July 17, 2025 • 38 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:20):
Welcome to Bruisers, a podcast about beer, coffee, booze and bruisers.
I'm your host, Rody John and today we talked to
actress Kristin Duff. We talk about her journey into acting,
what she's majoring in, and so much more. This is
such a fun conversation. Kristen is doing absolutely great things
in her young career in the acting world, and I
can't wait to see what the future holds. But you
don't want to hear from me, you want to hear
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from her. So without further ado, here is actress Kristin Duff.
I would like to welcome to show. Kristin Duff. How
are you doing today? Man?
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Hi, I'm doing very well. It's been running outside, but
I've been finding the positives, so there you go.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Yeah, for those listening kind of panties, A word picture
where you at? What's going on around here? Does I drain? Obviously?
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Yeah? I am currently in Kentucky. I am originally from
eastern Kentucky, but now I've moved to central Kentucky.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
How do you like it?
Speaker 2 (01:22):
I like it? Honestly, I like it a lot better
because it's not like I like the mountains, but at
the same time. From where I'm from, we have mountains
like everywhere in the humidity is crazy. But I mean,
I will say I'm honored to be from Eastern Kentucky.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
What's your favorite thing about Eastern Kentucky.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
My favorite thing about Eastern Kentucky would definitely be I
probably said the culture. I would say I like the
culture I'm from, and there's a lot of wittiness and
a lot of just I don't know, we just have
like a very kind of like a joyful culture. I
don't really know how to explain it, but yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Like that a lot.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Well, let's go all the way back in time. What
is your earliest memory of the arts?
Speaker 2 (02:13):
My earliest memory of the arts, it's probably when I
was probably my very first Christmas play and that was
probably when I was like seven, which I've always wanted
to be an actress when I was younger, but that's
probably my earliest.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
What role did you play?
Speaker 2 (02:36):
I played? I played an angel in a Christmas play.
That was my earliest.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
What was it about I get? Well, like you said
you wanted to be an actress before that? What was
the thing that you saw on TV? And You're like,
I want to do that or was it even a
TV It could have been a play.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Oh yeah, I couldn't even be that too. It was
probably Hannah Montana. I remember seeing that. I was like,
that's what I want to do. I want to be
Hannah Montana.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
It's worked out really well for her, so I think
I think you could be on or something.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
I got lucky with it, so thank you. Well.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
When you when you got that first role and you
were on the stage, I mean even at seven years old,
you're going to feel that, like, what was what was
that experience like for you?
Speaker 2 (03:25):
I will say I was really excited, but I was
so nervous. I was like, it was a very small role,
but it was at the same time very like big
road because it was an angel. But I was very
nervous because that was my very first time being in
front of that many people and fucking infron of that
many people. But it was a lot of fun. I
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really liked it and it really brought a lot in
the future.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
So true. Yeah, Plus you have to you get this
first ones out of the way. Is that way you
got to get the nerves out of your system and everything.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Well, and then you went onto modeling or did you
continue acting or did the model? Like which, how did
the how did the series of events kind of go
for you?
Speaker 2 (04:07):
I kind of always did do that. I always did acting,
and I kind of picked up the modeling when I
was about fifteen years old, okay, and I just kind
of picked up that, and that's where pretty much everything started,
like acting, modeling, I did some producing and it just
kind of came at the same time, and all these
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doors opened and I just kept on going on before
keeping on.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
What were some other acting roles you had early before
you got into the modeling and everything.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Acting roles I had before modeling was a feature film
I filmed in Atlanta. Oh yeah, that was probably my
That was my very first film.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Which one was it?
Speaker 2 (04:55):
It was called Amani okay?
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Oh was that the horror movie?
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:00):
How was that?
Speaker 2 (05:02):
It was? Honestly, it was like it was a very
big experience for me because that was my very first
time doing anything like with horror or thriller. And when
I first did that, I was like, oh my gosh,
Like I wonder if like something actual like supernatural will happen.
Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Yeah, I mean I haven't been on any a lot
of movie sets, but I feel like the horror ones
probably are more fun, but also because of the fact
that you do have to be scared out of your
mind or act like the spared out of your mind,
so like they need that other side to kind of
live in the whole place up.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Yeah, yeah, you also have to like act like you're
scared out of your mind, but you also have to
be like actually like scared out of your mind. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Yeah, You're gonna ride that fine line of like is
this reality or is this not so?
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Yeah, Well you touched on the fact that you did
some producing early on as well. How did I mean
you're modeling your acting and then you ended up producing
as well? Tell us how that even came about?
Speaker 2 (06:08):
So pretty much? I how that pretty much all started acting,
modeling producing. I did my very first acting class on
my fifteenth birthday.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
That's cool.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Yeah, it was really neat, Like I actually I got
to I got the chance to do it with a
TikTok star named Ellie on Again, and she always like
was the woman that I'd be like, read the blue
line and she would like act out and she did
like pretty good on that got famous from it, yea,
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And she like did like this free acting class, and
I just did on my fifteenth birthday. I was like, heck,
let's see what happens from you year. Yeah, and I
joined it. I made a lot of friends, and especially
the acting part. I was like because it was just
it was kind of like easy, but it was like
it was new and it just felt like it was right.
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It felt like it sat right with like my life
and just something I just want to do my whole
entire life. So I start off that and I just
kicked on from that.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
So I love that. Well, how did the producing happen?
Speaker 2 (07:20):
So the producing happened? That happened when I was filming
the movie Imani, and the director of Imani, she was like, hey,
I think you'd be a good producer, and especially at
being so young, I think starting producing would be a
lot different at that age and would also even get
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you more out there. And I was like, okay, So
I started producing short film and I produced one short film,
one feature and another short film and I kind of
did that like within three years, and really that just
got me to do in producing and I really enjoyed
that as well.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Wow, very nice, Thank you. Are there any other roles
that you. I mean, you're still so early in your
career and you obviously you know, hopefully this guy's the limit.
But what are some other things that you're seeing happening
behind the scenes that you're like, Oh, I wouldn't mind
trying to do that.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Yeah, behind the scenes, I would say, let's see. Probably
I've really want to try like assistant directing or even
directing one day. I think i'd be really cool. But yeah,
I've watched a lot of that, especially, I've done a
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lot of extra work for like bigger films, and I've
watched him like almost like backstage. I'd be like, that
seems so cool, Like I want to do that. And
I also liked write, So that's.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Yeah, yeah, that's what. So what have you written? What
have you written so far? You're okay, I've written a.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Screenplay, I've written another script. It was like, yeah, I
wrote a feature film and a script for a short film.
And that short film was also a thriller film, and
that was my first one. Thank you, no, thank you
so much.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Problem. Yeah. So, I mean, so you've been around all
these different actors. Who are some people that you've kind
of really talked to or you know, after everything wrapped
or even the after the scenes, like, hey, would you
think what can I do better? You know who's did
some people you kind of leaned on?
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Who I pretty much go to pretty much, who I
lean on to get that feedback is usually I'll have
like since I was so young and started like in
acting and stuff, but I was pretty much like a teenager,
so it wasn't like too bad I come to age.
But usually when I like went to people for advice,
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it was like kindkind of like a person like older
than me that I was like, I would guess looked
as this world model. Okay, yeah, and usually like they
acted with me or they were like a director that
I aspired to be later on. But yeah, that's really cool,
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thank you.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Who's the first person you're kind of around and you
were just kind of like inside like freaking out, kind
of fan girling out.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
I would say that one was probably the film I
worked on with Eric Roberts. Oh yeah, I fangirled over that.
I was like, oh my gosh, but yeah, I was
so nervous to work with him and he's very sweet,
like he's awesome to work with. Yeah, I was like
I was almost a nervous wreck. I was like, oh
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my gosh.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Yeah, you put the extra nerves of like, Okay, I
really can't mess this up now because he's here.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
And yeah, I was like, I can't us this up.
I have to just when I act, I have to
remember or just make something up.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Yeah, exactly. Now. I read that you speaks four languages. Yes,
what for languages or do you speak?
Speaker 2 (11:15):
I am I speak Spanish, I can speak So. My
dad also went Overseas a lot in my life. He
is in the military, so he'd come back and teach
me languages and I was really really young, but yeah,
that was pretty cool. And just from that I learned Arabic.
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There's a language called Tree that's from a tribe in
Africa that my dad worked with. Wow, and he was
in the military, so that was that's pretty neat. I
did that Tree, Spanish, and I know.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Tai Okay.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Very nice, thank you.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Yeah, very interesting languages to learn too.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Yeah, it is. It's like a mixture of like got Africa,
Spanish and tie love it thank you well.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Yeah. I also read that you you play instruments as well.
What do you What do you play?
Speaker 2 (12:15):
I played the guitar, U galle and piano, Okay, Yeah,
it was like I've played pianos until I was thirteen,
and everything else just came kind of came in the way.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
So yeah, yeah, well learning those instruments, you kind of, yes,
you can, especially now you could just go on YouTube
and learn them a lot easier, but you still kind
of get a bait. You've still got to do it yourself.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
So getting the.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Actual learning process down. Is there like a couple of
different ways that you kind of learned it or was
it just something you just kind of just started, you know,
messing with and then you figured it out on your own.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
I don't guess. It's kind of like something I messed with,
but I went on YouTube and I've just kind of
taught myself from YouTube videos and then memorize those chords and
then started like just practicing and practicing and practicing until
I could get those like chords and then get those
songs in pretty much stuff like that. And I went
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for piano, guitar, and ukulele.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Yeah. Yeah, have you written? Do you write a lot
of songs or you just like to play?
Speaker 2 (13:22):
I just like to play. I haven't really yet. I
kind of did it like I kind of did it
as a hobby for a little bit, and then people
asked me, oh, do you play this instrument? We can
probably use you for a film if you can like
play this instrument, do these chords sounds like yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Sure, yeah, it's true, just another thing that you get
to be like, yeah, I could do that also yeah yeah. Well,
I mean when it came to acting the same way,
there's so many different ways to act and people I
forget exactly the multiple teachers that people will always reference.
But what kind of what method of acting do you
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really enjoy kind of using, whether it be method or
you know, getting yourself in the situation or how do
how do you like to learn it?
Speaker 2 (14:09):
That's a really good question because like my my ways
of acting is kind of like a mixture of method.
I kind of try to do like I try to
get myself in somebody else's shoes. Like if there's a
character that's not like like does it have the same
life as me, I'll try to get my life in
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their shoes and I'll see like what would I do
if I was in that situation or what would I
do if I was in their shoes? And then really
with method, I do a lot of method acting. When
it's crying on cue, the kind of like I kind
of I try to remember something that's like really sad
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or it's just something that happened, and then I'll just
make myself cry really or just cry. Sometimes it comes
nash like sometimes you're like, okay, I'll cry on cue.
But it takes practice. It takes a lot.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Now I did. That was one of my questions. I'm
glad you brought that crying on que up. Have you
used that skill not at work, maybe to your advantage
in other personal situations?
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Actually, honestly, that is a good skill for personal situation
because like you want to make somebody feel sorry for you. Yeah, there.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
You got a ticket. Yeah you can if you're in
a fight with your partner or.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Whatever it is, especially a ticket.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
I read that and I was like, I got to
ask her if she's used it, And.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Honestly, yeah, this year I got pulled over once and
it was over. I was like driving from home to
my college and I got pulled over, and.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
I was like, dang it, what are you going to
school for right now?
Speaker 2 (16:01):
I'm going to school for journalism and political sciences?
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Really, yeah, what do you want to do with those really.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
With the political sciences, it's kind of like a plan B.
I guess, like, yeah, like my dad was in the military,
my mom's family was all in the military, so I
was like, I kind of think it'd be cool if
I worked in like politics or like just did something
with that. And maybe with the journalism, if I wanted
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to do like political writing, I could do that, or
I could like write about pretty much a journalism you
can basically write about anything really.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
But yeah, yeah, I feel like, specially living in America,
that we'll always being some kind of war, so there
will always be something to cover, and then politics is
just so it's well right now. Unfortunately it's so one
or the other. It's not there's no like middle ground
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somehow for these people. And if it is, like then
you're just then lumped into this like you're a libertarian
or whatever. I'm like, that's not how this works. Like
it's not like it's not a yang and yang, like
there's only two and then that's it. Like I don't know,
I don't know what the hell's going on.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
I don't get that neither. Like it's like you can't
it's almost like you have to be like in one
side thing or the other, and it's like you can't
be in the middle because it's like I feel like
it's really like big correct this thing. I don't really know. Yeah,
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I don't really know how to describe it, but it's
very chaotic.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Well I mean, obviously it's tribalism, but it's at the
same time it's we're just like no one is wanting
to actually have conversations with people. They're just they're just like, oh,
you believe this, and we're just gonna lump everything else that.
You know. That kind of people also think so that
you know, you may not even think of any of
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those just one thing. They're just like, no, you're everything
else too.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
I hope that we get out of it at some point,
but it's just it's unfortunate.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
It's just unfortunate. Like, oh, if you're like on this
side of the political stuff, I don't even know what
to call it. My brain's like ah, but it's like
if you're on that side of the political branch thing,
it's like, oh, like I can't get along with you
because you're like either Republican or Democrat, and that's just yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Yeahs even though that like we all breathe there, we
all have blood in our bodies, like it's we're all, yeah,
we're all people at the end of the day. Like
it's just it's yeah, it's just really dumb. And I
anytime people are like, oh, which side are I'm like,
I hate all politics in general, So none of them,
none of the abounth.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Place like on a slider reason I have a major
in it is more like I want to like know,
like why is there so much political correctness? Really? Like
for me, I'm more of an independent person, Like I'm
not really on any side because I just I don't know.
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I don't know which set I'm on, and I don't
really care which sun I'm on.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Right, Yeah. Well, also they're so they're not the same
party as they always happen, like, I mean that's just
with people too, Like you don't otherwise they say every
seven years you become a different person or whatever. But
like they're supposed to be like, oh no, this is
the party I've always been. Well it's like, well, let's
go back in time. How many of these how much
has this party really stayed with what you truly believe
and then not just gone toward I mean obviously at
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the end of the day, it's all about money. But yeah,
like yeah, no one cares about the people. They just
want the money aspect of.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
It, exactly.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Yes, But I imagine it's fun for you because you
do get to study like how we got here because,
like I said, like the way these parties started is
not the same way that they are now, So like said,
how did we actually get here to where we have
this such divisiveness. I mean, obviously the internet helps and
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hurts at the same time because of the fact that
you can't informations immediately got to you or and then
like a million people have already commented on it, and
so then you got to like filter through all this stuff.
But then you're like, is this actual true uh news?
Or is this fake news? Like not not to use
somebody else's turn, but you know news is not real
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because there's so many boughts out there. Also now that
it's a weird aspect of plus how many people were
really delving in and like doing any research. They just
read the headline like that's it. It's like, well, no,
that's not actually what the whole article is. It's just
they grabbed you at the headline and then you're reading
anything else.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Yeah, it's like almost like a thumbnail or something, and
they're like, yes, I believe that now because it's the thumbnail. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
It's like no, the pictures, not even the picture that
it goes with it. All the information has nothing to
do with what's in that that. Yeah, they didn't actually
say that, so it's it's dumb. That's why I do
love podcasts so much, because you can have those long
form conversations and it's like, yeah, they said that, but
what was the lead up to that, like, and also
what was the tone? You can't hear tone, like how
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many people have gotten arguments through text message because you're
just trying to be funny, but then the tone comes
off completely wrong and it's like crap.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Yeah yeah, And that's all like the political correctness thing too. Really,
it's like all connections and it's like a It's like
even if you say something and you make it like
you try to make it have like a good tone,
make it positive, but some people will take that wrong
because of either political correctness that you may not know about, right,
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And it's like it's like all like just like a
very scattered thing. I don't even know how to explain it,
but well.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
It's also there's no with the political correctness. It's not
here's the updated rules, here's the updated where people are
wanting to be called in everything. And then you actually
talk to people and you're like, oh, I didn't know,
like you said, I didn't know that. I wasn't supposed
to be saying that or that's supposed to be saying
this now, and it's like, yeah, we need to update
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every day and here's here's where we are.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
I agree.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Yeah, well, I mean, there's what has it been like
for you being on these film sets, because obviously not
everything's political, but there's so many people that do love
talking about politics and really focus a lot of their
energy on that. But it's you know, at the end
of the day when you're on a film set, yes
there's a lot of downtime and you can have these conversations,
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but you're you know, you're really just trying to get
this this project done.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Yeah, it's honestly, like what you said, it sometimes like
there is a lot of people that do focus on
political like stance, and like some times it's just like
you have to watch out of like what what you
say in front of people, which you know as you should,
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but like sometimes it's like you have to like overthink
it and you know, it's like you can never like
say something that's right. But there are some people that
are like that, and that's like an everyday world. Like
at any job, at any major, it can be like that.
But also in the film industry it's also very like
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it's promoted in certain ways. And I'm trying to trying
to explain. I'm trying to think of like long words
so I can explain that. That's probably the best explanation
I got.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
That makes sense.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Thank you. Well.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
When you're on set, they are kind of they can
be long days. You's kind of a hurry up and
wait situation. What do you kind of like to do
in the downtime? Like, I mean probably college schoolwork, but
like what else do you really kind of enjoyed getting
lost in?
Speaker 2 (24:05):
I pretty much when I have my downtime, I'm usually
I usually there's lots and lots of people on set,
like extras everything, So really I just talked to people.
I make friends. I'm like hey, and it's good connections too.
So the more people you meet, the more connections and
the industry, and that's also really good for yourself and
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to make more friends and good for your career. And
that's pretty much what I do. I usually do that,
or I play cards and usually I play cards with
them or something.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Which what card games do you guys play on set?
Usually like you know, okay.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Or I was also taught. I was taught poker one time,
but that was it.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Oh you haven't played since I've played.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
I played it on set, and then I played it
a couple of times when I was in high school
with my friends, just seeing like how it worked and
how we like just played it, but like we just
used like fake coins and stuff to play it.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
You don't use real money, you get you get a
gambling problem.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Oh yeah, we would all have a gambling addiction at
that point.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
I mean there's enough addictions in the in the film
where I don't think you need to add gambling to
that as well. Oh no, Well, so I'm going through
your IMDb right here, and it's like you've done so
much in such a little time. What is something that like,
if people haven't seen your work before, what are like,
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let's say the top three ones that they should go
out of their way to watch.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
I would say, and also thank you for looking at
my IMDb people.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Not have you had interviews where people have not looked
at your IMDb.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Much? Everybody hopefully does, but I'm like, thank you. I
just need more views, Yeah, I need to.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
I didn't realize that you could put podcasts on here,
and if that was the case, I was like, well, damn,
I could have had a munch link here.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
I don't know you can do that either. That's cool, Yeah,
that is cool, but yeah, i'd probably say the movie
perse okay. And then I also have a project. I
don't know if that one's on IMDb or not, because
there's some that's not like upcoming. Yeah, and there's some
that's upcoming. There's an animated film called Boshti and France
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that I'm voiceovering right now.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Very nice, thank you.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
And there is also a film called One Moment that
just came out. It's not really on IMDb yet, but
hopefully it will be soon.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
You just named two things that are not on here. Yeah,
and then what would be a third one people should
go watch?
Speaker 2 (27:03):
A third one people should go watch? Is I said
one Moment? Probably the movie Purse that one had Eric
Robertson that I like that one is there.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
So now that you are in the world, when you
watch movies, obviously you will you're gonna see them in
a different light. What do you kind of what do
you look at when you watch a movie now? And
are you actually able to fully enjoy watching a movie
like you used to be able to?
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Honestly, I do fully enjoy it, but it's like in
a different stance, Like Okay, it's more like you pay
attention to they're acting more than you do. Sometimes, like
I pay attention they're acting more than the plot, which
is also like really good and great for the actor. Yeah,
but like I also have a VHD. It's really hard anyways.
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Like for me, I'll go from like one topic to
the next even when I'm talking. But when it comes
to like movies too, it's like like sometimes I pay
attention to the acting and just the acting.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Yeah. Now, I've always had a continuity thing where I
will watch a movie and then like you know, they
do the cut and they cut back and I'm like,
wait a minute, that that drink was way higher, way
lower at different drink or Yeah, there were certain ones
that I'm just like, how did they miss this, but yeah,
it happens. I understand it.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
That's how I am too. I'll look at the like
the movie and then like one seeing they'll have like
a drink like up here or like down here. I'm like,
did you all just move that? I don't know why
the easter egg?
Speaker 1 (28:51):
I do love it. The way of getting around like
the showing the label of like a wine bottle or whatever,
where they'll they'll cut from one to one person and
is the back of it? And then they cut to
the other person. Is the back of it again? I'm like, ah,
very smart.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
That is smart.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Yeah, that's not how it's really done, but that's a
good way of getting around that without having actually pay anybody. Yeah, well,
is there a Is there a genre of movie that
you haven't done yet or kind of touched but you
really want.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
To I would love to do. I would probably say comedy,
because I've done I've done some like family films, but
I've never done I comedy like Adam Sandler comedy or
like the movie Grown Ups. And I'm a very big
comedy fan, So I would say probably next time. I hope,
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I hope that one day I'll be able to do
a comedic role, So that would be really cool.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Well, I mean, you say you just you touched on
Adam Sandler. Who who else do you really enjoy when
it comes to comedy because you've grown up in a
time where comedy is a dead Obviously there'll always be comedy,
but it's changed quite a bit as opposed to like
when I was growing up in the You know, So,
what has comedy been like for you? And what are
some of the older ones? You like to go back
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and watch.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
The older ones. I'd definitely like to go back and
watch is Let's see. I really like, I really liked
the movie fifty First Dates.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Oh, that's a good one.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
That's that's one of my favorites.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
I was thinking about that one the other day.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
That one's good. I was trying to look for it
on Netflix, and for some reason, it's locked for me.
But I really hope, like I can watch it.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Why is it locked for you?
Speaker 2 (30:40):
It's like the membership Oh that's right.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
They did start doing a tier situation, and I'm like, listen, I.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
Love Netflix, but the membership stuff, it's like, if you
get like a higher membership, you can watch it. But
if it's like lower it's like yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Yeah, like they were the originals when it came to
the streaming stuff, and then now they're going to change
it to where we have to pay extra, Like we've
got to figure out this whole streaming thing, because first off,
it's too expensive to have all of them, but then
also if I'm paying for your app, I need access
to everything, Like what are we There's no reason for.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
This, no higher membership to get better movies.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
And who says they're even better movies? That's all the
you know, superficial anyway.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Yeah, yeah, just ridiculous. Yeah, it's sad, but it's okay.
Hopefully that gets fixed.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
We're just here to try to figure out the world's
problems and fix them.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
Yes, well, so for people who are like who are
listening or been wanting to get the movie scene or
even the just the industry in general, what kind of
tips do you would would you give them?
Speaker 2 (31:52):
I would give them just never give up ever, even
like I know a lot of people say that, but
it is true, like just stay strong, hold onto that thread,
and it's like just just keep pushing and you'll get there.
And sometimes it'll happen quickly, and sometimes it'll take a
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long time, but sometimes it's like it'll pay off in
the end wherever you end up in this industry.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
That's true. I love that.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
Thank you well.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
I have a segment on the show. I call it
the five Counts, just five random questions.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Oh okay, cool, cool.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Number one, who was your first celebrity crush?
Speaker 2 (32:38):
My first celebrity crush. That's a good one. First one.
So when I was little, I really liked cartoon characters,
but my first like real life TV one was definitely
pony Boy from The Outsiders.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
Yeah, yeah, I love that.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
That was Macio right, BRODDI kid.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Oh wait, I think his name was like see Thomas Howe. Yeah,
I just remembered it.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
I was like, wait a minute, I love that book,
and so I like the movie is a lot too.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Oh that's such. I'll love played.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
All right, Sorry, everybody, we're gonna go down the Outsider
his rabbit hole.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
Now it was.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
Oh he was Johnny Okay.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Yeah he was Josh Okay.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
Yeah. That thing was just packed full of people. There's
no way make that. Yeah, there's no way they're gonna
make that one. Number two. If you own you're not
even old enough to drink. But I'm gonna ask you anyway,
if you owned a liquor company, brewery, winery, or coffee shop,
which one would you own? What would the name be?
Speaker 2 (34:00):
Hm hmm, that's really interesting, that's huh. I would say,
hm hmmm. I think a brewery would be really cool
because I've heard like there's a lot of celebrities to
own like breweries, and I'm like, I kind of want
to own like a like a wine company. Ah Duff's whiskey,
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Like thank you.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
What would your last meal be?
Speaker 2 (34:34):
My last meal? Hmmm? My last meal would probably we
be like I like seafood, it would probably be seafood.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
Seafood you like I love I really.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
Like calamarikel Mary is my favorite.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
I like it.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Yeah, it's good.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Who are what inspires you?
Speaker 2 (34:59):
Who inspired me was? I would say Matthew McConaughey. He's
my favorite actor.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
His autobiography is really good.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
Oh it's so good.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
Yeah. I'm not a I'm not a reader, but I
listened to it and it was better because he read
it and it was just it was so good.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
Oh, it's awesome. Yeah. I haven't listened to the audio biography,
but I've read the book and it's pretty good. But
now I do want to listen.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
To the those times that he's in Australia, he does
the accent, which is fantastic. Him doing an Australian accent
is not something I imagined I was ever going to hear.
But it's it's it's dead on. I loved it. That's
cool to you should I I'm pretty sure it's on
Spotify or audible, one of the you know, it's out there.
I'm sure you can find it.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
Yeah, it's somewhere out there.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
Yes, it's it's somewhere out on the interwebt.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
And finally, normally ask what would you tell your seventeen
year old self? But I'm going to ask where do
you see yourself in the next five to ten years?
Speaker 2 (36:01):
Where I'll probably see myself the next five to ten years,
hopefully I'll become an Oscar winning Oscar Award winning actress.
That would be cool and that would be awesome. That's
the go probably, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
And if people want to find out more about you,
follow you online, see your work, how can they do?
All the things?
Speaker 2 (36:29):
You can find me on Instagram at It's Kristin Duff.
It has a couple of like just updates on some
films I'm working on, or upcoming stuff or past stuff.
I have Facebook at Kristin Duve, Twitter at Kristin Duff too,
and you can find me on IMDb. That's where a
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lot of my credits are. Let's see in TikTok, I
have TikTok too.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
Thanks. Yeah, yeah, well, christ and I really enjoyed this
conversation and I can't Yeah, your career is still so young,
but you have so much going on that I can't
wait to see what the future holds for you.
Speaker 2 (37:12):
Oh, thank you so much, and it was an honor
to be on your show with you.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
You're welcome and thank you.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
Thanks so much to Kristin for being on the show again.
Make sure you are checking out her films and what
she is doing, and definitely follow her on the social
media's because she's going to be doing a lot of
big things in the future now while you're following her,
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Welcome to Bruisers, a podcast about beer, coffee, booze and bruisers.
I'm your host, Rody John and today we talked to
actress Kristin Duff. We talk about her journey into acting,
what she's majoring in, and so much more. This is
such a fun conversation. Kristen is doing absolutely great things
in her young career in the acting world, and I
can't wait to see what the future holds. But you
don't want to hear from me, you want to hear
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from her. So without further ado, here is actress Kristin Duff.
I would like to welcome to show. Kristin Duff. How
are you doing today? Man?
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Hi, I'm doing very well. It's been running outside, but
I've been finding the positives, so there you go.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Yeah, for those listening kind of panties, A word picture
where you at? What's going on around here? Does I drain? Obviously?
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Yeah? I am currently in Kentucky. I am originally from
eastern Kentucky, but now I've moved to central Kentucky.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
How do you like it?
Speaker 2 (01:22):
I like it? Honestly, I like it a lot better
because it's not like I like the mountains, but at
the same time. From where I'm from, we have mountains
like everywhere in the humidity is crazy. But I mean,
I will say I'm honored to be from Eastern Kentucky.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
What's your favorite thing about Eastern Kentucky.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
My favorite thing about Eastern Kentucky would definitely be I
probably said the culture. I would say I like the
culture I'm from, and there's a lot of wittiness and
a lot of just I don't know, we just have
like a very kind of like a joyful culture. I
don't really know how to explain it, but yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Like that a lot.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Well, let's go all the way back in time. What
is your earliest memory of the arts?
Speaker 2 (02:13):
My earliest memory of the arts, it's probably when I
was probably my very first Christmas play and that was
probably when I was like seven, which I've always wanted
to be an actress when I was younger, but that's
probably my earliest.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
What role did you play?
Speaker 2 (02:36):
I played? I played an angel in a Christmas play.
That was my earliest.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
What was it about I get? Well, like you said
you wanted to be an actress before that? What was
the thing that you saw on TV? And You're like,
I want to do that or was it even a
TV It could have been a play.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Oh yeah, I couldn't even be that too. It was
probably Hannah Montana. I remember seeing that. I was like,
that's what I want to do. I want to be
Hannah Montana.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
It's worked out really well for her, so I think
I think you could be on or something.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
I got lucky with it, so thank you. Well.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
When you when you got that first role and you
were on the stage, I mean even at seven years old,
you're going to feel that, like, what was what was
that experience like for you?
Speaker 2 (03:25):
I will say I was really excited, but I was
so nervous. I was like, it was a very small role,
but it was at the same time very like big
road because it was an angel. But I was very
nervous because that was my very first time being in
front of that many people and fucking infron of that
many people. But it was a lot of fun. I
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really liked it and it really brought a lot in
the future.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
So true. Yeah, Plus you have to you get this
first ones out of the way. Is that way you
got to get the nerves out of your system and everything.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Well, and then you went onto modeling or did you
continue acting or did the model? Like which, how did
the how did the series of events kind of go
for you?
Speaker 2 (04:07):
I kind of always did do that. I always did acting,
and I kind of picked up the modeling when I
was about fifteen years old, okay, and I just kind
of picked up that, and that's where pretty much everything started,
like acting, modeling, I did some producing and it just
kind of came at the same time, and all these
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doors opened and I just kept on going on before
keeping on.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
What were some other acting roles you had early before
you got into the modeling and everything.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Acting roles I had before modeling was a feature film
I filmed in Atlanta. Oh yeah, that was probably my
That was my very first film.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Which one was it?
Speaker 2 (04:55):
It was called Amani okay?
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Oh was that the horror movie?
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:00):
How was that?
Speaker 2 (05:02):
It was? Honestly, it was like it was a very
big experience for me because that was my very first
time doing anything like with horror or thriller. And when
I first did that, I was like, oh my gosh,
Like I wonder if like something actual like supernatural will happen.
Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Yeah, I mean I haven't been on any a lot
of movie sets, but I feel like the horror ones
probably are more fun, but also because of the fact
that you do have to be scared out of your
mind or act like the spared out of your mind,
so like they need that other side to kind of
live in the whole place up.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Yeah, yeah, you also have to like act like you're
scared out of your mind, but you also have to
be like actually like scared out of your mind. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Yeah, You're gonna ride that fine line of like is
this reality or is this not so?
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Yeah, Well you touched on the fact that you did
some producing early on as well. How did I mean
you're modeling your acting and then you ended up producing
as well? Tell us how that even came about?
Speaker 2 (06:08):
So pretty much? I how that pretty much all started acting,
modeling producing. I did my very first acting class on
my fifteenth birthday.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
That's cool.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Yeah, it was really neat, Like I actually I got
to I got the chance to do it with a
TikTok star named Ellie on Again, and she always like
was the woman that I'd be like, read the blue
line and she would like act out and she did
like pretty good on that got famous from it, yea,
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And she like did like this free acting class, and
I just did on my fifteenth birthday. I was like, heck,
let's see what happens from you year. Yeah, and I
joined it. I made a lot of friends, and especially
the acting part. I was like because it was just
it was kind of like easy, but it was like
it was new and it just felt like it was right.
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It felt like it sat right with like my life
and just something I just want to do my whole
entire life. So I start off that and I just
kicked on from that.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
So I love that. Well, how did the producing happen?
Speaker 2 (07:20):
So the producing happened? That happened when I was filming
the movie Imani, and the director of Imani, she was like, hey,
I think you'd be a good producer, and especially at
being so young, I think starting producing would be a
lot different at that age and would also even get
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you more out there. And I was like, okay, So
I started producing short film and I produced one short film,
one feature and another short film and I kind of
did that like within three years, and really that just
got me to do in producing and I really enjoyed
that as well.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Wow, very nice, Thank you. Are there any other roles
that you. I mean, you're still so early in your
career and you obviously you know, hopefully this guy's the limit.
But what are some other things that you're seeing happening
behind the scenes that you're like, Oh, I wouldn't mind
trying to do that.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Yeah, behind the scenes, I would say, let's see. Probably
I've really want to try like assistant directing or even
directing one day. I think i'd be really cool. But yeah,
I've watched a lot of that, especially, I've done a
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lot of extra work for like bigger films, and I've
watched him like almost like backstage. I'd be like, that
seems so cool, Like I want to do that. And
I also liked write, So that's.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Yeah, yeah, that's what. So what have you written? What
have you written so far? You're okay, I've written a.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Screenplay, I've written another script. It was like, yeah, I
wrote a feature film and a script for a short film.
And that short film was also a thriller film, and
that was my first one. Thank you, no, thank you
so much.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Problem. Yeah. So, I mean, so you've been around all
these different actors. Who are some people that you've kind
of really talked to or you know, after everything wrapped
or even the after the scenes, like, hey, would you
think what can I do better? You know who's did
some people you kind of leaned on?
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Who I pretty much go to pretty much, who I
lean on to get that feedback is usually I'll have
like since I was so young and started like in
acting and stuff, but I was pretty much like a teenager,
so it wasn't like too bad I come to age.
But usually when I like went to people for advice,
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it was like kindkind of like a person like older
than me that I was like, I would guess looked
as this world model. Okay, yeah, and usually like they
acted with me or they were like a director that
I aspired to be later on. But yeah, that's really cool,
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thank you.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Who's the first person you're kind of around and you
were just kind of like inside like freaking out, kind
of fan girling out.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
I would say that one was probably the film I
worked on with Eric Roberts. Oh yeah, I fangirled over that.
I was like, oh my gosh, but yeah, I was
so nervous to work with him and he's very sweet,
like he's awesome to work with. Yeah, I was like
I was almost a nervous wreck. I was like, oh
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my gosh.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Yeah, you put the extra nerves of like, Okay, I
really can't mess this up now because he's here.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
And yeah, I was like, I can't us this up.
I have to just when I act, I have to
remember or just make something up.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Yeah, exactly. Now. I read that you speaks four languages. Yes,
what for languages or do you speak?
Speaker 2 (11:15):
I am I speak Spanish, I can speak So. My
dad also went Overseas a lot in my life. He
is in the military, so he'd come back and teach
me languages and I was really really young, but yeah,
that was pretty cool. And just from that I learned Arabic.
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There's a language called Tree that's from a tribe in
Africa that my dad worked with. Wow, and he was
in the military, so that was that's pretty neat. I
did that Tree, Spanish, and I know.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Tai Okay.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Very nice, thank you.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Yeah, very interesting languages to learn too.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Yeah, it is. It's like a mixture of like got Africa,
Spanish and tie love it thank you well.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Yeah. I also read that you you play instruments as well.
What do you What do you play?
Speaker 2 (12:15):
I played the guitar, U galle and piano, Okay, Yeah,
it was like I've played pianos until I was thirteen,
and everything else just came kind of came in the way.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
So yeah, yeah, well learning those instruments, you kind of, yes,
you can, especially now you could just go on YouTube
and learn them a lot easier, but you still kind
of get a bait. You've still got to do it yourself.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
So getting the.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Actual learning process down. Is there like a couple of
different ways that you kind of learned it or was
it just something you just kind of just started, you know,
messing with and then you figured it out on your own.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
I don't guess. It's kind of like something I messed with,
but I went on YouTube and I've just kind of
taught myself from YouTube videos and then memorize those chords and
then started like just practicing and practicing and practicing until
I could get those like chords and then get those
songs in pretty much stuff like that. And I went
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for piano, guitar, and ukulele.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Yeah. Yeah, have you written? Do you write a lot
of songs or you just like to play?
Speaker 2 (13:22):
I just like to play. I haven't really yet. I
kind of did it like I kind of did it
as a hobby for a little bit, and then people
asked me, oh, do you play this instrument? We can
probably use you for a film if you can like
play this instrument, do these chords sounds like yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Sure, yeah, it's true, just another thing that you get
to be like, yeah, I could do that also yeah yeah. Well,
I mean when it came to acting the same way,
there's so many different ways to act and people I
forget exactly the multiple teachers that people will always reference.
But what kind of what method of acting do you
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really enjoy kind of using, whether it be method or
you know, getting yourself in the situation or how do
how do you like to learn it?
Speaker 2 (14:09):
That's a really good question because like my my ways
of acting is kind of like a mixture of method.
I kind of try to do like I try to
get myself in somebody else's shoes. Like if there's a
character that's not like like does it have the same
life as me, I'll try to get my life in
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their shoes and I'll see like what would I do
if I was in that situation or what would I
do if I was in their shoes? And then really
with method, I do a lot of method acting. When
it's crying on cue, the kind of like I kind
of I try to remember something that's like really sad
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or it's just something that happened, and then I'll just
make myself cry really or just cry. Sometimes it comes
nash like sometimes you're like, okay, I'll cry on cue.
But it takes practice. It takes a lot.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Now I did. That was one of my questions. I'm
glad you brought that crying on que up. Have you
used that skill not at work, maybe to your advantage
in other personal situations?
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Actually, honestly, that is a good skill for personal situation
because like you want to make somebody feel sorry for you. Yeah, there.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
You got a ticket. Yeah you can if you're in
a fight with your partner or.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Whatever it is, especially a ticket.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
I read that and I was like, I got to
ask her if she's used it, And.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Honestly, yeah, this year I got pulled over once and
it was over. I was like driving from home to
my college and I got pulled over, and.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
I was like, dang it, what are you going to
school for right now?
Speaker 2 (16:01):
I'm going to school for journalism and political sciences?
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Really, yeah, what do you want to do with those really.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
With the political sciences, it's kind of like a plan B.
I guess, like, yeah, like my dad was in the military,
my mom's family was all in the military, so I
was like, I kind of think it'd be cool if
I worked in like politics or like just did something
with that. And maybe with the journalism, if I wanted
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to do like political writing, I could do that, or
I could like write about pretty much a journalism you
can basically write about anything really.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
But yeah, yeah, I feel like, specially living in America,
that we'll always being some kind of war, so there
will always be something to cover, and then politics is
just so it's well right now. Unfortunately it's so one
or the other. It's not there's no like middle ground
(16:59):
somehow for these people. And if it is, like then
you're just then lumped into this like you're a libertarian
or whatever. I'm like, that's not how this works. Like
it's not like it's not a yang and yang, like
there's only two and then that's it. Like I don't know,
I don't know what the hell's going on.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
I don't get that neither. Like it's like you can't
it's almost like you have to be like in one
side thing or the other, and it's like you can't
be in the middle because it's like I feel like
it's really like big correct this thing. I don't really know. Yeah,
(17:34):
I don't really know how to describe it, but it's
very chaotic.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Well I mean, obviously it's tribalism, but it's at the
same time it's we're just like no one is wanting
to actually have conversations with people. They're just they're just like, oh,
you believe this, and we're just gonna lump everything else that.
You know. That kind of people also think so that
you know, you may not even think of any of
(17:59):
those just one thing. They're just like, no, you're everything
else too.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
I hope that we get out of it at some point,
but it's just it's unfortunate.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
It's just unfortunate. Like, oh, if you're like on this
side of the political stuff, I don't even know what
to call it. My brain's like ah, but it's like
if you're on that side of the political branch thing,
it's like, oh, like I can't get along with you
because you're like either Republican or Democrat, and that's just yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Yeahs even though that like we all breathe there, we
all have blood in our bodies, like it's we're all, yeah,
we're all people at the end of the day. Like
it's just it's yeah, it's just really dumb. And I
anytime people are like, oh, which side are I'm like,
I hate all politics in general, So none of them,
none of the abounth.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Place like on a slider reason I have a major
in it is more like I want to like know,
like why is there so much political correctness? Really? Like
for me, I'm more of an independent person, Like I'm
not really on any side because I just I don't know.
(19:14):
I don't know which set I'm on, and I don't
really care which sun I'm on.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Right, Yeah. Well, also they're so they're not the same
party as they always happen, like, I mean that's just
with people too, Like you don't otherwise they say every
seven years you become a different person or whatever. But
like they're supposed to be like, oh no, this is
the party I've always been. Well it's like, well, let's
go back in time. How many of these how much
has this party really stayed with what you truly believe
and then not just gone toward I mean obviously at
(19:39):
the end of the day, it's all about money. But yeah,
like yeah, no one cares about the people. They just
want the money aspect of.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
It, exactly.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Yes, But I imagine it's fun for you because you
do get to study like how we got here because,
like I said, like the way these parties started is
not the same way that they are now, So like said,
how did we actually get here to where we have
this such divisiveness. I mean, obviously the internet helps and
(20:07):
hurts at the same time because of the fact that
you can't informations immediately got to you or and then
like a million people have already commented on it, and
so then you got to like filter through all this stuff.
But then you're like, is this actual true uh news?
Or is this fake news? Like not not to use
somebody else's turn, but you know news is not real
(20:27):
because there's so many boughts out there. Also now that
it's a weird aspect of plus how many people were
really delving in and like doing any research. They just
read the headline like that's it. It's like, well, no,
that's not actually what the whole article is. It's just
they grabbed you at the headline and then you're reading
anything else.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Yeah, it's like almost like a thumbnail or something, and
they're like, yes, I believe that now because it's the thumbnail. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
It's like no, the pictures, not even the picture that
it goes with it. All the information has nothing to
do with what's in that that. Yeah, they didn't actually
say that, so it's it's dumb. That's why I do
love podcasts so much, because you can have those long
form conversations and it's like, yeah, they said that, but
what was the lead up to that, like, and also
what was the tone? You can't hear tone, like how
(21:14):
many people have gotten arguments through text message because you're
just trying to be funny, but then the tone comes
off completely wrong and it's like crap.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Yeah yeah, And that's all like the political correctness thing too. Really,
it's like all connections and it's like a It's like
even if you say something and you make it like
you try to make it have like a good tone,
make it positive, but some people will take that wrong
because of either political correctness that you may not know about, right,
(21:42):
And it's like it's like all like just like a
very scattered thing. I don't even know how to explain it,
but well.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
It's also there's no with the political correctness. It's not
here's the updated rules, here's the updated where people are
wanting to be called in everything. And then you actually
talk to people and you're like, oh, I didn't know,
like you said, I didn't know that. I wasn't supposed
to be saying that or that's supposed to be saying
this now, and it's like, yeah, we need to update
(22:14):
every day and here's here's where we are.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
I agree.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Yeah, well, I mean, there's what has it been like
for you being on these film sets, because obviously not
everything's political, but there's so many people that do love
talking about politics and really focus a lot of their
energy on that. But it's you know, at the end
of the day when you're on a film set, yes
there's a lot of downtime and you can have these conversations,
(22:43):
but you're you know, you're really just trying to get
this this project done.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Yeah, it's honestly, like what you said, it sometimes like
there is a lot of people that do focus on
political like stance, and like some times it's just like
you have to watch out of like what what you
say in front of people, which you know as you should,
(23:08):
but like sometimes it's like you have to like overthink
it and you know, it's like you can never like
say something that's right. But there are some people that
are like that, and that's like an everyday world. Like
at any job, at any major, it can be like that.
But also in the film industry it's also very like
(23:28):
it's promoted in certain ways. And I'm trying to trying
to explain. I'm trying to think of like long words
so I can explain that. That's probably the best explanation
I got.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
That makes sense.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Thank you. Well.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
When you're on set, they are kind of they can
be long days. You's kind of a hurry up and
wait situation. What do you kind of like to do
in the downtime? Like, I mean probably college schoolwork, but
like what else do you really kind of enjoyed getting
lost in?
Speaker 2 (24:05):
I pretty much when I have my downtime, I'm usually
I usually there's lots and lots of people on set,
like extras everything, So really I just talked to people.
I make friends. I'm like hey, and it's good connections too.
So the more people you meet, the more connections and
the industry, and that's also really good for yourself and
(24:29):
to make more friends and good for your career. And
that's pretty much what I do. I usually do that,
or I play cards and usually I play cards with
them or something.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Which what card games do you guys play on set?
Usually like you know, okay.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Or I was also taught. I was taught poker one time,
but that was it.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Oh you haven't played since I've played.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
I played it on set, and then I played it
a couple of times when I was in high school
with my friends, just seeing like how it worked and
how we like just played it, but like we just
used like fake coins and stuff to play it.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
You don't use real money, you get you get a
gambling problem.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Oh yeah, we would all have a gambling addiction at
that point.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
I mean there's enough addictions in the in the film
where I don't think you need to add gambling to
that as well. Oh no, Well, so I'm going through
your IMDb right here, and it's like you've done so
much in such a little time. What is something that like,
if people haven't seen your work before, what are like,
(25:43):
let's say the top three ones that they should go
out of their way to watch.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
I would say, and also thank you for looking at
my IMDb people.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Not have you had interviews where people have not looked
at your IMDb.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Much? Everybody hopefully does, but I'm like, thank you. I
just need more views, Yeah, I need to.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
I didn't realize that you could put podcasts on here,
and if that was the case, I was like, well, damn,
I could have had a munch link here.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
I don't know you can do that either. That's cool, Yeah,
that is cool, but yeah, i'd probably say the movie
perse okay. And then I also have a project. I
don't know if that one's on IMDb or not, because
there's some that's not like upcoming. Yeah, and there's some
that's upcoming. There's an animated film called Boshti and France
(26:39):
that I'm voiceovering right now.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Very nice, thank you.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
And there is also a film called One Moment that
just came out. It's not really on IMDb yet, but
hopefully it will be soon.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
You just named two things that are not on here. Yeah,
and then what would be a third one people should
go watch?
Speaker 2 (27:03):
A third one people should go watch? Is I said
one Moment? Probably the movie Purse that one had Eric
Robertson that I like that one is there.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
So now that you are in the world, when you
watch movies, obviously you will you're gonna see them in
a different light. What do you kind of what do
you look at when you watch a movie now? And
are you actually able to fully enjoy watching a movie
like you used to be able to?
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Honestly, I do fully enjoy it, but it's like in
a different stance, Like Okay, it's more like you pay
attention to they're acting more than you do. Sometimes, like
I pay attention they're acting more than the plot, which
is also like really good and great for the actor. Yeah,
but like I also have a VHD. It's really hard anyways.
(28:05):
Like for me, I'll go from like one topic to
the next even when I'm talking. But when it comes
to like movies too, it's like like sometimes I pay
attention to the acting and just the acting.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Yeah. Now, I've always had a continuity thing where I
will watch a movie and then like you know, they
do the cut and they cut back and I'm like,
wait a minute, that that drink was way higher, way
lower at different drink or Yeah, there were certain ones
that I'm just like, how did they miss this, but yeah,
it happens. I understand it.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
That's how I am too. I'll look at the like
the movie and then like one seeing they'll have like
a drink like up here or like down here. I'm like,
did you all just move that? I don't know why
the easter egg?
Speaker 1 (28:51):
I do love it. The way of getting around like
the showing the label of like a wine bottle or whatever,
where they'll they'll cut from one to one person and
is the back of it? And then they cut to
the other person. Is the back of it again? I'm like, ah,
very smart.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
That is smart.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Yeah, that's not how it's really done, but that's a
good way of getting around that without having actually pay anybody. Yeah, well,
is there a Is there a genre of movie that
you haven't done yet or kind of touched but you
really want.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
To I would love to do. I would probably say comedy,
because I've done I've done some like family films, but
I've never done I comedy like Adam Sandler comedy or
like the movie Grown Ups. And I'm a very big
comedy fan, So I would say probably next time. I hope,
(29:43):
I hope that one day I'll be able to do
a comedic role, So that would be really cool.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Well, I mean, you say you just you touched on
Adam Sandler. Who who else do you really enjoy when
it comes to comedy because you've grown up in a
time where comedy is a dead Obviously there'll always be comedy,
but it's changed quite a bit as opposed to like
when I was growing up in the You know, So,
what has comedy been like for you? And what are
some of the older ones? You like to go back
(30:11):
and watch.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
The older ones. I'd definitely like to go back and
watch is Let's see. I really like, I really liked
the movie fifty First Dates.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Oh, that's a good one.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
That's that's one of my favorites.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
I was thinking about that one the other day.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
That one's good. I was trying to look for it
on Netflix, and for some reason, it's locked for me.
But I really hope, like I can watch it.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Why is it locked for you?
Speaker 2 (30:40):
It's like the membership Oh that's right.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
They did start doing a tier situation, and I'm like, listen, I.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
Love Netflix, but the membership stuff, it's like, if you
get like a higher membership, you can watch it. But
if it's like lower it's like yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Yeah, like they were the originals when it came to
the streaming stuff, and then now they're going to change
it to where we have to pay extra, Like we've
got to figure out this whole streaming thing, because first off,
it's too expensive to have all of them, but then
also if I'm paying for your app, I need access
to everything, Like what are we There's no reason for.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
This, no higher membership to get better movies.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
And who says they're even better movies? That's all the
you know, superficial anyway.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Yeah, yeah, just ridiculous. Yeah, it's sad, but it's okay.
Hopefully that gets fixed.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
We're just here to try to figure out the world's
problems and fix them.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
Yes, well, so for people who are like who are
listening or been wanting to get the movie scene or
even the just the industry in general, what kind of
tips do you would would you give them?
Speaker 2 (31:52):
I would give them just never give up ever, even
like I know a lot of people say that, but
it is true, like just stay strong, hold onto that thread,
and it's like just just keep pushing and you'll get there.
And sometimes it'll happen quickly, and sometimes it'll take a
(32:15):
long time, but sometimes it's like it'll pay off in
the end wherever you end up in this industry.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
That's true. I love that.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
Thank you well.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
I have a segment on the show. I call it
the five Counts, just five random questions.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Oh okay, cool, cool.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Number one, who was your first celebrity crush?
Speaker 2 (32:38):
My first celebrity crush. That's a good one. First one.
So when I was little, I really liked cartoon characters,
but my first like real life TV one was definitely
pony Boy from The Outsiders.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
Yeah, yeah, I love that.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
That was Macio right, BRODDI kid.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Oh wait, I think his name was like see Thomas Howe. Yeah,
I just remembered it.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
I was like, wait a minute, I love that book,
and so I like the movie is a lot too.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Oh that's such. I'll love played.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
All right, Sorry, everybody, we're gonna go down the Outsider
his rabbit hole.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
Now it was.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
Oh he was Johnny Okay.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Yeah he was Josh Okay.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
Yeah. That thing was just packed full of people. There's
no way make that. Yeah, there's no way they're gonna
make that one. Number two. If you own you're not
even old enough to drink. But I'm gonna ask you anyway,
if you owned a liquor company, brewery, winery, or coffee shop,
which one would you own? What would the name be?
Speaker 2 (34:00):
Hm hmm, that's really interesting, that's huh. I would say,
hm hmmm. I think a brewery would be really cool
because I've heard like there's a lot of celebrities to
own like breweries, and I'm like, I kind of want
to own like a like a wine company. Ah Duff's whiskey,
(34:28):
Like thank you.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
What would your last meal be?
Speaker 2 (34:34):
My last meal? Hmmm? My last meal would probably we
be like I like seafood, it would probably be seafood.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
Seafood you like I love I really.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
Like calamarikel Mary is my favorite.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
I like it.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Yeah, it's good.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Who are what inspires you?
Speaker 2 (34:59):
Who inspired me was? I would say Matthew McConaughey. He's
my favorite actor.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
His autobiography is really good.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
Oh it's so good.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
Yeah. I'm not a I'm not a reader, but I
listened to it and it was better because he read
it and it was just it was so good.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
Oh, it's awesome. Yeah. I haven't listened to the audio biography,
but I've read the book and it's pretty good. But
now I do want to listen.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
To the those times that he's in Australia, he does
the accent, which is fantastic. Him doing an Australian accent
is not something I imagined I was ever going to hear.
But it's it's it's dead on. I loved it. That's
cool to you should I I'm pretty sure it's on
Spotify or audible, one of the you know, it's out there.
I'm sure you can find it.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
Yeah, it's somewhere out there.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
Yes, it's it's somewhere out on the interwebt.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
And finally, normally ask what would you tell your seventeen
year old self? But I'm going to ask where do
you see yourself in the next five to ten years?
Speaker 2 (36:01):
Where I'll probably see myself the next five to ten years,
hopefully I'll become an Oscar winning Oscar Award winning actress.
That would be cool and that would be awesome. That's
the go probably, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
And if people want to find out more about you,
follow you online, see your work, how can they do?
All the things?
Speaker 2 (36:29):
You can find me on Instagram at It's Kristin Duff.
It has a couple of like just updates on some
films I'm working on, or upcoming stuff or past stuff.
I have Facebook at Kristin Duve, Twitter at Kristin Duff too,
and you can find me on IMDb. That's where a
(36:51):
lot of my credits are. Let's see in TikTok, I
have TikTok too.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
Thanks. Yeah, yeah, well, christ and I really enjoyed this
conversation and I can't Yeah, your career is still so young,
but you have so much going on that I can't
wait to see what the future holds for you.
Speaker 2 (37:12):
Oh, thank you so much, and it was an honor
to be on your show with you.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
You're welcome and thank you.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
Thanks so much to Kristin for being on the show again.
Make sure you are checking out her films and what
she is doing, and definitely follow her on the social
media's because she's going to be doing a lot of
big things in the future now while you're following her,
make sure to follow us on social media. It is
bruisers Pod. That is b R E W S c
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(37:51):
an email, it is Bruiserspod at gmail dot com. If
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sure to enjoy life, drink local and cheers
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