"The Night Agent" actress Fola Evans-Akingbola | The Latest With Maya

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SPEAKER_00 0:13

Hi, Fola. Welcome to the Latest with Maya. Fola Evans King Bola is most well known for playing Maddie Bishop in the freeform show Sirens and special agent Chelsea Arrington in the Netflix series The Night or Errington in the Netflix series The Night Agent. Thank you so much for being on my show. I'm so excited to be talking with you.

SPEAKER_02 0:46

Thank you so much, Maya. I'm so happy to be here and chat with you.

SPEAKER_00 0:50

Thank you. Sorry, I don't know why I'm having like such a hard time talking that I'm mispronouncing everything.

SPEAKER_02 0:57

So it's okay. I will probably have that too. I'm I'm in LA, but we just got here from London, so I'm a bit jet-like, so I will probably stumble over my words too. So don't worry, we can be in it together.

SPEAKER_00 1:08

Okay, that's perfect. Um so what is something you have accomplished as an adult that your younger self would be proud of?

SPEAKER_02 1:22

Oh, that's such a great question, Maya. That's such a great question. Um I think in I'll say two things. I think um in the workspace, um, I co-directed and produced and self-funded a documentary that I was really passionate about in the UK. It was called Untold Stories Hair on Set. And it was about uh curly and afro hair in the entertainment industry and how something as seemingly superficial as getting your hair done at work can actually reveal a whole story about identity and belonging. And that was a real passion project, and so to kind of get that off the ground and finish it was I was really proud of myself for that. And I think my younger self would have also been very proud. Um, because I had a I really when I was younger, I really struggled with my hair and feeling confident about my hair and how to how to properly take care of my curls. So I think I did that project, I made that project kind of for my younger self and for all the younger kind of generations of people uh with curly and afro hair. So definitely that is is one of them.

SPEAKER_00 2:24

Oh wow, I love that.

SPEAKER_02 2:26

Yeah, yeah. And you I mean you must feel the same that your younger self would, even though I know you're already still, but you would count still as very young, but your even younger self would would be very proud of what you've built with with your show and with all the interviews, right? Do you feel that?

SPEAKER_00 2:41

Yeah, I do. Yeah, thank you. Yeah, um, yeah, I've actually thought of that lately, but yeah, I think so. Um, I I love your hair, by the way. I just think I think you look beautiful.

SPEAKER_02 2:59

So thank you very much. Thank you. Yeah, I actually just I recently had a haircut, so it's a nice length.

SPEAKER_00 3:05

Yeah, it's so pretty.

SPEAKER_02 3:07

Thank you.

SPEAKER_00 3:08

Yeah. Um, so what small things bring you joy on a daily basis?

SPEAKER_02 3:18

Oh, salsa dancing. I love salsa. I started learning, I've I've I've done like lessons um here and there throughout my life, but never sort of super consistently. So I was always stuck in that like beginner phase. Whereas last year I was doing night agent season three in New York, and five minutes away from my Airbnb, there was a Salsa studio called Nieves. So I was going like every day, and I'm I'm I'm definitely not advanced, but I'm like past that beginner hurdle. Um, and I just I love it. So even if I don't necessarily do a class every day now, I'm always putting, you know, when I'm cooking, I put my salsa music on and I'm always having a little dance. So that definitely always brings me joy to my life for sure.

SPEAKER_00 4:04

Oh, I love that.

SPEAKER_02 4:07

Yeah, it's very fun. It's a bit, it's the kind of thing where like I'm sure you have something like this too. It's like on the bucket list of things that you've always wanted to learn or always wanted to do. And I just sort of was like, I just need to commit to actually doing this because it's something I've always wanted to learn. Um, and now that I've now that I've done that, I'm just like, oh, I'm hooked.

SPEAKER_00 4:27

Oh yeah, that's so fun. Yeah, yeah. Um there's there's actually one of my um favorite shows when you mentioned salsa dancing, that it's um it's the Netflix remake of One Day at a time. And there's this one episode where um the grandmother Lydia is teaching their um uh sorry, why did I just his name's Schneider, he owns their apartment building, and she's teaching him how to salsa dance, and her whole thing is just the that salsa dancing is just you want me, you can't have me.

SPEAKER_02 5:13

I love that. I love it. It is such a like it's a really interesting um, I think, exploration of gender dynamics, actually, because of the kind of follow and lead dynamic, and that you're letting your if if you're in the follow role, um, which is generally women are in that role, but it could, you know, it could be anyone, um, but as a generalization, women are in that role, then you're kind of letting yourself be led, you're allowing them to lead you, and it's like, oh, it's very interesting, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 5:42

Yeah, yeah. So you'll during this interview, you'll probably figure out my brain is just all like different show references and scenes that just any conversation reminds me of something.

SPEAKER_02 5:58

So I have that with um with friends, like the friends, friends of the TV show. I've seen I've seen every episode so many times that in life I'll be like people will be talking to me and I'll be like, that's like that episode of Friends where Monica and Charlotte, like I have a friends reference for every situation in life.

SPEAKER_00 6:15

Yeah, yeah, me too. Yeah, I have like Friends, Well and Grace, uh Psych, all those shows.

SPEAKER_02 6:26

Nice. What's your favorite of that kind of like 90s sitcom era?

SPEAKER_00 6:34

That's so hard to pick. I mean, both uh Friends and Well and Grace are tied.

SPEAKER_02 6:41

Yeah, nice, good choice.

SPEAKER_00 6:44

Thank you.

SPEAKER_02 6:46

Well, what about you? Friends. Friends is 1000% my favorite. I I know everyone also loves Seinfeld and I think it's amazing, but I just I think I I didn't ever necessarily watch it at that age, whereas Friends I watched from a young age, and just it's my like comfort show now, so I can always put it on. Even if I've seen an episode, I'll put it on, and I just I feel like I can decompress.

SPEAKER_00 7:10

Yeah, definitely. Me too. I yeah, I have those shows I just put on when I need, like if I'm doing some work, but I always I don't like silence. So if just to have on in the background, it's like always friends or well and grace.

SPEAKER_02 7:29

Oh really? So even when you're working, you don't mind having like because it I'm like that in I I like having maybe music on in the background, but a TV show, I feel like I would just end up watching it. Or do you are you able to still focus on your work?

SPEAKER_00 7:40

Yeah, I I'm able to because I've seen every episode of both of those shows like hundreds of times. So I know them all. So um, yeah, so with those, I I'm able to still concentrate. Nice, nice. Yeah, I don't know what it is. I love music and I love having music on, but there's sometimes with like something visual that I like having to like get me out of my head that um I like having something visual on.

SPEAKER_01 8:13

Yeah, yeah, nice.

SPEAKER_00 8:15

Yeah. Um so what um movie, book, uh, song, play, or show has had the biggest impact on you?

SPEAKER_02 8:29

Oh, that's so great. Do I can I only pick one? You can pick a couple. Okay, okay. Um I think Charlie's Angels, the um the Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, Lucy Lou original movies, and I know they're kind of big blockbuster popcorn movies, but I think they're the best version. They're such a good, they're, you know, in terms of that genre, they did it so well. But I remember just being really young and watching those and just being so blown away by like the energy and the camaraderie and the girl power of it, and also the martial arts. Like, I by no means am I um advanced to any martial arts, but I love martial arts. I think it's just such an incredible, beautiful thing to have in in your life. Uh, and when I tap back into it, I'm always like, oh, why don't I do this all the time? So even just seeing the the martial arts in those films. Um, so there's that that's definitely like that sort of speaks to the like 12-year-old me, those those those movies. Um, and then um there's a book called uh Don't Touch My Hair by Emma Debery. Uh she's an Irish author. Um, and she's a really amazing, it's a non-fiction book, but it's a really amazing book that that explores kind of the topic that we were talking about earlier, what I explored with my documentary. And I just remember reading it and being like, oh wow, like there's this is a whole world to dive into, and through hair, you can actually explore so many things. And I think the way that she thinks as a as an academic and as a uh kind of uh intellectual is really inspiring. Um what else? I'm trying to- Oh god, there's so many. I mean, I'll leave it at that for now. Um, I'm sure I have so many more that I'll suddenly be like, oh Maya, this as well.

SPEAKER_00 10:24

I love that. Well, I mean, if anything pops into your head again, we can always um go back to that question.

SPEAKER_02 10:31

So yeah, I mean the music is like it's almost impossible to pick one song or one album. Music is my father's a musician and composer, so I grew up with music constantly playing in the house. And so music is, I mean, I suppose for so many people, music is a huge part of their life. Um, but it would be so hard to pick just like one song or one um album. Oh, it's just oh the thought of it, it's difficult. There's a there's a show in the UK called Desert Island Discs. I don't know if you've heard of it.

SPEAKER_00 11:02

Oh, I haven't.

SPEAKER_02 11:04

Where they get people on and you're being interviewed, and you get to pick, I think it's five or four like songs that kind of mean something to you throughout your life. And I'm like, how could you even pick five? It must be difficult, impossible.

SPEAKER_00 11:16

Oh yeah. Yeah, I I was studying the go-through in my head. I'm like, I don't think I could pick just five. I have so many.

SPEAKER_02 11:28

So yeah, there's and I think also there's different different film, TV, music books um, yeah, mean different things in different ways. Like Charlie's Angels, that's a really kind of like my sort of childhood sort of dream self who wanted to be a spy. But then I remember also watching Ray, the Jamie Foxx film. I remember watching that and being so blown away by the performances in that and and moved by the story. And I remember thinking, oh, I want to do that, I want to be an actor, and I want to make people feel, help people to feel how I this film has made me feel. Um, so it's like I think so many different things have a different impact on different elements of your life, you know.

SPEAKER_00 12:09

Yeah, definitely. Yeah. Um so if you had a warning label, what would yours be?

SPEAKER_02 12:22

That is such a good question. I would probably have quite a few, I'm ashamed to say. I would you? Okay, okay, I want to hear yours as well. One of them would be warning, do not speak to her within half an hour of her waking up. Otherwise, she'll bite your head off. Like, I when I wake up in the morning, my husband's very chirpy in the morning. He's like, like chatting, and I'm like, if I haven't had my breakfast, don't talk to me yet. Like, I'm very, I get very hangry in the morning and I just need to have my breakfast. And then I'm like, I'm fine and I'm perky, but I'm just when I in that first half an hour. So that would be one of them. Um, and then I also I have this. Funny enough, people have started talking about it more and more nowadays. But when I was like 12, 13, my mum took me to a specialist of this. I have this thing called Misophonia, which is I do too. Do you have it? Okay, so you know what I mean. I don't even need to explain it. Yeah, that would be my warning label of like, don't chew gum and don't breathe too loud and don't eat certain things. I I feel like I don't know how you feel with it, but when I for me it's really bad when I'm really tired or anxious. And then when those certain sounds start, I think people think it's like just a bit of an irritation. It's like, no, for me, it's like I feel like I could smash the whole table. Like the the anger is so strong with the sounds. What do what triggers yours? Chewing gum is one of them for me.

SPEAKER_00 13:53

Yeah, for me, it's yeah, it's like people chewing, swallowing, clearing their throat. I yeah, I just I can't. I yeah, it just drives me crazy. And I feel that like anger too. And it's um, yeah, I don't know why, but it's also recently it's been like people typing like on the computer.

SPEAKER_02 14:23

And um, so that just like recently started, and I feel like the past few months, and um, so I don't know where that came from, but yeah, it's the repetitive, it's it's really like we won't we don't need to go into this in this interview, but I remember when I was 13 and my mom took me to the specialist, like it is quite a fascinating thing that our brains are literally like turning up. It literally all sounds louder to us, yeah. Um, anyway, so that would definitely be one of my warning labels.

SPEAKER_00 14:54

Yeah. Oh my too. I'm actually I'm so happy to be talking with somebody else who has experienced this.

SPEAKER_02 15:04

Me too, me too. I don't feel so because also it's such a it's I feel so bad because mostly it's someone's just sitting there merrily eating their food or like slurping their ramen, enjoying their ramen. But for me, I'm like, oh my god, please stop slurping your ramen. So I feel bad because you can't, it's the kind of thing where you can't really impose yourself on someone else because they're probably just breathing or just swallowing or just chewing. But to us it's like bad. Yeah, definitely. Yeah. What would what would be another of your warning labels?

SPEAKER_00 15:39

Oh um, it would be uh prone to anxiety, don't overload. So yeah, that would be a big one. And then also like I'll like obsessively talk about pop culture. Um so and I have a reference for any situation, basically.

SPEAKER_02 16:02

I love it. I think that's that's really good. Yeah. What mine is is like beware or chew chew loudly around her at your own peril, like at your own risk.

SPEAKER_00 16:15

Yeah. Definitely. Yeah, I I agree with that one too. I think I need that one as well.

SPEAKER_02 16:26

Um yeah, we can share it.

SPEAKER_00 16:29

Yeah. Yeah, I actually just recently watched this um short film that it's the first thing ever that I saw in um the description, it's on YouTube, that um it was had a trigger warning for all uh for these different topics it was talking about. And then uh one of them was misophonia. And I I've never seen that on anything, and so I just I loved that that they put oh I need you'll have to tell after this, you have to tell me what it is.

SPEAKER_02 17:13

I'll go and watch it on YouTube.

SPEAKER_00 17:15

I will, yeah. Um I'm gonna write that down so I don't forget to tell you afterwards. Yeah. Yeah. Um yeah, so uh what has been the biggest obstacle, either personally or professionally, you've overcome?

SPEAKER_02 17:40

Um I think professionally that it's not necessarily one big moment of an obstacle. I think professionally though, as an actor, the biggest obstacle is that you you have to just stay in it. Like you can't quit. And sometimes there's so many moments where you have self-doubt and feel like, oh, I don't know if I can keep doing this, or I'm not quite getting the roles I want to get, or oh, I'm I'm not, you know, if you have times where it's quiet with work and that that self-doubt creeps in. And I think people think that, not people, but one might think that it's like one moment of self-doubt that you have to get over. And actually, no, I think the the biggest challenge and obstacle for being an actor, like in terms of professional career, is that you have to make peace with it's gonna be a whole lifetime, a whole career of getting used to doubt and the roller coaster and the up and downs, and it's not kind of one straight line up, it kind of even I I went to um a BFI talk in London. Oh no, maybe it was a BAFTA talk in London with Brad Bradley Cooper was being interviewed. And even hearing like he even said that he still gets kind of doubt and anxiety about what's that next project, and I was like, what? Like Bradley Cooper, like at that level. And I think it just reminded me that actually it might it might shift what you're worried about shifts as your career grows in success. But I think that those those feelings of doubt and maybe wanting to quit, sometimes those can be persistent, and and actually the obstacle to overcome is yourself and just reminding yourself why you do it, and that you just gotta stick in it, and you've got to be in it to win it, right? As soon as you quit, then you definitely can't go where you want to go.

SPEAKER_00 19:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 19:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 19:32

Oh wow. Yeah. Um, yeah, so um, as uh you can probably already tell, I am uh pop culture obsessed, and I go in stages of shows that I cannot stop watching. Uh is there a show that you are currently obsessed with?

SPEAKER_02 20:00

Oh my gosh, yes, there's always so many. I actually, the show that I just finished, in terms of the most recent one, is Wonderman with Yaya Abdul Mateen in it. I think he's so fantastic in that show, so charismatic, and it's just such a fun, quirky show. So I I got through that like super quickly. Um, we've already spoken about that I can always get obsessed with friends, so that's an old school one. But yeah, in terms of like a a recent show, um, definitely Wonder Man, and then I cannot wait for season three of Lioness, the Paramount Plus show to come back with Nicole Kimmen and Zoe Saldania, uh Genesis Rodriguez, um, which is a Taylor Sheridan show. I think that show is fantastic, and I can't wait to to see it, to see season three.

SPEAKER_00 20:48

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_02 20:49

Do you have a do you have a recent one that you're that like has recently come out that you obsessed with?

SPEAKER_00 20:55

Yeah, uh, yeah. Well, when um when season three of the night agent came out, I watched that in like two days. Oh nice. So yeah. Um and now I'm trying to think. There's so many things that um shows that I'm obsessed with. Uh there's two shows that uh come out weekly. Um that I mean there's several, but two that are coming to mind right away are there's Will Trent um and Best Medicine. Oh, okay, cool. Yeah, that those come out weekly. And so I I always look forward to watching those.

SPEAKER_01 21:42

Oh that's so great.

SPEAKER_00 21:44

Yeah. Yeah. I love having shows that I can binge watch, and then I also love the the shows that come out weekly because then it gives me something to look forward to.

SPEAKER_02 21:56

Yeah, exactly. You can have the kind of binge moments with your popcorn. And you just go through it in two, three days, and then yeah, the ones where they make you wait and they kind of piece it out bit by bit, which is like kind of the old school way, and I like it because it sort of builds momentum, and then everyone's talking about what's gonna happen next, what's gonna happen next week, and I think that's cool.

SPEAKER_00 22:16

Yeah, me too. Yeah. Um, yeah, so what uh genre of movie would your life story be told as?

SPEAKER_02 22:29

Oh, that's a cool question. Um, in my imagin in my like fantasy world, it's a cool like action, action spy thriller, but it's not that. It definitely isn't that. I think it's it would be more like a kind of A24 drama, like a la Ladybird, you know, that kind of that kind of vibe. Yeah. Oh, I love that. Yeah. Like I because I actually like when I reflect on it. Sorry, I interrupted you. Uh I interrupted. Oh no, teach it. Uh when I reflect on it, I've had a very what I like about Lady Bird is it's like, it's a drama, but it's also, it's not like anything crazy life or death is happening. And that's the thing. I've had a really, I'm very grateful. I've had a really wonderful life. I had a wonderful upbringing, my parents are awesome, my sister's awesome. I've then met my love of my life. I'm married, I've got a really lovely, I'm very grateful for my life. So I think as much as my fantasy is like, oh, it would be like crazy action and da-da-da-da. It's like, no, it's probably just like a really grounded, like, you know, a couple of emotional dramas here, emotional big moments here and there, but nothing life or death. Yeah, I love that. Yeah, which is I think it, you know, it maybe it doesn't make for the most exciting viewing, but it's probably the better life to live than the one with all the death and the sorrow and the craziness.

SPEAKER_00 23:52

Definitely, yeah. And I I love Lady Bird, that's one of my favorite movies.

SPEAKER_02 23:59

So good. The cut and the comedy in it and the drama, like yeah, just a girl, we're gonna get Sersha Ronan as well, is one of my favorite actresses. I think she's amazing.

SPEAKER_00 24:07

Yeah, me too. Yeah, I I've always uh wanted my life story to be both a musical and a rom-com.

SPEAKER_01 24:19

Choice, great choice. What's your favorite musical?

SPEAKER_00 24:25

Oh, um, I have a few. I but I love um the uh Netflix movie The Prom. Oh, okay. I don't see that, I've not seen it. That's one of my all-time favorite movies.

SPEAKER_02 24:40

So okay, I'll put it on my list of things to watch.

SPEAKER_00 24:44

Oh, yay, yeah. I yeah, I just I love that movie so much. So that's the first musical that always pops into my head.

SPEAKER_02 24:55

So I always loved Chicago, the the the film version. Uh obviously the musical on the on the stage, but also I love the Catherine Zita Jones Renee Zellweger one film.

SPEAKER_00 25:06

Oh yeah, I've always wanted to watch that. I remember there was one time during one of my um MRIs uh that I started watching it, but I only got like a little bit into it because then the scan ended. Yeah, so I keep meaning to go back and watch it because I have always wanted to um see it and finish it.

SPEAKER_02 25:36

So it's definitely worth a watch.

SPEAKER_00 25:39

Yeah. Oh, I'm excited to watch it. Um I'm putting that one on my list. Um so um if you could give someone in your life a star on the walk of fame, who would it be?

SPEAKER_02 25:59

I mean, it's gotta be my mum. I mean, my dad also, but if I have to only pick one, I would I would give it to my mum. I think she's amazing, she's so intelligent, she's so uh gorgeous, she's so generous and loving and brave. I think all the things that we should look up to in a human uh that would warrant someone getting a star. I think um definitely my mum. She's she's a social anthropologist and a yoga teacher and a psychotherapist, and she's just one of those like all-rounded super women. She's she's like a unicorn.

SPEAKER_00 26:42

I love that.

SPEAKER_02 26:44

Yeah, yeah. I'm lucky lucky to lucky to have her.

SPEAKER_00 26:47

Oh, yeah, I love that. Um yeah, so um if you had to um choose someone to narrate your life, um, who would you choose and why?

SPEAKER_03 27:06

That's such a good question. I've never been asked that. Ooh, whose voice would I want? That is such a good question.

SPEAKER_02 27:22

I'm trying to think who has like just the most fabulous voice. Uh who would I want to narrate? Sorry, I'm gonna this is taking up this is really taking up time. Um, who would I want so you said it's like the audiobook of my life, they would narrate it.

SPEAKER_00 27:43

Um yeah, or just like everyday life.

SPEAKER_02 27:47

Oh, you mean to narrate as in as I'm going about my life, someone's narrating?

SPEAKER_00 27:52

Yeah, if yeah, if you could choose someone to narrate your life. Um so I mean uh it could be maybe like Snoop Dogg, you know? Oh, I like that.

SPEAKER_02 28:05

Like I'm sure that would help keep me in a really like positive, fun frame of mind. Oh yeah, I love that that that's a good choice. Yeah, yeah, it's pretty left afield, but yeah, why not? Why not?

SPEAKER_00 28:21

I love that, yeah. I um I think there's so many people that I love. I think the first person that comes to mind for me is Reese Witherspoon.

SPEAKER_01 28:36

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 28:37

So because I just I love her movies, and her movie Home Again is another one of my all-time favorite movies that I've seen hundreds of times.

SPEAKER_02 28:50

So she's amazing, she's so amazing. That's a good choice as well. There's yeah, there's so many great people.

SPEAKER_00 28:57

Yeah, yeah. I think I think Snoop Dogg is a great choice. Yeah, yeah. Um so what's your favorite way to unwind after a hectic day?

SPEAKER_02 29:14

Um, I'm quite simple with that kind of thing. I think, um, like I said, when I was in New York, I would go to the Sousa class. But in London, I don't go as regularly. I more go once a week. So generally, I will come home having like a really nice meal that's already ready, like I can just quickly heat it up, and then putting my feet up on the sofa. My sofa's quite comfy, my couch is quite comfortable, and just watching honestly, maybe even watching like some reality TV or something, like just to totally switch off the brain and not even have to follow a storyline or something like that.

SPEAKER_00 29:50

Yeah, oh I love that. What what's yours? Oh, um, I mean, it's yeah, being with like my family and my dog, and also just sitting on the couch like binge watching a show, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 30:11

Exactly. That's that's the best thing, and like you said, exactly. If the person next to you on the couch is a loved one, you know, my husband or my mum's put round or one of my good friends is put around, that's even even better.

SPEAKER_00 30:23

Yeah, definitely. Yeah. Um, so what's an experience that significantly shaped who you are today?

SPEAKER_02 30:37

Um I think um probably growing up in in my household um is is the most obvious choice, and I think I guess that affects everyone. Like everyone, that could be an answer. The the house that you grow up in, the parents that you're born to, has the biggest impact on who you are. Um, but I I really feel it acutely. I think I was, you know, being in a house with a social anthropologist and then a musician composer, um, and my mum's white English, my dad's um black Nigerian, Yoruba, and English. Um, and so having that really specific combination of like cultures and intellectual references and cultural references, um, and us being really me, us being me and my sister, we were really encouraged to kind of um yeah, like not take anything for granted in terms of how people live and the way to live life, that there's that's sort of the social anthropology influence that my mum gave, that she helps, she really helped us to realise that there's not one way to do it. People around the world are doing human in all sorts of ways. Um, and I think that's really shaped who I am today. That's it's sort of it I'm endlessly it me it's made me kind of endlessly fascinated in other people, and I think that has kind of influenced why I'm an actor, because as an actor you get to explore oh, how does this person, this character, do human? You know, how how do they live as a human and what are their uh what's made them who they are and and all the questions you get to ask? And I think I think that's yeah, so that's definitely how I would describe my biggest influence on how I am today. Oh wow, I love that. Yeah. Thank you.

SPEAKER_00 32:40

Yeah. Um, so do you have any irrational fears?

SPEAKER_02 32:48

I don't like spiders. I really don't like spiders, and that's definitely well, unless you're in Australia, that's quite rational if you're in Australia because they are very poisonous. But in England, like in London, my fear of spiders is totally irrational because they're usually tiny and they're definitely not poisonous. Um, but I have got it under control because I'm sort of like this is ridiculous. It's just a tiny insect living its little life. I don't need to be so jumpy and scared of it, but I just oh, I just don't like the way they move so fast and quickly.

SPEAKER_00 33:18

Yeah, no, I agree. I do not like spiders.

SPEAKER_02 33:22

Yeah, I'm happy if I never see one in the house again.

SPEAKER_00 33:26

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Um, yeah, so I just um have one final question for you. Okay. Um, so today, what are you most grateful for?

SPEAKER_02 33:45

Oh, that's such a lovely question. Today, honestly, I'm just so grateful uh for my husband who I'm here in LA with. We're here on a lovely trip together, and um we're just each other's best friends. It's just so nice to like be side by side in existence with your best bud. Um so I'm endlessly grateful for him and his energy and his friendship and his love and his encouragement. I feel very lucky.

SPEAKER_00 34:15

Oh, I love that.

SPEAKER_02 34:17

Yeah, me too.

SPEAKER_00 34:21

Um, yeah, LA is actually one of my favorite places.

SPEAKER_02 34:27

Really? So where are you?

SPEAKER_00 34:28

Are you you're based in LA, right? No, I'm in the Colorado. So yeah, but I visit LA a lot, and I was actually just there for a few days in February.

SPEAKER_02 34:43

Were you doing interviews for the award season?

SPEAKER_00 34:47

I actually went went to um my first very first movie premiere. Um how was it? Yeah, it was so fun, it was so surreal, and um, it was actually like the um at the start of the year, I kind of made my like list of goals, and at the top it was to go to movie premiere and do an in-person press junket, and then I got to do that.

SPEAKER_02 35:19

And and it's only March, like that was your beginning of the year goal, and you've already achieved it in on month three of the year. Like, imagine by December you're gonna be like, Yep, easy peasy, done about a million. That's so great. Congratulations, that's awesome.

SPEAKER_00 35:34

Thank you, thank you. Yeah, it was um, yeah, it was just the coolest experience and so surreal.

SPEAKER_02 35:43

Um did you like being in LA? Oh, that wasn't your first time being here though, right?

SPEAKER_00 35:48

No, I yeah, I've been there um several times the past uh yeah, several years. The first time I went was in 2021. It was right after uh my sister and I graduated high school and we went on a trip there. And I just keep going back because I have so many uh connections there and friends there, so we always go to see them.

SPEAKER_02 36:15

Yeah, it's great. It's great, it's really hot here at the moment, it's which is lovely, so we can have a nice sort of mini holiday.

SPEAKER_00 36:23

Oh yeah, I actually hate the heat, and it's really hot in Colorado.

SPEAKER_02 36:30

I can't believe you hate the heat. I mean, fair enough, okay.

SPEAKER_00 36:35

Yeah, I was right before the interview, I was just sitting in front of a fan.

SPEAKER_02 36:41

So get the air con on, ASAP.

SPEAKER_00 36:45

Yeah, yeah. I just yeah, the um I like when it's cold out. That's my favorite.

SPEAKER_02 36:53

Yeah, nice and fresh. Well, that's it's nice to have the seasons, isn't it? Have a little bit of summer, but to be honest, if I never had to experience like winter again, I think I wouldn't miss it. I'd be okay to just live in a sunny country all my life. Oh, your worst nightmare.

SPEAKER_00 37:11

Yeah, there's I I love winter, I love the fall and winter, those are my favorite seasons. So I um, and also they're like the perfect rom-com season. So yeah, I'm just like waiting for my rom com moment.

SPEAKER_02 37:29

Yes, nice winter, like a kiss in the snow.

SPEAKER_00 37:32

Like yeah, yeah, nice, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 37:34

Exactly.

SPEAKER_00 37:35

You get it. Um well, thank you um so much for joining me. You've made my day. I've had the best time talking with you.

SPEAKER_02 37:52

Me too. Thank you so much. And your questions are so great. I feel like they're also really good. Like, I'm gonna steal some of your questions. They're really good, like dinner party questions, like especially the warning one, like the the the oh yeah, what was the question about yeah, like the what would be your warning label? Yeah, I think that's a great question to ask at a dinner party. I love that. Yeah, thank you.

SPEAKER_00 38:13

Well, I would love to hear people's answers when you ask them.

SPEAKER_02 38:18

Exactly. Thank you so much for having me.

SPEAKER_00 38:20

Yeah, thank you so much for joining me. I mean, you've just made my day, so thank you. And I hope you have a great rest of your day. Thank you, you too. Thank you. Um, and that's a wrap on today's edition of the Light Desktop with Maya.