Tatiana Piper: From Russia to the DC Universe

Tatiana Piper's path to the DC Universe began not on a Hollywood soundstage but in a Russian classroom where creative aspirations were met with skepticism. "When is this phase going to fade out and you're going to go be a doctor or lawyer or build spaceships?" her family would ask. Despite her natural theatrical talents, Tatiana initially compromised by pursuing architecture and interior design, bringing her to America for college. In the episode we explore how her creative outlet evolved from design to acting.

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Transcript

Meet Tatiana Piper

Speaker 1 0:04

Okay, guys, hi, I'm Tatiana Piper. I'm an actress, I'm a model, I'm an influencer and recently I became a mom. So that's another super role that I have and what I'm feeling right now for NOLA Film Scene. I feel happy, I feel nervous and excited.

Speaker 2 0:24

Welcome to NOLA Film Scene with TJ. Plato I'm TJ and, as always, I'm Plato. Yay, excellent, excellent. We're back on NOLA Film Scene with TJ and Plato he's TJ.

Speaker 3 0:37

He's Plato.

Speaker 2 0:39

And we're here with our super friend Tatiana Piper hey how you doing, Hi guys.

Speaker 1 0:45

Hi, thank you so much for having me, yeah thanks for joining us.

Speaker 3 0:47

You're welcome, hi guys. Hi, thank you so much for having me. Yeah, thanks for joining us.

Speaker 2 0:48

You're welcome. Tatiana and I have known each other since the pandemic. We did online improv together with the class oh.

Speaker 3 0:57

Oh, wow.

Speaker 2 0:58

So many people are afraid of like I've talked to some big stars. Like I don't like doing it online. It's the same thing. You just have to leave pauses for lags in the communication pauses for lags in the communication.

Speaker 1 1:10

Absolutely, I think it definitely helped to meet you guys all in person first and then kind of transition into this Zoom world. But we had an amazing teacher and an amazing team, so it was a safe place.

Speaker 2 1:21

Nice David Hamilton from Anubis Improv is great, but I don't think we've met in person. I took the class after you did. Really, it's all right, we are. I'll start that over.

Speaker 3 1:37

We are. Hey, brian, if you could try not to bump your desk, because it yeah.

Speaker 2 1:41

Brian, we can leave that in. We can leave that all in, I mean here in all of you.

Speaker 1 1:45

I'm seeing we're like don't bump our desks, okay.

Speaker 2 1:50

Because if you bump your desk, I'll bump you TJ, we can use this as a bumper for the you know commercial. This evolved quickly, which is always the best.

Speaker 1 2:03

So funny. We never met in person, but it feels like we did. That's amazing.

Speaker 2 2:07

We spent months and to describe the class is just like people will see when we release the video. This a group of people, maybe six or seven. Our teacher would talk about improv and some of the I don't want to say strategies, but lessons, and then everyone would pair up Okay, you two do a scene, then you two and everybody would get to do two scenes and then at the end we'd do the round table and go around. What did you learn? What did you feel? The amazing part of that to me was because of the pandemic, and it was the first anyone had ever experienced that in our lifetimes we were all stressed out.

Speaker 3 2:44

Yeah.

Speaker 2 2:45

Most of you remember that. Maybe some of you are young, don't even oh boy, young people. But you were just a bundle of nerves. We do our improv. You touch the creativity in your heart and everyone who went around that table said I'm so de-stressed now, I'm feeling so light. It was beautiful, it was amazing.

Speaker 1 3:00

Yeah.

Speaker 2 3:01

Nice.

Speaker 1 3:02

That was really good. Yeah, for sure, I remember that. Remember that, like I said, it was a safe place to be silly and to be just who you are when nobody's looking.

Speaker 3 3:12

But everybody was looking yeah, that's right Bring on the looks yeah. And you and I have a connection through a mutual friend of Olivia Peck. Olivia, we both were in Olivia's movie Todd's Popcorn Paradise. We just filmed at different times and didn't get the opportunity to meet in person, but it's nice to finally meet you.

Speaker 1 3:33

Nice to meet you. What a small world. I love Olivia. She's creative, talented and so silly, I love that the silly silly. I love silly people. I need more of those in my life.

Speaker 2 3:48

Well, let's jump back and it's my favorite question what started you down this road of acting, influencing any part of that? Where did you start?

Pandemic Improv Connections

Speaker 1 3:56

Growing up, I was always very artistic. I did not know acting as a craft yet, but I was already acting my boots off. Anywhere I would go, I would pretend to be somebody that I'm not I mean not a liar, of course but just loved established different characters and loved being silly and I loved observing people. And until this day, I think this is the quality that I really try to nourish in me I love to observe people and I take some things for myself and then I act like that right. So I didn't know back then that it's such a valuable thing for an actor to notice things, little things. So when I was small, I was always that I was loving to read poems and read in general and do little silly characters. When I grew up, I was like, okay, I actually want to be an actress. This is a path for me. This is just comes naturally.

Speaker 1 4:55

But unfortunately, growing up, as you know, I'm Russian. Growing up in Russia, it's a little bit different. Over there. Creative professions they're not as I would say that people don't look at them as oh my God, that's amazing. You know like, go, go you. They'd be like okay, when is this face going to fade out and you're going to go and be a doctor or a lawyer or go build spaceships.

Speaker 2 5:18

Right.

Speaker 1 5:19

My whole family. They were I love my family but they were not really encouraging that part of me. They were like, okay, she's too much, but you got to stop singing in the class. Stop, you know, doing this. Just go study to university, get a degree, and then we'll talk. And of course I'm a good girl, I'm not gonna go against my family. So I was like, okay, I'm gonna go get a degree in equally creative area and not as creative as acting, but not as expressive as acting, but equally creative. So I chose architecture and interior design and went. I was like you know what? I'm actually going to remove myself a little bit further away from my family. Let me just go to like different country or something. So I ended up in georgia, in america, and went to college here, graduated and worked a little bit in my field of architecture, interior design. I loved it uh, loved parts of it, but didn't love it enough to know that I can die happy. Now you know I can climb the ladder and I'm just going to be amazing.

Speaker 1 6:30

I was like I just something in my life is missing and I started taking acting classes. I was back then, I was living in Atlanta and I started taking acting classes and just something in me was like a small part of me was just like, finally let me come out and I started to feel alive. Every time I would exit acting class I was like that was amazing. Right, I didn't really, you know, build a house or anything like that or plant a tree, but I feel nourished. I was like this has always been my path, I feel like. So eventually I moved to Louisiana. Been my path, I feel like. So eventually I moved to Louisiana. That was, because of circumstances kind of brought me to Louisiana, to New Orleans, where I met you.

Speaker 1 7:17

Brian and Olivia. But honestly, I didn't want to move to Louisiana, I wanted to stay in Atlanta, but that was kind of not up to me at that point of my life. And pandemic happened. So I was already taking classes in Louisiana with Jim Gleason Amazing, amazing teacher, actor, mentor and at some point I signed with an agent, action talent agency. I signed with them. That was like a big breakthrough for me. I was like, yay, this is happening, I'm doing it. And pandemic happened.

Speaker 2 7:50

And I was like yay, this is happening, I'm doing it.

Speaker 1 7:51

And pandemic happened and I was like, what am I going to do? Like what people do now at this point? And I was like, well, I guess, good thing I have my degree. But the funny thing, even during pandemic, unfortunately even my degree profession wasn't something that I could like lean onto. So I was like, interesting, so what am I supposed to do now? And this is how I found influencing.

Speaker 1 8:13

I love fashion, I love all things styling, so that was my little channel of creativity. Another channel Didn't come out, didn't go into it as like making money opportunity, just went there. Just you know, I felt like I need this creative outlet. And eventually, during pandemic I guess that was the right thing to do Everybody kind of leaned on internet, shopping and fitness online and all those things where I found a lot of collaboration with companies who, would you know, send me clothes and eventually I started working with them for them. And this is how I kind of served through pandemic and, after pandemic, moved back to Atlanta and signed with my agent, amt. Now, and this is my story, this is what brought me to my biggest to date role yet.

Speaker 2 9:06

Ooh, could you tell us about that role, biggest to date role yet, ooh, could you tell us about that role.

Speaker 1 9:13

So I am absolutely blessed, grateful, happy, to book an amazing movie called Superman. I am just, I'm still. I'm still like pinch me, everybody pinched me, because I don't feel like it's reality. It feels crazy because even in my home country they can watch it. They can watch it with like, not subtitles but like a voiceover dubbing, a dubbing, yeah, yeah sound like some russian person is like talking like me, and that was surreal, just surreal you know.

Speaker 2 9:44

So yeah, and I saw it this past weekend. You did a phenomenal job and I kept nudging. My wife was like, I know that person I know that she was like shut up, let me watch the movie that's funny what was your experience like on set?

From Architecture to Acting

Speaker 1 10:02

it was. It was incredible. In one word, it felt like a big family that I lost in a way. Everybody was just so up for anything. They were kind, everybody also very, very talented, extremely talented everybody. As soon as the camera's on, everybody's just switched on and working camera stops, jokes and little dances and silly something. It was really nice to be a part of that little family, even though it was only for two weeks. I was on set for two weeks. Well, I say only, you know how it is, brian, sometimes like two hours or something, but it was. It felt like a home away from home, if that makes sense.

Speaker 3 10:48

And it makes sense.

Speaker 2 10:50

Did you have any scenes with the real star of the movie?

Speaker 1 10:53

Crypto.

Speaker 2 10:55

No, no, no, no, david's all right. James Gunn is cool. Did you get to meet Crypto?

Speaker 1 11:00

Oh, my goodness, crypto. Funny enough, we had a dog that was on set. It wasn't like obviously the actual creep dog, right, but he would come in and they would just shoot him for a little bit and, yeah, he would leave and we love that dog. I forgot his name unfortunately but oh my god, I just love dogs and you know, like trying to stay in characters between takes, just to kind of gather my character is I don't want to do spoilers, I guess right, right sure my character is supposed to be reserved and I'm not reserved.

Speaker 1 11:35

I'm like anything but reserved.

Speaker 2 11:37

So when I would see a dog.

Speaker 1 11:38

I'm like I got dog on dog right there and I was just just wanted to just just hug a dog and when the camera is just off and you're like can I hug your dog please? And the person this is very sweet woman. She was the owner of that beautiful white dog. She would always like let us play with you, and it was nice so you got to live that meme.

Speaker 2 12:03

Can I pet your dog? That's right. You know the one I'm talking. The little girl wants to pet a bear. There's a bear outside her inner yard. Can I pet you?

Speaker 1 12:10

I want to pet that dog. Oh, I saw it in this little skit. It's on TikTok.

Speaker 2 12:16

Yep, yep, that's funny. It just takes a couple of days to oh. You know what I mean. I left the movie set once and I went back to my janitorial work and I'm sweeping. I'm like man. So how was it when you left the set?

Speaker 1 12:49

That's a great question. I think the way I would describe it is you have this big, big energy inside of you and you put it out. Put it out every single day right inside of you and you put it out. Put it out every single day, right when you are on set. You have to multiply that energy sometimes because you have to make sure you are not only listening directions, you are absorbing what's happening.

Speaker 1 13:14

You have to remember your lines, of course, you have to be in character, you have to believe in this world, so you spend so much energy existing in this world.

Speaker 1 13:23

And don't get me wrong, it's an amazing feeling that when this world, so you spend so much energy existing in this world.

Speaker 1 13:24

And don't get me wrong, it's an amazing feeling that when this world is gone and you are home and you just wake up and you're about to have a breakfast and you're at your table, that you already seen so many times that energy has nowhere to go and you have to have meditation. You have to have some sort of ways to help your mind to calm down and get back to your normal routine, and especially getting auditions for, like a smaller projects or commercials or anything like that, and you like. Okay, you just put this world that was a part of you and all that energy, and don't be scared to step into something new, because you're gonna lose your mind if that energy keeps like bursting out and you have nowhere to place that energy. So it was bittersweet, for sure, and don't get me wrong, it wasn't like out of the world. I was happy to finish with something because I wanted to see eventually what's the product will be and also it was very early hours all day on set.

Speaker 1 14:26

We were all tired right it was, um, it was nice to like sleep in, but at the same time was definitely bitter, sweet bitter part, because you just miss everybody and you have this like warm feeling inside of you that just you know we might never be in the same. Well, we will never be in the same place and the same capacity as a team, ever, ever again.

Speaker 2 14:48

Oh, yeah, small movie, big movie, when things are going well and you sync with people like you're talking about.

Speaker 1 14:55

Yeah.

Speaker 2 14:55

And then you have to go home. You miss that part of you. Love my wife, love my family, and it's not that home is bad yeah, it. Love my wife, love my family, and it's not that home is bad, it's just different. Plus, you made it to DC universe, you know, you made it. That's pretty much a pinnacle. You know what I mean. I've said this many times I'd love to be rich. Okay, I want to be a working actor, be good at my job and I'm not worried about awards, but I want to be an action figure and I think you can do it. You know what I mean and I don't want to have to make it myself. So to me you hit the top of the mountain. I'm so proud of you, I'm happy for you, I'm jealous, but you know what I mean Good jealousy.

Speaker 1 15:36

Thank you so much and I really appreciate it.

Speaker 2 15:39

You're welcome. I knew her when You're welcome, I really appreciate it.

Speaker 1 15:43

I knew her when. Yeah, I mean, it's honestly like I am guilty in terms of sometimes I don't celebrate my wins enough. I kind of brush it off, even in my acting class Numerous acting classes actually.

Landing a Role in Superman

Speaker 1 15:55

A lot of people in the beginning of the class would share their wins, right, and people would be excited to share how many auditions they had. Oh, I applied for this and this and this. And I'm sitting here, I got three auditions, maybe a callback, maybe booked something, and I'm like, should I talk about it? Like should I be that girl who like show off? I always had this like inner voice in myself, that like be humble.

Speaker 1 16:20

Like cover your own, Like don't share much. And now this me, this part of me I'm relearning this habit of being too humble in a way. Don't get me wrong be humble but don't cover your journey. Doesn't matter if it's you're doing book anything for a month or didn't get an audition for a month or you were getting callbacks back to back to back and projects here and other audition there, because people will be inspired by your journey. I had so many people reach out to me saying like thank you for representing Southeast. You know like I have a hope in me now. I got so motivated I'm going to go take acting classes now and I'm like, holy moly, I just inspired somebody to change something about their life. That's pretty big.

Speaker 1 17:06

And yeah, I think I was like I just need to. Well, I'm already doing it. I'm sticking out my truth and what I've been through. I mean acting wise, not, I'm not going to lay out my life onto you and what my journey looks like.

Speaker 2 17:23

Oh yeah, you're definitely. I'm not responsible, but you're definitely able to share your wins. But I could see where, if you have a audition or booking or callback every day and putting that on social media, maybe, maybe you can hold a few back.

Speaker 1 17:38

Yeah.

Speaker 2 17:38

You know what I mean For sure. So, but I don't think you are a braggart, right, you know what I mean, so I try to share mine. I get certain people like, oh, you're doing so good and you know you're inspiring us.

Speaker 2 17:48

I hear that a little bit less than you, but at the same time like when I see my friends doing it, and I kind of said it towards you waiting for a chance to audition is an emotional rollercoaster, absolutely, not to mention the emotional rollercoaster of the role. Yeah, I always say this isn't ditch digging, but it has its own difficulties.

The Emotional Rollercoaster of Acting

Speaker 1 18:14

Yeah, absolutely. I think the most difficult part for me was always it's this contradictory thing where, as an actor, you get an audition, you have to care so much about the character backstory, you have to care about your relationship, your change in the script, the contrast between beginning and the end. You have to care, you have to put yourself into this audition, but when you submit, don't care, don't care, just forget about it. This is very hard, I feel, like, for any human being, especially actors, because as actors, we're trained to be empathetic and that's what our craft is all about. We need to have this quality, like a really good human quality, where we listen, we care, we understand, we respond truthfully. English is my not first language.

Speaker 2 19:08

It's my first language and I struggle just as much. Don't worry about it. Like English yeah.

Speaker 1 19:13

And that's the struggle is to kind of like, as soon as you submit the audition, just stop and erase. You're starting again Like it never happened. Just stop and erase. You're starting again Like it never happened. And I think I'm finally in a place where I'm actually submitting now and I'm not expecting For the long time. It was just like especially, you know, you might both of you might have something like that when your friends or family will tell you so what are you working on now? How was that? Audition, did you get it? And you're like no, audition, did you get it? And you're like no, I didn't get it. No, you didn't get it. Okay, it's okay. You're not gonna go in into explaining how it works. Sometimes you can be the greatest actor in the world of actors, but they need somebody with hair because they don't have wigs, you know.

Speaker 2 20:02

I feel seen.

Speaker 1 20:05

Or like they would ask TJ, you got to shave your beard and you're like, oh my God, for a commercial that I'm going to get at I don't know a thousand dollars for, and I grew this beard forever. Oh my God, Like all this little thing, sometimes it's not up to you, really. Sometimes it's up to big guys.

Speaker 3 20:22

Yeah.

Speaker 2 20:24

You can have the best audition and they don't like your look, exactly you can have the worst audition and they love your look.

Speaker 1 20:28

Yeah.

Speaker 2 20:28

It's you, just always do your best.

Speaker 1 20:30

Yeah, absolutely.

Speaker 3 20:31

That's it. That's. All you can do is the best leave it all in that room and go on to the next one.

Speaker 1 21:14

Yep, yeah, and do it all again.

Speaker 3 21:19

That's right. How did you learn English? Because I think your English is really good.

Speaker 1 21:24

I'm going to cut out this part of this podcast and I'm just going to give it to my partner. He was accusing me that my English is well.

Speaker 2 21:33

We'll make you a ringtone, thank you, and then keep calling you. I know right.

Speaker 1 21:38

I studied English in school, the basic version of English but to get into university here in the US I had to basically turbo all that. So I started taking like very, very loaded classes of English for six months and I just lived English around me, movies and everything.

Speaker 1 22:01

And when I got in, even then I knew how to speak and I mean I knew how to write and how to listen and everything, but speaking part was always a little bit. I was a little bit shy, I would say, just because in my country, for example, if you have an accent, people will just kind of make jokes around and it's not a good thing. It's not a good thing, it's not a good thing. America, thankfully a little bit more inclusive People were always encouraging me to speak and they're like, oh, I love your accent.

Speaker 1 22:28

I'm like really Like what? And sometimes I would get nervous and just change the order of the words and book table put it there, you know, like just crazies, whatever, but people would never make me feel bad for it. And eventually, of course, entering acting world, I started to take lessons with my dialect coach and started to sort of working on my accent, not in a way to completely remove it I will never do that, hopefully, not because I love my accent the way it is, but to be able to have a little bit more diversity in my casting. So yeah, but for russian role, russian or slavic inspired roles, I have to turn my accent app up just a little bit more that that makes sense you gotta let it loose, right.

Speaker 3 23:20

If I try to speak a foreign language, I knew at one time it's kind of faded away. I had a little bit of Spanish, I was conversational with Spanish and I was conversational with French and I understand what you're saying about being self-conscious about speaking it around native speakers. I was always self-conscious about making a mistake and saying something, but people for the most part seem to be pretty forgiving. If they understand the gist of what you're saying, they're pretty forgiving and they move on with it.

Speaker 1 23:47

Kudos for anybody who were in that place and were forgiving. Thank you, guys. Yeah, for sure.

Speaker 2 23:54

Excellent. What would you tell someone about either getting into acting or influencing a young person, person like me who started at their old age where to start? How would you inspire them?

Advice for Aspiring Actors and Influencers

Speaker 1 24:04

That's a good question. First of all, anything that you are starting, I would say you just have to do it. Doesn't matter what you're starting out, you just have to do it, because the best way to learn is experience With influencing. It's a little bit different from acting. You just have to like my. In my case, I am styling and beauty influencer. You know, just grab things that you have in your house. Style a dress that you love style. Of course, the market is way more saturated right now, but if you love it actually love it you're not going to care. And you have so many times I mean so many minutes in your day and anybody who will tell me I don't have time for it, well, you don't love it enough. So just start shooting, whatever I don't know. You have a hairbrush. Show me how you use it. You know, talk about it and that's basically influencing. Yeah, of, of course, it's a basic version, but you have to start somewhere. You are going to look silly. You are not gonna look perfect, but eventually you will get collaborations. You will get people who will be like hey, we also have a brush. We love that video about that brush that you did. Can you please do the same for our brush. And all of a sudden you're like oh, are you also paying me? Okay, let me just get a light or something like more professional. Okay, kind of make it look way more presentable. And this is how you do it.

Speaker 1 25:27

And with acting, acting is a never ending learning process. Whether you are taking classes, whether you are shooting movies with your fellow actors, whether you are watching movies, you have to do something every single day towards that. You want to be in the movie, learn what it's like to be in the movie. Go take a background role. It's really easy to get cast to get a background role. I'm not taking it in a way that maybe some people find extremely hard. I'm not taking away anybody's struggles, but if you want it, hard enough, you have to experience it. You have to take time, have to make time for it. So I would say, first thing, go take acting classes. Acting classes is like, oh, if you don't have time completely, watch some recordings of somebody's acting class and see if it's for you or not.

Speaker 2 26:18

Definitely, and look for a teacher who actually books roles.

Speaker 1 26:21

Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 26:22

Who has experience. You have to watch out for that, yep.

Speaker 1 26:25

Yeah, and never pay for casting for agent. Until you make money, don't pay for casting.

Speaker 2 26:30

Don't pay for an agent. They get a percentage once you book.

Speaker 3 26:32

Yeah.

Speaker 2 26:32

Don't pay for real Yep.

Speaker 1 26:34

Don't go to a company that will make you real right yeah, unless you just like a lister and you just don't have time, you can always make a little real for yourself, for sure, yeah it's better to go make a youtube video with your friends.

Speaker 2 26:46

You've written it out where you feel it, which the ones I've seen, where people have paid for it. Their energy is low, it's. A lot of people say it's a waste of money.

Speaker 3 26:54

I'll leave it at that and it comes across as homemade. It doesn doesn't come across as.

Speaker 1 26:59

I mean honestly nowadays I've heard multiple casting directors talking about sometimes people submit self-tapes like previous self-tapes of similar roles. Don't take my word for it, but honestly I personally feel like if you have a badass self-tape that booked you something or that you are so proud of and that character is very similar with the character that you auditioned for and you don't have a reel, I mean ask your either agent or just you know, go submit that. Some casting directors even will tell in the breakdown submit a clip or submit like a previous self-tape. Make sure that self-tape is like, not under NDA or anything like that. But yeah, there are always ways around it, always ways around it.

Speaker 2 27:43

Right For background. Look for mycastingfilecom and you can sign up for free If you don't have an agent and you want to get into acting. If you just jump in, it might take a while, but actors access.

Speaker 1 27:56

Yeah.

Speaker 2 27:57

That's how you can start learning about roles near you or across the country, or whatever section you click on, without having an agent.

Speaker 1 28:04

Yeah, I remember in my time when I started out I'm not sure how good this website is now, but I used to use Backstage. Backstage gave me quite a few little indie projects and like school projects. That's another good way to get good footage. Go and ask local university theater program if you guys cast anything anytime soon. When I was in louisiana I was I was checking out tulane website all the time and they once told me they're going to be casting something pretty soon. So I showed up. I had live auditions with students and that was amazing. This is I got my first lead role that way and first supporting role that way, and until this day I'm still in contact with like I on Instagram, with those amazing talented humans and they usually always have theater programs, usually have a really good quality cameras and good quality sound and they also want to succeed. So they would want you to succeed too. So I think it's a really great way to make some sort of a reel and experience.

Speaker 3 29:13

The first role I ever booked was from backstage. It was a paid role. It wasn't very much, but I did the same thing.

Speaker 1 29:21

I used backstage in the beginning as well yeah, yeah, and don't be scared, even if it's not paid for a person who start out. It's like, think about it like that. It's like imagine you were training to be a surgeon and you come to the hospital for the first time in your life and somebody comes and be like, oh, I need a heart transplant. And you like'm a surgeon, but you don't have any experience and you want to get your hands dirty right away and you want to get, you know, good money to do that and all that stuff. It doesn't work like that. You have to get experience, you have to keep walking to different doors and stuff and make sure it's all kind of aligned. One day and you're there doing things.

Speaker 2 30:03

Pay your dues.

Speaker 1 30:04

That's right.

Speaker 3 30:04

That's right, that's right. Yeah, you're going to work for free in the beginning.

Speaker 2 30:08

And with influencing. I've seen some of your videos. You can look on trends of what people like, how they hold up the clothes, and then they're on you or you split screen and you're like this or that.

Speaker 1 30:17

Yeah.

Speaker 2 30:18

You can watch and learn and then start Absolutely Kind of the same thing with acting.

Speaker 1 30:23

Yeah.

Speaker 2 30:23

It's a place to start and then you study and you need someone who knows. I feel like we almost got into the weeds on this subject, but we love it so much and that's the key component Absolutely you have to love it, you have to need it, Like Tatiana was saying how it nourished her to be on set and that creative energy was able to come out where it can't in a normal life, you know, in normal situations, because this business will kick you in the teeth every chance it gets, and not even meaning to be me Like we say, we audition, we don't hear anything about it. Somebody else gets it and you see it and you're like man. I could have done better than that.

Speaker 1 30:57

And a great thing is don't take it personal for sure.

Speaker 2 31:00

That's right.

Speaker 1 31:01

That's another thing that I'm just spitting out there, things that I went through personally. Sometimes it's easy as a human being to take something personally. Oh, they didn't invite me to film this project. I thought we're friends or they didn't tell me there is. This workshop is happening. Like five of them, that people that I know went and I didn't like what's happening. Don't take it personally If people how would I put this? I don't think there is a lot of people who would want you to fail. If there are people like that in your circle, you should be careful with your circle.

Speaker 2 31:37

Yeah.

Speaker 1 31:38

Take them out for sure. But people who are genuine and kind and they're understanding the path that you are on, they will never make you purposefully feel like you are less than you are. And, as I said, if there are people like that in your circle, be careful, be very careful and selective. But we're all in the same, we're all starting from somewhere. I wouldn't say we're all starting from the same plateau because there are different backgrounds and different skill sets and different circumstances and environments, but we're all starting somewhere and people who actually make it I would say 95 of those people are kind, genuine and actually care about other people. Otherwise, you can sense it on the screen. You're like, oh, this person is full of themselves. They don't even give an energy of like. Here we go, I'm listening to my partner and on the scene, like they just take all the attention on themselves and you kind of sense that right away. I mean I always like, I love to observe people and I always sense those sort of things.

Speaker 3 32:48

Very cool. Tatiana, we're coming to a close here. Do you have any socials that you'd like to plug?

Final Thoughts and Social Media

Speaker 1 32:53

Sure, my Instagram is Tatiana Piper with a dot. After Tatyana, my TikTok is also Tatyana Piper without a dot, I believe, and my website is TatyanaPipercom.

Speaker 3 33:06

If you don't mind, I'll ask you if you could close this out in Russian.

Speaker 1 33:10

whatever you'd like to say, Okay, sure, Thank you so much, guys. Спасибо большое, NOLA Film Scene for having me, За то что вы меня пригласили.

Speaker 2 33:22

My friend, it was so great having you on. I'm so happy for your success and I can't wait to see where you go next. Thank you for joining us.

Speaker 1 33:29

Thank you so much, пока-пока.

Speaker 3 33:31

До свидания.