How was it for you to step into such an emotional role portraying a real person? In your new film All My Life-I cried like a baby by the way-which is based on a true story, you play Jennifer Carter who falls in love and as you are about to start your life together, your FIANCÉ gets diagnosed with terminal cancer. I think that’s a really big part of this industry.
I feel so, so lucky that I was in the right place at the right time and to work on a project that then made it easier for people to put their trust in me. It’s true, I have friends who are insanely talented and work their booties off and they just never had that project to catapult them to that next level. I think that this industry can be incredibly hard, competitive and unforgiving at times. At the time, we all knew that it was very special so it was l gratifying to see the public embrace that film too.
ALL MY LIFE STORY MOVIE
I had the opportunity to work with Damien Chazelle, Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling and not only was that such an incredible experience to witness those artists work, see their process and be a part of it, but also I got to be in a movie musical which has been a dream of mine since I was a child. Probably the first role that got things going for me was when I was cast in La La Land. When I arrived here I was so lucky to land with an incredible team with a bunch of people who were working very hard for me. As much as I loved New York, I needed wildlife and some vitamin D. I came out here because I am a creature of the sun ( laughs). Would you say there was one moment where things really shifted for you? I get to be a part of magic every single day. I think that’s just so incredible and there are very few industries that are like that. There are days where of course, my job is my job, and I can feel grumpy about waking up early or I am hungry and we are waiting awhile, but every time I have a friend or say my mom comes to visit me on set, my eyes are open to how incredibly magical what I get to do is. There are so many people working on a set but every single person’s role is vital.
ALL MY LIFE STORY TV
And also, what an incredibly collaborative experience it is to make a movie or TV show. I was a little trepidatious at first because I loved live performances, interacting with an audience, rehearsing and the process of putting on a play, but I instantly fell in love with filmmaking as an art form and how intimate and exposed you can be.
I did a lot of theater and it wasn’t really until later that I was exposed to film and TV. We would do sight-specific plays at bars or parks, almost like a bar crawl but for plays. Then I moved to New York I started two different theater companies with friends. When I got to BU, I fell even deeper into love with performing and storytelling and it was the first time I had ever been around a group of people who all were passionate about the same things as I was. I have more to draw from and I can understand the human experience in a different way. The more well-rounded I can be as a person, the better artist I can be. I loved the opportunity to take other types of classes like photography and English and to stretch myself in those ways. She helped me apply to different schools and I ended up going to Boston University’s acting conservatory. I also played lacrosse for a while, so it was a very 90s high school experience. I was lucky in high school, my drama teacher sat me down at one point and was like, I think you could do this if you wanted to, which blew my mind because I knew that I loved storytelling, acting, singing and performing, but it never really occurred to me that it could be my job and people would pay me to do it. So I went to school every day and if I got good grades I could go to play practice or to choir.
It wasn’t like I was growing up on the coasts where we had friends who were involved in the business. I grew up in Denver, Colorado and I had a lovely, but tame childhood-no one in my family was in the industry. It’s always like, what’s the next job or creative endeavor how am I going to push myself and what’s the form of artistic expression that I want to explore next? I think one of the amazing things about being an artist is that you never really arrive. I still feel like I’m on that road to be really honest. How would you describe the road to where you are currently in you career-was it unexpected, hard, fun, wild?
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