July 22, 2023 • 36 mins
In this episode of "Talent Talk", Gabrielle Miller, an award-winning actress and comedian will be appearing in the new film "Have Hope Yo." In this video, she shares her auditioning tips with you, so that you can have the best chance of landing the role of your dreams.
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So many takes do you normally dowhen you're at home and you're making yourself
you know, like maybe maybe two? Wow? So are you? Will
you rehearse it like thirty times?No? No, No, I just
I'm too tired and I want toget into my garden. No. I
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know, I have, um,I have a really good system down and
I you know, look at it. I think about it, and I
make my choices, and I also, um, just do yeah, you
just do. You just make thechoices that you feel are right. Commit
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to that and overthinking things and forme, just it takes up time and
energy and I'd rather just you know, and my choices might be wrong and
that's fine. But if it's butif the work, if like you say,
if they see something in your workand they go, Okay, this
choice wasn't necessarily right, but theessence of what this actor is bringing to
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the character is then that will giveyou an opportunity to hopefully have a callback
and you can discuss those things orsometimes you just get cast off of your
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welcome to Talent Talk. I'm yourhost, shanays. Today we have
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this is anyway, So today ourguest is Miss Gabrielle Miller. She is
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uh well, she is an actorand award winning She's got a couple of
those Leo's some geminis um and um, yeah, let's figure out what is
she doing on this show? Soplease help me. Welcome miss Gabriel Miller.
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I am very well, gabrielle Um. I've noticed right off the top
that you are close to your camera. It's all you, and I'm here
a little bit safer. I'm alittle bit safer. No, don't,
don't you, Dare. I didn'tset this up, and I could push
my chair back a little bit,Dare, push your chair back. I
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tried pushing my chair back two daysago, and it's got four casters.
But I guess I didn't realize Ihave soft carpeting in my room. This
is a show about me. Sorry. And then there's a piece of plastic
where you can roll, you know, and one of the wheels is off,
and then I was off the shutdowand it's an age. I hurt
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my shoulder for like three days.That's like a stand. It's a two
foot drop on shag carpet. Whatis going on? Okay, look it.
I picked up an iris root balla couple of years ago, my
joy, I did have a backinjury and couldn't walk properly for like two
weeks. It's a root ball.It's it's not irises are They're good for
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about three days and then they're yeuseless. I know, do you cut
those things back? What do youjust leave them? I cut the okay,
I leave the green because it feedsthe bulb. Oh, and that
goes for all bulbs. Like ifyou have tulips or daffodils and they die
back, the flower itself dies back. Cut the flower stan but leaves the
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leaves to die back because that feedsthe bulb for the next year's growth.
Oh wow, just information, guys, and you're getting it here for free.
A lot of tulips in the housebecause I think the wife got frightened
by a Dutch master once and uh, well she took art. You know,
she's educated. I'm not. Um. She doesn't bring it up every
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week, but she does so Cambra. Hell what sorry, I got distracted.
I see that we're recording this.How did you look? How and
why did you agree to h tocoming here and doing this? Did has
Gary my boss? Has he blackmailedyou or someone you love? You know
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what? Won't speak of that?Um? No. I came because I
was excited to chat with you guys, And um, I was so happy
to have just done the project thatI did with Mana Manuel and so yeah,
I don't I honestly, I Idon't often do interviews, um,
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but I was very happy to dothis and to get to chat with you.
I'm talking about yeah exactly, notme, but about the project.
And I get it. Um,we're in the entertainment industry now, so
you're so the project, the titleof the project. Have we landed on
the title? Is the title ofthe title? I don't know, actually,
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And that's something that I probably shouldhave asked Ben before today. I'm
not sure because I know it wasor the working title or the almost title
was have Hope. Yo. Yes, right now, what we're gonna do
is this is this is how we'regoing to fix this. I'm just going
to say, so the show somethingsomething something. Look at that cut point?
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Amazing? God, you guys,are you guys have all the tricks?
Now if my post it notes aregreen, it'd be perfect. I
can maybe have a tom Selleck andoh or like yeah, or cat mouth
or little you know, a dancingcat mouth. Yeah no, no,
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no, uh, Gabriel, youwent a little far. You went a
little far. I apologize told Iwas told by your handlers to rein you
in anyway. Well, let's talkabout let's talk about Ben Emmanuel. It
almost sounds like his name rhymes tome. If it doesn't rhyme, it's
musical. Can you say that music? It does sound it does. It's
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a lovely name. Yeah. Well, he was kind enough to do one
of these with mister Gary McClain.Um and yes, and yes, I
do want to actually talk about thatproject a little bit if you don't mind,
can you tell me a bit aboutit other than the tyr Well,
yeah, years ago now we started. Oh my goodness, I think in
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twenty nineteen, correct me if I'mwrong. I got a call from Ben.
I was not. I was here, and he said, listen,
I'm thinking of developing this project andUM. It centers around um COVID and
people reactions to it and what everybody'sgoing through. And it's also kind of
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a collaboration with with some of theyounger people that he works with. And
I was like, great, I'mBen and I have been friends and colleagues
for like, I don't know,probably thirty years or twenty five years.
We've been known each other for avery long time when he was more of
an actor. Right, well,yeah, and he still is. I
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mean we yeah, he still does. He just does everything. He like
writes, directs, teaches, acts. He's kind of like one of those
people that are ridiculously kind of allaround talented in many different ways. But
anyway, he's like, he isone of my favorite people just generally speaking,
and one of my favorite people towork with. We collaborate really well
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together, and so I was veryexcited we started it back then in twenty
nineteen and and just finished it,which I think is really beautiful because there's
this long kind of journey with thesecharacters and um yeah, so okay,
Um, I have worked on aproject where it took five years and a
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project what took six years to complete, but those were financial, uh you
know issues. I was like,oh good, I could now play my
uncle perfect. Why don't we justdo that? Um? Sure, that's
not what happened with you, soI can Okay. So that's so it
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deals with with people dealing with COVID. I you know what, maybe he
probably would have been so much moresuccinct or better at describing. Yes,
I mean there's it's just it's characterdriven and it I am, I play
a therapist, okay, and umdo you wear glasses in it? No,
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that's a therapist. Okay, good, so I always have glasses questions
for please continue? Uh yeah,anyway, it's it's uh yeah, it
was exciting and it was really justspecial to kind of have that that time.
Okay on something. Did you didyou instantly sort of know the character
or did you you know, didyou have to sort of get into it
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or did you just like know heron off the page. No, I
mean that's funny. I did haveto kind of get into it. And
Ben was really Ben was really clearon just some of the physicality that he
wanted um from this character, andthat was really helpful to me. Um
in just more of her stillness.I mean, you see her with her
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clients and then you see her inher life at home privately, and there's
quite a difference between the two realitiesof Pamela, and I think that I
think that goes for for all ofthe characters anyway. Okay, it's pretty
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interesting for therapists, you know,because I personally I don't trust him.
That's just me right. Well,our family has a long history of not
not trusting doctors. Do you havea lot of therapy in your family?
So no, I think we justhave a joke. Everybody, I love,
I love you all. I loveyour therapist. I'm just kidding.
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We'll just cut that out. Umno, no, that's I like that.
I also liked the idea of Imean, there's some Jason Siegel TV
show where I forgot what it's called. Yes, what called? You know
him and Harrison Ford. Yeah,actually everyone is really good in that cast.
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It's just they're the only two Iremember their names. Oh no,
wow, it doesn't matter. Andthe girl from Drew Carry she's great.
But but that shows how on andfocused he sort of is in his professional
thing, and then the life isjust this broken sort of thing. So
I do like that. I mean, it's scary. It is scary.
It'd be like watching a film abouta surgeon or something. You know,
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but then he drinks a lot afterafter work. You just don't want to
know that, but we sort ofhave to, you know, that old
skit, who is it? Mymind is just and he comes in the
bart He's like, it'll be latefrom a light and he's the pilot it
turns out. Do you know whatI'm talking about? Yeah, yeah,
of course, sure, sure,sure. I don't know about the skit
though I've heard it as a joke. Um, I mean that sounds like
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that really seems like a Harvey Corman, Tim Conway. That seems like a
Carol Burnett kind of like I couldsee it almost. But yeah, no,
anyway, you're gonna have to cutthis out too, because I don't
have proper information for you. Sorry. Well, no, we really do
like talking to people about projects they'renot in, right, that's really our
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So tell me how many episodes ofThe Rockford Files. The Rockford Files.
I love that ship. You knowwhat made me think of it actually is
the tape deck the start of it, where you hear what a great intro
to a shell you'd hear of someonecalling him up and all the problems you
we're dealing with, you know,like you've started beautiful mich post music,
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and then the tape deck would go, and I like that that's intriguing you,
Like, hey, I'm hearing yourvoice, I'm hearing about your problems.
Let's find out who you are.It was because it was because that
you have a landline yes, Ihave a landline. That's probably why my
brain went to that phone. Umgoodness, okay, do you have any
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questions for me? Now? It'sokay. How anyone in your family in
the arts? No? No,what am I saying? My brother is
an incredible photographer doesn't count. Photographydoesn't count. Sorry not art? Um
no, no, not really.But they're all a very very artistic stick
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people like creative and yeah, butnot as not as careers except for my
brother. Okay, so who sowho gave you the green light? Who
said in your family, people whoare supposed to love you and protect you
from this ridiculous and actually ridiculous onechance in a million? Who said,
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oh, go ahead, well thisstory. Some people may have already know
this story. But my mother andI had a house cleaning business when I
was like probably sixteen years old.We rode our bikes around White Rock.
It was called Have Broom, WillTravel, and we cleaned. What didn't
you dress up? I'm sorry,did you guys dress up? Have Broom
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Will Travel? Okay? Sorry no, and I didn't even I didn't even
understand the reference. It was ashow right called I mean no, I
don't think so. I don't thinkit's a show. I mean, it
feels like Bewitched. It feels likehalf Gun Will Travel. That's what it
was based on. Half done WillTravel. That was. That was a
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cute reference that I don't know theshow. My mom named us pretty good
show weird. I spoke to someoneabout half Gun Will Travel yesterday, No
way imagine that. Um. Yeah, so we we were doing really well.
We were busy and I had alwaysloved acting, and we were cleaning
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this lovely house and such a sadstory. Um there was had been a
sleepover with girls from my school andthey were like cooking pancakes and having their
party, and I was cleaning heron suite and it really just made me
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feel just funny. I mean becausesocially we go to school together and then
I was I was there. Itwas just weird for me. And so
not that there's anything wrong with cleaninghouses. It's totally a great job.
Yeah. Well yeah, so weleft and my mom could tell that it
had kind of upset me a littlebit, and she said, listen,
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sweetheart, I know that, Umthat you have dreams and there's things that
you want to focus on, andthe way life goes is if we're doing
well, this is a great job, there's nothing wrong with it. But
if we keep doing this, you'regoing to wake up and twenty years will
have gone by and you're still goingto be cleaning houses. So if you
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want to pursue acting, you reallyneed to start doing it now and be
focused on it because this is thisis life. Life. Life keeps going
right and you get comfortable with somethingand then it's it's harder to to make
that transition. Not that you can'talways like you're always growing. It doesn't
matter how old you are. Butit was good advice. I took it
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and that's how I started. Wow, moms always always there? Right?
Yeah? When they can be alwaysthere in some capacity? Do you do
do you auditions for stuff anymore?Or do you take I auditioned for every
single thing? Why? What iswrong with those people? I think that
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that's just part of the job,right. I want to look it.
M I just don't believe that.I just it bothers me. Can you
talk to some people and just saycall a game up and just give her
the job? I get that thing. I've done a doctor about fourteen times.
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And if someone is looking for adoctor, I'm like, watch these
movies. Yeah, yeah you could? Well yeah yeah, I kind of
feel like, just what is wrongwith you? Let's you know, if
you've got some new person, runthem through the ringer. You know.
I don't anyway, So well,I guess, um, did you like
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auditioning? You seem to no,No, okay, no, no,
I don't get nervous. I well, now we do a lot of our
auditions on tape, and to behonest, in the room, I really
do enjoy it sometimes when you're ableto work with the director and that's that's
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helpful because you can get maybe someinsight into what they're looking for, which
is great. I also am avery shy person, to be honest,
I'm not a really social person.So yeah, I'm not like going into
the room at first always does makeme feel a little nervous, and I'm
just not It's so funny because I'vebeen doing this for a really really long
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time and I'm still not. Yeah, like, I don't love going and
auditioning, but I do. Sorry, but I do enjoy it. When
you have a nice connection and youget to get some work done, that's
great, and taping is wonderful it'svery easy, right. Taping is different.
Yeah, do you um in theroom getting redirected? I mean I
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think that's kind of what you're talkingabout. You get to see a little
bit of maybe it isn't what youwhat you saw on the page, maybe
it's something different. Right For myself, it doesn't happen very often. But
I would never take the time tobe like they're like, oh right,
you're doing this, but actually whatyou're doing is you're lying to her and
you're like, great, let's goagain. Never taking do you know what
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I mean? Never taking like aminute to be like what does that mean?
Like what am I you know?Do you mean do you mean like
in your own mind taking the minuteto process the information or absolutely they're like
okay, hey, oh we lostyou a little bit. There you are.
It just looks like you're thinking andI love that, but we h.
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I wouldn't take the time very often. Yeah, no, you know,
I think I can show off,show off. Sorry to say that
again, like you're trying to showoff, like you're trying to be like,
of course I can do it.I can do it again, and
you know what I mean, Likeyeah, stupid, but really taking the
time. This is a good conversation. I'm going to remember that because taking
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the time to digest or try andunderstand what it is they're they're saying.
If you are nervous or feeling whatever, sometimes your brain doesn't pause to actually
go what is what does this mean? And that's really important right to getting
getting across whatever it is that they'reasking you to to adjust. Also,
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asking a good question has helped.I know we've we've asked sometions in the
room where they're like, oh youknow what I mean, no one's asked
that, or oh they didn't thinkabout it or something, and you can
the For me, I'm a terribleauditioner, but it was if you had
one minute before the audition started,like there was some camera problem you went
in and oh sorry, and youget to say a joke, or you
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get to say something about something thatyou really hooked them, or at the
end, um you had just thirtyseconds more than because they asked you something.
Right, I love that shirt?Where did that have something that?
Where do you go to that shirtand you're like, oh, it's something
and you just give them one bitof information about your life very quickly.
You don't linger. And that wasthe only hope I ever had was to
to you know, to get thatjob where they're like terrible audition. But
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man, there's something there. There'ssomething we can probably work with. See,
that's lovely. That's that's about Ithink, being open to expressing who
you are as a person. Right, And yeah, how how often do
you this is boring? How that'sa boring question? How how a boring
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answer? It's not a boring question? Uh you? She doesn't listen again?
You know, thank you so muchfor doing this. I'm thank you,
um, thanks for having me.Man, I am such a fan.
I'm just so you know what Imean. And here's the weird thing
is this is going rather smooth becauseI know on your and you're like,
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he's a little all over the place. Dude. You should watch some of
the other interviews. I'll just pulltoys off my wall. Like it doesn't
I'm doing good today. You're doingwonder No. I don't need it.
I don't need it, I'm tellingyou. But well, so many takes
do you normally do when you're athome and you're making your you know,
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like maybe maybe two? Wow?So are you? Will you rehearse it
like thirty times. No, no, no, I just I'm too tired
and I want to get into myguard. No, I know I have
UM, I have a really goodsystem down and I you know, look
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at it. I think about it, and I make my choices, and
I also, um, just doYeah, you just do. You just
make the choices that you feel areright. Commit to that and overthinking things
and for me, just it takesup time and energy and I'd rather just
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you know, and my choices mightbe wrong and that's fine. But if
it's but if the work, iflike you say, if they see something
in your work and they go,Okay, this choice wasn't necessarily right.
But but this the essence of whatthis actor is bringing to the character is
then that will give you an opportunityto hopefully have a callback and you can
discuss those things. Or sometimes youjust get cast off of your tape.
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Right. But I I just don't. I don't like to not it's making
it sound like I don't care orI'm not doing my best. I am.
I just don't like to. Ithink sometimes if you overthink things and
take a ton of takes, forme, it muddles it all up,
and it's not precise, you knowwhat I mean. Yeah, I wouldn't
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even know how to choose. Ifyou went over like I do four,
I'll do four, that's great,yea, And sometimes I do four like
it depends, right, Yeah,I alill send the third one in,
which is some superstitious nonsense. Oh. I don't know why, but it's
usually the third one. I waslike, there, I go, um,
but okay, interesting. I wasjust hoping there was a time in
a place someone could get to whois known, who has done a large
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body of work, that they'll justget phone called, you know, let's
just get a phone call like,hey, man, are you free with
anyway? Well, it does,I mean, that does happen once in
a while, but very rarely.Like it. It's generally speaking like Ben
Ben Ben screen tested you right,No, yeah, no, like like
Ben Ben. Yeah. And that'sthat like Ben and like a few other
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people that that And that's a reallylovely feeling people that you love working with.
And that's independent filmmaking too, right, because it's so it's such a
business. And that's a big partof it is that there's so many people
who have decision making power and theythey you know, different wants and so
this idea of when I'm able toand I'm offered a project that's more has
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more autonomy from the filmmaker, thatis so exciting to me because that's what
I really love to do. Ireally love to just be able to do
the work. And there's there issometimes more freedom in those kind of projects
obviously because you aren't part of abigger kind of machine, right, absolutely,
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absolutely, Um, the projects mightbe more interesting and you might be
more of a collaborator collaborator as well. It's like two fold. Um,
you strike me as a person whosort of likes who enjoys learning things.
Is that part of the do isone of the things you like about acting
just learning a different you know whatI mean, a different skill or anything.
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Yes, yes, and I andand you know, I was such
an incredibly painfully shy child and myacting classes were a place where I could
become somebody else and kind of liveexperiences that were outside of who I was,
which was very interesting to me.And yes, I love learning about
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people. I love watching people.I think that that just being human is
like an incredible, incredible difficult experience, and telling stories is so special,
right, Like being able to tellstories that connect people to their own emotions
or their own experiences is like,I think that's a really big gift.
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We needed to do it. Yeah, thanks for sharing that gift. That's
the buttering up part. Now forthe hard stuff. Now, can I
ask what's what's next? It's aterrible thing. It's a terrible Honestly,
I don't know what's next because we'rein a moment of um, you know,
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the strike is happening right now andand I obviously completely support that,
and I just I have my brainhas not been on. I just know
that we're kind of on a littlebit of a break. And that's fine
with me because I I just reallyjust get to be in the garden for
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the next few weeks, which islovely because we're home and honestly that's where
I'm the happiest. So that soundsterrible. I should be more motivated,
but it's hard to. Yeah,I just am taking a break, kind
of not a long one. Butyou know, sometimes brakes are thrust upon
you. That's for the other viewers, not for you. Do you have
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any mentors when you're kind of acoming up or do you still have.
Well. I went to Sorry,I didn't write mentors. I wrote men,
mentors, the Freshman, any mentorscommercials, please go ahead. I'm
sorry. I went to the Iwent to the Peterborough Academy and he was
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really wonderful to me. And um, I Nancy, I mean Nancy Vano,
my agent, my bank, myagent in Vancouver. We have been
together since I was like I thinkseventeen or sixteen years old. Um,
and then you know, we justhave like we have a really great community
of people that that actors and filmpeople that have all kind of been together
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for like over twenty years. Sookay, that's it, um, all
right? Hey what? Um?I guess I was going to ask you
if there's any kind of character youwouldn't do, But maybe it's also what's
something that you would really love totry? Maybe you haven't gotten a chance
that yet. I think it wouldbe fun for me to experience playing a
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character who is I think I thinkI'd like to do a drama that where
I can build a character, likea like a series where you could actually
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live with that character for a littlewhile. You know what I mean?
Because, as as we all know, actors like you if you're doing a
lot of guest spots and stuff likethat, you come into a situation where
people have had time to develop theircharacters and work together and know the crew,
and that for me, those relationships, having time to get to know
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the people that you work with itis really valuable. And also just getting
to know your character and being ableto live with somebody for a little while.
I love that, UM, Andwe don't do that very much,
right. A lot of the timeyou're just coming in for one or two
episodes or a few days on somethingand or one or two lines just exactly
the hard doctor word and then leave. That's that. And you know what,
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I don't know how you feel aboutthis changes, but I think that
those those roles are are like themin a way the most difficult, right
because you have to embody this wholeperson and character and be believable and you
don't have a lot of time todo it. So so I have a
lot of UM, like when Ido those kind of roles where you're you're
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like, okay, I've got toyou know, come across as as very
comfortable in the skin off this person, UM, but not have a lot
of time with him. It's that'sa that's a tough job, and I
think it's Oh, I don't thinkthere are any easy jobs. Though I
think there's any easy jobs. Theyjust aren't. I remember starting out as
an extra for the first two orthree years and thinking it was fun.
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But you're just like, it's fourteenhours. You're standing in the mud,
people are there's horses running by you, and there's like explosions. Is this
a union thing? Will anyone protectme if I lose my finger? You
know? But none of it's Imean easy, yes, yeah, none
of it's easy. Yeah. Anyway, um, missus Gabrielle, we are
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hitting the amount of time, evenif I remove all the times where I
talked about myself, don't you dare? I have to? I have to?
This is about you? How isit now? I'll say the show?
How is it coming back? Foreither the How how far was the
film removed from the series versus thecartoon because the cartoon felt a lot later?
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But yeah, I think movie.Let's say, oh, many think
that twenty fifteen, so like sixyears I could and please forgive me if
I'm wrong on this, I thinkthat was six years. And then I
think the series the cartoon I thinkstarted in like twenty sixteen or seventeen,
right, okay, I think thatwas a little bit later. What was
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revisiting the for either of those greattact Yeah, just like did it take
any time to drop back into zero? Yeah? Zero? I love those
people so much. It just breaksmy heart how much I freaking love them.
And we it's been like, Ithink over twenty years now, right
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since we first got together started started. Yeah, yeah, probably yeah,
so yeah, my brains saying twothousand and three, but I don't know
why. No, I think you'reright, yeah something like that. Yeah,
yeah, we still have we stillhave the video story. Oh did
you And the funny thing is youguys shot a scene. I wish I
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could remember who was in the scene, but we are. Our store was
downtown Calgary. It was on FourthStreet and nineteenth Avenue, so sort of
where the Red Mile is very close. Yeah, hockey fans and also for
hockey fans. Um, we'll haveto know, I forget it, forget
that. Nope, So they shota scene across the street and one street
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over and we could actually see itwhere someone opened the door and I think
that, you know, one ofthe two of the police officers came to
the door. There was a gas. Yeah, it was totally in Calgary
and it was for the series.And I was just like, what the
heck are they doing there? Andthey're like, that's corner gas. I'm
like, what anyway, that's soweird. I have no memory. I
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don't know if you were in it, but but I'm surprised I didn't remember
that we shot that. We shotsomething in Calgary. That's good. We'll
search it. We'll search it andsee if it. If it makes the
cut, it'll be it'll just bea picture of my face going you.
I have been a delight. Firstof all, sorry, I came out
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with both hands there and I justsaid it again. Ums hands my dad,
my dance background, jis spared fingersand jazz hands my eye. Um,
okay, were you doing? Oh? I was voguing, Wow,
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we need a slide whistler, weneed something. That was the that was
the weirdest, like honky Tonking.Uh. It seemed very western, seemed
like I don't know, well Ididn't hear. What a terrible way to
end the show. Terrible. Myapologies, My apologies to you, and
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my apologies to your viewers. Yeah, yeah, you see my purple kazoo?
Do you have what? No,seriously, this is very funny.
My my husband's doing um some Shakespeareright now. And we were laughing so
hard because we never have had thatsentence said in our house. Do you
know where the purple kazoo is?Well? What's he? What's he doing?
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If you don't mind me asking what'she? He's an actor as well.
He's an actor and an audiobook narrator. Oh nice? Is he always
gargling those people? Oh the voicestuff? No? No, okay,
very cool. Well, continued successto him and yourself, and I really
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enjoyed chatting with you. Thank youfor doing this. Now stick around just
for a minute after we stop.After we end, I'm going to throw
back to the actual camera and domy outro and you'll notice. Oh if
you thought the intro was good,Oh gosh, okay, anyway, thank
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you again. Thank you. Yes, okay, hey, guys, thank
you so much for watching this show. That was Gabriel Miller. Thanks for
watching guys. See you next time. Gary will be here because I'll be
elsewhere. Bye.
So many takes do you normally dowhen you're at home and you're making yourself
you know, like maybe maybe two? Wow? So are you? Will
you rehearse it like thirty times?No? No, No, I just
I'm too tired and I want toget into my garden. No. I
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know, I have, um,I have a really good system down and
I you know, look at it. I think about it, and I
make my choices, and I also, um, just do yeah, you
just do. You just make thechoices that you feel are right. Commit
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to that and overthinking things and forme, just it takes up time and
energy and I'd rather just you know, and my choices might be wrong and
that's fine. But if it's butif the work, if like you say,
if they see something in your workand they go, Okay, this
choice wasn't necessarily right, but theessence of what this actor is bringing to
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the character is then that will giveyou an opportunity to hopefully have a callback
and you can discuss those things orsometimes you just get cast off of your
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welcome to Talent Talk. I'm yourhost, shanays. Today we have
an extra special show. Extra specialwhy because I'm a fan of the guest
and it's gonna be weird. Butthat's okay. Did you stick around anywhare
So? First of all, Iwould like to thank some of our sponsors.
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this is anyway, So today ourguest is Miss Gabrielle Miller. She is
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uh well, she is an actorand award winning She's got a couple of
those Leo's some geminis um and um, yeah, let's figure out what is
she doing on this show? Soplease help me. Welcome miss Gabriel Miller.
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I am very well, gabrielle Um. I've noticed right off the top
that you are close to your camera. It's all you, and I'm here
a little bit safer. I'm alittle bit safer. No, don't,
don't you, Dare. I didn'tset this up, and I could push
my chair back a little bit,Dare, push your chair back. I
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tried pushing my chair back two daysago, and it's got four casters.
But I guess I didn't realize Ihave soft carpeting in my room. This
is a show about me. Sorry. And then there's a piece of plastic
where you can roll, you know, and one of the wheels is off,
and then I was off the shutdowand it's an age. I hurt
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my shoulder for like three days.That's like a stand. It's a two
foot drop on shag carpet. Whatis going on? Okay, look it.
I picked up an iris root balla couple of years ago, my
joy, I did have a backinjury and couldn't walk properly for like two
weeks. It's a root ball.It's it's not irises are They're good for
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about three days and then they're yeuseless. I know, do you cut
those things back? What do youjust leave them? I cut the okay,
I leave the green because it feedsthe bulb. Oh, and that
goes for all bulbs. Like ifyou have tulips or daffodils and they die
back, the flower itself dies back. Cut the flower stan but leaves the
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leaves to die back because that feedsthe bulb for the next year's growth.
Oh wow, just information, guys, and you're getting it here for free.
A lot of tulips in the housebecause I think the wife got frightened
by a Dutch master once and uh, well she took art. You know,
she's educated. I'm not. Um. She doesn't bring it up every
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week, but she does so Cambra. Hell what sorry, I got distracted.
I see that we're recording this.How did you look? How and
why did you agree to h tocoming here and doing this? Did has
Gary my boss? Has he blackmailedyou or someone you love? You know
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what? Won't speak of that?Um? No. I came because I
was excited to chat with you guys, And um, I was so happy
to have just done the project thatI did with Mana Manuel and so yeah,
I don't I honestly, I Idon't often do interviews, um,
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but I was very happy to dothis and to get to chat with you.
I'm talking about yeah exactly, notme, but about the project.
And I get it. Um,we're in the entertainment industry now, so
you're so the project, the titleof the project. Have we landed on
the title? Is the title ofthe title? I don't know, actually,
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And that's something that I probably shouldhave asked Ben before today. I'm
not sure because I know it wasor the working title or the almost title
was have Hope. Yo. Yes, right now, what we're gonna do
is this is this is how we'regoing to fix this. I'm just going
to say, so the show somethingsomething something. Look at that cut point?
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Amazing? God, you guys,are you guys have all the tricks?
Now if my post it notes aregreen, it'd be perfect. I
can maybe have a tom Selleck andoh or like yeah, or cat mouth
or little you know, a dancingcat mouth. Yeah no, no,
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no, uh, Gabriel, youwent a little far. You went a
little far. I apologize told Iwas told by your handlers to rein you
in anyway. Well, let's talkabout let's talk about Ben Emmanuel. It
almost sounds like his name rhymes tome. If it doesn't rhyme, it's
musical. Can you say that music? It does sound it does. It's
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a lovely name. Yeah. Well, he was kind enough to do one
of these with mister Gary McClain.Um and yes, and yes, I
do want to actually talk about thatproject a little bit if you don't mind,
can you tell me a bit aboutit other than the tyr Well,
yeah, years ago now we started. Oh my goodness, I think in
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twenty nineteen, correct me if I'mwrong. I got a call from Ben.
I was not. I was here, and he said, listen,
I'm thinking of developing this project andUM. It centers around um COVID and
people reactions to it and what everybody'sgoing through. And it's also kind of
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a collaboration with with some of theyounger people that he works with. And
I was like, great, I'mBen and I have been friends and colleagues
for like, I don't know,probably thirty years or twenty five years.
We've been known each other for avery long time when he was more of
an actor. Right, well,yeah, and he still is. I
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mean we yeah, he still does. He just does everything. He like
writes, directs, teaches, acts. He's kind of like one of those
people that are ridiculously kind of allaround talented in many different ways. But
anyway, he's like, he isone of my favorite people just generally speaking,
and one of my favorite people towork with. We collaborate really well
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together, and so I was veryexcited we started it back then in twenty
nineteen and and just finished it,which I think is really beautiful because there's
this long kind of journey with thesecharacters and um yeah, so okay,
Um, I have worked on aproject where it took five years and a
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project what took six years to complete, but those were financial, uh you
know issues. I was like,oh good, I could now play my
uncle perfect. Why don't we justdo that? Um? Sure, that's
not what happened with you, soI can Okay. So that's so it
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deals with with people dealing with COVID. I you know what, maybe he
probably would have been so much moresuccinct or better at describing. Yes,
I mean there's it's just it's characterdriven and it I am, I play
a therapist, okay, and umdo you wear glasses in it? No,
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that's a therapist. Okay, good, so I always have glasses questions
for please continue? Uh yeah,anyway, it's it's uh yeah, it
was exciting and it was really justspecial to kind of have that that time.
Okay on something. Did you didyou instantly sort of know the character
or did you you know, didyou have to sort of get into it
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or did you just like know heron off the page. No, I
mean that's funny. I did haveto kind of get into it. And
Ben was really Ben was really clearon just some of the physicality that he
wanted um from this character, andthat was really helpful to me. Um
in just more of her stillness.I mean, you see her with her
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clients and then you see her inher life at home privately, and there's
quite a difference between the two realitiesof Pamela, and I think that I
think that goes for for all ofthe characters anyway. Okay, it's pretty
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interesting for therapists, you know,because I personally I don't trust him.
That's just me right. Well,our family has a long history of not
not trusting doctors. Do you havea lot of therapy in your family?
So no, I think we justhave a joke. Everybody, I love,
I love you all. I loveyour therapist. I'm just kidding.
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We'll just cut that out. Umno, no, that's I like that.
I also liked the idea of Imean, there's some Jason Siegel TV
show where I forgot what it's called. Yes, what called? You know
him and Harrison Ford. Yeah,actually everyone is really good in that cast.
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It's just they're the only two Iremember their names. Oh no,
wow, it doesn't matter. Andthe girl from Drew Carry she's great.
But but that shows how on andfocused he sort of is in his professional
thing, and then the life isjust this broken sort of thing. So
I do like that. I mean, it's scary. It is scary.
It'd be like watching a film abouta surgeon or something. You know,
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but then he drinks a lot afterafter work. You just don't want to
know that, but we sort ofhave to, you know, that old
skit, who is it? Mymind is just and he comes in the
bart He's like, it'll be latefrom a light and he's the pilot it
turns out. Do you know whatI'm talking about? Yeah, yeah,
of course, sure, sure,sure. I don't know about the skit
though I've heard it as a joke. Um, I mean that sounds like
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that really seems like a Harvey Corman, Tim Conway. That seems like a
Carol Burnett kind of like I couldsee it almost. But yeah, no,
anyway, you're gonna have to cutthis out too, because I don't
have proper information for you. Sorry. Well, no, we really do
like talking to people about projects they'renot in, right, that's really our
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So tell me how many episodes ofThe Rockford Files. The Rockford Files.
I love that ship. You knowwhat made me think of it actually is
the tape deck the start of it, where you hear what a great intro
to a shell you'd hear of someonecalling him up and all the problems you
we're dealing with, you know,like you've started beautiful mich post music,
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and then the tape deck would go, and I like that that's intriguing you,
Like, hey, I'm hearing yourvoice, I'm hearing about your problems.
Let's find out who you are.It was because it was because that
you have a landline yes, Ihave a landline. That's probably why my
brain went to that phone. Umgoodness, okay, do you have any
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questions for me? Now? It'sokay. How anyone in your family in
the arts? No? No,what am I saying? My brother is
an incredible photographer doesn't count. Photographydoesn't count. Sorry not art? Um
no, no, not really.But they're all a very very artistic stick
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people like creative and yeah, butnot as not as careers except for my
brother. Okay, so who sowho gave you the green light? Who
said in your family, people whoare supposed to love you and protect you
from this ridiculous and actually ridiculous onechance in a million? Who said,
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oh, go ahead, well thisstory. Some people may have already know
this story. But my mother andI had a house cleaning business when I
was like probably sixteen years old.We rode our bikes around White Rock.
It was called Have Broom, WillTravel, and we cleaned. What didn't
you dress up? I'm sorry,did you guys dress up? Have Broom
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Will Travel? Okay? Sorry no, and I didn't even I didn't even
understand the reference. It was ashow right called I mean no, I
don't think so. I don't thinkit's a show. I mean, it
feels like Bewitched. It feels likehalf Gun Will Travel. That's what it
was based on. Half done WillTravel. That was. That was a
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cute reference that I don't know theshow. My mom named us pretty good
show weird. I spoke to someoneabout half Gun Will Travel yesterday, No
way imagine that. Um. Yeah, so we we were doing really well.
We were busy and I had alwaysloved acting, and we were cleaning
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this lovely house and such a sadstory. Um there was had been a
sleepover with girls from my school andthey were like cooking pancakes and having their
party, and I was cleaning heron suite and it really just made me
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feel just funny. I mean becausesocially we go to school together and then
I was I was there. Itwas just weird for me. And so
not that there's anything wrong with cleaninghouses. It's totally a great job.
Yeah. Well yeah, so weleft and my mom could tell that it
had kind of upset me a littlebit, and she said, listen,
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sweetheart, I know that, Umthat you have dreams and there's things that
you want to focus on, andthe way life goes is if we're doing
well, this is a great job, there's nothing wrong with it. But
if we keep doing this, you'regoing to wake up and twenty years will
have gone by and you're still goingto be cleaning houses. So if you
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want to pursue acting, you reallyneed to start doing it now and be
focused on it because this is thisis life. Life. Life keeps going
right and you get comfortable with somethingand then it's it's harder to to make
that transition. Not that you can'talways like you're always growing. It doesn't
matter how old you are. Butit was good advice. I took it
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and that's how I started. Wow, moms always always there? Right?
Yeah? When they can be alwaysthere in some capacity? Do you do
do you auditions for stuff anymore?Or do you take I auditioned for every
single thing? Why? What iswrong with those people? I think that
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that's just part of the job,right. I want to look it.
M I just don't believe that.I just it bothers me. Can you
talk to some people and just saycall a game up and just give her
the job? I get that thing. I've done a doctor about fourteen times.
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And if someone is looking for adoctor, I'm like, watch these
movies. Yeah, yeah you could? Well yeah yeah, I kind of
feel like, just what is wrongwith you? Let's you know, if
you've got some new person, runthem through the ringer. You know.
I don't anyway, So well,I guess, um, did you like
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auditioning? You seem to no,No, okay, no, no,
I don't get nervous. I well, now we do a lot of our
auditions on tape, and to behonest, in the room, I really
do enjoy it sometimes when you're ableto work with the director and that's that's
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helpful because you can get maybe someinsight into what they're looking for, which
is great. I also am avery shy person, to be honest,
I'm not a really social person.So yeah, I'm not like going into
the room at first always does makeme feel a little nervous, and I'm
just not It's so funny because I'vebeen doing this for a really really long
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time and I'm still not. Yeah, like, I don't love going and
auditioning, but I do. Sorry, but I do enjoy it. When
you have a nice connection and youget to get some work done, that's
great, and taping is wonderful it'svery easy, right. Taping is different.
Yeah, do you um in theroom getting redirected? I mean I
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think that's kind of what you're talkingabout. You get to see a little
bit of maybe it isn't what youwhat you saw on the page, maybe
it's something different. Right For myself, it doesn't happen very often. But
I would never take the time tobe like they're like, oh right,
you're doing this, but actually whatyou're doing is you're lying to her and
you're like, great, let's goagain. Never taking do you know what
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I mean? Never taking like aminute to be like what does that mean?
Like what am I you know?Do you mean do you mean like
in your own mind taking the minuteto process the information or absolutely they're like
okay, hey, oh we lostyou a little bit. There you are.
It just looks like you're thinking andI love that, but we h.
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I wouldn't take the time very often. Yeah, no, you know,
I think I can show off,show off. Sorry to say that
again, like you're trying to showoff, like you're trying to be like,
of course I can do it.I can do it again, and
you know what I mean, Likeyeah, stupid, but really taking the
time. This is a good conversation. I'm going to remember that because taking
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the time to digest or try andunderstand what it is they're they're saying.
If you are nervous or feeling whatever, sometimes your brain doesn't pause to actually
go what is what does this mean? And that's really important right to getting
getting across whatever it is that they'reasking you to to adjust. Also,
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asking a good question has helped.I know we've we've asked sometions in the
room where they're like, oh youknow what I mean, no one's asked
that, or oh they didn't thinkabout it or something, and you can
the For me, I'm a terribleauditioner, but it was if you had
one minute before the audition started,like there was some camera problem you went
in and oh sorry, and youget to say a joke, or you
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get to say something about something thatyou really hooked them, or at the
end, um you had just thirtyseconds more than because they asked you something.
Right, I love that shirt?Where did that have something that?
Where do you go to that shirtand you're like, oh, it's something
and you just give them one bitof information about your life very quickly.
You don't linger. And that wasthe only hope I ever had was to
to you know, to get thatjob where they're like terrible audition. But
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man, there's something there. There'ssomething we can probably work with. See,
that's lovely. That's that's about Ithink, being open to expressing who
you are as a person. Right, And yeah, how how often do
you this is boring? How that'sa boring question? How how a boring
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answer? It's not a boring question? Uh you? She doesn't listen again?
You know, thank you so muchfor doing this. I'm thank you,
um, thanks for having me.Man, I am such a fan.
I'm just so you know what Imean. And here's the weird thing
is this is going rather smooth becauseI know on your and you're like,
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he's a little all over the place. Dude. You should watch some of
the other interviews. I'll just pulltoys off my wall. Like it doesn't
I'm doing good today. You're doingwonder No. I don't need it.
I don't need it, I'm tellingyou. But well, so many takes
do you normally do when you're athome and you're making your you know,
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like maybe maybe two? Wow?So are you? Will you rehearse it
like thirty times. No, no, no, I just I'm too tired
and I want to get into myguard. No, I know I have
UM, I have a really goodsystem down and I you know, look
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at it. I think about it, and I make my choices, and
I also, um, just doYeah, you just do. You just
make the choices that you feel areright. Commit to that and overthinking things
and for me, just it takesup time and energy and I'd rather just
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you know, and my choices mightbe wrong and that's fine. But if
it's but if the work, iflike you say, if they see something
in your work and they go,Okay, this choice wasn't necessarily right.
But but this the essence of whatthis actor is bringing to the character is
then that will give you an opportunityto hopefully have a callback and you can
discuss those things. Or sometimes youjust get cast off of your tape.
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Right. But I I just don't. I don't like to not it's making
it sound like I don't care orI'm not doing my best. I am.
I just don't like to. Ithink sometimes if you overthink things and
take a ton of takes, forme, it muddles it all up,
and it's not precise, you knowwhat I mean. Yeah, I wouldn't
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even know how to choose. Ifyou went over like I do four,
I'll do four, that's great,yea, And sometimes I do four like
it depends, right, Yeah,I alill send the third one in,
which is some superstitious nonsense. Oh. I don't know why, but it's
usually the third one. I waslike, there, I go, um,
but okay, interesting. I wasjust hoping there was a time in
a place someone could get to whois known, who has done a large
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body of work, that they'll justget phone called, you know, let's
just get a phone call like,hey, man, are you free with
anyway? Well, it does,I mean, that does happen once in
a while, but very rarely.Like it. It's generally speaking like Ben
Ben Ben screen tested you right,No, yeah, no, like like
Ben Ben. Yeah. And that'sthat like Ben and like a few other
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people that that And that's a reallylovely feeling people that you love working with.
And that's independent filmmaking too, right, because it's so it's such a
business. And that's a big partof it is that there's so many people
who have decision making power and theythey you know, different wants and so
this idea of when I'm able toand I'm offered a project that's more has
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more autonomy from the filmmaker, thatis so exciting to me because that's what
I really love to do. Ireally love to just be able to do
the work. And there's there issometimes more freedom in those kind of projects
obviously because you aren't part of abigger kind of machine, right, absolutely,
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absolutely, Um, the projects mightbe more interesting and you might be
more of a collaborator collaborator as well. It's like two fold. Um,
you strike me as a person whosort of likes who enjoys learning things.
Is that part of the do isone of the things you like about acting
just learning a different you know whatI mean, a different skill or anything.
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Yes, yes, and I andand you know, I was such
an incredibly painfully shy child and myacting classes were a place where I could
become somebody else and kind of liveexperiences that were outside of who I was,
which was very interesting to me.And yes, I love learning about
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people. I love watching people.I think that that just being human is
like an incredible, incredible difficult experience, and telling stories is so special,
right, Like being able to tellstories that connect people to their own emotions
or their own experiences is like,I think that's a really big gift.
(26:40):
We needed to do it. Yeah, thanks for sharing that gift. That's
the buttering up part. Now forthe hard stuff. Now, can I
ask what's what's next? It's aterrible thing. It's a terrible Honestly,
I don't know what's next because we'rein a moment of um, you know,
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the strike is happening right now andand I obviously completely support that,
and I just I have my brainhas not been on. I just know
that we're kind of on a littlebit of a break. And that's fine
with me because I I just reallyjust get to be in the garden for
(27:30):
the next few weeks, which islovely because we're home and honestly that's where
I'm the happiest. So that soundsterrible. I should be more motivated,
but it's hard to. Yeah,I just am taking a break, kind
of not a long one. Butyou know, sometimes brakes are thrust upon
you. That's for the other viewers, not for you. Do you have
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any mentors when you're kind of acoming up or do you still have.
Well. I went to Sorry,I didn't write mentors. I wrote men,
mentors, the Freshman, any mentorscommercials, please go ahead. I'm
sorry. I went to the Iwent to the Peterborough Academy and he was
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really wonderful to me. And um, I Nancy, I mean Nancy Vano,
my agent, my bank, myagent in Vancouver. We have been
together since I was like I thinkseventeen or sixteen years old. Um,
and then you know, we justhave like we have a really great community
of people that that actors and filmpeople that have all kind of been together
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for like over twenty years. Sookay, that's it, um, all
right? Hey what? Um?I guess I was going to ask you
if there's any kind of character youwouldn't do, But maybe it's also what's
something that you would really love totry? Maybe you haven't gotten a chance
that yet. I think it wouldbe fun for me to experience playing a
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character who is I think I thinkI'd like to do a drama that where
I can build a character, likea like a series where you could actually
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live with that character for a littlewhile. You know what I mean?
Because, as as we all know, actors like you if you're doing a
lot of guest spots and stuff likethat, you come into a situation where
people have had time to develop theircharacters and work together and know the crew,
and that for me, those relationships, having time to get to know
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the people that you work with itis really valuable. And also just getting
to know your character and being ableto live with somebody for a little while.
I love that, UM, Andwe don't do that very much,
right. A lot of the timeyou're just coming in for one or two
episodes or a few days on somethingand or one or two lines just exactly
the hard doctor word and then leave. That's that. And you know what,
(30:21):
I don't know how you feel aboutthis changes, but I think that
those those roles are are like themin a way the most difficult, right
because you have to embody this wholeperson and character and be believable and you
don't have a lot of time todo it. So so I have a
lot of UM, like when Ido those kind of roles where you're you're
(30:45):
like, okay, I've got toyou know, come across as as very
comfortable in the skin off this person, UM, but not have a lot
of time with him. It's that'sa that's a tough job, and I
think it's Oh, I don't thinkthere are any easy jobs. Though I
think there's any easy jobs. Theyjust aren't. I remember starting out as
an extra for the first two orthree years and thinking it was fun.
(31:07):
But you're just like, it's fourteenhours. You're standing in the mud,
people are there's horses running by you, and there's like explosions. Is this
a union thing? Will anyone protectme if I lose my finger? You
know? But none of it's Imean easy, yes, yeah, none
of it's easy. Yeah. Anyway, um, missus Gabrielle, we are
(31:30):
hitting the amount of time, evenif I remove all the times where I
talked about myself, don't you dare? I have to? I have to?
This is about you? How isit now? I'll say the show?
How is it coming back? Foreither the How how far was the
film removed from the series versus thecartoon because the cartoon felt a lot later?
(31:55):
But yeah, I think movie.Let's say, oh, many think
that twenty fifteen, so like sixyears I could and please forgive me if
I'm wrong on this, I thinkthat was six years. And then I
think the series the cartoon I thinkstarted in like twenty sixteen or seventeen,
right, okay, I think thatwas a little bit later. What was
(32:16):
revisiting the for either of those greattact Yeah, just like did it take
any time to drop back into zero? Yeah? Zero? I love those
people so much. It just breaksmy heart how much I freaking love them.
And we it's been like, Ithink over twenty years now, right
(32:37):
since we first got together started started. Yeah, yeah, probably yeah,
so yeah, my brains saying twothousand and three, but I don't know
why. No, I think you'reright, yeah something like that. Yeah,
yeah, we still have we stillhave the video story. Oh did
you And the funny thing is youguys shot a scene. I wish I
(32:59):
could remember who was in the scene, but we are. Our store was
downtown Calgary. It was on FourthStreet and nineteenth Avenue, so sort of
where the Red Mile is very close. Yeah, hockey fans and also for
hockey fans. Um, we'll haveto know, I forget it, forget
that. Nope, So they shota scene across the street and one street
(33:22):
over and we could actually see itwhere someone opened the door and I think
that, you know, one ofthe two of the police officers came to
the door. There was a gas. Yeah, it was totally in Calgary
and it was for the series.And I was just like, what the
heck are they doing there? Andthey're like, that's corner gas. I'm
like, what anyway, that's soweird. I have no memory. I
(33:42):
don't know if you were in it, but but I'm surprised I didn't remember
that we shot that. We shotsomething in Calgary. That's good. We'll
search it. We'll search it andsee if it. If it makes the
cut, it'll be it'll just bea picture of my face going you.
I have been a delight. Firstof all, sorry, I came out
(34:02):
with both hands there and I justsaid it again. Ums hands my dad,
my dance background, jis spared fingersand jazz hands my eye. Um,
okay, were you doing? Oh? I was voguing, Wow,
(34:25):
we need a slide whistler, weneed something. That was the that was
the weirdest, like honky Tonking.Uh. It seemed very western, seemed
like I don't know, well Ididn't hear. What a terrible way to
end the show. Terrible. Myapologies, My apologies to you, and
(34:47):
my apologies to your viewers. Yeah, yeah, you see my purple kazoo?
Do you have what? No,seriously, this is very funny.
My my husband's doing um some Shakespeareright now. And we were laughing so
hard because we never have had thatsentence said in our house. Do you
know where the purple kazoo is?Well? What's he? What's he doing?
(35:08):
If you don't mind me asking what'she? He's an actor as well.
He's an actor and an audiobook narrator. Oh nice? Is he always
gargling those people? Oh the voicestuff? No? No, okay,
very cool. Well, continued successto him and yourself, and I really
(35:30):
enjoyed chatting with you. Thank youfor doing this. Now stick around just
for a minute after we stop.After we end, I'm going to throw
back to the actual camera and domy outro and you'll notice. Oh if
you thought the intro was good,Oh gosh, okay, anyway, thank
(35:50):
you again. Thank you. Yes, okay, hey, guys, thank
you so much for watching this show. That was Gabriel Miller. Thanks for
watching guys. See you next time. Gary will be here because I'll be
elsewhere. Bye.
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