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🎵 The biggest challenge I faced was I was at a very pivotal time in my
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journey with the Groundlings which is an improvisational and sketch comedy troupe based in Los Angeles
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I was in the Sunday Company and Sunday Company is a precursor
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to the main company but the higher you get in the Sunday
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Company the more stressful it becomes and it just so happened that this
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was being shot at the same time I was a couple weeks um
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prior to the end of my time in the Sunday Company of the Groundlings so
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finding the balance between those two things was very challenging And did you look up a Groundling? I did
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He's a Groundling! He's a Groundling everybody! The locations were very noisy um
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a lot of outside, a lot of parking lots a lot of noise
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in downtown LA How did you get around the noise? I put a dead cat
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on the microphone and that made it less noisy. A dead cat looks like
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Doc from Back to the Future's wig. Looks like his head I know exactly what the biggest challenge
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of this role was. I felt like Kira is someone who would never go on stage
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without false eyelashes so I put on false eyelashes and I'm really
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really bad at putting on false eyelashes so that was the hardest part. I didn't hurt
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myself but I definitely had sticky eyelids Putting together a cast and especially
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a crew, luckily running the downtown rep I know a lot of really talented actors
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no shortage there. Everybody in the film is just exquisite but finding a crew
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especially from a theater background is totally different than a film crew. It's a different
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skill set so I was lucky enough to be working at a company
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at the time that was a film studio with five cameras and they
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interviewed people and I worked as the stage manager. All the other guys and gals
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who came onto our film set were running cameras, camera ops and through
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working together I just got really lucky and I met Joey, extremely talented
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gaffed on empty space. Stephanie who was the first AC is extraordinary and just so much fun to have on set
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Finding Idan, the director of photography was a godsend. He's extremely talented
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wonderful to work with I luckily already knew the sound guy Kevin DeKemp. We worked together on
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I Snatched Andy Warhol, my first film for which he did the music and
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the sound editing so along with Matt Glenn One of the most difficult
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parts about taking on this role for me was that I've been
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working in classical theater like I said for the better part of a decade
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so I come from this very kind of very intense and larger
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portrayal of a character for me one of the hardest things about doing Jack was like learning to
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dial it back enough so that it didn't like blow up the screen also
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not hitting Devin one of the hardest things was just during the fight call like not actually maiming
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my friend Devin with a bat. I just didn't want to hurt
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him and and then of course another hard part about doing this role was
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at the time I worked in accounting and trying to explain to accountants
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why I need to take two days off to hang out in a parking garage
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