WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.960 --> 00:00:03.879 Hello, welcome, Thank you for coming on Private Talk. 2 00:00:03.960 --> 00:00:06.919 I appreciate you taking the time you're busy schedule and 3 00:00:07.200 --> 00:00:08.560 gracing us here at Private Talk. 4 00:00:08.759 --> 00:00:11.199 Thanks for having me. I really appreciate you having me. 5 00:00:11.400 --> 00:00:12.880 Thank you, Thank you, so Private Talk. 6 00:00:12.960 --> 00:00:16.559 She is an actress, a singer, songwriter, danceler, model. You 7 00:00:16.600 --> 00:00:18.800 do it all. You're just a you got it all 8 00:00:18.839 --> 00:00:20.719 going on. So what kind of projects do you have 9 00:00:20.800 --> 00:00:21.600 going on currently? 10 00:00:22.120 --> 00:00:26.079 I'm actually shooting several series for my YouTube, and I 11 00:00:26.120 --> 00:00:29.039 have a show that I'll be featured on on HBO. 12 00:00:29.079 --> 00:00:32.000 I can't say quite yet, but it will be coming out. 13 00:00:32.119 --> 00:00:33.240 I think this fall. 14 00:00:33.200 --> 00:00:35.079 Keeping a tight lip, all right, That means it must 15 00:00:35.119 --> 00:00:37.320 be a big one. It must be really yeah good, 16 00:00:37.359 --> 00:00:38.079 that's exciting. 17 00:00:38.600 --> 00:00:42.560 So what is your favorite? Do you like the more 18 00:00:42.600 --> 00:00:44.119 of the acting, the singing? 19 00:00:44.560 --> 00:00:46.240 What do you I mean, you do it all, but 20 00:00:46.280 --> 00:00:48.200 do you have one that you kind of favor more 21 00:00:48.240 --> 00:00:48.840 than the others? 22 00:00:49.119 --> 00:00:54.200 Honestly, no, I I want to say singing is probably 23 00:00:54.240 --> 00:00:56.399 a bigger passion because it's what I came here to do. 24 00:00:56.719 --> 00:00:59.840 I moved to Los Angeles like eight years ago. I 25 00:01:00.159 --> 00:01:02.399 was like, Oh, I'm gonna just perform everywhere. I'm gonna 26 00:01:02.439 --> 00:01:05.120 be touring, live whatever, all that stuff, and I fell 27 00:01:05.159 --> 00:01:08.640 in love with acting while I was here. Auditions started coming, 28 00:01:08.680 --> 00:01:12.519 classes started. I'm like, okay, this is clearly something I 29 00:01:12.519 --> 00:01:15.680 can do to segue back into music by scoring the 30 00:01:15.719 --> 00:01:18.280 movies that I'm starring in or TV shows. 31 00:01:18.439 --> 00:01:20.640 That's awesome. So it's kind of like it's joys your destiny. 32 00:01:20.640 --> 00:01:22.680 You came to LA and it's just like you didn't know, 33 00:01:22.719 --> 00:01:24.319 but it kind of fell in your lap exactly a 34 00:01:24.359 --> 00:01:26.040 beautifully kind of way organic way. 35 00:01:26.280 --> 00:01:27.560 Yes, that's perfectly said. 36 00:01:28.239 --> 00:01:29.959 So you kind of got your big break in twenty 37 00:01:30.040 --> 00:01:32.120 nineteen with the whole skit with Uber. Can you explain 38 00:01:32.159 --> 00:01:33.719 to us a little bit more and how that kind 39 00:01:33.719 --> 00:01:34.439 of blew up for you? 40 00:01:36.640 --> 00:01:38.400 With with who? With with your Uber? 41 00:01:39.120 --> 00:01:39.599 Oh? 42 00:01:39.799 --> 00:01:40.719 The Uber sketch. 43 00:01:41.040 --> 00:01:42.959 I don't know about that one. That one? Did that 44 00:01:43.000 --> 00:01:48.439 one go viral? That's what friend she told me. Really, yeah, maybe, 45 00:01:48.480 --> 00:01:50.439 but I don't know liked it more than you did. 46 00:01:50.519 --> 00:01:53.200 Then apparently he probably does, because. 47 00:01:52.959 --> 00:01:54.519 I'm like, which sketches that I've done? 48 00:01:54.680 --> 00:01:56.000 It has over a million views. 49 00:01:57.239 --> 00:01:59.040 Wow, I didn't even know. Girl. 50 00:01:59.040 --> 00:02:00.480 Look you gotta we'll give you a thought. 51 00:02:00.519 --> 00:02:02.319 You've got a million views on a YouTube video. 52 00:02:02.599 --> 00:02:03.920 That's a big accomplishment. 53 00:02:04.799 --> 00:02:05.200 Thank you. 54 00:02:06.879 --> 00:02:10.080 I have so many ideas that I started. So I 55 00:02:10.080 --> 00:02:12.439 started my YouTube two years ago. What is your YouTube 56 00:02:12.479 --> 00:02:15.599 called YouTube? Aana the Artist. It's all under the same 57 00:02:15.840 --> 00:02:18.919 kind of brand and umbrella. But I started it two 58 00:02:18.960 --> 00:02:22.159 years ago and I had no subscribers at all, and 59 00:02:22.240 --> 00:02:24.599 so now I'm up to two hundred k, which. 60 00:02:24.439 --> 00:02:27.280 Is pretty good. My goal is to reach a million 61 00:02:27.439 --> 00:02:27.879 this year. 62 00:02:28.039 --> 00:02:31.400 I'm gonna work my ass off, obviously, but I really 63 00:02:31.439 --> 00:02:33.159 feel like I can do it because sure it's going 64 00:02:33.240 --> 00:02:35.439 to be cranking them out, and I can't believe, like 65 00:02:35.439 --> 00:02:37.439 some of my videos have a two million, So. 66 00:02:37.560 --> 00:02:40.159 That's amazing, you know, even to have a video on 67 00:02:40.199 --> 00:02:41.800 there and you don't even know that it has a million, 68 00:02:41.840 --> 00:02:43.319 you know what I mean. It's kind of you're doing 69 00:02:43.360 --> 00:02:44.759 so much work out there and you're just you know, 70 00:02:44.800 --> 00:02:47.039 putting the videos out there, which content creating is. You know, 71 00:02:47.080 --> 00:02:49.560 it's a job that never stops happening. So you know, 72 00:02:49.599 --> 00:02:52.080 it's kind of cool to have those ones that maybe 73 00:02:52.080 --> 00:02:53.960 not be so special to you, that are special to 74 00:02:54.280 --> 00:02:56.280 your fans, or that are like kind of make you 75 00:02:56.680 --> 00:02:58.800 stand out, I guess other than the other YouTubers because 76 00:02:58.800 --> 00:03:01.840 there's always so many different channels, different kind of you know, 77 00:03:01.960 --> 00:03:03.159 methods that people use. 78 00:03:03.599 --> 00:03:05.319 What is your channel geared towards? 79 00:03:05.520 --> 00:03:08.599 It's mostly comedy. I prov acting. I do some live 80 00:03:08.639 --> 00:03:12.960 performances or some music stuff, but it's very little lifestyle. 81 00:03:13.000 --> 00:03:15.599 All of it's scripted. So I'll write the script, I'll 82 00:03:15.639 --> 00:03:17.560 hire the actors. 83 00:03:17.199 --> 00:03:18.400 And then we just shoot it. 84 00:03:19.000 --> 00:03:21.599 How do you balance you know, your careers having so 85 00:03:21.599 --> 00:03:22.840 many different facets in them. 86 00:03:23.439 --> 00:03:26.240 I am trying to still work on the balance. 87 00:03:26.319 --> 00:03:27.360 It's part of it. 88 00:03:27.879 --> 00:03:31.919 Lord, It's I feel sometimes like a spaz, but I 89 00:03:32.000 --> 00:03:34.639 have like different meditational things that I do to help 90 00:03:34.639 --> 00:03:37.840 me soundtrack. So the acting I make sure to designate 91 00:03:37.919 --> 00:03:40.719 Monday through Friday for sure. All my auditions I go 92 00:03:40.800 --> 00:03:43.960 to or do at home self tapes now for COVID stuff. 93 00:03:44.000 --> 00:03:45.840 But if I can be. 94 00:03:45.919 --> 00:03:48.759 On set, I'm wanta set. If not, I'm shooting, I'm creating. 95 00:03:48.800 --> 00:03:52.840 I'm writing constantly and like, let's just put out content 96 00:03:53.159 --> 00:03:54.159 or our art. 97 00:03:54.439 --> 00:03:54.919 I like it. 98 00:03:54.960 --> 00:03:58.599 So, how has COVID affected your career? Honestly, I think 99 00:03:58.599 --> 00:03:59.960 I've made a lot of limitally, a lot. 100 00:03:59.879 --> 00:04:02.960 Of say a proud girl, it's all right, you know 101 00:04:02.960 --> 00:04:03.240 what I mean. 102 00:04:03.280 --> 00:04:04.960 There's a lot of people that are unfortunate, you know, 103 00:04:05.039 --> 00:04:07.360 unfortunate that I don't have that happening. But there are 104 00:04:07.360 --> 00:04:09.919 also I feel like you should not applaud yourself for 105 00:04:10.000 --> 00:04:12.039 all your accolades because you are still putting in the 106 00:04:12.080 --> 00:04:13.879 hard work you are doing, you know, your showing up 107 00:04:13.879 --> 00:04:16.079 where you could have not done anything during COVID and 108 00:04:16.160 --> 00:04:17.759 just been Netflix and chill. 109 00:04:18.319 --> 00:04:21.839 Well, I will say where we are constantly sometimes worried 110 00:04:21.839 --> 00:04:24.720 about someone hiring us for a job as actors or 111 00:04:24.839 --> 00:04:27.720 auditioning for that project and making that be the fallback 112 00:04:27.759 --> 00:04:30.079 for the money that we're making. I didn't have that 113 00:04:30.120 --> 00:04:32.000 to fall back on. It was like, now, girl, you 114 00:04:32.120 --> 00:04:35.279 better get out here and create yourself. So it challenged 115 00:04:35.319 --> 00:04:38.560 me and caused me to like write more, shoot more, 116 00:04:38.959 --> 00:04:42.680 put out more, and that became my soulength writing more. 117 00:04:42.720 --> 00:04:45.800 As far as your songs or your skits or sketches, 118 00:04:45.839 --> 00:04:47.199 your sketchesches, Yeah. 119 00:04:47.040 --> 00:04:48.079 But how to music. 120 00:04:48.120 --> 00:04:50.399 I haven't I haven't put out a song in over 121 00:04:50.439 --> 00:04:50.759 a year. 122 00:04:51.240 --> 00:04:53.439 Is that something that you're kind of like waiting until 123 00:04:53.480 --> 00:04:55.399 you find like that hit song or you just have 124 00:04:55.480 --> 00:04:57.240 a bunch of things in the in the works that 125 00:04:57.279 --> 00:04:59.240 you're just like, I'm coming at you. 126 00:04:59.600 --> 00:05:01.920 Well with music is I think that's something you have 127 00:05:02.000 --> 00:05:04.680 to take two months, three months off and just like 128 00:05:04.959 --> 00:05:07.240 feel you know what I mean, whatever it is that 129 00:05:07.279 --> 00:05:09.399 I am in the If I'm having heartbreak right now, 130 00:05:09.399 --> 00:05:11.879 I'm gonna write about my heartbreak. If I am happy, 131 00:05:11.879 --> 00:05:14.519 I'm gonna write about how happy I am. So I 132 00:05:14.519 --> 00:05:17.360 would have to digress from all the acting stuff or 133 00:05:17.480 --> 00:05:19.560 really just take time to put a body of work together. 134 00:05:19.920 --> 00:05:21.079 But I don't want to do that right now. 135 00:05:21.160 --> 00:05:23.160 I want to focus on the momentum I have going 136 00:05:23.199 --> 00:05:26.560 with my YouTube, keep the coins coming in, and then 137 00:05:26.600 --> 00:05:28.879 when I'm like good enough to just take a break, 138 00:05:28.959 --> 00:05:31.199 then I'll go back and record some stuff. 139 00:05:31.360 --> 00:05:33.399 Awesome, Well, that sounds like balancing itself. You know what, 140 00:05:33.560 --> 00:05:35.360 you know, what's working for you and your brand right 141 00:05:35.399 --> 00:05:37.800 now and what your fans want to see, and you know, 142 00:05:37.879 --> 00:05:40.560 acting it seems like kind of where it's at. It's 143 00:05:40.680 --> 00:05:43.680 fun too, you know, being able to be these different 144 00:05:43.680 --> 00:05:47.399 people every day that I'm not necessarily like, do you 145 00:05:47.439 --> 00:05:50.839 have some you have a characters that there's certain characters 146 00:05:50.839 --> 00:05:52.079 that you have who are they? 147 00:05:52.519 --> 00:05:54.839 Yeah, So I have a baby Mama character. She's funny, 148 00:05:54.879 --> 00:05:57.199 She's always asking her baby Dady for money. She has 149 00:05:57.240 --> 00:05:59.519 a tattoo on her bube and everything. She's giving all 150 00:05:59.600 --> 00:06:02.959 the life ratchets seventy fifth Street type energy. 151 00:06:03.240 --> 00:06:05.079 Then we have, like. 152 00:06:05.959 --> 00:06:08.279 You know, some of the divorced sketches that I've done, 153 00:06:08.279 --> 00:06:10.639 I'm not married. I've never been married, but I just 154 00:06:10.720 --> 00:06:13.160 kind of play with like realism in my life or 155 00:06:13.160 --> 00:06:15.639 my friends' lives, and I make a story about it. 156 00:06:15.680 --> 00:06:17.800 So it ends up being funny, but it's relatable. 157 00:06:18.120 --> 00:06:20.120 So how does the influence comes from? It comes from 158 00:06:20.199 --> 00:06:22.439 your like your friends, you're saying, since you're not divorced, 159 00:06:22.519 --> 00:06:24.079 you we don't have anything. How did you come up 160 00:06:24.120 --> 00:06:26.360 with those sketches? Since you write them yourself? How does 161 00:06:26.399 --> 00:06:28.680 that process? What does the process take to get to 162 00:06:28.759 --> 00:06:30.600 a sketch, to come to fruition. 163 00:06:31.079 --> 00:06:33.800 It's usually from a conversation. I'll be sitting and talking 164 00:06:33.839 --> 00:06:37.079 with my friends that are either complaining about their relationships 165 00:06:37.160 --> 00:06:39.399 or complaining about what's going on in their families or 166 00:06:39.439 --> 00:06:42.839 their roommate situations. I'll go hiking with them and from 167 00:06:42.839 --> 00:06:44.000 whatever they're talking to me. 168 00:06:43.959 --> 00:06:46.720 About, tell me more. You're like, I'm packing. 169 00:06:46.319 --> 00:06:49.720 What's over here? I'm gonna write about you? And you're 170 00:06:49.759 --> 00:06:52.480 gonna be do your friends get offunded or like be like, girl, 171 00:06:52.480 --> 00:06:54.639 why'd you talk about my situation? Do you ever get 172 00:06:54.639 --> 00:06:57.040 somebody to be like, I can't tell you the tea 173 00:06:57.120 --> 00:06:58.600 because you're gonna write the tea. 174 00:06:58.839 --> 00:07:01.240 No, they actually they'll and be like, yeah, put that 175 00:07:01.319 --> 00:07:03.920 in your videos, like they know I'm gonna write about them. 176 00:07:04.199 --> 00:07:05.360 Like my dad, I don't know. 177 00:07:07.920 --> 00:07:10.639 My dad has so much family drama, so he calls 178 00:07:10.639 --> 00:07:12.800 me with his little little stuff too. 179 00:07:12.839 --> 00:07:14.720 So it's funny, like I like it. 180 00:07:14.839 --> 00:07:17.319 And even if it's a painful situation, sometimes you can 181 00:07:17.360 --> 00:07:19.800 turn that into lighthearted comedy. 182 00:07:19.839 --> 00:07:22.360 It doesn't always have to be so uugh. So how 183 00:07:22.399 --> 00:07:24.199 long typically are your sketches? 184 00:07:24.639 --> 00:07:28.879 They vary from five minutes to like twelve or thirteen minutes, 185 00:07:29.120 --> 00:07:30.600 depending on how long it needs to be. 186 00:07:31.000 --> 00:07:36.240 Who is your favorite character to portray? That's hard? That 187 00:07:36.319 --> 00:07:38.639 one is hard. I don't know. I don't have a favorite. 188 00:07:39.040 --> 00:07:40.759 I don't even think I've tapped into her yet. I 189 00:07:40.800 --> 00:07:41.519 still gotta find her. 190 00:07:41.800 --> 00:07:44.160 I like that she's still out there. Mm hmm. 191 00:07:44.399 --> 00:07:46.120 She's deep down and there. We're gonna pull her out. 192 00:07:46.800 --> 00:07:50.079 We gonna pull her out and let her shine. So 193 00:07:50.120 --> 00:07:52.279 you recently had the opportunity to be on set I 194 00:07:52.279 --> 00:07:55.160 have a blockbuster movie with the Rock. Yes, how is 195 00:07:55.279 --> 00:07:57.240 that experience? And tell us a little bit more about that. 196 00:07:57.319 --> 00:07:59.720 So it was my first time being asked to do stunts. 197 00:07:59.720 --> 00:08:04.279 I was stunt double and wrestler with a couple of 198 00:08:04.319 --> 00:08:08.439 other actors. So I got a chance to wrestle the lead. Okay, 199 00:08:08.600 --> 00:08:10.079 I got a chance to meet the Rock. 200 00:08:09.879 --> 00:08:10.879 Which was really cool. 201 00:08:11.279 --> 00:08:14.600 And then the movie it's paying really well, so I'm. 202 00:08:14.439 --> 00:08:16.839 Happy all about that. 203 00:08:17.079 --> 00:08:20.199 Marks are all really good. Yeah, I loved it. 204 00:08:20.279 --> 00:08:22.759 Have you seen it the I have not seen it. 205 00:08:22.759 --> 00:08:24.959 It's really interesting because it's about this. 206 00:08:24.839 --> 00:08:28.240 Girl from Europe who has this wrestling family. 207 00:08:28.360 --> 00:08:30.319 So they're all, oh, wait, I think I know the 208 00:08:30.399 --> 00:08:33.399 story is, like is it lightly based on an actual Yes? 209 00:08:33.759 --> 00:08:36.559 And I watched. I don't know if it was the trailer, 210 00:08:36.639 --> 00:08:39.919 the divas whatever, like whatever it is, but I forget. 211 00:08:39.919 --> 00:08:41.159 I don't know what her name, but she's got like 212 00:08:41.240 --> 00:08:43.600 dark hair. I don't remember her actual name. I gotta 213 00:08:43.879 --> 00:08:45.919 remember that. Maybe you do, but I'm not sure. Yeah, 214 00:08:46.039 --> 00:08:48.720 but I remember it being that she was going it 215 00:08:48.759 --> 00:08:50.799 was about her family, but I never saw it. 216 00:08:50.919 --> 00:08:55.039 Actually, Yeah, it's really good. It's a good story. But 217 00:08:55.159 --> 00:08:56.759 it was just I don't know, it was cool, but 218 00:08:56.799 --> 00:08:58.639 to see that culture. I didn't know anything about the 219 00:08:58.759 --> 00:09:02.519 WWE life, about how hardcore the fans are, is the 220 00:09:02.720 --> 00:09:03.440 really intense. 221 00:09:03.639 --> 00:09:06.320 Yeah, I'm from Texas and I just remember growing up 222 00:09:06.320 --> 00:09:07.600 in it just being like stone cold. 223 00:09:07.600 --> 00:09:10.960 Steve Austin was right. Everybody's like Action hero. 224 00:09:11.000 --> 00:09:13.720 And whatever and like they didn't really know that, but 225 00:09:13.840 --> 00:09:15.720 my little brother was so into it. But yeah, they're 226 00:09:15.759 --> 00:09:19.000 they're dedicated fans. It's so crazy, but it was fun. 227 00:09:19.240 --> 00:09:23.080 And I was on a beach wrestling doing all these drills, 228 00:09:23.120 --> 00:09:25.519 climbing ropes, like I don't think I don't work out 229 00:09:25.559 --> 00:09:26.639 like this in real life. 230 00:09:26.679 --> 00:09:28.279 So it was like, this is, so did you have 231 00:09:28.320 --> 00:09:29.559 to train for the movie? 232 00:09:29.720 --> 00:09:33.120 I did, Okay, So how did you go from just 233 00:09:33.120 --> 00:09:34.879 getting these new roles and stuff like that and now 234 00:09:34.879 --> 00:09:37.919 you're like, let's do stunts? Like did that intimidate you? Like? 235 00:09:37.960 --> 00:09:40.519 How did you even like kind of play into that role. 236 00:09:40.879 --> 00:09:43.919 It was tough because the girls who actually are stunt 237 00:09:43.919 --> 00:09:46.039 they don't just do it for like this wrestling movie. 238 00:09:46.039 --> 00:09:47.600 They do it like jumping. 239 00:09:47.360 --> 00:09:49.960 Out of cars or dealing with explosives and things like that. 240 00:09:50.120 --> 00:09:52.279 So they're like if you really want. 241 00:09:52.159 --> 00:09:54.360 To take this series, you should probably. 242 00:09:54.039 --> 00:09:57.240 Get in a school for specific stunt work. 243 00:09:57.799 --> 00:10:00.240 So I didn't take it any further than that movie 244 00:10:00.120 --> 00:10:03.120 because wrestling I feel like I could handle, but all 245 00:10:03.120 --> 00:10:03.960 of that other stuff. 246 00:10:04.039 --> 00:10:06.399 So you know some wrestling moves now I too. I 247 00:10:06.440 --> 00:10:07.360 know if you do, you use. 248 00:10:07.279 --> 00:10:10.200 Them in the bedroom too well or not. 249 00:10:10.200 --> 00:10:12.360 Yet, I'm not gonna speak on that just yet. I'm 250 00:10:12.360 --> 00:10:14.440 away to the questions around when you get to the game. 251 00:10:14.840 --> 00:10:17.039 We're warming you up here. This is like a whole 252 00:10:17.159 --> 00:10:19.960 full experience here at private Talk. We're gonna get you 253 00:10:20.039 --> 00:10:22.799 more comfortable with us, with the fans, so we get 254 00:10:22.799 --> 00:10:24.919 to know what wrestling moves you may or may not have. 255 00:10:25.159 --> 00:10:26.399 That is so funny. 256 00:10:26.440 --> 00:10:29.919 I love it. So this new wave of comedians that 257 00:10:29.960 --> 00:10:33.679 emerged from ig who inspired you? Of any that came 258 00:10:33.720 --> 00:10:35.440 out of from like being comedians off. 259 00:10:35.519 --> 00:10:36.879 The Instagram, there was two. 260 00:10:37.960 --> 00:10:41.000 My good friend Jahan Jones, he's the one who actually 261 00:10:41.080 --> 00:10:43.840 started me in my very first sketch, and from his 262 00:10:44.000 --> 00:10:47.039 video my friend Cornell saw me in that sketch, and 263 00:10:47.120 --> 00:10:51.480 so with them both, I just learned how to, you know, 264 00:10:51.559 --> 00:10:55.480 build the idea, out cast the right person for the idea, 265 00:10:56.159 --> 00:10:58.399 and then how to make it attention grabbing that it 266 00:10:58.799 --> 00:11:00.960 you know, you keep the app the audience captivated. 267 00:11:01.000 --> 00:11:02.679 First of all, you know, we have. 268 00:11:02.600 --> 00:11:05.240 Attention spans the times in of three seconds, you know 269 00:11:05.279 --> 00:11:05.639 what I mean? 270 00:11:05.639 --> 00:11:09.399 So, now, like, where's our phone that's to scroll up? 271 00:11:09.440 --> 00:11:10.320 Let's see there's something new. 272 00:11:10.440 --> 00:11:12.840 Yeah, So the psychology of creating an idea that's not 273 00:11:12.879 --> 00:11:17.080 going to bore someone and constantly reinventing yourself in a 274 00:11:17.120 --> 00:11:19.799 way that's like Okay, why am I subscribed to her page? 275 00:11:19.879 --> 00:11:21.759 Or why am I tuning into this or whatever? So 276 00:11:21.840 --> 00:11:24.120 I learned that from them, and they've been doing this 277 00:11:24.200 --> 00:11:26.279 since they were back in their hometowns, like I think 278 00:11:26.360 --> 00:11:29.840 Johan's from the DMV area and Cornell's from Ohio, so 279 00:11:30.039 --> 00:11:31.840 like they started off in their hometowns and then they 280 00:11:31.879 --> 00:11:34.720 brought it to LA and like their careers are going 281 00:11:34.960 --> 00:11:38.240 crazy now. So I'm just trying to get to that 282 00:11:38.399 --> 00:11:42.720 level where I'm more than just this brand. But I 283 00:11:42.799 --> 00:11:46.480 can now start writing movies and like, you know, pitching 284 00:11:46.480 --> 00:11:48.679 things to Netflix and that's the ultimate goal. 285 00:11:48.840 --> 00:11:50.519 That's amazing, that's you know, because that's one of those 286 00:11:50.519 --> 00:11:52.440 things I feel like and maybe I'm wrong, Like you 287 00:11:52.480 --> 00:11:53.360 don't know that you. 288 00:11:53.279 --> 00:11:54.480 Could do those things. 289 00:11:54.480 --> 00:11:56.480 So you're like, wow, I never thought I could be 290 00:11:56.639 --> 00:11:58.799 like a writer for a movie or a series whatever. 291 00:11:58.840 --> 00:12:00.799 But there's so many people that I feel like have 292 00:12:00.919 --> 00:12:03.799 so many unlocked talents that until you're around the right 293 00:12:03.840 --> 00:12:05.519 group of people, do those things start kind of like 294 00:12:05.600 --> 00:12:08.440 unleashing and like kind of forming the woman that you. 295 00:12:08.399 --> 00:12:09.840 Are today one hundred percent. 296 00:12:09.879 --> 00:12:12.440 They were always like write your own stuff, write your 297 00:12:12.440 --> 00:12:14.679 own stuff, like don't just be the act means more. 298 00:12:14.720 --> 00:12:16.559 I feel like because not only that, like you can 299 00:12:16.559 --> 00:12:18.440 write yourself into stuff or like be like if you 300 00:12:18.480 --> 00:12:19.960 don't want to pick me, you're gonna. 301 00:12:19.679 --> 00:12:22.120 Pick me exactly exactly. 302 00:12:22.240 --> 00:12:24.039 It's kind of a really good like marketing tool I 303 00:12:24.080 --> 00:12:26.399 feel like as well, Like so YouTube's family, I feel 304 00:12:26.440 --> 00:12:28.720 like the YouTube family and with itself is like it's 305 00:12:28.759 --> 00:12:30.840 such a huge community that you could kind of go 306 00:12:31.200 --> 00:12:32.399 a lot of different avenues. 307 00:12:32.440 --> 00:12:33.159 It's so true. 308 00:12:33.240 --> 00:12:37.840 I feel like with a lot of the female comedians 309 00:12:37.879 --> 00:12:40.799 that I've come across, they're so strong in their game, 310 00:12:41.039 --> 00:12:43.639 like whether it's on stage and they do like the 311 00:12:43.679 --> 00:12:46.399 stand up world, or they bring it across through the 312 00:12:46.480 --> 00:12:48.519 videos and stuff that they do. I'm not a stand 313 00:12:48.600 --> 00:12:50.080 up comedian, you know, something. 314 00:12:49.879 --> 00:12:52.919 That you'd be interested in doing. I really like the. 315 00:12:52.919 --> 00:12:56.360 Idea of bouncing back and forth between some drama and comedy. 316 00:12:56.440 --> 00:13:00.120 I don't like comedy skits exactly, exactly exactly, but I 317 00:13:00.159 --> 00:13:00.600 feel like that. 318 00:13:00.559 --> 00:13:02.159 Helps with your craft probably as well. 319 00:13:02.200 --> 00:13:05.120 It's like, you know, when you're acting, you're required to 320 00:13:05.200 --> 00:13:07.679 be any kind of character or whatsoever. So you kind 321 00:13:07.679 --> 00:13:10.840 of like on top that you're not always Anna or 322 00:13:10.919 --> 00:13:13.960 Aana Masman. Yeah. Yeah, and like you know, Ayana can 323 00:13:14.000 --> 00:13:15.879 be so many different things exactly. 324 00:13:16.039 --> 00:13:21.519 I mean, I will say that this is it's not easy. 325 00:13:21.639 --> 00:13:23.480 Like people think that, oh, I'm gonna just start a 326 00:13:23.480 --> 00:13:24.279 YouTube page. 327 00:13:24.960 --> 00:13:26.039 It doesn't work like that. 328 00:13:26.440 --> 00:13:28.480 You really have to be like I'm going to learn 329 00:13:28.519 --> 00:13:31.639 the editing software. I'm going to learn the camera works. 330 00:13:31.679 --> 00:13:33.879 I'm going to learn like the angles to shoot from, 331 00:13:34.320 --> 00:13:36.600 you know, and to I read a book about how 332 00:13:36.600 --> 00:13:38.919 to write scripts professionally. 333 00:13:38.360 --> 00:13:40.159 You know what I mean. It's a lot of work. 334 00:13:40.200 --> 00:13:41.360 You're in your craft, girl. 335 00:13:41.480 --> 00:13:44.120 That's good. That's important to be successful in any you know, 336 00:13:44.279 --> 00:13:45.919 thing that you do. Is like you got to really 337 00:13:46.000 --> 00:13:48.120 learn and put the work in or it's not going 338 00:13:48.200 --> 00:13:49.799 to add up at the end, you know, because like 339 00:13:49.879 --> 00:13:51.759 you said, anybody could do it, but nobody could be 340 00:13:51.879 --> 00:13:54.919 not everybody can be successful exactly. So what would you 341 00:13:54.960 --> 00:13:58.960 give a young Ayana advice coming out here in La 342 00:13:59.120 --> 00:14:01.320 not knowing much, learning all these things. What would you 343 00:14:01.399 --> 00:14:02.759 give advice to your younger self? 344 00:14:03.360 --> 00:14:09.759 I would say to listen more and talk less. There's 345 00:14:09.840 --> 00:14:14.120 so much influence in so much art around us. If 346 00:14:14.120 --> 00:14:16.120 you're taking a walk down the street, you can literally 347 00:14:16.120 --> 00:14:19.200 hear music. If you are sitting in a room full 348 00:14:19.200 --> 00:14:22.759 of educated people, you can learn a lot in that space. 349 00:14:23.240 --> 00:14:27.200 I was so like headstrong and I you know, I 350 00:14:27.279 --> 00:14:28.200 love being right. 351 00:14:28.360 --> 00:14:28.960 I know it all. 352 00:14:29.080 --> 00:14:31.559 You know what I'm saying. I was that girl growing up. 353 00:14:31.600 --> 00:14:33.720 But I feel like I want to like close my 354 00:14:33.759 --> 00:14:37.679 mouth and just listen more because there's so much that 355 00:14:37.720 --> 00:14:41.480 can influence anything that I'm creating, whether it's music or 356 00:14:41.519 --> 00:14:44.840 whether it's acting, or there's a lot of different like 357 00:14:44.960 --> 00:14:47.759 things that can inspire me if I just tune into 358 00:14:47.840 --> 00:14:49.519 like the universe and people more. 359 00:14:49.799 --> 00:14:51.480 And I'm sure with writing, you know that kind of 360 00:14:51.480 --> 00:14:53.759 helps too, because it's like you don't You're not always 361 00:14:53.799 --> 00:14:55.600 going to run and write what you have going on 362 00:14:55.600 --> 00:14:57.200 in your head. You want to like the ideas of 363 00:14:57.240 --> 00:15:00.919 other people in society because that's who's purchasing your things 364 00:15:01.000 --> 00:15:03.639 or viewing your things or liking your stuff. So you 365 00:15:03.679 --> 00:15:05.279 got to keep them captivated. 366 00:15:05.360 --> 00:15:08.720 You get it one hundred percent. My friend he wanted 367 00:15:08.720 --> 00:15:11.279 to write a film about homeless people. So he went 368 00:15:11.440 --> 00:15:14.679 and he stayed down and skid row for three days and. 369 00:15:14.720 --> 00:15:18.440 Just like lived there for three full days. I mean, 370 00:15:18.720 --> 00:15:20.960 he has a whole movie that he can come up 371 00:15:20.960 --> 00:15:23.120 and doing it. He wrote a full feature film. 372 00:15:23.120 --> 00:15:26.639 But it was just like in bod like literally contorting 373 00:15:26.679 --> 00:15:30.120 yourself to being this thing that you really want to 374 00:15:30.279 --> 00:15:33.759 like understand and then put the art out there. 375 00:15:33.879 --> 00:15:36.440 So I've always been fascinated with people like that because 376 00:15:36.519 --> 00:15:39.159 the fact of like people could write about a lot 377 00:15:39.200 --> 00:15:42.000 of things, but until you really know it or struggled yourself, 378 00:15:42.399 --> 00:15:44.799 do you really know it exactly? Like give it be 379 00:15:44.840 --> 00:15:47.000 able to portray it to other people, to really feel 380 00:15:47.039 --> 00:15:50.039 moved by something or really feel like cry and like 381 00:15:50.120 --> 00:15:52.799 do the like really like careful because there's even music 382 00:15:52.840 --> 00:15:54.240 you know it's so you know, it can be so 383 00:15:54.320 --> 00:15:56.840 spiritual sometimes and really just like hits your you know, 384 00:15:56.879 --> 00:15:59.120 your heart strings or it makes you feel like, man, 385 00:15:59.279 --> 00:16:01.120 that happened to me, Like how do they know my 386 00:16:01.120 --> 00:16:04.759 life story? So it's like, really, you know, cool to 387 00:16:04.840 --> 00:16:08.159 see somebody dive in so you know, secklessly and just 388 00:16:08.159 --> 00:16:09.840 give the everything to that role. 389 00:16:10.000 --> 00:16:11.120 Mm hmmm mm hmmm. 390 00:16:11.879 --> 00:16:14.159 Are you are you gonna go and do something crazy 391 00:16:14.240 --> 00:16:17.799 like that and dive right in? It happens. 392 00:16:18.039 --> 00:16:19.679 It depends on the role. 393 00:16:20.279 --> 00:16:23.159 I don't think that I've ever been given the challenge 394 00:16:23.200 --> 00:16:27.240 to be something that I can't embody, just from perception 395 00:16:27.399 --> 00:16:30.200 or my experience of life so far. Now, if it's 396 00:16:30.240 --> 00:16:32.960 something like, okay, you have to be a professional skier, 397 00:16:33.480 --> 00:16:36.519 you know what was that? Margot Roby She's one of 398 00:16:36.519 --> 00:16:38.559 my favorite act just she's really good at it. So 399 00:16:38.759 --> 00:16:41.399 I can't imagine like she's done the ice skating thing 400 00:16:42.000 --> 00:16:45.519 and then she went and did like this huge transformation 401 00:16:45.600 --> 00:16:48.639