Hello and welcome to Big Gay energy.
I'm Bree. I'm Fiora and I'm Caitlin come
along with us while we dive into the fun and nuances of queer
media representation matters. And we're here to talk about it.
Welcome back to Big a energy. I do not think you guys are
ready for this. We have a really special special
guest today, or should I say a holy visitor?
Please give a big, welcome to Christina.
Terry young who plays sister Beatrice on Warrior none.
Thank you so much, indeed, many. Many Holiness is here today.
All the holy here. Thank you for having me.
Yes, thank you. Thank you.
First of all, what a journey
speaking of warrior done. So we got to the end of season
one and just like, bam. That Cliff.
Yeah, yeah. I died inside.
Yes, his Holiness. Because now we're all back and
the wait for season 2, has been so long and just full of all
the, all the angst. And so, how did Handle that Gap
in shooting and just like, I guess the pandemic in general
with, with this project, the short answer is, I didn't at
all, no, but, like, nobody really handled but that Gap in
their lives very well. I think, I think that's just
normal now, but it was definitely really weird coming
back into that and see them to and being like, Oh yeah, this is
what like, working was like or like acting and doing my job.
So in that sense, number one, very weird.
Be back on set, very great to be back on set, but everything was
so different. I mean, there was all the covid,
protocols, everything you couldn't hang out with people.
We were in hotel rooms separated from each other.
So we would be doing table reads.
Exactly like this, but the person playing other characters,
sitting behind a wall and you can hear them through the wall,
being like, why can't I just sit in a room with them?
That would be so much better but, yeah, no, I've been better.
It's so sad. It's so sad because it's like,
you You have no connection and you like you read through these
things that you want to bring alive and just like they
literally banging on the wall being like space to me.
Look amazing. Give me something to work with
That is very different. Yeah.
That feeling kind of bled
through from covid into our into our foaming of just like really
just wanting to reconnect with other people and I think that's
essential theme in the in the show as well in the second
season as well. Ironically, it's connecting
again. So re connecting all the dots
after the literal explosion that happened at the end of season 1.
But a parallel to the real world.
Yeah, I know, right. I do art imitate black right
unintentional parallels, probably intentional.
Okay, fine. Maybe.
Um, we did hear something about. You writing a one-act play.
In your pandemic time was that we had terrible, that's gone to
the halls of Mordor. No one's ever going to see I
completely ripped off Beckett and like, no one's ever gonna
like I just waiting for like in the 21st century but not even
like it. Yeah, yeah.
It's just two very sad. People sitting on a porch
talking about How they don't want to be sad anymore, but
they're just continued. There's going to continue being
sad and and then one of them walks away into the distance and
we don't know what happened. So, I'm sad.
Yeah. It's very sad but it definitely
reflects my state of mind during that year.
Sure. And yeah.
Yeah. Yeah.
You see I was the happy one during all that time period
because I'm such a Hermit that I got to stay home in my little
bubble and just fight. That's a nice butt.
Okay. So Beatrice has a very important
scene in season one where she reveals a secret about herself
to Ava through reading the story of a past Warrior none.
How did you approach that scene? And what did you want to convey
by revealing Beatrice has passed?
So leading up to that thing. Like I knew that what I read the
script the first time and I saw that scene that that was going
to be, you know, kind of like a Linchpin in Beatrice is
character, the way that everybody perceives her.
I mean, we reworked a lot of it because I didn't the way that I
first read it. It was a little bit dry and I
wanted it to really, because there's not many moments in the
series, especially in season one because everything's happening
so fast. And like, we really, I really
wanted that to be like sinking a stone into a lake, you know,
like this. Somewhere where really really we
need to go into the depths even if it's just for a minute or
two, just to have a little bit of a pause and give that moment
where somebody is coming out or coming out to say, whatever is
important to them, something about their personality, their
their, their true selves. That is not something that can
be just kind of blown over to be like, oh well, we're kind of
deepening the character a little bit, but not really.
So, I really wanted to we've kind of rewrote a little bit.
With with Simon and we talked about it a lot to really give
that moment the weight that it requires and deserves.
But then when we actually got the shooting it it was so funny.
It was like it got pushed forward.
So I didn't know we were going to shoot that scene until like a
few days before and I was like, oh, should I haven't done any
work on it because I thought we were shooting that like two
weeks from now, so I was like oh great all of this emotional.
That's right now delivered. So we got there.
Uh, Day and the director was great.
We really work through each moment, specifically, which I
was very, very happy with I because sometimes on these shows
like, you are in a rush like you need to get stuff done on a
certain schedule, just like with any kind of filming, like time
is money. So you need to kind of move
forward at a certain Pace, but I was very happy that they had
taken the amount of time that we required, to really get to the
bottom of that. Well, it definitely came
through. Yeah, we just we just talked
about that because we filmed the last part of our Warrior none
episode. And we actually said that it was
it made it that you made it heavier and really let like let
us stay in that moment. But be a just so good.
I think, I think especially because life is also so fast
nowadays. It's important to sometimes just
sit in a moment and be like, yeah, it's really heavy.
Because then you can really appreciate when it's not, not
that. Yeah.
I mean speaking go ahead scene and US filming are worried or
not episode. We came up with the question
during it. And we wanted to know if you
were told to wipe your face like this or if that was just
something that you did, that's the best.
That's what the media is. Mm, I love it.
It's so elegant. Also, the way we paused saying
the word list Bush and like, breathe.
You really got breath through it.
What Caitlin was just so much. Talk about that.
We didn't talk about that for a hot minute.
No, you're lying. Delivery was really great at
adds to the weight and the gravity of the whole story, it's
thank you for bringing that seemed to life.
It was very, it was handled very beautifully and I like, I like
that. You were given the opportunity
to take your time with well, the seem like that because it really
did come through like on screen versus being brushed.
He said so I'm glad you have that opportunity.
Yeah me too. Thank you directors, thank you
so much. I'd me speaking of these great
scenes in choices. Do you have a favorite scene
from season 1? That one.
I mean yeah yeah in my wanted a new shot was like she's gonna
say that one. Yeah that one and the the
hallway fight were I like heat up a bunch of people because
every girl here, Yeah.
The way the way that is the energy of that saying.
Yes. Yeah, basically it's just like
think you're gonna stand in my way.
Not today. Happier cute standing her.
Yeah. Not today Satan.
So I guess speaking of a typical things that would happen in a
show about nuns what was it like wearing a nun's habit?
It literally all the time. Yeah, literally all the time.
Well, first of all really made my ears hurt because it's kind
of pinned my ears against my head.
Yeah, it's a constantly by the third hour of shooting.
I'm like I have a migraine but other than that, on the, on a
deeper level, I don't know. Like I Didn't grow up in a very
religious family. I mean I was baptized and we
like my mom brought me up and Luther and but we were never a
huge churchgoers like we went to church.
We've go to church you know maybe on Christmas something
like that Independence Day. Finish Independence Day not
American independence day and stuff like that.
Like we were especially when I moved to New York.
We were connected with the Of church here.
It's down in Greenwich Village. But what was the finished
school? But through that because the
church kind of ran the school as well.
So, but I mean it was definitely a because I had to do a lot of
research on none. I didn't walk a long bout of
research on guns and how, how long it actually takes to become
a nun. Not that I can really remember
any of that. Now that was like four years
ago, but it is a very, very long time. and, It's it is a very
kind of. It depends, of course on what
kind of denomination than where you are but it is still a very
strict way of life and I think that definitely the more
research I did into that really informed how I played Beatrice
because that kind of just played into, you know how sometimes
you're kind of lost in your life and then you find something to
focus on and you totally hyper focus on that and you make it
your entire personality and then you just You kind of lose
yourself in that and you're like, I found myself and
actually, like, no, you're not yourself.
So I feel like that's kind of the process that went into
about, but but the the none have it.
Definitely did feel a little restricting.
I mean, I had to lift up my skirts to walk up the stairs and
almost definitely created a different layer of like.
Wow, this is it isn't stiff completely different way of
life. Yeah, I hope I bet you want to
be a nun. Questions.
Come to my head. I just know.
I have enormous respect for people who can devote that much
of their life to something they believe in but I would not want
to be a nun. I I like wearing tight fitted
clothing way too much. And Life free of migraines would
be nice to, you know. Yeah.
Well, you know, I'm sure that like walking forever.
Give me another centimeter. It did look very tight, we'll
say so, I mean, as well. Like I'm not complaining because
they made it to side. I did ask it to be like I wanted
it to feel restricted. Yeah.
And you also do a lot of movement to, so I would imagine
it's better if it stays. Yeah, stays closed.
Yeah, I really liked what you said about Beatrice and because
it's good similar to what we talked about earlier, begorrah
with Beatrice and, um, getting into being a nun and that Blake
be that being her like thing. And, but she's really actually
lost So, it really came through because we were just discussing
it. So, That's right thing.
Sometimes it just takes it takes one person or one thing to pop
that bubble and I think that's kind of what happens to
Beatrice. Yeah, Bubblegum.
I was gonna pop. Yeah, she will fit right in here
because I do that constantly. Yeah, I'd like the high perfect
shade if they have like yeah once every quarter usually it's
the ADHD. Exactly.
Yeah. I feel that.
Um all right. So what is your favorite thing
about Beatrice and why I think it has that ability to Be quite
objective in each situation. She's very very down-to-earth
and grounded which is an interesting juxtaposition.
Because if you don't, if you're not really being true to who you
are, then how can you really be down to her about it?
But she does it somehow, I guess you got to be grounded in
something even if it's not your true self, but I think through
season two will get to see her thrown her thrown off balance a
little bit, and I really like that that aspect of her
character that will get to see in the new season.
We're somebody you take somebody who thinks that they know who
they are and then you kind of throw it.
It a wall and see what sticks. Yeah, it's like if we want to
see, ya, know back, those onion layers.
Oh yeah, I'm ready to cry. Earlier, and as you get to know
the character, you pull back the layers and see who she really
is. Yeah, and when you peel onion
layers, are going to cry. Yeah, I do.
Dammit. Anything was gay.
You're gonna cry in media? Yeah, it's a drama, guys.
Your I mean they could just completely change it and make it
a comedy. You're I mean there isn't even a
there's a lot of comedy in it and I think,
yeah. So we've got to talk to like a
fight coordinator and stunt double for another show and
we've always talked about stunts.
But did you get to do any of your own stunts?
Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
Well usually people say no, so I was going to say, or do you want
to speak? we well, I for myself, I arrived
to Spain and then Then, pretty much immediately.
After quarantine was just well, even during quarantine cuz we
still had to do like a 14 day, quarantine, When we arrive in a
country. So, during quarantine, it was
like working out strength training like like really
working out. Like, I got there I was
jet-lagged the few days later. I had my first like strength
training class and I did like this, you're going to hotel
room, right? So there's not exactly many
places where you can see like that.
Roundhouse kicks unless you want to break a lamp and your foot,
but there was a little today outside and this was in like
July in Madrid. So it's like, you know, 100
degrees outside and the Sun hits the debts like at midday full-on
and I think we started at like 10:00 and there were still some
shade and I was trying to do like a, we were on the zoo.
Like, I had my computer up on the table, so the trainer could
could Monica. She was amazing.
So she could see what I was doing.
And I was outside in the is like leggings and shit.
And it was just so hot that we were doing some Pilates and,
and, and cardio. And I just, I would like, I
could sit down. I think I'm gonna pass out, but
they really, really trained us for the first, like, three weeks
before we started shooting, they it was a lot of training.
I mean, It inspired me to start training again because I was
like, holy shit. There's actually like results.
Like I don't just feel unfit and week at that was that that
realization came after a few times and faster for almost
passing out. Sure.
But after that, we started, when we were out of quarantine, which
are going to the sun warehouse and like they taught us all the
choreography that we were going to do and there's a great fight.
I forget which episode it's and because it's been such a long
time but there's a great fight that you'll see that takes place
in a church that is like 80% us actors doing the fight.
So awesome. Oh yeah.
That's going to be. That's going to be my favorite
bite of student to. I can already tell it's just so
excited a large scale and Yeah, I want to fight people.
Hey Caitlin, you should do whatever makes you happy.
Baby steps. Know what?
I started practicing with the all the throwing knives and the
shuriken and everything. I think it was, it was our first
day of shooting all together on season one.
And we're shooting the fight in the hallway at Arctic with when
the tarrasque appears. And there's a point where I have
to do this, like, spin jump thing and I like, throw a shirt
and and it hits the DP right in the forehead because he was
wriggling around you. As I did name for the camera and
I was like you're making a horrible mistake.
No. I mean you were on target.
I was I was on target. That was it?
Yeah, yeah. They said terrible.
Terrible thing to say because those cameras are expensive.
I don't know, it was like a really small rubber things.
I wouldn't have broken it anyway but I mean, if it hits human
flesh that out, Heart High Enough speed, I have no there's
no telling what I could have done, they got it.
Isn't his eye, you know? Like I felt like I would have
sucked. Yeah, uh, yeah, they've got, it
didn't happen but but yes that were just training is important.
Always always pointed other people.
It's not a boomerang. Thankfully, no.
But the Deep. He's okay.
And the sea was beautiful. A soyuz great, we're great
friends. Start of a great friendship.
I mean if you hit me in the head with something I want to be
friends with you to see how it is, you know.
All right. So speaking of like, I guess
relationships is the weirdest segue ever ever but we're going
to go with it. How did you see the relationship
between Beatrice and Ava from when they first meet until the
end of season one? Evolution of that.
Well, when they first meet, I think Ava's like, oh my God,
what's happening? And Beatrice is like oh my God.
And then by the end of the season Beatrice is like oh my
God and Ava's still like, oh my God, what's going on?
She's like, I think she finds that she finds a friend in
Beatrice someone who she knows, she could trust, which takes her
a while understandably that to trust any of us.
Because I mean, if somebody told you, you had a magical artifact
in your back and you're now the savior of the universe.
You would probably think twice before that.
Yes, I sign up for this but Yeah, I think in the beginning
Beatrice thinks of like, there's this scene where she puts the
tranquilizer in her neck, and I think that all of that is like,
Beatrice thinks Ava, is kind of a means to an end in the
beginning. She's just another thing that
has befallen to place in order for the Halo to get where it
belongs. But I think straight from the
beginning Ava kind of represents a lot of this freedoms that that
Beatrice has always wanted to happen and even though she's
kind of locked that desire away and be like, I don't need that.
I have all of this. It starts to kind of eat away at
her being like, but what if I could have that and and
obviously, her job is there to be there to support Ava.
And she does that to the best of her ability, just like she does
anything else, but when does it kind of go over the point?
This is just me doing a job. I think we start to see that a
little bit that towards the end of season one where she can't
quite recognize what it is yet, but some things going on.
Don't be on below the surface. Test.
But I think through season one Ava becomes.
You know, if not the most important than one of the most
important people than in Beatrice's life enough, quite a
big jump from being a means to an end and the beginning.
Yeah, well said. It's been known to happen.
So, big, big gear switch? But are we going to find
anything more? Anything more about where
Michael went? After he went through the
portal, Yes. Thank you.
Yes. Most definitely Caitlin's been
on that for a while. Like I need to know what happens
to Michael. You'll know what happened
freeway like. Oh, I don't think they're
actually going to talk about that next season.
I like, what do you mean that? I'm going to talk about it.
Here. Listen, I'm just went through
the portal. Never I'm just dressed.
It's my like mess with Caitlin our no, it's definite.
No, it's 24/7 to be to be discussed.
For sure. Thank you amazing.
Thank you. Lincoln sleep now.
Thank you. Sorry.
We won't just forget about that went to the Mortal.
I was very concerned about the second.
Whose kid what kids like, kids, okay, what happened?
Okay, well, that just shows how much we don't know about season
two because we haven't seen it yet but everyone else will have
already known. What is happening when they see
this. So this question is not for
them, it's just for us on a scale of 1 to 10.
How gay is season 2? What time do you go?
Yes. Correct.
I mean, well, it gets progressively, definitely, and
implicitly. There we go.
That's a good answer. Bye Caitlyn Caitlyn.
By it gets. It gets progressively gayer as
we go on as like usually does. Obviously, straight in the
beginning, there's a lot of huge, you know, world ending
problems to deal with, so but there's definitely a lot of lot,
of lot of munchie, food for everybody into a mattress on a
little snack. He's an ex.
Excellent way to say that. Yeah, it's Mary alive.
Well, this is coming out after yes.
Yes, o came out well Toya, for the second season, due to
personal reasons, she had to, she had to leave.
So unfortunately, Mary will not be making an appearance in
season two, very sad. She was part of the team.
I think we all feel lost as if it weren't.
So, for the watch, truly, truly real, which it was came as a
complete surprise, but Yes, thank you very much for joining
us. So she's alive.
Okay exactly.
But speaking of the actual season 2.
So in season one it seems like Beatrice is kind of being set up
to have like personal growth a lot in season 2.
So what kind of Journey do we see her go through in the next
season? A Rocky one.
I mean, yeah, like she's as anybody would be after seeing
what happens. Any devout person would be after
seeing what happens in the end of season one.
It's obviously blown everything out of the water and what, and
what pertains to Faith. So, first of all, there's a lot
of questioning of Faith, what to believe in, who to believe in,
obviously what happened with Father Vincent who was one of
the pillars of her life. Betraying them.
So that was not, you know, ideal.
So all of these things that you do No.
But a lot of these new things that thought she thought were
you know the foundations of what she's based her her life on are
not true or not dependable. So she's first of all, going
through that second of all, she's going through, you know?
Ava. Or yeah whatever's going on
there. So that's very that's going to
create a lot of nice awkward awkward situations and a lot of
inner gay Panic for sure. And I'm not only in our but
external as well, which I wasn't doing very funny.
Yeah. Which hopefully will be very in
the comedy. Enjoyable to watch.
Yes, yes. The gay Panic is the comedy know
there's obviously everybody's kind of As the trailer you've
seen the trailer, the trailer kind of hints that everybody's
kind of separated. So we're all having to kind of
find our way back together and figure this problem out so
that's taking a lot of energy and Yeah, I think, I think her
her journey is one of acceptance of what's going on around her.
Her and acceptance that she can't really change it.
Like you can't fix the world. But you can help someone else do
it. It and I think she's really kind
of sitting into that that position is like, I I am able to
help someone else, do it acceptance of her position in
life and and herself kind of through that.
But I think the herself is not something that she's kind of
consciously doing. I think that's he everything
that creeps up on you as it usually does.
You never like, I've accepted myself one day, you just wake up
and you're like yeah I don't feel terrible about myself
anymore. Yeah, Rocky was a great way to
describe all that. Yeah, so many things she's being
exposed to that. She's never been added to handle
before. So yeah, like dancing at a bar?
Yeah. But it's actually a vet trying
to get Beatrice to drink. Yeah, Mike and then we see the
sweat shirt come off at one point.
Yeah, no. Will not playing strip poker we
go there. That was you definitely
He's here with us. She does.
Yeah, we keep her. Okay, there is a lot of support
and love for the a vitreous ship out there.
What was what is it like seeing that in the fandom and have you
ever been a part of something like that before?
I mean, first of all, it's freaking amazing.
I think all of the art. I mean, I haven't.
No, I have all of the art and fanfiction and stuff like that.
I mean, I, I never expected it and I think it's a beautiful
beautiful thing and that I got a lot of really wonderful messages
from people all around the world.
After season one came out saying that, you know they didn't feel
like they had the power to stand up for themselves.
And and seeing first of all, someone who looks a little more
like them and has a similar background to them seeing that
on screen. And really helps them to be able
to find their own, putting a little bit more in life and be
able to come clean and and live true to themselves.
So that was very touching and it kind of cemented to me how
important it was that we did. Did handled the themes that
should be handled in certain ways, certain ways.
When, while we were shooting it, having no idea that this would
be the response. I mean, it really made me
grateful that I was able to be a part of this seeing seeing all
this community of people come together and celebrate something
about themselves. But it isn't even like
obviously, they came together because of the show but it's not
even about the show, you know, it's about their identities and
how they See themselves, and how they see themselves in the
world, and how they relate to the world and being able to be a
part of somebody else's Journey, where they finally have the
courage to be able to see themselves in the world, and to
have a relationship a little bit more with their surroundings.
And and an honest way, I think that's really important to duel
And yes, I wiii have also been part of fandoms before II mean I
started playing when I was like 14.
So it's been a part of many, many over the year.
She gets the fandom. I get the things are going.
I don't we don't often have guests.
Who have been in fandom? Oh yeah, I have to make a
dictionary. Yeah, I've slept on hotel room.
Floors at conventions and The moment with cosplay groups, and,
and reading fanfiction and all that my, that's a part of my
youth. We often have to explain like
the word ship to people. So, yeah.
It is sailing my folks. It is Sailing sailing into the
sea. Yeah.
Well, we are sailing, hopefully sailing.
We're gonna sail that ship. Oh yeah.
That ship is that ship is sailing very strong.
It's not a lot of wind in that sale.
Yeah. The Horizon is coming, trying to
figure out something to say, but you just can't, she's making me
want to ride a fan fiction and put the Horizon is coming as the
title. My God and I'm gonna blame you.
Well, I'm glad to be a inspiration of service, okay?
Bree likes to send us so weird messages and she sent to us not
weird weird but like she just likes to send us videos and one
of them was a video you posted where you're singing a song
about tuna with Alba. What was that all about?
We were deliriously, tired. We were so tired.
There's a, there's another picture of me.
Probably from the same day. Sleeping in a chair like this
between shooting, so I think, oh, I remember now it was
because we were in Seville and we went to this beautiful
restaurant with a bunch of people and it was a rest.
I want that just sells tuna in a multitude of different ways so
you can have tuna in 50 different ways.
So, we had tuna in many, many, many different ways.
And after that we both agreed no more tuna for a while.
Yeah, I mean yeah, I we both do but it was like, you can have
too much of a good thing. Doing anything tonight.
Yeah. Yeah.
I mean I think she was something that you have to indulge in and
like small amounts and then we have a gap in time before you
have tuna. Again, even if you're just
having like one kind of tuna. So I admire you guys for getting
through that much tuna and now the song makes sense.
Yeah, we're like how we get our energy whatever's left of our
manic energy out. We can calm down.
For shooting. So we're not taking the tuna
song just before they say action.
Can we get Camilla to find that on whatever server it's on?
I'll ask that's part of that. There were so many good
bloopers. Like the floors at Arctic are
super slippery and our shoes were also very carefully and
there's a point know where we all come out of the closet when
we're trying to wait a minute. Wait a minute.
Coming into the wall because I would just slide on the floor.
So there's definitely a shot of me.
Just the cameras here and I just clear the camera and it's slam
into the wall. I need you.
I mean not that I want to see like I hit a wall but it sounds
funny. Was it fun?
Yeah, it was definitely a lot of fun.
How much of a badass did you feel like did you feel like a
total badass? There's not one part of the end
where be interesting. It's the the staff and he's the
dude trying to shoot her and she just like redirecting his gun
and different ways that that seen that part of the scene was
like so awesome. Yeah, I definitely watched it
thinking. Wow, if I could actually do this
in real life, I could be anybody.
Yeah, I do anything. I would not fear taxes.
I would not fear the next presidency.
I would not fear anything. Right now, I'm terrified about
politics again. It's about Hope free this work
on your baton skills. Well we haven't maybe when we
see Michelle. Okay.
So speaking of other skills can you tell us a little bit about
your history and dance and did that translate in any way to
like play Beatrice? Yeah.
So I started ballet when I was 3 and I 4 for a child.
I took it pretty seriously. And when I was 10, I went to
Moscow, Russia to study ballet at a boarding school.
I was there for four years and then I had a bunch of little
injuries here and there, that was just like, I'm not not going
to be worth it. And I left and decided to become
a doctor. But yes, it definitely like as a
dancer you learn the spatial awareness around you.
It's kind of subconscious that you always know where other
people are standing around you because on stage you have no
mirror. So you need to have that spatial
awareness. So you can keep your place and I
mean, that definitely helps when you're on a film set.
You don't really need to think about If you're blocking
someone, or if you're not blocking someone, because you
already know you see the cameras here, the audience here, I know
where I need to stand to make a nice picture so everybody can be
seeing. Everybody is lit.
I'm not blocking anyone find, you know, in a space that
doesn't hinder anybody else's space.
So definitely in terms of like technique, that's definitely
helped I mean also like it's a, it's a, I think it helped me in
a way that I carry myself in a certain way.
I think my, my movements are not so much anymore, but I
definitely work for Beatrice. It was, it was very important to
you. As always God, perfect, perfect
Rod straight posture, the way that she fights as well.
Like, I was so lucky that I have, and then with my stunt
double on season one, because the way that she moves is also
Very lyrical. Very, very dense.
Like the way that she fights, so it was never much of a.
There was never much of a difference between the way we to
move. So, yeah, I think it definitely
helps. Yeah.
I wondered because then when I, when I saw, when I watched
season 1, I thought, wow, she's has a certain way of moving
through these fight scenes and then when I was doing some
research and found out, you did Mel a it was like that makes
sense now. Yeah.
So it's also because there's a rhythm to everything, there's a
rhythm to speech, there's a rhythm to every scene, there's a
rhythm to movement and there, Are certain rhythms that work
and then there are certain rooms that either make a comedy or
just don't don't work at all. So that's I think definitely
being around a lot of music, like I played the piano and the
violin as well when I was a child.
So I think being a lot of around, a lot of music and they
didn't do, there's a lot of things I can do.
That's the first thing that came to mind.
So yeah, being around. A lot of movement and music and
connecting those two and seeing seeing the rhythms that work in
The rhythms that don't and also being in in drama school.
Then like studying a lot of these great plays and seeing the
rhythms within the texts, are you kind of learn to follow
what's written in a way that it's not?
Just like you say the words that ring that are written on the
page. But there's a certain Rhythm to
how people Converse and when you change that Rhythm, you change
the meaning of the conversation. So it's playing with subtext a
lot. There was a mention of
children's theater on your Spotlight profile.
What was your experience with that Children's Theater is
ready? Is the toughest thing to do.
I think I think anybody who wants to become an actor has to
do children's theater at least once because it's so hard
because it's I'm not equating children to animals here.
I'm just perfect pressing that but it It's almost like acting
in front of puppies because you have to be keeping their
attention. Because children are so curious
about the world that they're always like, what is this, what
is that very easily distracted. So you need to really be present
because like with animals, if you're present with them,
they'll pay attention to you. They'll give you their their,
their respect, the same thing with children.
If you're not present with children, they're just going to
go do something else. So as an actor you have to be
when you're acting you have to be present with your Scene
partner with everybody else in involved.
And I mean, children, theaters like a Gladiators.
It's like, you know, you have. Are you entertained?
Yes. Yeah, it's tough.
But I mean, it's also very rewarding when you do a good
show and you see that everybody's, you know, kept
their but song, they're a little feets and and what has been
engaged through the show. It's, it's like a nice Feeling
like okay, I've done something good rather than just being
like, Oh no, I'm a failure. And then leaving the stage to
the crying of crying of school-aged children.
Was it did a show for children and I was a cow.
And just I like one little children child commits.
They can I take a photo with you like, oh, okay.
So people actually paid attention to the cow who had no
lines except in a very engaging cow.
There's nothing nothing to be ashamed about there.
Yeah. Yeah, you can tell from the
picture. Yeah, I have a picture of me as
the couch is like, crying. As I can.
It's I would be changed. All right Bri.
So speaking of your many talents, we see that you have
some really cool sports and hobbies that you enjoy.
So first, how did you get into making costumes for like
cosplay? Way and Etc and going.
No, you go ahead, you're good. Okay so I got into making
clothes. First of all, by well I mean I
was that kid who like my grandmother sewed and I thought
that was awesome. So then I got like a little tiny
toy sewing machine. When I was like six or seven and
then started making really, really really bad doll clothes.
Until I realized that I can make really really really bad clothes
for myself but then I when I left ballet, I kind of went
through a period. I was playing a lot of piano, I
didn't really know what I want to do with my life so I was home
schooling and I was at home a lot and I was like watching a
lot of anime. As you do and I was like, damn I
could try and make one of these costumes.
So I did kind of taught myself to draft patterns and all that
and then it's kind of all kind of flew off the rails from there
and it became a complete Obsession and and I would stay
up all night and just make costumes and think about the
different different things that I could could do with a sewing
machine. And I mean, I think it really
gave me something to live for for a while until I until I got
into. To college sounds like least I
can do this. That's quite a skill.
Yeah. Like looking through your
photos. I was like, damn, like I could
never imagine even coming up like mentally coming up with how
to do that or where to start so yeah I don't know.
I really let's look Ahsha. You're really good.
Yeah, there they are. My prized possessions.
They're sitting somewhere in a storage unit Gathering dust and
hopefully when I die they'll become a part of my estate.
Somebody will not I wanted money so my children can live.
Yeah plans. Yeah but no there in the
beginning I definitely was more like I'm going to make this
characters costume and then I was like, oh no I can actually
like design stuff out of my brain.
But it's like, I'm definitely since ever since being a kid at
slumped like geometry and shapes and there's just something
interesting about like seeing a shape of a quote of a piece of
clothing and then just being able to like deconstruct and
like it's 3D and then you kind of just like, lay it flat and
then you see the pattern come out.
She gave a lot of mistakes. Oh, I love.
I'm thinking of also like what's my favorite one to wear?
Because a lot of them are really uncomfortable.
I think, I think my favorite one is one I made for.
We had like a Shakespeare cosplay group because we're
nerds, I love and I made it. I made a made a costume for
Hamlet which was really dramatic and sudden you're like, very
overly dramatic just like Hamlet and Very dark and fancy because
when you're a prince and you're having a tough time, you got to
dress the part. It seemed oh, Hamlet is ancient
emo emo hair. I love that one.
Yeah, that was the one that like immediately, hello Hamlet.
Okay, moving on from Hamlet and Caitlyn laughing at me to
surfing. Yeah. so looks like fun I would
kill, I would die immediately, but Yeah.
Like you're having fun out there.
It is. A lot of fun.
It's very hard but I started during covid because I was like
well that's very hard to get Fabrics.
You know, you kind of have to go out and touch them and then
decide which one you want. So it's very like I didn't
really want to order a bunch of stuff online, just to have to
send it back. So I was like, I'm just going to
find a different hobby to hyper-focus on.
And so, I started surfing. And now I mean it's the longest
living like full-on. Like I'm not doing any other
Hobbies. I'm just doing that very fun.
It takes you around the world like I can my thirst out in
Spain and in the north of Spain and I was in Puerto Rico last
winter and yeah. It's fun, but it's very hard.
It feels like being in a car crash constantly.
When you hate it, it's not for the faint of heart.
Please put it that way. Yeah.
I just can't try to learn it reading I started when I started
I do I did longboarding but now I only show up for nice.
Yeah I've gone over to the dark side.
Side. Yeah, even know what that means.
The long boards are anything pretty much anything over 8 feet
long and short boards are pretty much anything.
Under, I don't want to like get crucified by the entire surfing
Community but under six foot five I think that's so anything
between six. Foot five and eight foot snot.
That's like a mid-length. No, no.
There's there's an, I'm sorry. Yeah, there's nothing.
No, it's okay. Now there's a, there's a
mid-length or fun board category.
That's like you're a little bit. You want to make more radical
turns you want to do a little bit more of a little more turns
and different kind of Surfing than what you would do with a
long board with a long board. If you want to stay on a long
board, you'll start to like you want to step on the board and
like go all the way to the front and do all that stuff.
But it's just it's just a different type of Surfing.
So everybody just kind of everybody has different boards
depending on what kind of Surfing they want to do.
And to recording is like the most like aggressive form.
Yeah, basically it's easier to get past the break point with
the. Yeah, the waves with the short
board. Yeah, I was at a point where I
was dragging like a 9-foot longboard out into the break and
I was just like, I'm just gonna swim.
I'm just going to drag. Yeah.
And I'm just gonna flame out. It's like I don't want to, I
don't want to deal with this anymore.
I had that happen to me when I was learning how to log board.
I was like, this is so much work.
I didn't even get Out there because the board service is and
is huge. A, you're just sorry.
I don't it's too much work. But damn yeah.
And then like repairing any bigger like you're getting even
if you're not holding on to your board, like, if you check that,
there's no one behind you. Let it go.
You're you've lost it the way, the taken it out of your hand.
It's like the way the lat, and it's a large surface area.
That's just being dragged by the water and you're just there
being dragged by the water to it.
Yeah, you're right. Underwater you're fine.
It's fine, I'm fine. Everything's come point.
So what the scoreboard it's not that bad like you got one
person, it's like it's not that bad.
More work. But I would just, yeah, totally.
But super fun hobby and get to be outside.
Its really nice. Yeah, yeah.
Water by Caitlin Caitlin. I don't like it.
We must find Star left. See, there's like a divided.
Does like the or and I are the sports lesbians.
And Caitlyn is the theater lesbian?
Yeah, theater didn't singing, right.
So that transitions into our next segment in no way shape or
form, but we're just gonna go for it.
Okay. So thank you for all your
Insight, and all of your really thoughtful answers to our
questions for this next section. We're just going to add.
We're almost at the end. We're just going to ask you a
couple of like rapid fire type. Would you rather questions?
Would you can elaborate on if you want to or not just leave it
as it is. So alright the first one of
course I can take my question that they make me laugh.
So first would you rather? Would you rather get the sex
talk from Ava or Lilith? Ava.
I mean, same. Yeah.
I feel really smart would end up in yelling at me, scarring.
You feel like? Yeah.
Like why don't you understand and simple?
I love it. I knew you were gonna.
All right. So would you rather be trapped
in a tomb for With a drill or Mother Superior and on a bad
day. Mother Superior not a bad day.
Because it's me. She can't put her hand inside my
chest, cavity. Yeah.
Or anywhere else breaker. Exactly.
Yeah. Because grabbing someone's the
inside of someone's chest, should be consensual.
Yes, most definitely right oven-baked.
Okay. Would you rather be stuck in a
wall forever with only your head outside, or paralyzed?
Sorry. Wait, so I'm not hungry Lions.
I'm not in the wall. Well, I mean if you're stuck in
the Then I would rather be
paralyzed. It was late when we were making
these questions. It was Brian me and very tired,
long live, my life and be taken places and enjoy myself like
pretty normally. But if I was stuck, I just one
of those things would happen. Somebody would have to put a
video screen in front of me like this.
Let's go on. Yeah.
Here's literally, like put on shows that you do.
Want to watch, that's awful. Yeah, I don't know if you've
seen Twitches to at all, but like that movie someone's just
like, literally stuck in along. That's what I thought of like,
you could just like stare at people.
Just follow them down, the hall and creep amount.
Can you imagine somebody? You just walking past a big
block and then all the sudden somebody's hand turns, Wow,
let's not imagine that. We'll move on to the next
question nightmares. Sorry everyone at home nightmare
fuel. Okay.
So I guess this kind of ghost the nightmares.
Would you rather fight a true asked?
Even using only a spatula or a pope on the Rope?
I don't know what that is. Okay.
Pope on a rope is literally this soap.
It's a soap that looks like the pope and it's on a rope.
So you can like Make it an even more interesting in the
bathroom. Yeah, so you can make it even So
you got a spatula or Pope on a rope.
I mean, maybe the pope on a rope because if I said that, I
defeated a track with a probe on the Rope, I feel like it's more
impressive than I, if I defeated the dress with the spatula, then
you can definitely do anything, right.
Yeah. I mean, and you'd score a lot of
points in the church. I imagine.
Yeah, I don't even know what the Pope.
You got to Market yourself, you know?
Yeah. He was slippery.
And anyway, I figured it was considering it exists.
I'll send you a picture. Okay.
So would you rather be on the run with Ava or stuck in the
convent as a nun? As of the non Warrior kind on
the run with Ava Me duh. Yeah.
Anything freedom on the routing. Yeah.
With Ava. Especially is Wily?
Yeah I mean I would too. Yeah.
Well she actually is pretty good.
She's a big Ava, is cute fan. Yeah, she is just saying but
that's not the point of this conversation.
I meet you. Oh my God.
Me yeah, I know. I think she is.
Anyway, it was very nice. Getting to meet you but before
we wrap up, do you have any final words?
Not last words. What?
Final words. I did any final words
and it is a very slow burning kind of feeling through the
second season. But Something good always be end
of the rainbow The Horizon. I think we're back to the game.
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