August 10, 2023 • 26 mins
In this episode of "Talent Talk", we chat with actress Emmanuelle Vaugier. Emmanuelle Vaugier stars in the new Hallmark TV movie Big Sky River: The Bridal Path. The film is set in Montana and tells the story of Tara (Emmanuelle Vaugier) dating Cowboy Boone, working to bring their family lives together but tensions arise, as blending their families will be more of a challenge than anticipated. Catch the premiere of Big Sky River: The Bridal Path on W Network and Hallmark Movies & Mysteries on Friday, August 11th at 9pm EDT.
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Could you tell me anything about fluffBall. Yes, So my five oh
one C three that I founded,uh and it's a nonprofit that raises money
and awareness for a variety of animalrescue organizations. So we just recently chose
(00:21):
Horses and Heroes, which is justoutside of o'calla, Florida. And what
they do is they taken Mindy Morrow, who runs the program and owns the
organization. She brings in retired showhorses and works with young girls that come
from different backgrounds, you know,different difficult home lives, whether it be
(00:43):
you know, financially or emotionally,and helps them out with it helps the
families with like food and gas andthings like that so that you are out
in the sticks. I love thatthere's there's a train that runs often and
and helps it out that and alsoruns a program where she teaches them how
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horsemanship and how to ride and allthe things that go along with taking care
of a horse and you know,the barn and that sort of thing.
And so these girls just have aplace to go and to be with each
other and heal through that as well. And through that program, all the
girls that have stuck with it haveall one hundred percent of them have graduated
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high school and gone on to dothings and whether it's the military or you
know, other careers from that program. So it's it's really cool. I'm
really excited to be working with her. Talent Talk is sponsored by Company of
Rogues Actors Studio, New York styletraining for actors at all stages of their
journey. With our part time classesand full time masterclass program, Rogues provides
(01:49):
a unique post secondary option under theguidance of working professionals, mentoring and developing
professional film and theater artists since nineteenninety three, Calgary's longest running in dependent
studio offers practical, hands on classesin a positive, supportive environment. Check
us out at co rogues dot com. Company of Rogues passionate about the art
of acting. Hey, guys,welcome to Talent Talk. I'm your guest
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hosts and gays Today. We've gota great show. Why because it's a
capital t on talent. We havean actor who has done way too much
stuff to list. I will tryand list it alphabetically during the show.
Before we get to that, I'dlike to thank some of our sponsors.
This is our fifth season and oursponsors are Company of Rogues, six Degrees,
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Workflow Films, r J Talent,heard of one Media Counting Coup Indigenous
Film Academy, and last but notleast, ACTU Alberta. Sure, I
hope I haven't missed one of themanyway, So on to today's show.
Today we have miss Manuel Vouget.I don't know how we got her,
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but we got her and she's gonnabe here in three two one Nanuel.
Hello, Hello, how are youdoing? I'm doing great. Oh that's
excellent. Oh I'm fine. I'mokay. Where do we Where do we
find you? By the way,other than your place of kitchen? Where
are you right now? I'm inthe I'm in the in the sticks.
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I'm in a horse country just outsideof Vancouver at the moment. Okay,
I know you're super super busy,right, you got this Hallmark thing coming
out. I'm gonna look down atmy notes to get the name. Just
I know it says Big Sky,but that's only the first few words.
Big Sky River, the bridle Path. Yes am I? So hey,
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before we get to before we getto Big Sky River the Bridle Path,
before I would like to talk aboutsome seminal work that you've done. You've
had so much, so much darnwork. It's insane. Like leave something
for the rest of us, iswhat other actors would say. I would
never say that to your face,but if I could, do you remember
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the character Monee on I'm not gonnaquiz you on Breaker High? Oh my
gosh, I was like, yeah, when when was I? I do
remember that because that yeah, yeah, I was squashing greats with Tyler Laban
and uh and Ryan Gosling exactly.And here's the funny thing, so,
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like I know I checked you outbefore having to do this, I'm like,
let's go through some of her libraryof past things. The wife,
of course, knows you a lotmore, you know, small veil stuff
like that actually have like a Ican't figure out as a Christopher Reeves Superman
there. I know that's not that'sa record, But but I was looking
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through the stuff and we saw theBreaker High thing and it's actually available on
YouTube. I watched it today today. And here's the weird part. I
remember watching that because we were likesort of just starting to date and we
literally watched Breaker High. And Idon't know if it was just like there's
like that the prettiest cast. Icannot think of a more pretty cast than
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those people on that show. Itwas insane. It was like watching Baywatch
and you watch like the Street peoplehomeless people, and you're like their models,
they're going in this stupid show anyway. Yeah yeah, or like my
favorite, you ever watched a thingand they go, oh, it's they
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have a photo. It's a policephote and they're like, hey, you
mean this guy? It's a headshot that is a head shot, which
is yeah, basing a black whitehead shot, which just a number of
it wasn't in the budget. Sothis is how he got the job anyway,
So why not use it? Right? Or off? Oh my goodness,
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is there anything you'd like to talkabout that doesn't involve break or hide?
Because I've just got a list ofso many things that you've done.
The world is your oyster. Iit's all right, whatever you wanted,
it's a mixed bag. I am, you know, happy to talk about
any of it. So all right, you know, I'm back to your
back catalog, And as I wasgoing through your stuff, I didn't realize,
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forgive me, that's you're an actor. No, I didn't realize that
you had done CSI New York forseveral seasons with mister Gary Sinice. So
I just watched the first one earlier, and I was like, Okay,
I'm gonna start watching this show.I hope nothing happens to your character.
I hope you're fine in that show. I'm not gonna look, but I
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hope you're smiling. Hey, how'dyou get interested in acting? She dies?
Guys, she's she doesn't make it. It doesn't make it and slow
motion shooting. It's like that scenefrom a Blade Runner. But anyway,
oh, speaking of not making it, so, yesterday a friend of mine
sends me my obituary that somebody somebodyhad posted that I got. I was
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in a parking or a law sorry, a car accident and a parking lot
in a mall parking lot and passedaway on July thirty, twenty twenty three.
And then he sent me his obituarythat somebody had posted, but his
one was dated August first, twentytwenty three. Should that'd be a lot
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scarier consider like in the field,Like, yeah, I'm like I don't
want to, you know, like, don't start doing that crap. But
it was funny to me because I'mlike, of all the really in a
mall parking lot? That's how Igo, Well, maybe it was like
a maybe it was like a NeimanMarcus or so I didn't have to be
like a Walmart parking lot. Itcould be an upscale mall period Like no,
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let's let's like I was, Idon't know, jumping out of a
plane. I was skydiving and ohno, and saving two dogs from a
burning plane whilst doing it. Thereyou go. See now you get it.
Now I don't get much, butI did get that. Now,
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Okay, that's frightening. You know, what do you google yourself? Have
you ever? Do you? Oncein a blue moon and you're having a
bad day, you're like, yeah, what, let's see what they say
about that particular. I google myselfon occasion only to check if there's any
full information out there, because sometimessmart there's stuff that will pop up that
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you're like, whoa, where didthat come from? And so just like
just to kind of monitor that stuff. But you know, I don't need
to google myself to note other thanI am dB myself to remind myself,
Like I'm like, okay, didI who did I work with? On
what? Project because they'll kind ofconnect you, like you throughout who it
was where when it was Tyler Labine, it was Breaker High anyway, yea,
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So lord, hey, how didyou did? I ask? How
did you get interested in this wholething? Being interviewed by us today?
What was it? Just an email? And I went listen, no,
no, uh? The acting thing? Where did that do? Second grade?
I started doing like really like elementaryschoolster doing. I did it like
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a school play and I really lovedit, and you know, started doing
more of that in school, andyou know, told my parents and at
the time, like Vancouver was juststarting to kind of grow their film industry
was starting to you know, youcould have a little bit of a career.
And I remember telling my parents thatI wanted to do. They're like,
that's great. You don't have acar and you're not allowed to take
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a bus by yourself right now,because I was I don't know, like
nine, and like, when youcan do that because they have you know,
jobs and things too, so thatthey could feed us, then you
can you know, pursue that ifyou want. So that was kind of
the deal. And I so onceI was old enough to like take the
bus by myself and go to auditionsand do that stuff. I did that.
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And then when I finally got ajob that paid enough so that I
could buy myself a little used car, I did that. Then I could
drive myself places. That was exciting. But yeah, that's basically that's how
it started. Okay, So theythey were supportive, but they gave you
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rug blocks. Interesting. They mademe work for it. They made me
work for it. They were notgoing to chaperone me around, and nor
were they going to pay for someoneto chaperone me around, which I know
is something that happens now, butyeah, it was just not something that
was in the cards, you know, until I was old enough to kind
of do it on my own.Okay, anyone else in the arts in
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the family, Nope, nope.First, my dad was in finance and
actually it was our architect by tradeoriginally. And yeah, I'm the only
one in the in this crazy business. It is a little crazy, that's
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for sure. Okay, speaking,you're crazy going crazy at home. I
the first thing I was looking upwas your videos, your YouTube channel,
of which I guess you went nutsduring lockdown? Was that a good whoa
whoa whoa nuts? Is harsh.Okay, I thought, I think you
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mean accurate. Maybe, Uh yeah, I was a little stir crazy and
bored. And you know when you'relocked in a in a space and you're
a performer, and you're a performerand you want to do things and you
want to be creative, you know. I so, yeah, I did
a few episodes of that if Iwere on Ellen. Before you know,
things came out that maybe I didn'twant to necessarily be on Ellen. Look
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you didn't. You didn't hold upa book and go, oh, I've
been reading this book my mentor HarveyWeinstein. You didn't do that. It's
just Ellen, and it's just youdon't. You haven't met her, so
you don't know, you know what, I love my show. It was
so much fun to watch. Andyou know, I did not have any
sort of experience. I can't speakto that because I was not I did
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not know her personally. So Ienjoyed a show, and I enjoyed a
little, you know, a littlebit of a spoof of her show during
lockdown. And then you know,I bought a couple of sewing machines,
made myself some clothes. Like peopleare like, didn't you start making your
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own clothes. I'm like, okay, I need two things. Two things.
I did not make a fire ward. You're you're like, you're like
Gandhi, You're just over there withthe loom, and you're like, this
is it. I'm done, guyswith commercialism. I'm just gonna I think
I bought a bread maker for thebetter half. It's it's still in the
box. You sell that thing.Did we do anything learned casual Spanish?
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No? Uh no, yeah,I don't know. It was. It
was pretty relaxed. I grew upbeard and got this hair down to here
the front night, I pull itdown here. I don't know what men
say bangs. I don't know whata man is allowed to call a bang.
Is it still a bang there?I guess it's still a bank or
it's just long hair at that point, unless you have long front hair and
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you wear it down like that infront of your face, which is kind
of more like wants to frighten her. Cousin it like cousin it. That's
what I was like. I waslike that Wednesday, blah blah blah whatever.
Cousin it wasn't the hand hand isthing? Cousin it the han't mop
over his head yet. Hey,hey, parents, not loving me and
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letting the TV raise me boom.Score one for that. It's okay,
we'll cut that out. Some ofit later, when I started crying,
I'm looking down on my notes.What do you what'd you get that hat?
It's not part of here, it'sjust while I'm doing this, is
this hat? A friend of minesent it to me. Okay, barn
hair, don't care. I thinkit was probably a sentiment, like something
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to do with the fact that myhair was always in a hat and I'm
always in the barn and I youknow you're a Horsey lady, aren't you.
Yes, I'm a Corsey I'm Horseygirl. Yeah yeah, well,
I said, lady, I'm gonnaI'm gonna be respectful. This isn't my
show. I have to well,yeah, yeah you are. I don't
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know why. I know. Howmany horses do you have? I should
have one for me right now?Painkiller Jane, Like that's a full on
Marvel property. I got caught inmy cord, which I told you what
happened, so don't get surprised.I think I can't remember the guy's name.
Joe. Oh, Joe Palmer.Yeah, he probably created that darn
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thing on page anyway, probably greatartist. So what was can you speak
to that at all a little bit? Yeah, I mean that was I
got to play a superhero and andthe prep for that was a ton of
fun because it's like weapons training andfight training, you know, and that's
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my happy place, you know.I like, at the time, I
loved all that stuff, and Istill I still do. But yeah,
I dove in head first with allof that that stuff. And we shot
for four weeks at the pilot shotfor four weeks, and then they held
on to it for like over ayear, trying to make a decision,
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and and I think that, yeah, I mean it was. I think
tried to revive that a few timesnow. I mean it's it's kind of
been kicking around for a while.Last I heard they were doing something with
it. I have no idea.I don't know, but I had I
had a blast in the in theversion that we did that, we all
had a great time. I madesome great friends and had a really fun
time. Oh that's awesome. See, I knew you'd be a person who
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makes friends. I make acquaintances onfilm sets, but I keep it business.
Do you know what I mean tokeep it business? Your step off
set? That's my time. Okay, Hey, how about I was gonna
ask how you got that gig,but maybe let's forget that or maybe use
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it and tell me about Are youstill auditioning for things? Are they kind
of just like, look here's theIMDb, just give this woman the damn
job. Sorry for swearing, butare you still out there doing that?
Are you taking calls and meetings?What are you doing both? I mean,
it just depends on the projects.Some stuff you still audition for,
it depends on you know what itis. And then there's some stuff that
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I do not, so you know, like it's and it's also sometimes it's
a matter of like, oh,they would like you to come in auditions,
Like sometimes it's like there, it'snot even a question. It's an
offer only sort of situation, orthey come in with an offer, and
then other times, uh, youknow, it's like I don't know,
what do you think they'd like youto come in and read or they'd like
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to put yourself on tape or whatever, what do you want to do?
And then you know, then wemake the call from there, depending on
what the project is, depending onmy level of interest in it, the
material, all that stuff. Whatare the types of things, like,
you've you've done a hell of alot of work now, and what kind
of thing would be like, oh, you know what would actually peak here
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because something that you haven't been offered, you haven't done enough to something.
Yeah, I would I would loveto do another sitcom. That would be
fun. I would love to.Oh, like the Ryan Ryan Murphy always
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has some fabulous fun shows, andyou know, working on one of his
shows would be be pretty cool justbecause I always I always enjoy them watching
them. I love that Hollywood show. I don't remember the name of it
unless it was Hollywood, and thenI totally remember the name of it.
I think it might have been calledHollywood. Yeah. Yeah, But like
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The Watcher recently, that was thatwas amaze, Like that was a lot
of fun to watch. I mean, oh, we're only halfway through that.
Yeah, actually we're only halfway throughThe Watcher. Yeah. Food was
fabulous. Wait wait wait f feudfeud, No, that's not feud.
Which is it? Who's in feudtoo? Is it the car thing?
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Is it with Stephen Une or somethingthat's not No, no feud was wasn't
it like Susan Surrandon? Okay,no, no, I'm sorry, no,
no, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. If it isn't that show,
then we haven't seen it. Becausethere's a show with Stephen Yune and this
comedian. I don't know if she'san actress, but she was really good.
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It was like a bump into eachother cars and then just decide to
ruin their lives show. I didn'tthink it was his Yeah, what's her
name? Like that? That's arecent one. This is like, yeah,
totally recent, and it's it's ait's a period like. It's a
period piece. It's two actresses.Oh my god, I'm blanking on all
of it now, but I'll lookat it lighter. It's really okay anyway,
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listen, we're getting there man.Time wise, I know it was
limited, and thank you so muchfor doing this. I'm going to do
until you go like this, untilyou go, okay, let's practice this
once. Let me see that,let me see that. Okay, was
that it was that it? Oris that just a pre was that it?
I'm saying, you're done, that'sa pre thank you? Yeah,
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try and I'm gonna try and dothat thing I never do with a scene
partner. Just pay attention. No, no, no. Do you still
get nervous when you do auditions?When you have to do auditions, you
still get nervous? Do you everhave nervous? It depends what it is
sometimes, I mean, if I'mright, like in the last couple of
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years, because of lockdowns and allthis stuff, a lot of stuff is
just on tape, which gives youthe freedom kind of which I love because
you can be anywhere in the worldand be and do that so you don't
have to be in la and thenyou know, and it just gives you
freedom to have a life. Sowith that, it's you know, you
kind of it's a little bit morelaid back where you're like, Okay,
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I don't have like that one shotat it in the room, and if
I don't do it well the firsttime, they're not going to ask me
to do it again or make anadjustment. They're gonna be like, oh,
that kind of you know, she'sstunk up the room. Whatever,
if you're nervous or whatever. SoI do like it for those reasons,
but I do miss going into theroom in the sense of like meeting people
face to face and that energy thatyou have inner room, I think says
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a lot. So it's like peopleget a real sense of who you are,
you know, if they want towork with you, or if they
you know, or if they're like, I don't really like that person,
or she she reminds me of myex wife, I don't want to work
with her. Whatever, Yeah,to be x wife, you know whatever.
Whatever it might understood now, Iyeah, the the the amount of
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nerves I have going into the roomis equal and opposite returns off what you
get in the room after and beforeyour audition. I might stink up the
audition, but I ain't stinking upthe room. You go in. You
have a voice, you have alook, you have an attitude, you
are quick, you ask the rightquestion. You do a shitty audition,
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there's still an okay chance they mightbring you back. So that's something you
don't get on a tape. Youknow, you just send the tape.
They're like, oh, that's aninteresting choice, not for us, but
you don't get redirected anyway. Butit's it's so nerve wracking. Yeah,
good and bad. Yeah, Iagree with you. Nerve wracking before we
let you go, Could you tellme anything about fluff Ball? Yes,
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So my five oh one C threethat I founded, and it's a nonprofit
that raises money and awareness for avariety of animal rescue organizations. So we
just recently chose Horses and Heroes,which is just outside of o'calla, Florida.
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And what they do is they takenMindy Morrow, who runs the program
and owns the organization. She bringsin retired show horses and works with young
girls that come from different backgrounds,you know, different difficult home lives,
whether it be you know, financiallyor emotionally, and helps them out with
(23:14):
it helps the families with like foodand gas and things like that, so
that you are out in the sticks. I love that there's there's a train
that runs off and and uh andhelps them out that and also runs a
program where she teaches them how horsemanshipand how to ride and all the things
that go along with taking care ofa horse and and you know the barn
(23:37):
and that sort of thing. Andso these girls uh just have a place
to go and to to be witheach other and heal through that as well.
And through that program all the girlsthat have stuck with it have all
one hundred percent of them have graduatedhigh school and gone on to do things
and whether it's the military or youknow, other careers from that program.
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So it's it's really cool and I'mreally excited to be working with her.
Wow, congratulations on that. Amazing. Okay, not just a lady who
wears a hat, living out inthe woods and sometimes sits on horses.
There's so much more to you.Listen. I don't know, is there
anything I have a tip for tipfor the young people coming in it?
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Just one last thing I'm gonna tipfor the people coming in out. Yeah,
anything or advice you would have givenyourself when you were like fifteen either.
Yeah, beyond time. I meanthis is stuff that I was told
when I was when I was startingout as well. Beyond time. Be
respectful to everyone you meet, everyeveryone from you know, your producer,
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director, people at the top tothe person that is going and getting you
coffee, because you don't you know, everyone is there to help you know
the everything runs smoothly and you don'tknow what those people are going to be
doing and people are people. Treateveryone with respect, keep like don't give
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up. Keep doing your thing,studying, expanding your horizons and whatnot.
You know, uh yeah, justkeep going. That's all I can really
sell, you know, just don'tgive up. Just keep going because it's
a long road. And if youcan think I said this today on something
else, if you can think,I mean, this business is a difficult
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business. If there's other things thatyou would rather do, then go do.
If you can see yourself doing otherthings, go do those things.
If you can't see yourself doing anythingelse and this is what you love,
then then fine. Okay, butit's not easy, and it's it's you
know, it may seem like itin the beginning. You might hit and
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get something and whatever and it's like, oh my god, everything and then
you'll pull you know, and it'sthis the whole time. And that's just
the nature of the beast at anylevel, I think, you know.
Okay, thank you, thank you, thank you. So now I'm going
to do that thing that I workon less than intros and it's an outro.
Thank you again, Thank you forjoining us. Okay, here we
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go, Hey guys, thanks forwatching Talent Talk. That was missed.
Animal and Fog I was gays youwere sitting there, join us next week.
It's gonna be Gary. He's gonnabe more professional than this, but
he won't have more professional actor.I can tell you that we'll cut that
part out. Thanks again, guys, Take care chow, Thank you very
much. Okay, take care,take care,
Could you tell me anything about fluffBall. Yes, So my five oh
one C three that I founded,uh and it's a nonprofit that raises money
and awareness for a variety of animalrescue organizations. So we just recently chose
(00:21):
Horses and Heroes, which is justoutside of o'calla, Florida. And what
they do is they taken Mindy Morrow, who runs the program and owns the
organization. She brings in retired showhorses and works with young girls that come
from different backgrounds, you know,different difficult home lives, whether it be
(00:43):
you know, financially or emotionally,and helps them out with it helps the
families with like food and gas andthings like that so that you are out
in the sticks. I love thatthere's there's a train that runs often and
and helps it out that and alsoruns a program where she teaches them how
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horsemanship and how to ride and allthe things that go along with taking care
of a horse and you know,the barn and that sort of thing.
And so these girls just have aplace to go and to be with each
other and heal through that as well. And through that program, all the
girls that have stuck with it haveall one hundred percent of them have graduated
(01:27):
high school and gone on to dothings and whether it's the military or you
know, other careers from that program. So it's it's really cool. I'm
really excited to be working with her. Talent Talk is sponsored by Company of
Rogues Actors Studio, New York styletraining for actors at all stages of their
journey. With our part time classesand full time masterclass program, Rogues provides
(01:49):
a unique post secondary option under theguidance of working professionals, mentoring and developing
professional film and theater artists since nineteenninety three, Calgary's longest running in dependent
studio offers practical, hands on classesin a positive, supportive environment. Check
us out at co rogues dot com. Company of Rogues passionate about the art
of acting. Hey, guys,welcome to Talent Talk. I'm your guest
(02:38):
hosts and gays Today. We've gota great show. Why because it's a
capital t on talent. We havean actor who has done way too much
stuff to list. I will tryand list it alphabetically during the show.
Before we get to that, I'dlike to thank some of our sponsors.
This is our fifth season and oursponsors are Company of Rogues, six Degrees,
(03:02):
Workflow Films, r J Talent,heard of one Media Counting Coup Indigenous
Film Academy, and last but notleast, ACTU Alberta. Sure, I
hope I haven't missed one of themanyway, So on to today's show.
Today we have miss Manuel Vouget.I don't know how we got her,
(03:22):
but we got her and she's gonnabe here in three two one Nanuel.
Hello, Hello, how are youdoing? I'm doing great. Oh that's
excellent. Oh I'm fine. I'mokay. Where do we Where do we
find you? By the way,other than your place of kitchen? Where
are you right now? I'm inthe I'm in the in the sticks.
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I'm in a horse country just outsideof Vancouver at the moment. Okay,
I know you're super super busy,right, you got this Hallmark thing coming
out. I'm gonna look down atmy notes to get the name. Just
I know it says Big Sky,but that's only the first few words.
Big Sky River, the bridle Path. Yes am I? So hey,
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before we get to before we getto Big Sky River the Bridle Path,
before I would like to talk aboutsome seminal work that you've done. You've
had so much, so much darnwork. It's insane. Like leave something
for the rest of us, iswhat other actors would say. I would
never say that to your face,but if I could, do you remember
(04:30):
the character Monee on I'm not gonnaquiz you on Breaker High? Oh my
gosh, I was like, yeah, when when was I? I do
remember that because that yeah, yeah, I was squashing greats with Tyler Laban
and uh and Ryan Gosling exactly.And here's the funny thing, so,
(04:55):
like I know I checked you outbefore having to do this, I'm like,
let's go through some of her libraryof past things. The wife,
of course, knows you a lotmore, you know, small veil stuff
like that actually have like a Ican't figure out as a Christopher Reeves Superman
there. I know that's not that'sa record, But but I was looking
(05:19):
through the stuff and we saw theBreaker High thing and it's actually available on
YouTube. I watched it today today. And here's the weird part. I
remember watching that because we were likesort of just starting to date and we
literally watched Breaker High. And Idon't know if it was just like there's
like that the prettiest cast. Icannot think of a more pretty cast than
(05:42):
those people on that show. Itwas insane. It was like watching Baywatch
and you watch like the Street peoplehomeless people, and you're like their models,
they're going in this stupid show anyway. Yeah yeah, or like my
favorite, you ever watched a thingand they go, oh, it's they
(06:02):
have a photo. It's a policephote and they're like, hey, you
mean this guy? It's a headshot that is a head shot, which
is yeah, basing a black whitehead shot, which just a number of
it wasn't in the budget. Sothis is how he got the job anyway,
So why not use it? Right? Or off? Oh my goodness,
(06:23):
is there anything you'd like to talkabout that doesn't involve break or hide?
Because I've just got a list ofso many things that you've done.
The world is your oyster. Iit's all right, whatever you wanted,
it's a mixed bag. I am, you know, happy to talk about
any of it. So all right, you know, I'm back to your
back catalog, And as I wasgoing through your stuff, I didn't realize,
(06:45):
forgive me, that's you're an actor. No, I didn't realize that
you had done CSI New York forseveral seasons with mister Gary Sinice. So
I just watched the first one earlier, and I was like, Okay,
I'm gonna start watching this show.I hope nothing happens to your character.
I hope you're fine in that show. I'm not gonna look, but I
(07:10):
hope you're smiling. Hey, how'dyou get interested in acting? She dies?
Guys, she's she doesn't make it. It doesn't make it and slow
motion shooting. It's like that scenefrom a Blade Runner. But anyway,
oh, speaking of not making it, so, yesterday a friend of mine
sends me my obituary that somebody somebodyhad posted that I got. I was
(07:38):
in a parking or a law sorry, a car accident and a parking lot
in a mall parking lot and passedaway on July thirty, twenty twenty three.
And then he sent me his obituarythat somebody had posted, but his
one was dated August first, twentytwenty three. Should that'd be a lot
(07:58):
scarier consider like in the field,Like, yeah, I'm like I don't
want to, you know, like, don't start doing that crap. But
it was funny to me because I'mlike, of all the really in a
mall parking lot? That's how Igo, Well, maybe it was like
a maybe it was like a NeimanMarcus or so I didn't have to be
like a Walmart parking lot. Itcould be an upscale mall period Like no,
(08:22):
let's let's like I was, Idon't know, jumping out of a
plane. I was skydiving and ohno, and saving two dogs from a
burning plane whilst doing it. Thereyou go. See now you get it.
Now I don't get much, butI did get that. Now,
(08:43):
Okay, that's frightening. You know, what do you google yourself? Have
you ever? Do you? Oncein a blue moon and you're having a
bad day, you're like, yeah, what, let's see what they say
about that particular. I google myselfon occasion only to check if there's any
full information out there, because sometimessmart there's stuff that will pop up that
(09:05):
you're like, whoa, where didthat come from? And so just like
just to kind of monitor that stuff. But you know, I don't need
to google myself to note other thanI am dB myself to remind myself,
Like I'm like, okay, didI who did I work with? On
what? Project because they'll kind ofconnect you, like you throughout who it
was where when it was Tyler Labine, it was Breaker High anyway, yea,
(09:35):
So lord, hey, how didyou did? I ask? How
did you get interested in this wholething? Being interviewed by us today?
What was it? Just an email? And I went listen, no,
no, uh? The acting thing? Where did that do? Second grade?
I started doing like really like elementaryschoolster doing. I did it like
(09:58):
a school play and I really lovedit, and you know, started doing
more of that in school, andyou know, told my parents and at
the time, like Vancouver was juststarting to kind of grow their film industry
was starting to you know, youcould have a little bit of a career.
And I remember telling my parents thatI wanted to do. They're like,
that's great. You don't have acar and you're not allowed to take
(10:20):
a bus by yourself right now,because I was I don't know, like
nine, and like, when youcan do that because they have you know,
jobs and things too, so thatthey could feed us, then you
can you know, pursue that ifyou want. So that was kind of
the deal. And I so onceI was old enough to like take the
bus by myself and go to auditionsand do that stuff. I did that.
(10:43):
And then when I finally got ajob that paid enough so that I
could buy myself a little used car, I did that. Then I could
drive myself places. That was exciting. But yeah, that's basically that's how
it started. Okay, So theythey were supportive, but they gave you
(11:05):
rug blocks. Interesting. They mademe work for it. They made me
work for it. They were notgoing to chaperone me around, and nor
were they going to pay for someoneto chaperone me around, which I know
is something that happens now, butyeah, it was just not something that
was in the cards, you know, until I was old enough to kind
of do it on my own.Okay, anyone else in the arts in
(11:26):
the family, Nope, nope.First, my dad was in finance and
actually it was our architect by tradeoriginally. And yeah, I'm the only
one in the in this crazy business. It is a little crazy, that's
(11:46):
for sure. Okay, speaking,you're crazy going crazy at home. I
the first thing I was looking upwas your videos, your YouTube channel,
of which I guess you went nutsduring lockdown? Was that a good whoa
whoa whoa nuts? Is harsh.Okay, I thought, I think you
(12:09):
mean accurate. Maybe, Uh yeah, I was a little stir crazy and
bored. And you know when you'relocked in a in a space and you're
a performer, and you're a performerand you want to do things and you
want to be creative, you know. I so, yeah, I did
a few episodes of that if Iwere on Ellen. Before you know,
things came out that maybe I didn'twant to necessarily be on Ellen. Look
(12:35):
you didn't. You didn't hold upa book and go, oh, I've
been reading this book my mentor HarveyWeinstein. You didn't do that. It's
just Ellen, and it's just youdon't. You haven't met her, so
you don't know, you know what, I love my show. It was
so much fun to watch. Andyou know, I did not have any
sort of experience. I can't speakto that because I was not I did
(12:56):
not know her personally. So Ienjoyed a show, and I enjoyed a
little, you know, a littlebit of a spoof of her show during
lockdown. And then you know,I bought a couple of sewing machines,
made myself some clothes. Like peopleare like, didn't you start making your
(13:16):
own clothes. I'm like, okay, I need two things. Two things.
I did not make a fire ward. You're you're like, you're like
Gandhi, You're just over there withthe loom, and you're like, this
is it. I'm done, guyswith commercialism. I'm just gonna I think
I bought a bread maker for thebetter half. It's it's still in the
box. You sell that thing.Did we do anything learned casual Spanish?
(13:41):
No? Uh no, yeah,I don't know. It was. It
was pretty relaxed. I grew upbeard and got this hair down to here
the front night, I pull itdown here. I don't know what men
say bangs. I don't know whata man is allowed to call a bang.
Is it still a bang there?I guess it's still a bank or
it's just long hair at that point, unless you have long front hair and
(14:01):
you wear it down like that infront of your face, which is kind
of more like wants to frighten her. Cousin it like cousin it. That's
what I was like. I waslike that Wednesday, blah blah blah whatever.
Cousin it wasn't the hand hand isthing? Cousin it the han't mop
over his head yet. Hey,hey, parents, not loving me and
(14:22):
letting the TV raise me boom.Score one for that. It's okay,
we'll cut that out. Some ofit later, when I started crying,
I'm looking down on my notes.What do you what'd you get that hat?
It's not part of here, it'sjust while I'm doing this, is
this hat? A friend of minesent it to me. Okay, barn
hair, don't care. I thinkit was probably a sentiment, like something
(14:43):
to do with the fact that myhair was always in a hat and I'm
always in the barn and I youknow you're a Horsey lady, aren't you.
Yes, I'm a Corsey I'm Horseygirl. Yeah yeah, well,
I said, lady, I'm gonnaI'm gonna be respectful. This isn't my
show. I have to well,yeah, yeah you are. I don't
(15:05):
know why. I know. Howmany horses do you have? I should
have one for me right now?Painkiller Jane, Like that's a full on
Marvel property. I got caught inmy cord, which I told you what
happened, so don't get surprised.I think I can't remember the guy's name.
Joe. Oh, Joe Palmer.Yeah, he probably created that darn
(15:28):
thing on page anyway, probably greatartist. So what was can you speak
to that at all a little bit? Yeah, I mean that was I
got to play a superhero and andthe prep for that was a ton of
fun because it's like weapons training andfight training, you know, and that's
(15:50):
my happy place, you know.I like, at the time, I
loved all that stuff, and Istill I still do. But yeah,
I dove in head first with allof that that stuff. And we shot
for four weeks at the pilot shotfor four weeks, and then they held
on to it for like over ayear, trying to make a decision,
(16:11):
and and I think that, yeah, I mean it was. I think
tried to revive that a few timesnow. I mean it's it's kind of
been kicking around for a while.Last I heard they were doing something with
it. I have no idea.I don't know, but I had I
had a blast in the in theversion that we did that, we all
had a great time. I madesome great friends and had a really fun
time. Oh that's awesome. See, I knew you'd be a person who
(16:34):
makes friends. I make acquaintances onfilm sets, but I keep it business.
Do you know what I mean tokeep it business? Your step off
set? That's my time. Okay, Hey, how about I was gonna
ask how you got that gig,but maybe let's forget that or maybe use
(16:55):
it and tell me about Are youstill auditioning for things? Are they kind
of just like, look here's theIMDb, just give this woman the damn
job. Sorry for swearing, butare you still out there doing that?
Are you taking calls and meetings?What are you doing both? I mean,
it just depends on the projects.Some stuff you still audition for,
it depends on you know what itis. And then there's some stuff that
(17:22):
I do not, so you know, like it's and it's also sometimes it's
a matter of like, oh,they would like you to come in auditions,
Like sometimes it's like there, it'snot even a question. It's an
offer only sort of situation, orthey come in with an offer, and
then other times, uh, youknow, it's like I don't know,
what do you think they'd like youto come in and read or they'd like
(17:42):
to put yourself on tape or whatever, what do you want to do?
And then you know, then wemake the call from there, depending on
what the project is, depending onmy level of interest in it, the
material, all that stuff. Whatare the types of things, like,
you've you've done a hell of alot of work now, and what kind
of thing would be like, oh, you know what would actually peak here
(18:03):
because something that you haven't been offered, you haven't done enough to something.
Yeah, I would I would loveto do another sitcom. That would be
fun. I would love to.Oh, like the Ryan Ryan Murphy always
(18:23):
has some fabulous fun shows, andyou know, working on one of his
shows would be be pretty cool justbecause I always I always enjoy them watching
them. I love that Hollywood show. I don't remember the name of it
unless it was Hollywood, and thenI totally remember the name of it.
I think it might have been calledHollywood. Yeah. Yeah, But like
(18:44):
The Watcher recently, that was thatwas amaze, Like that was a lot
of fun to watch. I mean, oh, we're only halfway through that.
Yeah, actually we're only halfway throughThe Watcher. Yeah. Food was
fabulous. Wait wait wait f feudfeud, No, that's not feud.
Which is it? Who's in feudtoo? Is it the car thing?
(19:07):
Is it with Stephen Une or somethingthat's not No, no feud was wasn't
it like Susan Surrandon? Okay,no, no, I'm sorry, no,
no, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. If it isn't that show,
then we haven't seen it. Becausethere's a show with Stephen Yune and this
comedian. I don't know if she'san actress, but she was really good.
(19:27):
It was like a bump into eachother cars and then just decide to
ruin their lives show. I didn'tthink it was his Yeah, what's her
name? Like that? That's arecent one. This is like, yeah,
totally recent, and it's it's ait's a period like. It's a
period piece. It's two actresses.Oh my god, I'm blanking on all
of it now, but I'll lookat it lighter. It's really okay anyway,
(19:52):
listen, we're getting there man.Time wise, I know it was
limited, and thank you so muchfor doing this. I'm going to do
until you go like this, untilyou go, okay, let's practice this
once. Let me see that,let me see that. Okay, was
that it was that it? Oris that just a pre was that it?
I'm saying, you're done, that'sa pre thank you? Yeah,
(20:15):
try and I'm gonna try and dothat thing I never do with a scene
partner. Just pay attention. No, no, no. Do you still
get nervous when you do auditions?When you have to do auditions, you
still get nervous? Do you everhave nervous? It depends what it is
sometimes, I mean, if I'mright, like in the last couple of
(20:37):
years, because of lockdowns and allthis stuff, a lot of stuff is
just on tape, which gives youthe freedom kind of which I love because
you can be anywhere in the worldand be and do that so you don't
have to be in la and thenyou know, and it just gives you
freedom to have a life. Sowith that, it's you know, you
kind of it's a little bit morelaid back where you're like, Okay,
(21:00):
I don't have like that one shotat it in the room, and if
I don't do it well the firsttime, they're not going to ask me
to do it again or make anadjustment. They're gonna be like, oh,
that kind of you know, she'sstunk up the room. Whatever,
if you're nervous or whatever. SoI do like it for those reasons,
but I do miss going into theroom in the sense of like meeting people
face to face and that energy thatyou have inner room, I think says
(21:23):
a lot. So it's like peopleget a real sense of who you are,
you know, if they want towork with you, or if they
you know, or if they're like, I don't really like that person,
or she she reminds me of myex wife, I don't want to work
with her. Whatever, Yeah,to be x wife, you know whatever.
Whatever it might understood now, Iyeah, the the the amount of
(21:45):
nerves I have going into the roomis equal and opposite returns off what you
get in the room after and beforeyour audition. I might stink up the
audition, but I ain't stinking upthe room. You go in. You
have a voice, you have alook, you have an attitude, you
are quick, you ask the rightquestion. You do a shitty audition,
(22:06):
there's still an okay chance they mightbring you back. So that's something you
don't get on a tape. Youknow, you just send the tape.
They're like, oh, that's aninteresting choice, not for us, but
you don't get redirected anyway. Butit's it's so nerve wracking. Yeah,
good and bad. Yeah, Iagree with you. Nerve wracking before we
let you go, Could you tellme anything about fluff Ball? Yes,
(22:30):
So my five oh one C threethat I founded, and it's a nonprofit
that raises money and awareness for avariety of animal rescue organizations. So we
just recently chose Horses and Heroes,which is just outside of o'calla, Florida.
(22:51):
And what they do is they takenMindy Morrow, who runs the program
and owns the organization. She bringsin retired show horses and works with young
girls that come from different backgrounds,you know, different difficult home lives,
whether it be you know, financiallyor emotionally, and helps them out with
(23:14):
it helps the families with like foodand gas and things like that, so
that you are out in the sticks. I love that there's there's a train
that runs off and and uh andhelps them out that and also runs a
program where she teaches them how horsemanshipand how to ride and all the things
that go along with taking care ofa horse and and you know the barn
(23:37):
and that sort of thing. Andso these girls uh just have a place
to go and to to be witheach other and heal through that as well.
And through that program all the girlsthat have stuck with it have all
one hundred percent of them have graduatedhigh school and gone on to do things
and whether it's the military or youknow, other careers from that program.
(24:02):
So it's it's really cool and I'mreally excited to be working with her.
Wow, congratulations on that. Amazing. Okay, not just a lady who
wears a hat, living out inthe woods and sometimes sits on horses.
There's so much more to you.Listen. I don't know, is there
anything I have a tip for tipfor the young people coming in it?
(24:22):
Just one last thing I'm gonna tipfor the people coming in out. Yeah,
anything or advice you would have givenyourself when you were like fifteen either.
Yeah, beyond time. I meanthis is stuff that I was told
when I was when I was startingout as well. Beyond time. Be
respectful to everyone you meet, everyeveryone from you know, your producer,
(24:45):
director, people at the top tothe person that is going and getting you
coffee, because you don't you know, everyone is there to help you know
the everything runs smoothly and you don'tknow what those people are going to be
doing and people are people. Treateveryone with respect, keep like don't give
(25:06):
up. Keep doing your thing,studying, expanding your horizons and whatnot.
You know, uh yeah, justkeep going. That's all I can really
sell, you know, just don'tgive up. Just keep going because it's
a long road. And if youcan think I said this today on something
else, if you can think,I mean, this business is a difficult
(25:30):
business. If there's other things thatyou would rather do, then go do.
If you can see yourself doing otherthings, go do those things.
If you can't see yourself doing anythingelse and this is what you love,
then then fine. Okay, butit's not easy, and it's it's you
know, it may seem like itin the beginning. You might hit and
(25:51):
get something and whatever and it's like, oh my god, everything and then
you'll pull you know, and it'sthis the whole time. And that's just
the nature of the beast at anylevel, I think, you know.
Okay, thank you, thank you, thank you. So now I'm going
to do that thing that I workon less than intros and it's an outro.
Thank you again, Thank you forjoining us. Okay, here we
(26:15):
go, Hey guys, thanks forwatching Talent Talk. That was missed.
Animal and Fog I was gays youwere sitting there, join us next week.
It's gonna be Gary. He's gonnabe more professional than this, but
he won't have more professional actor.I can tell you that we'll cut that
part out. Thanks again, guys, Take care chow, Thank you very
much. Okay, take care,take care,
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