April 30, 2025 • 19 mins
James Lott Jr chats with London Based Actress Kheira Bey!
Kheira Bey, who is a British-Algerian actress currently making waves in London.
She is known for her recent commercial work with Nestle and Adidas, amongst other various advertising campaigns.
She has had the pleasure of selling out London theatres, such as the Arcola (with her work on 'Smile, Darling' and 'Global Female Voices') and the King's Head Theatre (with her one woman performance of Suad in 'Voices From The Deep').
She performed as the 'provoking' SUAD, in 'Voices From The Deep' to a sold out audience at the King's Head Theatre. A Younger Theatre quoted this performance as, '[BEY] performs a rousing monologue which makes for a heavy portrayal of lost innocence in sharp contrast to the previous episode... [which] definitely contributes towards a certain ambience.'
She has performed in the five star 'Curse of Cranholme Abbey' at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival at the Pleasance Theatre, whereby her performance of Winnie was branded 'delightful' by the Edinburgh Guide.
Acting Tips from Kheira Bey : https://youtu.be/e1DuAbjpmH4?si=UT2IDCHepzQpT3_P
Kheira Bey, who is a British-Algerian actress currently making waves in London.
She is known for her recent commercial work with Nestle and Adidas, amongst other various advertising campaigns.
She has had the pleasure of selling out London theatres, such as the Arcola (with her work on 'Smile, Darling' and 'Global Female Voices') and the King's Head Theatre (with her one woman performance of Suad in 'Voices From The Deep').
She performed as the 'provoking' SUAD, in 'Voices From The Deep' to a sold out audience at the King's Head Theatre. A Younger Theatre quoted this performance as, '[BEY] performs a rousing monologue which makes for a heavy portrayal of lost innocence in sharp contrast to the previous episode... [which] definitely contributes towards a certain ambience.'
She has performed in the five star 'Curse of Cranholme Abbey' at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival at the Pleasance Theatre, whereby her performance of Winnie was branded 'delightful' by the Edinburgh Guide.
Acting Tips from Kheira Bey : https://youtu.be/e1DuAbjpmH4?si=UT2IDCHepzQpT3_P
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hello, over to another edition of Extra Connections. I'm James
Latinior here in Inglewood, California, and I get to talk
to somebody from across the pod. So for me, it's
across the country and then across the pod over and
she's here this evening for her, Well, I guess morning.
For me, I'm happy to have run a show. She's
she's an actress. Were in London, She's done commercial stuff.
(00:23):
She's a lot of stage. What's on the stage, and
we get to know her here in America, we get
some people need to know her. It's Kira Bae.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Hi, Kira, Hi, Hi, James, Hi everyone, Hi.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
I want I actually want to dig right here because
you have a lot of stage credits, a lot of stage.
Is that that's your home, so to speak when it
comes to your arts?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Yeah, I think so. I think stage. If you could
do stage, you can do anything right because you're you're
on your own. Okay, And there's been so many like
I shouldn't really say this, but there are times on
the stage where you genuinely don't know what's going to
happen that night. You don't know if someone's going to
mess up, if the prop is going to be there
if you're gonna I don't know if you get to
bring something on stage and then have to make up
(01:06):
a reason to go back and bring it back out
and don't look stupid. So you're kind of like you
do genuinely just get tested. And that's not to say
the screen is not acting, because of course it's completely different,
but I mean you do get a little bit more
time there. So yeah, I think that's the major difference
(01:28):
and why I like it. And it just keeps you
kind of on your toes.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
I like stage because of all those reasons, but also
because it keeps you fresh. I mean everything. It's just different.
It's not even you have be saying the same words
like you just said, you may say see them differently.
One night, you know, something may go down. You have
to like modify something like It's like I just it's
it's that fly by the seat of your pants. I
(01:53):
kind of like you go out there. I do a
lot of live stuff, and I like the like the
live stuff because there is no stop cut. Let's try
that again. It's just like no, you have to kind
of find a way to go through it. I feel
like there is that kind of like the journey of
acting that you have to kind of go through it.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Right, all those waves, all the waves on stage.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
So I don't once I asked you say question, and
once I forgot a piece of my lines on stage,
I know it and I had to figure it out
and we worked it out, and it always works, always
works on the end. But made Sometimes have you ever
forgotten like where you were a lot or anything out there?
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Definitely? Definitely, yeah, twice, well, both for actually with Shakespeare,
and I think that's probably that's probably something I might
need to work on in my own time. But you
kind of get a bit. There's been times where I've
just been a bit kind of nervous, Like I was
(02:58):
doing an open air show right in the middle of
nowhere in this field, and for some reason it just
hit me, I'm in the middle of a field. This
is not you know. I just had that out of
body realization and then I forgot where I was in
the text. This was one of those monologues where there
wasn't a rhyme, so it was quite hard and I
just kind of cup like half of it and then
(03:21):
got to the end and then just ended it there
and people were like, oh, we didn't even notice, but
in my head I knew. I knew I skipped like hot,
genuinely half a page of that text. But hey, it's
done now.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Well my next question would be with Shakespeare, I mean
the way that he wrote, you don't speak that way normally,
like you sold. This dialogue is so not what you say.
How do you actually wrap your mind around the dialog
you have like a tech me or anything that you used.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
To It's it's a process, I think so Obviously when
he was writing these things back in the day, they
were said to be spoken because people couldn't read at
that time. So I always try and like find the
images and then work backwards from them. And there's the
images they will tell you everything. And also the last
(04:20):
word of every line will tell you kind of guide
you where you're going. So I normally do those two first,
and then I then break it down and say, oh, well,
what's the question, what's the exclamation? Why? Why is this
bit not rhyming? And you kind of you do need
to sit and study right with it with a lot
(04:42):
of highlights, there's a lot of pens, and then just
kind of do it with someone else in a room
to then help navigate you a little bit as well,
but the clues are normally in the text. You just
need to kind of get there, which does take time.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Yeah, and I just I think I admire anyone. Could
you say, it's beautiful to hear it, it's beautiful to
watch it. Great stories, I mean some great story. The dialogue,
I'm like those words. I'm like, how do how you guys?
You're a pro, so I don't know how do you
guys do it? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:16):
I got cast as Jaqueeze in as you like it,
And there's like a whole like two page monologue, and
it was like, why did I get cast as?
Speaker 1 (05:25):
This?
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Why? It did eventually work out with the time, but
for a long time I just couldn't see. Yeah. I
was like, no, I'm not sure this is for me,
kind of saying, but you live and learn. You live
and learn, right, I know you do.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
I love that. Do you remember when your first your
first age performance. You remember.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Must have been a nursery or like, yeah, oh, yeah,
there was a time where I was a butterfly in
a play. I remember that because I got wings and
everything that day. I don't remember the story. It wasn't
a Nativity, It was some kind of like thing about
the animals and insects or whatever. There's a butterfly. It
(06:14):
was super cool.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
But yeah, I like that was a butterfly. I like that.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
I know right, it was a verterfly.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
To get wings when you're a kid, to get wings.
I'm like, that's I love that idea. I like that.
Like that. So now you also, if I look as correctly,
get a one woman show.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Yeah, that's totally different than be so talk about that.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
That is a learning curve in itself. That is, I
learned more doing that than probably most of my acting
classes in some respects. Not not to disrespect the stuff,
but on your own you really it's confidence, it's it's
you totally need to trust yourself and work with people
(07:10):
who you generally trust, and because there will be points
in rehearsal where you're like I don't see this or so,
you really need to rely on that support team and
just constantly be trying to see the vision, see where
they're going, and make sure you're separating and uniting everything
(07:30):
out separately. I work very kind of visually in my body.
I try and like, that's what I genuinely did with
that performance. I was going around my flat like this
is the beginning, this is the middle, this is the end,
and then gradually all those lines came together. It was
definitely a learning curve. I mean, I would like, I
(07:54):
would maybe like to do it again, maybe not right now,
but in a little while. And it is a craft.
Like I've seen so many really amazing one people's shows
and you're like, wow, just you totally lose it and
in the reality you lose all of the sense of reality,
and it's yeah, it's a great skill.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
So for you, it must it must. Okay, So the
team is there's a writer or writer I'm guessing director, yes, yes,
is there for for your performance? Was there a choreographer
at all? Or no? Was it just there was a
director helping you with the beats of where to stay
at and where to go?
Speaker 2 (08:36):
And yeah, yeah, she did a lot of it. We
didn't have No, we didn't have a choreographer for that one.
She's kind of made it up a little bit. It
was basically me and the directory.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Yeah, with the pro props, hair and makeup. I guess,
So I guess that you have costume changes in that one.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
No, no costume changes. But I was wearing a shawl,
so it had to take it off at times when
there were different time periods because it was, well, he
was sett in Algeria, so obviously you know hit jobs,
but in modern day you kind of we took it
off to show the different time periods. So you do
kind of have to do a little bit of choreography
(09:25):
and make sure it's right because you don't know who's watching.
You don't know who's watching, and it has to be accurate, right.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
So I'm sure I'm assuming your director probably for that
show was the most important because fifty the whole time.
But okay, girl, that sounded great. That didn't that was
We're too.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. She would give you little things to
read and watch when I was lost, because obviously it
was a really heavy play. It was about war and
Algeria and the takeover of the country, so it was
very deep stuff we were doing. But she would give
me little kind of books read and like little news
articles to bring it bring it all together. It was
(10:08):
very intense, I will say that, but I learned so much.
I learned so much doing it.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
But now were you doing that? What is one takeaway
you had as a person. It's as a human, as
a British Algeria and like, what did you What is
one thing you walked away from after you did that
whole experience?
Speaker 2 (10:26):
It was a whole confidence shift, okay, because I think
I would go So I did that show, and like
two days before I was at my day job and
they were like, oh, so what what what are you
doing you know over the weekend and stuff, And I
was like, oh, yeah, I'm doing a one woman play.
And then they just kind of looked at me. They
were like you, I wouldn't put you doing a one
(10:50):
woman play. And then the following week after I just
walked straight through. I was like, none of this drama
of life can really phase me right now because I've
you know, I've just been super vulnerable and given everything
on stage for like just sober an hour. Yeah, and
it kind of gives you a different sense when you
(11:11):
walk into normal reality. You're like, well, yeah, I know
I can do this, But I think that's a life thing.
You're always working on your confidence and facing experiences that
build you. But yeah, that was mine. Weeks months after,
I was like, yeah, I can do it.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
I like that serious as then a boutch of culture
about the history. It's a it's always a great thing,
too wonderful thing. But now you're also yorking with the BBC,
you do something relevan. How's that going so far? I mean,
how's that going?
Speaker 2 (11:49):
I don't think I can say to to us, I don't.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Be fun.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
It's exciting, it's exciting. Definitely a lot to learn as well,
but yeah, exciting.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Thing is My thing for you is like, just what
are you as an as a performer, as an actor,
as an artist, what are you kind of wanting to
get into? Now you've been here, you've been doing for
a while, and you've done stage, you've done some speedo,
It's like, just kind of what in what are you
thinking you want to do?
Speaker 2 (12:25):
So I definitely want to work in the US.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Okay, Yeah, So.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
I started this year basically well yeah, but soon soon,
universe soon turn it out there, Universe, you gotta, you gotta,
You've got to say it out so it knows. But
in January this year, pretty much most of January, I
did a whole tour at the USA. I went through
(12:52):
like Memphis, New Orleans, Miami, New York. I did it all,
and I saw so much throughout that time, and I
got to do a lot of classes in New York,
where obviously there are lots of famous acting schools and
tutors and everything. So I got to go in and
(13:12):
do classes there with people that were constantly on like
Law and Order and like FBI International and all this stuff.
I just watch, you know, and I was like, gosh, yeah,
I'm here with you guys. And it's a different kind
of form of training. It's a different form of a
(13:33):
technique when you compare the two countries. And because there
were people in that room that were, wow, like they
were doing very minimal kind of scriptwork. I swear some
people just walked up, they had no notes from their
script and they just did it and blew me away.
And I was like, wow, I mean completely different culture.
My script is always like full of different things. So
(13:54):
I definitely want to delve into that more, because yeah,
I think anything is going to enhance what you do,
you need to just constantly emerge yourself. And that was
an eye opener for me.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
I like that because, I you know, because some people
I don't want to do TV. I don't want to
do this. It's like nowadays, there's good projects everywhere and
it's a matter of what it is. Right, it's everywhere everywhere.
I mean you Eastandards stuff you know, like yeah, come
the law and order in America. Everybody goes a law
in order. Everybody you know, like everybody famous. So it's
(14:29):
like there's there's good stuff. I think people known it.
Nowadays you're at the right time period where it's a
streaming also there's every just good stuff everywhere.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Yeah, I know, it's insane. I mean I can sit
and just watch whatever on my computer. I go on Netflix.
There's like hundreds of stuff on that from around the world.
It's insane.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
It is. I never thought we see that. I never
I just don't thought we see that. I mean there's
so many shows. I can't even get to you because
there's so many shows, right, it was like a new
show everywhere. It's like you know from your time. I
love aph England, so it's like a million shows in
England and then they get shows from Spain and shows, yeah,
(15:13):
make choices. Is that it's it's almost too much, but
it's great.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Yeah, you can never run out and stuff to watch.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
I mean.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Not all it's all that.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
It's all there. So you saw America I've been in
Memphis and I've been a place you've been to. What's
your wrong impression about America for you in terms of
the arts, Like because we have art everywhere, we have art.
Every state has art somewhere.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Yeah, when I was driving through a New Orleans so
they say New Orleans over there in New Orleans, that
was but that was insane. I took a bus all
around the place. Thankfully it was such a nice sunny day,
so you can see everything. There was so much graffiti
(15:57):
and well we called it graffiti, but it was are
It's randomly people's houses, just casually there with all this art.
I mean, you wouldn't really do that here. It would
be you know people. Yeah, I mean you can there
is graffiti, but it's not it's not it's out there.
And I feel like in America it was celebrated to
(16:19):
just have that color, just have these murals to brighten
up the neighborhoods and get people together. And that would
be a kind of thing to have communities together make
spending all that time, you know, their weekends, their evenings
to create these beautiful things. And I love that, Like
you could just walk around and see.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Everything very goodel forget. England is such a small country.
You produce a lot of stuff out of it, but
it's a small but it's impressive what you guys, the
art you produce out of it for beings a small country. Yeah,
we're a big country.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
We're big, right, sound a coach for so long? Like America?
Oh my god, Yeah, it's huge.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Were your family, everybody? Elvis family, it's Memphis, you got Elvis.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Yeah, I went to Elvis's house. That was a beautiful house. Wow,
it is huge. It's a little bigger than you think
it's going to be. It's not just the house, it's
with the museums and wow, I go in all my
steps that day. I'm telling you, I did like twenty
one steps just that one day. Thousand.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
I trust you. I know I've been there. To you like, wow,
it's a lot. You want to go home and take
a nap. It's like, yeah, I'm glad you got to.
I'm glad you're able to get a tour of our
country and and get out lay the land a little
bit and see some because a lot of folks don't
do that. They stay where they are and that's it.
And you're like saying I'll work anywhere. That's what you're saying,
(18:02):
I'll work Erica. Just where was the problem? It was
a good project, right, it's a good project.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Yeah, yeah, of course that's all.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Of those things. I love it well, Kret things for
being on the show. I'm your new fan now and
I'm gonna follow you. And when you have some new
project where those projects come out come back from well
you can talk about of course.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Of course the show.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Folks want to follow you anywhere online. Where can they
follow you?
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Yes, my Instagram page, which I'm sure will be in
the description box by the time people come and watch this.
But yeah, that's pretty much it.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Okay, I'll follow her, so'll follow her there. You're a
big she's the bomb. She's the bomb kid, she's working
it out, talented. Remember her name. Remember her name. You'll
see more of its h and she connections us on Facebook.
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and we will see you next time.
Hello, over to another edition of Extra Connections. I'm James
Latinior here in Inglewood, California, and I get to talk
to somebody from across the pod. So for me, it's
across the country and then across the pod over and
she's here this evening for her, Well, I guess morning.
For me, I'm happy to have run a show. She's
she's an actress. Were in London, She's done commercial stuff.
(00:23):
She's a lot of stage. What's on the stage, and
we get to know her here in America, we get
some people need to know her. It's Kira Bae.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Hi, Kira, Hi, Hi, James, Hi everyone, Hi.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
I want I actually want to dig right here because
you have a lot of stage credits, a lot of stage.
Is that that's your home, so to speak when it
comes to your arts?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Yeah, I think so. I think stage. If you could
do stage, you can do anything right because you're you're
on your own. Okay, And there's been so many like
I shouldn't really say this, but there are times on
the stage where you genuinely don't know what's going to
happen that night. You don't know if someone's going to
mess up, if the prop is going to be there
if you're gonna I don't know if you get to
bring something on stage and then have to make up
(01:06):
a reason to go back and bring it back out
and don't look stupid. So you're kind of like you
do genuinely just get tested. And that's not to say
the screen is not acting, because of course it's completely different,
but I mean you do get a little bit more
time there. So yeah, I think that's the major difference
(01:28):
and why I like it. And it just keeps you
kind of on your toes.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
I like stage because of all those reasons, but also
because it keeps you fresh. I mean everything. It's just different.
It's not even you have be saying the same words
like you just said, you may say see them differently.
One night, you know, something may go down. You have
to like modify something like It's like I just it's
it's that fly by the seat of your pants. I
(01:53):
kind of like you go out there. I do a
lot of live stuff, and I like the like the
live stuff because there is no stop cut. Let's try
that again. It's just like no, you have to kind
of find a way to go through it. I feel
like there is that kind of like the journey of
acting that you have to kind of go through it.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Right, all those waves, all the waves on stage.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
So I don't once I asked you say question, and
once I forgot a piece of my lines on stage,
I know it and I had to figure it out
and we worked it out, and it always works, always
works on the end. But made Sometimes have you ever
forgotten like where you were a lot or anything out there?
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Definitely? Definitely, yeah, twice, well, both for actually with Shakespeare,
and I think that's probably that's probably something I might
need to work on in my own time. But you
kind of get a bit. There's been times where I've
just been a bit kind of nervous, Like I was
(02:58):
doing an open air show right in the middle of
nowhere in this field, and for some reason it just
hit me, I'm in the middle of a field. This
is not you know. I just had that out of
body realization and then I forgot where I was in
the text. This was one of those monologues where there
wasn't a rhyme, so it was quite hard and I
just kind of cup like half of it and then
(03:21):
got to the end and then just ended it there
and people were like, oh, we didn't even notice, but
in my head I knew. I knew I skipped like hot,
genuinely half a page of that text. But hey, it's
done now.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Well my next question would be with Shakespeare, I mean
the way that he wrote, you don't speak that way normally,
like you sold. This dialogue is so not what you say.
How do you actually wrap your mind around the dialog
you have like a tech me or anything that you used.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
To It's it's a process, I think so Obviously when
he was writing these things back in the day, they
were said to be spoken because people couldn't read at
that time. So I always try and like find the
images and then work backwards from them. And there's the
images they will tell you everything. And also the last
(04:20):
word of every line will tell you kind of guide
you where you're going. So I normally do those two first,
and then I then break it down and say, oh, well,
what's the question, what's the exclamation? Why? Why is this
bit not rhyming? And you kind of you do need
to sit and study right with it with a lot
(04:42):
of highlights, there's a lot of pens, and then just
kind of do it with someone else in a room
to then help navigate you a little bit as well,
but the clues are normally in the text. You just
need to kind of get there, which does take time.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Yeah, and I just I think I admire anyone. Could
you say, it's beautiful to hear it, it's beautiful to
watch it. Great stories, I mean some great story. The dialogue,
I'm like those words. I'm like, how do how you guys?
You're a pro, so I don't know how do you
guys do it? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:16):
I got cast as Jaqueeze in as you like it,
And there's like a whole like two page monologue, and
it was like, why did I get cast as?
Speaker 1 (05:25):
This?
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Why? It did eventually work out with the time, but
for a long time I just couldn't see. Yeah. I
was like, no, I'm not sure this is for me,
kind of saying, but you live and learn. You live
and learn, right, I know you do.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
I love that. Do you remember when your first your
first age performance. You remember.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Must have been a nursery or like, yeah, oh, yeah,
there was a time where I was a butterfly in
a play. I remember that because I got wings and
everything that day. I don't remember the story. It wasn't
a Nativity, It was some kind of like thing about
the animals and insects or whatever. There's a butterfly. It
(06:14):
was super cool.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
But yeah, I like that was a butterfly. I like that.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
I know right, it was a verterfly.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
To get wings when you're a kid, to get wings.
I'm like, that's I love that idea. I like that.
Like that. So now you also, if I look as correctly,
get a one woman show.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Yeah, that's totally different than be so talk about that.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
That is a learning curve in itself. That is, I
learned more doing that than probably most of my acting
classes in some respects. Not not to disrespect the stuff,
but on your own you really it's confidence, it's it's
you totally need to trust yourself and work with people
(07:10):
who you generally trust, and because there will be points
in rehearsal where you're like I don't see this or so,
you really need to rely on that support team and
just constantly be trying to see the vision, see where
they're going, and make sure you're separating and uniting everything
(07:30):
out separately. I work very kind of visually in my body.
I try and like, that's what I genuinely did with
that performance. I was going around my flat like this
is the beginning, this is the middle, this is the end,
and then gradually all those lines came together. It was
definitely a learning curve. I mean, I would like, I
(07:54):
would maybe like to do it again, maybe not right now,
but in a little while. And it is a craft.
Like I've seen so many really amazing one people's shows
and you're like, wow, just you totally lose it and
in the reality you lose all of the sense of reality,
and it's yeah, it's a great skill.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
So for you, it must it must. Okay, So the
team is there's a writer or writer I'm guessing director, yes, yes,
is there for for your performance? Was there a choreographer
at all? Or no? Was it just there was a
director helping you with the beats of where to stay
at and where to go?
Speaker 2 (08:36):
And yeah, yeah, she did a lot of it. We
didn't have No, we didn't have a choreographer for that one.
She's kind of made it up a little bit. It
was basically me and the directory.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Yeah, with the pro props, hair and makeup. I guess,
So I guess that you have costume changes in that one.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
No, no costume changes. But I was wearing a shawl,
so it had to take it off at times when
there were different time periods because it was, well, he
was sett in Algeria, so obviously you know hit jobs,
but in modern day you kind of we took it
off to show the different time periods. So you do
kind of have to do a little bit of choreography
(09:25):
and make sure it's right because you don't know who's watching.
You don't know who's watching, and it has to be accurate, right.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
So I'm sure I'm assuming your director probably for that
show was the most important because fifty the whole time.
But okay, girl, that sounded great. That didn't that was
We're too.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. She would give you little things to
read and watch when I was lost, because obviously it
was a really heavy play. It was about war and
Algeria and the takeover of the country, so it was
very deep stuff we were doing. But she would give
me little kind of books read and like little news
articles to bring it bring it all together. It was
(10:08):
very intense, I will say that, but I learned so much.
I learned so much doing it.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
But now were you doing that? What is one takeaway
you had as a person. It's as a human, as
a British Algeria and like, what did you What is
one thing you walked away from after you did that
whole experience?
Speaker 2 (10:26):
It was a whole confidence shift, okay, because I think
I would go So I did that show, and like
two days before I was at my day job and
they were like, oh, so what what what are you
doing you know over the weekend and stuff, And I
was like, oh, yeah, I'm doing a one woman play.
And then they just kind of looked at me. They
were like you, I wouldn't put you doing a one
(10:50):
woman play. And then the following week after I just
walked straight through. I was like, none of this drama
of life can really phase me right now because I've
you know, I've just been super vulnerable and given everything
on stage for like just sober an hour. Yeah, and
it kind of gives you a different sense when you
(11:11):
walk into normal reality. You're like, well, yeah, I know
I can do this, But I think that's a life thing.
You're always working on your confidence and facing experiences that
build you. But yeah, that was mine. Weeks months after,
I was like, yeah, I can do it.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
I like that serious as then a boutch of culture
about the history. It's a it's always a great thing,
too wonderful thing. But now you're also yorking with the BBC,
you do something relevan. How's that going so far? I mean,
how's that going?
Speaker 2 (11:49):
I don't think I can say to to us, I don't.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Be fun.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
It's exciting, it's exciting. Definitely a lot to learn as well,
but yeah, exciting.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Thing is My thing for you is like, just what
are you as an as a performer, as an actor,
as an artist, what are you kind of wanting to
get into? Now you've been here, you've been doing for
a while, and you've done stage, you've done some speedo,
It's like, just kind of what in what are you
thinking you want to do?
Speaker 2 (12:25):
So I definitely want to work in the US.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Okay, Yeah, So.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
I started this year basically well yeah, but soon soon,
universe soon turn it out there, Universe, you gotta, you gotta,
You've got to say it out so it knows. But
in January this year, pretty much most of January, I
did a whole tour at the USA. I went through
(12:52):
like Memphis, New Orleans, Miami, New York. I did it all,
and I saw so much throughout that time, and I
got to do a lot of classes in New York,
where obviously there are lots of famous acting schools and
tutors and everything. So I got to go in and
(13:12):
do classes there with people that were constantly on like
Law and Order and like FBI International and all this stuff.
I just watch, you know, and I was like, gosh, yeah,
I'm here with you guys. And it's a different kind
of form of training. It's a different form of a
(13:33):
technique when you compare the two countries. And because there
were people in that room that were, wow, like they
were doing very minimal kind of scriptwork. I swear some
people just walked up, they had no notes from their
script and they just did it and blew me away.
And I was like, wow, I mean completely different culture.
My script is always like full of different things. So
(13:54):
I definitely want to delve into that more, because yeah,
I think anything is going to enhance what you do,
you need to just constantly emerge yourself. And that was
an eye opener for me.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
I like that because, I you know, because some people
I don't want to do TV. I don't want to
do this. It's like nowadays, there's good projects everywhere and
it's a matter of what it is. Right, it's everywhere everywhere.
I mean you Eastandards stuff you know, like yeah, come
the law and order in America. Everybody goes a law
in order. Everybody you know, like everybody famous. So it's
(14:29):
like there's there's good stuff. I think people known it.
Nowadays you're at the right time period where it's a
streaming also there's every just good stuff everywhere.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Yeah, I know, it's insane. I mean I can sit
and just watch whatever on my computer. I go on Netflix.
There's like hundreds of stuff on that from around the world.
It's insane.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
It is. I never thought we see that. I never
I just don't thought we see that. I mean there's
so many shows. I can't even get to you because
there's so many shows, right, it was like a new
show everywhere. It's like you know from your time. I
love aph England, so it's like a million shows in
England and then they get shows from Spain and shows, yeah,
(15:13):
make choices. Is that it's it's almost too much, but
it's great.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Yeah, you can never run out and stuff to watch.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
I mean.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Not all it's all that.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
It's all there. So you saw America I've been in
Memphis and I've been a place you've been to. What's
your wrong impression about America for you in terms of
the arts, Like because we have art everywhere, we have art.
Every state has art somewhere.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Yeah, when I was driving through a New Orleans so
they say New Orleans over there in New Orleans, that
was but that was insane. I took a bus all
around the place. Thankfully it was such a nice sunny day,
so you can see everything. There was so much graffiti
(15:57):
and well we called it graffiti, but it was are
It's randomly people's houses, just casually there with all this art.
I mean, you wouldn't really do that here. It would
be you know people. Yeah, I mean you can there
is graffiti, but it's not it's not it's out there.
And I feel like in America it was celebrated to
(16:19):
just have that color, just have these murals to brighten
up the neighborhoods and get people together. And that would
be a kind of thing to have communities together make
spending all that time, you know, their weekends, their evenings
to create these beautiful things. And I love that, Like
you could just walk around and see.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Everything very goodel forget. England is such a small country.
You produce a lot of stuff out of it, but
it's a small but it's impressive what you guys, the
art you produce out of it for beings a small country. Yeah,
we're a big country.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
We're big, right, sound a coach for so long? Like America?
Oh my god, Yeah, it's huge.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Were your family, everybody? Elvis family, it's Memphis, you got Elvis.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Yeah, I went to Elvis's house. That was a beautiful house. Wow,
it is huge. It's a little bigger than you think
it's going to be. It's not just the house, it's
with the museums and wow, I go in all my
steps that day. I'm telling you, I did like twenty
one steps just that one day. Thousand.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
I trust you. I know I've been there. To you like, wow,
it's a lot. You want to go home and take
a nap. It's like, yeah, I'm glad you got to.
I'm glad you're able to get a tour of our
country and and get out lay the land a little
bit and see some because a lot of folks don't
do that. They stay where they are and that's it.
And you're like saying I'll work anywhere. That's what you're saying,
(18:02):
I'll work Erica. Just where was the problem? It was
a good project, right, it's a good project.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Yeah, yeah, of course that's all.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Of those things. I love it well, Kret things for
being on the show. I'm your new fan now and
I'm gonna follow you. And when you have some new
project where those projects come out come back from well
you can talk about of course.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Of course the show.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Folks want to follow you anywhere online. Where can they
follow you?
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Yes, my Instagram page, which I'm sure will be in
the description box by the time people come and watch this.
But yeah, that's pretty much it.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Okay, I'll follow her, so'll follow her there. You're a
big she's the bomb. She's the bomb kid, she's working
it out, talented. Remember her name. Remember her name. You'll
see more of its h and she connections us on Facebook.
We're everywhere you want to be, James E. Junior, everywhere,
and we will see you next time.
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