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Pursuing Your Dreams With Confidence
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Body Doubles in Gatorade Commercial
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You're always so silly.
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Always bring the good energy, Eric.
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I call it Charlie, but I believe the name, how you pronounce it Charlie?
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It's Charlena.
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Yeah.
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Brown.
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Um,
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This is my assistant from a different mister.
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We did Gatorade about two years ago with Gabrielle Union and Dwayne.
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That was a year ago, not two.
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2019.
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That was October of 2000.
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Almost.
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Oh, yeah, it was 2019.
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Yeah, so we was in Mexico City.
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She played Gabrielle Union, I played D-Wings, the body doubles for Gatorade.
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Shouts out the Gatorade.
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For real.
Charlie's Audition Hustle
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and we kind of build a bond and she's a pisces like me march 16. you know it's funny when you tell me it was the night i knew it wasn't today but i just didn't want to miss it i was like i don't think it's today you're literally seven days before me yeah exactly seven days
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Yeah, it's love.
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So, you know, we're here.
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How you been?
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What's new?
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What's the ladies and greaties?
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You look beautiful.
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What's going on?
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Tell me.
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Talk to me.
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Thank you.
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Basically, we're starting to pick up again.
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I've been busy.
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Busy with more auditions and stuff.
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I mean, I had booked a commercial about a couple months ago.
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And even during that time, we still were a little slow, but now it's starting to pick up.
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I literally have like three to four auditions every week.
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The pages, the dialogue and the sides are like pages and I'm reading for leads and whatever else there is.
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It's money time, baby.
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Let's get it.
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I know.
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I'm doing all of the art.
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Like I am my agent, she's shooting them to me and I'm like, oh my God, more, more.
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But it's, that's what we want.
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That's what you want as an actor.
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You want to be working consistently honing your craft.
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So I'm just waiting for the book.
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Yeah.
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You going book it baby.
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So let's get right into it.
Charlie's Background and Acting Transition
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Can you just give the people where you from, your background,
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what you do you know i like to say you're an actress entrepreneur and just a go-getter but maybe you can elaborate on what you do your background i know you played tennis growing up
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Your mom works in the entertainment industry.
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Also your nephew always book and get it.
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But just give them a synopsis of who you are, what you do, and who's Charlie Baltimore.
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Okay.
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I'm originally from Detroit, but I grew up in L.A.
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I was raised in L.A.
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I moved to L.A.
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when I was little.
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And I played tennis starting in Detroit and then came here and we really were playing tennis like every day.
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and every weekend tournaments.
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And when I graduated from high school, I got a full scholarship to Florida A&M University.
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Have you seen LeBron, the shoes?
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no he just that that's my school it's hbcu so like we're super proud um anyways i got a full scholarship there played tennis there for four years graduated moved back to la and started pursuing this world like i got a sports agent uh acting agent a
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commercial agent, anything that I knew that I wanted to do, I knew I needed a manager or agent, someone to represent me.
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And so that's what I did.
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And so I've just been doing it since then.
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Since I started, I have not stopped.
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I have not taken breaks.
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I be tired, but I'm like, I'm not exactly where I want to be.
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I'm not stopping.
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I'm going to be going until I'm there.
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And even when I'm there, I'm not going to stop.
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So it's just a part of your life.
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You know,
Importance of Relationships in Acting
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you either have to love it,
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You have to love it, actually.
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I mean, it's your job.
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You know what I'm saying?
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You know, when they say if you love your job, you would be okay with not getting paid.
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I mean, we... Yeah, you got to get paid.
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Come on.
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Yeah, I mean, you got to make money, you got to live, support yourself.
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But, you know, I love it that much to where, you know, I can book a commercial.
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and I can be good for the year, possibly, or two years.
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Like I booked.
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And then we have our, you can have your dry spells too, you know, but like,
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I think two years ago I had booked two commercials and one has started running right away and it was running like real.
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I'm like, dang, I did good on this one.
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Yes.
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But then the other one took like four to five months to start running, but it ran at the same time as the new one.
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So I literally was like, ching, ching, blessings.
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It was great.
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Yeah.
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So you can have those moments and then you can also have dry moments.
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So yes, we all have been there.
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So on a topic, can you kind of like, like go over your process or kind of like,
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give people your intentions like what is the heart of looking for you like when you get a project whether it's a tv show a commercial a print ad like what's your intention and mindset when you when you're getting to work and how do you approach it to book it because i feel like your booking rate is like high like i feel like you book at least 75 80 of your projects you know what i'm saying like what's your approach
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I think it's relationships more than anything because the casting people remember you.
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And especially when you book with them, they want to book you again because if you booked with them and you did the job and they heard great things about you on set and you auditioned for another one of their projects or jobs, they're going to book you.
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I think
Commercial Success and Financial Benefits
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that's kind of like what happened with me in this last
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commercial with my nephew like it was actually his commercial audition and they needed a mom and i'm like oh i guess i'll be auditioning with you and so we did it together and we booked it but i had booked with the casting um before twice yeah so so i mean it's relationships yeah so can you like i know you if you don't mind can you speak about the commercials you've booked or some of them
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not recently, but to give people like a perspective of the type of commercial issues book, a commercial.
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Yeah, sure.
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I like the last one I booked was a Nissan commercial.
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Then I booked a Bank of America, a Maytag,
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The Bank of America, they turned into a few spots.
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So when they triple the spots or double the spots, you make triple or double the money, depending.
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And the Maytag, they turned into five spots.
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Wow.
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So I made...
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Yeah.
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Is that quadruple?
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No, four is quadruple.
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So five is whatever, five times the amount of or whatever.
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And so I've done McDonald's a couple of times.
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I've done Ford a couple of times.
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I've done like, I've done a lot of commercial.
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And you've done Apple.
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You remember when we talked about Apple?
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I've done Apple.
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yeah i've done a few things with apple i've done a lot of print stuff too and remember i'm in the sports world so i like i've done a lot of sports stuff like nike commercial adidas commercial asics print all kind of like you know sports stuff and commercial stuff so yeah i've done you be booking baby you keep booking i mean what i gotta pay i gotta pay these bills yeah yeah yeah i believe
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So, you know, so you kind of went over like the book and fade and your approach.
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I think
Industry Relationships and Career Success
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that's the most valuable thing in all of life.
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Not only commercial entertainment relationships, building rapport with people, understanding the people, knowing what they like, what they look for, and letting them know who you are, you know, overall.
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So what got you into pursuing acting?
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Like why acting?
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Was it because your mom was in the business because you fell into it?
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What made you want to pursue the career to be an actress?
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Where did it come from?
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um when i was in college i was studying journalism and i came back here and that's what i was doing like i started working for time one of sports and sports doing sports journalism and um it just it was fun i liked it but it wasn't that fulfilling for me like there was more that i wanted and acting is just fun because you get to be all these different people and dress up and just not be yourself or whatever
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and so i and i
From Sports Journalism to Acting
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i always liked being in front of the camera since i was a little kid so i look at that face girl so beautiful i think that's what it was because i mean i was in front of the camera with the sports stuff the reporting stuff but it just was a little it was too structured it was always like serious and
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you know i couldn't like get to have as much fun as i wanted to with it so that's why i worked when i graduated i worked at um i worked for a producer and um i saw a lot of it there too and i was like yeah this is what i wanted i was an executive assistant and i saw a lot of like yeah a lot of that oh i didn't know that but you were working for like an entertainment company or production company
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yeah i worked for a big entertainment company um and i worked there for two years under a producer and i he made films so i watched it and i watched them hire people and i watched but saw budgets and money and everything and the whole how everything works you know how it operates yeah right and what was your uh mom's influence in your career how did she add that or help or maybe challenged you
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Oh, well, she was like my, well, she started when I was young.
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She was like that crazy sports parent, you know?
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Yeah.
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More practice, get on the court.
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That was her.
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So the whole sports thing, you know, if it wasn't for her, then I probably wouldn't have been into sports.
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I don't know.
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But that world came, you know, that.
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And then she is in the entertainment business as well.
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She teaches film classes.
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And so she's just been able to, I actually got my manager for my mom.
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Oh, wow.
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Through my mom.
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Like, she was the referral.
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Got it.
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Let's do it.
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Yeah.
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And he's still my manager and he's one of the reasons why I've been able to be successful in this industry, honestly.
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He's been my manager the whole time.
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You said it, what you said, relationships.
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Literally.
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It's all relationships.
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I mean, you put me down on some stuff when I was in Mexico City about, because that was my first time having this bad gig and being flown out in the pay we got.
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I was like, no, this is how it works.
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Yeah, I didn't know that was your first sad gig.
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I didn't know that.
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Well, it was my first sad gig as in being flown out of the country.
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Never happened.
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I haven't either.
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I was like, five days?
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It was like a vacation.
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They actually did that.
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They wanted us to have fun.
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Do you remember that?
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Because they were like, we could have gone back earlier, but they were like, do you guys want to stay?
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Absolutely.
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They were cool.
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Yeah, it was fun.
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That was my first time too.
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Oh, it was?
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Like working out of the country.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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And I didn't know like they, they flew his first class.
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I was like, yo, this happened?
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Yeah.
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I know I was sitting next to, to Gabrielle's manager.
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Oh yeah.
Confidence from Athletic Upbringing
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Yeah.
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I forgot about that.
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That was a cool time.
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It was good people.
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Great people.
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You know one thing I like about you?
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The first day I met you and as we kind of continue to build is that your confidence, right?
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And your certainty.
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And just when you know something, you own it.
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You don't play the middle.
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You keep it real.
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So I know you said you played tennis growing up, but where did you get that confidence from to like not only believe in yourself, but to know that what you believe is going to work and you just have it, it's in you.
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What did that come from?
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Part of it probably comes from how I was raised.
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Being an athlete, do you know what I'm saying?
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I think being an athlete, you have to have confidence, right?
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yeah because you're one too like you have you you were at least you have to have confidence um and then um you know i would say my mom too you know has it's always about working hard like work hard work hard and that's why i don't know i really don't know how to stop yeah i really don't i really don't but
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I don't know.
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I just, I guess it's just in me.
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Yeah, it's in you.
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Not on you, it's in you.
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It's in me.
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It's, you
Challenges and Opportunities for Female Actors
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know, I think confidence
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is so undervalued in life because we know we all know you need confidence right we know you need to have it we know we need to believe in yourself but a lot of times we don't really know what confidence no we know what confidence look like but we don't know what it actually feels like if you get me so when i see someone like when i see you i know you're confident but i don't know how that feels
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You know, and it's sometimes I'm asking questions to people because I'm really trying to see what's in their mind, what's in their mentality.
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Like even when we were in Mexico City, we had to do those, I don't know if it was box jumps or we was climbing up the... Oh yeah.
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I was scared.
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I wasn't confident in that.
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Really?
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Why?
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Right.
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Because, you know, but when you was doing it, I was like, damn, let me try to like...
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he does this with ease but it wasn't even a thought for you it was just more of yeah it's easy like you were confident about it and i think those little things and people at least for me makes up the big picture for that person and that's why i always tell people you know people people watch and observe and analyze take a look at people that they look up to or aspire to be
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Like sometimes, you know, for a long time, I would sit here in my place and I'll study Floyd Mayweather, Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan, LeBron James.
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just to see what they're saying and how they're thinking.
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I'll watch them work out, how they attack a drill or exercise.
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Just to try to see what's really going through their mind.
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What is their approach?
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What's their intentions?
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Because it's so much more than the athlete, the entertainer, oh, Denzel Washington, my favorite actor, I love that guy.
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And I discovered that when he gets a character, he prays the character spirit within him so he can become it.
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But to me, it makes sense because when I'm seeing him, I believe he's that person.
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Yeah.
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Every time.
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He's just so locked into his role that I find that fascinating.
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I think we just take confidence and people are great for granted because like, oh, that's what he does.
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But no one can tell his work, his attention or his approach.
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Right.
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Or see how much work he's put into that.
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He's been doing it for a long time.
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Yeah.
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You know, it's really funny because I remember someone had said to me, oh, my God, I wish they were like, you book all the time.
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I wish only if I was playing, only if I had played sports or something.
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It was almost like a,
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It wasn't really a compliment and it was, but it wasn't.
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I was like, well, what were you doing at seven years old?
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Cause I was playing tennis on the court.
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So when it comes to the sport, when it comes to sports and stuff, I, it's not even just tennis.
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It's like almost not every sport, but a lot of different things.
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I'm actually an athletic person.
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I can play basketball.
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I can play.
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You know, I guess my mom knew that we were going to be athletic kids because what she is.
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So my brother got a scholarship in basketball to the University of Hawaii.
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I got a scholarship in tennis.
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My sister got a scholarship in tennis.
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We all got full scholarships.
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We all play sports.
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So when it comes to that world, it's like especially tennis, it's not even about being cocky.
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It's just that it's like speaking English almost.
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You know what I'm saying?
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You've been doing it for so long.
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Yeah.
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So speaking on like sports and confidence and acting and life in general,
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from your from your perspective what have been the challenges the pros and cons of the entertainment business for you as an actress and gentleman and what's been the pros and cons or the challenges and goodness of being a female in the business for you i think the pros for being a female
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that there's opportunity somewhere.
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I think now there's more opportunity, especially for people that might look like me.
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There's more opportunities now, so that's great.
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The con would be, as far as the acting world, it's a little different.
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It's a little different.
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It
Eric's Perspective on Booking Gigs
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is more so about who you know, as opposed to what you can do.
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You gotta be able to,
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your thing in the audition or whatever but it's also a million and one people can go and audition for that same thing and do their thing but that one person is going to book the job has their manager or someone has a relationship with somebody in that circle so it's it's the is the who you know it's interesting because i had i had a call back for old spice that's running now i get but when i saw the commercial
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Because like a few years ago, my friend, she's been like almost 17 years.
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She does a lot of like Hallmark movies, stuff on that network.
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And she said, Eric, you can't be personal.
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It's busy.
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She said, if you're consistently getting callbacks, that means you're not going to be home.
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And it's all right.
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Eventually, they'll book you.
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And I'll always get callbacks, right?
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So when I saw the commercial, and I was like, now I understand probably why I didn't get
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it had nothing with acting it's about the characters like one of the athletes was an nfl player right you know and the guy who who booked it that i actually told a guy i'll say his name shots up to him um he was shorter than me so i know my presence and my height on camera i was just gonna say it could have been height and then you get it shorter
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much they wouldn't think i'm an athlete you know what i'm saying like so it was just interesting but i think for me you know the pros the pros are like it is opportunity and you know um and having leverage if you've been on the tv show or people from other in the world that's and the cons can be like
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It's just different for everybody.
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It's timing.
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I believe in timing.
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I changed my hair.
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The moment I grew up my hair, the more I was booking.
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And I discovered when I had a haircut,
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it's really low i look too clean i look perfect i looked
Advice for Aspiring Actors
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i can't say but it's just like i was just this clean cut guy was like we're looking for ncaa players bro like you got your beard is all nice wrong with it but sometimes it can be too much and it doesn't fit the description of what they're looking for so yeah
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You just got to know your lane and know what works, what doesn't work.
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And not take it personal when you don't.
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Yeah, I should take it personal.
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Like I remember one callback I had, and then they didn't call me for two weeks.
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I was just like, I was hurt.
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I was like, yeah, I really studied, you know what I'm saying?
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The interview, I mean, the script really well.
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But I like it so good.
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It's not what we get out of life, it's what we become.
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So thinking of acting and confidence and just life in general, to anyone pursuing their dreams and aspirations, what would be your advice to get someone that wants to be in a position, someone who wants to come to LA and act, Atlanta, what would be your advice to someone coming up?
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What to look at?
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I just think if you really, if it's something that you really, really want to do,
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just do it I mean make sure you got all your finances in order to be able to move and do all that but just do it there's so many people that I know that I started with that made it like they're on a lot of people I'm literally sitting back like
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Wow, this is amazing to see so many people made it and that are still making it and still, you know, they're going to be more.
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And now there's so many more opportunities for everyone that, you know, you have a better chance to make it and pursue your dreams and get what you want out of this.
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But I would just say just to do it, just do it.
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And confidence is very important.
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Like, I mean,
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you can do it.
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You know, you tell yourself, if this is something that you want.
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I used to get so nervous on auditions.
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I used to get nervous
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to why I would do weird things.
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Like maybe I was shaking or like that nervous because they were like, I would get nervous when I had tennis matches like that.
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But when you play tennis, people can't tell because you like, you're moving.
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Yeah.
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I eventually got over it.
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Eventually, after doing this for so long and going in and auditioning for so many different people and seeing it.
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doing it over and over again it's like it's like a sport if you keep practicing you're gonna get good at it you know so it was like practice so now i feel better when i go and i don't get nervous ever never i'm never nervous anymore um sometimes a little bit but not like how i used to be do you know what i'm saying so i would just do it
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Just do it.
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Just do it.
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I got a segment in my interview process.
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I call it rapid fire.
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I'm going to say two words.
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You just pick whatever comes to you.
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You ready?
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Yeah.
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Love or lust?
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Love.
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Success or happiness?
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Success because I'm going to be happy.
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If I'm successful, I'm going to be happy.
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Money or fame?
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Money.
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Okay.
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Damn, I got stuck.
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Oh, I got it.
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Booking commercials the rest of your life or acting on TV the rest of your life?
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I go on TV the rest of my life because there's more money in that.
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Oh, it is.
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You let this know something.
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Yeah, if you book like a series regular, you're out of here.
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Really?
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What's that rate for a series regular?
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What do you think about that?
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It depends on the show, but I have a few friends that have booked series regulars in the last couple of days.
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Really?
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Yeah, it's like four or five people.
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So that means you're up next.
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All right, two more questions.
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Jay-Z or Kanye?
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Jay-Z.
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Really?
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Really?
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Beyonce or Rihanna?
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Oh, wait.
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Hey, hey, oh, wait.
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Okay, both, both, both.
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No, you gotta pick one, come on.
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But I can't.
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You have to, come on.
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No, I love Beyonce and I love Rihanna.
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And I feel like if I picked one, it would be just disrespecting the other.
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So I can't.
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But you got a chance to hang out with her.
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All right, Beyonce, Beyonce.
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Okay, cool.
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uh what is what is your biggest fear in life uh failure failure failure what type of failure any failure i know but because because you can you can have failure and still
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Sometimes you need to fail to get, you know what I mean?
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So it's like staying in that dark space is scares the, like I, that I'm so scared of.
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Cause I've been in that space before where I was not working and booking and I was like,
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How did you deal with that?
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Like, honestly, like in that space of not booking and have an opportunity emotionally and mentally, how did you get through and how did you deal with it?
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Faith.
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Faith like that.
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Yeah, faith and prayer for real.
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Because I was like, am I going to pay my rent this month or not?
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Next month, a month after, we're going to have the rent paid.
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But I mean, it got paid.
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it got paid and I just, I don't know, I just kept going, you know, gotta keep going.
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Cause we're gonna go through this.
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Everyone does.
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It's life.
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I mean, you can't have a perfect life without having failure.
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And you can't have a perfect life at all.
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That's not even real.
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It's not.
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And if it is good for you, good for you, baby.
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So what's next with Charlie?
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Like, what do you have going on?
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What's in the works?
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What can we see you on?
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Like what's going on for Charlie?
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Um, there's some stuff going on that I can't really talk about right now.
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Um, but I'm, you know, being optimistic about it all and feeling good.
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So, I mean, I do have a commercial that's out.
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I don't know if it's it, they, they actually broke it down into a different version.
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So I haven't seen mine yet, but, um, it's should be running soon, hopefully.
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I'm constantly auditioning, working on my own stuff.
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Oh, you're writing.
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Pitching, writing and stuff.
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Yeah, like I've been doing some stuff.
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But there are a couple of other big things that I'm hoping will come through.
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And I can't really mention that much about it, but maybe you'll see something soon.
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Yeah.
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And last question.
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If this was your last day acting,
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what would be the ultimate role for you to have?
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You couldn't act anymore in life because of whatever reason.
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Maybe you got a different opportunity.
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I don't know.
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Just hypothetically, like, what would be that habit?
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I don't know.
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I always wanted to do something sporty, like superhero.
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Oh, like a cat woman?
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Yeah, always did.
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Yes.
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Like a cat woman?
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Okay, Marvel character.
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I mean, just something that can showcase my athletic ability.
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Yeah, I've always wanted, really wanted to do that.
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Black Panther 2?
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Yeah, all that.
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All that.
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We're just saying Black Panther 2.
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Put it out there.
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It's on my vision board, you know?
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Hey,
Conclusion: Confidence and Persistence
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there you go.
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Well, Charlie, I mean,
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This is it for us tonight.
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I appreciate your time, your energy, your wisdom.
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Always for you.
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Much love.
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Is there anything else that people need to know?
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This will go up on my page where we can find you.
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Are you on Twitter?
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Where are you on Instagram?
00:29:10
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I'm on Twitter.
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I don't really use Twitter, but all of my social media is IamCharlena.
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So I don't use Twitter that much.
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Maybe I will in the future, but it's IamCharlena.
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got it.
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All right.
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Well, we'll see you in the big spring very soon.
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Wish any much love, joy, blessings.
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Blessings.
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Energy.
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And maybe they run that commercial that Gatorade is getting back.
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I know.
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Again.
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again yeah yeah so yes but yeah i appreciate you much love and um i'll see you soon thank you all right thank you all right have a good night be safe you too bye well there you go guys shortly to the point i like to call it charlie brown challenge how to challenge charlie brown y'all
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Tell it, tell it, tell it, tell it, tell it, tell it Brown.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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So follow her.
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She's amazing.
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She's driven.
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She's focused.
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She's always looking commercial.
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I'm not going to tell you how much she made on one commercial because that's, you know, I think we signed them NDAs, but that's between her and I, but she made a lot of money.
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A lot of money.
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Girl smart.
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But yeah, guys be great.
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Be phenomenal.
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Check this out.
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Share this.
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If you're in the acting industry and entertainment industry,
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You want to become something, you want to do something.
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Just take this energy, this insight, this wisdom, this knowledge and use it, apply it, execute, be great.
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It's a miracle season.
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I appreciate you guys for chiming in.
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Thank you for the badge, the donation.
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I love it.
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Let's keep winning.
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It's a miracle season.
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I see you guys soon.
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Continue to pursue your dreams, have confidence, and book the work.
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I'm out.
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Peace.