I’m in the new season of The Bear. Please respect my haters’ privacy during this difficult time. 🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻 Thank you @chrisstorer for inviting me to guest star on the coolest show in town alongside an up & coming British actress, @courtney__storer for being a culinary fairy godmother, the writers and crew for making a tv show that feels like a real tv show you know what I mean, @ebonmossbachrach for being a star, and the @everrestaurant team for letting me stage with my muse Matthew the expo and for always playing Matthew McConaughey’s audiobook in the bathroom.
I’m in the new season of The Bear. Please respect my haters’ privacy during this difficult time. 🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻 Thank you @chrisstorer for inviting me to guest star on the coolest show in town alongside an up & coming British actress, @courtney__storer for being a culinary fairy godmother, the writers and crew for making a tv show that feels like a real tv show you know what I mean, @ebonmossbachrach for being a star, and the @everrestaurant team for letting me stage with my muse Matthew the expo and for always playing Matthew McConaughey’s audiobook in the bathroom.
I’m in the new season of The Bear. Please respect my haters’ privacy during this difficult time. 🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻 Thank you @chrisstorer for inviting me to guest star on the coolest show in town alongside an up & coming British actress, @courtney__storer for being a culinary fairy godmother, the writers and crew for making a tv show that feels like a real tv show you know what I mean, @ebonmossbachrach for being a star, and the @everrestaurant team for letting me stage with my muse Matthew the expo and for always playing Matthew McConaughey’s audiobook in the bathroom.
I’m in the new season of The Bear. Please respect my haters’ privacy during this difficult time. 🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻 Thank you @chrisstorer for inviting me to guest star on the coolest show in town alongside an up & coming British actress, @courtney__storer for being a culinary fairy godmother, the writers and crew for making a tv show that feels like a real tv show you know what I mean, @ebonmossbachrach for being a star, and the @everrestaurant team for letting me stage with my muse Matthew the expo and for always playing Matthew McConaughey’s audiobook in the bathroom.
I’m in the new season of The Bear. Please respect my haters’ privacy during this difficult time. 🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻 Thank you @chrisstorer for inviting me to guest star on the coolest show in town alongside an up & coming British actress, @courtney__storer for being a culinary fairy godmother, the writers and crew for making a tv show that feels like a real tv show you know what I mean, @ebonmossbachrach for being a star, and the @everrestaurant team for letting me stage with my muse Matthew the expo and for always playing Matthew McConaughey’s audiobook in the bathroom.
I’m in the new season of The Bear. Please respect my haters’ privacy during this difficult time. 🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻 Thank you @chrisstorer for inviting me to guest star on the coolest show in town alongside an up & coming British actress, @courtney__storer for being a culinary fairy godmother, the writers and crew for making a tv show that feels like a real tv show you know what I mean, @ebonmossbachrach for being a star, and the @everrestaurant team for letting me stage with my muse Matthew the expo and for always playing Matthew McConaughey’s audiobook in the bathroom.
I’m in the new season of The Bear. Please respect my haters’ privacy during this difficult time. 🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻 Thank you @chrisstorer for inviting me to guest star on the coolest show in town alongside an up & coming British actress, @courtney__storer for being a culinary fairy godmother, the writers and crew for making a tv show that feels like a real tv show you know what I mean, @ebonmossbachrach for being a star, and the @everrestaurant team for letting me stage with my muse Matthew the expo and for always playing Matthew McConaughey’s audiobook in the bathroom.
I’m in the new season of The Bear. Please respect my haters’ privacy during this difficult time. 🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻 Thank you @chrisstorer for inviting me to guest star on the coolest show in town alongside an up & coming British actress, @courtney__storer for being a culinary fairy godmother, the writers and crew for making a tv show that feels like a real tv show you know what I mean, @ebonmossbachrach for being a star, and the @everrestaurant team for letting me stage with my muse Matthew the expo and for always playing Matthew McConaughey’s audiobook in the bathroom.
In honor of the writers strike, here’s an unreleased reenactment of PLEASANTVILLE starring me as @reesewitherspoon and @jennydianelewis & @juliancookies written by Gary Ross. Iconic films and shows that entertain us long after they’re initially released start with writers. Those writers deserve fair pay. Everybody thank a writer today! #hottiessupportartists
Being blonde was fun (been doing so much good I forgot to be hot)
Being blonde was fun (been doing so much good I forgot to be hot)
Being blonde was fun (been doing so much good I forgot to be hot)
Being blonde was fun (been doing so much good I forgot to be hot)
Being blonde was fun (been doing so much good I forgot to be hot)
In 2018, I self-taped for the role of Roman’s new girlfriend on a lil show called Succession that hadn’t premiered yet. Honestly I don’t like my performance here or even my outfit or hair 😂, but in fairness I had 48 hours to drop everything and make a tape and all they told me about the character is that she was “very smart/funny/beautiful.” I didn’t even know what the show was about and, only after watching the brilliant Caitlin Fitzgerald on the show did I even learn the character was a sex worker, lmao. Even though watching many of my old auditions makes me cringe, making this video series literally transformed my understanding of what it means to be an actor by teaching me that, in and of themselves, @auditionsarework 💅
In my mind I am them
In my mind I am them
In my mind I am them
In my mind I am them
In my mind I am them
As more info comes out about the SAGAFTRA strike, I’d like to continue highlighting an important area that often goes misunderstood and underestimated: casting & auditions. This is my audition edited into the movie OTHERHOOD. No shade, but has anyone ever seen this movie? Editing my auditions into stuff I didn’t get cast in helped me unlearn the fantasy that every audition request was worth my unpaid, specialized labor because on the other side was a career- and life-changing job. That mindset made me feel like I couldn’t say no, no matter how much experience I racked up in this industry. In reality, it’s all just work. Many of the projects I auditioned for are ones most people haven’t heard of. A project that isn’t a hit is still work. Most projects that get made fall into this category. Similarly, auditions that don’t get you cast are still work. Most auditions fall into this category, but we have a weird cringey stigma about them. Why? Partly because belittling the value of our work (perhaps by characterizing it as dream-chasing) allows employers to exploit us at our own cost. It’s an extremely specialized skill to read an out of context scene, interpret the tone, create a character, and deliver a usable performance on a short time frame. Too many performers see auditions as an opportunity for us alone. Watching skilled workers’ auditions informs the projects’ story, direction, and ultimate casting. Auditions create VALUE for productions. Auditions are so powerful that me editing this scene taught me all that! #sagaftrastrong @auditionsarework
Here is my audition edited into THE BOYS. An actor friend told me she cried when she watched this video series, because it showed me doing “THE work.” A stranger with a long acting career messaged me that he fell into a deep depression driven by pouring work into countless self-tapes that no one ever responded to. Auditions are THE work. So why have we allowed our work to be so disrespected? Actors embody and reflect humanity’s capacity for vulnerability, emotion, and connection. In return, our employers and this industry treats us with disrespect and disdain so ingrained that many people reading this might think I’m being dramatic. I’m not. If you treat people — let alone sensitive people who work hard FOR FREE for you — like their work doesn’t matter, doesn’t warrant even a response from you, like their hard unpaid labor is just back-up for the person you already offered the job to, or use it as a bargaining chip to pit actors against each other so they accept less than they deserve, you will break their spirit. Yes, this strike is about money and out of touch assholes underpaying us. To me, for actors, it goes deeper. Why have we allowed ourselves to be treated like this for so long that it feels normal? We’ve accepted so many changes to the process that producers wanted because it made it easier for them, when it made it harder for us. We deserve a casting process that doesn’t drive us into depression. We deserve respectful working conditions. We deserve to be given enough information to decide if an audition is worth our time, talent and expertise. SAG-AFTRA could demand so much more than we are, but we’ve allowed it to get so bad that the AMPTP can’t believe we’re even asking for what we are. So my hope is that we get everything we’re asking for and MORE: I hope actors radically reconsider the way we view our position in this industry. Don’t worry about what other people think, they will follow our lead. A lot of people in this business who are paid better and more regularly than we are are inessential to this industry. Not actors. They. Need. Us. Next time you get an audition request, I hope you remember this.
One of my best worst auditions was for the then new Dick Wolf show FBI. From the idea of me at 26 playing a hard ass dramatic FBI agent, to having a cold while self-taping, to the hateful monologue coming from the show’s HERO, this video is so unintentionally funny and reminds me that whether or not you get the part, @auditionsarework
This video series is literally what led to me being on the SAGAFTRA negotiating committee. It changed how I view myself and my career. Editing my auditions into projects I wasn’t cast in forced me to spend more time watching my auditions AND the projects I wasn’t cast in than I ever had before. Brockmire? I don’t even know her! But I convinced myself that a recurring guest star role on the show would turn things around for me. Truly no shade to Brockmire but ??? LOL! ??? Why did I think that? Why did I give my power and worth away to a show I didn’t even watch? I felt so much shame when I didn’t hear anything back on my auditions, which were requested from me, which I worked long and hard on, and which I often produced great work in. It deeply hurt that my industry colleagues’ actions showed that my work didn’t even warrant a response. Or respect and decency? Let alone transparency, which we’re fighting for now in self-tapes, and compensation — which no one told us we’ve always been contractually entitled to. The point is, don’t underestimate the value of your work. I learned the hard way and had to unlearn it and now share it all with you in long Britney Spears-esque captions. Auditions are work. It’s the industry’s turn to act like it and treat us with respect. @auditionsarework
