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And Sasha means defender means you're like defender of the
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I'm I Rojas, what's up?
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I'm Jessica Flores and I'm and welcome back to girl.
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So we missed you, we missed you.
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You were so career is.
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Ivanna, how do you feel?
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I feel like things are like lining up and instead of me pushing
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towards it, they're like falling into place after working
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So I'm just kind of like taking the, the opportunities as they
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go and going with it.
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And I finally feel prepared and ready for it like I'm not scared
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or I'm not like, oh, can I do this thing?
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Oh, I could do this.
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And I like I like that.
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Somebody told me yesterday that I have fear of like I keep,
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you know, the universe listens to what you say.
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And lately I've kind of been like, I'm not ready yet, I'm not
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Just give me five more minutes.
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And then so I was what we were talking about behind the scenes
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like, you know, just preparing yourself for these projects
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that are coming out.
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Do you ever feel like, you know, like an existential outer
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Like this is so surreal because you're in a movie, you're about
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to be in a movie on a TV show?
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I like, do you feel um I don't know, I was, I'm sitting in the
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trailer and next to me is Elizabeth Banks getting her makeup
01:19
done, like just chilling with her feet up talking to the makeup
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and I'm sitting here like, how did I, how did I get here like
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Like, it's just a normal day in Hollywood.
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But I mean, I know exactly how I got here a lot of years auditioning
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and work and training, but it does feel surreal all the time
01:34
And then you're also like apart from the fact that you're now
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releasing the success that you're wanting rightfully.
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So, I mean, also like, girl I read something on your story.
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So launch, launch, I had a little soft launch with the guy that
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I've been dating for for a bit.
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Now, is it the first time that I ever posted?
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I mean, also granted me with the Laker game.
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It was not like anything romantic or crazy fun of the game.
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I had a great weekend and I had I, I like posted, I was like, I
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took, I was like, should I, should I post it to all of us too?
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I've never posted a guy on Instagram ever in my life.
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And if I do it, like, in the background, it looks like part of
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But I just haven't been ready behind a tree.
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But I just haven't been ready or like, proud.
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I feel like the first time I was like, you know what I'm like
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And the funny part was that I look at him and he was like, he took
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probably one second to be post.
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He's like, you better, I better post before you change your
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Like he got so excited.
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He said he was all like the rest of the day, like so happy that
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I like was proud to show him and I didn't expect that reaction
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So it was cool to know that like what you think you're more scared
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of is like people can react differently and think like, wow
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this makes it better.
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It was like it like strengthen our bond as corny as it is like
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you know, just I mean, posting on honestly, like people don't
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think it is a big deal but when you're in the limelight, like
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you are, it is a big deal but you are, you have followers, you
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have people that are paying attention to what you're doing
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So it is something that you're like, ok, this is for real because
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you have to think the people that are following you, they're
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going to notice if you're not posting them anymore.
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Like people get and and also in a personal way.
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You also wouldn't post something if you weren't kind of like
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not serious, but you didn't take it seriously.
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Like, you don't want somebody to be like, oh, you guys aren't
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together anymore, like me posting, that was kind of like,
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OK, I'm committed to this right now.
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Do you feel like, oh people, like, let's say people break up
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do you feel like they owe the audience an explanation?
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Like, hey, everybody, we broke up or you think they have the
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right to I think no, no, you don't owe anybody anything.
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But I will say for the couples that go on social media and they're
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very much, it's like a couple brand together, they make the
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blogs together, they have like their youtube pages or whatever
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Then it's kind of like, OK, well, now people are emotionally
03:45
You don't owe anybody anything.
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But it's kind of like one of those people want to know, you know
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and I have a question.
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If you break up with a person, you delete the photos, you keep
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I think you take a grace period because you also don't want
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to, you know, I like that that you get a credit card.
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These feelings, obviously, it depends how it ended.
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You wanna be like I don't exist but like, I think it takes a little
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time and then eventually you, you filter it out because you
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you keep that energy there it stays and people notice that
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and some people won't approach you or come to you if like, they
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didn't give a boyfriend.
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So I've been, I just, I've been struggling with the internet
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I'm not an internet girl.
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I feel like the rules on the internet are always changing.
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Like you got to have 30 seconds now.
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I'm like, I just want to post, I just want to post my meme.
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Like I don't care about the algorithm, it's picking up.
04:29
But some people like, and then I just feel like I've started
04:32
on Instagram over so many times.
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I'm like, I'm rebranding, I'm rebranding and it's kind of
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like messing up my momentum.
04:37
I actually have a question.
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I need some advice about something.
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Now that I'm in this situation, I've noticed that the way that
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I deliver things can come off as aggressive, like to, to the
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person that I'm speaking to aggressive or like in a negative
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way, but my intention is very positive.
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So I'm wondering if you guys have any advice because I, because
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I have a feeling and I think it's this way and I'm like, you know
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I'll say it the way I do, but it's only with good intentions
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and it only to make this person, you know, be aware of something
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Like how can I do it or deliver it in a way that isn't so blunt
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But I don't really know that's just my personality, you know
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I have the same question so you have to answer it.
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Not because I say you answer things with a lot of grace you like
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you think about them.
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It's always nice and sweet.
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Well, OK, I will say it's really important being honest with
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people if you guys have yes men and, and, and I'm happy you guys
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aren't you guys whenever I brought something, you guys support
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it, but you guys will be like, yes, maybe not or like, you know
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I think you, it's always about being honest with your friends
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You're only doing your friends a disservice if you're lying
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to them or enabling them doing toxic things.
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I think at the end of the day, like I think we had talked about
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Every single person is raised in from a different environment
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different shoes, they see the world in a completely different
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So taking it into consideration if you have advice for someone
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maybe they were brought up in a certain way.
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They have traumas they haven't healed from.
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So saying, you know what I'm seeing it from this lens where
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maybe I'm a little bit more healed or I have like a different
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This is what I feel.
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I think it's about understanding and then the delivery and
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then the tone, the tone, my voice is very deep and aggressive
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and like, I can't be like, well, I just think that I don't have
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no self awareness of my tone.
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Like I really don't like, I'm just like, I've been getting
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a lot of arguments lately.
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I don't know if it was mercury retrograde or just like me.
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But I'm just like, you know, this is what I want done and I just
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like people, like, you can say it a different way.
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I'm like, why do I need to create all these buffers when I'm
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just letting you know, like I just want to get this thing done
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So I mean, you talk really, I've never been offended by anything
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You're very, you're not nice.
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Well, yeah, maybe, maybe it's a Latina and me, I just come off
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speaking fast and aggressive and kind of crazy people.
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I think you're like in Spanish when you speak like it's like
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a humorous aggressiveness.
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But then when I translate in English, I sound like a crazy,
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I'm having the same issue.
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But I mean, I would prefer having friends like that than a friend
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That's just kind of like, yeah.
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Keep, keep up with your, you know, toxic behavior.
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Jezz, like, keep enabling it.
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I'd rather somebody tell me sternly, you know, but, but again
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some people, not everybody has a tough skin and I will say
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I moved in with my roommate in September and like we've known
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her since high school, but now we're really getting to know
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And I think at the beginning when I would say things, she would
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take it a little bit personally and kind of be like, whoa.
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And now I see the thing and she starts laughing and she's like
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But because she knows that behind my tone and my way of speaking
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is really just a good, you know, person underneath.
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I hate when people get really sensitive, someone called me
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And I was just like, am I am I, I don't think I'm just honest,
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like I'm literally like super honest, I'm like, you know,
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I don't know, I just feel like I'm honest and some people take
07:39
But how old did your mom raise you?
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Is she like super like your parents, my parents were straight
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She said you're not going out tonight.
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Tough skin, I guess to somebody that we have on our as a guest
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Uh It is a huge deal.
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It is the first Latina supergirl.
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Her name is Sasha and it's so dope.
08:11
She's gonna be on our show talking about everything Supergirl
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everything, how she got here.
08:16
And it's just so nice to have another strong, amazing woman
08:19
here, the one and only Sasha guy in the house, everybody, every
08:28
time someone walks into my apartment, I always make noise
08:31
Like what kind of noise?
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No I was just being I wanted to, I wanted to let our guests know
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that I took the sat, I, that I, that I don't know if I did, it doesn't
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So I'm like, wait a minute.
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But I'm sorry, I don't know.
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It, it's actually a funny story because I, so I auditioned
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for, it's a really long story, but I auditioned for college
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to, so I grew up singing and I auditioned to this college and
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we didn't really, like, we didn't have a lot of money.
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And so it was like, you know, I was walking in and my audition
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and I, I walked down and I was like, I'm gonna, I would call him
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I'd be like, so am I in, so am I in and then, like, eventually
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they call me and they're like, you're not accepted.
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And I, like, it was like, I had, you know, I never felt a heartbreak
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at that time, but I was doing the most, you know, like I was eating
09:23
like a bucket of ice scream.
09:24
Like I was like, this is what I, I wanna.
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And so the following day I took my mom and my brother to school
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and work and I went to this, um, do you guys, have you been, have
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you been in Miami at all?
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Have, you know, like the Wynwood District?
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There's a coffee shop.
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Yeah, there's a coffee shop there.
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It used to be like a dead zone.
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But I'm, I, I love coffee and I called every single college
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and everybody was like, no, it's too late.
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And I called the college again and I was like, you need to let
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The college that rejected me.
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I was like, you have to let me in.
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They're like, you can't, you have to wait a whole year to audition
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I was like, I need another audition.
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You don't understand.
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Like, I didn't have money.
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Like I, how am I supposed to know?
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You're the one that's supposed to teach me, you know, and I
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And after an hour of me being on the phone, he's like, fine.
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You have an audition in a month, don't let me down.
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And so the pressure, the pressure.
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So I really prepared.
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I did the audition and I walked out of there and I just didn't
10:22
Actually, I sang the song and I did a monologue because it was
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a performing arts degree.
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So I, I, yeah, and I um I, I did the audition and I was like, I don't
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know, but I, I left it the first time I was calling every day
10:33
and I left it, I was like, whatever the universe wants, it's
10:38
So my sad face, like, I hadn't gotten a call and I was like, I'm
10:40
gonna take the, you're like, so I was like, damn.
10:44
So I like, I was like, I need a number two pencil, you know, I
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absolutely, absolutely.
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So actually the story is I went and took the sats and I have the
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I get home and I go in the shower and my mom was like, oh my God
11:04
number number and I was like, I was like, I don't, I didn't want
11:08
I didn't want to hear another.
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No, you know, so she picks up the phone, I'm like naked in the
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She's like number and so I like get out, put on um a towel and
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I go, hello, like, hey, we're calling from, we just wanted
11:22
to let you know that unfortunately you've been accepted.
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Why would they say I was like, ok and it was great.
11:30
And she, yeah, she went on because she's like, so in the notes
11:34
I see that like you've been really trying to get in and I just
11:38
kind of wanted to give you a heart attack.
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I was like, wait, that heart attack that she gave it to me.
11:44
But at that point, were you already doing a auditions?
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And were you already doing that for you?
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You were just getting started?
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I didn't, yeah, I didn't have like opportunities to do in.
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This was at the time I was in Florida.
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I was in Florida actually.
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This is so interesting.
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Well, it's a different, it's a different we're in right now
12:05
And, and how I got into AM too, was that, that summer, um, this
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kid from my high school posted on Facebook, Facebook Times
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and he was, like, from Hollywood to Hollywood.
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And I was like, what are you going?
12:19
And he, and he was like, no, you belong here.
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And I was like, what do you, what are you talking about it?
12:24
Like you belong, you baby, I admire you calling the admissions
12:28
office and be like, you're gonna let me in.
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I had to, I had to and so does this.
12:32
So how does that, how did that help you now with that?
12:34
I mean, not, I don't know if we address this but we have the first
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Latina super girl in the movie comes out the flashes out in
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July and how did that?
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I mean that was the beginning of your journey, right?
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Sing singing journey, going to going to school, you go to schools
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where you fell in love with the high school.
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Um Well, I've been singing forever writing my own music and
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um it was like it was the the whole goal was vocal training.
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So I was like any school that can train me because I, I've always
13:05
loved singing, but I was like, I need vocal training.
13:07
Like I have to like get elevated and I couldn't afford it.
13:10
So that was like the goal but I had to do a monologue for Yeah
13:17
And the crazy part is that when I did that audition, I picked
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the second time around, I picked this monologue.
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There was just like, I was waitressing at the time and it was
13:25
this girl who was a waitress and she was talking to the love
13:27
of her life and she's like, I gotta go and I gotta, I gotta sing
13:30
and you have to come with me.
13:32
Like please come with me.
13:34
And it was a sad monologue about how he didn't really want to
13:36
but she's like begging him.
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But also saying like, if you don't come, I'm going without
13:39
you because this is like the love of my life and what had happened
13:42
in the audition which is crazy, really?
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Trust the universe is like a real thing is that I picked a really
13:48
a song that was actually harder for me and I cracked.
13:52
So when I was in the room, it was like a song.
13:54
So I'm like dancing, you know, Latina in Miami.
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I'm like, what was it?
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Um It was like uh raise the roof, it's like lock the doors and
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And so I did it and this is the serendipitous thing is that in
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the not that safe couch over here apparently.
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Um But yeah, II I, what I, and um I got really sad and I was like
14:29
So by the time I finished, you had to do this thing back in the
14:33
day where you had to turn around, I was heartbroken.
14:36
So the monologue became like the most real thing in the world
14:39
So I was sobbing and because I was just like, I need, this is
14:43
what my like body is.
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I knew I've always known it's like a thing in my, my body and
14:49
it's like this is what I have to do.
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So it was just, it was, yeah.
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And I remember looking up and the uh the judge was like, but
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I didn't, I couldn't process that.
15:01
Like I was like, I fucked up that this is it.
15:04
Oh you, you took it as like that's a negative.
15:07
Well, no, the crack.
15:07
I couldn't stop thinking about the crack because I never acted
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I was a singer, right?
15:11
I never acted before.
15:14
And so I did this thing where like, you know, we get out and I
15:18
was like, OK, I'm gonna, and I'm like, no, we're staying.
15:20
She was like, what do you mean?
15:21
I was like, we're staying until he comes out and I'm gonna thank
15:24
him because he, he because he did this thing where he like um
15:28
did some scales with me as opposed to the first judge.
15:31
Like didn't even look at me the whole time and I walk out, I actually
15:35
ended up meeting him in New York City when I did my bi coastal
15:39
And I was like, thank you so much and I go, um, thank you for your
15:42
You know, I was like, thank you so much.
15:44
He goes, wow, you're a phenomenal actress.
15:48
So I'm like, no, I'm a singer.
15:51
Yeah, he's like, he's like, no, like, where do you study?
15:54
I'm like, study what?
15:57
And I was like, well, I don't study acting.
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He's like, you don't, I was like, no, I'm a singer and I like
16:03
you know, I was young, I'm like, bro, I'm a, what are you talking
16:07
And um and he was like, dad needs a little help.
16:09
I was like, I know that's why I'm here.
16:11
And um anyways, I was, no, this is really interesting.
16:20
I feel like all of us are doing our own, our own audition processes
16:24
Do you know when you get a role or like, do you have a feeling
16:27
because I guess from that experience, you like no idea.
16:31
I, I know when something feels very authentic to me and in my
16:37
body as opposed to something that I'm auditioning for and
16:40
I'm like, I could not get this easily.
16:41
So with Supergirl, what was it that you felt like that you had
16:44
most in common with that character?
16:46
What was it that you were, there was 400 people that are, for
16:49
You know, I didn't know who it was.
16:51
I signed a contract.
16:53
I signed my life away and I didn't know who I was playing.
16:56
You didn't know who you were but you knew you were gonna be in
16:58
Yeah, I signed, I went, I don't know who I'm playing.
17:01
Oh, they don't tell you?
17:02
Uh, not for this, it was such a big character that they were
17:05
really protecting her.
17:07
Um I knew so I had like three auditions in one day and it was untitled
17:11
Warner Brothers film dark character.
17:15
Um I give you the description but yeah, but, but Supergirl
17:18
is naturally not a dark character.
17:21
And then in the audition, I had a gun.
17:22
Supergirl doesn't carry guns.
17:24
They were, they were going, they, I was confused but it didn't
17:28
really matter because for me at the time, like when I just got
17:31
the audition, it was like dark character, you know, like these
17:34
like things about her, it was an action movie.
17:37
That's another thing in college.
17:39
I fell in love with stunts.
17:40
Um And so there was a lot of things in it, out of all the three
17:45
of them I remember at the time um my friend was helping me with
17:48
the tapes and he was like, this is so you and I was like, I know
17:50
it's so good and my manager called me and she's like, you need
17:53
to get a backdrop for this one because I would never do like
17:55
a backdrop and then I was like, can I get a prop gun?
17:59
No, like a, like a gray instead of a wall?
18:02
Like a, like a, you know, is the only time I've ever used, um
18:08
Yeah, I like, I like, ok backdrop but I like to check but I don't
18:13
I don't, I, I still do, I don't, you know, um but yeah, so I, I
18:16
was like, can I get a prop gun?
18:17
And she's like, yeah, so I went on Amazon and got like an air
18:19
pressure gun and I learned because she had a gun and she was
18:22
like pretty much like kind of an assassin.
18:24
I thought it was like, it gave like atomic blonde vibes, you
18:28
Like that's the vibe.
18:30
And so I was like, I'm ready for this and I did the audition and
18:32
it was like a couple of takes.
18:34
He was like, you're perfect in that, you know, it's funny because
18:36
the ones that are fit the best for you take less time, it just
18:40
aligned like they just know they know right away.
18:43
Well, no, in your body as an actor, you know, you sometimes
18:46
they give you uh sides and you're like, I can't get, why am I
18:48
forgetting this line?
18:50
Why can't, I like, you know, and sometimes I know by just me
18:53
reading the script where I'm like, I can't play this character
18:56
It's not authentic to who I am.
18:58
How did you feel about your young and the restless role?
19:00
Did you feel authentic to that role?
19:04
Yeah, I'm trying to remember that.
19:06
You like so long ago.
19:08
Yeah, we was doing homework.
19:10
That was in the back.
19:17
What kind of homework?
19:18
I, we know your social security.
19:24
She's like, no, no, no.
19:25
I mean, I can't remember a lot but I think it was just like, I
19:29
think Lola, I mean, look, Lolo was like a tough girl who came
19:34
Um, and she just, you know, she was in a food truck at the beginning
19:37
of the soap opera and I, I know what that's like, like, I know
19:39
what that's like to not really have much and, and really, like
19:42
own your shit and, and, like, really try to get to a place and
19:46
you know, at the end of the show really, at the end of my journey
19:48
like, she was a Michelin star chef with her own restaurant
19:51
you know, and I think that that's like a really cool thing
19:54
is that like, you know, II I was proud of the fact that there
19:57
was a Latina portrayed in a soap opera that's been going on
20:03
Um as a, as a, as a person of success and as a person of, of, of
20:11
you know what I mean?
20:12
They looked in the, in a good light, like, it's not like a maid
20:14
or it's not like a janitor.
20:15
It's like somebody who has something worth so much more than
20:21
The type of the stereotype.
20:23
And so I think I related a lot with her in that way where she was
20:26
just like, I'm she, yeah, she was also like, really sassy and
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took shit from, from no one.
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Like her first scene was like with this who she ends up marrying
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at the, at the, you know, but her first scene was uh with Michael
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He was my husband, my onset husband and she was just like, not
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And he's like, can I have and she was like, what do you mean?
20:45
Like she was very like, you know, like, you know, a respectable
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woman like there were parts of you in her.
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Always I think, yeah, I think when I, when I choose to be in things
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um obviously that was a very different situation with, with
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y and I like, I was so fucking broke at around that time and I
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was auditioning crazy and I was like, man, but um so grateful
21:10
you know, I really like, that was the first time when I got
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It was the first time that I was able to walk into a supermarket
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Whenever I wanted without like thinking about it.
21:19
I can't imagine how like nerve wracking your first big gig
21:23
So I come from like a radio background so completely different
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And the first time I was on radio was radio Disney.
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I had 00 right experience.
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And I, I was like, how is this my life right now for my audition
21:34
it was like a month long audition.
21:36
And I just remember I wanted to throw up, I think I actually
21:38
did throw up all my weight to the studio of how my, of my nerves
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I, but it's the truth.
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I was literally shaking, nervous.
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Was that like the case for you or did you feel like a sense of
21:47
Well, you don't, they don't tell you, but I was doing 45 pages
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Like I was memorizing 45 pages a night and, and it was crazy
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too because they were trying out this new thing when I got there
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And the new thing was that we were shooting outside in a food
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truck because I was in a food truck.
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So they're like, we're gonna go crazy.
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But I didn't know any better.
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And so we walked in there and everybody, it was like everyone
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was trying to get used to it.
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Um So I was like, is it me?
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And they're like, no, it's camera but it's great.
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It's a wild, especially soap operas.
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I would say it feels a lot like live theater.
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Wonder, like three takes.
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Someone's lacking someone's, you're memorizing 45 pages
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and three takes is like the max and you, you don't rehearse
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But that must have really prepared you for what you're doing
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It's different though, you know, like I go in right now totally
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It is a, a learning ground but it's so different now.
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It's like now you, you realize honestly that sometimes even
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learning a page is actually harder because now you're touched
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Well, well, more so that like it's so little lines that sometimes
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you're like, whoa, you know, like it's a different experience
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But yeah, you do, man.
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I used to think like now I have so much more time but I don't know
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I don't know if I felt like I have more time, maybe a little
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bit, but I feel like every production really has a, a tempo
23:09
You know, that is what happened between young and the restless
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and when you got supergirl, like, what was that time for you
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I wasn't, I was young and the restless when you the whole time
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I was, yes, I auditioned for it and I was on Y and R and they were
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like, you're supergirl and then you have to leave.
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I had to leave Y and R uh Lola Rosalez.
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They had, they had to be like, we're dead.
23:33
Her, she's going to Miami.
23:35
So I went and opened up a restaurant in Miami, which is great
23:39
That's a good ending.
23:41
So I feel like I was talking to Ivana too because Ivana's following
23:45
I'm like, does it ever feel like surreal that your dream like
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literally came true?
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Do you ever have like existential crisis?
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Like, yo, this is, this is what I wanted.
23:52
When you saw the super girl uniform hanging in your tree.
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Like like what I would crazy for me.
23:59
The Barbie oh The Barbies, I think they, I think they have her
24:04
Somebody can go get her Barbie girl but I was just actually
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at my towel right before this and they show me how they made
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her, they would show me how they put her hair.
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Um They showed me, oh my God.
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Oh Let's see her, bring her in her.
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I would say this is legendary.
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That's legendary supergirl.
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So how did you guys um get get the like you cut your hair, you
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you kind of pick the, well before, before I picked the, before
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I got the job and the the director called me.
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I know it's so crazy.
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So freaking so crazy.
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Do you know any of the story?
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Like what, what about you, you went today to do the Yeah, I went
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Um It was beautiful.
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It was really emotional.
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This was, this was a big moment for me.
24:54
I, I don't know what happened.
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Somebody sent me a link and I was like, what?
25:00
I didn't know they were being made.
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So I was like, somebody sent me a link and they're like, they're
25:05
And I was like, so I bought it.
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I was like, boom, I bought it.
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You knew it was you.
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Well, somebody sent it to me like there's a barbie owl and I
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was like, I need to buy it.
25:14
So I bought it and they came home and my mom was like, so you get
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a Barbie for you and now for me, oh my God.
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And I was like mom, I was like, let me get it.
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So it's like a limited edition.
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They're only making a certain amount.
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I don't know they're on sale or anybody can get, anybody can
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Please get them because I think it's like such an iconic thing
25:33
Like so I'm interested a click on my head.
25:39
Click on my about the production for something so big like
25:44
How do they prepare you for it?
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Like how does it go?
25:46
How does, how do you go into being supergirl?
25:48
Like you take martial art classes or you, you have your own
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Like, what goes down.
25:51
So, I was, my stunt team was literally, they were like my safe
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haven, believe it or not.
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They were like my happy place.
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Um, I spent five days a week there, two hours a day minimum.
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Um, for seven months.
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Yeah, it's fun, you know, like it was a seven month production
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Um, I was blessed that they pretty much allowed me to do all
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So I, I just had some, a lot of time really to, to, to get in and
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do it and um it was just so much fun.
26:25
Like I, I did so I would do like 30 minutes of stretching.
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It was like a lot of stretching because the harness is really
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like, I had to be flying is the hardest thing.
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Fighting is a piece of cake.
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But you were like flying.
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They have like in the like a studio like this, like just flying
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up in the green screen.
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I, I've never been on a, that's how I was flying.
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I was like, I've been like, I kidding about, we're like, what
26:48
do you, you guys are talking about?
26:52
Like, you know, M CV Awards, like when they have you flying
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through the workshop, I don't know about that.
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I can't remember her performance.
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So it's so there's different rigs, but it's truly like a harness
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Oh, I'm gonna, I'm not gonna say that it was like us like a harness
27:08
and then there's wires, you know, and then they lift you up
27:12
and then you pretty much have to fight the wires because, you
27:16
So the wires are obviously pulling your waist up.
27:21
And if you dangle, that's how you dangle and you have to physically
27:24
Oh, you need core, core, core, core.
27:26
So I was doing a lot of core, all of that.
27:28
I was doing a lot of fight training.
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I was doing flight training.
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I was boxing because I love to box.
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I was jump roping like I was just like training.
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Was a, was a I miss it all the time but it was that I got it.
27:42
So I was like, damn, it's already been two years.
27:45
So I wanted, so you're managing all that while you're also
27:48
Like you're managing like the stunt while you, no, no, no,
27:53
the the doing the ST while you're acting and like tapping into
27:59
There was a lot of like, I remember my, who was my fight coordinator
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He would make me yell every time I hit like boxing when we were
28:05
boxing, he would make me yell, be like, ha ha ha because it's
28:10
like get into emotion and like really in real life, did you
28:13
ever have like a hard moment on set that you were like, fuck
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how can I get into this?
28:18
Like, oh, how did you overcome that or?
28:19
Like, what did you feel?
28:20
Because I'm sure you never been on something that huge before
28:24
But I oddly felt really in place sometimes like I sometimes
28:28
I, I feel like, yeah, I feel like I'm, I am where I am supposed
28:34
to, I'm supposed to be, but I did, I had a moment.
28:36
It's not gonna, I didn't make it to the film.
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I think it was a little violent but I have um I had a, a stunt scene
28:44
Did you guys see the trailer where she like slides in?
28:47
So she was supposed to hit like a lot of people.
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It was a big, big stunt scene.
28:51
It took a week and there was a stunt scene where she like lands
28:54
furiously and she grabs one, there's two guys shooting at
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And it was like 10 moves in one stunt.
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So it was really hard.
29:06
Like I had to holy smoke.
29:08
I, I had to like grab him by the skull, throw him up backhand
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this guy then grab him back.
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It was like this, like it was like 10 moves and it was so overwhelming
29:22
because obviously everyone was, it was a timing thing too
29:26
So like this one guy was being pulled back in wires.
29:29
This one guy was being pushed up in wires and I had a hard, I had
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I was like, this is, this is hard.
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And um I took a second and I cried a little bit because I was,
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I think I, I just really love what I do and I can put, yeah.
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Yeah, I put a lot of like, love and effort into everything and
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I was like, fuck what's going on, you know, and sometimes it's
29:53
so, it's so much more than like just it could be anything.
29:56
I'm just a little hard on myself sometimes and you know, they
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came in and they were like, you got, this was there anybody
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on set that you would go to during those times?
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Like, do they have any Craig?
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Well, no, she was just my stunt um coach, she was just my, my
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right hand woman the whole time that I was there and she was
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like, your name is Sasha.
30:13
Sasha means defender means you're like defender of the streets
30:18
Like you're literally like helping the people on the streets
30:21
and now you represent at least so emotional to me.
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That's what it means.
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And my, like the question I have for you is that there's so many
30:28
girls that are gonna be looking up to you like you're the defender
30:30
of the street to make Yeah, I wanna cry too because you know
30:33
I'm looking up to you too right now.
30:34
Like this is a dream come true to see this.
30:36
And like, I'm wondering what words do you have for, you know
30:38
the girls watching this?
30:40
Me watching this as they can keep going and like what you did
30:42
to get where you are and to never give up, you know, because
30:44
that's where you're gonna be representing, like a defender
30:47
I think we can do anything.
30:49
And I think don't allow anyone to tell you otherwise because
30:52
there will be so many people telling you that you can't do something
30:55
when we know, we know we know like that we can and, and it's like
31:01
hard because it's a constant reminder of like we can, we can
31:05
But I think take me as a testament that we also belong as one
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of the most like powerful superheroes and in the big screen
31:14
that's fine women and, and, and going into that rapid snaps
31:20
we got, we got the rapid fire questions for you coming up.
31:24
But before we do that, I want to ask one question because you
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know, moms in the Latino culture, they get really excited
31:29
when we do anything.
31:31
I want to know a tattoo.
31:32
That's what I'm saying.
31:33
Like I wanna know when your mom found out about you getting
31:36
this role, like, did she like hit up one of your family?
31:39
Like, are you in Colombia?
31:40
Like, like Colombia Medellin?
31:46
And he's been going to all the malls because there's posters
31:48
So he's been sending my mom himself.
31:49
He's like, look at this one.
31:51
And so my mom's been sending me like my, yes.
31:57
In every in Medellin he's like, look at this one and he's taking
32:03
But no, my mom it is, is, it was actually, you also know that
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Latina moms or, or, or I think people of color parents.
32:13
I think they always want the best for us.
32:18
So they're like, get a real job, right?
32:21
Get be a doctor because they, they don't know better, right
32:24
They want the best for us.
32:25
So they're like, this is where the money goes, right?
32:28
And my mom and I like my God, when I was a little kid, I'd be like
32:31
this is what I'm gonna do and she's like, no, but you need to
32:33
you need to go to college and I did go to college and I have a
32:35
degree but it was for performing arts, you know, and we had
32:38
this constant battle like when I was a kid, just constant where
32:42
I'm like, I'm gonna, I'm gonna be a successful singer and I'm
32:44
gonna, I'm gonna, and you, you know, you know what I mean?
32:46
And we had this constant battle and even growing up and, you
32:49
know, when I was in L A man, I had a hard year.
32:51
I have like when I graduated college I was broke, I was couch
32:55
I was like, anywhere where I could sleep, really, whatever
32:59
friend would open up their door for me.
33:01
I was eating like pasta because, you know, pasta, like 99 cents
33:04
for the sauce and the 99 cents for the, the pasta.
33:07
So I was living off that and at one point my mom, I was living
33:11
in the best situation of that year.
33:13
I was in a living room and, uh, it was just like, are you OK?
33:17
Or like, you know, like it was kind of that thing.
33:19
It was just a constant battle.
33:21
And um there's a constant question of like if this is, you know
33:25
but my mom, my mom, yeah, my mom had her mom, like in college
33:28
I sang once and she was like, oh my God, you got it.
33:32
I'm so, so this is what you're supposed to be meant to do, right
33:35
But it was, it, it was, we have these moments and I know I she's
33:38
now like aware but when I booked the soap and when I booked Supergirl
33:44
she was like, you knew it.
33:48
She's like, I'm sorry, you knew it.
33:52
From a Latina mom, my mom, I'm sorry.
34:01
In the Grammys we saw The Factor Live.
34:04
We were listening to Yeah, that was me in the studio being like
34:07
nobody knows what I'm doing.
34:09
Um That was like, uh yeah, that was kind of like a frustrating
34:12
moment where I was like, I'm just a big perfectionist when
34:15
it comes to music and I've been doing it my whole life and, and
34:17
I wanted to be really good and authentic and it takes time really
34:20
It does, it takes time to find the right people to do it with
34:25
So that was me kind of being like, well, if I'm not gonna drop
34:29
music, then I'm gonna drop this.
34:32
Um, never leave a little, I'm at that place now.
34:35
We're like, ok, it's time.
34:36
So we have something to look forward to because it's when you
34:39
love something you care for something you're gonna take,
34:40
you're gonna take the time to get great.
34:42
So look out for Sasha in your radios and then for right now we
34:47
got the rapid fire wrap up.
34:50
Don't look genuine reaction.
34:53
You know what camera am I supposed to look at that one?
35:02
I've just been looking at you guys since the beginning.
35:15
Wait, are we, are we taking turns or are you gonna take?
35:21
Who's the last person?
35:23
You dm, my little brother.
35:25
Who would you rather have the ability to read minds or what
35:27
would you rather have the ability to read minds or to see into
35:31
Read minds if I could decide when and when not to because that
35:35
would be crazy because I'm like, I don't even care what you're
35:37
thinking, but I'd be hurting my own feelings though too.
35:41
Attractive but unintelligent partner or intelligent but
35:44
less attractive partner.
35:45
We should have both.
35:49
No, no people, guys, listen, we, we deserve both.
35:53
That's, that's right.
35:56
No, no, we're gonna get, we're gonna get, we're gonna get or
36:01
time travel teleportation.
36:04
Center of attention or blend into the crowd depends on the
36:09
Just follow your heart.
36:19
That's good to know.
36:19
I am a Capricorn moon.
36:23
So that really holds, they're grounded in the love department
36:26
Oh yeah, I don't know about that.
36:28
Wait, wait a minute.
36:29
My rising is an area.
36:34
So the power to change the past or the power to shape the future
36:38
power to shape the future, for sure.
36:40
Designer or lifetime free of travel, lifetime free of travel
36:46
Well, thank you so much.
36:51
This is an honor, a true honor that we have the ability to be
36:54
with somebody that represents Latina women in such a strong
36:58
It's just the beginning and we're gonna change so many people's
37:01
lives, but I couldn't do it without you guys.
37:06
Thank you for coming.
37:10
Hi, I'm Jessica Flores and I'm so, I don't know if you saw but
37:26
Ok, you can say I'm so sorry.
37:31
I was, that was a real moment.
37:39
I wish I had that because that was funny.
37:41
That's it for girls.
37:42
Let me tell you, I'm Ivo Rojas, Jessica Flores and I'm your
37:49
legendary comedian and we'll see you on the next episode of
37:58
Thank you for having it.
38:00
You guys are amazing.
38:07
I got a photo when I was a, I got a man.
38:15
No, no, no, no, no, no.
38:17
I, I be talking out loud because I'm with it all the time.
38:22
That's the most uncommon thing do on the over there.
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