![]() I will have to let you know after the next couple weeks. I have a long line.” It’s such a far-fetched thing, it’s such a far away, impossible thing that I think that … I don’t know. There was this one time I went to Target and I was like, “This toy is me,” and she was like, “Okay, yeah. I even go to Target and will look through the Star Wars section and sometimes will buy some stuff with my face on it, and no one has ever recognized me. When I’m in association with the other cast members then they’ll be like, “Oh, she must be this person because she’s with this person,” but I’ve never been recognized in my own life, I go to the grocery store still, I go on runs outside all the time. Not necessarily, because no one really recognizes me outside the context of situations like this. Have you felt a shift in your life? Star Wars fans know who these characters are before they see the movie, so have you felt people respond to you differently? I never really logistically thought what it would mean to get here. I feel like I was treading water for so long I didn’t know how to get … I never thought that I would be at the edge of the pool. You picture that moment in your mind so clearly so many times when you’re a kid, and you want this thing, and when it happens it was just pure shock. I was completely silent for probably a full minute and a half, and just shocked by the whole thing. I was still working my day job and I told my boss I was going to lunch and then I went to go meet with Rian Johnson. It’s like you’re going for something that’s so high stakes, and you try to remind yourself okay, stop thinking about it, and it’s everywhere. I was auditioning and waiting to hear back when their marketing machine was everywhere. In terms of the timeline, The Force Awakens came out in December of 2015. Rian called my agent and said he wanted to meet with me before Thanksgiving, and this was two years ago. Yeah, it was a five month audition process, and when I actually found out that I had the role I found out in person. It kind of sort of came at a time when everything else was kind of coming to a head.ĭo you remember that moment when you got the call? I think that the whole journey has been really unpredictable and incredible, and I’m still trying to figure it all out, but you’re right. ![]() I think that I might continue to have moments. So yeah, I think there was definitely a moment, I think there were a few moments. ![]() You’re investing in yourself, and you’re taking classes, and you’re having to do headshots, and I remember thinking how long can I do this? Will I be happy doing this potentially forever? Because I could potentially never be financially stable off this thing that I loved so much. I was working a full-time job, but not having anything in my savings account at the end of the month, because of my bills, and because acting in the beginning costs money. I was, like everyone else, trying to pay the rent, and health insurance, and car insurance, and everything else that comes up. I mean, I think any time you’re pursuing something that’s pretty much impossible, or something that seems out of your grasp you have those moments of doubt, and you have moments of just thinking to yourself how can I logistically make this work? I was in a position where I was still trying to put myself through college, so I was trying to pay off a very large sum of student debt.
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