,
but I think it's coordinatesto the X mansion in Westchester, New York.
I don't know if it's like the AirbnbX mansion that I went to
or if it's likejust a random house that painted,
but Ihave to look it up, I keep forgetting.
So did they send that because you'rea content creator and you're on attic?
They sent that to you, right? Yeah.

(17:16):
Did you have to talk about the shirtand, like, do a little promo? No.
Just photos.
This was Team Liquid,
I believe.
Yeah.
Team liquid,I actually my jacket too, is from,
them as well.
And also has the coordinates too.
But it's very comfortable and
I remember when I was like,you have to pick them out.

(17:37):
I picked my own.
I was like, picking them out.And I was like, this one's really cool.
And then we're like,oh, it's out of stock.
You have to wait a while for.
I'm like, all right, I'll wait for it.
Because it was worth it.
Because it's like casual wear.
You can wear it out,
but it's also nerdy where it's like you,you know, people won't think twice.
Actually, with us, the airport once.
And so was like, the security guywas like, I really like your shirt.

(17:59):
I'm like, thank you.
You get it?
And tell us about the Airbnb.
Did you have to sign an NDA? I did. Yeah.
You told. Me that a couple podcastsago. Yeah.
So the this was in, I think, March.
I was reached out by someone for Airbnband I was like,
what could Airbnb want with me?

(18:19):
I don't do anything with that. And then,
after it was like
before I had the meeting, I was thinkingwhat they could possibly want.
And I rememberthey did like these icon series houses
where they like, built Barbie'sdream House or a Shrek swamp.
And I was like, oh my God,they're going to do the X mansion.
I know it.
And, I had the meeting and she was like,so we're doing the X mansion.

(18:41):
And I'm like, yes.
And she showed me everything about it.
Well, like a little bit not to like,spoil, but April, I think it was we me.
And like a group of people,they had different groups, different days.
We got invited to go to the mansion and,it was like, beautiful.
It's in Westchester, New York.
So where the mansion is supposed to be,the property was huge.

(19:04):
And in front the driveway,there's like two driveways to get in.
And you
drive, driving up this hill,and then you turn the corner
and you can see a sentinel headin front of the mansion.
So, you know, like thethe robots that are.
Yeah. Yeah.
So that was likethe first thing that caught my eye.

(19:24):
And then there was like the signthat said Xavier School.
And then the mansion itself looked like
it was actually from the series,which is really, really.
The series I know.
How about when Deadpool goes to visit?
Is that very similarwhen he goes to get colossal?
That one's different.
That's like I would say like themodernized version of, like the X mansion.

(19:46):
That's like the MCU Fox Universe mansion,which is like
the it's like a castle, but it looks likealmost like a mansion castle.
This one is like a house.
And why do you think they hadyou sign the NDA?
So we didn't tell anybody about itbecause it a secret.
It's like a big secret because as soonas it came out, it it got really hard.
You breaking the NDA right now? No.

(20:07):
Okay.
Now because the house is already out.
Oh, this is this is way before.
This is last year.
Yeah. So, Okay.
Did they ask for feedbackor a little survey or so?
We had to do content.
So I knew other peoplethat were in the group as well.
They're also other creators,and it's a place where you could.
So it's an immersive experience.

(20:28):
I don't think it's open anymore.They closed, I think, in October.
Brazilians certain amount of timethat was available.
But basically you can stay in the mansion,but only one night.
But it's an immersive experience.
As soon as you like,get out your car and walk up to the door.
There's people out there waiting foryou and like, they're all in character.
It's not the X-Men. It's themselves.

(20:49):
It's like, the people that work
for the X-Men, they're like,all wearing uniforms and stuff.
And they have, like, classes,and you walk in
and it's paintedlike it's 2D animation, like the show.
Okay? It's so. So did.
You go in cosplay or did you go. To.
No, I went, I was myself,but I did have like, rogue inspired look.
And my hair at the time was dyedlike hers.

(21:11):
So I just wore, like, my brownjacket and, like,
how Rogue's colors would be very cool.
I also had the Danger Room, too,where you could actually use some machines
and like little tiny ballswould, like shoot out.
And, we did like an exerciseto is all an immersive experience.
And they had an arcade, an arcade,it had jubilee's room,

(21:34):
and she had her room is the coolest.
She had, a game, like Marvel X-Men game.
Where you, able to take. Pictures. Yeah.
Yeah, I could throw some pictures upsome. Pictures on the pod.
Check them out.
You're gonna be popping on the screenright now.
Well, awesome. Sure.
I just want to mind talkingabout my shirt.
AC automotive gave me this.
My good friend Aldo. Great friend Aldo.

(21:59):
What I was going to say.
He has donated four years in a row.
So it's a AC automotive.
It's on New Britain Avenue.
They fix cars and they collect a scrapmetal throughout the year,
and they add it up, and then theybring it back every year and,
recycle it or whatever.
They get paid for it,and they donate it to friends of Fini.
So thank you, Aldoand all of our friends at AC automotive.

(22:23):
You're an amazing group.
Great business cares about the community.
They had a Christmas partyover at the Berlin Truck Bar.
Awesome spot.
They had like ten corn holes.
Bar like you said, arcade. So.
And he gave me this shirt. L.L.bean shirt. Pretty nice, right?
I don't yeah, I like L.L.Bean.
I, I kind of splurged one yearto get the moccasins because they're, my

(22:49):
I think my brother said that if they liked fluff, they'll re fluff them for you.
Yeah. And I was like, oh, that's worth.
They had a lifetimeguarantee return policy L.L.
bean. Really. So people would bring
use the school bags a backpack
maybe like butbut the arm strap would rip a little bit.
They bring it back and returnand get a new one.

(23:10):
I think they. Stopped that actually.
When I went to get my moccasins,they said the same thing that like
if they, I guess,if the lining ripped apart, whatever,
they would replace them or something,something like that.
Well thanks again Aldo, because this is myfirst ever L.L.Bean shirt.
So although, again, New Britain Avenue,Thank you.
Four years in a row.

(23:33):
It was awesome. So thank you.
Maybe I'll share that with themto check them out.
Aldo AC Automotive Aldo Carducci,his dad, started
and then Aldo ranthe West Hartford one has his brother Guy
ran the number and oneunfortunately Guy passed away last year.
So thinking a

(23:53):
guy, we had a moment of silence for himat the Christmas party.
I did a dance and
we has celebrity
Dancing With the Stars,which was sponsored by Lyons Auto,
which is down the streetfrom AC automotive.
But weand they honored Guy as in memory of God.
And I want oh yeah. You said that.

(24:15):
I want the dance. So what did you win
a trophy? Oh, okay.
Bragging rights because I beat Victorfrom NBT Bank and I beat the mayor.
And I beat Dennis houseand Ronnie New in from Wycombe in John.
But it was a good time.
We raised money. It's the.
It was at the JCC through Tom Hickey and

(24:38):
2020 media.
But friends of Feeney won.
Best of it was the best of awards.
So we won best nonprofitthree years in a row.
And this year we collaborated with ArthurMurray's Dance and we did a dance.
So I dance with Julie, Julie Riverashout out to my dance partner Zula.
She works at Juniper Home Care.

(24:59):
That's also on New Bern Avenue, upthe street from AC automotive.
So it goes juniper ACautomotive, Lyons auto, my three people,
and we we practiced.
I couldn't even clap on beat.
It was like.
And then we did like one two step.
That was day onejust to do one little tango.

(25:22):
And then we did a whole minuteand a half routine.
I put that up there.
And you have some in the video. Yeah.
Oh, check out my dance skills.
Leave a comment in the YouTube pageor on the Spotify, Instagram.
I did dance as a kid. Yeah, yeah.
Never like ballroom or anything.
It was more like I started balletwhen I was probably four years old.

(25:44):
And then I did tap and then jazz,and then when I got older,
I started to do hip hop,like in middle school.
And then I stoppedbecause I, I didn't like how,
like they were not teaching,but I just didn't like the choreography.
And my friendsand I started our own, like, dance
group is three of us in middle school.
And we did the talent show.
I can't find the video.
We don't know where the video is for it.

(26:06):
We did town show twice.
But the second year, I think it wasour eighth grade was like a best one.
And then we
actually, in high schoolstarted a dance team.
I doubt it still exists today,but I think it was our senior year.
We started it and we got to do pep ralliesand stuff, and people loved it so much.

(26:26):
But I don't think it exists.
I know that you are a Chicago danceaudition workshop.
Jazz and funk. Yeah.
Anything.
Broadway dance, swing dance.
Chorus line dance. Yeah.
So that was at,
Cassie,which is the Kennedy Center American
College Theater Festival,and it was my sophomore year.
That was my first time going,and I got nominated for cabaret

(26:51):
for the IreneRyan Acting Award, and, for that award.
Yes, compete for it.
And that's what they do, this festival.
And, there's a musical theater one,there's the acting one,
and then there's also like workshopsyou could do.
And that's where I did all those danceworkshops. And I auditioned for,
this Broadwayboot camp that was in Florida.

(27:11):
And I got in, and I couldn't,
I didn't want to, like, pay for itbecause it was, like,
five grand, I think for the summer.
And I was already paying,going to pay five grand for,
my internship for the CannesFilm Festival in the spring.
And I was like,yeah, I have to decline this.

(27:31):
Yeah. Which suckedbecause I really wanted to go.
My friend went and she saidshe had a great time, and then I ended up
not going to Cannes because, the
I guess secretary messed up her paperworkfor, like, travel or something.
I don't know,we just get the paperwork for it.
It's terrible.
Yeah, yeah,I tried to go to Cannes three times.

(27:52):
The second time I was all set to go.
Paid,
and I got my passport to.
Had to redo it.
And then Covid happened.
Yeah. So.
And that was, I came back,that was my second year at CCaC.
I was nominated again for an awardand competed for it.
And then when we came back from that,because it was like the end of February

(28:14):
or something, we came back from that.
We had a week of schooland then everything was shut down,
and then they canceled all traveland stuff.
So I was like,I guess I'm not going to France.
And then the next yearor two, my senior year,
they said we could try and getlike a small group to go.
And I was like, oh, that's cool.
So I can graduate on the red carpetbecause that's what I was going to be
seniors graduating, and we were goingduring the time graduation.

(28:35):
And then they said, actually,no, we're not doing that
because it's like, okay,I guess I'm not going to France at all.
I was so I'm kind of still am saltyabout that to this day.
Sounds like it. Yeah.
Well three it's like three strikes.You're out. Basically. Yeah.
Like once I get it twice. Okay.
But three. That hurts. Yeah.
I was going to.
Well, our internship was supposedto be with Paramount, so.

(28:57):
But because we
had a deal with Paramount,I guess for the students. So.
Yeah. Very cool.
No, it says no accents.
You can do a German accent.Southern accent.
New York accent. What's up? British.
That's like the professional way ofI forgot what it means.
So I probably learned that. I didn't know.

(29:19):
And can you, can you really do
softball, volleyball, soccer,billiards, ice skating?
Cartwheel, handstand.
Backstep.
Basic stage combat?
Yeah. Come on.
Like you really trying to be a marvel.
You want to be.
I mean, I did take boxing classes,so what about
I was after the fact of my stage combat,but crying actually.

(29:41):
Yeah.
X-Men 97, episode five reaction on TikTok.
Did you cry in command?
You're crying.
Is that fake? Well, wait,which one was that?
Was that the one in cosplay? I was like.
Yeah, you're in cosplay.You're at the tissue.
You kind of like X-Men 90.
This is I'm not crying.
But oh, was my reaction for oh reaction.

(30:02):
Oh that was those are real really.
Episode five was like devastating.
If you know you know. Spoiler. Tell us.
Well I mean it'sbeen it's been two years now.
I mean I was 19.97. Right. Almost a year. Yeah.
Notice from the new show.
Oh. The remake.
Yeah.
Yeah. It's been like just under a year.
All right, tell.
Us what's since the show. So, five.

(30:24):
And then can you,if you can cry in command,
tell us about itand give us a little couple of tears?
I've.
If you can.
I have to be, like, in a serious situationfor me to cry on command.
Command? Yeah.
I mean, if but if it's like two of like,a goofy moment.
I don't think I could do that with the.
Okay, but tell us.

(30:44):
But episode five, who does?
Gambit dies.
Yeah. Oh, yeah. Spoiler.
If you haven't seen it by now, I mean.
Because Gambit dies,
like in the comic book and in 90.
So in 97.
So two in Will he dies in the comics?

(31:05):
Yeah.
Okay.
Oh, you know what?
I don't I don't think he actually diedin the comics.
I can't recall, but,
I know why he died in the show, and, why?
Like how he's going to come back,
and it's based off of the early 2000,I think was early 2000.
Run of X-Men,where he dies and, and not dies.

(31:29):
He, becomes Apocalypse's
Horseman of Death and, Yeah. So.
But I reckon I'll wreck, I guarantee.
Give me your best.
Give me your best.
My impression of Gambit.
Oh, no, that's that's, You can't.
Gambit. Gambit, Cajun.

(31:50):
Cajun is very, very wrong.
T no, this thing. No, no.
Cajun. Not southern.
I know Cajun. Is that the word southern?
But I know for a fact.
Gambit line is, I guarantee.
No. Come on now, let's Google that.
We gotta look that guarantee.I've never heard of that.
Maybe that's the old school original one.
I looked this up.
I've never heardthat. You've never. Heard.

(32:11):
Damn it, say that. No.
Oh my goodness.
He even did it.
And I think he did it in Deadpool.
So I'm just going to call it.
Yeah. If you want to.
You saw Deadpool right? The new one.
That was awesome. When he came out.
His Cajun accent is like pretty closeauthentic Cajun accent.

(32:33):
Like,that's what it sounds like sometimes.
Hard to understand, most timeshard to understand.
Yeah.
Who was that? That was.
Channing Tatum. Yes.
Wesley Snipes blade intro was really slowmo with the goatee, which was cool.
How they came in was very cool.
As soon as I saw the cardthrown into frame, I was like, I, I,
my brother was sitting to the right of meand I just started, like, punching him.

(32:55):
So excited.He's it's coming, it's coming. Yeah.
I didn't know it's going to happen either.
It's crazy.
They kept it a secret.
I don't know, it's going to look it up,
but I put in Gambit guarantee. But
oh maybe.
Maybe Gambit says guarantee.

(33:16):
But I can't believe Gambit die.
Spoiler. That's,I guess your episode five.
But he's coming back. Don't worry.
Just as a horseman of death.
So I won't be a good guy. But,
That's a spoiler for the second season.
But if you know, you know the comics.
Man, I'm here with Stefania Fasanoand internet

(33:37):
personalityand product production associate.
I can't read today
product. So we're going to do three keys.
Okay.
This is the Feeney Talks with Friendspodcast.
We have sponsorsI want to shout out Direct Line Media.
I want to thank Dave Daves
I think is he in Branford somewhere?
Yeah. 311 Sycamore away.

(33:59):
No. 11 1111.
11 Sycamore Way, Branford, Connecticut.
Direct Line Media check them out.
And Stefania we're here with Stefania.
Usually she's behind the camera today.
She's in front of itI want to thank Direct Line Media.
And this would not be possiblewithout them.
We're on episode123 123I want to thank our host.

(34:20):
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What are three keys that make you great?

(34:44):
I'll let you choose.
You want to talk about being a productionassociate or internet personality?
I would use,
content creator instead of internetpersonality.
All right.
Content creator, what are three keysthat make you a great content creator?
So one of them,which I've kind of been lacking in lately,
but should be a great key,is, consistency.

(35:07):
So if you're consistent with your work,then,
your videos, even if they do likenot as well as you think.
The consistency is what matters the most.
You just be posting like two times a day,
or like it has to be a lot,which is crazy for you
to get great engagement, but eventually,if you're consistent with it,

(35:28):
it'll all pay off in the endis what that's how I view it as.
A second one.
Having a creative mind helps a lot.
So if you come from a creative field
or if you have something you're passionateabout, having a passion is very big.
Then it'll help you kind of steeryour way through

(35:49):
content creatingand looking at other people as like,
influences forwhat kind of you want to do,
because that's how I basically started.
I saw something that I was interested inor really good at
or passionate about,and I decided to make content about it.
And then over the years,because I started this
like four years agonow, three, three years ago now. 425.

(36:12):
Yeah. Almost four.
And my stuff has changed over the years.
So I started with cosplayingand then I got into like the comic stuff,
and then I started doing a little bitof film stuff, and now I'm doing like
kind of a mix of all of it,but also mostly I kind of ventured
more towards like stuffthat's coming out from like Marvel
and whatnot, just because a lot of thingsare coming out this year for Marvel.

(36:36):
Like Fantastic Four is a big one.
And then a third one,
a third key.
I guess
a third key would be like networkingor like,
networking is huge,but especially with content creating,
having mutuals onlineand like commenting on those stuff

(36:58):
and being friendly with them.
Of course, like
because you want that friendship,but also it's great to know people,
because one day they could think ofyou and be like,
hey, maybe you'd be interestedin being part of this
or coming with me to this eventlike I have a lot of people
that are like thatI have become good friends with,

(37:20):
and I've gotten invited to an event, andI was like, this person would love this.
Let me seeif they'd be interested in going.
So there's like the benefit in that,but also because, like,
you really want to make friendsand mutuals
and then when you go to Comic-Con,you finally meet them in person.
And it's like a great, fun time. So cool.
Yeah, you just inspired me.
I don't do enough
commenting on other people's postsfrom the friends of any account.

(37:44):
Other nonprofits are other organizationsthat are doing great things,
but that'll lead and buildfriendship and build that network.
Yeah, like I've gotten askedto be part of a lot of things.
I'm going to take care of that.
Yeah. You're building your network.
You're buildingthat discourse back and forth.
They'll leave a comment on you.
You'll leave a comment on them.
Consistency, creative mind and networking.

(38:05):
I love the three keys.That was really good.
And I'm going to start doing that.
Yeah,you just opened my eyes to something new.
Well you're welcomebecause I like the twice a day.
We were at the pointwe did twice a day. Yeah.
But we try to do a little somethingin the morning or something after.
Before school or after school. Yeah.
That's how I started.
I was posting like,

(38:26):
well, it was like Tuesdays and Thursdays.
I started doinglike three times those days.
And then I started to do, like a couplea day,
maybe leaving, like, the weekends open.
But I was always constantly posting,and I was always up till like 3 a.m.
just making content.
And I would be so exhausted, like,that's how much hard work I put into it.
And then over the years,it kind of like slowed down for me.

(38:48):
I kind of started realizing, like, okay,I was crazy, but I got to myself.
I got myself to this point.
Now maybe I can start,like slowing down a bit.
But now I need to, like, pick back upwhere I left off.
No, your videos look likethey take some time. Yeah.
Number one, you got to get in costume.
Yeah. Two, you got the back and forth.
There's

(39:09):
so much involved. How much?
How much time would one video take,say the,
rogue talks with Carol back and forth.
How long did that take to createand get out?
So getting, like,
all ready for one takeprobably took about, like

(39:30):
half hour to 45 minutes
and then the next takewould be like about the same.
Oh yeah.
Because you have to knowwhat you're going to say back and forth.
Right?
Because you had to do this whole parton this side. Yeah.
Dressed. Yeah.
So this part, I think I.
Like the dress and go, okay.
I don't go like back and forthand no particular side.

(39:51):
You cut.
All the parts is rogue.
Over here. Yeah. And Carol. Yeah.
Who is Carol, by the way? I'm sorry.
So Carol Danvers is Captain Marvel.
Gotcha. Gotcha. She.
If you want to know a little about
how the relationship isand why I do both their characters,
sometimes it's because, In Rogue'sfirst appearance, Avengers Annual ten,
rogue absorbs.

(40:11):
At the time, she was Miss Marvel.
Carol Danvers.
She the her powers absorption.
So she can only skin to skin contact.
And, if she holds you long enough,she can either put you in a coma
or kill you, and steal your powerspermanently.
Which is what she did with Carol Danvers.
She put her in a coma and stole her flightand strength and invulnerability.

(40:33):
Permanently.
So they did. That's why.
Rogue. Yes.
And so she was her first appearance.
She was a villain because she was partof the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants.
Her parents were a mystique and destiny.
Mystique?
Yeah.
So she was raised by those to,when she was a kid

(40:53):
because she ran away from home.
I don't know how she was,but she was very young, and,
they raised her to
to be a villain and go after Carol and.
Yeah.
And then they meet againlater in the comics,
and they fight itout, and rogue gets punched.
And this is when she becomes,like, a hero.
Because then she leavesthe Brotherhood and,

(41:15):
after realizing that she needs helpwith her powers and controlling them.
And like she.
Because when she absorbs somebody,
especially like Carol permanently,her psyche is also
in her hand, like Carol's in her head.
So there will be timeswhere Carol will try and, like,
push forwardand try to go over Rogue's body.

(41:35):
So this happens with, like,anybody she could absorb,
she also takes on physical traits.
Sometimes it's like if she absorbsmystique, she will turn blue as well.
Oh, yeah.
Mystique is the one who goes throughwalls.
No, she can shapeshift.
Oh. Kitty Pryde.
Played by
John Stamos, his old wife.

(41:58):
I forgot her name. In the movie.
And the original. Yeah. X-Men movie.
Rebecca romaine. Stamos. Yeah.
Okay. Gotcha.
All right. We do.
Favorite restaurant?
What's your favorite restaurant?
I don't really go out.
But I would say I love getting pizza, so.

(42:18):
All right, it's very hard to choosepeppers and modern between those two.
I've had modern more oftenthan peppers, though.
So you have modern and you could eat with.
For superheroes, we usually do dinnerguests, but today's topic all superheroes.
I've got four superheroeswho you win. Why?
I mean, I have to put rogue.
Is one of them. New that. She's obvious.

(42:41):
Here's what we're going to flasha picture of you in rogue.
Boom.
Yeah. Me as rogue or you as rogue. Okay.
Who? Hasbro.
How's playing? Hello? Yeah.
Word of the day.
Oh, Spider-Man.
Spider-Man? Yeah.
Absolutely. Spider-Man.
Because Spider-Man pizza,
they go all together.
With great power comes.
Great responsibility, which is notthe original quote from the comics.

(43:04):
That's not how it goes in the comics.
Oh, yeah. You did that.
Well, it was like shorter.
It was like shorter.
Kind of how they did it in the movieswith great power must also come.
Great responsibility. Like,I think that's how it said whatever.
Oh, yeah. Yeah.
Which is like, I don't know,that was like a little nerd comment.
So rogue Spider-Man,

(43:28):
Have you ever cosplayed as Spider-Man?
Spider. Gwen. Okay,
flash picture of you cosplaying?
Yeah. Spider woman or spider girl? No.
I I've wanted to do Spider Woman, but,she's not like, a priority on the list
at the moment.
I don't want to leave it to justMarvel characters.

(43:51):
I mean,
one of my my first favorite Marvelcharacter, actually, was Loki.
Boys of Loki.
So rogue spider man, Loki, and.
Flash. Picture of you and Loki.
Yeah.
And, maybe I'll throw in a DC character.

(44:11):
This is very difficult.
I like it.
See, I mean, I could do Supergirlbecause I cosplayed Supergirl.
Supergirl got very popularfor me, last year, but,
As in you cosplaying as her.
Not popular,but as, like, as the flash version.
The flash movie version.She's in the flash.
Yeah, you'll be right. Yeah.

(44:32):
Sasha. Yeah. That's the actress. Yeah.
Which I loved her as Supergirl on.
I wish we got more of her,but not like that.
DC's over.
So. Okay.
So rogue. Spider-Man.
Loki and.

(44:54):
This is very, very difficult.
Well, here's some peopleI saw you dressed as Supergirl.
Rogue, black cat.
Harley Quinn,
Disney characters, Disney princesses.
Mega. Yeah.
Star Warscharacters and Marvel characters.
Yeah.
So just give me some hints.
This fourth one stumped.She stumped everybody.

(45:15):
Yeah, I there's so many great people.
I would choose.
I would choose Harley Quinn.
Okay. She. You know why?
Because
I feel like some crazy things might be.
Interesting for conversation.
Yeah. Interesting conversation.
Also like, she's a very,

(45:38):
like, you wouldn't
picture her with this group of people,
so I would throw Harley Quinn in thereas, like, kind of a wild card.
Nice.
So we got rogue, Spider-Man.
Loki, Harley. Quinn. Yes.
Very nice, I like it.
All right.
Your TikTok videos or your contentthat you've created your content.

(46:00):
You created new game,your first content piece.
And we got it.
All right.
We got cutting down on time.
So we got first and next.
I would do like a minuteon each your first content piece,
your last content piece,your best content piece
and your worst content piece.
I don't remember the very first onethat I did, but I do remember one

(46:22):
where I basically was dressed as rogue,and it was like this trend where,
I said I it was a comment about like,
the rogue in the Fox movies and basicallylike how bad of a version she was.
I was like, when, when the producers,whatever, make your character look,
like awful compared to,like, where you actually are or whatever.

(46:46):
And that one was my first.
That was the first videothat really blew up my page.
And I got like a lot of followersfrom that,
first class.
Yep. The last video that I did,
what was the last video that I did?
I feel like look that up.
Well, the last video that I personally did
myself was a recap of my 2024,which is like every event

(47:09):
and stuff that I went toand my Comic-Con experiences and all that.
And then my best video,I think was the X-Men
97 intro with the 2.7 million views.
Oh no, it wasn't.
It was a videothat got like a lot more views.
Actually,it got like 8 million. Whoa. Nice.

(47:29):
Actually, I kind of went through thisand there is one of my best videos,
even though it wasn'tpersonally done by me,
it was by Marvel Socialand your Comic-Con in 2023.
It was me just as rogue.
And somebody dresses Gambit who'sreally rude to his six foot eight huge.
And we did a video with Marvel Social
and that video got,I think, 11 million views, on their page.

(47:54):
So I'm going to count that one as my best.
Yeah, because I wasn't it wasn't my videopersonally, but I was in it.
And then my worst video.
I would say my worst videos were ones
where I probably, like, just
talked about
my collections of things in my,

(48:18):
comics.
Sometimes those videos and do as well.
So there were times where the videoswhere I like gave tours of my office,
and those weren't really that interesting.
Those were bad onescompared to other ones.
The video was really like,talk to me in character.
Oh, sure, I had a character.
Oh, shake my hand. And yeah,that was the first time I did that.
I did that at Rhode Island Comic-Con.
Because I was like,this is such a genius thing

(48:39):
to do for a rogue, especiallywith no glove on. That was a whole point.
That you
heard it here first, last, best, worst
TikTok videos.
Oh, she's been in a video that's 11million, and your own one has 2 million.
Yeah.
All right, this next question,can you answer in character.
Though? What character?

(49:00):
What your let's do rogue.
Okay I'm going to but I'm going to askStefania who her favorite teacher is.
So but talk as your rogue.
My favorite teacher
I have to answer as rogue.
Yeah. Oh shoot.
Come on, you. Can do this. Well,your third grade teacher.
Yeah.
Okay.

(49:22):
You're really putting me on the spot.
You like it? Come on. It's good.
Well, I would say my favorite teacher
was probably my third grade teacher, Mr.
Messina.
I can't really do the accent right nowbecause I'm, like, in the state of mind,
or it's like I'm trying to do it.
I would
say my favorite teacherwhen I was a kid was Mr.

(49:46):
Massena, because he was real cool.
And he,
I had him for a second grade,but also for third grade,
because we loved him so much thatwe all want him in third grade as well.
And after he came to our pool partyat the end of the year,
and he hung out with us and he was alwaysreal nice and I'll never forget him.

(50:07):
That was the worst accent.
And I mean, I was the worst.
I could do better,I promise. I was really good.
And then you were put on the spot. Yeah.All right.
How about another character?
What are the character has an accent.
I mean, I don't know,
I've never done a British character.

(50:29):
Oh, how about let's pick a language?
A language?
German rap, southern or New York?
You got a choice.
This is like Jimmy Fallon. Spin the wheel.
Ding ding ding. Ding ding dingding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding.
All right British accent.
So British accentcomes from being a fan of One Direction.
Really? Yeah.
Yeah, that's all right.
With a British accent. Accent.

(50:51):
Tell us about your favorite momentwith a friend
because this is friends.
Afeni, in our mottos, be a good friend.
Be a good friend.
My favorite moment with a friend
has to be.
Has to be.
Probablywhen we went to see One Direction.

(51:11):
And so I'm gonna say bring one directioninto this, while doing a British accent.
So, this was in 2014.
This is the first timewe have so One Direction together.
And it was the stadium tour where we are,and, the band
Five sauce,five seconds of summer opened up for them.
And it's kind of like a bragging thing,because there are a lot of people nowadays

(51:34):
that are like, oh, I wish I was a teenagerwhen I went to see One Direction
and saw five slots open for them in those,and I was like, I am really aging me.
So yeah,
I would say, I would say that wasthat was the best.
All right. Cool.
One directionwith friends in a British accent.
I love it.
All right, so we got the boom boom boom.
Are you ready for some trivia?

(51:55):
Oh, God. Yes.
Oh, actually, first,some cosplay questions, sir.
Fire away
cosplay questions.
How long have you been cosplaying?
Five years. Four years?
What kind of cosplayerdo you consider yourself?
Probably Marvel mostly.
Why do you cosplay?
Because I love dressing up.

(52:17):
What would you tellsomeone who hated cosplay?
That it's funand you should give it a try.
Are your cosplay costumeshomemade or bought?
Half and half.
I make props mostlywith, like, foam and, a 3D printer.
Nice.
Oh, let's list some of yourcosplay costumes because you have a bunch.
Yeah.
So I have rogue.

(52:38):
I've done Dazzler,I've done, Harlequin black, spider.
Gwen Mega from Hercules.
I've done a Wintersoldier cosplay as well.
Like, I actually built the arm for it too.
It's, The metal arm.
Yeah, I built it with Bucky. Yeah. Bucky.
And thenI also built Loki's horns as well.
That was my first ever prop making thing.

(53:01):
They look not as great, though.
Ray from Star Wars.
I though her staff,
those are the ones that are, like,top of my head that have come out
that I've done very cool.
How about rogue?
Was that purchased?
That was purchased? Yeah.

(53:21):
How much do you mind me asking?
It was just over 100.
I would say, but I it was, piecesthat I took from like, different.
So I bought, a nicer suit,
but it was custom fit,and it actually didn't custom fit me.
Like, if something was wrong with it.
But I kept the jacket from that, and Ijust used it with the old suit that I had.
How about Supergirl?

(53:41):
How much was that one?
Supergirl I forgot to list Supergirl.
Supergirl. That was like.
Well,those are two fit. Maybe, like 70 bucks.
Oh, those are your two favorites.
I would saySupergirl has become one of my favorites
recently because of how popularshe's become with me at least.
Because every there was a post that I did
where people thoughtI was actually the actress,

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in The Flash moviebecause it was like a mirror picture.
I know if you saw that one,it was a mirror picture,
and I was on locationfor like a photo shoot,
and it got like 90,000 likes on it,
and people were like, oh my God,I thought, this is actually Sasha.
She's like, I thought, this is a picturefrom because I posted on a year
anniversary of the movie coming out,that's why. Oh, smart.

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Well played timing. Good timing. Yeah.
What's your most expensive costume?
With the amount of,
like, effort I put into my rogue cosplay,I would probably say rogue
is the most expensivebecause I've even bought boots for her.
Two the custom suit wasn't cheapand that ended up not fitting.

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Which sucked.
And then the boots that I boughtwere like $60 themselves,
and then I stopped using thembecause they're very uncomfortable.
So in total, I think that's the mostI've spent, which is crazy.
And then what was your first convention?Last convention.
First convention was terrific.
Con and Mohegan Sun.
And that which is actually where I boughtmy first throw comic

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because somebody I was dressed as rogue,somebody like rogue.
And I turned around and they were like,we have your comic, I bought it.
They're so great timing.
And the last conventionI went to was Rhode Island
Comic-Con in November,and I was a guest there.
And when's your next convention?
That's.
I'm not sure of yet.
It's still up in the air.
I was supposed to go to Emerald City inSeattle, which I went to a few years ago.

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But I don't know about that yet.
Based on Wizard of Oz.
Is that why it's Emerald City?
Oh, no, no, no, I know, I,
but I have a possibility
of going to San Diego Comic-Con,which is like the big, big one officially.
I know I will be on new Comic-Con again,because
that one I've been going to last years,and that's easy for me to get into.
Would you do contacts or no?

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Are you can't do wear contactsor no contacts when you cosplay?
I tried, contacts, but you have to really,like, train yourself to wear them.
But it's not like I can't wear them.
I just have to practice a lot. More wigsor no wigs.
Wigs? Yeah.
Boom.These are questions from the cosplay.
I actually I sprayed my hair blackfor Rhode Island
Comic-Con for Supergirlbecause I didn't want to wear a wig.

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And you're so awesome.
Do do, Photoshop or not?
Photoshop.
Sometimes I do Photoshop, dependingon, like, if I wanted to look a certain.
Way and do prefer videos or photography.
I kind of prefer photography, actually.
All right, that's cosplay questions.

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I would do a quickMarvel question. Trivia.
Now we're in the trivia game park.
All right.
What genre is X-Men 97 series?
Comedy. Drama. Animation. Documentary.
Animation two. Easy.
Who created X-Men 97 series?
Oh! Bow. Tomorrow. All right.
The newest one, right? Yeah, yeah.
When did the X-Men 97 series premiere?

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The newest one? Yep.
Last year. Last March.
March 20th, 2024.
Oh, yeah.
Where is the X-Men series set.
In Westchester, New York
or New York City? Whichever.
Who is the leader in X-Men and X-Men 97?
Cyclops supposed to be the leader.
What's his real name?

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Scott Summers.
What's storm's real name?
Ororo Monroe.
What's Wolverine's real name? Logan.
I don't remember his last name, actually.
Oh, God.
Yeah. James. James Howlett.
Howlett. James Howlett. Yeah.
He goes by two names.
What is the original seriesthat X-Men 97 is a revival of.

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X-Men The Animated Series. Very good.
Who's the head writerfor the first two seasons of X-Men 97?
Jane, Julia and, the League.
It's Julia, and.
This is Beau.
Oh, for the originalshow or for the newest one
for the.
I think it's X-Men 9797. His email.

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Well, okay,I thought you meant the original series.
Sorry.
Who's the supervisingdirector of X-Men 97?
Is it J. It's the jackass arena.
Yeah, yeah.
You're good.
Oh. Jackass arena. No, we're we're.
Is that the guy you met?
One of the guys I met at the premiere.
But I'm.
I'm mutuals with a lot of the peoplefrom X-Men 97.

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And, like, the voice actors to true.
Mutuals, like mutual friends.
Yeah, like Instagram.
And I've also, like, met them at cons.
I've met them a few times.They're always so great to talk to.
Well,what's the country of origin in X-Men 97?
The US? Easy.
How many parts doesthe first season of X-Men 97 series have
parts?

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Oh, episodes? Yeah, there's nine episodes.
Ten, ten, ten episodes.
All right, now we're doing movie quotes.
Marvel character quotes.
Oh, boy, is it like Marvel or just X-Men?
I think they're all MCU.
Okay.
I choose to run toward my problems,not away from them, because that
that's what heroes do.

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Oh, on
when I, I don't know, Thor thought,
oh, you're about to say heroesdo I think, oh.
I can't control their fear.
Only mine.
Hulk.
The Hulk.
No. Oh, God.
Wanda
Elizabeth. Olsen. No.

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My brother would be very good at this.
He's very good at quotes.
It's not enough to be against something
you have to be againstfor something better.
These are tough.
These are very tough.
This is Captain America, Tony Stark.
You know, I was thinking Iron Man,and then I was like, oh, no, cap.
I'd rather bea good man than a great king.

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Is this Black Panther?
For this part of the journey is the end.
Part of the journey is.
Oh, my God, these are tough.These are very tough.
These are like quotesand nobody remembers.
Right? These are.
It's not like the super.
The Spider-Man one that I said earlier.

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Oh, boy.
Oh I got, I nothing got.
You know when you say heyhe'll go right over his head.
He goes, nothing goes over my head.
My reflexes are too fast.
I would catch it. Drax. Yeah.
That was so easy.
That was a good one.
That's a very Drax quote.
Oh, okay.

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Love is a dagger.
It is a weapon to be wieldedfar and away or up close.
You can see yourself in it.
It's beautiful. Until it makes you bleed.
Someoneyou're gonna have dinner with as Loki.
Yeah. Okay.
When you said dagger,I was like, yeah, that makes sense.
Oh, it's from the Loki series.
He says it.
It's from the Loki series? Yep.

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What'd you think about thatLoki series is great.
I think Loki is my favorite, seriesthat they've done.
Yeah. And then WandaVision. WandaVision?
Yeah, I stopped,I couldn't watch the moon one.
Moon Knight, Moon. Knight.
I didn't watch She-Hulk.
You got a pretty good She-Hulk.
You didn't mention She-Hulk.
I know I forgot about.
She did that at D23 a few years ago.

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She. Had off the guns to.
You were like She-Hulk.
Which someone else is? She-Hulk.
Oh, that's something I was Gomorrah.
Oh, that's right now. I was Gamora then.
But my friends are like, you actually gotbuff last time we saw you.
We need to do She-Hulk again.
I was like, okay, I'll do itbecause I've been going to the gym.
That was so funny.
I love you, 3000.
That's Tony Stark.

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Better get that one.
Or Morgan Starkbecause Morgan says that as well.
His daughter on a train.
Part of the journey. But, but boom, boom.
Let's see a lot of Tony Stark,a lot of Thor.
Who's the ancient one?
Oh, in Doctor.
Strange. Yeah.
Oh, okay.
Another dinner guest of yours.

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Okay. No man could win every battle.
But no man should fall without struggle.
No man can win every battle.
But no man could fall without struggle.
I feel like Loki wouldn't say those.
Spider-Man. Let's say that.
Yeah, Spider-Man. Very good.
Oh, but what is grief if not love?

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Persevering vision.
Oh you're good. Okay, okay.
That one's a memorable quote. Oh, yeah.
Shoot.
I could talk to you forever.
There's a lot of stuffthat that can be brought up.
I could just talk about.How do people reach out to you?
Or if you aren't, theyhow do they find you on TikTok?

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If you want to share your,your Instagram or your email.
So my email is linked usually to my bio.
So just my socials, would be easier.
So on Instagram you can find me atStefania, underscore Sassano or on TikTok
and just TikTok really or at YouTube
as well is at Stefania Susanabecause I do YouTube sometimes as well.

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That one's very hardto be consistent with very, very hard.
I know I noticed that too,because we have so many platforms
and it's likeyou got to put each one up every time.
So this time I hope that doesn't pick up.
That was out
and pretty embarrassing.
But yeah.
Hey, so how's your podcast flush?

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Be a good friend.
I mean, this is Stefania. Susana.
She is a content creator.
She has 176, 72,000 people, 1000. 72.
Point six.
Oh. Sorry. Okay. What was I going to do?
Hold on.
I just had under 76 earlier.
176, oh eight, 173 of you.

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Round source.
Like thousands of followersbetween then and now, coming.
On the friends podcast, they're like,oh boy, are we going to get some clips?
Are you going to share some clipson your page from our podcast?
I mean, I could like, usually what I dowith my, podcasts, I'll like post story,
stories on my thing consistently.

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So yes. Yes.
Because I notice, like with stories,there's a lot more people that
tend to view stories.
Or they're easier to access viewinstead of like posting.
Sometimes posts aren't likethey're all over the place, not like,
oh, this was recently posted.
It comes up on your timeline becausethe timeline doesn't do that anymore.

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Instagram used to do thatwhere it's like it was in order
of what came first posted.
All right.
If you're listeners out there,do you have any questions for Stefania?
She's going to be with usnext podcast too.
She is the production associatefor Direct Line Media.
I'm so happy that she was here.
We got to learn behind the camera.
She stepped in front of the cameraas our content creator.

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She doesn't like internet personality,but I love it.
I want to be an internet personality.
I've gotten celebrity as well a lot.
I'm like, I don't thinkI'm quite there yet, but multiple times.
Cosplayer.
Cosplayer.
Cosplay. I'm going to start cosplaying.
When's the one at the casino?I want to go to that one.
In July.
They usually do it.

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How aboutI dressed up as Spiderman at camp
for a parade and snuck up on the kids?
That costume is.
You gotta be pretty confidentto wear that.
That costume. There's,
You learn from a lot of otherSpider-Man cosplayers
what to wear with the suit.
Yeah.

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I wore it to my friend'sbirthday for his kid.
I snuck on the kids.
Yeah, I went change,snuck up. John. Script.
His son in, had a birthday script.
I showed up with the kids.
The kids were like,they start chasing me around.
I'm chasing them. Yeah.
And then, like,I dipped away, but, like, you know,

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you're a full suit.
Yeah.
So definitely motivated.
I'm like, all right, maybe
we should, to do a couple more push upsand some more set ups here.
Teeny mix in a salad, buddy.
Yeah, there's a lot of costumes.Just spandex in here.
Like, okay,I have to do something about this, so.
Yeah.But it was so great to talk with you.

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We'll talk more againif you have any questions.
She'll be here nextepisode. We'll shoot her the mic.
She sits right over there today.
She's sitting right here. Stefania.
You can find her on TikTok, Instagram,
YouTubes, Twitters, all the good stuff.
Any closing remarks?
I guessfor people that want to like do cosplay
or content creating out there,
just to just do it,I mean, there's no other advice I can give

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because I kind of I went I got to a lowpoint to get to a good point.
So yeah, someone said,
do iteven if you get no likes or something.
Yeah. It's like,just do you're passionate.
Passionate about it. You love what you do.
You enjoy it.
I mean, you're getting free swag.
That's a perk.
It's I mean, sometimes you'regetting a check once in a while.

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Yeah. It has to be consistent.
Sometimes not consistent with brand deals,but once you get there, you know,
you're in.
It's got to be where.
Where am I got to be consistent,
creative and networking.
Yeah. Three keys.
But again Stefania, thank you again.
On three will say be a good friend okay.
123 be a good friend.

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Say it is rogue.
Okay.
Be good friend. Sugar.