S2 E22 | Amanda Brown's Captivating Journey: From Theatre Roots and Balancing Creative Passions to Navigating Post-COVID Auditions, AI in Storytelling, and the Future of Acting and Representation - Happy Hour Holidaze

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Sean febre & Manny Febr (00:00):
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(00:22):
today we got an actress.
We got Amanda Brown in studioand she is up and coming and
ready to take over the world,amanda.
So tell us a little bit of whatsparked the interest in acting,
starting off when you wereyounger.
That is a good question.

Amanda Brown (00:37):
I feel like I've analyzed this a lot since I
started doing it.
But my first theater show wasthe Wizard of Oz and I played a
munchkin.
Oh my God.
And I just remember I was eightyears old and I just remember
like having the best feeling,like it really one boosted my
self-confidence as a kid because, you know, you got to get on
stage and you got to like singand dance and act at the same

(01:00):
time and you're like what isthis?
Because, you don't do any ofthose things really naturally,
you know.
So, um, once I started doingthat, I had this realization.
I just loved the collaborationand the creativity behind it and
stuff and um, yeah, I justremember it was the best feeling
and I just kind of carried thatthroughout the rest of my life
and wanted to pursue somethingin theater.

(01:22):
I was like I've just alwaysbeen like a creative an artist,
so to speak.

Sean febre & Manny Febre (01:27):
It sounds like you started at a
young age.
Did you also do like drama inhigh school as well?

Yes, I did actually.
Good question.
Yeah, I did drama.
So whenever there's like anelective that you could pick,
you know how in high school youcould like pick the electives.
If there's ever like a drama orlike a music or like a theater,
I always kind of went for that.
I noticed still did my normalclasses, but I really was always
interested in that, even inlike this is stupid.
But like in literature class,whenever we like dive deep into

(01:55):
like a text, I'd be like, wow,this is so cool, like finding
the deeper meaning of things andlike really like analyzing
things.

I loved it so how did you prepare
yourself?
Like, let's just say you're aneight year old and you got all
these people about to watch you.
Even like, maybe subconsciously, you didn't?
Really notice it but how didyou prepare yourself, or how do
you prepare yourself, when yougot to do something in front of
people?

or in front of a camera.
Yeah, I guess the process isdifferent and similar, for you
know, as I'm an eight-year-oldand now older but as an
eight-year-old I think you'relike a lot more fearless and you
don't really care as much.
You know, I've alwaysintuitively been like an
introvert.
So it definitely brought me outof my shell and I realized I
just kind of blossomed on stage.
But to prepare really was justrehearsal and kind of just like

(02:42):
I would rehearse every weekendlike as a kid, instead of going
to like soccer practice likeother kids did, like I was at
theater, you know, and just likeworking on the next show and
you know, being I just made thebest of friends too.
So it's like being with peoplewho support you as well, and I
think that speaks for any typeof you know thing in life.
As long as you're with peoplewho support you, you'll find

(03:04):
that confidence.

Did you decide to pursue it further
after high school, like go tocollege for theater or Right.

So that's kind of where I got a little nervous and
I was just like this is notrealistic.

Like I cannot do this.
People, don't say that toyourself.
You can do anything, right.

You can.
But at the time I was a littleafraid.
My mom is, she's verytraditional, you know, she's
like go the nursing route.
So I did end up pursuing mybachelor's in healthcare in
college, so very practical.
But I did, like I said, I tookelectives that were related to
theater and I did in high schoolI did a musical as well and

(03:48):
then I did the dance team.
So it's like I was kind ofalways like performing per se
and I just I always felt myselfbeing myself in that realm.
And so once I got to college, Ifeel like I definitely
disconnected with that, which isvery dangerous at that age.
I feel like, especially whenyou're like kind of trying to

(04:09):
find yourself and like I don'tknow, you're just so like molded
by the world at that age thatit could be hard to find
yourself.
So when you're disconnectedfrom things that you like to do,
it just kind of sets you in aspiral and like questioning a
bunch of things, you know.

It's kind of crazy as soon as, like,
you hit 18 and real life hitsand you're like, oh shit, I need
to get a job, I got to pay forbills.
I can no longer go after mydream, but you still can.
You know, you can go to thatjob and then afterwards go to
like an improv class right,right, I agree.
Do you do stuff like that class?
Right, right, I agree, it's allabout the balance.

Yes, I do so.
Right now I am in class.
We do like improv, we do scenestudy.

So it's an acting class, it's an
acting class?

Yes, specifically, but I started taking acting
class a year ago, so, likeimmediately after I graduated
with my bachelor's degree.
I was like I don't know if Iwant to go into the healthcare
world just yet.
So I just kind of took thisleap of faith and I talked with
this acting coach here in Tampaand she spoke to me about not
only like getting in touch withyour artist side, but also the

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business side.
I think people are very shockedto realize, like this is a
business and you are, you know,investing in yourself in all
types of ways, you know to getout there.
It's cutthroat, it is socutthroat yeah you know to get
out there, it is so cutthroat.
Yeah, you know, if you don'thave, especially if you don't
have anybody that's already inthe industry.
You know networking foryourself and, um, yeah,
investing money into classes andheadshots and all these things

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that you don't learn if youdon't get into class.
How?

much does the average class cost for
that acting school that you goto?

um, so right now I pay about 300 for a month, two
months, two months or like oneand a half to two months, that's
not bad.
So it's not bad once a week andit's like a three hour class.

Once a week.
Okay, yeah, so that's good.
So it's like 50 bucks a weekalmost.

No 25 a week.

I don't know about the math.
That's not my forte.

I chose acting, but it's a good investment,
would you say.

Ever since day one that you started
with this acting coach to now,if you want to shout out your
acting coach, I don't know.
Till now have you made animprovement on your acting
skills?

Yes, I definitely have.
My acting coach is EugenieBondurant at Station 12 Studio.
It's at Greenlight Cinema in StPetersburg.
But yes, I feel like I've justdefinitely gotten comfortable
with you know, on-screen actingas well as like diving into a
character.
You know, acting class is crazy.
Y'all should take one sometime.
They're very open to anybodyyou know you don't have to act,

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to take it per se.
But some people literally are inthere just for fun.
They do not plan on likepursuing it as a career.
I they do not plan on likepursuing it as a career.
I think you find that mostly inFlorida.
You know, you go to LA.
People are not taking actingclasses for fun.
They're like I'm here to youknow, but there it's more of
like a very relaxed environmentand I love it.
I just feel like I havesharpened up my skills in class

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and, honestly, it's thecommunity too.
Like I go in there and peopleare like oh, I just booked this
commercial last week, or I just,you know, I'm doing an indie
film this week.
So it's like it's nice to bewith people who are doing it,
you know, because it's reallyabout who you surround yourself
with.

Going back to that support system, and
you're having to actually makethose connections, because what
we found out just by doing thispodcast, the more people that we
connect with and network with,the more opportunities we gain
for more access to individualswe wouldn't have otherwise met.
So by doing that, going to that, that's the first step and
you've actually been booked forcommercials and also you said a

(07:34):
feature feature film.

Correct, yes.
So my first like year in TV andfilm was last year, when I
started and took that leap offaith in January.
I really started working inMarch cause I wanted to get my
skills down, because going fromtheater to TV and film was like
very different, you know, yougot to tone everything down and
it's just very minimal andbasically subtleness, you know.
And so I started in studentfilms and then I had this

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audition.
I just submitted it.
That's kind of how it is youjust submit an audition and see
if you hear back.
It just goes into the void.

What's the submission consist of?
Is it just like a highlightreel?

No, actually.
So it's like the breakdown ofthe role.
It gives you all theinformation, so it's where it
shoots.
What's the character, how muchit pays.
Is it non-union versus union,which means like SAG?
I don't know if you guys haveheard of the union for that
screen actors guild award.

Correct screen actors guild guild yes
correct.

Um, that's like the union, or they'll have like
non-union.
Right now there's a lot ofnon-union because of the strike
and stuff that happened.
Um, but yeah, that's what's inthe breakdown as well as, um,
yeah, like the dates.
So it gives you all theinformation.
So basically, you have tofigure out for yourself too, if
you're self-submitting, do I fitthis role?
Or sometimes you could evenplay with it, like could they

(08:50):
possibly see me in this role,even though this is not, you
know, the character breakdownper se.
But yeah, so you just kind ofaudition and most of the time
you'll submit for the characteror the breakdown, and then they
will bid to you and reach out toyou and be like, okay, now we
want you to audition.
So it's like kind of a multiplestep process to even get into

(09:10):
the room?

Are you submitting headshots as well
with the application?
So you actually don't submitany real acting.
They have to pick you justbased off your headshot.
No, no, no, no.
The audition doesn't end uplike a video you have to be
called for an audition right.

Correct as well.
So it's kind of like a twofoldthing.
You can submit just headshots,depending on what the project is
, but they probably won't giveyou an audition if you just have
headshots.
And that's what's so importantabout building up your resume
and all your portfolio,basically.
So I have a lot of clips thatI'll submit.

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Now I have a reel that's puttogether, but, honestly, in this
day and age, casting directorshave such little attention span,
not in like a negative way, butbecause everybody has so much
material too, so they're goingnext, next, next, they're
looking at your material andthey're very quick with it.
So right now, in this state ofthe industry, I just have like
clips.
So I'll have, like you know, a20 second clip of like a drama

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that I was in, or like a 20second clip of a comedy I was in
, or like different roles aswell, you know.
So you submit those with yourheadshots and your resume as
well.
So that's kind of like thewhole package to submit to a
breakdown.

So how'd you get into your first
actual job?
Because I mean you had nothingon your resume, right?
Well, actually you had eighthgrade and you had drama and high
school, but that's more.

No, you don't put that right.
No, you don't put that on there.
No, I mean, I didn't.
So what did you put on your?

resume , then the first one to get your
first job, Because most peopledon't know how to break into it.
So what kind of advice can yougive to actually break into it
if you have no resume?

Right.
This is so true because that'sexactly where I was, Like don't
put your high school stuff onthere.
I mean, you can explain it topeople at your studio and stuff,
but, honestly, student filmsand things that they aren't paid
right.
But you're going to get footage.
You're going to get especiallyfor, like you know, be cautious

(11:11):
in the roles that you choose,because that could also be like
footage that, like you kind ofdidn't want or not show the best
parts of you.
But, yeah, definitely likerealizing what you could do,
what kind of characters they'relooking for for their film, and
student films are very good at,like you know, they're students,
so it's like they got to turnthis in in a month, so what do
you mean by student films, likeyou go to a college and say, hey
, I want to be in your film.

Correct , yeah.

I mean, you don't physically have to go there.
A lot of schools nowadays have,like they're online, so it's
like they bunch of Facebookgroups.
Yeah, there's so many likeonline resources when it comes
to these things.

(11:53):
But, yeah, any film school.
I did a lot at Full SailUniversity in Orlando and I have
auditioned for some atUniversity of Tampa and Valencia
as well, so UT would be likethe closest one here.
Kind of, yeah, I feel like theyhave their own little hub of
people that they pick from,because they haven't heard
anything back from them yet.

(12:14):
But I would say, yeah, when youhave from zero, student films
are the best thing to do.
And also it's just being on setis such a learning experience,
like I remember like a year agoI watched so many YouTube videos
on like how to kind of preparemyself for this and really it's
just like all about real lifeexperience.
You know, like getting outthere and doing it.

(12:37):
All these like terms that theythrow out to you on set, it's
like you have to figure it out.
Can't be like what?

does that mean yeah?

like if someone's screaming points at you and
you're just like what if they'recoming in with these big, like
you know set things and you gotto watch out basically I learned
that the hard way.

I was like oh, duck, yeah.

So it's just like um doing, I guess, even if
things aren't paid at first,kind of putting your ego aside
about that, and it's just likeinvesting, you know, in yourself
.
You're starting from zero, youknow, and then the students are
also learning.
So it's like they're learninghow to work with actors, you
know.
So it's really a greatexperience when you're in the

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beginning phase of this.

So have you ever done an indie film
?

An indie film I have not done and those are
usually also the same right.

They're unpaid, I believe.

Yeah, typically.

Unless you're like.

They're typically unpaid and non-union.
I mean maybe not alwaysnon-union, but just independent
filmmakers Could that be anotherway to break into the film
industry yeah, absolutely.

Or the acting industry, Because I mean
, those people actually knowwhat they're doing, right,
they're just looking to break inas a director or producer or
whatever.
So they see these group ofpeople with you know nominal
experience, and then they'relike, okay, well, we need
someone who wants to work forfree but wants to build their
resume.
Let's go look for this actor oractress.

Right.

I mean , is there a lot of those here,
in Florida at least?

I feel like I haven't really found that many.
There are a lot of independentfilmmakers in Florida, yes, but
I think getting casted on thoseare very difficult in my
experience, because even if Ilook on Facebook groups, it'll
be like they posted it one dayand they've casted it that same
day, so it's like you've got tobe on the ball.

So they're getting probably
hundreds, 200s, hundreds ofsubmissions, auditions, yeah,
yes exactly, especially becauseFlorida is not the biggest hub
for it.

So it's like people are waiting.
Yeah, they're just likesomething.
Something comes up.

I got it, I got it.
Probably refresh all the timeand there's probably a million
people wanting to act too.
There's only 23 million peoplein Florida, but I mean shit.
If anything, your bestopportunity is in Florida, or
what we were talking about,because Los Angeles got ravaged
by these fires that now peopleare probably going to move over
to the East coast, like New Yorkor Atlanta, to start filming.

Yes, exactly, I feel like there's a lot of
people moving out of Hollywoodper se, or Hollywood is moving.
You know, I read all thesearticles and listen to these
podcasts about it and, honestly,like I wouldn't want to live in
LA personally, so I'm not upsetabout it, but I do think the
industry is changing in thataspect.
There's a lot filming inAtlanta, there's a lot of even,

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like you know, acting coachesand ever since COVID, the whole
world is different as well.
Well, like I, only this pastyear, have gotten like one
audition in person and that wasa callback so it's like you
can't even get into the room ifyour audition isn't good per se.

You know so you have to do like a
zoom audition?
Yeah, that's a little weird itis so strange.

Yeah, it's strange because you see, like faces, is
it?

is it like I?
I mean, you would rather do itin person, right or not?
Really, it does sound like Idon't know.

I really like to be able to just like self-tape
my audition.
And then send it right, andthen send it and I'm like if
they're interested they'll getback and I just go about my day.

The work-life balance is better, but
you said it best earlier in thepodcast.
You said that they have so muchcontent to go through that
they're only looking at a fewminutes, if that, and then going
next, next, next.
Right If you have them right infront of you.
You could take their time andactually force them to see.
Okay.
Well, this is actually a goodactress or actor.
Yeah, and Zoom, I don't know.

(16:21):
So have you done a Zoomaudition?

I have.

Yeah, and Zoom, I don't know.
So have you done a Zoomaudition?
I have.

Is a Zoom audition where you act into the Zoom
camera.
Yeah See, I feel like that'sit's so strange.

It is because it's a lag right.
It's a lag between what you'reseeing, what they're hearing,
but if in person they're seeingit in real time and they can
capture whatever emotion you'rethrowing out there.
Exactly that's my opinion.

It's so true.
Yeah, I think even now theyeven have like workshops
nowadays where it's like how todo a Zoom callback, because so
many actors have gone from like,yeah, being in the room and
being like letting them knowyour personality and just
feeling that presence right, tolike this on-screen thing where
it's a different skill setauditioning than like acting and

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um, but this is like your firstfoot in the door for this
project, so you want to make agood impression, so it's already
a little nerve-wracking.
And then you've got.
Sometimes there's, like youknow, technical errors and I'm
like oh and so, like you kind ofget into it.
And then you know, I rememberone time I did a call back and

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then, um, they're like thank you, like all right, have a great
day, we'll let you know.
And I was like thank you, it'slike oh, period I can go on with
my day now, like this is sogreat, and I was like, oh my god
, they did not leave yet luckilyit wasn't like talking shit,
but I was like, oh my god, theydefinitely heard everything I
just said what would you say I?
was just like oh, period, it'sover.
Like because I you know justmore.

You were still acting, though, yeah
no I was still acting, I wasjust acting for this commercial.

I had to look at the lights.
That's literally what it was,um.
But yeah, I feel like it'sdefinitely a different skill set
and I luckily I was thrown intoit when it has already been so
online.
I feel bad for the actors whohave been in the room and kind
of know that process.
And now, not only are you theactor, but you are the director,

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You're the producer, You're alights person, You're everything
in your own little studio.
Oh shit, I didn't even thinkabout that Exactly.
So you're thinking aboutframing All these breakdowns.
They have specific framing,whether it's like your chest to
your head or your waist to yourhead.
So it's like you're sitting atleast I do I'm sitting there
like fixing my framing for like10 minutes before I can even act
, you know.
So it's not even getting to theacting just yet.

(18:37):
It's very like all parts.

Are you doing it with a camera, or
are you doing it with just acamera on your laptop?
What's your setup?

My setup is I have like this ring light and I put
my phone on there.
I just use my phone forauditions for right now.
Your phone is a very goodresource, you know it's got a
beautiful camera, so it's likeyou know you don't need anything
fancy just yet.
I have a couple like soft lightboxes and then I have a
microphone.
You know they always want goodsound, yeah, so very basic.

Yeah, nothing fancy.
And then you connect all thatto the computer and that's what
they're seeing right.

Yes.

So what kind of microphone are you
using?
A boom mic or a long range mic?

I use like a lav mic.

Oh, okay, so one that you clip on.
Yes, and they can see thatthough, right?

Most of the time I try to hide it because that can
be distracting.
I don't want anything todistract from my performance,
but if they see it, theyunderstand, you know, like it's
like, yeah, you're at home.

There's only so many things you could
do.
I was wondering do you everthink about, you know, like a
lot of these, I mean, I wouldsay social media influencers?
They do like skits on on theirsocial media.
I mean, is that a good way tolike kind of, you know, I mean,
even if I mean, if you have allthe equipment, it almost makes
sense to kind of do skits allthe time.
Because I mean, I feel likethat's a lot of like additions
that you can send in.
I mean, if it's like anythingelse, you're just sitting there

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filming and just acting, I meanI would just do a lot of those.

We've done one before.

Yeah, we used to love doing those, man
.
They were a lot of fun, oh mygosh.
Yeah, it's always been fun todo those.

I remember me and my sister would do that too.
Actually, now I think about it,I feel like it's just like a
thing people do.

Yeah, it's just of previous movies as
a parody for our shout out forBrave Frameworks for our
business that we run primarilyand make it real estate
photography related Like we dida Training Day one we did, glenn
Gary, glenn Ross and a I SeeDead People.
One Okay.

See that's so cool .
I think that's definitelyespecially when you don't really
have much to show for youracting.
I think that's something youshould definitely do.
You know or like especially justdoing this, getting experience
in front of the camera, you knowit's not a natural thing to
have a camera in front of yourface all the time, so the more
comfortable you're with it, Ithink, the better.
I know.
I was on a job and I met thisgirl who, like, is an influencer

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, and she does like.
What is it called when theydress up and they like?

Cosplay .

Yes, sorry, I was going to say role play.

But I know this that's different,
right, okay?

But yeah, she does cosplay and she got like signed
by my agency like with that,you know.
So it's like she had afollowing, she built her thing
and they were like, yeah, likeyou'd be great for like voice
acting.

She was telling me that they kind of
want her for.
So that's what I feel like nowwith that acting.
I mean, you have so many waysto really break through than the
traditional ways, especiallywith social media.
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(21:50):
We got Amanda Brown in studio.
So, amanda, tell us aboutwhat's your dream?
Is it a series?
Is it a feature movie?
What would you like to be?
I've seen the series.
Let's just think about the bigbang Theory.

Those fucking people are worth like A million
in episodes.

No, $100 million.
We're talking about Sheldon,you know it's not a feature film
, I think they were all gettinga million in episodes, but
watching Entourage.
You know I love Entourage, it'sone of my favorites.

So I kind of know the movie industry from that.

That's where.

I've watched that.
I started that one a little bitDude, it's like it kind of goes
Ari Gold is the fucking man Iwish.
I was him.

But no , I mean literally.
You see that people technicallylike the series like you don't
want to be in a series if you'vedone features Like it's like
going backwards, but at the sametime those series, I mean
you're the same, you're the samecharacter, but you're making so
much fucking money offreoccurring revenue.
I like that, but also onlyseries by these major like HBO,
maybe AMC, when you start doingNCIS, I don't know, I feel like

(22:54):
that's.

Yeah, because.

Sean febre & Manny Fe (22:56):
Entourage was HBO right.

Yeah, HBO.

So back to his question.
I mean series or feature films,or what's your end goal in
acting?

my end goal?
Yeah, I would say it's a seriesregular yeah, that would be
comedy drama crime um one of myfavorite shows, modern family.

So I always say like if that was like
a show I could have been on.

Yeah, modern family, but also like game of
thrones.
Loved that show like yeah, sohonestly, I would kind of take
anything I guess, but I'm notgonna be picky right now.

Sean febre & Manny Feb (23:24):
Anything to be a series regular, but
yeah so yeah, so honestly Iwould kind of take anything.
I guess I'm not going to bepicky right now.

Anything to be a series regular, but yeah, so
that's kind of the end goal ofit and this sounds like you know
very whatever.
But just to be happy with it aswell, to have a work-life
balance with it, would be great,like if I'm not a series
regular but I have like a lifeoutside of it.
I'm not like chasing fame withthis either.
I think it's another thing whenI approach this, or like tell

(23:51):
people about it.

They're like oh like you just want to
be famous, blah, blah, blah it'srefreshing actually, those
people out.

I don't I know, that's why I don't tell as many
people anymore, but, um, Iactually wouldn't really not
want to be famous if it comeswith it, um, with the acting
then you're screwed, you'regonna be famous, then I'm just.

You're gonna be famous regardless,
then it just happens but, it'snot what I'm chasing, it's more.

So yeah, the end goal would be on marvel too yeah
, I like that.

I like the x.
Not many series in marvel, Imean just a couple, but they get
shut down after a season or two, I think only.

Loki lasted two seasons.

Yeah, I mean, if you're doing it to be
passionate, I mean that's theway to go.

Yeah, I agree.
I think also you can't go withthat mindset.
In this industry they alwayssay like if you could do
anything else besides acting, doit, because people literally
are like I'm telling you, don'tdo it, don't do it.

And.

I know it's like discouraging, but if you can get
through that hump of peopletelling you don't do it and
you're still wanting to do it,then obviously it's meant for
you.
You know, in a way.

My advice is at the end of the day,
who is paying your bills?
It's not the people's opinionsthat are paying your bills.
At the end of the day, you are.
So whatever you want to do andwhatever makes you happy is what
you have to do.
Fuck all the naysayers, becausethey can't picture themselves
where you want to be, so youshould never take advice from
those people.

Yes, ever, I agree , and I feel like I can even get
a read on people immediately,especially as, like being a
server and like the industrythat I work in, I can get a read
on people pretty quickly andlike I don't think I'd ever tell
you, like what I'm actuallytrying to do, cause you know I
get regulars that are like, oh,you graduated, like what do you
want to do now?
I'm like I don't know, you know, just kind of protecting that

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piece and, honestly, nevertelling people what you are into
until it's actually out and youcan confirm that you're in it,
because I hear these storiesabout how, like people you know
they watch a premiere with theirfamily and they ended up being
cut out of the movie.

I've heard that.

You know, yeah.
So it's like also, that's kindof why you have to be very
cautious and like, yeah, you gotthe role, but did you make the
final cut?
Who knows, I mean that hasn'thappened to me yet, but I'm sure
it will someday.
It's just like these things yougo through.

It will not happen.
You got to tell yourself that.

Yes.

It will not happen.

It will not happen to me.
Yeah, that's manifesting,manifesting.
Yeah, definitely Positivity is.

You know, that's the thing we were
talking off camera, it's not.
You know, when your mom wastelling you, hey, you got to do
nursing, not, you got to.
But he goes, you don't needanything to fall back on when
you're prophesizing somethingand let's say, you say I never
make this shot or I always missthis thing, you're prophesizing

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it and what happens?
It happens.
And then you go why did ithappen?
It's because you already saidit.
Yeah, it's a law of attraction.
Yeah, so you have to tellyourself yourself hey, this is
what's going to happen, I don'tneed to fall back now it's great
to have it, but at the sametime, if you're really chasing,
that dream.

You know you can't .

You got to give a hundred percent
towards it and I mean you'regonna have sleepless nights
whatever it is.
But that's the way it is and Ifeel like sometimes parents just
trying to be they don'tunderstand good for you, but at
the same time, I'm half Filipino, half white a lot of people
think I'm Spanish, but you knowwhat's good is Spanish and
Filipino appearance are the same.
Yeah, it's good that.

I look, you know different and like mixed,
because I can play like a lot ofdifferent roles as, like my
agents tell me, I'm ethnicallyambiguous, which is a lot of
breakdowns nowadays.
It's like they're not reallylooking for somebody who's so
categorically white or black oret cetera.
But you know, you look mixed.

Like normal people do nowadays, you
know it's very normal.
So you have an agent, I do.
How did you acquire that agent,or did she acquire you?

I acquired the agent through self-submission.
Yeah, I have three agents atthe one agency.
Yeah, so they're like under oneagency, but I have like three
specific agents, so I'm signedwith them commercially and
theatrically, you want to shoutout the agents.
Yes, level Talent Group.
Kelly, katie and Brittany Loveyou guys.
They work so hard and it's justan amazing agency to be with as

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my first one, especiallybecause they've just kind of
yeah, they're Tampa.

Tampa oh shit.

They work so hard and it's just nice to be with an
agency that kind of you knowjust takes you under their wing
and you know if you have anyquestions, like they're always
there for you and you know.
I've heard some stories aboutagencies who are not, so I'm
really glad that I picked theone that you know is going to
help me along my journey andjust kind of building a
relationship as well.

Do they suggest what you should or
should not audition for, or dothey say audition for everything
or how's?
That go with an agent.

So what they do is they will submit you for jobs
that they think you fit or thatlike casting directors will pick
you for, like they'll never putyou up for a job that they
don't think you could get youknow what I mean they're not
going to send you blindly intosomething that you know they're
like oh, you can't book thisCause.
That's kind of setting you upfor failure.
So it's like and really the waythey make money is if we make
money.

So, oh , actually that makes sense,
your goal.
Exactly, that's awesome.

And the Florida industry is so like small when
it comes to like commercial workand like casting.
You know we've got Disney,we've got Universal.
Like the people who cast thesecommercials are the same people
over and over again, so it'slike they're not going to, you
know, like kind of send you offto them for like so many
different roles, because thenthat kind of is like do they
know her?
Or you know, does she know whatshe wants out of certain?

Sean febre & Manny F (29:27):
commercial work.

I guess you know so.

So have they only been trying to go
after film or have they alsobeen going after theater?
Because, I mean, the StratCenter is right there and they
host plays there.

Oh true.

If I'm not mistaken.

You know, I don't know if they represent people in
theater.

Either that or the Florida Theater.
Yeah, mistaken, you know, Idon't know if they either that
or the florida or the floridatheater.
Yeah or no?

the tampa theater tampa theater.

Yeah, that's the one I was, I don't
know if they represent peoplefor like theater, like musicals.

Um, when I said theatrical, I mean like tv and
film so like those are differentrealms.
I'm not sure if they do, but,um, I would look into that.
But I'm sure they do becausethey, you know, they cross lanes
you have done that before.
I have.
Yes, that's my background.
I wouldn't go back to doingmusicals at this age just
because it's a lot of work.
It's a lot of work.

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You're putting months andmonths into a production for it
to show for a couple weekends atleast here.
If you're on Broadway, that's adifferent story, but at least
here in this industry, in thishub.
On Broadway that's a differentstory, but like, at least here
in this industry, in this hub.
But yeah, so I'm represented bythem with TV and film and
commercial work.

What's the typical?

casting character that you play.
It's usually like a highschooler, even though I'm not in
high school, which is reallynice.
I look younger for my age.
So, yeah, I feel like I'mtypecast as you know high school
age or college age and so farI've kind of done like romantic
lead or like daughter student,yeah, Just a lot of things that

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kind of fit me, I guess.

Well, I was about to say.
If you think about it, you'veyou've gone through life, you've
been a student in high school,you've been a student in college
, so playing those roles shouldactually come naturally to you.
They do.

Yes, exactly.
So I feel like it's.
I definitely feel I can grasp acharacter that identifies with
those things.
Um so when they told me thatthey would send me on things for
that specifically, I'm likegood, I'm glad we're on the same
page, because I cannot see youknow myself as like a single mom
of four.
No hate to that, I just I don'tthink I like look like that or

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sound like that just yet.
But then again, it's like youknow acting.
You should take things you knowjust to try them and challenge
yourself.
So you know, if I needed to doit for a role, I would play it
to the best of my capability.

I feel like a lot of actors are like
kind of typecast Samuel LJackson.
They're a little bit ofthemselves in the character you
know.
I mean, I feel like and that'swhat people pay for Like Ryan
Reynolds every time he's likethe clever guy, yeah.

Smart ass, you know, smart ass, whatever.

When you do any characters, do you
feel like you have a little bitof yourself in that little in
the character?

You know some of your yeah, yeah, you know I'm a
natural empath and so I feellike I can I already like, step
into people's shoes or like seewhat it's like through their
eyes.
Obviously can't feel it fully,but I try to, you know, step in
that character's shoes and Ijust I really feel the feelings
and I'm very I can access thosefeelings pretty quickly.

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I think that's important inthis industry as well.
Like if you're, you know, verycold-hearted and you can't learn
to empathize with people, Idon't think this is industry for
you, or like you shouldn'treally pursue that you're trying
to portray a person you know,and the human experience is so
complex that if you not sayingyou have to experience all these
things, but if you don't knowhow to, you know get angry feel

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sad yeah, like I would say,that's's my weakest point is
getting angry, because I'm not avery angry person, honestly
after you're talking right now.

I couldn't really see you angry.
I know, I know.
So that's what I've beenworking on.
But then the monster comes out.
You got to watch out with those.

Yeah, I do have a good on set.
Scream, yeah, I didn't practice, but I had to do it once on set
and then the director was likethat was so good.
Like I actually felt like youwere, you know, struggling and
in pain.
I was like thank you, I've beenworking on that my whole life.

So that's, another thing when
you're practicing that screen.
What do the neighbors say?
Oh my God, we got a call.

She's being killed .
Yeah right, you would think Ipractice it.
But it's so funny I actuallypractice how I look doing it.
I do it silent at home in themirror.
It looks psychotic, but I thinkit's like I don't know.
I practice like obviously youhave to, you know, fuck it on
set.
You've got to commit or it'sshit.
That's what they say but I dopractice what I look like while

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I'm screaming and I'm like doesit look horror?
Does it look sad?

Does it look scary.
What am I looking like?

Because you have to portray the emotions properly
as well.

Yeah, because the mirror is really
important with acting, becausewhat you were talking about I
mean, really you've got to beable to flip the switch from
angry to sad, and you gotta youknow, you gotta know your
emotions.

Yes, you know, that's the only one I couldn't
be able to do is like cry,that's like the hardest one.
Yeah, that one's tough.
No, it's tough, I feel likeit's.
It's tough because not that Ilike can't cry on cue, but it's
more so like you're in thehustle and bustle of like okay,
you know we're five minutesbehind on schedule.
You need to do this right now.
Like in the script it says tocry, so like you have to have
that one tear, like it's alwaysthat pressure and now that
that's like happened.
But you know you're always onset with different people, so if

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a director is telling you tolike you need to cry here.
It's like, okay, yeah, you feela little more pressure.

I'm like okay, I always think about
Tropic Thunder.
Hey didn't you have like a dog?

that had a diet or something.
If he cries, you cry harder,man Right.
It's like all these situations.

And you know, you just got to learn
that, like you know what's asituation that you were really
upset or you were angry, or youwere like so happy.
So everything's got to referback to is what the key is like.
So happy, so everything's gottarefer back to is what the key
is.
Refer back to a memory and then, yeah, gain that emotion back
from that memory as if you'rereliving it definitely.

That's like, that's definitely.
Oh sorry, excuse me, my dad'scalling me sorry um she said her
dog was calling her.

I said my dad?
I was like, yeah, my dog'sactually gotta go.
You tell me I gotta be home.

Yeah, but back to what you're saying.
It's definitely how you studyacting too.
There's different methods indifferent ways.
But yeah, that would be more so.
Emotional recall, I guess, iskind of putting yourself in a
moment of like when did you losesomebody, how did you feel when
you're grieving, etc.
Etc.
So this is how this characteris feeling and, yeah, just
relating it to your own life.

You think method acting is taking it
a step too far, kind of likeJared Leto.
He kind of overtakes the roleand doesn't stop until it's done
.
You know, Like what I heard whenthey were filming Suicide Squad
and I know I don't want you tohave to trash any actors or
anything.
Will Smith said that he wouldreceive like dead fish in his

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trailer from Jared Leto becausehe wouldn't stop playing the
Joker and he was like bro, thatshit would freak me out to the
point where I'd have to tell youbetter, stop, or I'm going to
knock you out.
Right, I feel like some people,take it too far.
Heath Ledger was also a methodactor actor and he committed
suicide right after playing thejoker.
You know what?
Maybe the joker is just, itwasn't a joker it was, it was

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the joke.
No, it was.
Broke back mountain into thejoker.
Oh, I completely forgot aboutthat?

oh wait, was it actually?
Yeah, well, well, I don't knowif it was from that.
No, no, no, it was.

But I think a mixture of, like you
know.
Well, it was after the DarkKnight.
It was after the Dark Knightwhere he played the Joker, but
the movie before was BrokebackMountain, so he had to play, you
know, a gay dude.
And then he had to play asadistic psychopath.

So going from that role to that role.

But sadistic psychopath.
That going from that role tothat role.
But he was method acting, sothe entire time his mentality.
Did he ever, uh, take a time inbetween where he just was heath
ledger?
Yeah, yeah you know rightbecause you hear about a lot of
actors od and on drugs and shitI mean yeah, definitely.

No, that's like a real thing I think you know
that's totally not healthy,obviously.
Um, now I feel like there'sdifferent people like ways about
going with method acting, Iguess, and it's like that's an
extreme.
I don't think method is bad ina way that like yeah, you want
to be yes, you want to be in alike safe mental space when you

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get home, you know.
But if you can't do that, Ithink maybe you should try
another method.

But you know, if you're that deep
into it?

pun literally um.
Who would?

you say is your favorite top five?
In no particular order.
Top five actors and actresses,I'll name mine Leonardo DiCaprio
, Margot Robbie, Brad Pitt,Christian Bale and Tom Hardy.
Oh my gosh, in no particularorder, my top five.

That was a really good top five.
I'm going to steal MargotRobbie from yours.
Bradley Cooper, zoe Saldana hey, this is her questionable well
she's.

She's a great actress, but she's
always typecast as the badassyou think?
Colombia.
You know the colombiana lionessguardians of the galaxy.
She's always a badass.
I've never seen her playanything other than a badass.

Lioness, have you watched it?

though yeah, I've watched season one.

I feel like there's a lot of vulnerability
there, though.
You know she's like dealingthere's a lot of pockets of
beautiful.

She goes from badass to crying when
she's with her family.
I feel like I've never seen herin that role either.

Yeah, there's definitely range there.
I like it still though.

Top five is hard.

No, but in no particular order.
That was so quick I mean, I'mlike thinking yeah, that was
fast, you were ready for thatquestion.
You're asking yourself thatquestion.
I was because he was like okay,let me do it, let me talk.

Because the reason is because I watch a
shit ton of movies and TV showsand.
I've watched like anything youcould think of that makes any
sense, and I've seen so manythat I've seen a lot of bad
acting and I've seen a lot ofgood acting.
And those are the five with themost range.
Margot Robbie can play Barbie,or she can play fucking the

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chick from Wolf of Wall Streetor she can play the one from
Focus.
Yeah, I mean, she's got rangelike crazy.
And then there was also anotherone where she was in the big
short, where she was justtalking in a bathtub sipping
champagne, where she was playingMargot Robbie.
Right and it's like holy cow.

She's amazing when it comes to range, she has
great range, all right, so Istopped you so you got two of
your five yeah, so you haveMargot.
And then I had Margot.

Zoe Bradley.
Two of your five, yeah, so youhave Margo, and then I had Margo
Zoe.

Bradley Cooper.
I love Bradley.

Cooper .
Oh yeah, bradley Cooper, he'sin mine.
Yeah, I completely forgot abouthim.
I love Bradley, so you got twomore.

Zoe Saldana and I think because of my age, I've
always looked up to Zendaya.

Okay, she is good, she is really good.

No, she's not.
You don't think so, I don'tthink she is.

She watched Challengers.

Challengers.
That was, yeah, that was out ofher box.
She did great with that.

And then you got one more.
Oh my gosh, this is so tough.

How can you not say Leonardo DiCaprio, I don't
know, maybe it's just differenttime.
Yeah, I think that's like superrandom, but like Willem.
Willem.

Willem Willem.
Stop, it's not William, it'sWillem Willem Dafoe.
Yeah, wow.

Willem Dafoe's awesome.
He's so great he was in JohnWick.

Sean febre & Manny F (41:13):
Spider-Man .
He was in so many movies.

Yeah.

Who's your top five?
I got Leonardo DiCaprio,bradley Cooper Fuck, I mean.
I like denzel's movies oh shit,I've completely forgot about um
, but he's kind of typecast.
He's always a badass.
I like ryan reynolds.
Ryan reynolds is three, yeah,or it's four, it's four, then I

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would say I don't know.
Andrew Dice Clay.

I don't even know who that is, because he was
banned from Hollywood.

That's why, after one movie, he was
banned from Hollywood.

What was the movie Ford?

Fairlane , ford Fairlane, I've never
heard of it.

He did some other movies.

This is old.
Oh okay, it was from the 80s.

You wouldn't know it.
What's he up to now?
No, no.

He does comic stand-up, Okay cool.

It's interesting that you guys say he's typecast,
he's typecast when really a lotof being typecast propels
people's careers.
No for sure.

It's good if they like that character
.
But at the same time, you knowand I think what he was saying
with the range, like you know,leonardo DiCaprio can play so
many different roles.

That's what makes him a good actor, you know, and
that's what makes him good.

And then Margot, you know Robin.
Margot can do the same thingshe does a whole bunch because
they make money.
You know that's the goal is toget parts.
But you know, I just like tosee a little bit of you know
difference.
You know, like Will Ferrell,will Ferrell plays the same
fucking guy every single movie.

And he's hilarious , you know, and.

Mark Wahlberg.
I know I forgot to mention him,but he plays kind of like a
similar role to Leon there.
Yeah, but I'm just saying, likeyou know, and when it gets to
that, a lot of these people theyfit one character and somebody
makes a movie and they're likeit would be cool to have this
character from this movie orfrom wherever to put in here.
You know what I mean.
Right, but it's not a bad thingbecause you're making money and

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that's the end goal.
It's like you want to makemoney with something that you
love doing, but at the same time, it's just like you know, we'll
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And as we were continuing thetalk about these typecasting

(43:31):
actors and all that kind ofstuff, um, and who are the top
five?
We're just kind of talkingabout range.
You know how these actors canplay different characters,
because a lot of times you feellike they're just playing the
same character in differentmovies, which isn't a bad thing
because you get paid, right,right yeah samuel l jackson is
the highest ever accumulatedpaid actor in hollywood and he

(43:53):
attributes that to playing thesame role in every single movie
that he ever plays, and he saidhe's okay with it because he
doesn't need any awards in orderto do what he loves, and he
loves acting.
So typecast isn't horrible.
Remember that Seinfeld, whereKramer was?

Oh yeah, they typecasted me they typecasted me
, I got gonorrhea again.

That's one of my favorite, the.

Office.
I've never seen that show theOffice Seinfeld and Seinfeld.
Seinfeld is what.

Seinfeld is what boosted TV show
characters salaries to anastronomical level.
Julia, julia, what the fuck?
What's her name?
The lady that plays?

Valentina in Defro , or something like that.
Everybody knows who the fuckyou're talking about.
Yeah, yeah, yeah Well from the90s.

Yeah, the one from the 90s.

Amanda's over here is like who the fuck is she?
Well, I know the show.

I've never seen it.
Yeah, I've never seen it.
I think it's good though.
So then the friends cast withyou know ross, rachel and all
those people they started makinga million an episode.
Then you get into the big bangtheory they start making a
million an episode.
So now, anytime you have a hittv show, you're making a million
episode only if it's a fuckingnice bro.

(45:13):
I know, yeah, so being a regularon a tv show and that runs for
shit I don't know, 15 seasons.
You're talking about a lot ofmoney a lot of money, let's talk
about something that is alittle bit concerning for the
movie.
you know, the movie industry,you know, is ai how they're
generating, you know, full-sizemovies?

(45:35):
It's kind of scary, because arethey even going to need people
or are they just going to needtheir face, you know, to put
into the movie, which is kind ofscary for all?
They even going to need peopleor are they just going to need
their face to put into the movie, which is kind of scary?
That's what they were doingwith Hollywood too, that they
were having issues because theywere like we're just going to
scan you one time and thenyou're good to go.

Are you talking about the fall guy?

No, I'm talking about this actually
happened.
That's why we're on strike,partly as well, because I can
tell you this that writers willeventually be using ai to better
their writing and theneventually, writers are gone,
but I still think you alwaysneed actors.
Now will cgi get to the point?

that's what they're saying.

They're scanning you and then that's it
, where all they have to do isand this is part of the movie
fall guy I don't know if youever watched.
Did you watch fall guy?
I love that movie.
So that's what they did withryan jostling right as the fall
guy they scanned his face, theyuploaded it into some imagery
and the security camera to framea murder on him remember yes
which spoiler alert he didn't dosorry sorry so that technology

(46:39):
is already there all they haveto do is put dots on you and
scan you and then somebody elsecan do it.
But now they don't have to payyou as much if they only have to
scan you one time.
They're using your name, imageand likeness, bro.
It's just like the NCAA name,image and likeness.
People aren't going to themovies to go see somebody who's
made up.
They're going to go see theactor, the person who's famous,

(47:07):
the person that can act.
So if they just scan you.

They can make you act any way they want.
They're just using your face,correct, you know.
You know what I feel like afterseeing how ai works, like when
I'm scrolling, it's, it's cool,but also like I'm like I could
tell that was ai.
I could tell it was fake and Ifeel like nowadays people are
craving human connection andjust trying to relate and I
think once you see the AI andyou can sense it, it's just like
very off-putting, and I feellike when you have a movie that

(47:29):
uses a lot of CGI, it can getoverwhelming to where audiences
don't actually react very wellto it.
They're like that was actuallylike very borderline fake.

Yeah, except Avatar.

Yeah, avatar was sick.
It they're like that wasactually like very borderline
fake.

Yeah, except avatar, yeah, I love but
that's not like you, man, that'slike a like some kind of weird
creature animated, but it stilllooks real, did you?
See the making of avatar.
Yes, zoe zaldana and the otherdude which I don't know his name
, uh they actually acted all outwith dots all over their face,
yeah, and they still have to act, show the emotion and then that

(48:02):
is then translated into cgi tomake the the navi for right now.
Until they don't have to dothat anymore, are we gonna find
an alien?
race that looks like well, I'mjust saying that they can, they
can, they can, can't.
They just switch.
They're doing the same thing,right, they put the dots and
then they well, just like marvelshe brought up marvel, so the

(48:23):
dots are for facial expressionthat's what that is in order to
map what the character isfeeling.
But while the actor is stillacting, they do the same thing
with the hulk, and then they didthe same thing with thanos, and
then they just had a head uphere.
So all the other actors werelooking at the head up there and
then they would just boom, putthem in.
But the actors still acting inthe movie Gotcha it's not

(48:44):
actually just being there,because it'd be much harder for
somebody who doesn't know how toact to replicate those
movements.
Why do you think video gamesdon't look like the movies?
Yeah, it's CGI.
It's CGI, bro, but they will.
Eventually they may, I mean.

Personally, I don't think I'd go see a movie
that looks like a video game.

I don't think I'd pay for a movie,
but for right now, until theymake it look so fucking real,
you won't know the difference.
Yeah.

See, that's what's concerning.
Yeah, I think for people in theindustry.
That's what they're protesting.

Yeah.

It's like don't replace us, because one you
can't, people won't like it asmuch you know.
And in the grand scheme ofthings, if you think about it,
tv and movies have been aroundfor not that long on the
timeline of life, really.
So it's like, yeah, right, sothat wasn't even a hundred years
ago.
So it's like, yes, it'schanging, but when is it to
reject?

(49:37):
we reject that much change youknow what I mean, because I feel
like it's just maybe advancinga little too much and too fast
and you know some people mightlike it.

But you've seen how fast technology
has advanced since we've gottento the cell phones.
Yeah, I mean it's crazy.
I can tell you this to yourpoint there's an
unpredictability with humans andhuman emotion that AI cannot
replicate.
They're not conscious, they'reprogrammed.
It is Now.
If AI becomes sentient, thenthere's a real problem.

(50:09):
Irobot.
That's a little scary, irobotiRobot, have you ever seen that
movie with Will Smith?
Will Smith one.

Did I talk about the Roomba?
No, I was like, yeah, is thatyour point?
I forgot, that was iRobot.
Where now the Can I talk aboutthe Roomba?
No, the Roomba, the vacuums.
I was like, yeah, is that yourpoint?
The vacuums in our houses?
I forgot that was iRobot was.
No, no, that was Roomba.
Irobot was an actual movie, itwas like 2002 or something like
that I feel like I've seen, likethe cover of that there's like
a robot, yeah, will.

Smith was in it, and they made a whole
bunch of robots to help you onyour day-to-day life, walk,
whatever.
And then one of the robotsfigured out how to think for
itself and have emotion.
Oh gosh.

So now you're thinking holy shit, that was
what in the early 2000s yeah, itwas early 2000s they were
already seeing.
It's like manifesting, I know.

Because , I mean, Elon Musk says he's
going to build a robot, he'salready got them.
Yeah, where it's going to bewhere.
Hey, that'd be kind of cool,you know wash my dishes.
Clean my toilet do all thisshit.
Have you ever seen the movieTerminator?
Oh, yeah, oh.
Then they revolt, yeah, exactly, and then they kill everybody.
What are you talking about?
Yeah Well, eventually it willhappen.

(51:17):
So just in front of our eyes.
Right now, we're like wait,maybe that's not a good idea.

Yeah, it is crazy, the world of tech now.
I think it can be a beautifuladdition to you know the world
of film and TV, but personally Idon't know if it'll.
If people will take it verywell.
I think people want that,especially after COVID, I feel
like we lost a lot of humanconnection and just like
belongingness and community.
Where's the community anymore?

(51:43):
And just if you're a directorand you're working with a
computer, how fun is that onyour day-to-day job?
Probably not that fun.
Probably not that fun.
And yeah, maybe you saidwriters will be replaced.
That could be.
I could see that all day.

You think I can see that all day.
You think I can see that allday Now I can't see actors being
replaced, for the only reasonis because acting is improvised
man Writers they get paid towrite, but the reason they went
on strike is because of allthese software companies like
ChatGPT, like DeepSeek, that aretaking over writing, and
they're a such.

(52:17):
I mean, if we think about, ifwe think about writing in
hollywood and we think aboutwhat they have come up with that
is new and exciting, all theyreally do is they recycle the
same material over and overagain.
We got 10 fast and the furiousmovies.
We got 10 mission impossiblemovies you're so right, we have

(52:39):
34.
Marvel movies that copied shitthat was made by Stan Lee and
the other guy which I forget hisname from Marvel Comics, gunn
right, huh, james Gunn, no, no,no.

Is he not part of?

No, now he's from DC, but I'm saying
Stan Lee was the creator ofMarvel Comics back in the 1960s.
All Hollywood does is take whatother people do and recycle it.
They don't come up with anyoriginal ideas.
What they may do is adapt it toscreenplay.
That's why you have thatcategory in the oscars.
But overall, hollywood writersare average, or else I mean I

(53:17):
haven't really seen any.
I haven't the only person that Iwould give any credit to is um
uh lucas, george lucas, and uhjames cameron.
Those are the only originalwriters right now in hollywood
avatar completely made upcompletely made up, but I
haven't really seen warscompletely made up.
But I haven't seen a movie thatreally captivated me like the

(53:40):
ones back then.
Which movie captivated you backthen.
No, I'm just talking about lookstories like the Titanic.

Titanic.
Yeah, guess who that was JamesCameron.

But I'm just saying the movies just
don't.
They don't have that.
I'm locked in.
You gotta go see it.
You're fucking dumb'm locked inLike you got to go see it, like
you're a fucking dumb anddumber.
Quentin Tarantino.
I love dumb and dumber, yeah,dumb and dumber.

Anchorman.
Oh my gosh, it's so good Likeyou know some of those originals
, that-.
Yeah, you don't get thatanymore.

You don't get that.

You don't Now, they's always like how do you
know?

I'm?

like it's predictable.
It's predictable and in a waythat's comforting, you know, to
audiences.
But yeah, I think we're wantingmore.

Wanting more yeah.

We're wanting more , wanting originality, and you
think we're going to get thatfrom AI.

I, I don't know, I haven't seen it
from people in probably the lastFrom people.
Well, can we ask you now whatis your favorite film?
Original film in the last twoyears that you thought.
It doesn't have to be yourfavorite, Just a film you
thought was good in the last twoyears.
That is not mainstream, it isnot part of a franchise, Just an

(55:00):
original film, just a simplemovie on its own.

Yeah Shoot, it's tough, I guess I really liked.

No.

Hard Feelings.

No Hard Feelings.

Yeah, that was a good movie.
That one was pretty good.
Actually I've seen that one.
That one was good.
It wasn't too predictable.
It was very random who was init.
It was very random who was init.
It was Jennifer Lawrence.

Oh yeah, oh shit.
You just said that I wouldagree with you on that one.

That wasn't very predictable.
No, it wasn't no.

so I kind of liked how that weaved
out of the you know?

Oh my gosh, there's so many.
I feel like I watch Poor Things.
I really like.

Poor Things, poor things.
I really like poor things.
Did you guys watch that?
I think?

I watched that one .
No, emma stone was in it andwillem dafoe, and it was
basically you know it oh shit,it was a very interesting film
yeah about it was hilarious waitno hard feelings?

yeah, no hard feelings.
Oh okay, I was like poor thingsis like it.
I wouldn't say it's hilarious.
If you guys haven't seen thatone, add that to your list.

That's a very what is it?

Poor Things.

They talked about it and how their prep was very
theatrical.
They spent like months doinglike theater, training and just
like you know, being in a spacetogether and learning to support
each other, and the story is sointeresting.
I thought it was just abeautiful movie and, yeah, that
was one of those where you'relike what the fuck you think
brought back to life by anunorthodox scientist.

A young woman runs off with a
lawyer on a whirlwind adventureacross the continent.
Free from the prejudices of hertime, she grows steadfast in
her purpose to stand forequality and liberation.

Correct.
She's like experiencing, youknow, sexuality for the first
time.
So basically she dies and Ithink her brain of her baby,
because she was pregnant.
When she dies, like it'simported into her own brain A
doctor does that, so she's likea newborn baby mentally, but
she's actually in the body oflike a 20-year-old woman.
That's interesting.
Very interesting.
So you see her like exploringall these things at like an

(57:02):
adult age you know.
So it like puts that likeplayfulness, but also like very
deep things that are like, yeah,when did I learn about that?
Or like how did I learn aboutthat?
She becomes like a prostituteand she's just like these things
are hilarious, but also likevery thought-provoking as to
actually you know what I'll say.

One, um, it was, uh, one night in
soho.
Did you watch that movie?
No, I've never seen that one.

I thought you were about to start a story about no
, no, no, no, I'm talking aboutit.

I was like, oh yes, emotionally
recalling right now.
Yes, who?

who's in it?

uh, the chick from the chess.
Another one that I thought wasit was a series, though that was
pretty good was the one wherethe guy dies and then he goes
into the afterlife.
I don't know what the what wasthat one called?
You're the one that told meabout that is lamb neeson in
that no it's uh, it's uh the oldwhite dude well, anyways, well,
the guy dies and I think thiscould be a possibility in the

(58:00):
future, that you get like a scanof an afterlife.
It's called afterlife,afterlife.
But you can actually feel likeyou know well, you can't.
I mean.

What it's like to die.

Yeah, well, you die.
And then they put you in thislike luxury world, so it's like
a program, but your conscious isstill in that world, so you're
not really dead.

You're like in a oh, but you're kind of living.
Yeah, you're kind of living asyour dad yeah, as your dad.

It's interesting yeah it's really
cool, makes you think, yeah,well, the whole thing was about
they were supposed to go to hell, but their whole point of it
was really purgatory that theywere living in was so they could
prove themselves that they canredeem themselves.
Instead of going to hell, theywould go up to heaven.
It's weird it's really reallyweird.

Another one you guys need to watch this.
It's called blink twice.
Have you seen that?

I saw that one.
Oh my god, that was epsteinisland crazy.

Is that what it's based off?
Yeah, I guess that was anoriginal thought, that that was
like real, real life.
I was like, I was like thisyeah, yeah, yeah.

I saw that and I was like that must be
fucking Epstein Island whatthey do to people, yeah.

I watched on the plane.
I was like Epstein Island andsomeone was like what do you
watch?

I was about to say they're not
blockbuster hits but I'll givethe 80s and 90s movies a million
times better than what I'veseen out here.

I think we need to give them more credit, though,
because their platforms on howyou watch movies now are so
different.
You've got all these differentstreamings and all these
different ways to buy the movie.
You could buy the movie throughPrime Video and have the movie
through Prime Video.

You know what I mean?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So it's like it's hard.
Think about being, you know, afilm writer or a producer and
you're like where is this moviegoing to end up?
You know like it may not end upon the big screen, because that
was the dream you know backthen.

I don't think there's a big screen
anymore.
Is there yeah?

go to AMC Veterans .
I still go to the movies Really.
Yeah, go to AMC Veterans.
Yeah, it's like a safe spacefor me, for sure.

Sean febre & Manny Febre (01:00:04):
Go watch it in Dolby Cinema.

Amanda Brown (01:00:07):
That's the best one.
I didn't even think that therewas Dolby Cinema.
I haven't been into there yet.
Is it good?

Well, you go to the AMC Veterans and
you, bro, oh my God.

It is a different experience.

You got different sound.
You have different visuals.

I love that.
It's amazing.
I'm going to have to check thatout, me and my wife.
I have the premier we live in.

New Tampa, so do I.

You, we live in.

New Tampa.

Instead of going to that one, we'll drive all the
way over here To the Veteransright, it's so good From Tunis,
assam, because the Highwoods onesucks the.

Sean febre & Manny Fe (01:00:38):
Highwoods one sucks.

It's got that little old vibe-y feel it's 100%
.

They got an old 50s car.

Yeah, they have those neon lights.
They're like 50s and all thechairs.

It's cute, none of them are
retractable, so it's like yeah.

I know we're spoiled with that.

I only go to C.
Okay, the bistros, the, the,the service isn't good anyways,
isn't that one in uh hyde park?
Yeah, that's the one in my park.
Yeah, I haven't gone to themovies in in years see, that's
the thing, that's why it'salmost like people aren't going.

That's the thing is like people aren't going to
the theaters anymore.
It's sad you know, and itaffects the industry a lot, as
to one, two like probably, howmuch they care about the movie
you know and like it's beingmade, they're like, well, this
is just going to to be you knownot to hate on to be.
There's a lot of great things,but you know it's just like
that's not as big as you knowthe big screen at amc, don't

(01:01:40):
know.

Have you ever been to a premiere at
AMC Veterans?
Never, no.
Let's say Captain America BraveNew World comes out on the 14th
, but really they havepre-showings on the 13th.
If you go on the 14th, which isa Friday, and you actually sit
down and you pick like a 6 pmmovie time at the Dolby Cinema,

(01:02:04):
that place is packed, it isstraight up packed.

You're so right, especially for Marvel.
Yeah, people show up.

Yeah, but if you go to Highwoods, even
on the premiere day, the placeis empty.
Really, if it's a good, yeah,it's empty.
I didn't know that you do go tothe theater like that.
Oh, I go to, I'm an amc a stubsreward member you need to get
into this business you know somuch about it, I love, I love
movies, yeah, or?

like agent manager like there's so many different
ways I I listen to all thepodcasts.
I listen to podcasts ofdirectors speaking how they
could direct actors or likeagents, how they got into the.
I listen to all aspects of itand I just I feel like there's a
place for everybody if you wantto be in it.

The problem is we're not in the
state where it is something thatis prevalent.

Yet I feel like Florida will come back.

Yeah.
Miami tried to get there andMiami actually didn't do much,
did they?
Because everybody's worriedabout selling Coke.

They've got different priorities.
No, I'm just kidding.
Right next to the Internationalthere.
Actually, what was?

that Netflix one that you told me
about, of the Cuban lady thatcame from Cuba.
Oh, griselda, griselda.

Oh, sofia Vergara, Did you know that was?
That was a good one.

Was it good?

Yeah, it was really good, I heard she was
like she kind of stepped out ofher type.
She was there, it is there, itis.
She fucking did it.

Yeah, rain jacket Did you know that
was Sofia Vergara, of course,nigga.
Oh, I didn't know that.
I'm crying.

I had no clue.

They that big ass nose?
I watched a video of herprocess.
Yeah, the fucking family waspissed off because they said
that it didn't look like I was.
Like bro, did you see theoriginal Griselda?
This was a fucking upgrade.
You guys got lucky Because theyshould have fucking put.
You know, the beast from Beautyand the Beast.

I know, I think the family was like suing.
I know they were like that,doesn't?

look like her.
You know, I think so, becauseit doesn't look like her.
I was like bro, you guys gotfucking lucky, you got Sofia
Vergara.

That's like.

Jordan Belfort suing because Leonardo
DiCaprio doesn't look like him.
Yeah, that's basically what itwas.
That's stupid.

Yeah, this is a hot take too, but I also think
there's a lot of people who areafraid to write now because of
the sensitivity of audiences.
Obviously, like I'm a very likeyou know, I'm not going to
touch that either.
I get it, but there are somethings where it's like dude make
a joke.

Yeah, it's common, it's good.

Like, obviously there's like boundaries where
you shouldn't cross.
Just know that though.
You know, do your research.
I think Also it's like ifyou're gonna make a joke, be
educated about it and know thatit's a joke, lay it out there,
you know, put it.

Ricky Gervais doesn't give a shit.
Love you, ricky.
Yeah, you don't know who RickyGervais is.
I know who the fuck he is manno, I don't know who that is.

Is he a comedian?

yeah, he's a comedian.
He produced the Office.

I'm embarrassed that I don't know that you still
have never seen the.

Sean febre & Manny Febr (01:05:03):
Fucking Office.

I've seen some of the Office yeah.
I just haven't watched it.
Chronologically, I'll watchthese random episodes.

Do we have time for final words?
No, we'll have to do it on thenext one.

No time.
Can you do one more?
Yeah, okay, coming back for apart two.

Yeah, part two All right, guys, we're
back with Happy Hour Holidays.
We kind of just cut it rightthere 10 seconds and then boom,
it blew up.
She says she's not charging forthis session.

This session is good.
It's time We'll talk about it.
I hope my people call yourpeople what the fuck, damn, we
don't have any people Does anattorney count.

No, she's got an agent.
So yeah, so you know what?
We have an agent too, SteveFantetti with Fantetti Legal and
Sports Empowerment Agency.
He's a sports agent Nice.

Wait, that's sick.
You guys are with them.
No, no, no, he's just a buddyof ours.
He's a buddy of ours.
Oh, okay, guys are with them.
Yeah, well, no, no, no, it'sjust a buddy of ours?

yeah, he started he was our, he was
our corporate attorney for ourbusiness, and then he wanted to
do something more and he startedthe uh, empowerment was it,
isn't it?
Empowerment athletics, yeah,empowerment athletics, or
athletic empower, yeah well,anyway, so now he's representing
a whole bunch of, because nowthe nil deals and all this stuff
, people are making money.
He represents NFL players and.
Ncaa players, and then highschool players coming up trying

(01:06:28):
to get some deals from thecollege.

Eventually podcasters yeah maybe podcasters
.
He specializes in sports.
I see, he's just a friend ofours.
Cool, see.
Did you hear that?

You're a friend of ours.
Amanda have you ever thoughtabout a movie in your head,
amanda?
Have you ever thought about amovie in your head Like you know
?
Like how do you think about,like you know?
I'm just like thinking like amovie that you kind of thought
about in your head you know,just like skidded it out in your
head Like I don't know, kind ofAlmost, like you know, like I
don't know, I just like.
Back then I used to think aboutmovies and I think, oh my God,

(01:07:01):
god this would be funny, yeah,like yeah, you know, like you
start putting pieces together ofscenes and then you start going
oh my god, I think this moviewould be fucking hilarious.
So you know, I'm just like Idon't know if you've ever done
that, but I I'm talking aboutmaking one up yeah, make it a
movie, but you're published abook.
Yeah, oh yeah, he did publish abook yeah, I'm publishing my
second one, actually, which isgoing to be called the Broken

(01:07:24):
Paradox.
That's why we call them theResume, because you make sure to
let everybody know I'm this,I'm this.
You call him the Resume.
Hey, you got to tell them.
Let them know that's it.

Let them know I feel like I do that every day,
like I'm always doing like theselittle things.

Like I'm just like, that was crazy.

I feel like someone needs to see that happen
again.

And that's what, and you write that
down, yeah.

I need to start writing it down, but that's what
I think.

Or type it down the social media
aspect of it could be huge forpeople looking to break through
in the acting, so right it couldbe.
That's another thing too, is I?

know, um, I watched this youtube video of
this guy who got onto strangerthings because somebody looked
at like this little skit he madehe put on youtube and that's it
like dude, that was so goodlike and he like got his role on
stranger things, on that yeahit's crazy like create your own
things.
and another thing about being inthis industry is like you have
to have a life outside of it,Because if you're sitting there

(01:08:27):
waiting on news for like, if youbooked it, you're going to go
crazy, You're going to.
You know you can't define yourworth based off bookings, based
on the money you make from thatjob.
You know it's like you got tohave things outside of that.
Yeah, your quality of life.

Are you just talking about
additional sources of income?
Is that what you mean?

I guess, not totally.

It could be both.

Yeah, it could be both.

Or are you talking about a social
aspect?

That part too.
It's everything you want.
To be a well-rounded person.
How can you portray humancharacters who have experienced
real life when you don't?
You sit there on the couchwaiting for an email For a call.

Yeah, you know or a call.
I say email because email isnot funny.

It was probably calls back then.
Damn, how old am I?
No, I'm just kidding.
Well, if you book somethinglike big, yeah, I'm sure an
agent's going to call you.
Yeah, you know.
But like I'm not saying Ihaven't done anything, you,
they're going to be like listen,you got the fucking role.

Right, that's actually what they did
with Gal Gadot when she madeWonder Woman or got the Wonder
Woman part.
She was in an airplane.
She's so good in that Connectedto the Wi-Fi and her agent
called her, not emailed her.
Called her Whoa.

Wow, she started like-, not that old.

Well, shit bro, I mean Wonder Woman.
It's Wonder Woman, right.

Yeah.

Sean febre & Manny Febr (01:09:44):
Started screaming on the plane Well,
not screaming, but super excitedand the guy next to her didn't
even know she was an actress.

Right.

She was actually on her way back to
Israel because that was her homecountry and she was going to
quit acting until she got thatphone call mid-flight.
I love that Wild.

You always hear those stories, huh, when they're
about to quit.

Yeah.

Just happens.
John Kravinsky with the Office.

John Kravinsky.
Oh really.

Yeah, he was about to quit, yeah, until he got
that role.

True story you didn't know that Shit,
jim.
I also read Jim Halpert.

The girl who played Pam oh yeah, pam, yeah,
pam on the actor's life and shewas the same way, it's crazy.
She put all her experiencesinto a book and she's like I was
just at the point where, like Iwas done, you know, and she,
like you know, got this littleaudition for this pilot that was
happening and she was like Idon't know what's gonna happen
with this.

You know and just you know, but they
were all living.
They were all living in la,though at that time right I
think so.

I think she was saying she was living in LA.
She was living in LA for awhile, I think, before she got
that role.

But she did a couple other ones.
She was on Dewey Cox Hall Pass.
She was on Hall Pass, but thatwas after, after the Office.
I think Dewey Cox might havebeen before.

I mean.

John Krasinski did the Jack Ryan
season.

1 season, 2 season 3 he also created A Quiet Place
.

Yeah, A Quiet Place 1 A Quiet Place.

2.

He created that movie, yeah he was
a writer or director orsomething.
What about the Indian Girl?
The Indian Girl had a show.
No, not anything good.

I don't even know, steve.

Carell Kelly.

Kelly Kapoor.
Kelly Kapoor, yeah.

And then Steve Carell.

But he was already kind of.
No, he wasn't bro, he was a40-year-old virgin.

No, that was after the Office, it
was.

Yeah, steve.

Carell blew up after the Office and
then nobody wanted to cast Jimbecause everybody associated him
with Jim Halbert.
And then nobody wanted to castJim because everybody associated
him with Jim Halbert.
Yeah, yeah, that's anotherthing and the same with Rainn
Wilson, who played Dwight.
I mean he's what played in afew movies, but I mean he was in
Sahara with Matthew McConaugheyand Rocker the Rocker, yeah,

(01:12:00):
the Rocker guy, and then, oh,the Rocker.
Are you talking about the movie?

Yeah, the movie, the movie.

And then also he played the rich
billionaire in the Meg and thenother than that he hasn't done
much.
But these people are receivingresiduals off of every time
their show.
I'm good, Send me the checks.

Why don't you go fuck?

about working Bro.
Can you think about a movieJerry Seinfeld has done?
None, I can Frost, none I canfrost it.
It's on netflix.
It's with melissa mccarthy andit's about.
It's about pop tarts andkellogg's.
Oh yeah, I remember that one.
Did you watch the movie yeah?

yeah, I watched that one.
It's a whole movie about.
It's a whole movie, but it'sall about comedy.

It's about comedy, it's comedy, but
it's based on the truth.
Yeah, but that's the only moviehe's done and it took him how
many?
20, 20 fucking years?
He probably didn't want to doanything.
I mean, he, you know he is the.
No, I don't think he's therichest actor ever, but he's
worth like close to like 500million.
I got that in my fucking pocketfrom from a show, don't we all?

from a show residuals are very different
nowadays.
I was just listening to apodcast and someone said that
because theirs is like onNetflix, it's not the same as it
would have been if it was onlike a TV show, you know.
So, like, payouts are verydifferent nowadays too, so it's
like that was like the boomingtime, but now it's just like it
is harder to make money.
Actors are always fighting.
Yeah, no, I mean, there isFighting for their place.

It's really hard to make money
because of all those streamingservices.
I mean it's like Well, thenagain it's also providing a way
to create content, becauseNetflix comes out with movies.
I mean Amazon Prime comes outwith movies, yeah, but they're
probably taking a big chunk outof those shows and movies.
Because they're like, like youwant it on our platform.
You know, it's not like there'smultiple networks nowadays.

(01:13:47):
So have you ever heard of therings of power?
No, have you heard of lord ofthe rings?
Yeah, so the rings of power isa two season, it's been greenlit
for a third and it is a aprequel to the lord of the rings
.
And that show those individualsamazon is paying to be able to
do it to jr tolkien or whateverthe hell the name is dude.

(01:14:11):
These streaming services arestill providing a gateway for
actors and actresses to make alot of money they're taking a
lot of money now, if you'retalking, about like hulu.
I mean yeah, hulu ain't got nomoney From Silicon Valley movie.

What?
Why do you say like Hulu?
Well, I'm just saying I feellike Hulu and Netflix are pretty
, you know?
No, I would say so.

I used to love the Hulu, but then
YouTube TV came out, and then Ijust YouTube TV yeah.
Really.

What?
Where the fuck are you?
You're into YouTube TV.

Yeah, is that more for sports?
No well, there's literallysports, but it's tv.
It's like a cable, it's like ithas like all the channels there
, like that.
Once that came out, I droppedhulu because this one was way
better, but it's just likehaving spectrum I have spectrum.
I mean I, I love spectrum Iwent from like fucking 60 bucks
to now it's like almost 100, butthat's some of the how much do
you?
Pay for your internet.
Internet, I think like 60.
All right, so now you're reallyat 160 yeah that's how much I

(01:15:09):
pay for your spectrum.
That's crazy, there's so manyyeah but the thing is I still
have all the other ones becauseI like, because there's
different sports on each of them, so I can't miss out paramount,
plus you know paramount plusyeah, yeah, I like, do you have
have?
You watched Landsman?
Landsman no with Billy BobThornton.

I just started like the first 30 seconds but I
was like I want to like actuallysit and watch this.
Some shows I'll like play inthe background of like if I'm
getting ready, or not, I knowit's bad but, like if I know the
characters voices, I'll justacting because, like, I like to
also watch yeah, it's either butthere's certain shows where
I'll have to sit and watchwhat's your favorite show?
My favorite show ever.

No sure, no, yeah let's go, let's
go ever, as long as it's withinthe last, like five years, this
is gonna determine who you areyes, stop, no pressure I feel
like she's gonna say strangerthings oh, that's a good one,
it's definitely up there.

I've never watched that show.
You know Stranger Things?
Oh, that's a good one, it'sdefinitely up there.

I've never watched that show?

You know they film in Atlanta oh they do.

It's like yeah, oh shit.

I feel like it's so close to home we should.

I felt like it was a show with too
many teenagers, so it wasn'treally something that you don't
like.
The Beanie Boppers I get it.
The teeny boppers, the teenyboppers.

So you guys aren't into the whole young adult
thing I actually am.

What's the Outer Banks?

You like Outer Banks?
I've watched it all.

I do like the Outer Banks too.
It is so good.
Some of it is a little ChubbyChubby.

Chubby.

Chubby .

I'd cast you no that one was tough.

My brother told me about it.

I like Treasure Hunting, and I was just like
it's Treasure Hunting.

The teeny bopper part of it I didn't
care for.
But the plot was so good.
It was really good, yeah, butthe Treasure Hunting.

But it's a treasure hunting.

The Treasure Hunting is the best
part about it.
Yeah, you're going to get thisteen drama, but whatever it's
all about, oh shit, they'regonna find blackbeard's treasure
.
You know, that's the cool part,that's the part I liked it.

I liked it I feel like I had I categorized my
shows by faves into like comfort, like ones you could watch over
and over again, or like actual,like the plot was crazy or like
you have to like you have toknow these characters, you get
to know them.
If it's like more of like that,like you get to know the
characters and their stories,it's Game of Thrones, I feel
like I could watch that over andover again.

The characters are so complex.
I can only watch it once onlybecause it is so fucked up.

It is yeah.
Maybe I shouldn't say that's myfavorite.

It is so fucked up.
No, but it's great.
It's great, it's amazing.
I think cinematically, like howthey had like all those people
and just like all the thingsthat went into making this show.
Where's my sister?

Yeah, yeah, dude, that shit was crazy.
I was like it just touches a,it crosses a line.

It crosses a line, but that's why
it was so good.

Yes, Also Euphoria kind of crosses that line, but
it's also very like real.
Have you guys ever seeneuphoria?
I've never actually watched.
Yeah, it's one of those youngadult ones.
That's why I asked you guysyeah, and it just it.
It has a lot of topics that youknow high schoolers really deal
with, obviously like dramatizefor hollywood purposes, but I

(01:18:16):
like which one is your comfortone?
Then my comfort show.

You could just like play in the
background.

Mine's big bang theory big bang, big Bang Theory
, that's mine.

Sean febre & Manny Feb (01:18:24):
Seinfeld the Office.

Okay, mine's Gilmore Girls and Jane the
Virgin.

I'm admitting this on camera.
I used to watch Gilmore Girls.
I'm not even kidding.

It's so good.
It's a comfort show.
It's a good like seasonal show.
They got their Christmasdinners.

I don't have a vagina, off the
record.
I'm not a trans woman Cryingand you don't have to be.

I love that you know you can admit that it was a
good storyline.
It's a good storyline.

Just like One Tree Hill, the
sentiment is One Tree Hill.

I only watched that once because that one sent
me.

I felt like I was crying every episode
Yo remember I was that one sentme like I felt, like I was
crying every episode.

Yo remember I was with our younger sister.
She wanted to watch this shit.
I had to watch it, so I mean it, you sit on the toilet when you
pee.
Hey, I'm not with that, I thinkyou can watch whatever you want
to watch.
People can be in touch withtheir feelings if they want to
watch the hills, whether they'rea man or a woman?

I don't know what that is.
That's true or other?

Or other.

Or other.
Everybody can.
You know you can watch whatever.
There's no other anymore.
That's, so to speak, I guessListen once you've watched so
much, you learn that it's notabout what it's about.
It's about is it good or not.
You know.
If it's bad, I'll stop watchingit.
I've turned on movies whereI'll watch the first five
minutes.
I did this with Barbie.

(01:19:48):
Actually, I watched the firstfive minutes and I was like I
can't watch this.
It was too political in myopinion.
That's what it was.
Oh, okay, that was it.

If that's like an opinion, it's an opinion thing,
then yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,it's a fact.

I think, looking at a movie, that
was a fact.

Okay, I think, looking at it as a movie
standpoint.

It was demonizing men.
That was their message.

Demonizing men.
That's what you got from it.

For the first five minutes you
didn't.

I feel like you didn't.
Yeah, you didn't watch themovie.
No, I didn't.

It shows Okay, host.
Well, that's not co-host.

You're the host.
I'm not trying to get politicalhere.

No.

But I think I mean Barbie brought people to the
theaters.
Barbie brought people towearing pink Barbenheimer.
Oh God, I hated Oppenheimer.
I loved Oppenheimer.
See, yeah, that's exactlyContrasting.

Sean febre & Manny Fe (01:20:40):
Everybody can have their own opinion.

Right, and it brought people to theaters.
That Everybody can have theirown opinion Right, and I brought
people to theaters.
That's what matters to theindustry anyways is like getting
people to come out and watch amovie.
Right and have theseconversations.

Did you ever watch the scary movie
Long Legs?
No, okay, I was in the movietheater.
It was last year in like aroundHalloween.
It was a horror movie.
I was there for 15 minutes withme, my wife and my niece.
I watched about 15 minutes ofit and I was like let's go this
movie's trash.

I feel like a lot of scary movies can be hit or
miss.
There's never an in-between.
What I'm saying is that no, Imean, it's the same shit all the
time.

What I'm saying is, you know,
Barbie's not a scary movie.

It was, it was scary.

I can identify in 10 to 15 minutes if
a movie is going to be good orbad just based on its content
and who they're playing to.
I may not be the audiencemember that they're trying to
attract.
That's really what it is.
I've always wanted to be a filmcritic, but that's too much
writing and we know ai is takingthat over if you get anything
from this video, just knowwriters will be gone not my
words.
Yeah, my words, yeah, my words,I guess.

So I guess it's all like opinion based as well.
You know, I like some moviesthat some people don't like and
I'm like wait, I loved it, likeBlack Widow.
I know there was a lot of likehate when it came out and I
didn't watch it for the longesttime.
I went back and watched itFirst of all.
I love Florence Pugh andScarlett Johansson.

And then David.

Harbour was in it too, and I only knew him from
Stranger Things.
But I was like, oh, he's inthis.
And then I saw it and I waslike, wait, this is actually
really good.
I don't know why people hatedon it.
You know, you know what theproblem was.

It was that it was released through I
don't know.
It was released in theaters forlike what four weeks and and
then Scar Jo lost a shit ton ofmoney on it.
Sue Disney got paid out.
She never disclosed the amountbecause she signed a
nondisclosure.
They did her dirty becausethere should have been a Black
Widow movie a long time ago.

(01:22:33):
Everybody loves ScarlettJohansson and Florence Pugh
David.
Is that the Red Guardian?

Yes, he plays Hopper in Stranger Things.
He's like the police officerguy.
Oh yeah, you didn't watch thatyeah.

So he was amazing, and now we got
Thunderbolts coming out, he'llbe in there.
Florence will be in there.
I'm so excited.
Yeah, sebastian Stan he's areally good actor too.
I don't know the other two thatare in there.
Ghost and fuck the wannabeCaptain America.

Oh, and her ghost and um fuck the wannabe captain
america.

But uh , yeah, I know you're talking
about.
What was it?
The winter falcon and thewinter soldier?
Yeah, I just don't know hisname.
But that movie, that movie wasamazing.
I don't know why anybody talksshit about it and that final
scene, while spoiler alert theentire.

Red.

Room was falling out of the sky and
she's got no parachute and she'sfucking flying through the sky.
Bro, that's insane.
She did that for real yeah.
That's crazy.
I don't have to watch it now Ididn't know she had a sign of
NDA.

I didn't know about all that drama.

Maybe that's why it wasn't good that
she sued Disney.
Yeah, I didn't know.

Maybe that's why people were hating on it, I
didn't know.
But, like I said, I think it'sin the eye of the beholder,
right, as people say, and that'sthe beauty of movie making, I
think, is like, hey, this couldland and this might not.

So what's your favorite Marvel
movie Ever?
I can tell you mine CaptainAmerica.

Once again.

First Avenger what's yours?
Oh, let mine, Captain America.

First Avenger.
What's yours?
Let me tell you mine.
Captain America, the FirstAvenger.
Captain America, first Avenger.
Yep, that wasn't the very firstone, right?
No, okay.

But it was the first Captain America.
Captain America, the FirstAvenger it's when he's skinny
and then they juice him up.

Oh, yeah, okay, I just watched that last night.

I re-watched it.

It was really good that one's so good.
I think that one is really goodbecause there's not many
different realms and universesand things going on, that you
can just focus on the main plot.
Mine would be Guardians of theGalaxy.

Which volume?
One, two or three.

I loved three because I love Rocket, but I'm
going to have to go with one.
It was really dark, yeah, itwas Sam.
Raimi was the director.
Oh, it was a different directorthis time around.
Sam Raimi, no, no, it was.

James Gunn.
It was James Gunn on that one.
Okay, I was thinking aboutDoctor Strange.
But yeah, he decided to go.
That was actually the lastmovie he made for Marvel before
he left to dc wow, I did notknow that what about yours?
For what?
marvel movie x-men x-men okayokay, no, no, I mean I like

(01:25:15):
marvel, but I'm not, we got twominutes 20 seconds.
All right, two minutes, amanda.
We really appreciate you comingon happy hour holidays.
What do you have to tell theaudience?
Somebody who may be aspiring tobe an actress or an actor, um,
or anything you want to tell usabout the movie industry that
you figured out?

tell the audience, kind of educate them real quick
yeah, of course I would saypack a couple of things um
confidence, delusion andmotivation.
You, you got to have pockets ofmotivation throughout the day.
It's literally an industry ofrejection.
You're told no 99% of the time.

So you're like a salesperson.

Really.

Yeah.

And get used to it and take those yeses and
callbacks and yeah, we'll seeyou.
Take those as wins, even ifit's just little things, even if
you don't book the job.
Take everything as a winbecause, yeah, rejection can be
tough.
Take those as wins, even ifit's just little things, even if
you don't book the job.
Take everything as a winBecause, yeah, rejection can be
tough and you just have to be.
You got to have that toughshell for it and, like I said,
be delusional Manifest.
You know, I'm like I picturemyself on a Marvel set this year

(01:26:17):
.
That's how I think you know.

Hell yeah.

I will be on the set.

The Young Avengers.

I literally wrote that in my manifesting journal.

Three years from now yeah.

No way it's possible Guys, come back to this
in three years.

Yeah, no absolutely do.

Yeah, no, I'm like taking stunt training classes.
Oh really yeah.

That's awesome.

Yeah, and be prepared.
That's another thing is liketomorrow you could be handed
this role and it's like if youdon't have the skillset or like
you're not prepared, hello,they're going to go with
somebody else who's ready youknow, so be ready at all times.

That's great.
I mean, that's, that's the wayyou got to be in life.
I mean, you just got tomanifest it.
Work as hard as you can, causeyou can always.
As long as you're on time,you're consistent, you can
always outwork somebody who'smore talented to you.

Exactly.
And have fun with it.
This is such a fun industry,too, that I think people forget
about it.
Once I started learning thebusiness side of it, I started
getting a little nervous.
I was like, okay, this is a lot, you're marketing yourself, but
just remember to have fun.
We're literally playing.
Pretend you think about it, andkids do that all the time.

No, that's awesome.
Really appreciate Amanda Browncoming in.
Thank you for having me.
You've been awesome.
It's been a great experiencetalking about all the actor,
actresses, movies, all this kindof stuff man, writers.

AI.
We went through everythingtoday.

Yeah, we went through a ton Like,
comment and subscribe.
Thank you out there to all thefans that support us.
Peace out, We'll see you nextweek.
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